#Barnstable county

[moltengarnet]

Saw Deadpool & Wolverine last night. I expected it to be funny but it definitely exceeded my expectations. What a great send-off to the Fox universe.

(7/27/24, Cape Cod Mall, MA)

[monmorgandy]

Cape Cod Nickerson State Park Kettle Pond by Mark Via Flickr: Downed Scrub Pine at Flax Pond on a Foggy Morning Barnstable County, Coastal Massachusetts Accessed via Nickerson State Park Campground Date taken: September 19, 2015 While much of my time was spent combing the coastline of Cape Cod National Seashore on my trip to Massachusetts this past September, some of my more interesting photographs were arguably from the kettle ponds at Nickerson State Park where my sister and I were camped. On this particular morning, I rolled out of my tent and stumbled down a very short trail to the shoreline of Flax Pond to find this fallen scrub pine reflecting in calm waters with heavily obscured horizons. I thought the result was a really cool low-key image.

[hopefulkidshark]

Truro, Cape Cod, Massachusetts, United States: Truro is a town in Barnstable County, Massachusetts, United States, comprising two villages: Truro and North Truro. Located slightly more than 100 miles by road from Boston, it is a summer vacation community just south of the northern tip of Cape Cod, in an area known as the "Outer Cape". Wikipedia

[exhuastedpigeon]

Omg tell me about townie sterek please

Okay this fic is my dearest fic and I realllllly want to get my Sterek writing mojo back so I can write it.

Stiles is a 'townie' in Beacon Hallow (a town I made up in Cape Cod). His dad is the county sheriff and his mom was a teacher at the high school - she dies tragically mid school year from a really aggressive cancer. He doesn't know is mom's parents at all but they're rich and Claudia met Noah (ugh he'll always be John to me) when she was a teenager summering on the cape.

The Hales are a wealthy family that spend their summer at their beach house in beacon Hallow.

Stiles and Derek meet because Stiles works at the old timey ice cream shop/burger joint. They have a summer fling and that should be the end of it right?

WRONG! Stiles' mom's last wish was for him to go to a fancy prep school (where she went to school) and her parents are willing to pay for it. She got Stiles in before she died. So he shows up for his first day at this fancy ass school (which is like an hour+ drive for him one way) and Derek's there.

The opening couple paragraphs are under the cut:

Summer was usually a time of year that kids looked forward to and typically Stiles Stilinski loved summer. Summers on Cape Cod were kind of special, even if you weren’t one of the stupid rich families who summered on the Cape. But this summer he was having trouble mustering any excitement since summer meant he was losing the distraction of school, lacrosse, and the mindless work of homework. 

This was his first summer without his mom and he honestly didn’t know what he was going to do with himself. The loss was still so raw, it had only been six months and every day waking up without her felt like losing her all over again. At least he had a summer job lined up at one of the local ice cream shops, Scoops, to keep him busy. 

“I’m on night shift this week,” Stiles' dad said when Stiles sat down at their little kitchen table the first morning of summer vacation. He was the sheriff in Barnstable County and summers were extra busy with the tourists and seasonal residents on Cape Cod. Not for the first time, Stiles wished Barnstable County was a little smaller and didn’t take up the entire Cape. 

“I can bring you dinner tonight,” Stiles supplied, “I’m not starting work until next week.”

“Don’t worry about it,” His dad said, taking a long drink from his coffee, “You know the first week of the summer holiday means all of the rich families who are in town for the season stop by and drop off meals.”

That Stiles did know. It made him a little sad to think about it, actually. His parents had met when his mom, fresh out of college and about to start law school at Harvard in the fall, had stopped in with cookies for the sheriff's department. It was his dad’s first summer on the force and they had fallen hard for each other.

[captain-price-unofficially]

AAVP-7A1 amphibious vehicle returning to USS Barnstable County (LST-1197) while on exercise in 1991

[judgemark45]

6/1/1987) A starboard bow view of the tank landing ship USS BARNSTABLE COUNTY (LST-1197) underway.USN Image

[countyflagchampionship]

These are the counties advancing to Round 7!

AR: Searcy

AZ: Maricopa

CA: Santa Cruz, Ventura, Monterey, Orange

FL: Palm Beach, Okaloosa

IA: Polk, Henry

IL: Peoria

LA: Jefferson

MA: Barnstable

MD: Cecil, Frederick 

NC: Tyrrell

NE: Saline

NM: Otero, Colfax

NV: White Pine

NY: Saint Lawrence

OH: Mercer, Brown

PA: Lancaster

TX: Goliad, McMullen

UT: Summit

VA: Charles City

WA: Skamania, Whatcom

WY: Big Horn, Park

Alaska, Alabama, Georgia, Hawaii, Maine, Michigan, Missouri, and Mississippi have all been completely eliminated!!!

[brocksbuilding]

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[bakerfamilytree]

Baker History

The Baker cornerstone by Thomas John Baker.

The earliest possible information of any paternal descendant begins as early as the sixteenth century possibly with Nicholas Baker, born in 1585 in Suffolk, England. The next possible descendent of the Baker family is the son of Nicholas, Francis Baker of Herefordshire, England. He immigrated to North America and settled in the Massachusetts colony at Yarmouth along with his wife Isabel Twining (Baker) of Herefordshire, England. Together they had eight children: Nathaniel, John, Samuel, Elizabeth, Daniel, Thomas, William, and Hannah.

Of these eight children my 6x great grandfather is possibly Thomas Baker Sr., born 1654 in Yarmouth, Barnstable Co., Massachusetts. He married Bathsheba (Bashua) Lewis Abt. 1699, who is the daughter of George Lewis and Mary Lumbard. “Thomas Baker Sr. was the son to whom most of [his] father's property was left. Possibly because the other sons had been provided for, Thomas being the only one still unmarried at the time of his father's death. Thomas and his mother were made joint executors of [his] father's will. Thomas lived at Yarmouth and shared in the division of common lands there in 1712, after which [there is] no further trace of him.”[i] Thomas and Bathsheba had two children Mary Baker and Thomas Baker Jr.

Thomas Baker Jr. listed above is my 5x great grandfather born in 1703. Thomas married Phoebe Chase in 1733. Nothing more is known about him except that together they had Six children: Hannah, Mary, Bathsheba, Benjamin, Thomas, and Eleazar and of these Thomas Baker III is my 4x great grandfather. He married Abigail, (whose last name is unknown). They had five children: Samuel, Elijah, Mary, Thomas, and Anthony.[ii]

NOTE: The ancestors above, with further research, are most likely not connected to what is below although it would be nice.

Anthony Baker is my 3x great grandfather and the first confirmed descendant. He was born in 1754, Twenty-two years before the British Colonies declared their independence 1776. By the time the revolution began, Anthony who was a royalist, went to the Province of New Brunswick and came to St John on the ship "Hope" with the spring fleet in 1783, and spent the first winter in St John. In May of 1784 he was still in St John but by June he had left...probably to claim his land in the Kingston area. Anthony was a pew holder at the St. John's Church, Gagetown in 1792 and had several children baptized there. Anthony was very good with numbers and he became a surveyor of lumber at St John, New Brunswick. He was granted lands at Kingston, Northampton parish and Prince William, on the St John's River. He returned to the city of St. John in 1804, where he died probably about 1817. Anthony had two wives that are known. Mary Kelly (possibly known as Hannah Kelly) who was an Irish Quaker from Ireland and a second wife named Abigail Parker Woodworth who is my 3x great grandmother. Altogether Anthony had thirteen children: With Mary (Hanna) – Jonathan, Simeon, Jesse, Samuel, Hannah, Anthony, Elizabeth, and David. With Abigail – Abigail, Hannah, Parker, Benjamin Griffith, and George Smally. Of these Benjamin Griffith is my 2x great grandfather.[iii]

Benjamin Griffith Baker may have been named after a man named Benjamin Griffith an officer in Delancey's Brigade. Benjamin married Leah Ann Walton at the Woodstock Anglican Church in York County, New Brunswick, (later became Carleton Co) on October 26,1827. Going by the birth records for the children (1851 Census), it appears that Benjamin and Leah Ann moved to Ontario somewhere between 1835 and 1839. On March 18,1862, Benjamin received a patent on the Crown land, which he seemed to have been living on prior to 1851 (Lot 12, concession 7). He paid $160.00 for the land. There are several land transaction at this time, and he sold it for $1000.00. On May 27, 1865, Leah Ann bought some broken lots (lots 21 and 22). From this point on Leah Ann's name appears on all land records. This may indicate that Benjamin was in poor health. There seems to be several land transactions to get money. On June 1, 1882, Benjamin passed away after being sick for a week with congestion in his lungs. He was living with his son Samuel Baker in Dresden, Ontario at that time. Together they had ten children: Elisha, Samuel, Jesse, Benjamin, George, Jane, Joseph, Margaret, David, and Henry.

Of these children, David is my great grandfather. David was born in Chatham Twp., Kent Co, Ontario in 1845. In the 1861 census, he listed himself as a laborer and by 1871, he had left home. His first wife was Susannah Buhl and their first child was John Benjamin, born about 1874 in Canada. Their second child, Mary, was born in Michigan about 1876. Therefore, it is quite possible David went to Michigan about 1877. He seems to have travelled there with his father-in-law, John Buhl and other in-laws.  Their third child came into the world in 1878 also in Michigan and named William Albert. At some point Susannah died and David became a widower. At this point he must have traveled back into Canada where he and his second wife, Mary Jane Hare from Cromwell, England gave birth to his fourth child James Henry. His next two children, Robert and Eliza both were born Canada. He migrated to the United States in 1900 and became a US citizen in Randolph county, Missouri. He eventually settled in Watertown, South Dakota where his last child Laura was born. Of the children, of David and Mary, my grandfather was James Henry Baker.

James was born in Montreal Canada on November 10, 1882.[iv] He migrated to the United States and settled with his parents in Watertown, South Dakota. It was here that James apparently met my Grandmother, Marie Ann Larsen.  They entered the bonds of matrimony on December 18, 1919.  A few years later my father, Ralph, was born, their only child. While still living in Watertown, South Dakota, My grandfather on October 25, 1925 entered the Salvation Army.  He apparently was an active member and was in their band.  He played the Drums and held the rank of Drum Sargent. James lived a good life and was good with his hands as a carpenter. During the great depression, my grandfather possibly worked for the WPA on one of the bridges that span the Mississippi River.[v]  In 1943, he was employed as a janitor at the University of Minnesota.  He was responsible for cleaning Pioneer Hall.  He kept this job until 1951 when he retired.  After retiring James and his wife, Marie, lived on assisted living at varying locations in Minneapolis. James died in December of 1967.

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[i] See Thomas Baker at Geni.com: https://www.geni.com/people/Thomas-Baker/6000000000424731005

[ii] Nicholas Baker may be Francis Baker’s father, but this is not a confirmed.  Francis Baker who was born about 1611 is the first possibly known paternal descendant of the Baker family. The other possible parents of Francis are Thomas and Frances Ingram Baker. Thomas Baker Sr. is the son of Francis, in which Thomas Baker Jr. is his son. Thomas Baker III born in 1744, is the weak link in the chain, for if he is the son Thomas Baker Jr. how can Anthony Baker be his son, for Anthony was born in 1754. Therefore, there possibly is a different Thomas Baker here, or Thomas Baker Jr. is Anthony’s father. Yet, this all remains speculative, with research still taking place. See: https://www.familysearch.org/service/records/storage/das-mem/patron/v2/TH-904-57845-117-7/dist.txt?ctx=ArtCtxPublic and http://darrel-betty-hagberg.com/genealogy/mclaughlin/d0004/g0000094.html. Further, it is possible that John Baker, born in 1545 in Brookland, Kent, England, is the Father of Nicholas Baker, but there is no proof.

[iii] Hannah Baker is listed twice. Either, he had two daughters with the same name, which is doubtful, or Hannah Kelly or Abigail Parker Woodworth is her mother.

[iv] The place of James Baker’s birth is in question. It was believed that he was born in Montreal, Québec, but a record from the Ontario Births and Baptisms registry of 1779-1899, states that he was born in Enniskillen, Lambton, Ontario. This makes sense seeing that his Father David William Baker home was Chatham-Kent, Ontario, 32 miles away.

[v] The Works Progress Administration, (1935) - This program was led by Harry Hopkins and had a budget of five billion dollars. By 1936, four million people were employed as they built schools, parks, roads, irrigation dams, and other civic improvements. (Source - American History after 1865 by Ray A. Billington and Martin Ridge.)

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Truro, Barnstable County, MA, USA 42.0110, -70.0827

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[sandwich-inn-and-suites]

THINGS TO DO IN SANDWICH MA

Sandwich is the oldest town on Cape Cod and is located in Barnstable County, Massachusetts. Post tot Naufracia Portus is the town motto, which means “after so many shipwrecks, a haven.” At the time of the 2010 census, the population was 20,675. The Wampanoags, who spoke Algonquian and befriended the Pilgrims of Plymouth Colony, colonized Cape Cod. With the approval of the Plymouth Colony, a…

[nevinslibrary]

Book sale is open

Come in and find some good stuff

Books, Puzzles, and More

It's Book Sale Weekend!!! Are you in the Merrimack Valley or the Essex/Middlesex area? (hey, if you're in the Berkshire or Barnstable County come on over/up too).

It's open all day today (until 5pm), open tomorrow from Noon-4pm, and Monday 9am-8pm (Bargain Day, 10 buck for a bag to fill)!!

[shefancdotcom]

Check out this listing I just added to my Poshmark closet: Chase Edwards Coolmax Barnstable County Sheriffs Office Embroidered Polo Shirt.

[banyan-massachusetts]

Declining Overdose Rates in Cape Cod, Massachusetts: A Step in the Right Direction for Addiction Treatment

Recently, there have been promising signs of declining opioid overdoses in Cape Cod, Massachusetts. According to an article from Banyan Treatment Center, the number of opioid overdoses in Barnstable County is now at an all-time low since the opioid crisis began in the region. This is an encouraging sign that efforts to combat opioid abuse and overdoses are paying off. The data for the declining overdoses was released by Barnstable County officials. The data showed that in 2018, the overdose rate for opioids dropped by almost 16%, compared to 2017. Here are some of the key points from the article:

• Although the number of opioid overdoses has decreased, drug-related deaths are still occurring.

These encouraging signs are proof that a multi-faceted approach to fighting opioid abuse can be effective. To learn more about the decline of opioid overdoses in Cape Cod, Massachusetts, read the full article here. If you're interested in finding out more about Banyan Treatment Center, you can visit their homepage.