Cousins, I am going to copy this exactly as it is written. It might take a few e-mails.....so if you want to save it copy, paste then print.........Gypsy. *AUGUSTINE (AUSTIN) BEARSE: b. 1618 near Longstock, England; d. 1697 Barnstable, Mass; m. summer of 1639, Machottache Village, Cape Cod, Mass; PRINCESS MARY HYANNO: b. 1625 Cape Cod, Mass, the grand-daughter of Chief Massasoit, or High Yannough, of the Indian tribe, Wampanoag, subdivision of the Cummaquids of the Algonquins; d. ca 1700 Barnstable, Mass. Both are buried in the old cemetery at Barnstable, Mass. Augustine was of Gypsy ancestry, of the Romany race. He was deported by the English government on the ship "Confidence" that sailed from Southampton, England on March 24, 1638. He had committed no wrong but was deported because of his Romany blood (by recant law-forbidden on the English soil). His name appears on the passenger list (Dr. Banks Passenger Lists, published 1/1/1955 in the genealogical pages of the Hartford Times.) as Augustine BeArce. He arrived at Plymouth, Massachusetts in 1638. In those days, at Plymouth, no puritan maiden would have married a Romany because of religious and racial scruples; so he took to a wife of lovely flaming red-haired Indian Princess who had jut reached the age of puberty. They were wed under pagan rites in a small Indian village, but their marriage is recorded in the Barnstable vital statistics. Some of the best land in Barnstable County, Mass. was ceded orally, and held jointly by Chief Massasoit and Augustine and Mary for 3 generations without any written deed. Their marriage was a powerful factor in preventing the Indians from attacking the English settlers. Later in 1639 they moved to Barnstable, Mass. which he had just been established and remained there until their deaths. His house lot consisted of 12 acres of very rocky land and was in the eastern part of the East parish. It was bounded easterly by John Crockers' land; northerly by a meadow; westerly by Goodman Isaac Robinson's' land and southerly by woods. His house stood on the North side of the road and his cellar and some remains of his orchard existed in the early 1900s. A road from his house to Hyannis, Mass. is still known as "Bearse's way." He owned six acres of meadow adjoining his upland on the North and 2 thatch islands, still known as Bearse's Islands. He also had six acres of land in the Calves Pasture, esteemed to be the best soil in the town. He also owned 8 acres of land in the Calves Pasture, esteemed to bet he best soil in the town. He also owned eight acres of planting land on the North side of Shoal Pond and was bounded by Goodman Cooper's now called Huckon's Neck and thirty acres at the Indian Ponds that were bounded easterly by the Herring River. The Indian lot he sold to Thomas Allyn who sold the same in 1655 to Roger Godspeed. The planting lands at Shoal Pond were occupied by his descendants until the early 1900s. John Jenkins and John Dexter later owned the homestead.