Annals of the Sinnott, Rogers, Coffin, Corlies, Reeves, Bodine and allied families . ^ (Reverend John^, Matthew^), was born possiblyin Sandwich, in England, about 1617-18, and died at Sandwich, Massachu-setts, in March, 1698. He purchased of Andrew Hallett, 28 June, 1640,certain lands about a mile on the road leading southward from Sandwich toFalmouth, and there erected his homestead, which is still standing nestling at the foot of hills at the head ofthe lower pond, and surroundedby a growth of shrubbery andtrees. There his children wereprobably born, and it must havebeen there that his enter
Annals of the Sinnott, Rogers, Coffin, Corlies, Reeves, Bodine and allied families . ^ (Reverend John^, Matthew^), was born possiblyin Sandwich, in England, about 1617-18, and died at Sandwich, Massachu-setts, in March, 1698. He purchased of Andrew Hallett, 28 June, 1640,certain lands about a mile on the road leading southward from Sandwich toFalmouth, and there erected his homestead, which is still standing nestling at the foot of hills at the head ofthe lower pond, and surroundedby a growth of shrubbery andtrees. There his children wereprobably born, and it must havebeen there that his entertain-ment of the Quakers broughtdown the wrath of the Plymouthauthorities upon himself. He wasa member of the Sandwich mili-tary company in 1643, ^^d served on the Grand Inquest of the Colony 7January, 1653, but by 2 March, 1657, he had adopted the faith and prac-tice of the Society of Friends, and was at that time fined twenty shillingsfor appearing before the court with his hat on. § On i June, 1658, hewas one of those deprived of the rights of citizenship, and was also one of. Daniel Wing House * Family records of the late Lucius B Wing, of Ohio,t Barnstable County Probate Records, iii. 517. X Mortuary Record from the Gravestones in the Old Burial Ground in Brewster, Massachusetts,compiled by Charles E. Mayo. § Plymouth Colony Record, iii. 130. 214 THE WING FAMILY those summoned by the Court to show cause for their refusal to take theoath of fidehty to this government and unto the state of England, whichagain (i June, 1658) being tendered to them in open court, they refused,saying they held it unlawfull to take any oath at all. On 2 October, of thatyear, he was fined five pounds for continuing in his refusal to take the requiredoath, and this fine was repeated on 6 October, 1659.* Thus to satisfy finesimposed, he was under distraint of £12, and the authorities sold three of hiscows in settlement thereof. Freeman, in his History of Cape Cod, makes the statement that Daniel
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