. Historic homes and places and genealogical and personal memoirs relating to the families of Middlesex County, Massachusetts ;. PUBLIC /Jkjtv^^ U , r J cJCcAtA^LL^-^. MIDDLESEX COUNTY. 639 Here lies the bodies of Mr. Barnard Capen& Joan Capen his wife. He died November8, 1638, aged jd years & she died March 26,1633, aged 75 years. (H) John Capen, son of Barnard and JoanCapen, was for a quarter a century deacon ofthe First Church of Dorchester, and servedthe town as selectman and as a representativein the general court of the Massachusetts BayColony. He was also town clerk, and a mem-ber of th
. Historic homes and places and genealogical and personal memoirs relating to the families of Middlesex County, Massachusetts ;. PUBLIC /Jkjtv^^ U , r J cJCcAtA^LL^-^. MIDDLESEX COUNTY. 639 Here lies the bodies of Mr. Barnard Capen& Joan Capen his wife. He died November8, 1638, aged jd years & she died March 26,1633, aged 75 years. (H) John Capen, son of Barnard and JoanCapen, was for a quarter a century deacon ofthe First Church of Dorchester, and servedthe town as selectman and as a representativein the general court of the Massachusetts BayColony. He was also town clerk, and a mem-ber of the militia company organized for thedefense of the colony, and his military serviceextended over a period of fifty years, and bypromotion he gained the rank and title ofcaptain. He married Mary, daughter of Dea-con Samuel Bass, of Braintree. (HI) Preserved Capen, son of DeaconJohn and Mary (Bass) Capen, married in1682, Mar} Rayson, of Dorchester. (IV) John Capen, son of Preserved andMary (Payson) Capen, married in 1722, Ruth,daughter of Ephraim and Sarah (Bass) Thay-er, and settled at Braintree. (V) Christopher Capen, son of John andRuth (Thayer) Capen,
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