Welcome to the Barnstable County Registry of Deeds. Barnstable County was founded in 1685 and encompasses the land and the 15 towns that make up what is popularly known as Cape Cod. The Barnstable County Registry of Deeds contains the over three centuries of real property ownership history for Cape Cod. In Massachusetts, Registries of Deeds deal only with title to real property.
The Mayflower Compact was signed aboard ship on November 11, 1620 by most adult men (but not by most crew and adult male servants). The Pilgrims used the Julian Calendar, also known as Old Style dates, which, at that time, was ten days behind the Gregorian Calendar.
Pilgrims. Later on called Pilgrims, 41 adult males out of the 102 settlers decided to create a law, called the Mayflower Compact. They knew that the first group of settlers, those who went to the âNew Worldâ before they did, failed because they did not have any system of self-government.In order to ensure their success this time, they decided to create a government, and the Mayflower Compact was the first law ever enacted.he first settlers in America were British. They were on a ship called the Mayflower, and they anchored in New Plymouth, which is currently in the Provincetown Harbor located near Cape Cod, Massachusetts.