WIFE

Rebecca Hobart

CHILDREN

Hannah Bangs

Bethia Bangs

According to America's First Families "Edward Bangs was deputy to the Old Colony Court, Selectman of Eatham, where he died. He was born in England."

According to the Plymouth Memorial says he was a merchant and occupied the Allyne House in 1645.

In 1627 there was a division of cows and goats and Edward Bangs was in the 12th group. He was 35. He drew the big line back cow brought over in the Anne. There was division of land that year, that had not been previously divided, and 20 acres were allotted to each person. Edward Bangs was one of the surveyors appointed to lay out the lots.

In 1652 he became a deputy for Eastham and in 1657 was licensed to sell wine and strong waters at Eastham, "provided it bee for the refreshment of the English and not to bee sold to the Indians."

In his will written in 1677 he says he is aged 86 yrs. He had married Lydia Hicks sometime after 1627. Robert Hicks, Edward's father-in-law, had arrived in Plymouth in 1621 on the Fortune. The rest of the Hicks family, Robert's wife Margaret, and their three children, Samuel, Phoebe and Lydia, arrived on the Anne as did Edward Bangs. He was about 30 at this time. Edward and Lydia Hicks Bangs had one son, John. Lydia died in the mid 1630's. Edward remarried Rebecca Hobart and together they had 9 children.
They moved to Cape Cod in the a640's when the town was Nauset (later remamed Eastham).

In his will he left to his son, Jonathan, "all my Purchase Land att Namskekett" plus several acres of land. To his son John he left about 30 acres of land. To his son Joshua he left the house and its belongings plus about 50 acres of land. To Jonathan's oldest child, Edward Banges, he left 25 acres of land. To each of his six daughters he left "four pounds apeece".

Hannah's sister, Bethia, married Gersham Hall who was the brother of William Hall.