Surname Saturday ~ HAMBLEN of Cape Cod, Massachusetts

HAMBLEN / HAMBLEN / HAMLEN / HAMLIN

James Hamblen, my 9^th great grandfather,  first appears in Barnstable, Massachusetts in 1639 with his wife Anne.  His birth, parents and origins are unknown.  His children were baptized in Barnstable, except for his two eldest who do not appear on the record (perhaps they were born in England?)  He became a freeman in 1642 and signed his will on 23 January 1683, naming his wife Anne, his sons James, John, Eleazer, Israel, and Bartholomew; and daughters Hannah, and Sarah.

I descend from John Hamblin (1644 – 1718), my 8^th great grandfather.  He received much of his father’s real estate.  His land was known as “Hamblen’s Plain” in West Barnstable.  I descend through his son, Benjamin (1687 – 1718), my 7^th great grandfather. He died young and his widow, Hope Huckins (a descendant of Mayflower passengers John Howland and Elizabeth Tilley), remarried to Ebenezer Childs.

This is another family that was lucky to descend from a Mayflower passenger.  Much of the genealogy of this family has been preserved in the book Mayflower Families through five generations, Volume 23, Part One: John Howland, GSMD. 

A notable descendant was Hannibal Hamlin (1809 – 1891) of Maine, the 15^th vice president of the United states under Abraham Lincoln. 

Some HAMBLEN resources:

Genealogical Notes of Barnstable Families, by Amos Otis, pages 525 – 526.

The Mayflower Quarterly, May 1984, page 80 “Hope (Huckens) (Hamblen) Childs of Barnstable, Massachusetts”. 

History of the Hamlin Family, by H. Franklin Andrews, 1844

Genealogical Dictionary of New England, by Savage, Volume II

My HAMBLEN genealogy:

Generation 1:  James Hamblen, born in England, died October 1690 at Barnstable, Massachusetts; married to Anne Unknown. Eight children.

Generation 2: John Hamblin, born 26 June 1644 in Barnstable, died 1718 in Barnstable; married in August 1667 in Barnstable to Sarah Bearse, daughter of Augustine Bearse and Mary Unknown.  Twelve children.

Generation 3:  Benjamin Hamblin, born 11 February 1687 in Barnstable, died before 8 March 1718; married on 29 May 1709 to Hope Huckins, daughter of Thomas Huckins and Hannah Chipman (granddaughter of Mayflower passengers John Howland and Elizabeth Tilley). She was born 21 September 1689 in Barnstable and died after 4 January 1730 in Barnstable.  Four children.

Generation 4:  Hannah Hamblin, born about 1714 in Barnstable, and died 26 July 1791 in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia; married before 7 March 1734 to Jonathan Crosby, son of John Crosby and Hannah Bangs.  He was born 2 November 1705 in Harwich, Massachusetts, and died 26 July 1782 in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia.  Eleven children born in Harwich, and Connecticut.

Generation 5:  Ebenezer Crosby m. Elizabeth Robinson

Generation 6:  Rebecca Crosby m. Comfort Haley

Generation 7:  Joseph Edwin Healy m. Matilda Weston

Generation 8:  Mary Etta Healey m. Peter Hoogerzeil

Generation 9:  Florence Etta Hoogerzeil m. Arthur Treadwell Hitchings

Generation 10:  Gertrude Matilda Hitchings m. Stanley Elmer Allen (my grandparents)

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, “Surname Saturday ~ HAMBLEN of Cape Cod, Massachusetts”, Nutfield Genealogy, posted July 7, 2018, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2018/07/surname-saturday-hamblen-of-cape-cod.html: accessed [access date]). 

Surname Saturday ~ BEARSE of Cape Cod

BEARSE /  BEARCE /  BIERCE /  BEARS / etc.

My 9^th great grandfather, Augustin (AKA Austin) Bearse (1618 – 1686) arrived on the ship Confidence from Southampton, England on 24 April 1638.  He came to Barnstable on Capt Cod with the first settlers in 1639, and had a twelve acre house lot bounded by John Crocker and Isaac Robinson (another one of my 9^th great grandfathers).  He joined Rev. Lothrop’s church in Barnstable in 1643.  The road from the town of Hyannis to his land was known as “Bearse’s Way”, and is now Bearse Road, near Iannough Road at the Airport Rotary.  He was made a freeman in 1652.

Augustine Bearse’s name is at the head of the list of members of Rev. Lothrop’s church.  His wife was Mary, and they had eleven children, with baptisms all recorded at the Barnstable church on the first Sunday after their birth.  These babies include who was carried 2 miles to church at 2 day old in the cold of January for his baptism.  Apparently he was a very devout Puritan to want to save the souls of his children so promptly.  These are the facts we know about him from primary source material.  He was living in 1686, but dead sometime before 1697. There is no death record for Augustine Bearse.

Most of the compiled genealogy books and local histories of Barnstable written up until the 20^th century repeat these simple facts about Augustine Bearse.  Then another story began to emerge that described Augustine Bearse as a Gypsy, who had to leave England because of his Romany origins, so he came to Massachusetts.  No Puritan woman would marry him, so he married “Mary Hyanno”, the daughter of the sachem Iannough (Hyannis), who was a red headed princess with Viking blood.  Yes, these fantastic details were told and repeated about the Bearse family in several books, journals and online. 

These stories originated with a paper written in the 1930s by Frankin Bearse, also known as Ele-watum, “From Out of the Past – Who Our Forefathers Really Were, A True Narrative of our White and Indian Ancestors” who filed this with the State of Connecticut to obtain benefits as an American Indian.   These claims were based on a diary written by a Zerviah Newcombe, a descendant of Augustine Bearse.

“Austin Bearse and His Alleged Indian Connections”, by Donald Lines Jacobus, The American Genealogist, 1938,  Volume 15, pages 111 - 118  rejects these claims of an Indian marriage, based on the fact that the supposed diary of Zerviah Newcomb has never been examined, and is perhaps false. No record of this diary has ever been found.  Jacobus wrote 8 pages in TAG refuting each detail of the Indian and Gypsy story written by Franklin Bearse.

Even so, the Indian princess story continued to flourish.  You can read about it in books like Bearse-Bears-Barss Family: Genealogy of Augustine Bearse (1618 – 1697) and Princess Mary Hyanno (1625 – 1702) of Barnstable, Massachusetts, by Dale L. Burley, 1979.  This myth of Mary Hyanno, “the flame haired princess of the Wampanoags”, is even repeated in a 2005 book Kindred Spirits: A New World History of the Families of Henry Wickoff Rogers & Grace Dean McLeod, by Geordon Hartt Rogers.   The genealogy of the descendants of Augustine and Mary Bearse is accurate in these books, but the origins of the original immigrant husband and his native wife are lacking in evidence.

However, there is an interesting essay in the NEHGS journal NEXUS, 1985, Volume 2, pages 95 -96, “Keeping an Open Mind” by Rev. Robert J. Good, Jr.  This essay about Austin Bearse and his supposed Wampanoag wife refutes some of the claims made by Jacobus.  “We tend to take the word of those who have rightly earned a position as unassailable as Jacobus’s.  Yet there are mysteries like this one which continue to haunt us and remain unresolved.  They require that we make our own decisions.”  Rev. Good makes several good points about mixed marriages during the 1600s in Massachusetts between the Puritans and the native people.  It was not as improbable as Jacobus imagined. 

I encourage you to read ALL these journal articles, and the primary source material, before making up your own mind.

For more information:

See the books and journal articles mentioned above

“Bearce/Bearse/Bierce Descendants” group on Facebook (where the argument continues!): https://www.facebook.com/groups/303262653109082/

My BEARSE genealogy:

Generation 1:  Augustine Bearse, born about 1618 in England, died about 1686 in Barnstable, Massachusetts; married to Mary Unknown.  Eleven children.

Generation 2:  Sarah Bearse, born 28 March 1646 in Barnstable, died 30 March 1712 in Barnstable; married in August 1667 in Barnstable to John Hamblin, son of James Hamblin and Anne Unknown. He was born 26 June 1644 in Barnstable, and died in 1718 in Barnstable.  Twelve children.

Generation 3:  Benjamin Hamblin m. Hope Huckins

Generation 4:  Hannah Hamblin m. Jonathan Crosby (removed from Cape Cod  to Nova Scotia)

Generation 5:  Ebenezer Crosby m. Elizabeth Robinson (descendant of Isaac Robinson above)

Generation 6:  Rebecca Crosby m. Comfort Haley

Generation 7:  Joseph Edwin Healey m. Matilda Weston (removed from Nova Scotia to Massachusetts)

Generation 8:  Mary Etta Healey m Peter Hoogerzeil

Generation 9:  Florence Etta Hoogerzeil m. Arthur Treadwell Hitchings

Generation 10:  Gertrude Matilda Hitchings m. Stanley Elmer Allen (my grandparents)

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, “Surname Saturday ~ BEARSE of Cape Cod”, Nutfield Genealogy, posted  September 23, 2017, (https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2017/09/surname-saturday-bearse-of-cape-cod.html: accessed [access date]). 

Surname Saturday ~ HUCKINS of Barnstable, Massachusetts

HUCKINS / HUGGINS / HUTCHINS

Thomas Huckins, my 9^th great grandfather, first appears as a member of the “Military Company of Massachusetts” muster roll in 1637 in Boston.  In 1659 this company became known as “The Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts”, which still exists.  He was the 6^th man  (out of 23 original members) to sign the muster in 1638, and was an ensign in 1639.

By 1640 he removed to Barnstable on Cape Cod as one of the first settlers in town.  He was a freeman in Barnstable in 1647 and was granted a house lot in 1661. Over the years he held many civil positions including tax collector,  representative to the General Court, selectman, and a member of the Council of War in 1671.  He was in the military expedition to Kingston, Rhode Island in December 1675.

Thomas Huckins was a member of Rev. Lothrop’s church.  In 1642 he married first to Mary Wells, who died in July 1648.  His second wife was the widow Rose Hyllier, who was my 9^th great grandmother.  He was accused of abusing a servant, but no fine was paid.

Thomas died at sea in 1679 when his vessel sank with his son, Joseph Huckins aboard, too. The records read “Mr. Thomas Huckens was cast away ye 9 of Nvemb 1679 & died in ye 62 year of is age. His Son Joseph Lost with him at ye Same time aged 24 years 1679”  [“Barnstable Mass Vital Records”, Mayflower Descendant, Volume 6, No. 3, July 1904].

Thomas Huckins, Jr., my 8^th great grandfather, was a carpenter and farmer in Barnstable.  He married Hannah Chipman in 1680 as his first wife (my 8^th great grandmother), and took a second wife, Sarah Pope, widow of Samuel Hinckley in 1698. His daughter, Hope Huckins (1689 – after 1730), is my 7^th great grandmother, who lived in Barnstable with her husband, Benjamin Hamblin, and had four children, and two more children with her second husband, Ebenezer Childs.

President Rutherford B. Hayes was a descendant of Thomas Huckins.

Some HUCKINS resources:

The History of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts, Volume 1, page 28

Genealogical Notes of Barnstable Families, by Amos Otis, 1888, Volume 1, pages 58 - 63 [available online at Archive.org]

My HUCKINS genealogy:

Generation 1:    Thomas Huckins, born in Dorsetshire, England, died at sea 9 November 1679; married first about 1642 in Barnstable, Massachusetts to Mary Wells.  She was born about 1624 in England and died on 28 July 1648 in Barnstable (she gave Thomas three daughters).  He married second on 3 November 1648 in Barnstable to Rose Unknown who was the wife of Hugh Tilley.  She gave him four children.

Generation 2:  Thomas Huckins, born 25 April 1651 in Barnstable, died before 15 October 1714 in Barnstable; married first to Hannah Chipman, daughter of John Chipman and Hope Howland.  She was born 14 January 1659 in Plymouth and died 4 November 1696 in Barnstable (nine children).  He married second to Sarah Pope, the widow of Samuel Hinckley (one daughter).

Generation 3:  Hope Huckins, born 21 September 1689 in Barnstable, died after 4 January 1730 in Barnstable;  married first on 29 May 1709 to Benjamin Hamblin, son of John Hamblin and Sarah Bearse.  He was born on 11 February 1687 in Barnstable, and died before 29 May 1718 (four children).  Hope married second to Ebenezer Childs, son of Richard Childs and Elizabeth Crocker, born March 1691 in Barnstable, and died 17 January 1756 in Barnstable (2 children).

Generation 4:  Hannah Hamblin m. Jonathan Crosby

Generation 5: Ebenezer Crosby m. Elizabeth Robinson

Generation 6: Rebecca Crosby m. Comfort Haley

Generation 7.  Joseph Edwin Healy m. Matilda Weston

Generation 8.  Mary Etta Healy m. Peter Hoogerzeil

Generation 9. Florence Etta Healey m. Arthur Treadwell Hitchings

Generation 10: Gertrude Matilda Hitchings m. Stanley Elmer Allen (my grandparents

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, “Surname Saturday ~ HUCKINS of Barnstable, Massachusetts”,  Nutfield Genealogy, posted September 16, 2017, (https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2017/09/surname-saturday-huckins-of-barnstable.html: accessed [access date]). 

Surname Saturday ~ CHIPMAN of Cape Cod, Massachusetts

CHIPMAN

John Chipman, my 9^th great grandfather, arrived in New England on 14 July 1631 aboard the ship Friendship, with his uncle Richard Derby, from Devonshire, England when he was about 16 years old.  He married Hope Howland, daughter of Mayflower passengers John Howland and Elizabeth Tilley, in 1646.  John Chipman became a member of the church at Barnstable, Massachusetts on 30 June 1653, and his wife joined on 7 August 1650.

He bought a homestead in Barnstable in 1649, the year he became a freeman. He removed to West Barnstable in 1659 and bought land from his brother-in-law, Lt. John Howland in 1672. He was a representative to the General Court in 1663-5, and again in 1668-9, selectman in 1665-8, and on the Council of War in 1667.  He was granted 100 acres between Taunton and Titicut in 1669 for his service. 

John and Hope Chipman had twelve children.  When Hope died in 1684, John remarried to Ruth Sargent, widow of both Jonathan Winslow and Richard Bourne.  She outlived John by two years.  He died in 1709 and she died in 1711.  I descend from John and Hope’s fifth child, Hannah Chipman (1659 – 1696), my 8^th great grandmother, who married Thomas Huckins in 1680.  Hope died a few months after giving birth to her ninth child.  Their daughter Hope Huckins (1689 – after 1730) is my 7^th great grandmother.

Some CHIPMAN resources:

John Howland of the Mayflower: The First Five generations: Documented Descendants through his third Child Hope Howland, wife of John Chipman, by Elizabeth Pearson White,  Volume III

The American Genealogist, Volume 61, pages 2 – 6 [English origins]

The Hamlin Family: A Genealogy James Hamlin of Barnstable, Massachusetts,  by Henry Franklin Andrews, 1902, page 88

The Chipman Family, by Alberto Lee Chipman, 1920 [call # CS71 .C541 1920 at NEHGS]

My HOWLAND blog post:

https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2017/08/surname-saturday-howland-mayflower.html

My CHIPMAN genealogy:

Generation 1:  John Chipman, son of Thomas Chipman, born about 1620 in Bryant’s Puddle, Dorset, England, died 8 January 1709 in Sandwich, Massachusetts; married on 13 September 1646 in Plymouth, Massachusetts to Hope Howland, daughter of Mayflower passengers John Howland and Elizabeth Tilley.  She was born 30 August 1629 in Plymouth, and died 8 January 1684 in Barnstable.  Twelve children.

Generation 2:  Hannah Chipman, born 14 January 1659 in Plymouth, died 4 November 1696 in Barnstable; married on 1 May 1680 in Barnstable to Thomas Huckins, son of Thomas Huckins and Rose Unknown.  He was born 25 April 1651 in Barnstable and died before 15 October 1714 in Barnstable.  Nine children.

Generation 3: Hope Huckins m. Benjamin Hamblin

Generation 4:  Hannah Hamblin m. Jonathan Crosby

Generation 5:  Ebenezer Crosby m. Elizabeth Robinson

Generation 6:  Rebecca Crosby m. Comfort Haley

Generation 7: Joseph Edwin Healy m. Matilda Weston

Generation 8: Mary Etta Healey m. Peter Hoogerzeil

Generation 9: Florence Etta Hoogerzeil m. Arthur Treadwell Hitchings

Generation 10:  Gertrude Matilda Hitchings m. Stanley Elmer Allen (my grandparents)

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To cite/link to this blog post: Heather Wilkinson Rojo, “Surname Saturday ~ CHIPMAN of Cape Cod, Massachusetts”, Nutfield Genealogy, posted September 9, 2017, (https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2017/09/surname-saturday-chipman-of-cape-cod.html: accessed [access date]). 

Tombstone Tuesday ~ Ebenezer Crosby and Sarah Richardson, Chebogue Cemetery, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia

This tombstone was photographed at the Chebogue Cemetery, at Town Point, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia

EBENEZER CROSBY

DIED

Nov, 1863

aged 91 yrs

SARAH RICHARDSON

DIED

Oct. 1823

Aged 47 yrs

CROSBY

Ebenezer Crosby is my 4th Great Grand Uncle, son of Ebenezer Crosby and Elizabeth Robinson.  He was born in 1772 and died on 13 December 1863 in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia.  He married Sarah Richardson, the daughter of Reuben Richardson.  He was the brother of my 4th great grandmother, Rebecca Crosby (b. 1789), who married Comfort Haley (1787 - 1874).  Ebenezer lived to be 91 years old, which was quite a feat in those times!

Ebenezer Crosby, senior was an early settler at Chebogue.  He arrived in Nova Scotia with his parents, Jonathan Crosby and Hannah Hamblin, with the six families that sailed up the coast from Connecticut.  The Crosby family originally lived on Cape Cod, and they are Mayflower descendants.  You can see a blog post with a photo of Jonathan and Hannah Crosby's tombstone in the Chebogue cemetery HERE.

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