--part1_73.6b652b0.26f03e70_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In a message dated 09/12/2000 9:58:01 PM Eastern Daylight Time, Ndec77barr writes: << He became a member of Mr. Lathrop's church on 4/29/1643 and his name stands at the head of the list, he being the first named who joined after it's removal to Scituate, Mass. >> Hi Cousins, I have the other Mary and Augustine version too. I am not saying whose is right or wrong as I did not do the research. Maybe one is her in-laws? I just feel that this version should be at least known to the other cousins. If nothing else it is a good in sight on the feel (of the Indians and colonists) of the times? I got this from Eileen and she must find out where she got it from or did somebody (Dale Burly?) send it to her? Eileen at the bottom of the page it is penciled in BEARCE FAMILY c5 71 .b3962 --1979 Dale Burley. At any rate I left a paragraph out and after I thought about it I shall type it now as I always did wonder why so many of the Bearse's were Mormon. Could this be why? This refers to the church Augustine joins....... Rev. John Lathrop had ministered to a small independent group in London, England. The group had no public place of worship as their worshipping had been declared illegal. In 1632 a wily bishop discovered their meeting place in a private home. Forty-two members including Rev. Lathrop, were imprisoned for two years but eventually all but the Reverend John were released on bail and he was given his freedom providing that he move to the colonies. In 1634, together with his children and a number of his followers, they migrated to the Massachusetts Colony and later settled and established his church at Scituate, Mass., two miles from Barnstable. Lucy (Mack) Smith, mother of Joseph Smith, the prophet of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day Saints, was a descendant of Rev. John Lathrop. --part1_73.6b652b0.26f03e70_boundary Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Return-path: <Ndec77barr@aol.com> From: Ndec77barr@aol.com Full-name: Ndec77barr Message-ID: <f5.2a882ac.26f03929@aol.com> Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 21:58:01 EDT Subject: Augustine and Mary.....Part 2 To: BEARCE-L@rootsweb.com CC: nekguda@earthlink.net, Rapjby@aol.com, lmm1007.temp@home.com, BARBADOS30@hotmail.com, emrm4142@gateway.net, Whitebajan@aol.com, sandy.ptc@wspan.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: AOL 4.0 for Windows 95 sub 106 He was proposed to be admitted as a freeman on 6/3/1652 and was admitted on 5/3/1653. (Webster defines freeman as; "a citizen of a borough, town or stat; one having the freedom of a company or municipality.") He was a grand juror in 1653 and in 1662 was a surveyor of highways. He was one of very few against whom no complaint was ever made, a fact which speaks well for his character as a man and citizen. He was a farmer who lived on the produce of his land and brought up his large family to be like himself-useful members of the society. He became a member of Mr. Lathrop's church on 4/29/1643 and his name stands at the head of the list, he being the first named who joined after it's removal to Scituate, Mass. He appears to have been very exact in the performance of his religious duties, causing his children to be baptized on the Sunday after their birth. His son Joseph, was born on Sunday and was carried 2 miles to the church to be baptized as their belief was such that any who died before baptism would be lost. (In limbo.) Being influenced by this belief, Augustine did not wish a weeks delay to imperil the salvation of his son, Joseph. Now such and act would be unnecessary and considered cruel. Chief Massasoit, grandfather of Princess Mary HYANNO, wife of Augustine, was also known as Osmekin, or Ousamequin, or Yellow Feather. Also called "sachem" meaning chief. He was born 1580 near what is now Bristol, Rhode Island. He died in 1661 at Pokanet, (Mt. Hope, Rhode Island, near Bristol. He and his squaw are buried at Gay Head, on Martha's Vineyard, Mass. He was a powerful chief of the Wampanoag in the region of what is now Bristol, RI; whose domain extended from Cape Cod to Narragansetts Bay. His principal village was at Pokanoket (now Mt. Hope, RI) He visited Boston in 1638 and in 1642 and in 1649 sold the site of Duxbury, Mass. to the English. A statue of him now stands on the Pilgrim burial ground in Plymouth, Mass. He first met the colonists at Plymouth, Mass. in 1621 one year after their landing. Samoset, chief of the Pemaquid tribe, a division of the Wampanoag, first met the colonists and later returned with his Chief, Massasoit, who was greeted by the colonists with trumpet and drum and was led to the newest cabin that had been decked out with cushions and a green rug on the floor. Massasoit promised the colonists he would never harm them as long as he lived; thus became the first treaty between the English and the colonist. When the colonist returned the visit in the village of Pokamoket, Massasoit was dressed in a squirrel jacket and wore a mantale of turkey feathers and received them with great honor. As a token of friendship, Massasoit gave his 2 sons, Wamsutta and Metacom, English given names of Alexander and Philip, respectively. One of Massasoit's brave by the name of Squanto was the one who taught the colonists to plant corn and put a dead fish in each hill. Massasoit provided 4 deer for the first Thanksgiving at Plymouth in 1621 and he and a small group were present at the feast. His son, Wamsutta, later called Alexander married Nannapag, and are the parents of Augustine's wife, Mary Hyanno. Wamsutta became Chief of the tribe upon his fathers death in 1661 but was short lived as chieftain of the tribe as he died one year later in 1662. His wife married twice after his death. He was succeeded by his brother Metacom. (Philip.) --part1_73.6b652b0.26f03e70_boundary--