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Note: Darius Carpenter, b.18 May 1790, "a child taken to be educated by
Thankful Goodspeed"' Bapst. 14 Oct. 1792.

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Note: The probate records are confusing, but we suspect that he may have died shortly before his father, in 1772.
There is no record at Sandwich of the births of any children. But there was a Sylvanus Handy and also an
Ebenezer Handy whom we have not been able to identify, and we suggest the possibility that either or both may have been sons of this Cornelius Handy, Jr. Further research is needed to confirm or refute the suggestion. We believe that of a household of two males over 16, one male under 16, and three females, was the widow of this Cornelius Handy, Jr, If so it would appear that she had two daughters and perhaps three sons as well.

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Note: Cornelius Handy, born in March 1704/05, died in Sandwich, intestate, probably shortly before 2 October 1772.He married 28 March 1726 Abigail Saunders (Sandwich Town Records), daughter of Henry Sanders and his wife Anne Bates, daughter of Samuel Bates (Clement). Abigail Saunders Handy was born Plymouth in March 1705(May. Desc"2:227), and baptized in Sandwich First Church 20 June 1708. We have not found a record of her death, nor probates for her parents.
In the absence of probates for either parent, we must once more assume that Cornelius' father deeded him a
share of his estate. His name appears on the Rev. Benjamin Fessenden's March 1729/30 list of Sandwich
house holders. His wife, Abigail Handy, joined the church 5 Nov. 173 8, together with her sister-in-law
Elizabeth, wife of Benjamin Handy. But she did not have her children baptized until April 1739. "Jabez,
Cornelius, Abigail, Jonathan, Keziah, of Cornelius and Abigail Handy, these were baptized at Pocasset after a private lecture at the house of Zaccheus Handy, at eve following" (Sandwich First Church Records). The youngest daughter, Susannah, was baptized 10 Oct. 1742. Cornelius, himself was not prepared to accept fall communion until 3 oct.l742(ibid).
On 30 May 1769, Cornelius Handy, his sons Cornelius, Jr., and Jonathan, his brother John Handy,
Mary (Perry)Handy, widow of his cousin Job Handy, and other Handy and Wing cousins, joined with other
residents of Pocasset in a petition to the General Court for a second Sandwich Church, relating that they lived in Pocasset, nine miles from ether the Sandwich or Falmouth meeting house. They explained that they had arranged to engage Mr. Elisha Tupper as minister, and expected to be joined in worship by some additional families from Monument and the northerly part of Falmouth, plus the Indians th whom Mr. Tupper already ministered. (Ecclesiastical Affairs, vol. 14, pg. 545-547 - Massachusetts Archives, State House, Boston, Mass.)
The above petition proves that both Cornelius Handy, Sr., and Cornelius, Jr., were alive and resident in
Pocasset in 1769. Although the probates are confusing here, we believe that father and son died in 1772,
within a short time of each other, both intestate, on 2 Oct. 1772, the Court addressed and notice to John Handy of Sandwich, yeoman, stating that "Whereas Cornelius Handy, late of Sandwich, afore said, yeoman" had deceased intestate, John Handy was appointed administrator(Barnstable County Probates, 16:31). Presented and accested 8 May 1781(ibid" 21:91,92). It must be remembered that the original probate papers of Barnstable County were destroyed by fire in 1827.

All that survives is what had been transcribed in the record books. In this instance the widow is not named,
though she was living 2 Oct. 1772, nor are the children, although the widow held for the heirs the balance of LI 1.4s. I l/2d. The picture is farther blurred by an entry showing that the same John Handy (presumably) presented, 10 Nov. 1772 and inventory taken by Moses Swift, Seth Barlow, and Jesse Barlow, of "all the Real and personal estate of Cornelius Handy Jr., late of Sandwich, deceased". The Real Estate was L199. IOs.Sd.
Total, L277.8s.4d (ibid., 17:114). This entry, five weeks after the date of the accounting above may refer to the estate of the same person; but why should the Nov. item be designated as a inventory of Cornelius Handy Jr., unless the father also was very recently dead? If both these entries were for the estate for Cornelius Handy the younger, we can find neither will nor administration for older man.

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Note: Keziah Wing (Nathaniel Wing, Stephen Wing, Rev. John, Matthew), born about 1684 at Sandwich, Barnstable Co., Massachusetts, date of death unknown. Keziah Wing married John Handy on November 14, 1704 at Sandwich, Barnstable Co., Massachusetts. John was the son of Richard Handy and Hannah Unknown. It is unknown with any certainty where John Handy was born, possibly he was born in Sandwich also. John Handy died after 1729/1730 probably at Sandwich.

Richard Handy's will shows that this second son, John Handy, was living in 1717 in a house of his own, and the will gives him the land on which the house stood. The will also shows that Keziah's father, Nathaniel Wing, lived nearby, on land abutting that of Richard Handy. Nathaniel Wing's will, proved in 1722, gives to his daughters ("Hoziah" evidently intended for Keziah), but does not identify them by their married names. The Rev. Benjamin Fessenden's list of Sandwich householder in March 1729/30 includes this John Handy.

Keziah Wing and John Handy had 5 known children:

1. Cornelius Handy, born March 9, 1704/05

2. Zaccheus Handy, born January 16, 1707/08, at Sandwich, Barnstable Co., Massachusetts, died 1787 at Rochester, Massachusetts.

3. John Handy, born January 24, 1713/14

4. Thankful Handy, born January 17, 1716/17

5. Jonathan Handy, born October 6, 1719

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Note: The marriage of Richard Handy to his wife, Hannah, doubtless occurred about 1671 when he would have been about twenty five. We can find no clue to her parentage. With the associations mentioned
in the indenture in mind, we hoped that perhaps propinquity might play a part, and surveyed the Dexter and Skiffe families for a suitable bride, but without success. Apart from the births of his children
(and only four of the six were recorded) Richard Handy's name does not again appear in the records until 1681 when he is include among a list of freemen of Sandwich (Freeman, op. cit., 2:74). In 1702 Richard joined his fellows in a vote to enlarge and repair the meeting house {ibid., p. 85).

Nevertheless, as proved by his will, he was buying and selling land during this period, and we repeat our lament that the genealogically disastrous fire of 1827 destroyed the Barnstable County deeds which
would certainly have been helpful.

Fortunately, he made one land purchase outside Barnstable County, and this one transaction turns out to be of genealogical importance. "James Wood alias Attwood of Middleborough, for eight pounds paid by Richard Handy, Sr., worcestencomber, of Sandwich in the county of Barnstable" conveyed "my sixty acre lott.. in the Eight Men's Purchase in sd township of Middleboro, being the sixth lott in number... 14 April 1708". Acknowledged 6 Nov. 1708, witnessed by Thomas Palmer, John Miller, Ebenezer Bennett, Francis Combs; recorded 21 May 1710 (Plymouth County Deeds; hereafter PLCD, 9:56). It is interesting to note, in view of the apprenticeship as a cooper in 1667, that Handy here still (or again calls himself a worstencomber. One wonders whether the apprenticeship was not successful, or if Richard was a master of many trades. More important is the fact that he willed this Middleborough property to his grandson, Richard3 Handy (Richard2). Had it not been for this bequest we should not have had the deed, made in 1773, by which the heirs of Richard3 Handy, living in distant Guilford. Conn., furnished proof of their descent from Richard1Handy, and also identified their relationship to each other and their places of residence (see below).

The will of "Richard Handy Sr. of the Town of Sandwich….
being now grown into years and under decay of body", reads a
follows:
Item: I give and bequeath to my son Richard Handy and to his heirs and assigns forever on the conditions and with the reserve hereinafter mentioned and expressed, several parcels of my uplands and marsh and meadow grounds, viz: that piece of land on which his now dwelling house standeth, and is bounded on the Southwesterly side from a split rock in the salt water and thence running down into the salt water, directly below said rock and thence from the sd rock running up on a straight line to a marked red oak tree standing without the fence by the way, and north easterly is bounded partly by said way and partly by the fence as it now standeth, down to a known great rock below the now dwelling house of Nathaniel
Wing and home to a rock a little below the corner of Nathaniel Wing's house and thence to a rock in the ground by the fence, with stones laid to it and thence as the fence runs to the salt water and thence setts off northwesterly as the fence now stands or hath stood up upon the land, away to and below that called Moses his Field, and still as the fence runeth, home to the ditch between the divey flow [?] and Wonamet Neck and at that end bounded by the ditch fence down to the bay or salt water and thence is bounded on that side next to the bay by the Bay . . .. More. I give and bequeath to my son Richard Handy . . . twenty acres more of upland above and directly opposite to and against the aforementioned lands on which his now dwelling house stands . . . and free access to the way . . . to his meadow . . . to Wonamett Neck.

Item: I give and bequeath to my son Jonathan Handy and to his heirs and assigns forever, on the same terms on which I give the lands above to my son Richard . . .. That is, the lands lying below the way that leads between the dwelling house of my son John Handy and my son Richard Handy . . near the salt water which is his Easterly corner bound of the land which I have sold him in Paybodys Neck and at the foot is bounded by his own land across the head of sd neck to the Bay or salt water on the most Westermost side (on the Westerly or Northwesterly side) bounded by the land given to my son Richard Handy. And more, I give to my son Jonathan Handy all the marsh and meadow ground which I have lying below the land given my son Richard Handy on that called Chepatuskett Neck as also on that called The Island.

Item: I give and bequeath to my son John Handy (on the same terms) that piece of land on which the sd John Handy now dwells, bounded North West by lands of my son Jonathan Handy . . . also upland and meadow near Wanamett Neck . . . and is part of that called Charles his meadow, bounded Westerly by Joseph Lawrence.

Item: I give and bequeath to my daughter Desire Handy, on condition hereafter mentioned, the upland and meadow ground . . . on parcel bounded by Richard Handy, Jr., Nathaniel Wing. and land I had of Jonas Nomuch. Indian, to the most Westerly end of it . . . and I give to sd Desire my daughter free liberty to use such ways . . . only the condition is that if any of my sons. her brethren, shall see cause to give her one hundred pounds for same, then he shall have them.

Item: I give and bequeath unto my son Hanybal Handy and Isaac Handy and to their heirs and assigns . . . all the rest of my uplands and swamps, marshes and meadow grounds which I have now within the town of Sandwich afsd. with my dwelling house thereon standing (only excepting my lott of upland laid out on the last division of the open lands of said town). And the condition which I give and bequeath the sd land to my son Richard Handy and to all tile lest of my sd sons is that if any or either of them shall see cause, either them or their heirs after them, to sell and dispose of it or any part of it that they shall sell it only to one or more of my sd .sons or to their children and not to any other person or persons. And also my sd sons Hanybal and Isaac to have equally divided between them as they shall agree or as it shall he divided by persons indifferently chosen ...only upon division my son Isaac to have his part L20 better than to my son Hanybal's my part. And also on conditions and with the reservation that while Hannah my wife liveth, she shall have liberty with my daughter Desire, to live in ye now dwelling house as they now do, with one of them, my sons Hanybal or Isaac and they two to provide for and allow unto my sd wife and my sd daughter a comfortable and sufficient maintenance both for food, rayment, fire wood and other necessaries, for the judgment of my overseer to this my Will. and during the time and term of the natural life of her the said Hannah, my wife if she shall survive me, and that after her decease to allow her a decent burial. And then after her decease, the sd Desire, my daughter, to have the use, benefit and improvement of the largest chamber in my sd New Dwelling House, for the time that she shall continue a single woman and unmarried, but my will is that after my sd daughter hath taken out that which is her own bedding and other things which belong to her and Jonathan hath taken out his own things now belonging to him, that then the rest of my personal moveable Estate, of all sorts and kinds, soever, shall be equally divided between my two said sons, Hanybal and Isaac, the better to enable them to do what I have, by this my will. enjoyned on them. And also, on the decease of my wife and during the time that my said daughter shall continue unmarried and dwelling in my sd chamber they, sd Hanybal and Isaac to cut and bring home to the door suitable and convenient firewood for the sd Desire their sister, suitable for her use. both summer and winter.

Item: I give and bequeath to my grandson Richard Handy and to his heirs and assigns forever, all my lands lying within the township of Middleborough in the County of Plymouth. And finally, I do constitute and appoint the sd Isaac Handy my son to be sole executor to this my Last Will and Testament and I do appoint my trusty friend, William Bassett, Sr. of Sandwich aforesaid to be overseer of this my Will and to advise and direct my sd Executor in the management of this Trust as need shall require. And I do hereby revoke (all previous wills) etc. . . this nine and twentyeth day of August A. D. 1717.
Signed: Richard Handy.
Witnessed by: William Bassett. John Pope. Samuell Jennings,
Nathaniell Cotton (Barnstable County Probates, 3:559-564).

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Note: Richard Handy Jr. was born 21 May 1672, was living in March 1729/30. He married in Sandwich, 21 Feb. 1699/1700. Patience Randall, daughter of John and Patience (Parker) Randall (May. Des. 30:59), born there 16 Jan. 1678/9.
As eldest son, this Richard Handy was a principal heir under his father's will. That instrument shows that
prior to 20 Aug. 1717 he possessed a house and land of his own which, no doubt, he had received by deed from his father at his marriage. The will, dated 19 Dec. 1723, of John Randall of Rochester gives: "To my son Job... he paying out to my Daughter Patience Handy or her heirs the sum of L30, at LI0 a year, the first payment to be at one year after my decease and so yearly until the whole be paid, which I give to my said daughter Patience in fall of her portion with what I have already given her" (Plymouth County Probates, 5:525-6). The parallel between the pattern of restlessness of these Sandwich families and those of the present day never ceases to interest us. The Handy's are an example - Richard Handy Jr. and his wife were possessed of a comfortable inheritance, yet only one of their many children seem to have been content to remain in Sandwich. The Rev. Benjamin Fessenden's list of Sandwich householders, March 1729/30, includes Richard Handy Jr. Neither he nor his wife, nor any of their children, appears to have joined the church. There is no record of baptisms for this family group. We suspect that in later years Richard Handy Jr. disposed of this property by deed, and went to live with one of his children.

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