Benjamin Bearse Sr. (1682 - 1748)

Born 21 Jun 1682 in Barnstable, Barnstable, Plymouth

Ancestors

Husband of Sarah (Cobb) Bearse — married 4 Feb 1701 in Barnstable MA

Husband of Anna (Atwood) Bearse — married 25 Aug 1747 in Chatham, Barnstable, Province of Massachusetts Bay

Descendants

Died 15 May 1748 at age 65 in Hyannis, Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts Bay

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Biography

Was very successful in the fishery business.

Burial: The Old Graveyard, Hyannis, Barnstable County, Massachusetts

Alternate Burial: South Street Cemetery, Hyannis, Massachusetts, next to Sarah. Sarah and Benjamin were first cousins. Their mothers were Taylor sisters.

-"Benjamin Bearse, son of Joseph, was one of the early settlers at Hyannis. His homestead was bound east by David Hallet's land, the corner being two rods from Hallet's house, and is now owned by his descendants. In his will dated March 26, 1748, proved on the 7th of July following, he named his sons Augustine, Benjamin, Joseph, Samuel, Peter and Stephen; his daughters Martha Lewis, Priscilla Lewis, Sarah Nickerson and Thankful Nickerson, and his wife Anna, to whom he gave all the household goods she brought with her, and the improvement of one-third of all his real and personal estate. To Augustine he gave land bounded S.E. and N. by the heirs of Jonathan Lewis, deceased; to Joseph and Samuel his house and orchard; to Peter a house and one acre of land on the north side of the road; to Stephan and Benjamin all his lands in Gorham town; to Joseph, Peter and Samuel all the rest of his read and personal estate, they paying debts, legacies, and allowing Augustine a convenient way to the landing "where I make oysters," and a place to land and dry fish; to Benjamin, Martha and Priscilla £12 old tenor each ($5.33), and to Sarah and Thankful £2 each, a bed and other articles to be divided equally. His personal estate was appraised at £431, 16s., 6p., and his real estate at £910, and his mulatto boy Tom at £60 - all I presume in old tenor currency, corn being appraised at £1 per bushel - that is 50 coppers equal to 44 cents.

He was engaged in the fisheries, and the success of himself and sons was sung by some contemporary troubadour, whose verses are remembered through the name of the poet is forgotten. He married first, Sarah, daughter of Samuel Cobb, Feb. 4, 1701-2, she died January 14, 1742, and he married in 1747 his second wife, Anna Nickerson of Chatham. He died May 15, 1748, aged 60, and is buried with his first wife in the old graveyard in Hyannis, where their son Samuel caused gravestones to be erected to their memory."

Death

15 MAY 1748 Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts

Age: 65

Sources

• The Genealogical Notes of Barnstable Families, Volume 1, by Amos Otis, pages 55

• The Descendants of Augustine Bearse

• Cyberancestors

• Hamblen, David. First Settlers of Chatham, Mass., The New England Historical & Genealogical Register (NEHGS, Boston, 1853) Vol. 7, Page 81
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