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| Date Of Birth | 1618 | Date Of Death | 4 AUG 1697 |
| Place Of Birth | Southhampton, Hampshire, England | Place Of Death | Barnstable, Barnstable County, Massachusetts |
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| In the spring of 1638, the ship Confidence, two hundred tons ofLondon, England, arrived at Plymouth Massachusetts on April, 24, 1638. On board was the only prisoner allotted to Barnstable, namely, Augustine Be Arch, age 20. The ships manifest records him as Augustine Bearse, the name he chose to use. Due to a minor infraction of English law, he was deported to the Colonies as an English Prisoner. Before coming to America, Austin had belonged to a family of Continental Gypsies who had migrated to England. It is said because of this, no decent Puritan girl would have anything to do with him. It was only natural, therefore, that Austin should mingle with the Indians, more so than the white settlers would.
The wife of Austin Bearse was Mary Hyanno, an Indian Princess, whom hemarried by Indian rites at the Nausett Indian village. She was the daughter of John Hyanno, a Nausett Sagamore and son of the Sachem, Hyannoogh, one of the Indians who had befriended the Pilgrims on their first arrival in 1620, and especially to the people who settled in the Barnstable area before 1640.
Mary Hyanno was a lovely flaming haired princess. Her people had aancient tradition that a long time before, white men had landed on their shores and intermarried with them. This would probably indicate a Viking descent and why these Indians were called Wampanoags, or, "White Indians."
One of the reasons that the Vikings took to the sea, besides theirquest for adventure, was due to the fact that there was not enough tillable land for everyone to make a living on. Besides fishing, the sea offered a by-way to other lands, for either conquest or settling. The Vikings were a venturesome, warlike people who raided many lands just for booty.
It is a historical fact that Iceland and Greenland were settled by theVikings about 985 AD The notable "Eric the Red" was a Norse explorer and leader of the colonization of Greenland. Generally, most of the Vikings were from Norway, Sweden or Denmark. The Norwegian, Leif Ericson, son of Eric the Red, was the Viking or Norseman who discovered North America, almost five hundred years before Columbus. In these early times, most of the Norwegians were fishermen ¾ living along fjords and rivers, using small open boats which they sailed from their homes, seeking new farm lands. Some of them settled in the British Isles, others in Iceland, Greenland and France. Leif Ericson and a few others sailed on down the eastern coast of North America, settling there, but were later driven away by the Indians, or died there of illness.
In the year 1000, Leif in his Viking ship, sailed southwest fromGreenland until they discovered land. Making there way south, they explored the coast to the cape of Massachusetts, now known as Cape Cod, where they remained for the winter. They called it Vinland and the cape they called, Kjalorness. In 1007, a Viking named Thorfinn, sailed from Greenland to Vinland and the account of his voyage is still extant. From evidence of their voyage and others that followed, antiquarians have no hesitation pronouncing this area the head of Naragansett bay. This is the first tangible evidence of the white man on the shores of Cape Cod, and from this time, on and off, until the first charts of the cape appeared in 1529 documentation. Here they mingled with the Indians near what is now Barnstable and left enough Viking offspring so that this particular band became known as the "White Indians."
A great portion of this was taken from an original diary of ZerviahNewcomb, who married Josiah Bearse, a grandson of Augustine Bearse. Her dairy is called, "A Chronicle of the Bearse Family," and is in the Congressional Library. The early Viking information comes from, "North Sea Coast People," by Nell M Bloodgood & Myrtle Peterson and of other sources.
1638: The little band of Rev. Lothrops Puritans had been temporarilyliving at Scituate and were determined to seek out the land at Mattacheese. Different Indian tribes held the lands in and around this area, each having its Sachem, by whom the community was ruled. Iyanough's tribe held the land south and midway of the bay and sound.
1639 Aug. 21: This is the recorded date that Rev. Lothrop's firstgroup left Scituate for Mattacheese, the Indian word for the area now known as Barnstable. "With the greater part of his congregation following him, leaving the remainder of his group in a broken condition." The new settlement was incorporated on September 3, 1639. The remainder of his group came in late fall and the spring of 1640. Austin Bearse and other members of this genealogy came with one of the later groups, however, he appears on a list of its first settlers and able to bear arms.
1640: In the first land division, Austin received a home plot, twelveacres in all of, "very rocky land." In time he owned more land; six acres in the calves pasture, eight acres north of Shoal Pond, and thirty acres at Indian Pond. The road from his home to Hyannis is still called, Bearse's Way.
1643 April 29: Austin became one of the very first signers in the Rev.Lothrops new church at Barnstable. This church, with its rituals, had a strong influence on him, particularly to that of baptism. When his son Joseph was born, it being a Sunday, Austin carried him, newly born to church, a distance of two miles, to be baptized so as not to wait another week. People at this time believed that if a person died not being baptized, they would be lost to God, and that it was the duty of the parent to present their children for the earliest possible baptism. Because of their beliefs in baptism being a primary importance, Mr. Lothrop removed his church from Scituate, where they would not be influenced by the Baptists, who were forming their own church there.
1644: In this year, Thomas Hinckley, on behalf of Barnstable, obtaineda deed of land on the Southeastern part of the town from the grandfather-in-law of Austin Bearse, Iyanough, with the exception of a tract owned by John Hyannis, son of Iyannough. At a later date, 1680, Hinckley also purchased this land on behalf of the town.
1686: When the County highway was laid out, part of it bordered Mr.Bearse's land and records read as: "running by or near ye upper end of Dea. Crocker Jr. his land, on ye South side of great rock partly at ye head of the land of Austin Bearce."
Apparently Mr. Austin Bearse was a farmer as no records indicateotherwise.· His name is vacant from all court proceedings that speak well for his repute. The remains of his cellar and orchard were still visible in the early part of the 20th century. He may have died intestate.
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