Pane-Joyce Genealogy
Family of Rebecca Hobart (14968) & Edward Bangs

26904. Rebecca Bangs. Born ca 1635. Rebecca died on 19 Oct 1667.

On 16 or 28 Oct 1654 Rebecca married Capt. Jonathan Sparrow, son of Richard Sparrow (ca 1605-8 Jan 1660[/1]) & Pandora [Sparrow] (-aft 1661), in Eastham, MA.3,156 Born ca 1629 in England. Jonathan died on 21 Mar 1707 in Eastham, MA.207

Their children include:
34366 i. Rebecca Sparrow (10 Oct 1655-7 Feb 1740)
34367 ii. John Sparrow (2 Nov 1656-)
34368 iii. Priscilla Sparrow (13 Feb 1658-)
34369 iv. Elizabeth Sparrow

26905. Sarah Bangs. Born ca 1638.

ca 1656 Sarah married Capt. Thomas Howes, son of Thomas Howes (1590-1665) & Mary [Howes] (-9 Dec 1695). Born in England. Thomas died on 20 Nov 1676.

26906. Jonathan Bangs. Born ca 1640 in Plymouth, MA.5 Jonathan died in 1728 in Harwich, MA.55

On 16 Jul 1664 Jonathan first married Mary Mayo, daughter of Samuel Mayo (ca 1622-1663/4) & Thomasine Lumpkin (1625-16 Jun 1709), in Eastham, MA.156,3 Born ca 1645. Mary died on 26 Jan 1711 in Harwich, MA.

Children of Jonathan and Mary, born at Eastham:
    i. Edward, b. 6 Sep 1665 (or the last day of Sep 16653);
    ii. Rebecca, b. 1 Feb 1667;
    iii. Jonathan, b. 1 Apr 1670, d. 11 May 1670;
    iv. Mary, b. 14 Apr 1671
    v. Jonathan, b. 4 May 1673;
    vi. Hannah, b. 14 Mar 1676;
    vii. Thamoson (daughter), b. May 1678
    viii. Samuel, b. 12 Jul 1680;
    ix. Mercy, b. 7 Jan 1682;
    x. Elizabeth, b. 13 May 1685;
    xi. Sarah, b. Aug 1687; and
    xii. Lydia, b. 2 Oct 1689.156

Child:
34370 i. Sarah Bangs (Aug 1687-2 Apr 1759)

Jonathan second married Sarah [Bangs].

On 23 Jul 1720 (int) Jonathan third married Ruth Cole, daughter of Daniel Cole & Ruth Chandler, in Eastham, MA.5 Born on 15 Apr 1651 in Eastham, MA.

Ruth, widow of John Young.

26907. Lydia Bangs. Born ca 1642 in Plymouth, MA. Lydia died on 13 Feb 1706.

Children of Benjamin and Lydia (Bangs) Higgins, born at Eastham:156
    i. Ichabod Higgins, b. 14 Nov 1662;
    ii. Richard Higgins, b. 15 Oct 1664;
    iii. John Higgins, b. 20 Nov 1666, d. 13 Jun 1689;
    iv. Joshua Higgins, b. 1 Oct 16683;
    v. Lydia Higgins, b. latter end of May 16703;
    vi. Isaac Higgins, b. 31 Aug 1672;
    vii. Rebecca Higgins, b. 14 Jun 1674, d. Mar 1675;
    viii. Samuel Higgins, b. 7 Mar 1677, m. at Eastham 4 Nov 1703 Hannah Cole (b. 28 Jan 1680/1 at Eastham, d. 25 Feb 1716/7, dau. of Israel and Mary (Paine) Cole); and
    ix. Benjamin Higgins, b. 15 Sep 1681.

On 24 Dec 1661 Lydia married Benjamin Higgins, son of Richard Higgins (ca 1603-1674/5) & Lydia Chandler (ca 1614-), in Eastham, MA.156 Born in Jul 1640 in Plymouth, MA.3,156

Child:
34371 i. Isaac Higgins (31 Aug 1672-)

26908. Hannah Bangs. Born ca 1644 in Plymouth, MA.171 Hannah died aft 1677.

Hannah was living at Eastham in 1677 , then being named in her father’s will.171

On 30 Apr 1662 Hannah married John Doane (1131) , son of Dea. John Doane (416) (ca 1590-21 Feb 1685[/6]) & Ann [Doane] (-1 Jun 1654), in Eastham, MA.156 Born ca 1635 in Plymouth, MA.171 John died on 15 Mar 1707/8 in Eastham, MA.156

From The Doane Family:171
    “Mr. Doane went with his father’s family from Plymouth to Nauset, or Eastham, in 1645. He was a man of prominence in Eastham, and for many years was in tbe public service. He was a selectman almost every year from 1678 to 1700. He often served as a juror, and was the constable of Eastham in 1661 and 1693. In 1701 and 1702 he was one of the Negative Men. In 1664 he was appointed one of the Receivers of Excise for Eastham. at 1668 he was of the Grand Inquest and in 1669 he was a Justice of the Select Court. He represented his town in the Colony Court in 1684 and 1685, and in the General Court at Boston in 1693, 1694 and 1702. He was a large landholder and was quite extensively engaged in farming. It is understood that his homestead was near that of his father. Mr. Doane was of the same religious faith as his father, and a member of the First Church of Eastham. He doubtless was buried in the old rown Cove burial ground.”

Their children include:
4141 i. John Doane (Died soon) (20 Mar 1662/3-15 May 1663)
4142 ii. John Doane (29 May 1664-22 Nov 1755)
4143 iii. Ann Doane (25 Jul 1666-12 Feb 1758)
4144 iv. Rebecca Doane (12 May 1668-19 Dec 1758)
4145 v. Hannah Doane (17 May 1669-6 Jun 1765)
4146 vi. Isaac Doane (2 Jun 1670-29 Dec 1755)
4147 vii. Samuel Doane (2 Mar 1673-15 Aug 1756)
4148 viii. David Doane (ca 1674-18 Nov 1748)

26909. Lieut. Joshua Bangs. Born ca 1646.5 Joshua died on 14 Jan 1709/10 in Eastham, MA.156

On 1 Dec 1669 Joshua married Hannah Scudder, daughter of John Scudder (24 May 1618-) & Mary King, in Eastham, MA.156,3 Born on 19 Jun 1649 in Barnstable, MA. Hannah died in Falmouth, MA, on 13 May 1739; she was 89.

26910. Bethia Bangs. Born on 28 May 1650 in Eastham, MA.3 Bethia died on 15 Aug 1696; she was 46.

Bethia married Gershom Hall, son of John Hall (ca 1610-23 Jul 1696) & Bethia [Hall]. Born ca 1647/8 in Barnstable, MA. Gershom was baptized in Barnstable, MA, on 5 Mar 1647/8.5 Gershom died on 31 Oct 1732.

GERSHOM, Harwich, s. of John of Barnstable and Yarmouth, m. Bethia, d. of Edward Bangs, had Samuel, b. 1669; Edward; Bethia; Mercy, if the name be not Mary; and Jonathan; but the dates, as well as order, is uncert. His w. d. 13 Oct. 1696, and he had sec. w. Martha. Tho. one of the most active sett. of H. he had long liv. at Yarmouth, and there was bur. He d. 31 Oct. 1732.2

26911. Apphia Bangs. Born on 15 Oct 1651 in Eastham, MA.3 Apphia died aft 20 May 1715.

Apphia and her sister, Mercy, were twins, and they married their husbands on the same day.

On 28 Dec 1670 when Apphia was 19, she first married John Knowles (1624) , son of Richard Knowles (498) (17 Sep 1614-prob. between 1670 and 1675) & Ruth Bowers (790) (1616-1687), in Eastham, MA.156,3 Born 1640s in Plymouth, MA. John died on 3 Jun 1675 in near Taunton, MA.22

From Libby’s Knowles genealogy:22
    “The earliest appearance of the name of this John Knowles may have been while he was still a minor. In the court held 3 mar. 1662/3 Ephraim doane, Thomas Ridman, John Knowles, and John Wilson were tried and were fined 25s. each for trading of liquors with the Indians at Cape Cod. In the same court Ephraim doane and John Knowles were bound over under heavy bonds, pending investigations into the circumstances of the death of Josiah, the Indian sachem at Eastham. This matter was dropped. soon after his marriage his name appears at the head of a cattle page, the entry reading “John Knowles 1 mare colt 4 Aug. 1671.” His earmark was transferred to his grandson, Williard Knowles, 28 Jun 1737.
    “In June 1675 Taunton suffered an attack by Indians, in which the houses of James Walker and John Tisdell were burned and the latter was killed. At the same time two soldiers from Eastham, who were on duty there, were killed. Capt. John Freeman, whose daughter Samuel^2 Knowles afterwards married, was in command of the Barnstable County company, and in his report to Governor Winslow, under date of Taunton, 3 Jun 1675, said:
    “‘This morning three of our men are slain close by one of our courts of guard, (two of them, Samuel Atkins and John Knowles, of Eastham); housews are burned in our sight; our men are picked off at every bush.’
    “Three Indians were tried, 6 Mar. 1676/7, for the murder of John Knowles, John Tisdell, Sr., and Samuel Atkins. The jury found grounds of suspicion against two and acquitted one, but all three were sold into slavery as ‘prisoners of war.’ The sum of £10 waas presented by the Colony to ‘Apthya widow of John Knowles lately slain in the service.’ In 1676 Lieut. Jonathan Sparrow and Jonathan Bangs were delegated by the Court to asssist the yound widow in settleing her husband’s affairs.
    “The inventory of his estate, taken 8 Mar. 1676, included ‘one dwellinghouse and three or four acres of land, and a small parcel of broked sedge and meadow.’ His house must have stood on the southern slop of the high land north of the road recently built form the State Road to the Town Landing. At a town meeting held 15 Mar. 1724/5 it was
    “‘Voted, to allow Samuel Knowles to fence in the land on the northwest side of his field or land which was formerly his brother John Knowles so far as the fence & ditch which did formerly enclose the said land did formerly stnad and no further.’
    “John Knowles’s brother afterwards had his land, and two town records refer to the road dividing Samuel Knowles’s ‘original land,’ on the east of the road, from the land that was of John Knowles, deceased, on the west of the road.”

Their children include:
5949 i. Dea. Edward Knowles (7 Nov 1671-16 Nov 1740)
5950 ii. Col. John Knowles (10 Jul 1673-3 Nov 1757)
5951 iii. Rebecca Knowles (2 Mar 1674/5-4 Mar 1758)

by 6 mar 1676 Apphia second married Stephen Atwood, son of Stephen Atwood (-Feb 1694) & Abigail Dunham (ca 1627-).5 Born ca 1647 in Plymouth, MA. Stephen died in Apr 1722 in Eastham, MA.

Their children include:
34372 i. Machiel Atwood (ca 1679-)
34373 ii. Hannah Atwood (14 Oct 1689-)

26912. Mercy Bangs. Born on 15 Oct 1651 in Eastham, MA.3

On 28 Dec 1670 when Mercy was 19, she married Stephen Merrick, son of William Merrick (ca 1602-3 Dec 1686) & Rebecca Tracy (say 1625-3 Dec 1686), in Eastham, MA.156,3 Born on 12 May 1646 in Eastham, MA.3,156

Their children include:
34374 i. Stephen Merrick (26 Mar 1673-)
34375 ii. Isaac Merrick (ca 1678-ca 1748)
34376 iii. Sarah Merrick (ca 1688-)

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