Otis, Nathaniel, 1690 - 1739

Nathaniel Otis  (1690-1739) was the son of the Honorable John Otis and Mercy Bacon of Sandwich, Massachusetts.  In 1721, he was appointed Register of Probate for Barnstable County.  He later served as the clerk of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas for the County eight years later. Horatio N. Otis, "Genealogical and Historical Memoir of the Otis Family," NEHGR 3 (3):286. William H. Whitmore, The Massachusetts Civil List for the Colonial and Provincial Periods, 1630-1774 (Albany, NY: J. Munsell, 1870), 106.  Goodell, "Provincial Seals in Massachusetts," Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society 20 (1882-1883): 168.