Notes for John Otis: In 1662 took oath of fidelity at Hingham; moved to Barnstable 1678; left his son John there; returned and died at Scituate. "Few of us can measure up to the world's standard of greatness or success in this life. But we all can at least try to do the simple homely duties that are placed before us, and then trust the Lord for a just judgment."
From "Genealogical and Personal Memoirs of Worchester County" vol 1 p 410: John Otis, eldest son of John Otis (1), was born in Barnstable, Devonshire, England, in 1620. He came to New England with his parents and lived on Otis Hill in Hingham. He held land in Hingham in 1668-9. In 1661 John Otis removed to Scituate, where John Otis was buried May 8, 1641. It seems likely that John Otis, who died there and of whom all record is lacking, may be father of John Otis (I) and grandfather of John Otis (II), who, went to Scituate twenty years later to live. He probably had land there. He bought a house of Deacon Thomas Robinson, south of Coleman's hill. Otis also bought of John Hatherly twenty-three shares of the Conihasset partnership of forty shares. This Conihasset tract was three miles square and included parts of the present towns of Hanover and Abington. He was admitted a freeman at Hingham, 1662, and at Barnstable, Massachusetts, in 1678. He settled in Barnstable on the Otis farm, opposite Hinkley lane, near the marshes in the West Parish. He left his son John there and returned to Scituate, where he died January 16, 1683. There is a stone on his grave in the old burying ground in the meeting house land a mile south of the harbor, but the inscription is not legible.
He married (second) Mary Jacob, daughter of Nicholas Jacob, who came over in 1633. His children were: Mary, baptized 1653, married John Gowan; Elizabeth, married (first) Thomas Allyn, (second), David Loring; John, born in Hingham, 1657, married Mercy Bacon, captain, deputy to general court, chief justice of the court of common pleas, first judge of probate, member of His Majesty's council; Hannah (probably), born 1660; Stephen, see forward; James, 1663, settled at Weymouth; Joseph, 1665, judge of court of common pleas, deputy general court, etc; Job, 1667, settled at Scituate.
More About John Otis and Mary Jacobs: Marriage: 1663
Children of John Otis and Mary Jacobs are:
+John Otis, b. September 21, 1657, Hingham, MA, d. September 23, 1727, Barnstable, MA.
John Otis (b. 1620, d. January 16, 1683/84)
Notes for John Otis: