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CHAPTER IV
IN QUAKER DRAB
WHEN the lands of Succanessett were first `laid out' in November, 1661, it is recorded that "Jonathan Hatch and Isaac Robinson, because they have built their houses shall have the lots by their houses." Permission from the Court was granted first in 1659 to Thomas Hinckley, Henry Cobb, Samuel Hinckley, John Jenkins, and Nathaniel Bacon of Barnstable in this form "Liberty to view and purchase a tract at Saconesset." Thomas Hinckley and Richard Bourne of Sandwich were empowered to arrange with the Indians for the same. Two years later another group is given the same permission, so doubtless negotiations fell through. This second group who were granted `liberty to purchase lands at Suconesset and adjacent' were John Howland, Anthony Annable, ISAAC ROBINSON, Nathaniel Thomas, Samuel Fuller, Abraham Pierce and Peter Blossom as of the date March 5, 1661, while on June 4 were added Samuel Hinckley, Matthew Fuller, John Cooper, Henry Cobb, John Dunham and John Jenkins of Barnstable and William Nelson and Thomas Burman (Bowerman) of Sandwich, while a little later the names of John Finney (Phinney?) Thomas Burman and John Dunham, Jr., are seen. Many of these early purchasers of land at Falmouth never became settlers here. Examination of the old records readily convinces one that the `real estate boom' of 1926 on the Cape had its first predecessor upwards of two centuries ago, and that the early Pilgrims were true Yankees in perceiving the investment possibilities of the wild land about their little settlements. With ships ever bringing new emigrants, and sturdy sons ever growing to maturity, a man was sure to find a purchaser sooner or later for desirable plots to which he held title. As in those early times the procedure of scouting out good locations, obtaining the requisite permission from the Court
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