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Rev. John Lothropp (1584–1653) – or Lothrop, or Lathrop – was an English Anglican clergyman, who became a Congregationalist minister and emigrant to New England.He was among the first settlers of Barnstable, Massachusetts in 1639.
Barnstable (/ ˈ b ɑːr n s t ə b əl / BARN-stə-bəl) is a town [3] [4] in the U.S. state of Massachusetts and the county seat of Barnstable County. [5] Barnstable is the largest community, both in land area and population, on Cape Cod, and is one of thirteen Massachusetts municipalities that have been granted city forms of government by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts but wish to retain ...
People from Osterville, Massachusetts (19 P) Pages in category "People from Barnstable, Massachusetts" The following 51 pages are in this category, out of 51 total.
But by spring 1642, the “New England economy was turning downward.” Cattle bought at £10 a head in 1640 could not be sold for £5 in 1642, [60] and Hull's livestock business “collapse[d].” [61] Banned from ministry in Massachusetts, Hull left his wife and children in Barnstable and travelled north, seeking work in Maine.
He also tried to become a freeman, and a year later he became a freeman of Barnstable. [5] In 1652, Dolor Davis was chosen as a surveyor of highways in Barnstable. In 1654, he was then chosen to become the constable of Barnstable. [6] He continued to live in Barnstable and practice his trade as a carpenter until he left for Concord in 1655.
Thomas Hinckley (bapt. March 19, 1618 – April 25, 1706) was the last governor of the Plymouth Colony.Born in England, he arrived in New England as a teenager, and was a leading settler of what is now Barnstable, Massachusetts.