Ebenezer married Thankful HAMLEN on 11 May 1710 in Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts. Thankful (daughter of Israel HAMBLEN and Abigail LOMBARD) was born on 24 Aug 1689 in Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts; died on 15 Jan 1768 in Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Twin?: Y

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Husband and wife are 1st cousins. Anc: James Hamblen & Anne Scott

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• Also Known As: HAMLIN

John married Sarah BEARSE in Aug 1667 in Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts. Sarah (daughter of Augustine “Austin” BEARSE and Mary MNU) was born on 28 Mar 1646 in Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts; died on 30 Mar 1712 in Hamlin’s Plains, Barnstable, Massachusetts; was buried in unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Also Known As: BIERSE

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d/o Austin or Augustine BEARSE and Martha WILDER.

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• Also Known As: HAMLIN, HAMLEN, HAMBLEN

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Ancestor to President George Herbert Walker BUSH and President George Bush

He resided in the east parish. His house stood by a pond known as Israel's pond, after his son, on Dimmock's lane, about a mile and a half south of the County road. His nearest neighbor was more than half a mile distant. He cleared away only a small space in the forest, now again covered with trees. He lived in a solitary spot, and farming could not have been his principal occupation. He is called Mr. on the records, which shows that he was a man of some note.

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Unmarked

Israel married Abigail LOMBARD about 1687 in Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts. Abigail (daughter of Joshua LOMBARD and Abigail LINNELL) was born on 6 Apr 1652 in Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts; died about 1700 in Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts; was buried in Lothrop Hill Cemetery, Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Also Known As: LUMBERT, LUMBARD

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• Also Known As: HAMLENE, HAMLING, HAMELIN
• Noteworthy: Early settler of Barnstable, MA
• Religion: Puritan
• Immigrant?: Y
• Historical Notes: In former works on the history of The Hamlin Family, the author has shown that the Hamlins went with William the Conqueror from Normandy to England, 1066: and that since that event the name has been a common one in England to the present time. The name appears in the roll preserved in the church at Dives, in Normandy, of the companions in arms of the Conqueror, who there assembled to cross over to England: and it also appears in the Battle Abbey Koll of those who fought at the battle of Hastings, 1066; when the Conqueror and his army won the crown of England. In a work on The Battle Abbey Roll, by the Countess of Cleveland, 1889, the following mention of the Hamelins appears: Hamelin—There are three of the name, entered asunder tenants in Domesday: Hamelin. homo Hugonis fill Baldrici, in Lincolnshire; Hamelin holding of Roger de Montgomery In Sussex: and also mentioned in Devonshire; and Hamelin of Cornwall. Whether Hamelin of Devonshire, and Hamelin of Cornwall were the same does not appear. In the latter County, Hamelin held twenty-two manors under the Earl of Montaine. He is supposed to be the ancestor of the Trelawney family, and to have resided at Treloen, one of the manors described in the survey of his property. After the conquest of England by William of Normandy, he caused the lands of the Kingdom to be recorded in what is known as "Domesday Book," completed in 1086. It is the authoritative distribution of the lands of England to the followers of the Conqueror.
• Migration: 1639

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s/o Giles HAMBLIN & Susan Ashley
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The early settlers at Coggin’s Pond, in Barnstable, were Henry Bourne and Thomas Hinckley from Scituate, and Henry Coggin, Laurence Lichfield, James Hamlin and William Tilley…. The order to which the settlers lots were located at Coggin’s Pond in 1643-3, from east to west were: William Tilley, Gov. Thomas Hinckley, Samuel Hinckley, Gen. James Cudworth, James Hamlin, Laurence Lichfield, Henry Coggin and Henry Bourne.
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While no record of the fact has been discovered; other circumstances render it probably that he was obliged to leave his family and flee from England to escape religious persecution. This may account for the failure to discover the time and manner of his passage; which may have bene intentionally concealed, for his escape and safety. He was a Puritan and a member of Mr. Lothrop’s church after the latter came to Banstable.
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Tradition has it that his four sons agreed, upon their separation, to spell their names differently.
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His personal estate when he died was appraised at £19.17.3.
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Mr. Otis says: "He was never dignified with the title of ‘Mr." and was, all his life, called "Goodman." Speaking of this custom, he says, "In the Plymouth Colony, the Governor, deputy governor, the magistrates, and assistants, the ministers of the gospel, elders of the church, school masters, officers to the militia, men of great wealth or connected with gentry or nobility, alone were entitled to be called Mister, and their wives, Mistress; this rule was rigidly enforced in earlier colonial times; and in all lists of names, it was almost the invariable custom to commence with those that stood highest in rank, and follow that order to the end."

"Goodman Hamblen was not much in public life. He was an honest man, a good neighbor and a sincere Christian; he was industrious and prudent in his habits and brought up his children to walk in his footsteps. His descendants have, with few exceptions, inherited the good qualities of the ancestor."
Andrews, H. Franklin. A Genealogy of JAMES HAMLIN of Barnstable Massachusetts, eldest s/o James Hamlin, the immigrant, who came from London, England, and settled in Barnstable, 1639. Exira, Iowa, 1902

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Unmarked

James married Anne SCOTT on 19 Apr 1632 in St Paul, Exeter, Devonshire, England. Anne was born about 1609 in Rattlesden, Suffolk, England; died in 1690 in Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts; was buried in Cobb’s Hill Cemetery, Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Religion: Puritan
• Immigrant?: Y

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Unmarked

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• Immigrant?: Y
• Married?: Y
• Migration: 24 Apr 1638, “Confidence”

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The following is from http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Bearse-3:
The first Bearse in the line was Augustine Bearse, also known as Austin Bearse. What we know for sure about Augustine Bearse is that at age 20 he arrived at Plymouth from Southampton, England on April 24, 1638 aboard the "Confidence". He is listed immediately following Martha Wilder and Mary (!), her daughter (no ages given) of Shiplocke, Oxfordshire, England.[3] After a short time in Plymouth proper, he moved to Barnstable (Cape Cod) with the first company in 1639.
His house lot, contained 12 acres of very rocky land and was in the westerly part of the East Parish and bounded westerly by John Crocker's land, northerly by the meadow, easterly by Goodman Isaac Rolinson's land and "southerly into ye woods." He owned six acres of meadow adjoining his upland on the north, and two thatch islands, still known as Bearse's islands (in the 1870's). He also had six acres of land in the Calves Pasture, esteemed to be the best soil; in the town, eight acres of planting land on the north side of Shoal pond, and bounded by Goodman Cooper's, now call Huckins' Neck, and thirty acres at the Indian pond, bounded easterly by the Herring River. The Indian pond lot he sold to Thomas Allyn.
He was proposed to be admitted a freeman, 3 June 1652, and admitted 3 May 1653. Rarely found in the records, nonetheless he is shown as a grand juror in 1653 and 1662, and a surveyor of highways in 1674.
He was a farmer, lived on the produce of his land and brought up his large family to be useful members of society. His house stood on the north side of the road, and his cellar and some remains of his orchard still existed up to the beginning of the 1800's.
In 1643 he was the first to join the church of Rev. John Lothrop which had moved to Barnstable after a dispute over infant baptism, which the Lothrop Church supported. In 1652 Bearse was admitted a freeman. It is said that he was one of the few residents against whom no complaints were ever filed. He was a farmer, but in his civic role he served as surveyor of highways in 1674. He was still living in 1686 but had died by 1697.
Augustine Bearse was said to be a very pious man as shown by the following excerpt from Genealogical Notes of Barnstable Families:
He appears to have been very exact in the performance of his religious duties, causing his children to be baptized on the Sabbath following the day of their birth. His son Joseph was born on Sunday, Jan'y 25, 1651, O. S., and was carried two miles to the church and baptized the same day. . . .Now such an act would be pronounced unnecessary and cruel.
The Bearse name survives on Cape Cod to this day in the short unpaved road near his former homesite in Eastham known as "Barss Lane".
Austin's wife's name is unknown. She was unidentified by both Otis and Newcomb in their pre-1875 works. Early 20th century claims were made that she was a Native American.
There is no record of his death nor estate settlement in the Probate records.
OR: he died 2 Jun 1686 in Barnstable, MA.
A road from his house to Hyannis is still known as Bearses' Way (easily located in Google Maps).

Augustine married Mary MNU. Mary was born about 1624 in prob England; died on 21 Feb 1678 in Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Parents and origins unknown

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• Immigrant?: Y

Joshua married Abigail LINNELL on 27 May 1651 in Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts. Abigail was born in 1633 in County Middlesex, England; died in 1689 in Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts; was buried in Lothrop Hill Cemetery, Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Immigrant?: Y
• Migration: 1638

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d/o Robert LINNELL (1584—1663) & Jemima Peninna HOWES (1599—1679)