MassachusettsA contributing property in the Fort Hill Rural Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000. This roughly 100-acre rural district in Eastham, within Cape Cod National Seashore, preserves a landscape of fields, woods and salt marsh grouped around the Knowles and Penniman houses that represents a pattern of Cape Cod farm settlement and land division from about 1750 to 1900. It reflects the regional shift away from communally worked open fields toward clusters of extended families jointly farming adjacent, individually held parcels, an organization that endured on the Knowles family holdings from 1786 until 1943. Portions overlap the Nauset Archaeological District (a National Historic Landmark for Historic Contact-period significance), and the Second Empire Captain Edward Penniman House and barn, the only whaling captain's house in Eastham, stand within its bounds.
Treat, Rev. Samuel Property Marker
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Treat, Rev. Samuel Property Marker is a historical marker in Eastham, Barnstable County. It is one of 250 historical markers documented in Barnstable County, among 6,897 historic sites cataloged across the county on MassRoam.
The site sits at 41.8205, -69.9630 near Eastham. The nearest cataloged historic site is Fort Hill Road Stone Walls (landmark), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Knowles Family Open Agricultural Fields, Fort Hill, and Fort Hill Road Agricultural Trails.
This record is drawn from public historical records. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.
This marker recalls the Reverend Samuel Treat (1648-1716), the first ordained minister of Eastham, who began preaching there in 1672 and served the parish for more than four decades until his death. A Harvard graduate and son of a Connecticut governor, Treat ministered to both English settlers and the local Nauset people, learning their Algonquian language and translating religious texts so that Native preachers could use them. He was widely respected among the Nauset, whose praying congregation numbered in the hundreds, and tradition holds that they bore his body to the meetinghouse through deep snow when he died.
Sources: easthamthefirstencounter.orgprovincetownindependent.org
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