What Savage Had To Say...
About the Early Settlers of Woburn
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Source:
Savage,
James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England Showing
Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692, - Vol. I-IV (4).
Boston, 1860-1862.
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Gardner, * Andrew, Roxbury, or rather Brookline, s.
of sec. Thomas of the same, m. 20 May 1668, Sarah, d. of Hugh Mason, had Andrew,
b. 1674, H. C. 1696, the preacher, at Lancaster, casual. k. by a soldier, 1704;
and prob. others, certain. Thomas 9 Dec. 1684; liv. at Muddy riv. was capt. a
rep. 1689, and lost in the exped. of Sir William Phips against Quebec next yr.
BENJAMIN, Hingham, youngest s. of John the first of the same, m. 3 Jan. 1696,
Sarah Dunbar, prob. d. of Robert of the same, had Sara, b. 19 June 1698;
Benjamin, 15 May 1700; and Hannah, 2 Nov. 1703. All this fam. are frequent.
spell. Garnett. EBENEZER, Salem 1682, s. of George, had w. Sarah, wh. d. 5 Sept.
1682, aged a. 23; and he d. 1685, without ch. His will made in [p.227] Feb. of
that yr. disposes, besides £50 to “poor honest people of S.” to br. Henry
Bartholomew; sis. Swinnerton; sis. Willoughby; sis. Pilgrim dec.; sis. Hathorne,
and three ch. John, Nathaniel, and Ruth; sis. Mary Turner, and her three ch.
Robert, Habaccuk, and Mary; br. Samuel G. and his three ch. George, John, and
Hannah; Susanna, d. of uncle Thomas G.; Margaret, d. of uncle Samuel G.; and to
George, s. of one of these uncles, prob. of Thomas. EDMUND, Ipswich, freem. 7
Oct. 1640. EDWARD, wh. came in the James from London 1635, aged 25, may have
been the same as preced. FRANCIS, Hingham, a soldier in Capt. Johnson's comp. at
the gr. Narraganset fight, 19 Dec. 1675, was sec. s. of John of the same, m. 14
Jan. 1681, Joanna May, d. perhaps of Samuel of Roxbury, had Samuel, b. 14 Aug.
1684; and d. 14 Jan. 1689. His wid. m. 26 Jan. 1690, Thomas Whiton, bore him
seven ch. and m. 23 Mar. 1711, Nathan Farrow for third h. GEORGE, Salem 1637,
perhaps s. of first Thomas, b. in Eng. freem. 27 Dec. 1642, had ch. by w. Eliz.
bapt. there Hannah, 5 Dec. 1644; Samuel, 14 May 1648; Mary, 10 July 1653;
George, 24 Sept. 1654; Ebenezer, b. 16 Aug. 1657; and Ruth, both bapt. 2 Apr.
1665 (in 1658 his w. was indict. for favoring Quakers, and was, perhaps, d. bef.
the bapt. of these two); and Mehitable b. 20 Apr. perhaps 1660, d. next mo.
unbapt. rem. to Hartford, m. Eliz. wid. of Rev. Samuel Stone, and d. 20 Aug.
1679. His will of 21 July preced. gave large prop. to s. Samuel, and Ebenezer,
ds. Hannah, w. of John Buttolph; Mary, w. of Turner, and Ruth, w. of Hathorne,
and names br. s. Thomas, and Samuel G. and sis. Grafton. GEORGE, and HENRY, were
of Wickford, R. I. 1674; and George, possib. their f. was of R. I. 1638. GEORGE,
Nantucket, s. of the first John of the same, m. Eunice, d. of Nathaniel
Starbuck. HENRY, Woburn, s. of Richard of the
same, had, by w. Eliz. wh. d. 3 June 1703, aged 43, John, H. C. 1715; had sec.
w. Hannah, and d. 20 Feb. 1714. JACOB, Hatfield, by w. Hannah had Jacob, b.
1676, rem. soon after he took o. of alleg. 8 Feb. 1679. JAMES, Gloucester, m. 19
Jan. 1662, as Felt copies the rec. Eliz. d. of William Vinson, or Vincent, had
Sarah, b. 16 Apr. 1662, d. soon; James, 5 Oct. 1663, d. same day; George, 22
Mar. 1665, d. same day; Eliz. 4 June 1666; Sarah, again, 17 Jan. 1669; Mary, 13
Sept. 1671, d. next mo.; Joseph, 23 Oct. 1672; Rebecca, 15 Sept. 1675; John, 11
June 1678; and James, again, Aug. 1681. JAMES, Hingham, br. of Francis, m. 18
June 1685, Eliz. d. of Henry Ward, and had Henry, b. 11 May 1688; Joseph, 8 Nov.
1689; Eliz. 25 Sept. 1693; and Nathaniel, 26 July 1701. JAMES, Nantucket, s. of
Richard the first, wh. had rem. thither from Salem, m. Mary, d. of Nathaniel
Starbuck, wh. was said to be the first white ch. b. on that isl. 30 Mar. 1663,
had Samuel; Jethro; Barnabas, b. 12 Apr. 1695; Jonathan, 12 Sept. 1696; Eliz.
and Mehitable. [p.228] By sec. w. Patience, d. of Peter Folger, wid. of Ebenezer
Harker, he had no ch. but he took third w. Rachel, wid. of John Brown of Salem,
d. of John Gardner, his f.'s br. and had James; but by fourth w. Mary Pinkham,
wid. of Richard, and d. of James Coffin, had no ch. and d. 1 June 1723, and his
wid. d. 2 Mar. 1741. JOHN, Salem 1643, s. of the first Thomas of the same, b.
prob. in Eng. m. 20 Feb. 1654, Priscilla, eldest ch. of the first Joseph
Grafton, had John, b. 20 Feb. 1654, so that I doubt the day of m. was earlier,
Joseph, 8 July 1655; Priscilla, 6 Nov. 1656, wh. had m. prob. at Salem, but
after being a wid. foll. her f. to Nantucket; Benjamin, 3 Feb. 1658, d. young;
Rachel, 3 Aug. 1662, wh. m. as is said, John Brown, and next, James Gardner, her
cous.; Benjamin, again, 17 May 1664; Ann, 30 Feb. 1667, wh. m. Edward Coffin;
Nathaniel, 24 Sept. 1668; and Mary, 27 May 1670, wh. m. Jethro Coffin. He soon
after rem. to Nantucket, there had Mehitable, b. 24 Nov. 1674, wh. m. Ambrose
Dawes the sec.; and Ruth, 26 Jan. 1677, wh. m. the sec. James Coffin. He had
commissns. from Lovelace, Gov. of N. Y. sev. times, first, 1673, to be capt. of
milit. and 1680, a civ. magistr. as his elder br. Richard had bef. him, and when
the isl. pass. by the new Chart. into Mass. jurisdict. he was, 1699, made Judge
of Probate to his d. 6 May 1706, aged 82. His will was of 2 Dec. preced. JOHN,
Hingham, by w. Mary had John, bapt. 18 July 1652; Francis, 3 Apr. 1653; Mary, 19
Nov. 1654; Samuel, 23 Mar. 1656; Deborah, 5 July 1657; James, perhaps, 5 Feb.
1660; Stephen, 14 Sept. 1662; Thomas, 5 June 1664; Benjamin, perhaps, 8 Apr.
1666; and Christian b. 3 June (in ch. rec. call. s.), bapt. 14 June 1668; and
the f. d. 24 Nov. foll. and his wid. m. 18 June next Nathaniel Chubbuck. At H.
he had gr. of lds. in 1656; but may have been the Duxbury inhab. of 1640. JOHN, Woburn,
freem. 1680. JOHN, Hadley 1678, perhaps s. of Samuel of the same, freem. 1683.
JOHN, Hingham, eldest s. of John of the same, m. 25 Feb. 1681, Mary, d. of
Samuel Stowell of the same, had John, b. 4 Jan. 1684; Mary, 3 Aug. 1686; Ruth,
12 Feb. 1689; Eliz. 24 Oct. 1691; Hannah, 12 May 1694; and Remember, 25 Sept.
1697. *JOHN, Salem, a promin. man, rep. 1716, 19–21, in wh. last yr. he d.
leav. one tenth of his est. to the poor. JOSEPH, Salem 1649, s. of the first
Thomas, freem. 1672, had m. Aug. 1656, Ann, d. of Emanuel Downing, was the brave
capt. k. with five others of same rank, and eight of his comp. alone, in the gr.
battle of Philip's war, at the Narraganset swamp, 19 Dec. 1675; left no ch. and
his wid. m. Simon Bradstreet, soon after Gov. JOSEPH, Nantucket, br. of Richard,
jr. m. 30 Mar. 1670, Bethia Macy, d. of Thomas, had Sarah, b. 23 Oct. 1672;
Damaris, 16 Feb. 1675; Bethia, 13 Aug. 1676; Deborah, 30 Mar. 1681; and Hope, 7
Jan. 1684. JOSEPH, Hatfield, perhaps br. of Jacob of the same, by w. [p.229]
Mary had Mehitable, b. 20 May 1679, soon after wh. he rem. Perhaps he and Jacob
were uncles or cousins of Abigail, wh. m. at H. the Rev. John Wise, wh. declin.
the invit. to bec. the min. there, and after resid. of more than a yr. left the
town; for both these went also, and it may be, they, or one of them, had been
drawn thither by him. JOSHUA, Roxbury, s. of sec. Thomas of the same, m. 1680,
Mary, d. of John Weld of the same, had Joshua, b. 22 Oct. 1682, d. same day;
Margaret, 7 Oct. 1683; Francis, 3 Feb. 1686; and prob. Joshua, again, H. C.
1707. NATHANIEL, Boston 1649, merch. was inhab. of London 1662. NATHANIEL,
Nantucket, s. of the first Richard of the same, m. Abigail, d. of James Coffin,
had Hannah, b. 6 July 1686; Ebenezer, 27 Oct. 1688; Peleg, 22 July 1691; Judith,
28 Oct. 1693; Margaret, 28 Jan. 1696; Nathaniel, 14 Dec. 1697; Andrew, 26 Dec.
1699; Abel, 6 Aug. 1702; and Susanna, 4 Aug. 1706. His w. d. 15 Mar. 1709, and
he d. in Eng. NICHOLAS, Wickford, R. I. 1674, perhaps br. of Benjamin, George,
Henry, or some one of them. PETER, Roxbury, prob. br. of sec. Thomas, b. a.
1617, emb. in Apr. 1635, on the Elizabeth, at London, m. 9 May 1646, Rebecca
Crooke (unless this name be wrong, as I suspect it is, in the rec.), had
Rebecca, b. 9 Nov. 1647; Peter, 24 Jan. 1649; both bapt. 24 Mar. 1650; Thomas,
1, bapt. 23 May 1652, d. at 15 mos.; Sarah, 10, bapt. 29 Jan. 1654, d. at six
yrs.; John, 7, bapt. 30 Dec. 1655; Samuel, 3, bapt. 8 Mar. 1657, k. by the Ind.
2 Apr. 1676; Joseph, 11, bapt. 16 Jan. 1659; Sarah, again, 20 Apr. bapt. 8 June
1662; Benjamin, 23 Apr. bapt. 22 May 1664; Ebenezer, 5 Aug. bapt. 10 Sept.1665,
d. 13 Nov. 1683; and Jonathan, 14 Aug. bapt. 1 Sept. 1667; was freem. 1690;
Peter, the younger, d. 30 Oct. 1673; his mo. d. 10 June 1675, aged 45; and the
f. d. 5 Nov. 1698. Sarah m. 31 May 1683, John Gore. RICHARD, Salem 1643, s.
perhaps, of first Thomas, liv. there 1666, went next yr. to Nantucket. Bef. rem.
he, by w. Sarah, prob. d. of Samuel Shattuck, had Joseph; Sarah; Richard, b. 23
Oct. 1653; Deborah, 12 Feb. 1658; Damaris, 21 Nov. 1662; and James, 19 May 1664;
beside Miriam; Nathaniel, 16 Nov. 1669; Hope; and Love, 2 May 1672. Of the last
d. I see no more; but Sarah m. Eleazer Folger; Deborah m. John Macy, and next
Stephen Pease; Miriam m. John Worth; and Hope m. John Coffin; and the f. d. 23
Jan. 1689. His wid. Sarah d. 1724, aged above 92 yrs. RICHARD, Woburn,
m. 18 Oct. 1651, Ann or Hannah Blanchard, wid. of Thomas of Charlestown, had
John, b. 14 Aug. 1652; Ann, 17 Jan. 1655; Benjamin, 26 Dec. 1656; Henry, 12 Feb.
1658, bef. ment.; Esther, 15 Oct. 1659; Ruth, 1 Apr. 1661; Hannah; Abigail;
Rebecca; and Mehitable; these four prob. at Charlestown; was freem. 1652; d.
early in 1698; but the gr.stone says 29 May. His will of 15 Mar. 1697, pro. 6
May 1698, shows he then liv. at Charlestown. [p.230] It names only s. Henry, and
six ds. Esther m. Edward Johnson, s. of Hon. William, and gr. s. of Capt.
Edward, (the hist. of Wonder Work. Provid.); Ruth m. John Jepson. RICHARD,
Nantucket, s. of the first Richard of the same, m. 17 May 1674, Mary Austin, had
Patience 29 June 1675; Joseph, 8 May 1677; Solomon, 1 July 1680; Benjamin, 20
July 1683; Miriam, 14 July 1685; and Lydia, 16 June 1687, d. young. He was judge
of Probate, and d. 8 May 1728; but his w. d. 1 June 1721. *SAMUEL, Salem 1657,
was s. I presume of first Thomas, b. in this country, a. 1629, had w. Mary
White, and ch. Mary, b. 5 Aug. 1658, d. under 4 yrs.; Eliz. 30 May 1660, d. at
18 yrs.; Mary, again, 29 June 1663, wh. m. Joseph Henfield; Margaret, July 1664,
wh. m. Deliverance Parkman, and d. 25 Mar. 1689; George, 15 Jan. 1668, d. at 8
mos.; Jonathan, and Hannah, tw. 18 July 1669; and Abel, 1 Sept. 1673; was freem.
1675, selectman 1686, rep. 1681, 2, 5; his w. d. 12 Sept. 1675, and he d. Oct.
1689, leav. only youngest three ch. SAMUEL, Hartford, or Wethersfield 1641, rem.
to Hadley 1663, there liv. 1678, had Samuel, wh. d. 1676, unm. and Joseph, wh.
d. 1684, leav. wid. but no ch. He had also five ds. wh. m. but the male line
failed. SAMUEL, Roxbury, a soldier in brave Capt. Johnson's comp. at the gr.
battle, 19 Dec. 1675, was a lieut. k. at Sudbury fight under Wadsworth, with
eight of his comp. Apr. 1676. SAMUEL, Plymouth, m. 20 Dec. 1682, Susanna
Shelley, had Samuel, b. 27 Sept. 1683. STEPHEN, Hingham, s. of John the first by
w. Sarah had Deborah, b. 9 Oct. 1689; Sarah, 31 July 1691; Stephen, 6 Feb. 1693;
Lydia, 22 Jan. 1695; David, 26 Aug. 1697; Abigail, 12 Jan. 1699; Stephen, again,
29 Dec. 1700; Patience, 3 Sept. 1703; and Joshua, 25 Dec. 1705, wh. prob. d.
young. *THOMAS, Salem, was first at Cape Ann, employ. by the project. of sett.
to oversee fishery, 1624 or 5, and rem. with Conant, freem. 17 May 1637, rep.
same yr. It is said, on what ground I kn. not, that he was from Scotland; but to
me it seems much more likely, that he was from Sherborne in N. part of Co.
Dorset. Prob. he had other ch. beside Seeth, bapt. 25 Dec. 1636 (wh. m. I
believe, the sec. Joseph Grafton); as, Richard, George, John, Samuel, Joseph,
Sarah, and Miriam, for some of wh. the prob. is stronger than for others. Sarah
was w. of Benjamin Balch, it is thot. and Miriam of a Hill; and Margaret, wh.
was rec. of the ch. 1639, may have been his w. He d. 29 Dec. 1674. THOMAS,
Roxbury, d. Nov. 1638; and “our aged sis. G.” says the ch. rec. was bur. 7
Oct. 1658, wh. I presume, was his wid. but the town rec. does not ment. the
occurrence of her d. THOMAS, Salem, merch. prob. eldest s. of Thomas of the
same, b. no doubt in Eng. rec. of the ch. 1639, freem. 2 June 1641, was a
selectman, d. 1684. Hannah, prob. his w. is, by Felt, ins. among ch. mem. of
1649. Bapt. of [p.231] his ch. were Mary, 2 Apr. 1643; Thomas, 25 May 1645, wh.
d. 1695; Eliz. 22 Apr. 1649; Abigail, 20 Apr. 1651; Bethia, 26 Mar. 1654;
Hannah, 24 Jan. 1658; and Jonathan, 12 Oct. 1662. Perhaps Mr. Farmer had, from
Felt, names of sev. other ch. but some, I believe, were brs. and sis. of his.
THOMAS, Roxbury, s. prob. of Thomas of the same, b. in Eng. m. 4 July 1641, if
the rec. be distinct, Lucy Smith, had Andrew, b. 5 Mar. 1642, bef. ment.;
Thomas, 1645, a wrong mo. being giv. in the rec.; Abigail, bapt. 15 Feb. 1646,
d. Aug. 1649; Mary, bapt. 9 Apr. 1648; Peter, 8 Dec. (tho. town rec. has Sept.)
1650, and he d. 24 Aug. 1653; Abigail, again, b. 6, bapt. 26 Dec. 1652; Lucy, 11
Feb. 1655; Joanna, 25 Jan. 1657; Joshua, 8 May 1659; and Caleb, 13 Apr. 1662, d.
at 19 yrs. Neither of the last five is named by Ellis, nor are the last three
found in town rec. Perhaps, as his resid. was in that part of Boston, call.
Muddy river, the clk. did not think he was of R. He was freem. 1646; and his w.
d. 4 Nov. 1687, and he d. 15 July 1689; in his will, made three days bef.
provides for Thomas, and Joshua; beside ds. Mary, wh. m. 13 Dec. 1665, Thomas
Boylston; Abigail, w. of Rev. John Wise; Joanna Stanton; and Lucy Monk. THOMAS,
Salem, s. of the sec. Thomas of the same, m. 22 Apr. 1669, Mary, d. of Jonathan
Porter, had Mary, b. 14 Feb. 1670; Thomas, 25 Oct. 1671; Habakkuk, 25 Oct. 1674;
Joseph, 29 Aug. 1677; and a d. 22 July 1679. THOMAS, Roxbury, s. of the sec.
Thomas of the same, m. 19 Nov. 1673, Mary, d. of Elder John Bowles, had Sarah,
b. 15 Mar. 1675; Thomas, 18 Apr. 1676; Mary, 11 Mar. 1679; John, 9 Jan. 1680;
Caleb, 23 Apr. 1682; Peter, 22 July 1684; and Isaac, 18 Aug. 1686. THOMAS,
Hingham, sixth s. of John the first of the same, m. 17 Dec. 1705, Judith Tower;
but no rec. of ch. is seen. Thirty of this name had, in 1829, been gr. at Harv.
and five at the other N. E. coll.
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Glazier, John, Woburn,
by w. Eliz. d. of John George of Charlestown, had John, b. 1663; Zechariah, 20
Apr. 1666; Eliz. 4 Aug. 1668; John, 15 Dec. 1669; Ruth, 30 May 1671; Samuel, 5
July 1672; and George, 3 June 1676.
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Goffe, Anthony, Woburn,
by w. Sarah had Joseph, b. 1 Nov. 1687, d. soon; and James, 3 June 1689, d. next
day. Perhaps he rem. * EDWARD, Cambridge, came from Ipswich in Co. Suffk. by the
Great Hope, embark. late in 1634, or very early in 1635, wit Rev. Thomas
Shepard, who left this sh. and some mos. later took another pass. from London.
He was first at Watertown, certain. had ld. there 1637; brot. w. Joyce, and ch.
Samuel and Lydia; here had Nathaniel, b. Feb. 1638, wh. prob. d. young. His w.
d. No. 1638, and he m. Margaret, d. of wid. Isabel Wilkinson (wh. surv. him and
m. 1662, John Witchfield of Windsor), by her had Deborah, b. 15 Dec. 1639; Mary,
prob. wh. was bur. 23 Apr. 1646; Hannah, 23 Mar. 1644; and Abiah; was freem. 25
May 1636, rep. 1646 and 50, d. 26 Dec. 1658, aged 64. A vexatious rec. in
Geneal. Reg. IX. 169, makes Nathaniel b. 23 Aug. 1645 by his w. Joyce, wh. d.
near seven yrs. bef. when he was, of course, s. of Margaret; beside enrich. him
with w. Judith, that he never kn. It must always be borne in mind, that the
volume from wh. these transac. are print, is only a copy, not orig. His will,
declar, three days bef.**** writ. 26 June 1657, gives double portion to s. names
w. Margaret and her ****. dec. also wid. Barnard, mo.-in-law of his s. and the
gr.ch. Ann Go****e, and John, Lydia, and Jonathan Sprague, ch. of John Sprague
by his eldest d. Lydia, m. 2 May 1651; Deborah, d. 21 Nov. 1660. Hannah m. 21
Sept. 1664, John Moore, jr. of Windsor; and Abiah, m. 12 Oct. 1664, Henry
Wolcott 3d. JACOB, Wethersfield, m. Margery, d. of John Ingersoll of Westfield,
5 Dec. 1679, had Jacob, b. 5 Nov. 1680, d. soon; Moses, 10 Mar. 1682, d. young;
Mabel, 31 Oct. 1690; Mary, 15 Nov. 1693; and Eunice, 27 Mar. 1696; and he d. 21
Oct. 1697. His wid. m. Jonathan Buck. JOHN, Newbury, freem. 22 May 1639, d. 9
Dec. 1641. His will, made 5 days bef. names w. Amy, ch. only Susan, and Hannah.
How, whence, or when, he came to our shores is yet [p.268] unkn. A long
prevalent mistake of Gosse of Watertown, freem. of 1631, or this man, was
encourag. by the identity of appear. of the names on Col. rec. no differ. can be
seen by the most practiced eye. Eliz. G. aged 26, a passeng. in the James from
London in July 1635, may have been a sis. JOHN, Boston, freem. 1678, mem. of 2d
ch. He had bapt. there, Hannah, 2 Aug. 1691; Ebenezer, 12 Feb. 1693; Eliz. 5 May
1695; Sarah, 13 Dec. 1696; Sarah, again, 11 June 1699; Sarah, again, 21 Aug.
1709; and Mary, 15 Apr. 1711. Of these, by my conject. the first five were of
Hannah, d. of William Sumner. PHILIP, Wethersfield, had Jacob, b. 1649; Rebecca,
1651; Philip, 1653; Moses, 1656; and Aaron, 1658; d. 1674. SAMUEL, Cambridge, s.
of Edward, came with his f. 1635, m. 25 June 1656, Ann, d. of wid. of John
Barnard of Watertown, had Hannah, b. 12 May 1657; Edward, 28 Nov. 1658; Deborah,
22 Jan. 1661, d. 27 Dec. 1690; Samuel, 1 Jan. 1663; Lydia, 7 Jan. 1665; John, 11
Nov. 1666; Eliz. 6 Oct. 1668, d. 15 Jan. 1691; Susanna; Edmund, H. C. 1690;
Nathaniel, 9 Apr. 1675; and Joseph, 23 May 1677; and the w. d. Apr. 1679, aged
44. Harris, in Epit. says she was his sec. w. but this is prob. wrong. Mary,
perhaps his d. m. Thomas Trowbridge, and was mo. of the learn. judge, who, out
of regard to his uncle Edmund, his guardian, having no ch. assum. the name of
Goffe for a time, but reassum. the name wh. was so adorn. by him. He took ano.
w. 21 Nov. 1682, but I kn. not whom, d. 15 Jan. 1706, aged 76. WILLIAM, Hadley,
a maj.-gen. in Eng. a mem. of the pretend. High Court of Justice, selected by
the minority of the Long Parliam. to sentence Charles I. to d. arr. at Boston 27
July 1660, staid short time at Cambridge, and in Feb. foll. went to New Haven,
reach. that town 7 Mar. in comp. with lieut.-gen. Edward Whalley, whose d.
Frances he had m. They liv. in concealm. some yrs. but in Oct. 1664, took up
perman. resid. at Hadley with Rev. John Russell, where he outliv. W. some yrs.
and d. a. 1679. Dr. Stiles, in his Hist. mistook the gr.stone at New Haven of
dep.-gov. Matthew Gilbert, mark. M. G., 80, for his; but he ws, we kn. bur.
without any mark at the gr. with his f.-in-law, at Hadley, more than a hundred
miles off, and our fathers prob. could not have violated the sanctity and
secrecy of their resting-place under an idle pretence of doing honor to their
memories. In our own days the remains have been discov. close to the founda. of
Russell's house. He was s. of Rev. Stephen of Stanmer, in Co. Sussex. His three
ch. Eliz. Ann, and Frances, if this last be not, as sometimes said, Frederic,
remain. in Eng. with his excellent w. of wh. three letters are in print. one in
appx. to Hutch. I. 532; second in 3 Mass. Hist. Coll. I. 60, and third in Hutch.
Coll. 432. Very large and impartial story of these regicides is in Hutch. I.
213-19; and the cool judgment of modern times may ratify what “matchless”
Mitchell wrote contempor. [p.269] that, since he “had opportun. to look a
little into that action, for wh. these men suffer. I could never see that it was
justifiable.” Perhaps he felt, that putting to d. in cold blood the sovereign,
with wh. they had treat. on equal terms, as their captive, for sev. yrs. was a
murder, unless excus. by necessity; and that coward. pretence, when need. is
easi. found.
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Gould, or Gold, Adam,
Groton, by w. Rebecca had Dorcas, b. 8 Sept. 1683, rem. to Woburn,
there by w. Hannah had Thomas, b. 1689; and his w. d. soon. CHRISTOPHER, Hampton
1660. *DANIEL, Newport, a freem. there 1655, rep. 1672, m. 18 Dec. 1651, Wai
Coggeshall, prob. d. of the first John, had Mary, b. 2 Mar. 1653; Thomas, 20
Feb. 1655; Daniel, 24 Oct. 1656; John, 4 May 1659; Priscilla, 20 June 1661;
Jeremy, 5 May 1664; James, 13 Oct. 1666; Jeremy, again, 2 Feb. 1669; Content, 28
Apr. 1671; Wait, 8 Ma 1676; and I find not the date of his d. DANIEL, Newport,
s. of the preced. m. Mary, eldest d. of Walter Clark of the same, had a fam. but
I kn. not details. DANIEL, Reading, one of the early sett. was prob. s. of
Zaccheus of Lynn, had w. Eliz. wh. d. 3 Aug. 1691, says Lewis. He may have been
f. of that John of R. wh. d. there 24 Jan. 1712, by gr.stone, as Mr. Eaton
finds, aged a. 69 yrs. EDWARD, Hingham, a pailmaker, came in the Elizabeth from
London 1635, aged 28, was of Hawkhurst, Co. Kent; liv. at Boston in 1657.
FRANCIS, Chelmsford, had been of Braintree, by w. Rose had at B. Hannah, b. 18
July 1655; and John, 26 Apr. 1657, wh. prob. d. young; and at C. had John,
again, 21 [p.285] Aug. 1660. HENRY, Ipswich, by w. Sarah, m. 24 Sept. 1675, had
Sarah; Eliz. b. 14 Oct. 1677; Jane, 1 Nov. 1679; and Joanna, 19 Nov. 1681.
JAMES, Haverhill, took o. of fidel. 28 Nov. 1677. JAMES, Newport, perhaps br. of
sec. Daniel, m. Catharine, d. of Walter Clarke. JARVIS, Hingham, cordwainer,
came in the Elizabeth 1635, aged 30, serv. to Clement Bates, rem. to Boston, d.
27 May 1656, leav. John. JEREMIAH, R. I. 1638, is in the list of Newport freem.
1655. JEREMY, Weymouth 1639. JOHN, a husbandman from Towchester, Northamptonsh.
came in the Defence 1635, aged 25, with w. Grace, 25; but no light is found as
to his sett. JOHN, Charlestown, had w. Mary in 1636, wh. d. 28 Sept. 1642, and
d. Mary, bapt. 29 Jan. 1637; Sarah, 15 Dec. 1637; Eliz. 17 Feb. 1640; Abigail,
26 Sept. 1642; by ano. w. Hannah, wh. d. 15 May 1647, had Hannah, 26 Oct. 1644;
and John, 21 Jan. 1647, d. soon. By the same rec. he is favor. with ano. John, 5
Aug. 1648, prob. by ano. w. Joanna, both f. and s. liv. 1678. He may have been
one of the early sett. at Reading. *JOHN, Newport 1655, rep. 1672; but I learn
no more of him. *JOHN, Topsfield, only s. of Zaccheus, b. a. 1637, in Eng.
freem. 1665, the greatest landholder in the neighb. m. 12 or 14 Oct. 1660,
Sarah, perhaps d. of John Baker, wh. d. 20 Jan. 1709, had John, b. 1 Dec. 1662;
Sarah, 18 Dec. 1664; Thomas, 14 Feb. 1667; Samuel, 9 Mar. 1670; Zaccheus, 26
Mar. 1672; Priscilla, 2 Nov. 1674; Joseph, 24 Aug. 1677; and Mary, 16 June 1681,
and he d. perhaps 26 Jan. 1710. Sarah m. 29 Mar. 1682, Joseph Bixby; and
Priscilla m. a Curtis; but where either resid. is uncert. was lieut. in com. of
the mil. fined, impris. and charged with treason by the usurp. governm. of
Joseph Dudley, after whose overthrow with that of Andros, he was rep. See Hutch.
I. 365, and better and fuller acco. in 3 Mass. Hist. Coll. VII. 150–4. JOHN,
Taunton, m. 24 Aug. 1673, Mary, d. of Robert Crossman, had Mary, b. 19 June
foll.; Hannah, 9 Nov. 1677. JOHN, Stamford, m. a d. of George Slawson. JOHN,
Topsfield, s. of the first John of the same, m. 10 Nov. 1684, Phebe French, had
Phebe, b. 7 July 1685; John; Mary, 11 May, bapt. 3 Nov. 1689; Nathaniel, bapt.
Oct. 1691; Sarah, b. 8 Sept. bapt. 14 Oct. 1694; Hannah, 19 June 1697; Daniel, 8
Nov. 1699; David, 25 Dec. 1701, bapt. 22 Feb. foll.; Solomon, 19 Mar. 1704; and
Lydia, 3 May, bapt. perhaps 8 June 1707. His w. d. 25 Apr. 1718; and he had sec.
w. Rose, and d. 5 Nov. 1724. His wid. d. 6 Feb. foll. *JOSEPH, Topsfield,
youngest br. of the preced. m. 12 Jan. 1713, Priscilla, eldest ch. of Tobijah
Perkins, had Priscilla, b. 6, bapt. 11 Apr. 1714; Joseph, wh. d. young; Amos,
wh. d. bef. his f.; Ruth; Mary; Sarah; and Joseph; beside two or three ch. wh.
d. young; was capt. rep. and d. Apr. 1753. His will of 21 Mar. preced. pro. 23
Apr. foll. [p.286] names w. and five ch. ‡NATHAN, Fairfield 1652, m. Martha,
wid. of Edmund Harvey, an Assist. 1657, and every yr. but one foll. was nam. for
same rank in the Royal Chart. of 1662; in 1670 was the richest inhab. He wrote
his surname without u, but perhaps the universal pronuncia. caused the
change. He d. 4 Mar. 1694, in his will of three days preced. names only s.
Nathan, and ds. Sarah, w. of John Thompson; Deborah, w. of George Clark;
Abigail, w. of Jonathan Selleck; and Martha, wid. of John Selleck; his w. hav.
d. bef. His s. † NATHAN, of Fairfield, dep.-gov. in 1707, was made Ch. J. of
the Sup. Ct. 1712, and d. early, prob. in Nov. 1723, as the inv. of his est.
bears date of 14 of that mo. He had m. Hannah, d. of John Talcott the sec. of
Hartford, had John, Nathan, Samuel, Onesimus, David, Joseph, Hezekiah, H. C.
1719, min. of Stratford, and a d. of unkn. name, wh. m. Rev. Thomas Hawley of
Ridgefield, who all had shares in his est. The fam. has, in our day, been emin.
for public serv. NATHAN, Salisbury 1660, by w. Eliz. had Mary, b. 20 June 1661;
Eliz. 4 Apr. 1664; and Samuel, 3 Feb. 1668; was of Amesbury 1690, and freem.
that yr. in his will of 12 Dec. 1692, names w. Eliz. and ch. Joseph, Eliz.
Hannah, and Samuel. NATHANIEL, Milford 1646, may be only a mistake of Lambert,
as other inquir. find not such person there. ROBERT, Hull, m. 1666, Judith, and
had sec. w. Jane Smith, a wid. d. of Thomas Harris of Boston; was freem. 1680.
SAMUEL, Topsfield, s. of the first John of the same, m. 20 Apr. 1694, Margaret
Stone, whose f. is unkn. had Sarah, b. 25 Feb. 1698, wh. d. unm. 21 Feb. 1786;
Samuel, bapt. 6 Apr. 1701; Moses; Jonathan, 4 Sept. 1709; Patience; Margaret;
Zaccheus, a. 1716; and Hubbard; and d. 1724, his will of 26 Nov. in that yr.
being pro. 21 Dec. foll. Perhaps he liv. late in life at Boxford. THOMAS,
Boston, came in the Jonathan 1639, aged 32, may have been the freem. of 2 June
1641, but he was not of Boston ch. so that it is doubtful; but perhaps was first
of Cambridge, and by w. Mary had Jacob, b. 16 Sept. 1643; d. 26 Oct. 1662.
THOMAS, Newport 1655, m. Eliz. d. of William Balstone, may have been many yrs.
of Wickford 1674. THOMAS, Charlestown, with w. Hannah, join. to the ch.
1640, had Hannah, bapt. 11 Apr. 1641, he a. 1665, bec. a Bapt. was long
imprison. for his falling off, but ultimate. discharg. with reput. He had sec.
w. Mary bef. all his troubles were over; but I kn. not if bef. or after he
gather. the first Bapt. ch. of B. and C. in May 1665. He d. perhaps Feb. 1674,
prob. at Boston, and in his will names w. Mary, s. Samuel, ds. Mary Skinner,
Mehitable Goodwin, Mary Bunker, and her two ch. Abigail Shapley, s. Nathaniel
Hayward, and d. Hannah Gold. The vols. of Backus, I. 414, Beuedict, I. 385,
Frothingham, and Budington may be profitab. consult. Ano. [p.287] THOMAS, of
Charlestown in 1652, with w. Hannah joining the ch. that yr. may have been s. of
John, unless I have been confus. by two ws. of one. THOMAS, Boston, m. 10 Sept.
1656, Frances Robinson, had prob. other ch. beside Ann, b. a. 1685, wh. m. 27
Feb. 1703, Nathaniel Green. THOMAS, Topsfield, s. of the first John of the same,
m. perhaps Mercy, d. of the sec. William Sumner, had Thomas, b. 4, bapt. 14
Sept. 1701; Jacob, b. 16 Jan. 1703; Deborah, 17 Nov. 1704, d. in few mos.;
Deborah, again, 23 Sept. 1707; Simon, 8 Mar. 1710; Mercy, 17, bapt. 27 Jan.
1712; Yates, 24 Mar. bapt. 4 Apr. 1714; Benjamin, 29 May, bapt. 3 June 1716; and
Nathaniel, 9 Nov. 1718; and d. 9 June 1751, acc. rec. of ch. but 4 July 1752, by
town rec. His wid. d. 8 May 1763. ZACCHEUS, Lynn 1640, had, says Lewis, s.
Daniel, b. a. 1650, wh. went, I suppose, with other of his neighb. to Reading.
ZACCHEUS, Weymouth 1639. ZACCHEUS, Ipswich 1644 (in that pt. wh. soon was
incorp. as Topsfield), came from Hants Green, near Potter's Row, in Co. Bucks, a
parish, seen on the map, a. 33 miles from London, near Gr. Missenden, left good
est. to only s. John, and four ds. perhaps, both at Rowley and Topsfield. His d.
Phebe m. Thomas Perkins; Martha m. John Newmarch; Mary m. a (prob. Abraham)
Redington, and Priscilla m. John Wild, wh. strange as i may appear, was a
witness against her br. ZACCHEUS, Topsfield, s. of the first John of the same,
m. 21 Jan. 1702, Eliz. Curtis, but whose d. she was is unkn. had Eliz. b. 13
Feb. 1703; Mary, 11 Mar. 1705; Priscilla, 4 Aug. 1707; John, 29 Jan. 1710;
Sarah, 28 Jan. 1712; Abigail, 12 Aug. bapt. 25 Sept. 1715; Zaccheus, 7 Nov.
1717; Eliezer, 29 May, bapt. 17 July 1720; and Susanna, 11 Feb. bapt. 28 Apr.
1723; and d. 1739, in his will of 16 Apr. of that yr. pro. 28 May foll. names
all the nine ch. as alive. From this br. of the ancest. tree descends Benjamin
A. wh. so many of the scholars of Boston honor as their instruct. in the
classics. Six of this name had, in 1834, been gr. at Harv. fourteen at Yale, and
three at other coll. of N. E.
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Green, Abraham, Hampton 1678. BARTHOLOMEW,
Cambridge, [p.300] freem. 14 May 1634, came the yr. bef. and d. the yr. foll.
when mak. prepar. to rem. with major part of his neighb. to Conn. as is said;
but his wid. Eliz. wh. d. 28 Oct. 1677, aged 88,and ch. Samuel, Nathaniel,
Sarah, w. of Thomas Longhorn, and Phebe, were all of Cambridge ch. 1658.
BARTHOLOMEW, Boston, youngest ch. of the first Samuel of Cambridge, was a
printer of no small note for issue of the first newspaper on our contin. Apr.
1704 and so in our time more thot. of than his f. for the wonderful Bible. He
was deac. of the third or Old S. ch. and d. 28 Dec. 1732. Next Thursday
the newspaper from his office contain. an ill-compact. memoir, in wh. his f. is
made to vouch, perhaps unduly, for sev. things, among others, nineteen ch.
eleven by first w. eight by sec. when by the rec. we are led to count seven by
one, six by the other. Even the birthday of the propr. may be thot. a yr. too
early. BARTHOLOMEW, Charlestown, s. of the firs Jacob of the same, by w. Maria
had Maria, bapt. 15 Oct. 1693; may have had no more. BENJAMIN, Warwick, s. of
the first Thomas of the same, m. Susanna, seventh d. of Randall Houlden, had
Benjamin. CHARLES, Marblehead 1668. DANIEL, Wickford 1671, own. jurisdict. of R.
I. 20 May of that yr. with other inhab. of that Narraganset country, was prob.
the same wh. by w. Rebecca had Peleg, b. 1690; Daniel, 1692; Jonathan, 1694;
Rebecca, 1696; Rachel, 1698; Sarah, 1700; and Jonathan, again, 1705. But wh. was
his f. is not seen. DAVID, Providence, s. by his see. w. of the first James, m.
a Slocum, perhaps d. of Giles the see. had David; and by sec. w. wh. was a
Barber, had Jonathan, Joseph, and sev. ds. HENRY, Reading, call. by
Winth. “a scholar,” but we kn. not at wh. of the University, he was bred,
had been, in 1643, invit. to go to Martha's Vineyard by its first sett. but went
not, m. Frances, eldest d. of deac. Simon Stone, had Joanna and Nathaniel; and
was the earliest min. of. R. ord. 5 Nov. 1645, and d. 11Oct. 1648. His wid. m.
as the will of f. shows. HENRY, Ipswich 1641, was perhaps the freem. of 13 May
1640, for I can hardly suppose it possible, tho. Farmer gave it without
suspicion, that the Rev. Henry would have failed of his prefix of respect from
the secr. ‡HENRY, Hampton 1644, was, perhaps, the couns. to the tyranny of
Cranfield 1685, m. 1691, prob. for sec. or third w. wid. Martha Page, and d. 5
Aug. 1700, aged a. 80. HENRY, Malden, s. of the first Thomas, m. 11 Jan. 1672,
Esther Hasey, perhaps d. of William, had Henry, b. Jan. 1673; Esther, Sept.
1674; Lydia, 11 Aug. 1685; Jacob, 9 May 1689, beside Joseph, Daniel, and Dorcas,
prob. all bef. Lydia, and he d. 19 Sept. 1717. His wid. d. 1740. HENRY, Wickford
1674. ISAAC, Salisbury 1678, freem. 1690. JABEZ, Providence, br. of David of the
same, m. 16 May 1697, Mary, d. of Benjamin Barton, had James, Jabez, Nathaniel,
Benjamin, Rufus, John, and a d. by first w. and ano. d. by sec. w. Nathaniel,
his s. was f. of the [p.301] Gen. Nathaniel of the army of the Revo. *||JACOB,
Charlestown, s. of John of the same, b. in Eng. came with him, had w. Eliz. and
ch. Jacob, b. 11 Oct. 1654; Joseph, wh. d. 26 Aug. 1657; John; Mary, bapt. 13
May 1662; Bartholomew, 14 Feb. 1664; Dorcas, 31 Dec. 1665; Joseph, again, 5 Apr.
1668; ar. co. 1650, freem. 1650, was rep. 1677. His d. Eliz. m. Samuel Long.
JACOB, Salisbury, 1678. JACOB, Charlestown, s. of the first Jacob, by w. Mary
had Caleb, bapt. 29 Apr. 1683; Dorcas, 14 Dec. 1684; Joseph, 14 Aug. 1687; Mary,
29 July 1688; Joseph, again, 15 May 1690; Benjamin, 26 May 1695; Bartholomew, 29
Nov. 1696; and Joseph, again, 22 Oct. 1699. JAMES, Charlestown 1646, freem.
1647, and of course his name is among the mem. of the ch. yet not found among
householders; had w. Eliz. s. John, and James, liv. on Mistick side, and d. 29
Mar. 1687, aged 77. JAMES, Warwick, s. of John the first of Providence, b. in
Eng. was freem. 1655, m. Deliverance Potter, d. of Robert; had sec. w. Eliz. d.
of John Anthony; d. 27 Apr. 1698. He is call. the progenit. of Gen. Nathaniel
Greene, the soldier of the Revo. By the first w. he had James, b. 6 June 1658;
Mary, 8 Sept. 1660; Elisha, 7 Mar. 1662; and Sarah, 27 Aug. 1663; and by the
sec. m. 3 Aug. 1665, Peter, 25 Aug. 1666; Eliz. 17 Oct. 1668, John, 1 Feb. 1671,
d. young; Jabez, 17 May 1673; David, 24 June 1677; Thomas, 11 Nov. 1682; John,
again, 30 Sept. 1685; and Susanna, wh. may have been b. bef. either of the last
two, being ment. in the will of her f. as under age of 18. Mary m. 19 Feb. 1685,
James Reynolds of Narraganset; Sarah m. Henry Reynolds; and Eliz. m. a Reynolds,
perhaps br. of other two, tho. I have seen a geneal. that says she m. a Hull.
JAMES, Boston, liv. at Romney Marsh, now Chelsea, but at Dorchester m. 9 Nov.
1661, Rebecca, d. of Thomas Jones, had Eliz. b. 14 Nov. 1662; James, 15 Dec.
1664; Rebecca, 7 Aug. 1665; if the rec. be credib.; Richard, 7 Apr. 1669; John,
24 Feb. 1672; Esther, 27 Sept. 1674; and Samuel, 20 July 1680; was freem. 1683,
and by w. Ann had Rebecca, 19 May 1688. JAMES, Portsmouth, R. I. mariner, sold
ld. there 1669. JAMES, Warwick, eldest s. of the first James of the same, m. 29
Jan. 1689, Mary, d. of capt. John Fones of Kingstown, had Fones, James, Daniel,
Elisha, John, Jeremiah, Samuel, Mercy, Deliverance, and Mary. JOB, Warwick, s.
of the first John of the same, m. a Sayles, d. perhaps, of first John, had Job,
Christopher, Daniel, Philip, Amy, Phebe, Mary, and Catharine. JOHN, Charlestown,
came in the James from London 1632, arr. 12 June, with w. Perseverance and three
ch. John, Jacob, Abigail, Sarah Jones, a serv. and Joseph Greene, of whom we may
presume that he was a relat. perhaps apprent. Winth. says the sh. brot. twelve
passeng. and in the Custom ho. paper we have the names of two, beside [p.302]
the seven here ment. His w. was d. of Rev. Francis Johnson, it is said, a
puritan of eminence, who had fled to Amsterdam. She with her h. join. the ch. 29
Mar. 1633, and he was made freem. three days after, call. on the rec. serg. but
his milit. distinct. was sunk in the more import. title of ruling elder, the
only one Charlestown ch. ever had; was sometime town clk. and selectman twelve
yrs. begin. in 1646, d. 22 Apr. says the gr.stone or May 1658, aged 65. His will
of 21 Apr. of that yr. names w. Joanna, wid. of John Shatswell of Ipswich, and
as she had brot. him good est. that had lessened in his hands, he gave her most
of his prop. He names in it gr. s. John and Jacob, s. of his s. Jacob, gr. d.
Joanna, ch. I suppose, of Richard Shatswell of Ipswich, call. by him s.-in-law,
had three ch. at Charlestown, but lost three also, and the surv. were John,
Jacob, and Mary, this last b. 1, bapt. 6 Apr. 1634. So much was this name early
spread at Malden, that in the remonstrance against the action of the Gen. Ct.
upon the case of Rev. Mr. Matthews, their min. sign. by thirty-six females, in
1651, three were nam. Eliz. and one, Margaret, Green. JOHN, Roxbury, liv. with
Daniel Brewer, d. bef. 14 Feb. 1639. JOHN, Providence 1636, may be that surg.
who came from Southampton in the James, a. 6 Apr. and arr. at Boston 3 June
1635, had been of Salisbury, in Wilts; brot. w. and five ch. John, b. 1620;
Peter; James, 1629; Thomas, 1631; and Mary, prob. older than the last two. He
partook largely in the exertions of Gorton and his friends to obtain security
for their worldly as well as spirit. rights, and went to negotiate in London in
1644 for Narraganset, of wh. Warwick was the chief settlem. with full success;
and d. betw. 28 Dec. 1658, the date of his will, and 7 Jan. next, when it was
pro. The w. brot. from Eng. mo. of all the ch. d. 1643, at Conanicut, where she
had sought refuge in conseq. of her suffer. when the Mass. forces came to
Gorton's planta. and took him and all his adher. prisoners. A sec. w. was Alice
Daniels m. in Eng. but ch. is not heard of, nor by third w. Philippa, wh. d.
1687, aged 87. Mary m. James Sweet. The farm on wh. he was bur. is still enjoy.
by his descend. JOHN, who came in the Francis from Ipswich, in Co. Suffolk.
1634, aged 27, may have been of Salem, d. early, leav. wid. t wh. Felt says gr.
of ld. was made in 1638, but that diligent writer, I. 516, thot. the husband was
of the comp. in the James from Southampton a yr. later. In aid of that conject.
perhaps rather slight, is the fact, that six or seven of the passeng. in the
more recent sh. bec. inhabs. of Salem. But it is easy to mistake with so common
bapt. and surnames. JOHN, Charlestown, s. prob. of first John, b. in Eng. was
adm. of the ch. 17 Apr. 1642, and freem. 18 May foll. He digested, from sev.
verbal stories, the acco. of settlem. of the town, wh. has remarkably misled
Prince and other inquirers. The first seven [p.303] pages, so far from being a
contempo. rec. of exact facts, begin with relation, more or less minute, of what
took place thirty-five yrs. earlier. See Young's Chron. of Mass. 387. He had
been serv. of William Willoughby at Portsmouth, Eng. and after was of his s.
Francis our dept.-gov. JOHN, Sandwich 1643, made his will 29 Feb. 1660, d. soon
after. JOHN, New Haven, had John, b. 1651. JOHN, Kittery 1652, subm. to
jurisdict. of Mass. that yr. JOHN, Fairfield 1648, made freem. 1662, had good
est. *JOHN, Stamford, was rep. 1668-71, and perhaps later. JOHN, a freem. of
Mass. 1654, may have been of Malden or Cambridge. †‡JOHN, Warwick, eldest s.
of the first John of Providence, b. in Eng. came 1635 with his f. freem. 1655,
m. Ann, d. of William Almy, had Peter, Job, Samuel, Richard, and four ds. of wh.
Ann m. her cous. Thomas Green; one m. prob. Joseph Torry of Newport; Catharine
m. Charles Holden; and perhaps Susanna m. John Spencer; was a propr. of Westerly
1661, one of the counc. to Sir Edmund Andros 1687, was major, dep.-gov.
1690–1700, and d. 1708. JOHN, Narragansett 1664, mark. senr. seems to render
it necessary to count ano. John to be junr. there at that time, and it
may be that one or both went thither from Newport; or he may be the s. perhaps
youngest, of the first James wh. m. 16 Feb. 1711, Mary, d. of Increase Allen
(but that surname is too common to permit to guess wh.), and had, as the fam.
report says, David, James, Increase, Job, beside sev. ds. JOHN, Sudbury, a capt.
in 1674. JOHN, Malden, s. of the earliest Thomas of the same, m. 18 Dec. 1660,
Sarah Wheeler, d. of Isaac of Charlestown, had Sarah, b. Sept. 1662; John, d.
young; Mary, Dec. 1668; John, again, 21 Mar. 1674; Sarah, again, 14 Jan. 1677;
was freem. 1668, and d. 16 Oct. 1707. JOHN, Dover or Portsmouth, m. 12 Sept.
1666, Mary Jenkins, d. of Robert, perhaps, or Henry. JOHN, Cambridge, only s. of
Percival of the same, m. 20 Oct. 1656, Ruth, d. of Edward Michelson, had John,
b. 24 July 1657; Nathaniel, 25 Sept. 1658; Percival, b. 29 Mar. bapt. 1 Apr.
1660, H. C. 1680, first in the catal. of this copious name; Ruth, 24 Nov. 1661;
Samuel, b. 4, bapt. 10 May 1663; Eliz. 22 Apr. 1665, bapt. next day; and Edward,
15, bapt. 21 Apr. 1667; as in Mitchell's Reg. appears, and, after the termin. of
that, had Thomas, b. 7 Mar. 1669; Jonathan; Bethia, 20 Jan. 1673; Joseph, 24
Oct. 1675, H. C. 1695; Benjamin, 13 Aug. 1677; and Mary; Michelson, also, 14
Mar. who d. inf. 21 Oct. 1681. He succeed. his f.-in-law as marshal of the Col.
and d. 3 Mar. 1692, aged 55. His wid. m. Samuel Champney. His s. John was tak.
1681, by the Turks, as we learn from the Diary of Noadiah Russell, sub. 20 Apr.
1682. Edward was a shipmaster, d. 1696, unm. Bethia m. Joseph Hicks, and d. 12
Apr. 1708. JOHN, Malden 1673, mariner, perhaps br. of James of Boston, freem.
1683, by w. [p.304] Mary had Mary, b. Dec. 1668; Samuel, 1679, beside Eliz. and
Hannah, and d. 22 Mar. 1709. JOHN, Newport, m. Mary, eldest d. of William
Jeffrey, is, perhaps, one who was inhab. 1655; and ano. JOHN, adm. at Newport
1668, may have been his s. JOHN, Woburn, m. 3
July 1671, Sarah, d. of John Bateman of Boston, had Sarah, b. 6 June 1672;
Samuel, 29 Jan. 1674; John, 6 Jan. 1677; Hannah, 4 Mar. 1679; and perhaps he
rem. JOHN, Boston, may have been s. of Ralph, freem. 1690. JOHN, Stow, s. of
Jacob the first, d. 1688, unm. JONAS, New London 1694, a shipmaster, of whose
fam. I am igno. m. Jane, d. of Alexander Pygan, had Samuel, and perhaps other
ch. JOSEPH, Plymouth 1643. JOSEPH, Weymouth, may be he who came 1632 in the
James, with first John of Charlestown, by w. Eliz. d. of John Whitman of same,
m. May 1657, had Joseph, b. 2 Apr. 1658; John, 16 July 1661; Eliz. 5 Apr. 1664;
Mary, 15 Aug. 1667; and Zechary, 7 Apr. 1671. JOSEPH, Boston, perhaps s. of the
first Samuel of Cambridge, m. in the spr. of 1672, and d. in three wks. JOSEPH,
Weymouth, s. of Joseph of the same, rem. to Scituate 1690, and m. 1695, Ann, d.
of John Turner, jr. JOSEPH, Salem vill. now Danvers, s. of John of
Cambridge, ord. 10 Nov. 1698, success. to wretched Mr. Paris; d. 26 Nov. 1715,
leav. wid. and seven ch. He m. 16 Mar. 1699, Eliz. d. of Rev. Joseph Gerrish of
Wenham, had Ann, b. 27 Nov. 1699; a ch. 11 Jan. 1701, d. very soon; John, 22
Dec. 1701; Joseph, 12 Dec. 1703; Edward, 1 Dec. 1705; Eliz. 8 May 1708; William,
11 Aug. 1710; Benjamin, 1 July 1713; and Ruth, 23 Apr. 1716. NATHANIEL,
Cambridge, s. of Bartholomew, b. in Eng. freem. 1645, had w. Joanna. NATHANIEL,
Boston, m. 22 June 1657, Mary, d. of Jeremy Houchin, freem. 1665. NATHANIEL,
Boston, s. of Thomas the first of Warwick, m. 27 Feb. 1703, Ann, d. of Thomas
Gould, had Thomas, b. 4 June 1705; Rufus, 30 May 1707; Nathaniel, 14 May 1709;
William, 3 May 1711; and Benjamin, 11 Jan. 1713. He d. 8 Aug. 1714; and his wid.
d. 16 Jan. 1728 in her 43 yr. NICHOLAS, York, d. 1663, leav. wid. Susanna, wh.
m. Jeremiah Shears, and childr. whose names are not seen. The inv. was of 23
July in that yr. NICHOLAS, is the name of a soldier in Moseley's comp. Dec.
1675. PERCIVAL, Cambridge, br. it is suppos. of Bartholomew the first, came in
the Susan and Ellen 1635, aged 32, with w. Ellen, 32, and two serv. freem. 3
Mar. 1636, in the col. list whimsical. pervert. to Passevil, had John, b. June
1636; and Eliz. Apr. 1639; d. 25 Dec. 1639, when the town rec. makes the name
Perceiveall. His wid. Ellen, m. Thomas Fox; and d. Eliz. m. 4 Apr. 1656, John
Hall of Concord, and d. 14 Feb. 1714. Thomas, in Hist. of Print. I. 235, has
confus. I think, the childr. of Bartholomew and Percival. PERCIVAL, Cambridge, gr. s.
of the preced. the earliest gr. of this fam. [p.305] name at Harv. a preach. d.
10 July 1684. PETER, Warwick, s. of first John of Providence, b. in Eng. came
with his f.; m. it is said, Mary, d. of Samuel Gorton, was freem. 1655, and d.
1659, by drown. without issue. His wid. m. prob. John Sanford. PETER, Warwick,
s. of John the first of Warwick, m. 16 Dec. 1680, Eliz. d. of Stephen Arnold,
had Peter, John, William, Stephen, Elisha, Barbara, and ano. d. said to have m.
Stephen Arnold, not her cous. PETER, Warwick, s. of James the first of the same
(perhaps eldest, by his sec. w.), m. a Slocum, had sev. ch. and was drown. (wh.
may only be the story of first Peter, his uncle), as the geneal. reports without
giv. any names of ch. RALPH, Boston, had John, b. 22 Dec. 1642, perhaps rem. to
Malden, and there had a ch. b. Jan. 1654. RICHARD, Plymouth, came in the Charity
1622 for Weston's planta. at Weymouth, being br.-in-l. of W. d. soon after
landing. See Winslow's Good News from N. E. in Young's Chron. of the Pilgr. 299.
|| RICHARD, Boston, mariner, perhaps ar. co. 1638, but I doubt the rec. as he
was not adm. inhab. bef. 1654; by w. Rebecca had Rebecca, b. 7 Aug. 1665; and he
d. early in 1672. RICHARD, Warwick, s. perhaps youngest, of the first John of
the same, m. a Sayles, had John, Audrey, Amy, Isabel, Eleanor, and Mary.
RICHARD, Warwick, s. of the first Thomas of the same, m. a Carder of the same,
whether a d. or gr. d. of Richard is unkn. had Richard, Thomas, Mary, Eliz. and
Welthean. ROBERT, Wickford 1674. ROBERT, Hingham, m. Oct. 1666, Eliz. Nichols.
SAMUEL, Cambridge, eldest s. of first Bartholomew, b. in Eng. came prob. with
his f. 1632, tho. a foolish tradit. is in print of his coming with Gov. Dudley,
and after reach. N. E. tak. “empty casks to shelter them from the weather;”
was freem. 4 Mar. 1635, and made, not bred, a printer (as is well seen in
Thomas's Hist.), d. 1 Jan. 1702, aged 87, or, we may believe, something less. By
his first w. Jane, d. of Guy Bainbridge, wh. d. 16 Nov. 1657, he had Eliz. b. 16
Apr. 1640; Sarah, 7 Oct. 1642; Lydia, 23 Mar. 1645, d. soon; Lydia, again, 13
Apr. 1646; Samuel, 6 Mar. 1648; Joseph, 7 Nov. 1649; and Deborah, 19 Mar. 1655;
and by sec. w. Sarah, d. of Elder Jonas Clark, m. 23 Feb. 1662, had Jonas, bapt.
31 Jan. 1664; Lydia, again, 12 Nov. 1665; Eliz. b. 3 Nov. 1665 (as by the rec.)
d. very soon; Bartholomew, 26 Oct. bapt. 3 Nov. 1667; Mary, b. 6 Nov. 1669; and
Dorcas, 6 Sept. 1671. He was town clk. some yrs. capt. of the town milit. thirty
yrs. and engag. at the press fifty yrs. the greatest work, in conjunct. with
Marmaduke Johnson (sent from London by the Soc. for Prop. Gospel), being the
Ind. Bible. He is spoken of by John Dunton, in “Life and Errors,” with gr.
kindness. SAMUEL, Warwick, s. of John the first of the same, m. it is said, a
Gorton, but that may be a mistake for his uncle Peter; but he had Mary, William,
wh. bec. the Gov. of the Col. [p.306] Samuel, and Benjamin. SAMUEL, Boston, s.
of the first Samuel, m. Nov. 1685, Eliz. d. of capt. Joseph Sill, was f. of
Timothy, one of the earliest printers in Conn. and progenit. of a line in that
art, d. July 1690 of the smallpox, as did his w. at same time. SAMUEL, Malden,
freem. 1690, s. of the first Thomas of the same, m. 1666, Mary, only ch. of
Richard Cook of the same, had Samuel, b. Jan. 1668; Thomas, 1669; John, 1 Apr.
1672; William, Aug. 1674; Martha, 1683; Eliz. 16 Nov. 1687; Isaac, 20 May 1690;
beside Mary, David, and Jonathan. He had sec. w. Susanna, but the first w. liv.
to 24 Nov. 1715; and he d. 31 Oct. 1724. THOMAS, Ipswich 1648, may have been br.
of Henry of the same; but as nothing is ever heard of either, they may be only
casual visitors. THOMAS, Malden, had w. Eliz. wh. d. Aug. 1658, and he m. 5
Sept. 1659, Frances, wid. of Richard Cook, wh. had been wid. of Isaac Wheeler,
but prob. by former w. only had ch. Thomas, the eldest; John, b. a. 1632;
William, a. 1635; Henry, Nov. 1638; all prob. b. in Eng. Samuel, Apr. 1645;
beside Eliz. Mary, perhaps both brot. from Eng.; Hannah; Martha; and Dorcas, 1
May 1653; and he d. 19 Dec. 1667. THOMAS, Malden, not s. of the preced. by w.
Margaret, perhaps d. of the first Thomas Call, wh. d. 22 June 1667, had Thomas,
b. 1 Apr. 1653; John, 26 Jan. 1659; Ephraim; Mary; and Eliz. all minors, nam. in
his will of 25 Feb. 1674, of wh. s. Thomas and br. Thomas Call were excors.; and
he d. 25 May foll. but he had m. 19 Aug. 1667, Eliz. Webb for sec. w. and may
have been the freem. of 1670. THOMAS, Malden, s. of the first Thomas of the
same, m. Rebecca, d. of Joseph Hills, had Rebecca, b. 1654; Thomas, Feb. 1656;
Hannah, 16 Oct. 1658, d. soon; Hannah, again, 24 Feb. 1660; and Samuel, 5 Oct.
1670; was prob. the freem. of 1671. His will of 13 Feb. 1672, on wh. day he d.
pro. 2 Apr. foll. made w. Rebecca extrix. names ch. all minors, and br. John
Wait overseer. The wid. d. 6 June 1674. THOMAS, Providence, youngest s. of the
first John of the same, came with his f. 1635, in the James from Southampton to
Boston, arr. 3 June, rem. with his f. to Warwick. m. 30 June 1659, Eliz. d. of
Rufus Barton of W. wh. d. 20 Aug. 1693, had Eliz. b. 12 July 1660; Thomas, 14
Aug. 1662; Benjamin, 10 Jan. 1666; Richard, 5 Mar. 1667; Welthean, 23 Jan. 1670;
Rufus, 6 Jan. 1673; and Nathaniel, 10 Apr. 1679; and he d. 5 June 1717, aged 76.
THOMAS, Malden, s. of the sec. Thomas of the same, m. 22 Mar. 1676, Mary Weeks,
had Thomas, John, Mary, Ebenezer, and Eliz. wh. was b. 22 Dec. 1689; was freem.
1690, and d. 28 Apr. 1694. His wid. m. a Gage. THOMAS, Warwick, s. of Thomas of
the same, m. Ann, d. of his uncle, sec. John Green, had, beside sev. ds. John of
Portsmouth, R. I. wh. perpet. the name by a doz. ch. TOBIAS, Hull, 1675.
WILLIAM, Charlestown 1640, freem. 1644, was of the pt. wh. bec. Woburn,
by w. [p.307] Hannah had Mary, b. 20 Jan. 1644; Hannah, 7 Feb. 1647; John, 11
Oct. 1649; William, 22 Oct. 1651; and the f. d. 7 Jan. 1654. WILLIAM, Malden, s.
of the first Thomas of the same, m. 12 Sept. 1659, Eliz. d. of Isaac Wheeler of
Charlestown. But ano. rec. makes the m. on 13 Jan. 1660. He was freem. 1668. His
ch. were William, b. 1661; Isaac; John, Oct. 1667; Eliz. Nov. 1668; and Sarah,
11 May 1671. He had sec. w. m. 6 Feb. 1695, Isabel, wid. of James Blood, d. of
John Farmer, and d. 30 Dec. 1705; and his wid. d. 3 Mar. 1737. WILLIAM, Boston,
mariner, had ho. and ld. 1659-77. WILLIAM, Providence, sw. alleg. May 1671.
WILLIAM, Groton, by w. Mary had William, b. 13 July 1665; Ann, 12 May 1667;
John, Mar. 1669; Eleazer, 20 May 1672; Eliz. 11 Mar. 1680; and Hannah, 10 Apr.
1683. WILLIAM, Woburn, by w. prob. nam. Hannah,
had William, b. 9 Aug. 1675; Francis, 30 Nov. 1678; Ebenezer, 18 July 1680;
Mehitable, 30 June 1682, d. at 15 yrs. Hannah, 7 Oct. 1684, d. soon, perhaps;
Mary, 1 Nov. 1686; Samuel, 18 July 1689; Jacob, 14 Oct. 1691; and Joseph, 14
Apr. 1694. The stocks of Greens in our country are not exhaust.; and perhaps
never may be all brot. into a work like this, on acco. of their number. Very
early there was, beside the Salem wid. a wid. Green at Roxbury, as the ch. rec.
proves, and we may well imagine that she came so from Eng. for perhaps the Jane,
wh. m. 25 Dec. 1639, Martin Stebbin, and the Mary, who m. 26 Aug. foll. Thomas
Griggs, both at R. were, one or both, her ch.; and in 1635, Thomas, a youth of
15, emb. in the Hopewell, capt. Bundock, at London, to come hither, fellow
passeng. with Astwood, Ruggles, Payson, Whittemore, and the Eliots, who all sat
down at the same place. Ano. wid. with fam. of three was at New Haven 1643, may
have been mo. of John, but who was her h. will not be easy to learn. Especial.
hard has been the gather. of the Malden fams. and those of the four, five, or
six Thomases. Wholly vain would it be, to discrimin. in such a publicat. the
fams. by final e, or without it, for, in all contempo. MSS. letters or
rec. of the elder days, ea. individ. may be found with either terminat.
Twenty-nine of this name, with both forms, had, in 1834, been gr. at Harv. of
wh. nine had been min. two at Yale, of wh. one was min. and thirty-one at the
other N. E. coll. of wh. one had been min.
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Hall, Andrew, Boston, mariner, m. 1677, Ann, d. of
Robert Ratchell. ANDREW, Newton 1691. BENJAMIN, Dover 1659, was, perhaps, a
Quaker, wh. rem. to Portsmouth, R. I. and m. 27 July 1676, Frances, d. of George
Parker, had Mary, b. 3 Apr. 1678; William, 19 Aug. 1680; Benjamin, 17 June 1682;
George, 29 June 1685; and Nathaniel, 29 June 1689. BENJAMIN, Yarmouth, s. of
John the first of the same, m. 7 Feb. 1678, Mehitable Matthews, perhaps d. of
James; and d. at Harwich. BENJAMIN, Wrentham, m. 9 Jan. 169, Sarah Fisher, had
Sarah, b. 20 Feb. 1697, d. 6 May foll. CHRISTOPHER, Groton, by w. Sarah had
Grace, b. 25 Nov. 1672; and John, 9 Apr. 1681. DANIEL, New Haven, merch. m.
1670, Mary, d. of Henry Rutherford; but he may have been of ano. town, and only
came to N. H. to be m. d. at Barbados, 1675. EDWARD, Cambridge 1636, freem. 2
May 1638, had w. Margaret who outliv. him, but no ch. In his will of 20 Jan.
1678, he calls hims. 70 yrs. old. Matchless Mitchell's ch. reg. gives
this couple no ch. and his next is, wid. Mary H. whose ch. were all adult, when
she join.; and he adds, two of them, John and Susanna are since join. to the ch.
of Concord. EDWARD, Duxbury 1636, or 7, was of Taunton, in 1641, says Winsor,
but back again at D. next yr. a propr. at the sett. of Bridgewater in 1645; and
withdrew from the jurisdict. in 1652, but prob. was of Rehoboth, made his will
23 Nov. 1670, nam. w. Esther and s. John. EDWARD, Lynn, s. of John, had w.
Sarah, and ch. Joseph, b. 3 July 1646; Ephraim, 8 Sept. 1648; Sarah, Aug. 1651;
Eliz. 30 Apr. 1654; and Rebecca, 30 Apr. 1657; and he d. 15 Apr. 1657. But Felt
calls this Hale. Keayne, giv. him a legacy in his will, has odd words of praise.
EDWARD, Braintree 1640, by w. Esther had John, b. 23 Jan. 1651; and Esther, 23
Oct. 1654; may have been of Rehoboth in 1658. There his d. Esther m. 24 Dec.
1674, [p.333] Thomas Jordan. ELISHA, Yarmouth, youngest s. of Jonathan first of
the same, by w. Lydia, wh. d. 23 Feb. 1724, had Ebenezer, b. 20 Nov. 1681;
Elisha, 14 June 1682; Tabitha, 18 Dec. 1683; Judah, 18 Jan. 1686; Phebe, 3 Mar.
1689; Job, 10 Sept. 1691; and Sylvanus, 17 May 1693. EPHRAIM, Boston, s. prob.
of Edward of Lynn, m. 1 July 1674, Sarah Rand of Lynn, had Ephraim, b. 22 Oct.
foll.; Samuel, 25 Dec. 1676; Edward, 29 Jan. 1681; Zechariah, 6 Mar. 1686; Eliz.
21 Jan. 1689; and Nathaniel, 14 May 1692. FRANCIS, New Haven 1639, was at
Stratford after 1648, and 1657 adm. freem. of Conn. jurisdict. had Isaac, and
Samuel. At Fairfield he had large est. but d. early in 1690 at S. He brot. from
Eng. w. Eliz. and took 31 Oct. 1665, sec. w. Dorothy, wid. of John Blakeman, d.
of Rev. Henry Smith, bear. off the prize against the counter claims of John
Thomas, encourag. by the wid. some mos. bef. and he left four ds. Mary, Eliz.
Rebecca, and Hannah; but none by her. Hannah m. Joseph Blakeman. The wid. had
third h. Mark Sension of Norwalk, who d. 1693; and for her fourth h. took deac.
Isaac Moore of Farmington. GEORGE, Taunton 1643–64. His will, made the same
mo. in wh. he d. 30 Oct. 1669, names w. Mary, and ch. John, Samuel, Joseph,
Charity, and Sarah. GERSHOM, Harwich, s. of the first John of Barnstable and
Yarmouth, m. Bethia, d. of the first Edward Bangs, had Samuel, b. 1669; Edward;
Bethia; Mercy, if the name be not Mary; and Jonathan; but the dates, as well as
order, is uncert. His w. d. 15 Oct. 1696, and he had sec. w. Martha. Tho. one of
the most active sett. of H. he had long liv. at Yarmouth, and there was bur. He
d. 31 Oct. 1732. HATEVIL, Dover, s. of the sec. John of the same; by w. Mary had
Hatevil, b. 15 Feb. 1709. HENRY, Westerly 1664, unit, with Richard Knight of
Newport in purch. from Ind. in Jan. of next yr. and from his will seems to have
had, in 1705, ch. eldest s. Henry, s. Edward, James, and John, s.-in-law Thomas
Stevens, and James Adams. HENRY, Boston, a soldier in capt. James Oliver's comp.
k. by the Ind. in the gr. swamp fight, 19 Dec. 1675. HENRY, Westerly, prob. s.
of the first Henry, in his will of 1715, names w. Constant; ch. Henry, James,
John, Edward, William, Elisha, Susanna, Eliz. Lydia, Mary, and Martha. ISAAC,
Fairfield, a surg., s. of Francis, perhaps b. in Eng. for he took o. of fidel.
at New Haven, 7 Apr. 1657, d. 1714, leav. w. Lydia, ch. Francis, John, and prob.
others. JAMES, New London 1662, then was tenant of John Winth. on Fisher's isl.
perhaps in 1669, liv. at Westerly, and may have been s. of Henry, sen. JOB, New
Haven 1646. JOHN, Charlestown, came 1630, it is thot from Coventry, prob. in the
fleet with Winth. being No. 19 on the list of mem. of Boston ch. and one of the
found. of that in Charlestown, with w. Bethia, in 1632; freem. 14 May 1634, had
beside Samuel, wh. m. Eliz. [p.334] Pollard, but d. perhaps late in 1694, at
Yarmouth, without issue (as the wid. m. 27 Apr. 1699, Jeremiah Jones of the
same, and his will of 7 Oct. 1693, names only w. Eliz. and brs. John, Joseph,
Nathaniel, Gershom, William, Benjamin, and Elisha), John, bapt. 13 May 1638;
Shebar, 9 Jan. 1640, both d. young; by w. Eliz. Larned had John, 21 Sept. 1645;
Eliz. 4 Sept. 1647, d. soon; Eliz. again, 21 Nov. 1648; and he rem. to
Barnstable and Yarmouth, where more ch. were b. No little confusion, after large
scrutiny, exists as to the men of this name, so that it may be there was one
John at Barnstable at the same time there was one at Charlestown, but it is not
prob.; at least it is certain, that the ch. rec. of B. proves, that s. of John,
there bapt. were Joseph, 3 July 1642; Benjamin, 14 July 1644, d. in few days;
Nathaniel, 8 Feb. 1646; Gershom, 5 Mar. 1648; William, 8 June 1651; Benjamin,
again, 29 May 1653; and Elisha. His will, of 15 July 1694, pro. 29 Aug. 1696,
names the eight liv. s. JOHN, Kittery 1640. JOHN, Dover, brot. Ralph,
John, Stephen, and perhaps other ch. from Eng. very early. JOHN, Roxbury, wh. in
the ch. rec. has prefix of respect, I presume, was the freem. of 6 May 1635,
unless he may rather be reckoned of 13 May 1640; but as no further ment. of him
occurs here, perhaps he rem. with the gr. migra. to Conn. and was at Hartford
1644, and at Middletown 1654, where he d. 26 May 1673, aged 89. His will of few
days bef. ment. s. Richard, John, and Samuel, d. Sarah, w. of Thomas Whitmore,
m. 11 Dec. 1645, and d. 7 Dec. 1664. He says it was the 40th yr. of liv. in N.
E. JOHN, Lynn, perhaps as early as Mr. Lewis would have him, or 1630, possib.
the freem. of 13 May 1640, and may have been a short time at Salem 1637, bec.
one of the first propr. 1640, of Salisbury, hav. prefix of respect, m. 3 Apr.
1641, Rebecca, wid. of Henry Byley, had John, b. 18 Mar. 1642; and d. bef. 22
Aug. 1650, when his wid. m. Rev. William Worcester. JOHN, Boston, was one of the
selectmen 1657, and ens. JOHN, Dover 1650, s. of John of the same, b. in Eng. a
deac. 1657, had John, b. a. 1649, Ralph; Hatevil; Nathaniel; and perhaps more;
was a man of many offices, d. a. 1693, or 4, leav. good prop. may have been f.
or gr. f. of that John. who was there drown. 1697. JOHN, Newport 1638, was
freem. there in 1655. JOHN, New Haven 1639, m. Jane Wallen or Woolen, had John
and Sarah, both bapt. 9 Aug. 1646; John, and Sarah, again, in the list next yr.
are by me disbeliev.; Samuel, 21 May 1648; Thomas, 25 Mar. 1649; Jonathan, b. 5,
bapt. 13 not 15 Apr. 1651; obs. that the bapt. are very untrustworthy; and
David, Mar. 1653; was freed from train. in 1665, being 60 yrs. old; rem. to
Wallingford among early sett. a. 1670, there d. early in 1676, leav. wid. and
nuncup. will. Sarah m. Dec. 1664, Wingle Johnson. Ano. JOHN, at New Haven 1648,
was serv. of John Meigs. [p.335] JOHN, Dover, call. jr. prob. s. of sec. John of
the same, m. 8 Nov. 1671, Abigail Roberts, d. of John of the same, had John, b.
27 June 1673; Thomas, 19 June 1675; and Abigail, 24 Feb. 1680. *JOHN,
Middletown, s. of John of the same, b. in Eng. rep. 1653, m. 1 Oct. 1674, Mary
Hubbard, wid. of Thomas, hav. lost 20 July 1673, his first w. Ann, d. of John
Wilcocks (unless she were sec. w. of his f.), and d. 22 Jan. 1695, in 75th yr.
without ch. leav. lands to Ebenezer H. s. of his w. and other large prop. to two
nephs. and a gr. neph. all nam. John. JOHN Concord, had in 1652 been of
Cambridge, s. of wid. Mary above ment. b. in Eng. m. 4 Apr. 1656, Eliz. d. of
Percival Green of Cambridge, had Eliz. b. 18 Sept. 1658; John, 13 Dec. 1660;
Nathaniel, 7 July 1666; rem. to Medford, where all of his other ch. were b.
except Percival, b. at Cambridge, 11 Feb. 1672; and he d. at M. 18 Oct. 1701,
leav. wid. Eliz. wh. d. 4 Feb. 1714, aged 74; s. John; Nathaniel; Stephen, b.
1670; Percival; Jonathan, b. 1677; Sarah, 1679; and Thomas; beside ds. Mary,
1668, w. of John Bradshaw; and Susanna; among wh. large est. was then div. by
John the admor. Eliz. was w. of John Oldham. Percival m. a. 1697, Jane, d. of
Thomas Willis, and rem. to Sutton a. 1720. JOHN, Guilford, s. of William, m. 13
Nov. 1669, Eliz. Smith, perhaps d. of George, had Eliz. b. 22 Nov. 1670; Mary,
13 May 1672; John, 28 Feb. 1674; Ebenezer, 3 Mar. 1678; Silence, 15 Dec. 1679;
Eliphalet, 13 Jan. 1681; and Nathaniel, Dec. 1683; d. 8 Jan. 1705. In his will
of 27 Nov. preced. the eldest s. and d. are not nam. and perhaps they were d.
Mary m. 1693, Daniel Bishop; and Silence m. Abraham Morrison. JOHN, Yarmouth, s.
of John first of the same, m. Priscilla, d. of Austin Bearse, had, it is said,
s. John; Joseph, b. 29 Sept. 1663; a d. Nov. 1668; Priscilla, Feb. 1671; Esther,
Apr. 1672; Mary, 1 Mar. 1674; Martha, 24 May 1676; and Nathaniel, 15 Sept. 1678;
of wh. Joseph, who d. 29 Jan. 1737, was f. of David, H. C. 1724, D. D. min. of
Sutton. See N. E. Weekly Journal of 1737. John, the f. d. 24 Oct. 1710, and his
wid. d. 30 Mar. 1712. JOHN, Wallingford, s. of John of New Haven, m. 6 Dec.
1666, Mary Parker, and had two or more ch. was first deac. d. 1721. JOHN,
Taunton, m. 4 Feb. 1671 (or as Col. Rec. says 1667), Hannah Penniman, had John,
b. 27 June 1672; Joseph, 7 Apr. 1674; James, 8 Dec. 1675; and Benjamin, 6 Dec.
1677. JOHN, Roxbury, freem, 1684. JOHN, Wethersfield, d. 1692, leav. wid.
Rebina, and ch. Eliz. 9 mos. old. JOHN, Medford, s. of John of the same, m. 2
Dec. 1687, Jemima, d. of the famous capt. Sill, had John, b. 11 Sept. 1689, d.
in few days; John, again, 19 Sept. 1690; William, 24 June 1692, d. soon;
William, again, 1 Nov. 1694, d. soon; Eliz. 10 June 1696; Andrew, 5 May 1698;
Jemima, 8 Oct. 1700; Joseph, 30 Nov. 1702; Stephen, 19 Jan. 1704; Martha, 20
Aug. [p.336] 1706; and perhaps two more; and his w. d. 12 Dec. 1712, aged 45. He
d. 14 Nov. 1720. JONATHAN, New London 1676, s. of John of New Haven, had
Jonathan, bapt. 18 Oct. 1677; Peter, 17 Oct. 1680; Hannah, 17 June 1683; and
perhaps more, possib. at New Haven, bef. or after, for no acco. of his d. is
found, so that he may have rem. JONATHAN, Dorchester, sec. s. of Richard of the
same, m. Eliz. d. of Richard Withington, had Eliz. b. 23 May 1694; and Sarah, 19
Sept. 1696; and his w. d. 4 Apr. 1700. He m. 4 Apr. 1701, Eliz. Clap, d. of
Elder Hopestill, had Jonathan, b. 22 May 1702; Eliz. 2 Aug. 1703; Richard, 2
Mar. 1705; and Hopestill, 18 Mar. 1707; and d. 29 Dec. 1718. JONATHAN, Medford,
s. of the first John of the same, m. 1702, Lydia, d. of Gershom Cutter of
Cambridge, had Jonathan; Lydia, b. 27 Apr. 1705; and Gershom; and his w. d. 10
days bef. him, wh. d. 11 Jan. 1754. JOSEPH, Lynn, perhaps br. of Ephraim, m. 3
Mar. 1674, Eliz. Rand, had Eliz. b. 12 Jan. 1675; Joseph, 2 Nov. 1676; Sarah, b.
first week of Apr. 1679; and Zechariah, 9 Nov. 1684. JOSEPH, Greenland, part of
Portsmouth, d. of smallpox, 19 Dec. 1685. JOSEPH, Exeter, s. of Ralph, m. Mary,
d. of Edward Hilton, jr. had Joseph, and Edward. JOSEPH, Yarmouth, s. of the
first John of the same, m. 12 Feb. 1690, Hannah, d. of sec. John Miller of the
same, had Hannah, b. 20 Feb. 1691; Priscilla, 28 Mar. 1692; and Margery, 24 Feb.
1695; had sec. w. Mary, but no ch. and d. 31 May 1716. His wid. rem. to Conn.
‡KINSLEY, Exeter, s. of Ralph, a capt. m. 25 Sept. 1674, Eliz. d. of Samuel
Dudley, had also sec. w. but in the Geneal. Reg. VI. 260, it is imposs. to
clearly assign to the respective mos. the ch. Josiah, Paul, Eliz. Mary, and
Mercy; was couns. 1698, judge of Sup. Court 1699, d. 1736. NATHANIEL, Dorchester
1633. NATHANIEL, perhaps of Duxbury, “a maim. soldier in the late Ind. war,”
was allow. £5 per an. NATHANIEL, a capt. in the Ind. war at the E. under
Church, fought with great bravery in defense of Falmouth 21 Sept. 1689; was s.
of the first John of Yarmouth, and m. Ann, d. of Rev. Thomas Thornton, had no
ch. kept a tavern, and praetis. as physician; rem. to Hingham, thence to the
Delaware riv. NATHANIEL, Dover, br. of Hatevil, had w. Hannah in 1696.
NATHANIEL, Medford, s. of the first John of the same, m. 16 Apr. 1690, Eliz. d.
I suppose, of Richard Cutter of Cambridge, had Eliz. b. 9 Jan. 1691; Nathan, 25
Oct. 1694; Susanna, 30 Aug. 1696; Sarah, 8 Sept. 1698; Tabitha, 9 Nov. 1699; and
William, 9 Feb. 1705; and d. 14 Apr. 1725. NICHOLAS, Boston, by w. Mary had
Thomas, b. 3 July 1678, and I see no more of him. One NICHOLAS was a soldier in
Gallop's comp. of the ill-fated expedit. 1690, against Quebec. PERCIVAL,
Medford, br. of Nathaniel, m. at Woburn 18 Oct.
1697, Jane Willis, d. of Thomas of Billerica and Medford, had [p.337] Percival,
b. 13 Nov. 1698; Jane, 15 May 1700; Mary; Eliz. Stephen, 2 Apr. 1709; and Martha
(but these last four are giv. by conject. to him, rather than ano. of the same
name); Thomas, 15 Aug. 1712; Zaccheus, and Susanna, tw. 11 Jan. 1715; Grace, 7
Oct. 1717; and Willis, 7 Mar. 1720. He rem. to Sutton, of wh. he was one of the
orig. proprs. and d. 25 Dec. 1752. * RALPH, Exeter 1639, s. of John of Dover, b.
in Eng. a. 1619, perhaps of Charlestown 1647, rem. to Dover 1650, thence, in
Oct. 1664 to Exeter again; by w. Mary had Mary, b. 15 Jan. 1647, or 8, d. in
June 1648; perhaps ano. Mary, who m. 13 Jan. 1669, Edward Smith; Huldah, b. 10
Apr. 1649; Ralph, who d. 7 June 1671; Samuel, d. 1690; Joseph; and Kinsley,
1652; was lieut. 1656, rep. 1680, and d. Mar. 1701, leav. Joseph; Kinsley, both
bef. ment. RALPH, L. I. adm. to be freem. of Conn. 1664. RALPH, Dover, br. of
Hatevil, m. Mary, d. of Philip Chesley, had John; James; Jonathan; Isaac;
Benjamin, b. June 1702; Ralph; and Joseph, 26 Mar. 1706, prob. posthum. tho. we
kn. not whether the f. d. in 1705 or 6. RICHARD, Dorchester, freem. 1644, m.
Eliz. d. of Richard Collicot, had Martha, b. 12 Aug. 1648; Mehitable, bapt. 7
Apr. 1650; Samuel, b. 1 Mar. 1652; Eliz. 20 Dec. 1653; Jonathan, 8 Apr. 1659;
Experience, 30 Jan. 1662; Hopestill, 30 Dec. 1663, d. June foll.; Dependence wh.
d. 5 Aug. 1667, wh. had been bapt. 25 Mar. 1666; beside Sarah, wh. was bapt. 14
Feb. 1669; and Joseph, bapt. 4 Jan. 1674, unless that date mean b. for ch. rec.
of bapt. is 1 Feb. nam. in his will; was a lieut. d. 23 June 1691; and his wid.
d. 8 Oct. 1693. Experience m. Roger Helyer of Charlestown; Martha m. 18 Sept.
1674, Ebenezer Williams; Eliz. m. John Wood; and Sarah m. Whittemore. RICHARD,
Middletown, s. of John, of the same, b. in Eng. by w. Mary had Mary; John, b. 20
Sept. 1648; Jane, Mar. 1653; Sarah, May 1654; Richard, June 1656; Samuel, Sept.
1658; and Ann, 20 Nov. 1661; d. 27 Mar. 1691, and his w. d. three days after. In
his will of 11 Jan. preced. he calls hims. “a. 71 yrs. of age.” Richard, his
s. was a soldier, k. in Philip's war, at Hatfield, 30 May 1676; Mary m. 11 Mar.
1661, Anthony Martin; Sarah m. 1673, John Blake. RICHARD, Bradford, freem. 1676.
RICHARD, Roxbury, m. 22 May 1679, Eliz. Holbrook, had Martha, b. 6 Sept. 1680;
and Richard, 31 Jan. 1683. Martha d. 12 Nov. 1701. ||SAMUEL, Ipswich 1636, had
been in the country 1633, went late in autumn to explore, and ret. from the
wilderness Jan. 1634, perhaps went home that yr. and came back in the spr. of
1635, aged 25, in the Elizabeth and Ann, was of ar. co. 1638, and after some
yrs. went home again, and d. 1680, at Langford, near Malden, in Essex. Hutch. I.
43; Winth. I. 123; Felt, Ipswich, 62; and Hubbard, 170. * SAMUEL, Salisbury
1640, may be the person from Canterbury, Eng. in 1635, or 6, [p.338] with w.
Joan and three serv. [3 Mass. Hist. Coll. VIII. 276], but the Eng. vol. does not
name the ship. He was rep. 1655. SAMUEL, Middletown, s. of John of the same,
freem. 1654, d. 14 Mar. 1690, left wid. Eliz. and three ch., Samuel, b. 3 Feb.
1664; John, 7 Aug. 1668; and Thomas, 29 Aug. 1671. SAMUEL, Taunton, had Samuel,
b. 11 Dec. 1664; John, 19 Oct. 1666; Nicholas, 28 Oct. 1670; Mary, 3 Oct. 1672;
Sarah, 14 Oct. 1674, d. young; Ebenezer, 19 Mar. 1677; Sarah, again, 2 Mar.
1679; and George, 25 Jan. 1681. SAMUEL, Wallingford, s. of John of New Haven, m.
May 1668, Hannah Walker, had John, b. 22 Dec. 1670, at New Haven, and at W. may
have had others, was deac. and d. 1725. SAMUEL, Fairfield, s. of Francis, d.
1694, leav. wid. and ch. only Samuel, and David. SAMUEL, Dorchester, freem.
1670. SAMUEL, Guilford, s. of William, m. 22 Dec. 1674, Eliz. d. of William
Johnson, had Eliz. b. 1 Feb. 1677; Ithamar, 10 Feb. 1680; William, 15 Jan. 1683;
Samuel, 15 Oct. 1687; and Abigail, 1 Feb. 1696; d. 11 Feb. 1733. SAMUEL,
Middletown, s. of Samuel of the same, was a lieut. had w. Phebe, and d. says the
inscript. on gr.stone, 24 Mar. 1740, in the 82d yr. of his age, as if the piety
of survivors requir. such exagger. His wid. d. 14 May 1741, aged 78, says
similar inscript. *STEPHEN, Concord, s. of wid. Mary, m. 3 Dec. 1663, Ruth, d.
of Dolor Davis, had Samuel, b. 8 Dec. 1665; Stephen, 1667; Ruth, 12 Jan. 1670;
Mary, 1 June 1677; and Eliz. 7 Apr. 1685; rem. to Stow, was rep. 1689, on
overthrow of Andros. STEPHEN, Charlestown, s. of the preced. by w. Grace, d. of
Thomas Willis, had Stephen, b. 5 Nov. 1693; Grace, 17 June 1697; Esther, 27 Dec.
1700; Willard, H. C. 1722; Josiah, 12 May 1705, d. next yr.; and Ruth, 1708; his
w. d. 12 Nov. 1721; and by sec. w. Martha Hill, or third, Ann Nowell, wid. of
Joseph, he had no ch. and d. 7 Nov. 1749. STEPHEN, Medford, s. of the first John
of the same, had no issue it is thot. by first w. Eliz. wh. d. 14 May 1714, aged
42, but by sec. w. Eliz. had Mary, b. 17 Apr. 1719; Stephen, 10 Aug. 1721;
Sarah, b. and d. 1724 (but sure. not in the order of the mos. giv. in
Geneal. Reg. XIII. 16); and Eliz. 19 Dec. 1725. He d. 3 Sept. 1755, and his wid.
d. 3 Feb. 1764, aged 83. THOMAS, Cambridge 1648, br. of Edward bef. ment. whose
sole heir he claim. to be, freem. 1681, had w. Eliz. three ds. Hannah, b. 4 Mar.
1649; Mary and Lydia, but prob. no s. Late in his days he m. 24 May 1683,
Martha, wid. of Humphrey Bradshaw, formerly wid. of William Russell. THOMAS,
Guilford, m. Sarah, d. of Thomas Cook, had Thomas, and Samuel, perhaps; but he
could have liv. only short time at G. nor is the evidence of that m. other than
presumptive. Yet at G. is ano. w. Hannah, d. of John Sheather, furnished him in
1685. THOMAS, Woburn, had Eliz. b. 14 Dec. 1674;
Abigail, 20 Aug. 1681; both d. very soon. THOMAS, [p.339] Wallingford, s. of
John of New Haven, m. 1673, said to be the first in the town, d. 1711, leav. w.
Grace, and ch. Abigail, Thomas, Mary, Jonathan, Joseph, Daniel, Rebecca, all of
age, and Israel, 15 yrs. old. THOMAS, Medford, youngest s. of the first John of
the same, m. 22 Dec. 1702, Hannah, d. of Gershom Cutter, had Thomas, b. 5 Oct.
1703; and by see. w. Abigail had Edward, 11 Apr. 1707; Abigail, 24 Oct. 1708;
Ruth, 1 July 1712, d. young; John, 17 Mar. 1715; Ruth, again, 20 Aug. 1719;
William, 11 June 1721; Samuel, 27 Nov. 1723, d. young; Samuel, again, 7 May
1725, d. young; Rebecca, 28 Feb. 1727; and Samuel, again, 22 Jan. 1730. He had
third w. 16 Apr. 1747, Eliz. Davis; and d. 25 Jan. 1757. TRISTRAM, Barnstable,
had Mary, b. 1645; Sarah; Joseph, June 1652; John, Mar. 1654; and Hannah, Feb.
1556. WILLIAM, Portsmouth, R. I. 1638, freem. there liv. in 1655. WILLIAM,
Cambridge, br. of Stephen, one of the petnrs. 1653, for Chelmsford, rem. to
Concord, m. 14 Oct. 1658, Sarah Meriam, and had no ch. prob. d. 10 Mar. 1667.
WILLIAM, Guilford 1639, had w. Esther, s. John, b. 1648; and Samuel; both bef.
ment. and d. 8 Mar. 1669. His wid. d. 1683. WILLIAM, Portsmouth, R. I. perhaps
s. of William of the same, m. 26 Jan. 1671, Alice, wh. it is said, came in the
same ship, d. of John Tripp, had William, b. 9 Dec. 1672; Preserved, 29 Aug.
1675, d. under 6 yrs.; Abigail, 20 Dec. 1677; Mary, 24 Sept. 1679; John, 2 July
1681; Deliverance, 8 Jan. 1684; Alice, 14 Jan. 1685; Eliz. 2 Oct. 1687; and
Robert, 16 Feb. 1690. ZURIEL, perhaps of Portsmouth, R. I. had Mary, wh. m. 16
Sept. 1686, Robert Fish of the same. Gr. of this name, in 1834, were 20 at Harv.
25 at Yale, 7 at Dart. and 22 at the other N. E. coll. Very num. and independ.
stocks have contrib. to the wide extens. of this patronymic in N. E. At
Cambridge, in 1662, lds. were gr. by the town to a wid. Mary H. whose ch. then
adult, or nearly so, were John, Susanna, Stephen, William, Mary, Hannah, and
Lydia. Of the three youngest, Mary m. 26 Feb. 1669, Israel Meade; Hannah m.
1670; and Lydia m. 6 Mar. 1678, Gershom Cutter.
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Hamlet, Jacob, Billerica, s. of William, m. 1668,
Hannah Parker, who d. 26 June 1669; and he m. 21 Dec. 1669 Mary Dutton, who d.
of smallpox, 1678. He rem. to Woburn, had, next
yr. ano. w. Mary, and by her Jacob, b. 1 Aug. 1680, d. in a week; Joseph, 31
Aug. 1681; William, 8 Sept. 1683; Jacob, again, 4 Jan. 1686; Henry, 6 Feb. 1688,
d. very soon; and Abigail, 25 Mar. 1689. WILLIAM, Cambridge, or Watertown, b. a.
1614, m. Sarah wid. of James Hubbard, had Jacob; Rebecca; both bapt. at C.;
Sara; and Thomas; was freem, 1651; rem. a. 1658 to Billerica, there was one of
the first Bapt. His w. Sarah d. at Woburn, 18
Jan. 1689. Rebecca m. 17 Dec. 1665, James Frost and d. soon.
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Hassell, John, Ipswich 1636, freem. 9 Mar. 1637,
rem. prob. to Rehoboth with first sett. 1642, where the rec. is Hazell, but back
again to I. 1648. His will, nuncup. call. him of Rehoboth, made prob. at
Watertown, 19 Nov. 1651, names no w. or ch. JOSEPH, Dunstable, s. of Richard, by
w. Ann had Joseph, Benjamin, Richard, and Abiah, b. a. 1676; was k. with w. and
s. Benjamin, by the Ind. 26 Sept. 1691. Abiah m. 25 May 1696, capt. Joseph
Blanchard; Richard was taken by the Ind. two days after they had k. his f. when
also perish. Obadiah Perry, who had m. 21 Aug. 1667, his sis. Esther. RICHARD,
Cambridge, freem. 1647, by w. Joan had Eliz. b. 20 Sept. 1643; Joseph, 20 Sept.
1645; and Esther, 6 Dec. 1648. He perhaps rem. to Watertown, there had Ann, b. 6
Oct. 1669, thence to Dunstable. His d. Eliz. I think, m. 1 Nov. 1661, Josiah, or
Joseph, Wright of Woburn; Esther m. 21 Aug. 1667,
Obadiah Perry. This name may be Haswell.
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Hayward, Ephraim, Winsor, s. of
Robert, m. 1684, Abigail, d. of maj. Benjamin Newbury, had 2 or 3 ch. and d.
1690. GEORGE, Concord 1635, one of the earliest sett. freem. Mar. 1638, d. 29
Mar. 1671; by w. Mary had John, b. 20 Dec. 1640; Mary; Joseph, 26 Mar. 1643;
Sarah, 19 Mar. 1645; Hannah, 20 Apr. 1647, wh. m. Jacob Farrar the first;
Simeon, 22 Jan. 1649; William, 1651; and George, 2 July 1654, wh. was prob. the
soldier of Davenport's comp. k. 19 Dec. 1675, in the [p.392] gr. battle of
Narragansett. He wrote his name Heaward. JAMES, Charlestown, spelt at London
custom ho. Haieward, came, prob. in the Planter, 1635, aged 22, was, perhaps, of
Woburn, m. Judith Phippen, aged 16, both serv. of
Nicholas Davis, and d. 20 Nov. 1642, had Rebecca, b. 4 of next mo. His wid. m.
18 Jan. 1644, William Symonds of Woburn. JAMES,
New Haven 1643, d. 1648, without fam. as is believ. *JOHN, Watertown 1632,
freem. 14 May 1634, rem. to Dedham, there was constable 1638, rep. 1645, d. at
Charlestown, 29 Dec. 1672. His half sis. was w. of Rev. George Phillips; and his
will of 31 July preced. calls hims. 79 yrs. old, names w. Mary, and Rev. Samuel
Phillips of Rowley, s. of George, excors. and resid. devisees, gives house lot
by the pond in W. to Harv. Coll. also to Thomas, and Samuel Aldrich, Sarah, and
Esther Judson, all ch. of his w. Mary, and to Henry Duren, ea. £5., and to five
ch. of Andrew Duren, ea. £1. and to George Westbrook, a mare colt; so that it
is thot. that he had no issue. He owned est. in the three towns, W. D. and C.
The wid. in her will of 5 Sept. 1683, pro. 29 May foll. ment. her s. Thomas, and
Samuel Aldrich, gr.ch. Mary, d. of said Thomas; gr.ch. Sarah Westbrook, d. of
her d. Sarah; d. Sarah Woodcock; and d. Esther Kingsbury. JOHN, Plymouth 1643,
had Sarah, b. 20 Aug. 1647, was after of Dartmouth with s. Daniel, propr. at
Little Compton 1675. || JOHN, Boston 1671, serviener, by w. Mary bad Thomas, b.
27 Oct. 1672, and John, 22 Nov. 1674; in 1677 was appoint. postmaster for the
Col.; in 1673 was lieut. of thear. co. and later a Notary, had sec. w. Eliz. wh.
had been wid. of Samuel Sendall, and still earlier wid. of John Warren, and d. 2
Dec. 1687; in his will of 8 July 1687, pro. 15 Feb. foll. provides for wid.
Eliz. and s. Samuel, and John, and conditional. sis. Hannah, and Sarah, father
and mo.-in-law Dawson, and gives £5. to Rev. Samuel Willard. His wid. Eliz. m.
Phineas Wilson of Hartford. JOHN, Bridgewater, s. of Thomas, perhaps b. in Eng.
m. Sarah, d. of Experience Mitchell, had Sarah, b. 1663; John, 1667; Joseph,
1669; Mary, 1672; Thomas, 1674; Benjamin, 1677; Susanna, 1680; Eliz. 1683;
Benoni, 1686; and Mercy, 1687. His name was sound. Howard, tho. the spelling was
unchanged, and to distinguish him from John Howard, he was, says Mitchell,
called “John of the Plain.” JOHN, Concord, s. of George, m. 2 June 1671, Ann
White, had Mary, b. 5 Dec. 1671, d. soon; George, 20 July 1673; Judith, 24 Apr.
1675; Mary, 13 May 1677; John, 7 July 1680; Ann, 3 Aug. 1682; and Sarah, 16 June
1687; was freem. 1690; his w. d. 26 May 1718; and he d. 22 Nov. after. JOHN,
Boston 1676, by w. Silence had Mary, b. 5 June 1677. JONATHAN, Braintree, s. of
William, m. 6 May 1663, Sarah, d. of Richard Thayer, had ten ch. or more; d. 21
Nov. 1690, aged 49. He was gr. gr. f. of Lemuel, H. C. 1768, who was [p.393] f.
of George, H. C. 1809, one of the disting. Professors in that Univ. Perhaps this
number of ch. was not all b. of that w. Sarah, wh. had, I think, been w. of
Samuel Davis, and bore him three ch. There was in the land only one Richard
Thayer, wh. so early had d. Sarah, and she m. S. D. of Boston, where her f. liv.
JOSEPH, Concord, s. of George, m. 26 Oct. 1665, Hannah, d. of James Hosmer, had
Joseph, b. 17 Aug. 1666; Mary, 27 Sept. 1667; John, 1669, d. young; Hannah, 14
Jan. 1671; Dorothy, 2 June 1674; his w. d. 15 Dec. 1675; and he m. 23 Mar. 1677,
Eliz. Treadwell, had Ebenezer, 22 July 1678; James, 3 Mar. 1681; Simeon, 18 June
1683; and Abiel, a d. 17 Sept. 1691. JOSEPH, Bridgewater, s. of Thomas, a deac.
had three ws. By the first Alice, d. of Elder William Brett, had Joseph, b.
1673; and by the third, Hannah, d. of Experience Mitchell, had Mary, 1685;
Thomas, 1687; Edward, 1689; Hannah, 1691; Susanna, 1695; Peter, 1699; and
Abigail, 1702. NATHANIEL, Bridgewater, br. of the preced. m. Hannah, d. of deac.
John Willis, had Nathaniel, b. 1664; John; Thomas; Samuel; Elisha; Patience; and
perhaps other ds. NICHOLAS, Salem 1643, rem. prob. to Boston, and by w. Eliz.
had Richard, b. 22 Aug. 1665; Rebecca, 19 Nov. 1666; and John, 29 June 1668.
RICHARD, Salem, was of Co. Bedford, came with Higginson 1629. ROBERT, Windsor, a
miller, m. Lydia, d. of the first Thomas Kilborne, had Tabitha, b. 1 Jan. 1647;
Rebecca, 17 Aug. 1648; Esther, 8 June 1651; Lydia, 13 Jan. 1655; beside three
other ds. most of wh. d. young; and Ephraim, 11 Jan. 1657; rem. to Northampton
1659, but after some yrs. went back to W. there d. 1684. His wid. wh. came with
her f. in the Increase 1635, test. in 1684, that she was 70 yrs. old, only
slight exagger. Rebecca m. a. 1665, John Spencer of Haddam. This fam. is usually
called Howard. ROBERT, Boston, a Notary. See Howard. SAMUEL, Gloucester, m. 2
Mar. 1641, the first on the rec. a d. of Henry Felch, had Samuel, b. 4 Jan.
1642; and John, 24 Dec. 1643. SAMUEL, Boston, by w. Isabel had James, b. 16 Dec.
1645; Samuel, 4 May 1646, by perverse rec.; and Peter, 4 Aug. 1654; and he, or
more prob. the preced. was of Mendon 1672. SAMUEL, Charlestown, came in the
Elizabeth 1635, aged 22, and I suppose sat down in that pt. wh. bee. Malden, had
Martha, b. 15 Mar. 1653; Mary, Aug. 1654; Sarah, Feb. 1656; and Eliz. 25 Sept.
1658, d. young. In the will of Eliz. H. wid. I find ground for conject. that she
was relict of this man. It has date of May 1686, and was pro. 5 May of next yr.
and gives d. Abigail the part of movables that came to her from est. of her first
h. Oakes, with proviso, that, if it amount to above £20., she shall give 20 sh.
to w. of Samuel Hayward. That d. Abigail (whose mo. Eliz. Hayward, formerly w.
of Thomas Oakes of Cambridge, had been, Dec. 1667, dism. to Malden), [p.394]
was, as the Reg. of matchless Mitchell tells, bapt. 23 Sept. 1666, in his ch. At
C. he had, also, Richard, bapt. 22 July 1660; Eliz. 9 June 1661; Deborah, 6 July
1662; Nathaniel, 5 June 1664. But these were not ch. of Eliz. who had been wid.
of Oakes, and was, after 1662, wid. of Seth Sweetser, when she m. Hayward, and
born him Abigail, wh. I suppose, m. 31 Oct. 1688, John Upham. A Samuel H.
perhaps s. of the preced. was in London, with John Balston, and John Herring,
dealing with Judith, wid. of Stephen Winthrop, in May 1687, and resolv. to emb.
for New Eng. The name is on some rec. written, as sound. Howard. But I am almost
certain that f. and s. are confus. or some other confus. appears. SIMEON,
Concord, s. of George, m. 7 Mar. 1687, Eliz. perhaps d. of the first Jonathan
Danforth, had Eliz. b. 28 Feb. 1689; Jonathan, 16 Nov. 1690; Simeon, 24 Apr.
1693; and Mary, 19 Mar. 1696. THOMAS, Cambridge, came in the Hercules 1635, from
Sandwich, being tailor of Aylesford, Co. Kent, with w. Susanna, and five ch. but
he had perhaps been here as early as 1632, coming with Winslow in the William
and Francis, and satisf. with prospects, went home to bring them; sett. at
Duxbury bef. 1638, prob. at Bridgewater 1651, being of the first proprs. 1645,
was freem. of the col. 1646, had Thomas, Nathaniel, John, Joseph, Elisha, Mary,
w. of Edward Mitchell, and Martha, w. of John Howard; but of these we are unable
to discrim. which were b. in Eng. or whether even he were that Kentish man, or
not. He d. 1681. Elisha never was m. made his will 1703. Descend. of Thomas are
more num. says Mitchell, than those of any other inhab. THOMAS, Bridgewater, s.
of the preced. a valua. officer, d. 15 Aug. 1698, leav. w. Sarah, d. of William
Ames of Braintree, but no ch. THOMAS, Enfield, had Benjamin, b. 1686, but bef.
had Nathan, John, and sev. ds. was “aged a. 50,” in 1693, so that it is
prob. that he was b. on this side of the Atlantic, d. 1700.* WILLIAM, Hampton,
freem. 13 May 1640, had been of Charlestown in 1637, was lieut. and rep. 1641-5.
WILLIAM, Braintree 1648, had w. Margery, and sev. ch. of wh. Jonathan is the
only one to be traced exactly, was drown. 1659. WILLIAM, Swanzey, by w. Sarah
had Jonathan, b. 8 Apr. 1672; Margery, 10 Sept. 1673. Fifteen of this name had,
in 1850, been gr. at Harv. Great skill will often be baffled in reconcil. the
various spell. with the deductions of fams. from Hayward, Haywood, Heywood, and
the predominant Howard.
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Hildreth, sometimes Hildrick,
Isaac, Woburn, youngest s. of Richard, by w.
Eliz. had Persis, b. 25 Nov. 1691; Joanna, 16 Nov. 1695; perhaps rem. JAMES,
Chelmsford, s. of Richard, m. 1 June 1659, Margaret Ward, had Sarah, b. 22 Feb.
1662; Eliz. an Mary, both bapt. 1 Apr. 1666; and Richard, who d. 22 Feb. 1692 or
3; and perhaps [p.415] others; was freem. 1665. JOSEPH, Chelmsford, s. of
Richard, m. 12 Dec. 1683, Abigail Wilson of Woburn,
had sev. ch. of wh. is kn. only Joseph, b. 30 Nov. 1695, wh. lived. to old age;
but the f. d. 28 Jan. 1707. Of this branch is the historian, Richard. RICHARD,
Cambridge, freem. 10 May 1643, had w. Sarah, wh. d. 15 June 1644; by w. Eliz.
who d. at Malden 3 Aug. 1693, aged 68, had Eliz. 21 Sept. 1646; and Sarah, 8
Aug. 1648. He was serg. one of the grantees of Chelmsford, 1653, there had
Joseph, 16 Apr. 1658; Persis, 8 Feb. 1660; Thomas, 1 Feb. 1662; Isaac, July
1663; beside Abigail, wh. m. Moses Parker of the same. The f. d. at Chelmsford,
1688, aged 83, it is read on the gr. stone by one, tho. in Geneal. Reg. III.
142, his yr. of b. is mark. 1612, more prob. and his descend. long prevail.
there. Six of the name had, in 1834, been gr. at Harv.
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Hill, or Hills,
Abraham, Charlestown 1636, freem. 13 May 1640, by w. Sarah, d. of Robert Long,
had Ruth, b. 2 June 1640; Isaac, 29 bapt. 31 Oct. 1641; Abraham, 1 Oct. 1643;
Sarah, 19 Aug. 1647, d. soon; Sarah, again, Oct. 1649, d. same mo.; Mary, May
1652; Jacob, Mar. 1657; and Zechary, perhaps earlier than the last; d. 13 Feb.
1670 in Malden. His est. was good, and wid. Sarah admin. He is progenit. of num.
fams. His eldest d. m. 7 Dec. 1659, William Augur. ABRAHAM, Malden, s. of the
preced. m. Oct 1666, Hannah, d. of Richard Stowers, had Abraham, b. Aug. 1670
(whose w. Sarah d. 4 July 1695, aged 24); and Mary, Aug. 1673; and d. 23 Oct.
1713. His wid. liv. to 27 June 1738. BENJAMIN, New Haven 1646, but rem. soon
after tak. o. of fidel. in 1647. CHARLES, New London, came from Maryland 1665,
but was b. in Barlow, near Chesterfield in Derbysh. s. of George, was a merch.
of distinct. partner with the Christopher's, going to and from Barbados. From
that isl. he brot. the first news of the gr. fire in London 1666, as set forth
in his let. to Gov. Winthrop of 16 Jan. foll. See 3 Mass. Hist. Coll. X. 66. He
m. 16 July 1668, Ruth, wid. of John Picket, had Jane, b. 9 Dec. 1669; Charles,
16 Oct. 1671; Ruth, bapt. 29 Oct. 1673, and Jonathan, Dec. 1674; his w. d. of
Jonathan Brewster, d. 30 Apr. 1677, and he m. 12 June 1678, Rachel, d. of
dep.-gov. John Mason, wh. with inf. ch. d. 4 Apr. of next yr. He was a useful
man, recorder of the town, and clk. of the Co. Court, and d. 1684. EBENEZER,
Dorchester, a soldier of brave Capt. Johnson's comp. in Dec. 1675. EBENEZER,
Newbury, took o. of alleg. 1678. EBENEZER, New Haven, s. of Robert, m. 1677,
Merey Brooks, had two ch. ill treat. his w. wh. obt. div. 1692. EDWARD, a
soldier from the E. on Conn. riv. in 1676. ELIPHALET, Boston, by w. Ann had
Mary, b. 1 Apr. 1670. FRANCIS, Boston, by w. Hannah had Sarah, b. 26 Jan. 1664.
In utter despair of distinguish. for this work betw. those who spell with or
without [p.416] final s. (for very often the same person appears underea.
form), I resolve to unite the two, but remark, that all the foregoing are
usually seen without that addit. GERSHOM, Malden, s. of Joseph, m. 11 Nov. 1667,
Eliz. d. I suppose, of John Chadwick of Watertown, had Eliz. b. Feb. 1669; Mary,
Mar. 1672; and prob. others. HENRY, Woodbury 1683. HERCULES, Scituate 1636, a
soldier, next yr. in the Pequot war, went home soon after, and in 1666 was of
Rochester, Kent. Deane. IGNATIUS, Boston 1658. ISAAC, Malden, s. of first
Abraham, m. June 1666, Hannah Hayward, or Howard, d. of Samuel, had by her no
ch. to our kn. exc. Isaac, b. June 1670. He rem. to Cambridge, there his w. d.
25 Apr. 1679, and he m. 12 Jan. foll. Sarah Bicknall, had Thomasine, b. 11 Dec.
1685; Abraham, 22 Mar. 1688; and Isaac, 1 Dec. 1693; was freem. 1690. JACOB,
Cambridge, s. of the first Abraham, m. Sarah, d. of John Stone, had Jacob;
Abraham; Tabitha; John, b. 25 Sept. 1684; and Nathaniel; was freem. 1690, d. 12
Dec. foll. tho. the gr.stone says 1689. JAMES, Boston, m. 10 Apr. 1662, Hannah
Henchman, had Hannah, b. 21 Mar. 1665; James, 21 Feb. 1667; Ignatius, 6 Nov.
1668; and Eliz. 15 June 1670, was freem. 1671. JAMES, Guilford, s. of John of
the same, by w. Sarah had Sarah, b. 1683; Isaac, 1685; James, 1687, d. young;
Ann, 1690; Daniel, 1692; John, and Charity, tw. 1694; Michael, 1698; and Mary,
1701. His will of 8 Oct. 1707 (soon after wh. he d.), names all the eight liv.
ch. JOHN, Plymouth 1630, prob. a serv. or apprent. withdrew next yr. to Mass.
See the very curious let. of Plymouth Court to our Gov. in Geneal. Reg. II. 240.
He may have been at Salem, and had gr. of ld. 1650, and of Beverly 1659, where
he was among the princ. men 1681 and 2; or the man of this name at Lynn 1655, or
of Dover 1649-72, or of Medfield 1656. So common was this name, and one was
freem. 1646. This last by w. Hannah had Abigail, b. 2 Feb. 1658; Samuel; John,
14 Mar. 1661; Mary, 28 Oct. 1662; Eliezur, 29 June 1664; Johnson, 1666; and
Ebenezer; and d. 23 Jan. 1718, leav. wid. Eliz. wh. d. 1 Dec. 1719. ¦¦ JOHN,
Boston 1641,a blacksmith, had w. Margaret, both adm. of the ch. in July of that
yr. was freem. prob. 18 May 1642, ar. co. 1643, and d. 21 July 1646. He was one
of the grantees, 1643, of the franchise for tide mill, wh. lasted over 180 yrs.
Snow, Hist. of B. 124. JOHN, Dorchester 1641, a blacksmith, by w. Frances had
John; Jonathan, b. a. 1639; Samuel, 1640; Hannah, 1641; Merey, 1642; Mary;
Frances; and two or three, or four more, of wh. all but Mary, d. says tradit.
bef. their f. He d. 1664. Too much a. this fam. depends on tradit. Hannah is
said to have m. Daniel Fisher of Taunton; Frances m. prob. Jonas Austin, jr. of
Taunton, tho. Col. Rec. gives her to Jonah Allin, senr.; and ano. d. is said to
have m. a Taunton man; Mary m. 12 [p.417] Feb. 1657, Thomas Breck of D. But the
will of 11 Apr. 1660, pro. 30 June 1664, makes it clear, that, besides John and
Mary, nine younger ch. were then liv. JOHN, Rowley 1641, or earlier. JOHN, New
Haven 1643, br. of Robert, took o. of fidel. 1644, had no fam. and d. 1647.
JOHN, Guilford, had perhaps been at Branford 1646, 8, and later, but after rem.
had w. Frances, wh. d. May 1673, and by her had John, Sarah, James, Eliz. and
ano. d. He m. at Saybrook, 3 Sept. 1673, Catharine, prob. the wid. of Alexander
Chalker; d. 8 June 1689. In his will of Sept. preced. he names w. Catharine, the
two s. the two ds. Sarah and Eliz. wh. were d. but left ch. and liv. d. m. to a
Tapping. JOHN, Boston, perhaps br. of Valentine, adm. of our ch. 15 May 1647, m.
16 Jan. 1657, Eliz. Strong, wh. may have been d. tho. to me, it seems more prob.
that she was sis. of Elder John. JOHN, Dover 1649-72, by w. Eliz. had Benjamin,
b. 8 Apr. 1665. JOHN, Salem, of wh. we kn. only that, in May 1666, he was
witness to the will of Capt. William Trask. JOHN, Boston, merch. by w. Mary had
Eliz. b. 10 Nov. 1668; and John, 2 June 1673. JOHN, Portsmouth 1665, had w.
Eliz. and perhaps s. Joseph, Nathaniel, and Samuel, wh. were all of P. in 1685.
JOHN, Saybrook, m. 14 Apr. 1670, Jane Bushnell, had Samuel, b. 29 May 1671.
JOHN, Guilford, s. of John of the same, had Mary, b. 1671, d. soon; John, 18
July 1672; Eliz. 20 Feb. 1675; Mary, again, Feb. 1677; Samuel, 21 Feb. 1679;
Nathaniel, Apr. 1680; and James, Apr. 1682; these six all liv. when he d. 8 May
1690. His wid. Thankful d. 18 Nov. 1711. JOHN, New Haven, s. of Robert, m. 1680,
Hannah Grannis, had sev. ch. JOHN, Hartford, s. of William, d. or was bur. 5
Apr. 1692, leav. w. and two ds. whose names are not kn. JOHN, Saco, perhaps s.
of Roger, disting. in the wars with E. Ind. 1689-96, was tak. 1704 at Wells,
car. to Canada, and restor. next yr. JONATHAN, Bridgewater 1680, s. prob. of
John of Dorchester, where he had liv. and had Nathaniel, b. there 7 May 1676.
JONATHAN, Billerica 1679, s. of Ralph, freem. 1690. JONATHAN, Hartford, s. of
William, by w. Dorothy had Dorothy, b. 1696; Jonathan, 1699; David, 1702; Sarah,
1706; and Thankful, 1710. *JOSEPH, Charlestown 1638, was from Malden, in Essex,
Eng. where, and not Shrewsbury, in the other side of the island, as had been
said, he was a woolen draper, having large transact. at London, had br. John of
Barnham, wh. is a. 10 ms. from Malden, wh. may have come over or d. sev. yrs.
earlier, with w. Rose, wh. is thot. to have been sis. of Presid. Dunster, adm.
of the ch. 2 Feb. 1640, yet not freem. until 1645, tho. he was selectman the yr.
preced. rep. for Malden 1647, 50 to 6, speaker of the ho. in the earliest yr.
but not “the first speaker,” as in Geneal. Reg. IX. 34, is said; and leader
of the milit. of the town. His w. d. 24 Mar. 1650, and he m. 24 June of the
[p.418] foll. yr. Hannah, wid. of Edward Mellows. Again he m. Jan. 1656.
officiat. as magistr. at the solemnity (of course, as third w.) Helen Atkinson,
call. d. of Hugh, of Kendall, in Co. Westmoreland; and at Newbury m. 8 Mar.
1665, fourth w. Ann, wid. of Henry Lunt. He d. at N. 5 Feb. 1688, in 86th yr.
His ch. were Joseph, b. prob. in Eng.; Gershom, b. 27 July 1639, bapt. 17 Feb.
foll. bef. ment.; Mehitable, 1 Jan. 1641, d. young; as did also, John; and
Nathaniel, wh. was b. 19 Dec.1653; Samuel, July 1652; Hannah; Deborah, Mar.
1657, d. young; Abigail, 6 Oct. 1658, d. young; and Wait, tho. it seems prob.
that this last is call. s. only from m. a d. of the testator. He wrote his name
with final s; but in some rec. that addit. does not appear. In the third
m. he imitat. the foolish precedent of Gov. Bellingham at an earlier day,
performing, in his own right, the legal ceremony, for wh. act he was presented
at the Court. His will, of 14 Sept. 1687, names gr. childr. Hannah and Eliz.
Blanchard, Hannah Vinton, and Samuel Greene; makes s. Samuel and s.-in-law Abiel
Long to be excors. See Geneal. Reg. VIII. 309. JOSEPH, Malden, s. of the preced.
b. in Eng. m. Nov. 1653, Hannah Smith, had Joseph, b. Oct. 1655; Hannah, Mar.
1657; John, Mar. 1666; Dorothy, 13 Apr. 1667; and Samuel, 16 Dec. 1667; but we
are not always sure, from the rec. which was ch. of the elder or younger Joseph,
who d. bef. his f. JOSEPH, Malden, s. of the preced. d. 19 Apr. 1674, and his w.
Hannah (by wh. his only ch. Joseph was b. posthum. 3 July 1674), that rec. prop.
of her br. dying 5 days later, d. 11 July of the same yr. and the gr. f. had
admin. JOSEPH, Boston, by w. Ellen had Abigail, b. 5 Feb. 1664. LUKE, Windsor,
1651, m. 6 May in that yr. Mary Hoyt, had Lydia, b. 18 Feb. 1652; Mary, 20 Sept.
1654; Eleazer, at Farmington, and there rec. 1657; Tahan, 28 Nov. 1659; Luke, 6
Mar. 1662; Abigail, 16 Apr. 1664; Eliz. 8 Oct. 1666; and John, 28 Nov. 1668;
rem. to Simsbury, was liv. there 1694. Mary m. 30 July 1677, John Saxton.
NATHANIEL, Dover 1680, youngest s. of Valentine. NATHANIEL, Billerica 1677, s.
of Ralph, was resid. there Sept. 1697. PETER, Saco 1648, freem. 1653, d. Aug.
1667. Willis, I. 55, 241. RALPH, Plymouth, m. 1638, Margaret Toothaker, prob. a
wid. rem. to Woburn, there had Jonathan, b. 20
Apr. 1646; was freem. 1647, and one of the first sett. at Billerica in 1653, d.
1663, leav. ch. named in his will of 10 Nov. 1662, pro. 12 Nov. of next yr.;
Nathaniel; Jonathan; Ralph; Martha; and Rebecca; besides w. Margaret, s.-in-law
Roger Toothaker, and gr.ch. Eliz. Hill, and Mary Littlefield. His wid. d. 22
Nov. 1683, aged 87. *RALPH, Billerica, s. of the preced. m. 5 Nov. 1660, Martha
Toothaker, had Eliz. b. 28 July 1661; was selectman 11 yrs. capt. and rep. 1689,
90, 2-4, d. 2 May 1695. RICHARD, Charlestown 1638, cooper, perhaps br. of
Abraham, or [p.419] Joseph, or both, d. unm. 29 Oct. 1639. See his will, print.
as that of Iles, wh. is the first cop. into first vol. of rec. of Co. Suffk.
abstr. in Geneal. Reg. II. 102, with a lucid explanation, Ib. 218. Confirmat. of
the hypothes. of the modest writer, the late learned libra. of Harv. Univ. I
could have furnished by the reference to the other end of the same Vol. I. of
Suffk. Reg. of Deeds, where is giv. power of attorney from Henry, John, and
William Iles, as also of Margaret Linton with her h. Thomas and of John Keene
the sis. and brs. of the testator, execut. at Bristol, Eng. to enable one Henry
Hazard to receive all and singular, &c. RICHARD, New Haven 1639. RICHARD,
New Hampsh. wh. d. a. 1677, may be thot. the same, wh. at Pemaquid, in July
1674, took the o. of fidel. to Mass. ROBERT, New Haven 1639, signer of orig.
comp. had come in the Defence, 1635, to Boston, embark. 14 July, aged 20 yrs. on
business of Cradock, the first Gov. of the Comp. of Mass. Bay, at London, d.
Aug. 1663. He owned land in Eng. had Abiah, bapt. 23 Jan. 1648, d. young; John,
b. 10, bapt. 12 Jan. 1651; Hannah, 18, bapt. 23 Jan. 1653; Ebenezer, bapt. 12
Aug. 1655; and Nathaniel, 22 May 1659, d. young. He m. sec. w. 1662, Adeline,
wid. of Robert Johnson, and d. in Aug. 1663. ROGER, Saco 1653, s. of Peter, was
constable 1661, m. 1658, Mary (or as ano. acco. says Sarah) Cross of Wells, had
John; Samuel; Joseph; Benjamin, wh. d. young; and Ebenezer; beside ds. Sarah,
Hannah, and Mercy. Folsom, 179. I suppose he rem. to Salem to escape Ind.
hostil. and was freem. 1678. Of descend. very good relat. is seen in Geneal.
Reg. XII. 139-145, and 258-264, by a very diligent hand. SAMUEL, Dorchester, s.
of John of the same, by w. Martha had Martha, b. 20 Dec. 1667; John, 20 Dec.
1669; Thankful, 31 Jan. 1672; Mary, 31 Aug. 1674, d. at 2 yrs.; Samuel, Sept.
1676; Israel, 11 July 1679; Josiah, 1 Jan. 1682; and Thomas, 8 June 1687. In
Morse, 101, is a statement of quite inconsist. facts. SAMUEL, Newbury, s. of
first Joseph, m. 20 May 1679, Abigail, d. of David Wheeler, had Samuel, b. 16
Feb. 1680; Joseph, 21 July 1681; Nathaniel, 9 Feb. 1683; Benjamin, 16 Oct. 1684;
Abigail, 2 Sept. 1686, d. young; Henry, 23 Apr. 1688; William, 8 Oct. 1689;
Josiah, 27 July 1691; John, 20 Sept. 1693; Abigail, again, 27 June 1695; James,
and Hannah, tw. 25 Feb. 1697; and Daniel, 8 Dec. 1700. Of ano. SAMUEL, perhaps
of Portsmouth, certain. of some part of N. Hampsh. Geneal. Reg. VII. 122, shows
the m. 28 Oct. 1680 with Eliz. Williams, and gives their ch. John, b. 30 Nov.
1681; Eliz. 7 Nov. 1683; Mary, 6 Apr. 1685; Hannah, 29 Sept. 1687; Abigail, 29
Sept. 1689; Samuel, 13 Dec. 1696; Sarah, 28 July 1701; Benjamin, 2 July 1703;
and Joseph, 28 Apr. 1706. SAMUEL, Malden, s. prob. of Joseph the sec. of the
same, by w. Sarah had John, b. 23 May 1695; Hannah, 10 Oct. 1697; [p.420] Jabez,
24 June 1699. THOMAS, Roxbury, perhaps br. of William, came in 1633, and d. next
yr. in the fam. of Rev. John Eliot, in whose ch. rec. it is certif. that he was
a very faithful and prudent serv. and good Christian. THOMAS, Plymouth, freem. 7
June 1637, soon d. or rem. to Newport in 1638. THOMAS, Boston, a tanner, had m.
Elinor, wid. of Thomas Munt, bef. Mar. 1668. THOMAS, Middletown, by w. Mary had
Susannah, b. 1678; Eliz. 1679; Thomas, 1682; rem. to Hartford, there had John,
1692, and d. 1704. He had others, ds. Mary, and Sarah, for his will of 1704,
names w. Mary, and ch. Mary Dudley, Eliz. Dudley, Sarah H. Thomas, and John.
*||VALENTINE, Boston 1636, a mercer from London, I think, ar. co. 1638, freem.
13 May 1640, and on Sunday foll. was, with Jacob Eliot, ord. deac. by w.
Frances, wh. d. 17 Feb. 1646, had Hannah, bapt. 17 Mar. 1639; John, b. 1 Sept.
1640, d. soon; Eliz. 12, bapt. 19 Dec. 1641, d. young; Joseph, and Benjamin, tw.
19, bapt. 23 June 1644, both d. soon; by sec. w. Mary, d. of Gov. Eaton, adm. of
our ch. 15 May 1647, he had John, bapt. 22 Aug. 1647; and Nathaniel, b. 31 Mar.
1660. He was of great public spirit, grantee in 1641, with others, of the town,
or Bendall's dock, and the week foll. was made a selectman, rechos. 1642, 3, 4,
5 and 6; interest in the Ids. at Dover, and prob. liv. some time there, was rep.
1652-5 and 7, and d. 1662. His wid. m. perhaps John Lovering of Dover, and next,
Ezekiel Knight of Wells. Hannah m. 24 Jan. 1660, Antipas Boyce. *WILLIAM,
Dorchester, a man of note among the first sett. prob. came in the Mary and John,
freem. 5 Nov. 1633, was selectman 1636, and rem. to Windsor, of wh. he was rep.
1639-44, thence rem. to Fairfield, of wh. he was rep. 1652 and 3, and perhaps
had Sarah, wh. m. 17 Sept. 1646, Joseph Loomis at W. and William, and possib. it
may have been the latter, who was rep. 1669. WILLIAM, Roxbury, came 1632, as a
serv. prob. in the Lion, freem. 14 May 1634, m. Phillis, d. of Richard Lyman,
rem. to Hartford, had 2d w. wid. Mary Steele, d. of Andrew Warner of Hadley; and
there d. July 1683; in his will names ch. William; John; Joseph, bapt. 17 Mar.
1650; Benjamin; Jonathan; Hannah Kilburn, w. of Thomas; Susanna Kilburn, w. of
John; Sarah Ward; and Mary Hills. Of two of the s. we kn. little; Benjamin liv.
and d. at Hartford; Joseph sett, perhaps at Glastonbury. Always this fam.
employ. final s. WILLIAM, a wheelwright, aged 70, embark. at London in
the James, July 1635, to come to N. E. but I kn. no more. WILLIAM, Dover
1657-71. *WILLIAM, Fairfield, s. of William of the same, a man of distinet. had
been at Windsor in his youth, and, no doubt, at Dorchester in boyhood, tho. b.
in Eng. d. 1684. Inv. of his good est. is of 25 Dec. It was div. by the Court to
wid. Eliz. and five ch. William, Eliphalet, Joseph, John, and Sarah. The date of
his f.'s d. is [p.421] uncert. but it was in the list of reps. so many yrs. tat
prob. the later ones are of the s. WILLIAM, Hartford, s. of William of the same,
was bur at H. 15 Aug. 1693, and in Dec. foll. seven ch. appear to div. the est.
viz. Mary, aged 26; Philis, 24; Hannah, 21; Ebenezer, 17; John, 14; Esther, 12;
and Joseph, 10. ZEBULON, Gloucester 1652, from Bristol, Eng. had gr of ld. bef.
1650, rem. to Salem, there had bapt. 27 Apr. 1662, Joanna, Eliz. and John;
Philip, 28 Dec. foll. beside Zebulon, Mary, Abigail, and Sarah in later days. In
his will of 1699 these are ment. His s. Zebulon, in 1690, was master of a vessel
going to Barbados. ZECHARY, Charlestown, s. prob. of the first Abraham, m.
Deborah, d. of Capt. Francis Norton, had Abraham only; d. early; and his wid. m.
Nineteen of this name had been gr. at Harv. in 1834, six at Yale, and seven at
the other N. E. coll. says Farmer in MS.
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Hobbs, Christopher, Saco 1652, freem. 1653,
appoint. admor. 1654 on est. of his br.-in-law William Foster, and d. 1673. His
will of 26 Nov. in that yr. gives to ch. Christopher, Robert, and Jane, but
provides that s. John, wh. had not “come over, should have something, if he
did. HENRY, Dover 1657, m. a d. of Thomas Canney. JAMES, Hampton, perhaps s. of
Maurice, took o. of fidel. 25 Apr. 1678, and d. 22 Sept. 1679. JOHN, Hampton, m.
30 Dec. 1668, Sarah, d. of Edward Colcord; sw. fidel. Dec. 1678. rob. he was s.
of the first Maurice. JOHN, a soldier in Lothrop's comp. of the flower of Essex,
was k. by the Ind. 18 Sept. 1675 at Bloody brook. JOSIAH, came to Boston in the
Arabella, 1671, a passeng. from London, liv. at Woburn,
by w. Mary had Josiah, b. 6 Aug. 1685; Mary, 16 Mar. 1687; Susanna, 24 Nov.
1688; but the fam. tradit. in Geneal. Reg. IX. 255, makes the eldest s. Josiah,
b. in Boston 1684, and the f. there to have liv. first eighteen yrs. after
coming. In 1690, says the geneal. he rem. to Lexington, then call. Cambridge
Farms, and with w. Tabitha join. the ch. there Aug. 1699, had Josiah, Tabitha,
and Mary, bapt. 17 Sept. 1699; Matthew, and Susanna, Oct. 1700; Ebenezer, 8 Jan.
1710; and Tabitha, again, 13 Apr. 1712; and he d. 30 May 1741, aged 92 yrs.
JOSIAH, Boston, s. of the preced. m. 1708, Esther, d. of Ebenezer Davenport, had
Ebenezer, b. 1709; Tabitha, 10 July 1715; Josiah, and John, tw. 1721, on
Governor's isl. it is said, in the traditional tale; Esther, 22 Oct. 1722;
Sarah, bapt. 10 May 1724, in right of her mo. who had 12 Apr. preced. unit with
Mather's ch. (the Old North, not New North, as Geneal. Reg. IX. 255, reads);
Dorcas, 8 May 1726; Hannah, 5 Jan. 1729, tho. the fam. geneal. makes the b. 20
days later than the bapt. and tells that at Mather's ch. “all his ch. but one,
were” bapt. when only three of the nine enjoy. that rite in that place. He
rem. to Weston 1730, there had Nathan, b. next yr. He d. 27 Feb. 1779, aged near
94 yrs. and his wid. d. the preced. 29 Nov. if the acco. be
correct. MAURICE, Newbury, rem. to Hampton betw. 1640 and 5, there m. 1678,
Sarah, d. of Benjamin Swett, as sec. w. the first being Sarah, d. of William
Eastow, both [p.437] ws. of Newbury, perhaps had Mary, b. 5 Mar. 1687, and d. 5
Aug. 1700, “aged above 80,” says Coffin, leav. ten ch. whose names are
untold, exc. Bethia, said to have m. 9 Jan. 1677, John Tucke of H. MAURICE, or
MORRIS, Hampton, call. jr. when he took o. of fidel. 25 Apr. 1678, was prob. s.
of the preced. as, also, NEHEMIAH, of the same town, swear. at the same time.
Maurice, by w. Joanna had James, b. 20 Mar. 1700; Sarah, 31 Oct. 1703; Abigail,
20 Dec. 1707; Joanna, 26 May 1711; Morris, 6 Aug. 1717; and Deborah, 6 July
1720. RICHARD, Newbury, drown. 18 Aug. 1665. THOMAS, Topsfield, freem. 1671, may
be the same wh. d. at Boston 1690. He was, prob. f. of that soldier k. 18 Sept.
1675, of the flower of Essex, in one acco. call. John, as bef. ment. and in Rev.
Mr. Russell's letter, in Coffin's Newbury, p. 390, nam. Thomas. Five of this
name had, in 1834, been gr. at Harv. and two at the other N. E. coll.
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Holden, or Houlden,
Charles, Warwick, s. of Randall the first, m. Catharine, d. of John Green of the
same (wh. bec. dept.-gov. of the Col.), had Catharine; Charles, b. 24 May 1695;
Frances; Anthony; Ann; William; and John; but the order of b. is still uncert.
JOHN, Woburn, s. of Richard, had w. Abigail, wh.
d. 22 May 1685; and he m. 19 June 1690, Sarah Pierce, had Sarah, b. 25 Feb.
1691; Abigail, 26 Mar. 1693; Martha, 28 May 1695; John, 6 Feb. 1698; Thomas, 3
June 1700; Jonathan, 19 Jan. 1703; Martha 1 Feb. 1706; and Eliz. 17 May 1708;
was freem. 1684. JOHN, Watertown, s. of Justinian the first, m. 7 Nov. 1699,
Grace, d. of Samuel Jennison, had John, b. 5 June 1700; Daniel, 3 Apr. 1702;
Peter, 1 Feb. 1705; Grace, 3 July 1707; Eliz. 29 July 1709; Josiah, 29 Jan.
1712; Judith, 3 July 1715; and perhaps rem. to Concord, there had Jonas, b.
1721; and kept an inn. JOSEPH, Watertown, br. of the preced. by w. Abigail had
Joseph, b. 31 Jan. 1716; Stephen, 21 Oct. 1717; Abigail, 19 Oct. 1719; Abner, 2
Nov. 1722;Jonathan, 6 June 1725; and Eliz. bapt. 26 Apr. 1730. JUSTINIAN,
Watertown, came in the Francis, 1634, from Ipswich, Eng. aged 23, prob. younger
br. of Richard, own. est. also in Cambridge, near the Fresh pond, freem. 1657,
and was of C. when his w. Eliz. d. 18 Mar. 1673. By her, prob. he had no ch. but
within a short time of her d. he m. Mary, d. of John Rutter of Sudbury, had
Samuel, b. 28 Apr. 1674; [p.445] John, 18 July 1675; Isaac, 28 May 1677; Mary,
21 Mar. 1679; Grace, 13 Aug. 1681; Joseph, 10 Sept. 1683; and Eliz. 6 May 1686.
He calls hims. a. 66 yrs. old in a depon. of 1679, and d. betw. 12 Aug. and 10
Oct. 1691, those being dates of mak. and pro. of his will. Est. was good. His
wid. was liv. 12 Nov. 1714. JUSTINIAN, Groton, s. of Richard, by w. Mary had
Mary, b. 20 May 1680; rem. to Woburn, there had
Ebenezer, b. 11 May 1690; his w. d. 15 May 1691, and at Billerica, by w. Susanna
bad Susanna, 16 Oct. 1694; rem. to Cambridge, or at least conveyed ld. in that
town after d. of his f. in 1696. ‡RANDALL, Warwick, R. I. came from Salisbury,
Co. Wilts, but the time is not kn. was of Portsmouth bef. 1638, in that yr. was
witness with Roger Williams to the deed of the isl. by the Ind. sachems, yet, in
1642, was driv. from the isl. and soon after sat down at W. bef. 1643, when the
controv. began with Mass. claim of jurisdict. against him and his friends; the
force of the heretics was not adequate to maintain the right to their soil, and
they were brot. prisoners to Boston. He was saved from sentence of death, wh.
some of the min. and some of the magistr. desir. but shut up in jail till next
yr. at Salem, went home and from the Parliam. I am happy to add, obt. vindieat.
of his right in 1645, and again came in 1646; m. Frances, d. of Jeremiah Clark
of Newport, had Frances, b. 29 Sept. 1649; Eliz. Aug. 1652; Mary, Aug. 1654;
John, Jan. 1656, drown. bef. mid. age; Sarah, Feb. 1658; Randall, Apr. 1660;
Margaret, Jan. 1663; Charles, 22 Mar. 1665; Barbara, 2 July 1668; Susan, 8 Dec.
1670; and Anthony, 15 Oct. 1673; was an Assist. in R. I. and liv. in 1676. Of
the ds. Frances m. 1 Dec. 1671, John Holmes; Eliz. m. 16 July 1674, John Rice;
Mary m. 1 Dec. 1671, John Carder; Sarah m. Joseph Stafford; Margaret m. John
Eldred; Barbara m. Samuel Wiekham; and Susan m. Benjamin Greene. Huteh. I. 122.
Winth. II. 147. 280. 1 Mass. Hist. Coll. VII. 93, and sev. later vols. RANDALL,
Warwick, see, s. of the preced. m. Bethia Waterman, prob. d. of Nathaniel, had
John, Randall, Waite, Mary, Frances, and Susanna. RICHARD, Watertown, prob. a
Suffk. man, came in the Francis, 1634, aged 25, with Justinian, prob. his br. m.
Martha, d. of Stephen Fosdiek, had Stephen, b. 19 July 1642; Justinian, 1644;
Martha, 15 Jan. 1646; Samuel; Mary; Sarah; Eliz.; Thomas; and John, 1657; all
liv. 1679, but of the six last we kn. neither the exact dates nor order of b.
exc. in John's ease by approxim. as he in 1679 is call. 22 yrs. old. He rem. to Woburn,
there had John, b. 17 Mar. 1650, wh. prob. d. young; to Cambridge; to Groton, of
wh. he was one of the first proprs.; back to Watertown, and last to Groton,
again; his w. Martha d. 5 Dec. 1681; and he d. at his s. Stephen's in G. 1 Mar.
1696. Martha m. Thomas Beyden, whose f. had come over in the sh. with her f.;
Mary m. Thomas [p.446] Williams; and Sarah m. 20 Dec. 1677, Gershom Swan.
Perhaps Eliz. m. 21 Mar. 1682, John Read. SAMUEL, Groton, s. of Richard, by w.
Ann had Ann, b. 1 Mar. 1682; and perhaps others. SAMUEL, Cambridge, s. of
Justinian the first, by w. Susanna, d. of Philip Shattuck, had Lydia, and
Susanna, both bapt. at Watertown, 8 Oct. 1690; Samuel, b. 29 Sept. bapt. 5 Oct.
1701; Merey, b. 26 Mar. 1704; Ann; Mary; Abigail, 30 May 1710; William, 4 Mar.
1712; and Phineas, 12 May 1715.
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Houghton, *John, Lancaster, came in the Abigail
from London 1635, with certif. of two Justices, and the min. of Eaton Bray, near
Dunstable, Co. Bedford, at the age of 4 yrs. says the custom ho. rec. yet it is
doubtful what those dignitaries could certify; was not of Watertown, as Farmer
had said, for Dr. Bond finds not the name, so that we may assign him to Concord
or to either of the three or four towns then inhab. between the seashore and the
central wilderness; rem. to Lancaster, a. 1652, had w. Beatrice and ch.
Beatrice, b. 3 Dec. 1665; Benjamin, 25 May 1668; Sarah, 30 July 1672; and was
rep. 1690, and sev. yrs. after new Chart. JOHN, Woburn,
had Henry, b. 23 Feb. 1676; Joseph, and Benjamin, tw. 26 Feb. 1678; Mary, 7 Feb.
1680; Mercy, 15 Mar. 1682; may have been s. of the preced. and prob. rem *RALPH,
Landeaster, cous. of the first John, and older, without doubt, by w. Jane had
Mary, b. 4 Jan. 1654; John, 28 Apr. 1655; Joseph, 6 July 1657; Experience, 1
Oct. 1659; Sarah, 17 Feb. 1662; and Abigail,15 July 1664; freem. 1668; was town
clk. rep. 1673, and 89. Experience m. 22 May 1684, Ezra Clap of Dorchester, as
see. w. RALPH, Dorchester, perhaps s. of the first John, was lost at Port Royal,
when the town was sunk by the great earthq. of Jamaica, 7 June 1692, then aged
28 yrs. leav. wid. Mary. ROBERT, Woburn, had
Isabel, b. 6 Aug. 1682; but I kn. no more. Perhaps he was s. of John, and may
have rem. WILLIAM, a butcher, came from London in the Increase 1635, aged 22,
went in few yrs. to Conn.
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Iggleden, Igleden, or Eggleden,
Richard, Boston, s. of Stephen, m. 19 July 1660, Ann Prince. His f. d. on the
pass. to this ld. in the Castle, 1638, as by the will of Peter Branch, a
passeng. in said sh. giv. her £5, appears; and his wid. Eliz. ws a propr. at
Roxbury, 1639, m. 18 Apr. 1642, Joseph Patcham, and bore him two s. Eliz. her d.
had m. Apr. 1641, Philip Meadows of R.; ano. d. “a. ten yrs. old,” d. there
20 Oct. 1646; and Sarah Eggleton, wh. m. 28 Aug. 1650, John Nutting of Woburn,
or Rut Eggleden, wh. m. 13 Dec. 1655, Samuel Blodget of Woburn,
as seems to me, can ea. only be suppos. ano. Prob. the fam. came from Co. Kent.
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Jaquith, Abraham, Charlestown, m. Ann, d. of James
Jordan of Dedham, whither he soon rem. I think, had Abraham, b. 19 Dec. 1644;
Mary, 3 Nov. 1646; and three other ch. wh. were all rememb. in the will of gr. f.
Jordan. He was freem. 1656, writ. Jakewish, when the spell. was by sound.
ABRAHAM, Woburn, s. of the preced. m. 13 Mar.
1671, Mary Adford, or Adverd, d. of Henry, had Abraham, b. 17 Feb. 1673; Eliz.
19 May 1675; Sarah, 21 Sept. 1677; and perhaps he rem. ELEAZER, Woburn,
perhaps br. of the prced. was freem. 1671. Sometimes the name is as the preced.
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Jefts, or Jeffs,
Henry, Woburn 1640, m. 13 Sept. 1647, Ann
Stowers, and next, 21 May 1649, Hannah Borth, or Births, perhaps Booth, had
John, b. 11 May 1651; Hannah, wh. d. first wk. of May 1653; Hannah, again, 14
Feb. 1655; Joanna, 24 May 1656; Henry, [p.541] 21 Mar. 1659; and possib. others
bef. or aft. but these all, since the first, at Billerica, of wh. he was one of
the first sett. and there d. 24 May 1700, aged 94. Strangely is the name print.
Sciffs in 2 Mass. Hist. Coll. II. 162. HENRY, Billerica, call. jr. prob. s. of
the preced. freem. 1690. JOHN, Boston 1656, mariner, had Mary, b. 8 Jan. 1656,
by w. Sarah, wh. took admin. upon his est. 26 Aug. 1670, bec. “nigh twelve
yrs. since depart. and no news of him.” Subseq. John, prob. his s. had admin.
de bon. non. WILLIAM, R. I. 1652.
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Jepson, or Jephson,
Christopher, Dorchester 1646. JOHN, Boston 1647, m. 7 May 1656, Emma, wid. of
John Coddington, had John, b. 1 Mar. 1657, d. in few wks. JOHN, Boston, s. of
the preced. by w. Ruth, d. of Richard Gardner of Woburn,
had John, b. 4 Aug. 1687, [p.547] d. young; Ruth, 7 June 1689, d. soon; Ruth,
again, 28 June 1690; John, again, 15 Aug. 1692; and Ann, 9 Apr. 1694. His w. d.
27 Oct. 1695; and he m. 1 Apr. 1696, Apphia, d. of Benjamin Rolfe of Newbury.
ROGER, Saybrook, rem. to Middleton, d. 1680, leav. Samuel, aged 8; Jonathan, 6;
one d. Martha, 5; and Roger, 18 mos. His wid. Martha m. Thomas Allyn of M.
SAMUEL, Middletown, s. of the preced. was a deac. d. 1748. THOMAS, Boston, by w.
Hannah had Richard, b. 16 Apr. 1692; Hannah, 29 Dec. 1693; and Emma, 9 Feb.
1696.
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Johnson, Andrew, is the name of
a soldier borne on the list of Moseley's comp. ten days bef. the decisive battle
of Philip's war Dec. 1675. CALEB, is the name of a serv. of John Osgood of
Andover, ment. in his will of Apr. 1650, wh. was drown. in Merrimack riv. 24
July 1656, as Coffin, in Geneal. Reg. VI. 345, tells. CALEB, Sudbury, s. of
Solomon, had Caleb, Solomon, Charles, and perhaps other ch. Yet no date is ment.
for either ch. or his mo. or d. CHARLES, New London, bef. 1690. DANIEL, Lynn,
pro. s. of Richard of the same, m. 2 Mar. 1674, Martha Parker, had Abigail, b.
21 Apr. 1675; Stephen, and Nathaniel, tw. 14 Feb. 1678; Sarah, 5 July 1680;
Eliz. 7 Mar. 1682; and Simon, 25 Jan. 1684. DAVY, Dorchester, came, prob. in the
Mary and John, 1630, req. adm. says Farmer, 19 Oct. of that yr. tho. I think he
was wrong, and 18 May foll. was made freem. but no further [p.550] memo. of him
is found, but in 1636 ment. is made of the wid. of David. EBENEZER, Woburn,
s. of Hon. William, freem. 1684, m. 13 Apr.1691, Sarah Winn, had Ebenezer, b. 11
Apr. 1692, d. in 3 days; Sarah, 28 Sept. 1693; Abigail, 13 June 1697, from wh.
by interm. with Oliver Farmer, descends the most disting. antiquary of N. E.;
Joseph, 9 Feb. 1702; Timothy, 15 July 1705. *EBENEZER, Stratford, perhaps s. of
Peter of Fairtield, m. 23 Nov. 1671, Eliz. d. of Edward Worster, Worcester, or
Wooster, had Eliz. b. 1672, rem. to Derby 1676, there had Eunice, 22 Aug. 1678;
Hannah, 6 Dec. 1680; Peter, 1684; and Ebenezer, Feb. 1687; and perhaps more. He
was freem. 1678, and long one of the chief of the town, its rep. 1685, and after
lieut. maj. and col. contin. propr. 1717. EDMUND, Hampton, came in the James
from London, 1635, aged 23, d. 10 Mar. 1654, leav. ch. Peter, wh. was bapt.
1639, and drown. 16 Nov. 1674; John, 16 May 1641; James; and Dorcas; beside wid.
Mary, wh. m. 11 July 1651, Thomas Coleman, and d. 30 Jan. 1663. *EDWARD, Woburn,
the famous capt. and auth. of the curious IIist. call. “Wonder Working
Providences of Sion's Saviour in N. E.” cam, no doubt, in the fleet with
Winth. 1630, req. adm. 19 Oct. in that yr. and took the o. 18 May foll. He was
of Hernehill, a parish near Canterbury, wh. accounts in some degr. for the
strenuous opposit. akin to the ludier. that he always show. to the ch. of Eng.
After liv. some time at Charlestown, or Salem, or other planta. to satisfy hims.
he went home to bring his w. Susan, seven ch. and three serv. in 1636 or 7, and
was sett. at C. 1637, bec. one of the found. of the ch. at W. rep. 1643-71, exe.
the yr. 1648, and was speaker 1655, was town clk. almost 30 yrs. and did other
val. serv. d. 23 Apr. 1672. See 3 Mass. Hist. Coll. VIII. 276. With his gr.
devot. to the cause of relig. for wh. he aband. nat. ld. and good est. it is
strange we kn. not to wh. of the chhs. here he join. bef. the gather. of his own
at W. and ordin. of his min. in Nov. 1642, about all of wh. be is so very
partic. in his Hist. that none can doubt his sincerity of puritan. His will, of
15 May 1671, writ. with his own hand. names w. Susan, to wh. he gives rents of
his lds. in Old Eng. and mansion and lds. here in W.; his eldest s. Edward, and
his s. the gr. s. Edward, to wh. one quarter of the farm in the parish of
Hernehill; s. George, and his s. the gr.s. George, to have dwel. ho. and orchard
at Waterham, in the same parish; to s. William, and Matthew, and Matthew's
eldest s. and William, and Edward, s. of William, pt. of the farm at Hernehill,
to s. John, and his s. the gr.s. John, a small tenem. in the same parish; also
disting. these gr.ch. William, s. of John; Catharine, d. of Edward; Catharine,
d. of George; Esther, d. of William; Rebecca, d. of Matthew; Bethia, d. of John;
James, Susanna, and Hannah, ch. of s.-in-law James Prentice, whose w. was his d.
Susanna; and [p.551] John, s. of John Amee, or Eames, and his eldest d. whose
name, I think, was Martha. I suppose George and John went to fatherland. EDWARD,
York, adm. freem. of Mass. 1652, with prefix of resp. and in later days, I
think, liv. at Wells, was in high esteem by all parties n their time of confus.
from 1656 to 80, and after that sw. alleg. to Charles II.; in a depon. 1678,
tak. by William Symonds he calls hims. 82 yrs. Perhaps he was f. of that Edward,
tho. he may be the same, unfavor. ment. in Winth. II. 210. EDWARD, Woburn,
eldest s. of capt. Edward, b. in Eng. in the latter days of King James, freem. 2
May 1638, yet I see not, of what ch. he was memb. m. 10 Jan. 1650, Catharine
Baker, had Edward, b. 5 Nov. 1650; and Catharine; perhaps he rem. to
Charlestown, and had John, bapt. 10 Apr. 1664; and prob. no more, and d. 15
Sept. 1692, “upwards of 70.” EDWARD, Charlestown, prob. s. of the preced. by
w. Miriam had William, Ebenezer, and Susanna, all bapt. 18 Nov. 1688; and
perhaps Abigail, 19 Feb. 1693. EDWARD, Branford, m. Esther, d. of Thomas
Wheaden, had Eliz. b. 1690; Amos, 1693; Experience, 1695; Edward, 1697; Esther,
1700; and Ebenezer, 1703. EDWARD, Woburn, s. of
William, freem. 1684, m. 12 Jan. 1687, Sarah, d. of Samuel Walker, had Edward,
b. 12 Oct. 1687, d. at three mos.; Edward, again, 4 May 1689; and by see. w.
Esther, d. of Richard Gardner, had Esther, 26 Jan. 1694; Samuel, 21 Feb. 1696;
and Susanna, 14 Jan. 1701; Ichabod, 22 Apr. 1703; and perhaps Eliz. 6 Nov. 1705;
and Joseph, 22 June 1708. FRANCIS, Salem 1630, freem. 18 May 1631, perhaps br.
of capt. Edward, and may have come with him, was neph. of Christopher Cou