What Savage Had To Say...
About the Early Settlers of Woburn
This database was painstakingly created and edited for your genealogical use. Savage abbreviated quite a bit, but most of it is understandable. Also, some of his research is out of date with new discoveries since he wrote these volumes, but most of it is still in date and can tell you more about the families of Woburn.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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Volume 4
page 266
Tead, Teed, or Ted,
John, Charlestown 1637, emb. 12 May of that yr. at Yarmouth, aged 19, as serv.
of Samuel Greenfield of Norwich, but perhaps was not desir. by his master to
accomp. him, aft. reach. this side of the ocean, if, as seems prob. he be the
person call. Todd, in Frothingham, p. 88, may have rem. aft. 1640 to Woburn,
there was one of the true-spirited petnrs. to the Gen. Ct. 30 Aug. 1653 in fav.
of liberty of proph. had w. Margaret, wh. d. 1651, and he d. 24 Apr. 1657. By
his will made 5 days bef. we find he had sec. w. Alice, and ds. Mary, and Eliz.
beside gr. ch. Benjamin, Hannah, and ano. d. of one Savil; and John and Samuel
Savil, of ano. Thomas Fuller, and John Kendall, also a s. of his own name. See
Tidd. Yet one of this name was propound. for freem. in 1664, tho. no more heard
of. See 4 Mass. Hist. Coll. I. 101, and Geneal. Reg. XIV. 328. JOSHUA,
Charlestown 1637, perhaps br. of the preced. was adm. of the ch. 10 Mar. 1639,
and freem. 22 May foll. and his w. Sarah join. the ch. 9 Sept. aft. By the town
rec. they had John, b. 15 June 1641; and Joseph, 15 Dec. 1643. In the ch. bapt.
wh. suffer. a sad blank for many yrs. aft. 20 Sept. 1642, the name of no [p.266]
ch. but the first would be look. for, and that is not seen, so that it may be
the ch. d. soon. He was, in 1648, agent for Richard Young, wh. had in London,
contrib. to our com. stock, and obt. for him his share of 100 acres of ld.
selectman 1660 and 8, lieut. in 1678, on 15 Sept. of wh. yr. he d. aged 71. Oft.
it was writ. Tydd, and in mod. days is altogether Tidd.
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Thompson, Tomson, Thomson,
or Tompson, Ambrose, Woodbury, s. of the first John
of Stratford, by w. Sarah, had John, Ambrose, and other ch. bef. 1701, but had a
sec. w. bef. 1706. Grievous was the error of Goodwin, 254, in mak. his w. Sarah
to be id. of Benjamin Beach. ANTHONY, New Haven, 1639, br. of the sec. John and
first William of the same, prob. came with Gov. Eaton, with w. and two ch. John,
and Anthony, had Bridget b. here, and by sec. w. Catharine had three more ch.
Hannah, bapt. 8 June 165; Lydia, 25 (not 24, as the careless ch. rec. has it)
July 1647; and prob. posthum.; Ebenezer, 15 Oct. 1648; and he had some mos. bef.
made his will 1648. His d. Bridget m. John Bowers wh. bec. first min. at Derby;
Hannah m. a Staunton; Lydia m. 20 Sept. 1665, Isaac Crittenden; and the wid. m.
14 July 1652, Nicholas Camp of Milford. ANTHONY, Milford, s. of the preced. had
now. or ch. and d. bef. mid. age, in his will of 26 Dec. 1654, giv. his prop. to
br. John, own sis. Bridget, and three half sis. ch. of Goodwife Camp, wh. had
been sec. w. of his f. ARCHIBALD, Marblehead 1637, was drown. Nov. 1641, as
Winthrop tells, II. 43. BENJAMIN, Braintree, s. of Rev. William, of some
distinct. as a physician, schoolmr. town clk. 1696, and even poet, monoculus
inter coecos; yet more claim our regard as leav. at his d. 13 Apr. 1714, eight
ch. and 28 gr.ch. His w. was Susanna, d. prob. of Philip Kirtland the first of
Lynn; their ch. were Abigail, b. at Boston, 25 Nov. 1670; Susanna, 10 June 1673;
Ann, 2 Dec. 1677; both at Charlestown; Elinor, 29 Nov. 1679, at Braintree, as
were the others; Benjamin, 8 Nov. 1682; Eliz. 14 Jan. 1685; Philip, 26 July
1687; Sarah, 23 Sept. 1689; and Mary, 29 Oct. 1692; and the sch. master adds to
the rec. quos omnes Deus omnipotens, sui filii unigeniti ac servatoris nostri
meritis vita eterna dignetur. His w. d. he says, 27 July 1693. I judge he was
keep. the sch. at Roxbury, where his d. Mary d. 28 Mar. 1700. Having been gr. at
Harv. bef. Cotton Mather was b. he gain. the advant. as master of he Boston
gram. sch. of helping forward that precoc. youth, wh. in burdensome gratitude,
enlivens the Magn. III. 160, with the strains that his cousin Whiting's d. drew
from T. DANIEL, Newbury, said to be 40 yrs. old in 1678, if the list in Gen.
Reg. VII. 350 be not wrong, as by the silence of Coffin may be feared. DAVID,
Piscataqua, sent out by Gorges in 1623, rem. a. 1626, to that isl. [p.284] in
Boston harbor, ever since call. by his name, of wh. it is said his agent,
William Trevore, had tak. possn. 1619, as is suppos. to be prov. by evidence of
an Ind. sagam. of Trevore hims. and of capt. Standish; but the value of such
testimony is small. See the note of Deane, on Bradford's Hist. 209. It belongs
to the town of Dorchester, but gr. by our governm. to T. and there he d. a.
1628, leav. inf. ch. John. EBENEZER, Guilford, s. of the first Anthony of New
Haven, m. June 1671, Deborah, d. of William Dudley of G. had s. Jabesh, b. 16
Oct. 1672, d. young; and John, 1674, wh. d. early; was propound. for freem. in
1669; but prob. d. bef. mid. age, his will of 16 Aug. 1676, recit. that he was
“a. 28 yrs. old.” It gave his prop. 1/3 to w. 2/3 to s. John; and his inv.
was brot. in 6 Nov. foll. He is call. a Scotchman, but this must have regard to
his f. and as the number of the name of John was unusually great, among the Thompson's,
most of wh. would be Eng. yet one prob. was from the Northern kingdom. EDMUND,
Salem 1637, from the neighb. of Framlingham in Co. Suffolk, where he had m.
Martha, d. of John Fiske, had Martha; Edmund; Thomas, bapt. 12 Feb. 1643; and
Hannah, bapt. 4 July 1647; all b. in N. E. adm. of the ch. at S. 29 Dec. 1639;
went home and liv. at Yarmouth, there had three more ch. wh. d. inf. John,
Esther, and John, again; was a sea capt. and in the fine tract of Suffolk
emigrants, by Mr. Hunter, 3 Mass. Hist. Coll. X. 159, he quotes Candler's MS. as
saying, that aft. the d. of Charles I. he serv. the States of Holland. He was s.
of John of Holkham, Co. Norfk. EDWARD came in the Mayflower 1620, d. 4 Dec. bef.
th sh. reach. Plymouth from Cape Cod. He was a serv. of William White. EDWARD,
Newbury, s. of deac. Samuel of Braintree, says Farmer in MS. taught the sch.
sev. yrs. bef. and aft. leav. coll. began to preach at Simsbury, June 1687, by
w. Sarah had Samuel, b. 1 Sept. 1691, H. C. 1710 (the min. of Gloucester wh. d.
8 Dec. 1724); and Edward, 14 May 1695; was ord. at Marshfield, 14 Oct. 1696, and
had William, 26 Apr. 1697, H. C. 1718 (min. at Scarborough, f. of Rev. John of
Berwick, H. C. 1765, wh. d. 21 Dec. 1828, aged 88); John, 1699; and Joseph,
1704; beside ds. Sarah; Ann; and Abigail. He d. sudden. 16 Mar. 1705; acc. the
ch. rec. in Gen. Reg. VIII. 229, tho. the inscript. on his gr.st. Gen. Reg. IV.
316, reads 10 Mar. and the dilig. Edit. had (Geneal. Reg. VII. 278) correct.
Farmer on that author. as if the gr.st. had suffer. less by exposure to the
weather, than the rec. of the ch. in a century and a half. GEORGE, Lynn, by w.
Sarah, had Sarah, b. 25 Oct. 1659; rem. to Reading, there had John, b. 24 Mar.
1661; and d. 7 Sept. 1674. In his will of 4 Dec. 1669, of wh. he made w. Sarah
extrix. he names ch. John, Mary, George, and Sarah; and by the codic. of 1 July
1674, s. Jonathan, all minors. HENRY, Cambridge, but of Boston perhaps short
[p.285] time aft. freem. 1670, m. 27 Apr. 1669, Eliz. d. of John Stedman, wid.
of Nathaniel Upham, after being his w. only 15 days, had Eliz. b. 29 Jan. 1670;
and Henry, 1673, wh. d. Sept. 1690. He was call. 1669, merch. JAMES,
Charlestown, with w. Eliz. adm. of the ch. in the autumn of 1633, freem. 14 May
1634, was, says Frothingham, 82, one of the first selectmen of Woburn.
His w. by wh. he had Jonathan, perhaps b. on this side of the ocean, as sure.
was Simon, on the other side, d. 8 Nov. 1643; and he m. 15 Feb. foll. Susanna,
wid. of Thomas Blodget of Cambridge, had James, b. 24 Jan. 1646, or 7, d. soon;
James, again, a. 1649; and perhaps others. His w. d. 10 Feb. 1661; and he d.
1682. JAMES, Woburn, s. of the preced. freem.
1674, m. 27 Jan. 1675, Hannah Walker, had Hannah, b. 31 Dec. foll.; Joshua, 15
Sept. 1677; James, May 1680; Ebenezer, 26 July 1683; and his w. d. 4 Feb. 1686;
and by sec. w. Abigail he had Richard, 21 Mar. 1688; Abigail, 30 Dec. 1689;
Simon, 19 Oct. 1691; was a lieut. and d. 4 Sept. 1693. JOHN, Watertown 1634, or
earlier, freem. 6 May 1635, by w. Margaret had John, bur. at 4 mos. 10 Apr.
1636; and Samuel, wh. d. young, bur. 28 Mar. 1642; but the f. had d. bef. aged
38 yrs. and was bur. 28 Feb. 1639. JOHN, New Haven, first of many of the name
there, call. sen. brot. sev. ch. prob. with w. from Eng. here, perhaps, by ano.
w. had Rebecca, and Abigail, tw. 26 Jan. 1652; and Sarah, 30 Apr. 1654, was one
of the contract sett. in 1639, and d. a. 1656. His wid. m. that yr. Thomas
Harrison; but the est. was not sett. for sev. yrs. aft. her d. Of seven ch.
entit. to shares, John, Joseph, Hannah, Mary, Rebecca, Abigail, and Sarah, the
first, as eldest, hav. double sh. only the three last are ment. in the rec. of
b. JOHN, Fairfield, d. 1657, leav. wid. Eliz. with ch. Eliz. aged 13; Mary, 8;
John, 6; and Esther 3. His wid. 25 Dec. of that yr. it is said, made contr. of
m. with Daniel Finch. JOHN, Concord, may be he wh. came from London, in the
Elizabeth and Ann 1635, aged 22, had John, b. 1642. JOHN, Stratford, had very
good est. and good num. to div. among, as by his will of 17 July 1678, pro. next
mo. we find w. Mirable ment. beside s. John, b. Sept. 1641; and Ambrose, 1 Jan.
1652; ds. Sarah, 1642, wh. m. 10 Dec. 1662, John Hurd; Abigail, 1 May 1646, wh.
m. 1670, Jonathan Curtis; Esther, Jan. 1650, wh. m. 22 Mar. 1677, Samuel Galpin,
and d. next yr. soon aft. f.; and Mary, the youngest, 20 July 1655, wh. m.
Matthew Mitchell, and d. 18 Jan. 1711. JOHN, New Haven, br. of Anthony, m. 25
Feb. 1651, Ellen Harrison, had Mary, b. 24 Apr. 1652; Ann, 22 Sept. 1654; both
bapt. (by rec. of ch.) 17 Sept. 1654; Eliz. b. 3 June 1657; Lydia, 13 Mar. 1664,
d. young; prob. Sarah, 1667, d. at two yrs. and he d. 14 Dec. 1674. How
inconsist. the b. of Ann found from town rec. is with the rc. of bapt. will be
observ. by some, wh. may desire to kn. wh. date to reject, [p.286] and from Mr.
White, wh. furnish to Geneal. Reg. IX. that very valu. list of baptisms, I am
instruct. that the town rec. is usual. the true one, and the ch. rec. frequent.
false, or wonderful. careless rather. Prob. this was kept by Rev. John
Davenport, less precise in facts than in doctrine. But the writer of that rec.
little consider. to what vexations he would subject those who came in a future
age to consult his ambiguous oracle. Often by omiss. as well as commiss. the
teacher is blameworthy; and the scrupulous Mr. White was misled to ascribe, p.
362, three ch. to this John Thompson, by w. Ellen, scil. Hannah, Lydia, and
Ebenezer, bapt. 1645, 7 and 8, respectiv. not one of wh. was hers, as her m. was
some yrs. later than their bapt. These three belong to his br. Anthony, whose w.
perhaps was the sis. Thompson ment. in the book by Mr. White mistaken for Ellen.
She long liv. a wid. dispos. of three ds. in m. scil. Mary, Nov. 1674, to Samuel
Lines; Ann or Hannah, 25 Dec. 1673, to Abraham Bradley; and Eliz. 29 Oct. 1677,
to Benjamin Bradlee; and made her will Oct. 1689, giv. her prop. to them. *JOHN,
Plymouth 1643, had John, b. 24 Nov. 1649, d. soon; was prob. rep. for
Middleborough, 1674 and eight yrs. foll. JOHN, Dorchester, s. of that David the
first sett. kn. in Boston harbor, had confirmat. of his right to the isl. giv.
by our Gen. Ct. 1648; in Apr. 1650, pledg. to two Bristol merch. the isl. for a
large sum, payable in codfish at Marblehead or Isle of Shoals; but the creditors
had it in 1658, by appraise. of Robert Sedgwick and Richard Sprague, for less
than amo. of the excon. He or ano. John was of Weymouth, the freem. of 1653.
JOHN, Fairfield, eldest s. of John of Stratford, was a man of so great
consequence, as in 1663, to have the Gen. Ct. of Conn. interpose to attempt
adjustm. of his diffic. with the ch. there, is in the freemen's list of 1669.
JOHN, Barnstable, had Esther, b. 28 July 1652; Eliz. 28 Jan. 1654; Sarah, 4 Apr.
1657; Lydia, 5 Oct. 1659; Jacob, 24 Apr. 1662; and Thomas, 19 Oct. 1664. JOHN,
New Haven, 1659, call. for distinct. the farmer, m. at Branford, perhaps 29 Mar.
or 22 May 1666, Priscilla, d. of Thomas Powell, had John, b. 6 Aug. 1667;
Priscilla, 7 Aug. 1671; Samuel, 29 Jan. 1674, d. soon; Samuel, again, 1 May
1677; Abigail, 24 Feb. 1680; and Ann, 20 Mar. 1683, wh. prob. d. young; and he
d. 13 Feb. 1694. This John is prob. s. of the first John of the same, liv. at
East Haven, and made his will the same day he d. nam. four ch. only, the two s.
and two ds. Priscilla Chidsy, or Chedsey, w. of Ebenezer, and Abigail, then unm.
JOHN, Wethersfield, bef. 1640, rem. in few yrs. JOHN, Farmington, eldest s. of
Thomas of the same, propound. for freem. 1670, m. 24 Oct. of that yr. Mary
Steele, d. of the sec. John of the same, had John, b. 29 Dec. 1671; Thomas, 30
June 1674, but ano. acco. says, 13 Jan. 1675; Samuel, 29 Dec. 1676; Joseph, 25
Mar. 1679, d. in few wks.; James, 30 May, 1680; Mary, bapt. 1 [p.287] Oct. 1682,
wh. liv. over 100 yrs.; Ebenezer, 23 Nov. or by ano. rept. 21 Dec. 1684; and
Nathaniel, 16 Jan. 1687. JOHN, Portsmouth, adm. freem. of Mass. 1672. JOHN, New
Haven, the mariner, so call. for distinct. propound. for freem. 1671, and was
propr. 1685. Mr. Judd thinks he was not relat. of the other Johns, but had a
child, perhaps Mary, in Sept. 1667; Samuel, b. 12 May 1669; and Sarah, 16 Jan.
1672. JOHN, Stratford, s. of John of the same, call. jun. was propound. for
freem. 1671, d. 1681, had no w. or ch. and by his will helps us to certainty in
the field where doubt was most diffus. the affin. of memb. of so common a name.
Thus to his mo. to John, s. of br. Ambrose, to childr. of John Hurd, wh. m. his
sis. Sarah, to childr. of Jonathan Curtis and sis. Abigail, to a cousin, ch. of
Matthew Mitchell, wh. was, we kn. the first of sev. we find gifts, and the
silence as to Esther, would almost serve to show, without the rec. that she was
d. JOHN, Reading, by Eaton marked as one of the early sett. JOHN, Rehoboth, m.
19 Sept. 1682, Sarah Smith, but to tell whose d. she was, or whose s. he was, I
utterly despair. JOHN, New Haven, mariner, was a propr. 1685, as was also ano.
JOHN, of the same call. jun. wh. may have been s. of one of the preced. or of
William. JOHN, Salisbury 1690, that yr. m. a Brewer. JONATHAN, Woburn,
s. of James of the same, m. 28 Nov. 1655, Susanna, d. of Thomas Blodget, had
Susanna, b. 4 July 1661; Jonathan, 28 Sept. 1663; James, 1666, d. soon; James,
again, 27 June 1667; Sarah, 1 June 1670; Simon, 15 June 1673; and Ebenezer, 18
Aug. 1676; and d. 20 Oct. 1691. Jonathan his s. was gr.-gr. f. of Sir Benjamin,
knight. by Geo. III. the disting. philosoph. better kn. as Count Rumford, with
wh. title he was hon. by the k. of Bavaria, wh. was b. at W. 26 Mar. 1753.
Farmer had once suppos. that the Count was descend. of Rev. William, to wh.
mistake he was led by the first Presdt. Adams; and the correct. is due to the
investigat. of Francis Jackson of Boston. JOSEPH, Wallingford, perhaps s. of the
first John of New Haven, had m. prob. as sec. w. the wid. of Isaac Royce of the
same, and was d. in 1712, when his heirs are ment. *JOSEPH, Billerica, s. of
Rev. William, m. 24 July 1662, Mary, d. of Richard Bracket of Braintree, at B.
was sch. master, town clk. ens. 1678, and lieut. 1683, selectman, capt. deac.
many yrs. and rep. 1692 under the new chart. also 99, 1700, and 1, and d. 13
Oct. 1732. His wid. Mary, a sec. w. d. 9 Oct. 1743, aged 91, Farmer says.
MAURICE, Gloucester, a London merch. engag. in trade to Canada, as early as
1631, was much desir. by our governm. to sett. with us, hav. in 1639, begun a
fishing trade at Cape Ann, but was only a trans. visit. if he ever came, wh. is
improb. Winth. I. 307. MILES, Kittery 1659. ROBERT, Boston, a man of distinct.
in London, where he m. I conject. a sis. of Gov. Hopkins of Conn. by wh. col. he
was much confid. in, was a [p.288] trans. resid. here 1639, bought the old ch.
edifice and ground on wh. it stood in State Str. for £160 in 1639. See note in
Winth. I. 318. Yet he was satisf. I fear, with the outward benefit, for he did
not join the worship. assemb. But he was a powerful friend of Mass. and for
serv. our Ct. made gr. to him of 500 acres. In Hutch. Coll. some letters from
him show good disposition and judgment. SAMUEL, Braintree, s. of Rev. William,
b. in Eng. m. 25 Apr. 1656, Sarah, d. of Edward Shepard, had Sarah, b. 27 Apr.
1657, d. soon; Deborah, 25 Mar. 1660; Samuel, 6 Nov. 1662; Edward, 20 Apr. 1665,
H. C. 1684; Abigail, 10 Nov. 1667; Sarah, again, 28 Apr. 1670, d. young; Hannah,
5 Aug. 1672; William, bapt. 11 Apr. 1675, d. soon; William, again, 3 June 1676;
and Sarah, b. 1 Jan. 1679; deac. 1679 tho. not found in the list of freem. was
rep. 1676-86 exc. 81 and 2, and again 1691. His w. d. 15 Jan. 1680, aged 43, and
in 1680 he had sec. w. Eliz. Billings, perhaps d. of Roger of Dorchester, wh. d.
5 Nov. 1706, aged 69; and he d. 18 June 1695. SAMUEL, New Haven, m. 14 Nov.
1695, Rebecca, youngest d. of Hon. James Bishop. SIMON, Ipswich 1636, b. a.
1610, had Mercy, wh. m. 26 Jan. 1653, Isaiah Wood; and Sarah, wh. m. 16 May
1655, Abraham Fitts; and he took sec. w. 21 Aug. 1656, Rachel Glover, was freem.
2 June 1641, and d. 1676. His will, 25 Mar. of that yr. provid. for wid. names
no s. and seven of W's. ch. made Wood and Fitts, excors. SIMON, Woburn,
eldest s. of James the first, m. 19 Dec. 1643, Mary, d. of Edward Converse, had
John, b. 4 Apr. 1645, d. week foll.; Sarah, 20 Feb. 1647; James, 29 Mar. 1649; a
d. 25 Jan. 1652, whose name, not then giv. we find to be Mary, when she d. 2
Feb. 1662; Ann, 30 July 1655; Rebecca, May 1658; was freem. 1648, and bec. a
purch. of Chelmsford, but d. in early manhood, making his will 15 May 1658, in
wh. he provides for the s. and three ds. names his f. and w. and her f. and her
two brs. Josiah and James. THOMAS, Farmington, may be that youth of 18 yrs. wh.
emb. in the Abigail at London, 1 July 1635, m. 14 Apr. 1646, at Hartford, Ann,
d. of Gov. Thomas Welles, had there, Beatrice, bapt. 17 Jan. 1647; John, b.
1649; Thomas, 1651; Mary,7 June 1653; and Esther, posthum. bapt. 17 June 1655;
the last four b. at F. where he d. 25 Apr. of that yr. His wid. m. Anthony
Hawkins; and Beatrice m. a Parker; Mary m. a Hawley; and Esther m. Samuel
Grid****ey. THOMAS, Easthampton L. I. 1650. THOMAS, Farmington, s. of Thomas of
the same, was adm. freem. 1677, m. Eliz. d. of William, as Por****er thinks, but
in my opin. of Arthur Smith, the first, had Eliz.; Thomas, ****. 25 Mar. 1679;
Arthur, 17 Oct. 1680; Philoleutheros, bapt. 12 Nov. 1682; John, 14 Dec. 1684;
Margaret, 20 Feb. 1687; Ann, 10 Feb. ****689; Samuel, 18 Oct. 1691; and Daniel.
But he had by a sec. w. Abigail (wh. murder. him); and ano. ch. strange. nam.
Mercy, b. 15 [p.289] Oct. 1706, by his wid. in prison. On 14 Dec. 1705, the w.
threw a pair of shears at her h. of wh. the point penetrat. the brain, cans. his
d. in few days. She was convict. but after one or two reprieves, the sentence
was execut. His est. was div. in 1708 to only five liv. ch. Thomas, Samuel, Ann,
Daniel, and Mary, beside two ch. of d. Eliz. Woodruff, dec. prob. w. of a s. of
sec. Matthew W. WILLIAM, Braintree, had been matric. at Brazen Nose Coll.
Oxford, 28 Jan. 1620, at the age of 21, but his degree is not found in the Fasti;
had been a preach. in Winwick, a parish of his native Lancash. bef. he came to
our side of the sea, in 1637, and was engag. first at Kittery or York, but after
the ch. instit. at B. 17 Sept. 1639, was ord. in co. with Rev. Henry Flint 19
Nov. of that yr. if Winth. I. 324 be foll. tho. Hancock in his Centenn. prefers
24 Sept. Dr. Lunt, ano. success. in the same pulpit, in his fine celebr. of the
sec. Centenn. decides for Nov. He brought w. Abigail and s. Samuel, William, H.
C. 1653, perhaps d. Mary, and Elinor, wh. was b. 1626; was freem. 13 May 1640;
had here, Joseph, b. 1 May 1640; Benjamin, 14 July 1642, H. C. 1662; and his w.
d. 1 Jan. 1643, while he was abs. on a mission with Rev. John Knowles, and
Thomas James, to Virg. begun in Oct. preced. Our governm. had in 1640 gr. him
120 acres. By sec. w. Ann, wid. of Simon Crosby of Cambridge he had Ann, b. 3
Mar. or 1 May, as the numeral for the day and month may respective. be read, in
1648. He was made freem. 1656, but “fell into the Devil's bath,” as the
Magn. III. cap. XVII. calls his state of melancho. and gave up his pub. min.
seven yrs. and d. 10 Dec. 1666 in 68th yr. The wid. d. 11 Oct. 1675, aged 68.
Mary m. 3 Dec. 1641, Joseph Wise of Roxbury; and Elinor m. 1644, William Veazey,
and next John French, and d. 23 Apr. 1711. Of this fam. it is obs. that they
always discard the sec. letter of the name, tho. Mather, whose biog. is exceed.
meagre, prints it as here. WILLIAM, New Haven 1647, br. of Anthony, had perhaps
accomp. Gov. Eaton, had neither w. nor ch. but d. 24 Apr. 1683, and to his will
of 6 Oct. preced. we owe very much of our kn. of ws. and ch. of others. He gave
prop. to John, s. of his br. Anthony; to John and William, s. of his br. John;
to Bridget Bowers, Ann Staunton, and Lydia Cruttenden, ds. of br. Anthony; and
to ds. of br. John, viz. Mary Lines, Ann Bradley and her h. Abraham, and Eliz.
Bradley and her h. Benjamin. WILLIAM, New London, s. prob. of Rev. William of
Braintree, b. in Eng. after his degree at Harv. was a preach. at Springfield
1654-6, and m. 19 Nov. 1655, Catharine, d. of the first Richard Treat of
Wethersfield, was employ. in 1658, by the Commissnrs. of the Unit. Col. acting
for the London Soc. Prop. Gospel, and some yrs. succeed. as missiona. to the
Pequot Ind. freem. 1660; but in 1664, he gave his w. all his prop. by deed
“suppos. mys. near d. and a. to take a voyage [p.290] to Virg.” From there
he wrote to his w's br. James, 29 June 1665, and this is the last that is kn. of
him, tho. in the Coll. eatal. the yr. of his d. has never been giv. so that,
from the blank in Mather, Farmer suppos. him liv. in 1698, when prob. he had
left the world 30 yrs. bef. Yet a suspicion reasonab. arises, from the Conn.
Col. Rec. I. 432, direct. the constable to secure prop. to amount of a certain
debt, that his object was to escape creditors, rather than to preach the gospel.
WILLIAM, Dover 1656, rem. to Kittery, there a. 1676 d. leav. ch. John, aged 18;
William, 16; Robert, 14; James, wh. was cripple, 11; Alexander, 6; and Judith,
2; and the sec. and third were then apprent. at Dover. WILLIAM, Dover, s. of the
preced. m. at Portsmouth 4 Sept 1682, Mary Lovering, wh. may have been d. of
John of Dover. WILLIAM, Stonington, blacksmith, d. 1705, leav. wid. Bridget. By
the rec. of our Gen. Ct. he seems, in his youth to have been fined for propos.
m. with Sarah Coggan, without leave of her friends at Stonington, in 1653. See
Vols. III. and IV. WILLIAM, Lyme, s. of the preced. prob. m. 19 July 1678,
Philadelphia Tileston, had Rachel, Joanna, wh. d. soon, and Philadelphia; but no
more is kn. Fifteen at Yale, and fourteen at Harv. of this name, including those
wh. reject the h, had been gr. 1853, and many at other N. E. coll.
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Tidd, John, Woburn,
prob. s. of that John, spelled Tead, b. in Eng. m.
14 Apr. 1650, Rebecca Wood, had Hannah, b. 21 Sept. 1652, John, 26 Feb. 1655;
Mary, 13 Nov. 1656; Samuel, 16 Jan. 1659; Joseph, 18 Jan. 1661, d. in 2 wks.;
Joseph, again, perhps, but not cert. JOHN, Woburn,
s. prob. of the preced. by w. Eliz. had Eliz. b. 19 Sept. 1679; John, 2 Nov.
1681; Joseph, 8 Mar. 1684; Rebecca, 4 Aug. 1687; Mary, 8 Aug. 1690; and
Ebenezer, 31 Aug. 1693. SAMUEL, Woburn, wh. d.
1651, may have been s. of th first John, writ. Tead,
and b. in Eng. See Tead.
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Toothacker, Toothacre,
or Toothaker, Roger, came in the Hopewell, capt.
Babb, from London 1635, aged 23, with his w. Margaret, and s. Roger, 1 yr. d.
early, and it is not kn. where he sat down, but in 1638, his wid. m. Ralph Hill
of Woburn, wh. son aft. 1653 rem. to Billerica,
and d. 1663, in his will of 10 Nov. 1662, nam. his w. Margaret, and her son
Roger Toothaker. She liv. to 22 Dec. 1683. ROGER, Billerica, s. of the preced.
had Roger, wh. also had Roger, and all were, says Farmer, physicians.
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Totenham, Elijah, Woburn,
s. of Henry of the same, by w. Mary had Ann, b. 24 Sept. 1685; Mary, 18
Apr. 1688; Sarah, 13 July 1690; Elisha, 22 July 1696; Eliz. 8 Feb. 1699; Alice,
10 June 1701; Arminell, 30 July 1707; and by w. Rebecca, had Rebecca, 4 Aug.
1710. HENRY, Woburn, had Nehemiah, b. 23 Aug.
1646; Elijah, 28 Feb. 1652; and his w. Ann d. 23 Feb. 1654; and he m. 13 July
foll. w. Alice, but had no ch. by her. He was one of the bold petitnrs. for
liberty of prophecy, 30 Aug. 1653. See 3Mass. Hist. Coll. I. 44.
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Townsend, Andrew, Lynn, perhaps s. or gr.s. of
Thomas of the same, a soldier in Gardner's comp. at the gr. battle, 19 Dec.
1675, of the Narraganset campaign, when he was wound. for wh. in 1730, he ask.
pension; m. 18 July 1678, Abigail, prob. d. f John Collins, of the same, had
Thomas, b. 12 June 1679; Abigail, 23 Feb. 1681; and Mary, 7 July 1685; was
freem. 1691. GEORGE, Reading, by Eaton nam. among early sett. may have been br.
of John of the same. GEORGE, Warwick, s. of John of the same, m. Merbah, d. of
Richard Harcutt. HENRY, Warwick, on the list of freem. 1655, of wh. I kn. no
more, exc. that he m. Ann, a d. of Robert Cole. He may have been s. of Thomas of
Lynn, and sett. at Oyster Bay on L. I. ¶JAMES, Boston, s. of William, a
carpenter, by w. Eliz. had James, bapt. 2 July 1671, H. C. 1692; John, 14 Dec.
1672; Mary, 10 Jan. 1675, d. young; Joseph, b. 24 Jan. 1678; Eliz. 18 July 1684;
Mary, again, 27 Oct. 1687; and Ann, 26 Feb. 1690, posthum. was frecm. 1672. He
was a housewright, ar. co. 1679,and bef. 17 Dec. 1689, d. intest. when admin.
was refus. by his wid. ¶John, Lynn, perhaps s. of Thomas, and b. in Eng. was of
ar. co. 1641, and of the early sett. on L. I. JOHN, Warwick, among the freem.
there of 1655, may have been br. of Henry, or the same as the preced. had Rose
wh. m. John Wicks the sec. His eldest ch. was John; and others were Thomas,
Eliz. James, Sarah, Ann, George, and Daniel. His w. was Eliz. d. of Robert Cole.
He d. at Oyster Bay 1669. JOHN, Reading, freem. 1678, may have been br. of
George. JOHN, Lynn, m. 27 Jan. 1669, Sarah Pearson, d. of John of the same, had
Sarah, b. 14 Sept. 1672; John, 17 Mar. 1675; Mary 2 Sept. 1677; Hannah, 11 Feb.
1680; and Eliz. 9 Nov. 1683. Perhaps he was a gr.s. of Thomas. JOSEPH, Boston,
by w. Mary had Joseph, b. 23 Dec. 1665; had sec. w. Dorothy, perhaps was of
Falmouth 1682. MARTIN, Watertown, a weaver, m. 16 Apr. 1668, Abigail, d. of John
Train, had Abigail, b. 18 Sept. 1669; Martin; Hannah, 6 Oct. 1673, d. at 2 yrs.;
John, 26 May 1679, d. at 4 yrs.; Jonathan, Apr. 1688, d. at 3 mos.; Jonathan,
again; and his w. d. 16 Jan. 1691; and he m. 30 Aug. 1693, Esther Perry of Woburn;
but no more ch. is kn. He was a witness 7 Apr. 1691, when he call. his age 47,
and d. in few yrs. ‡*¶PENN, Boston, s. of William of the same, wine merch. m.
Sarah, youngest d. of the first Isaac Addington, had Penn, b. 31 July 1674, H.
C. 1693; Sarah, 3 Apr. 1677, d. [p.319] soon; Sarah, again, 14 Sept. 1680;
Rebecca, 15 Aug. 1685; Isaac, 14 Aug. 1687, d. at 15 yrs.; Ann, 1689, d. soon;
and Ann, again, 10 Nov. 1690. His w. d. 11 Mar. 1692, and he m. Mary, wid. of
Paul Dudley, d. of Gov. Leverett, wh. was bur. 5 July 1699; and for third w. wh.
outliv. him, he took Hannah, wid. of George Jaffrey, Esq. of N. H. He was of ar.
co. 1674, freem. 1674, very much confid. in for public concerns, rep. 1686,
being the last Court under the old Chart. and on the overthrow of Andros, was
rechosen almost every time for some yrs. went as commissnr. with Hutchinson
1691, to make peace with Ind. speaker of the house and counsellor many yrs.
serv. thro. all the ranks in the milit. from ens. to col. and d. 21 Aug. 1727.
PETER, Boston, carpenter, s. of William of the same, by w. Lydia had William, b.
13 Sept. 1666; Susanna, 22 Feb. 1668, wh. d. soon; Susanna, again, 20 Feb. 1670;
Peter, 9 Oct. 1671; Lydia, 5 Aug. 1673; and Thomas; by w. Margaret had Margaret,
b. 13 June 1677; by w. Ann had Hannah, 27 Oct. 1687; and d. 14 May 1696. RALPH,
New Haven, rem. to New London. RICHARD, Warwick, of the freem. 1655, was prob.
br. of Henry, and m. Deliverance, d. of Robert Cole, had John, Richard, Dinah,
Leah, and Hannah, of wh. Dinah m. Thomas Willet, and Leah m. John Williams, both
perhaps of Newtown, L. I. and for sec. w. he took Eliz. d. of John Wicks. His
wid. m. John Smith of Hempstead, L. I. where prob. Townsend d. ROBERT,
Portsmouth, in 1665 support. the jurisdict. of Mass. SAMUEL, Boston, liv. at
Rumney Marsh, Chelsea, by w. Abigail had David, b. 29 Sept. 1666; Jonathan, 10
Sept. 1668; perhaps, also, Samuel, and more ch. was freem. 1683, hav. join. the
2d ch. 18 Sept. 1681. SAMUEL, Boston, prob. s. of the preced. was freem. 1690.
THOMAS, Lynn, the freem. of 14 Mar. 1639, wh. d. 22 Dec. 1677 is thot. to have
had Thomas, Henry, and John, b. prob. in Eng. all early engag. in settlem. on L.
I. THOMAS, Boston, perhaps br. of Samuel the first, with w. Mary adm. into the
2d ch. 30 Oct. 1681, was freem. 1683, but of him I kn. no more. WILLIAM, Boston,
adm. of the ch. 3 Aug. 1634, the same day with Gov. Bellingham and his w. with
John Newgate and the w. of our br. Nicholas Wyllys, of wh. W. T. is then call.
serv. so that we may well infer, that he came early that yr. from London. The
simplicity of charact. was exhibit. in the puritan's household, and this stile
of serv. did not imply inferior condit. so much as obligat. to learn,
otherwise, in case of males, term apprent. His w. Hannah Penn, wh. had join the
ch. 15 Mar. 1635, is call. “our br. James Everill's maid serv.” was sis. of
the rul. Elder, James P. and if she came with her master, and her h. with his,
as the principles were rec. in July preced. we may believe they all came in one
sh. He was freem. 25 May 1636, had Eliezur, 12 June 1635; Patience, bapt. 28 May
[p.320] 1637; Hannah, b. 4, bapt. 11 Apr. 1641; Peter 26, bapt. 30 Oct. 1642;
Mary, 24 Nov. 1644; James, b. 15 Jan. 1647; Penn, 20 Dec. 1651; John, 3 Sept.
1653, d. next yr.; and Mary, wh. d. 29 Nov. 1658. With the maj. part of the
Boston ch. he was adher. of Wheelwright's opin. and subject. in Nov. 1637, to
the indign. of being disarm. as a danger. heretic, but was not of suffic. age or
import. to be driv. away. He d. bef. Dec. 1689, and his wid. d. bef. 6 Feb.
1700, when admin. de bonis non on est. of her h. was giv. to s. Penn. Hannah, m.
3 Apr. 1657, Thomas Hull, and next, as Whitman says, lieut. Richard Way. Farmer
found, in 1834, sixteen of this name among gr. at Harv. six at Yale, and five at
other N. E. coll.
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Trarice, Trerice, Trerise,
Treyrice, Trereise, or
Treroice, John, Charlestown, s. of Nicholas of the
same, by w. Hannah, d. of Thomas Lynde, m. 1663, had Nicholas; John; Hannah,
perhaps the eldest, all bapt. 18 June 1671; and Rebecca, 14 Sept. 163. NICHOLAS,
Charlestown, adm. says Frothingham, a townsman in 1636, had been the two yrs.
bef. capt. of the Planter, wh. brot. many persons from London, by w. Rebecca had
Rebecca; John, b. 26 May, bapt. 3 June 1639; was fin. for contempt of Ct. 1641,
rem. early to Woburn, there had Samuel, 7 May
1643. His d. Rebecca m. 22 May 1655, Thomas Jenner. His wid. Rebecca m. 6 Dec.
1665, Thomas Lynde. Barry, Framingham, 422, mistook the name Travis.
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Tyng, ‡*||Edward, Boston, merch. but early wrote
hims. brewer, came prob. with w. Mary, whose fam. name was Sears, as tradit.
tells; if so, he had been, I think, here bef. m. her, a. 1636, and went home to
find [p.357] a w. She join. our ch. 5 Set. 1640, and he join. 30 Jan. foll. was
freem. 2 June foll. ar. co. 1642, and constable the same yr. rep. 1661 and 2,
assist. 1668 to 80 inclus. and d. at Dunstable, 28 Dec. 1681, one acco. says
aged. 81, but the credit is less, inasmuch as the same marks he day 28 Sept. as
in Geneal. Reg. VIII. 19, and I concur with Farmer MS. wh. thinks more prob. the
age 71. By w. Mary, by some thot. his sec. wh. may be doubt. he had Hannah, b. 7
Mar. 1640, bapt. 6 Sept. foll.; Mary, 17 Apr. bapt. 2 May 1641, perhaps d.
young; Jonathan 15, bapt. 18 Dec. 1642; Deliverance, 6 Aug. says the town rec.
wh. is falsif. by the ch. rec. bapt. 13 July 1645; Rebecca, 23 Mar. tho. the
trustworthy ch. rec. gives bapt. 21, 1647, d. young; Edward; Rebecca, again, 13
July 1651; William, Mar. 1653, prob. d. young; Eunice, 8 Mar. 1655; and Joseph,
12 July 1657, wh. d. young; Hannah, m. 8 May 1661, Habijah Savage; and next
maj.-gen. Gookin; Deliverance m. Daniel Searle; Rebecca m. 1669, Joseph Dudley,
afterwards Gov. of the Prov. and Eunice bec. 1679, sec. w. of Samuel Willard,
Vice Pres. of Harv. Coll. His will of 25 Aug. 1677 with codic. 7 Jan. 1681, tak.
notice of Eunice as now w. of S. W. names gr.ch. Thomas, Mary, and Hannah
Savage, whose f. was d.; Thomas, Edward, Joseph, and Paul Dudley; Samuel Searle;
and John, s. of Jonathan T. It was pro. 19 Jan. 1682. ‡||EDWARD, Boston, s. of
the preced. ar. co. 1668, m. Eliz. d. of capt. Thaddeus Clark of Falmouth, wh.
was bur. as Sewall's Diary notes 4 July 1690. This gave him great interest in
the question of jurisdict. and land titles in Maine. He had Edward, b. 1683;
Jonathan, d. young; Mary; and Eliz.; was one of the council 1686, 7, not much in
favor with Andros; after conq. of Nova Scotia, he was made Gov. of Annapolis,
and on the voyage to is colony was tak. by the French, and d. in France. Admin.
was had by his br. Jonathan, Apr. 1701. ‡* JONATHAN, Dunstable, eldest s. of
Edward the first, m. Sarah, d. of Hezekiah Usher, had Francis, b. 11 Dec. 1669;
Eliz. 28 Dec. 1670; Jonathan, 29 Jan. 1672, prob. d. young; John, 11 Sept. 1673,
H. C. 1691; Mary, 16 Jan. 1677; but all these, prob. b. at Boston; and at D.
William, 22 Apr. 1679; Jonathan, again, 29 Sept. 1686; Eleazer, 30 Apr. 1690, H.
C. 1712; and Barsheba, 5 Feb. 1695. He rem. to Woburn,
m. next, 30 May 1706, Sarah, wid. of Humphrey Davie, wh. had been wid. of James
Richards of Hartford, and d. of William Gibbons of H.; she d. 8 Feb. 1714; and
for third w. he had Judith, wid. of Rev. Jabez Fox, d. of John Rayner, wh.
outliv. him, and d. 5 June 1756 in her 99th yr. He was of the Royal Council
1686, and 7, but did not partake in the princip. of Andros, was rep. 1692 under
the new chart. and d. 19 Jan. 1724. *||WILLIAM, Boston, elder br. of Edward the
first, a merch. of distinct. came prob. in the Nicholas, of 300 tons, charter.
by hims. at [p.358] London, arr. at Boston, 3 July 1638, as Josselyn, wh. was a
passeng.---tells in his curious vol. of Voyages. He join. our ch. 3 Mar. foll.
and was adm. freem. 10 days aft. was of ar. co. 1638, rep. 1639, 40, 1, 2, 3, 4
and 7, treasr. of the Col. 1640-4; capt. of the Braintree milit. comp. and in
latter days liv. in that town, was its rep. 1649, 50, and 1; his w. Jane, being
his third, wh. may have been wid. of the first Enoch Hunt, d. 3 Oct. 1652, and
he d. 18 Jan. foll. leav. larger est. than any in the country of that day. It is
by his descend. Rev. William Brattle, said, that “ his first w. was Ann Brown,
by wh. he had two ch. wh. d. bef. he m. our gr. mo. Eliz. d. of Rowland
Coytemore, whose maiden name was Myles, and had a former h. named Gray, by wh.
she had my aunts Nowell and Graves.” By Eliz. he had Eliz. b. I doubt not in
Eng. 6 Feb. 1638, bapt. here, 10 Mar. 1639; Ann, 6, bapt. 12 Jan. 1640; Bethia,
17, bapt. 23 May 1641; and Merey, 13 Jan. bapt 5 Feb. 1643. Eliz. m. a. 1656,
Thomas Brattle; Ann, m. 3 Nov. 1656, Thomas Shepard, afterwards min. of
Charlestown; Bethia m. Richard Wharton; and Mercy, m. 1662, Samuel Bradstreet.
Six of this name had been gr. in 1832 at Harv.
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Upham, John, Weymouth, came, as is thot. with Rev.
Joseph Hull, certain. was freem. on the same day with him, 2 Sept. 1635, was
rep. 1636, 7, 8, and 9, had John, wh. was bur. 5 June 1640, and perhaps others,
certain. Priscilla, b. 1642. But he ha prob. brot. from Eng. Mary, b. perhaps
1628; Eliz. 1630; Nathaniel, 1632; Hannah; and may have had soon aft. arr.
Phineas, 1635. These were by w. Eliz. but bef. 1650 he rem. to Malden, favor.
the cause of Marmaduke Matthews in 1652, and his w. d. late in 670, or early
next yr. took, in Aug. 1671, sec. w. Catharine, wid. of Angel Hollard of Boston,
as we learn by his deed of relinquish. all her prop. was deac. 24 yrs. and d. 25
Feb. 1682, aged 84, says the gr. st. Mary m. John Whittemore; Eliz. m. Thomas
Welsh; Hannah m. a Long, whose bapt. name is not seen; but Bond, 959, makes her
first m. I think, erron. William Ballentine; and Priscilla m. Thomas Crosswell.
JOHN, Malden, “a poor, friendless child” coming from Barbadoes, a. 4 yrs.
old, with John Upham of B (wh. d. on the voyage, Oct. 1652), had been adopt. by
him, d. at Charlestown, 25 Nov. 1677, was engag. to m. Eliz. d. of John Mousall,
and gave her all his prop. exc. a musket to young Phineas U. JOHN, Malden, s.
prob. of [p.361] Phineas, m. 31 Oct. 1688, Abigail Hayward, d. prob. the
youngest, of Samuel of Malden. NATHANIEL, Malden, s. of the first John, b. in
Eng. preach. sometime at M. was freem. 1653, m. at Cambridge, 5 Mar. 1662, Eliz.
d. of John Stedman, and he d. 15 days after. His wid. m. 27 Apr. 1669, Henry
Thompson. NATHANIEL, Malden, s. of the first John, as the careful fam. hist.
conject. mak. his name only of the first two syllab. but my scruple is strong.
Examina. of the Col. Rec. will satisfy instant. that the freem. of 1653, and the
freem. of 1655, was the same. By one of the scandal. blunders of Mr. Secr.
Rawson the list in the latter yr. is (in large pt. on both sides, next above and
below, of this Natha. U.) a uniform copy of that for the former yr.
PHINEAS, Malden, s. of the first Jhn, m. 14 Apr. 1658, Ruth Wood, perhaps d. of
Edward of Charlestown, had Phineas, b. 22 May 1659; Nathaniel, 1661; Ruth, 1664,
d. at 12 yrs.; John, 9 Dec. 1666; Eliz.; Richard; and Thomas; was lieut. of the
comp. headed by the brave Isaac Johnson of Roxbury, in the memo. battle of 19
Dec. 1675, and after the capt. was k. rec. his mortal wounds of wh. he languish.
until Oct. foll. The Col. Rec. V. 122, shows how the governm. provid. for relief
of wid. and her seven minor ch. His wid. d. 18 Jan. 1697, aged 60. What mean. to
give the Malden rec. of m. of Phineas Upham with Hannah Ensign, 19 Sept. or Nov.
1658, as giv. in Geneal. Reg. VI. 337, when only one Phineas at that time is
heard of, I kn. not. But this is one of many errors in that transcr. wh. cost me
very large research. The true h. of Hannah Ensign, 19 Nov. 1658, was Thomas
Shepard of M. The freem. of Woburn, 1684, I
presume to be the s. of the lieut. Farmer notes that in 1834, nine of this name
had been gr. at Harv. and three at Dartm. Of one br. of this fam. disting. for
its proportion of lawyers, clerg. judges, politicians and scholars, a good
collect. of Notices by Albert G. Upham, M. D. one of the later progeny, was publ.
at Concord N. H. 1845.
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Vinton, Blaise, Lynn, or Malden, youngest s. of
John the first, was on serv. in Philip's war 1675 and 6, but aft. very diligent
search, the scrupul. author of the Vinton Memo. could say no more of him; yet he
makes Lydia, d. of the sec. John Haydn m. a Vinton, and as the only elder brs.
John and William he supplied with wives of other names, my conject. may be
indulg. that this Blaise got that Lydia, tho. no ch. is kn. EDWARD, Marblehead,
d. 1678. JOHN, Lynn, by w. Ann had Eleanor. b. May 1648; Jon, 2 Mar. 1651;
William, 30 Apr. 1652; Blaise, 22 Apr. 1654; Ann, 4 Apr. 1656; Eliz. Jan. 1658;
and Sarah 16 Sept. 1662. He d. at New Haven 1663, and his w. also was d. in
1664, when the Ct. direct. the ch. to be sent to L. Eleanor m. 12 July 1666,
Isaac Ramsdell. Ano. JOHN was of Boxford 1680. JOHN, Malden, s. of first John,
m. 26 Aug. 1677, Hannah, d. of the sec. Thomas Green of M. had John, b. a. 1680;
Hannah, 26 Jan. 1682; Rebecca, 26 Mar. 1683; Thomas, 31 Jan. 1687; Mary, 20 Aug.
1689, d. soon; Mary, again, 2 Jan. 1693; Samuel, a. 1695; and Abiathar, b. at Woburn,
10 May 1700. He was a blacksmith, rem. to Woburn,
and d. 13 Nov. 1727. His wid. Hannah d. 1741, aged 82. WILLIAM, Malden, s. of
John the first, m. a d. of Joseph Hills, perhaps Hannah, had Hannah, nam. in the
will of her gr. f. 1687. This fam. is reasonab. thot. to have come from France,
perhaps as Huguenots, in early days, and sett. in Eng.
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Walker, Archibald, Providence, m. 18 July 1690,
Mary Gardner, had Charles, b. 6 May 1691; Susanna, 28 Sept. 1695; Abigail, 13
Jan. 1699; Hezekiah, 14 Mar. 1701; Nathaniel, 26 June 1704; and Ann, 14 Feb.
1709. AUGUSTINE, or AUSTIN, Charlestown 163, a sea capt. and merch. join. the
ch. 20 Sept. 1640; and was adm. freem. 2 June foll. by w. Hannah, had Hannah, b.
12, bapt. 27 Sept. 1640; Samuel, 1 Oct. 1642; Augustine, 14 Dec. 1646; James, 25
July 1648; and perhaps more, but the blank in bapt. occurs early in the rec. He
d. 1 Jan. 1653 at Bilboa in Spain, and his descend. were early at Woburn.
By fam. tradit. he came from the vicinity of Berwick on Tweed. BENJAMIN, Boston,
one of the found. of Brattle st. ch. DANIEL, Sudbury, s. of Thomas of the same,
by w. Dorothy had Daniel, b. 27 Oct. 1710; Eliphalet, 11 Feb. 1712; Jabez, 18
July 1714; Dorothy, 12 Mar. 1717; Mary, 11 Oct. 1718; Josiah, 13 Sept. 1721; and
Bezaleel, 7 May 1724; and d. 1755. EBENEZER, Rehoboth, youngest s. of Philip of
the same, m. 19 No. 1700, had two ch. wh. d. soon, and his w. d. 1702. He next
m. Oct. 1703, Dorothy Abell, and had nine ch. of wh. five surv. him, and d. 13
Mar. 1718. EDWARD, Charlestown, may have been s. of Augustine, was a soldier in
Philip's war, freem. 1684, then liv. at Woburn,
and d. 6 July 1690. ELEAZER, Taunton, s. of James, d. 15 Dec. 1724, aged 62.
FRANCIS, Middleborough 1668, rem. to Duxbury 1672, and m. Eliz. d. of George
Soule, bef. the former date. GEORGE, Reading, by Eaton call. one of the early
sett. but was, I think, s. of an earlier one, and may be mistake for Walkup, or
if Walker, possib. that man of Portsmouth in 1689, wh. d. 7 Dec. 1748, aged 86.
Farmer, [p.393] MS. HENRY, Gloucester 1647, perhaps of Ipswich 1651, m. as her
third h. at G. 26 Sept. 1662, Mary, wid. of William Brown, wh. had been wid. of
Abraham Robinson, was freem. 1672, and d. 1693. Yet ano. Henry may have been the
resid. of Ipswich. ||ISAAC, Boston, merch. by w. Susanna, wid. of Henry Symonds,
m. 1644, had Isaac, bapt. 12 Oct. 1645, a. 5 days old, in the right of his w.
recom. says our ch. rec. from the ch. of Salem, wh. d. in few days; and 2 May
foll. he join. our ch. of B. and was made freem. a few days aft. had Leah, bapt.
6 Dec. aft. His w. d. 30 Sept. 1646. He was active propr. of Lancaster, but did
not rem. thither, had second or third w. Susanna, if the rec. is right, and by
her had Experience, bapt. 20 Oct. 1650; Nicholas, b. 1 Dec. 1651; Stephen, 13,
bapt. 17 Aug. 1656; and possib. more; and w. Hannah in 1682; was lieut. ar. co.
1676, and d. 19 Oct. 1688. Yet that he had w. bef. m. with that wid. of Symonds,
seems clear eno. for in Sept. 1662 is rec. of a deed from him to Susannah
Walker, his d. of “that little shop wh. now she keeps.” This opinion I still
retain, tho. in Mar. 1666 is found ano. deed of hims. and Susanna, his (third)
w. to their d. Susanna. ISRAEL, Woburn, had
Israel, b. 29 Sept. 1672, d. at 11 yrs.; Susanna, 1 Mar. 1674; Phebe, 11 May
1676; Eliz. wh. d. 21 Jan. 1682; Henry, 1 Feb. 1679; Hannah, 26 Apr. 1681, d.
very soon; Nathaniel, 15 Apr. 1682; Israel, again, 26 July 1684; Hannah, again,
24 Sept. 1686; Abigail, 26 Sept. 1688; and Edward, 6 Nov. 1690. He was freem.
1674, may have been br. of Edward, but perhaps both came from Eng. Susanna m. 18
Oct. 1697, Ebenezer Locke, and d. 13 June 1699. JABEZ, Eastham, youngest s. of
William of the same, by w. Eliz. had Richard, b. 1 June, 1695; Rejoice, 13 May
1697; Mary, 14 Sept. 1699; Jeremiah, 17 May 1702; and Merey, 7 Nov. 1704; Jabez;
Sarah; and Patience. JACOB, Killingworth, perhaps s. of Robert of Boston,
propound. for freem. 1672; as admor. of est. of Samuel, one of the s. of Rev.
Adam Blakeman, whose wid. Eliz. he m. 6 Dec. 1670, he had great trouble with the
wid. and other ch. of Adam, as in the Col. Rec. of Trumbull, II. in many places
appears. He had Samuel, b. 7 Nov. 1671; Moses, bapt. Dec. 1673; John, 9 Oct.
1674; Eliz. July 1676; Mary, 1 Jan. 1679; and Mercy, 11 Mar. 1681. *JAMES,
Taunton 1643, prob. is that youth of 15 yrs. wh. came from London 1635, with
Sarah . his sis. 17, in the Elizabeth, as found. in 3 Mass. Hist. Coll. VIII.
260; may have been 1644 at Rehoboth, but was perman. inhab. of T. m. Eliz. d. of
William Phillips, and bec. a man of gr. esteem, in 1652 constable, frequent.
selectman, rep. 1654, and oft. aft. had James, b. a. 1646; Peter, 1649; Eleazer,
1662; wh. d. prob. unm. yet at mature age, in his will giv. prop. to cousins,
the ch. of brs. and sis. and Esther. His w. d. 30 July, or 14 Aug. 1678, [p.394]
aged 59; and he m. sec. w. 4 Nov. foll. Sarah, wid. of Edward Rew, d. of John
Richmond; and d. 18 Feb. 1692, aged 73. Esther m. 1 Jan. 1680, Joseph Wood or
Atwood, and d. 8 Apr. 1696. In Col. Rec. we read that JAMES, jun. of T. m. 23
Dec. 1647, Barsheba, whose surname is lost, and I conject. that the order of
numerals of the yr. is wrong, and should be 1673, and points to the foll. JAMES,
Taunton, s. prob. of the preced. m. 23 Dec. 1673, Bathsheba Brooks, d. of
Gilbert of Rehoboth, had James, b. 24 Dec. 1674; Eliz. 1676; Nathan, 1678;
David, a. 1681; Bathsheba; Nehemiah, 1689; Mercy; Mehitable; Josiah; Rebecca;
and Mary; but dates are not supplied; was constable 1682; and d. 22 June 1718,
aged 72, and his wid. d. 24 Feb. 1739, in her 85th yr. JOHN, Boston, freem. 14
May 1634, had been of the ch. of Roxbury, when adm. but rem. to B. to find,
perhaps, wider sympathy for his heresy, was of the number disarm. with the major
pt. of fellow worship. Nov. 1637, rem. to R. I. very soon, and is one of the
earliest subscr. to the coven. of civ. governm. JOHN, New Haven 1639, of wh. I
learn that he had Mary, bapt. Mar. 1641; and Hannah, prob. 27 Sept. 1646. He d.
early, for his inv. is tak. 22 Apr. 1652. The wid. Grace m. 1 July 1652, Edward
Watson; Mary m. 1 Jan. 1661, John Brown; Hannah m. May 1668, Samuel Hall. JOHN,
Marshfield, 1643, m. 20 Oct. 1654, Lydia Read, had Lydia, b. 1656; John, 1657;
Isaac; Martha; and Mary; and he d. 11 Dec. 1663. His wid. had admin. His d.
Lydia m. 17 Mar. 1684, William Fisher. JOHN, Woburn,
m. 14 Oct. 1672, Mary Pierce, perhaps d. of Robert of the same, had Benjamin, b.
25 Jan. 1674, d. next yr.; Mary, 27 Dec. 1675, d. next mo.; and John, 27 Dec.
1677. JOHN, a soldier under capt. William Turner at the Falls fight, 18 May
1676, was k. by the Ind. next day. JOHN, Charlestown, m. Ann or Hannah, d. of
John Mirick, unless she were d. of Jacob Leager of Boston, had not long life,
for his wid. was praying adv. of the Gen. Ct. in June 1680; nor do I kn. of the
ch. exc. by ch. rec. of bapt. Joseph, 17 Oct. 1675; Ann, 16 Apr. 1676; Lydia, 6
June 1680; and Benjamin, 7 Aug. 1681; of course here is little to indicate the
dates of b. especially of the first and last. His w. had gain. the benefit for
the ch. by join. the ch. 3 Oct. 1675. JOHN, Beverly, m. Eliz. d. of Humphrey
Woodbury, had Sarah and Eunice, rememb. in the will of their gr. f. Mar. 1686.
JOSEPH, Portsmouth, stood up for Mass. jurisdict. 1665, m. Hannah, d. of Thomas
Philbrick of Hampton, wh. aft. his d. m. 29 July 1686, John Seavey. JOSEPH,
Stratford, s. of Robert of Boston, m. 14 Nov. 1667, Abigail, d. of Rev. Peter
Prudden, had b. at Milford, 5 Aug. 1668, Robert, and at Stratford, Sarah, 23
Jan. 1670; both bapt. 22 May of this last yr.; Abigail, 18 Feb. 1672; Mary, 18
Dec. 1680; and he d. 1687, his inv. being of 19 Nov. [p.395] *JOSEPH, Billerica,
m. 15 Dec. 1669, Sarah, d. of John Wyman, was freem. 1678, rep. 1689. NATHANIEL,
Boston, by our Col. Rec. IV. seems to have obt. gr. of 240 acres in the right of
Isaac Morrill of Roxbury, dec. long bef. OBADIAH, Reading, by Eaton nam. as one
of the early sett. but of him I kn. no more. PETER, Taunton, s. of James the
first of the same, m. Hannah, d. of the sec. Edward Hutchinson, had Hannah;
Peter, b. a. 1689; James; Edward, a. 1692; Abigail; and Catharine; and d. 4 Apr.
1711, aged 60; his w. had d. 15 Jan. 1705, in her 47th yr. *PHILIP, Rehoboth
1653, d. 21 Aug. 1679. He was br. of James, and constable 1658; selectman, oft.
deac. and rep. 1669. His w. was Jane Butterworth, and ch. Samuel, b. Feb. 1655;
Sarah, Feb. 1657; Philip, Mar. 1661; Eli. 1662, d. soon; Mary, May 1663;
Experience, wh. d. 10 Nov. 1674; Eliz. again, 1 Apr. 1666; Michael, Mar. 1668,
d. young; Martha; and Ebenezer, 15 Nov. 1676. He was a weaver, bec. the most
thrifty man in the town, and his contribution to carry on the war against
Philip, the gr. Ind. prince, was £26. being the largest of any in the
municipality. Sarah m. 27 Dec. 1677, Abraham Perrin; Eliz. m. 29 Mar. 1687,
Henry Sweet of Swanzey. PHILIP, Rehoboth, s. of the preced. m. 31 Dec. 1687,
Mary Bowen, had Ebenezer, b. 21 Oct. 1688; James, 3 Sept. 1690; Philip, 13 Aug.
1693; and his w. d. the next yr. By sec. w. Sarah, had Sarah, b. 8 Jan. 1696;
Esther; Mary; Ann; Nathaniel, Jan. 1704; Daniel, 10 Oct. 1706; and Stephen, 7
Aug. 1709. *RICHARD, Lynn 1630, as Lewis claims for him, was freem. 14 Mar.
1634, a milit. offic. serg. ens. rep. 1640 and 1, 8, and 9, made a capt. 1653,
had Richard, prob. b. in Eng. and Samuel, Tabitha, and Eliz. prob. b. at Lynn,
was some yrs. of Reading, wh. town he rep. 1650, 60, unless his eldest s. may
have thus serv. in the latter yr. but he went back to L. there d. very aged,
says Sewall, and was bur. 16 May 1687, by Lewis, wh. may have authority in rec.
aged 95. Tabitha m. 11 Mar. 1663, Daniel King, Jr. and Eliz. m. 2 Mar. 1664,
Ralph King. RICHARD, Boston, may have been that shoemaker, wh. emb. at
Southampton Apr. 1635, in the James, or perhaps he wh. came from London, the
same mo. in the Elizabeth, aged 24, m. 1637, Ann, wid. of Robert Houlton;
perhaps had ch. for his unlucky w. being cast out of the ch. 29 Apr. 1639, for
intemp. in drink. and other misbehav. was next day, by the civil power, sentenc.
to the whipping-post, but the punishm. postpon. bec. she was with ch. of wh. no
rec. of b. is found. See Winth. II. 349. RICHARD, Salem, wh. had gr. of ld.
1637, may have been h. of that Persis, wh. join. the ch. 1639; and perhaps was
aft. of Manchester, and f. of Richard of Ipswich 1700, for great uncert.
prevails. He, or one of the same name, was call. as witness in witchery. case
1692. *RICHARD, Reading, s. of Richard the first, perhaps [p.396] left by his f.
in Eng. was, I think, rep. 1660 and 73 for that town, may possib. have been of
Ipswich, freem. 1671, wh. m. 29 Oct. 1661, Sarah Story, had Hannah, b. 10 Sept.
1662; Sarah, 29 Nov. 1666; Richard, 6 Feb. 1675; and Joseph, 29 Dec. 1679; rem.
to Lynn, was made capt. of the troop 1679, and rep. that and the foll. yr.
RICHARD, Newton, L. I. 1686. ROBERT, Boston, join. the ch. 1632, was a weaver,
freem. 14 May 1634, had Elisha, a s. by the town rec. b. 14, but a d. by the ch.
rec. of bapt. 28 Feb. 1636; and she was happy eno. to obt. a more Christian name
bef. m.; Zechary, 15 Sept. bapt. 1 Oct. 1637; John, 22, bapt. 29 Sept. 1639, d.
young; Sarah, 15, bapt. 28 Nov. 1641, d. at 2 yrs.; Jacob, 21, bapt. 24 Mar.
1644; Joseph, bapt. 19 July 1646; Thomas and Mary, tw. bapt. 22 Apr. 1649, a. 10
days old; Timothy, 1 Sept. 1650; Eliakim, 3, bapt. 4 July 1652; Mary, 1, bapt. 5
Nov. 1654; and John, again, 14, bapt. 20 July 1656, prob. all by w. Sarah, tho.
of the first five the name of mo. is not put upon the rec. In a deed of 30 Apr.
1646 from him to Bryan Pendleton, of est. in Watertown, he is styled, I think
carelessly, of that town, wherein he never liv. He testif. 10 Apr. 1679, calling
hims. linen webster, that he was a. 72 yrs. old, had liv. with f. at Manchester
in Lancash. a. 56 yrs. bef. and then kn. Henry Sewall, f. of Henry of Newbury.
He was one of the founders of Old So. ch. 1669, and d. 29 May 1687, a “very
good man,” says Sewall, when noting his bur. 31; and 21 Dec. 1695 d. of his
wid. is mark. by the same hand; his d. Eliz. m. 12 Dec. 1660, Benjamin Thurston.
SAMUEL, Exeter or Hampton 1644. SAMUEL, Rehoboth, m. Joan, d. of the first
Michael Metcalf, wh. names her in his will of Apr. 1654. SAMUEL, Reading, s. of
the first Richard, of wh. no more is ascertain. *SAMUEL, Woburn,
s. of Augustine, m. 10 Sept. 1662, Sarah Read, had Edward, b. 12 Oct. 1663;
John, 2 July 1665; Samuel, 25 Jan. 1667; Sarah, 6 Mar. 1670; Timothy, 16 June
1672; Isaac, 1 Nov. 1677; and Ezekiel, 5 Mar. 1679. His w. d. 1 Nov. 1681. He
was freem. 1674, rep. 1689; deac. had sec. w. Judith, wid. of Andrew Alger (wh.
had been k. by the Ind. at Scarborough 1675), and was driv. to the W. by the
war, and d. 18 Jan. 1704. His wid. d. 14 Nov. 1724, aged 57. SAMUEL, Boston
1654, merch. m. Sarah, d. of Joshua Scottow, wh. gave him in 1672, an est. in B.
*SAMUEL, Rehoboth, eldest s. of Philip of the same, m. 11 Nov. 1681, Martha Ide,
d. prob. of Nicholas the first, had Samuel, b. 11 Nov. 1682; Patience, 30 Mar.
1685; Timothy, 14 Sept. 1687; Peter, 18 Sept. 1689; Ephraim, 4 Sept. 1692; and
Martha, 8 Sept. 1696; and his w. d. Aug. 1700. By sec. w. Eliz. he had Eliz. b.
10 Aug. 1702; and Benjamin, 12 Aug. 1703; and d. 12 Aug. 1712. He serv. in
Philip's war, was constable in 1682, afterwards lieut. and rep. 1705; his wid.
m. John Smith of Roxbury. [p.397] SHUBAEL, Rowley, early the town clk. m. at
Lynn, 29 May 1666. Patience Jewett, prob. d. of Joseph of Rowley, was some time
at Reading, sw. alleg. at Haverhill, being then capt. 28 Nov. 1677, liv. at
Bradford, d. Jan. 1689, and his wid. m. Richard Dole. THOMAS, Boston, brick-burner,
by w. Ann had Eliz. b. 18 Aug. 1650; John, 15 Mar. 1652; Ann, 27 Feb. 1654; and
Samuel, 26 June 1656; beside Thomas, perhaps eldest; and d. 11 Aug. 1659.
THOMAS, Sudbury, by w. Mary had Mary, b. at Boston, as Barry presumes, 9 Aug.
1661; Thomas, 22 May 1664; William, 22 July 1666; Hannah, 26 Nov. 1668, d. soon;
Hannah, again, 1669; Daniel, 10 Feb. 1674; Sarah, 25 July 1677; Abigail, 29 Oct.
1679; John; and Eliz. wh. both prob. d. young. He had encouragem. to keep the
sch. at Sudbury in 1664, but in 1672, renew. his license for an ordinary. His
will was pro. 1697. THOMAS, Boston, brick-maker, perhaps eldest s. of Thomas of
the same, m. 25 Mar. 1662, Susanna, d. of John Collins, was freem. 1690. THOMAS,
Bristol 1687, one of the founders of the town with famous capt. Church. THOMAS,
Framingham, eldest s. of Thomas of the same, m. 1687, Martha, d. of Samuel How,
had Thomas, b. Sept. 1688, d. soon; Samuel, 24 Sept. 1689; Obadiah; Martha;
Mary; Thomas, again; Asa, 7 June 1702; Hannah, 17 June 1705; Jason, 28 Oct.
1708; and John, 1 Feb. 1714; and d. 25 Oct. 1717. WILLIAM, Salem, gave trouble
to the ch. in 1637. WILLIAM, Hingham 1636, perhaps that youth, wh. came 1635,
aged 15, in the Elizabeth from London, and possib. br. of Richard wh. was a
fellow passeng. and may have been one of the first sett. at Eastham, where he m.
25 Feb. 1655, Sarah Snow, perhaps d. of Nicholas, had John, b. 24 Nov. foll. wh.
was k. by the Ind. in 1676; William, 12 Oct. 1657, d. soon; William, again, 2
Aug. 1659; Sarah, 30 July 1662; Eliz. 28 Sept. 1664; and Jabez, 8 July 1668.
WILLIAM, Sudbury, s. of Thomas of the same, m. 1686, Sarah Goodnow, perhaps d.
of the sec. John of the same, had William, b. 1687; Sarah, d. soon; Thomas, 15
Aug. 1689; John, Sept. 1693; Abigail, 15 Aug. 1702; Mary, 30 Oct. 1706; and
Hezekiah, 8 Oct. 1711; and d. 1732. WILLIAM, Eastham, s. of William of the same,
had William, b. 1693, and perhaps John, earlier, and Mehitable, later. ZECHARY,
Stratford, s. of Robert, was educ. at Harv. says Mather's Magn. IV. 135, but
left without degree on acco. of the term of study prolong. preach. first at
Jamaica, L. I. 1663 to 8, when he rem. and was made min. of a portion yet no
sec. parish at S. not without much disquiet, as the Col. Rec. of Trumbull II.
111, 124, shows; was among the freem. 1669; ord. 5 May 1670; but when Woodbury
was sett. that yr. the new town's folk was content. with Walker, tho. he did not
rem. his fam. bef. 1678; and so good Israel Chauncy contin. to serve the people
of S. reunited. W. liv. [p.398] until 20 Jan. 1700, and to Cothren's Hist. of
the town, we owe most of the particulars. He left wid. Susanna by wh. he had
Eliz. b. 1 Mar. 1675; but other ch. Zechariah, beside Abigail, wh. d. young,
both bapt. 22 May 1670. An agreem. in Mar. 1700 betw. the wid. and Zechariah and
Eliz. W. for the partition of the est. renders this certain. One Sarah W. aged
17, came in the Elizabeth, 1635, from London, m. not many yrs. aft. John
Tisdale, not Brown, as plausib. is said in Geneal. Reg. IX. 219. Roxbury town
rec. tells, that Dorcas W. was bur. 14 Apr. 1640, but it is beyond my means to
conject. wh. she was, unless mo. of that John, the only man of the name found in
that town bef. and she were too wise to partake his heresy, or too old to rem.
with her s. Farmer marks, that, in 1834, of this name, fourteen had been gr. at
Harv. seven at Yale, and fourteen at the other N. E. coll.
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Wallis, or Wallace,
George, a youth of 15 yrs. came in the Abigail, from London 1635, perhaps s. of
Ralph, wh. came at the same time; in Dec. 1656 was of Rumney Marsh, part of
Boston now Chelsea, there had good est. may have been f. of the foll. GEORGE,
Portsmouth, [p.402] m. 18 Nov. 1686, Ann, perhaps d. of Richard Shortridge, was
of the gr. jury that yr. JOHN, Woburn, d. 8 Aug.
1670. JOHN, Scarborough 1658, perhaps in the Ind. war was driv. to Gloucester,
there was liv. 1678, d. 1690. NATHANIEL, carborough, perhaps br. of John, was
from Cornwall, constable for Falmouth, and sw. alleg. to Mass. 1658; but in July
1660 had three ch. bapt. by Robert Jordan, wh. adher. to the ch. of Eng. in that
her lowest hour of distress, and was censur. for it, by our Gen. Ct. as the Col.
Rec. IV. shows. I kn. he had w. Margaret, and s. John, wh. may have been one of
those bapt. acc. the rubric; and the fam. was driv. to the W. by the Ind. war,
and he sat down at Beverly, call. hims. 58 yrs. in 1692, and d. 18 Oct. 109, and
his wid. d. 14 May 1711, aged more than 80. Shurtleff has print. the name as
represent. on the rec. by the wild hand of the clk. but in Hutch. Coll. 398, and
Paige's list of Freemen, I imagine we have the true one. *NICHOLAS, Ipswich, s.
of Robert, m. a d. of Humphrey Bradstreet, had Samuel, prob. others bef. or aft.
or both, was freem. 1674, and rep. 1691. RALPH, came in the Abigail from London
1635, aged 40, perhaps bring. s. George, at least, we kn. that a youth with that
name was fell. passeng. RICHARD, Saybrook 1659, rem. next yr. to Norwich.
ROBERT, Ipswich 1638, had Nicholas, perhaps more. THOMAS, freem. of Mass. 1643,
with prefix of respect, yet my inq. for his resid. is not successf. WILLIAM,
Charlestown, adm. of the ch. 30 Nov. 1642, of wh. no more than Budington's copy
of the copy of that rec. (the orig. being lost) is kn. to me; yet I see that
somebody of this surname at C. had a ch. b. a. 1659, tho. the clk. omits name
and date.
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Warner, Andrew, Cambridge 1632, freem. 14 May 1634,
rem. to Hartford with the body of orig. proprs. but whether Hutch. I. 99, be
justif. in mak. him, with Ludlow and other Commissnrs. to gov. the people under
Mass. as Farmer quotes him, is to me doubtful. See our Col. Rec. I. 171, where
the last of the eight so honor. is Andrew Ward, but in the repetit. of the names
in the same instr. becomes Warner. In 1659 he rem. with a new w. Esther, wid. of
Thomas Selden, wh. brot. him no issue, to Hadley at is first settlem. was liv.
to take the o. of alleg. at H. 8 Feb. 1679, and d. 18 Dec. 1684, or possib. the
month foll. aged almost 90. Of his ch. nine in number, we kn. neither the mo.
nor order of succession, nor dates, exc. of Isaac, by approxim. a. 1645. The
others were Andrew; Mary, wh. prob. was b. in Eng. m. first, 1645, John Steele,
jr. of Hartford, wh. d. 1653, and next William Hills; Ruth, ano. d. m. a Pratt;
Daniel; Robert; John; and Jacob. Of his wid. Esther, the inv. was tak. Dec.
1693. ANDREW, Middletown, s. of the preced. left Abigail, b. 3 Sept. 1660;
Andrew, Mar. 1662; Mary, Apr. 1664; Hannah, 14 Nov. 1668; John, 8 Apr. 1671;
Joseph, 20 Feb. 1673; and Rebecca, 12 July 1675; and he d. early in 1682. He may
have liv. first at Milford, where Lambert gives resid. to one of the same name
1653. His wid. wh. m. Jeremiah Adams, was Rebecca, d. of John Fletcher, m. 1653,
had first Samuel, b. Aug. 1659, d. soon; also John, Sept. 1667, d. in few days.
DANIEL, Ipswich 1639, s. of William of the same, and brot. prob. by him, freem.
2 June 1641, by w. Eliz. had Simon, b. 6 June 1658, d. in few days; but prob.
sev. earlier; and his w. d. 1 Nov. 1659. He m. 1 July foll. Faith Brown, wh. d.
10 Nov. 1679; and had brot. him Daniel, b. 25 Aug. 1671; Sarah, 22 Oct. 1672;
and Rebecca, wh. d. 10 June 1679; but perhaps others earlier. He m. third w. 1
June 1686, wid. Ellen Jewett of Rowley, and d. 9 Sept. 1688; leav. wid. Ellen,
and ch. Daniel, John, William, perhaps Nathaniel, Eliz. Abigail, Susanna, beside
Hannah, w. perhaps of John or Joshua Batchelder. DANIEL, Farmington, s. of the
first John of [p.419] the same, was engag. with sev. of the inhabs. of F. 1673
in project. settlem. of Mattatock, now Waterbury, but d. a. 1680, leaving
Daniel, b. a. 1667; John, a. 1671; Abigail, a. 1673; Samuel, a. 1675; and
Thomas, a. 1677. Wh. was his w. is unkn. but she was d. DANIEL, Hadley, in that
part wh. bec. Hatfield, s. of the first Andrew, by first w. Mary, had Mary, b.
24 Feb. 1663, wh. prob. d. young; Daniel; Sarah, 24 June 1667; Andrew; Ann, 17
Nov. 1669; and Mary, again, 19 Sept. 1672. His w. d. the same day, and he next
m. 1 Apr. 1674, Martha, d. of Robert Boltwood, and by her he had Hannah, b. 24
Jan. 1675; John, Apr. 1677; Abraham, 20 Dec. 1578; Samuel, 13 Apr. 1680;
Ebenezer, 5 Nov. 1681; Mehitable, 1 Oct. 1683; Eliz.; Esther, 15 Dec. 1686;
Martha, 3 Apr. 1688, d. young; and Nathaniel, 15 Oct. 1690. He d. 30 Apr. 1692;
and his wid. d. 1710. DANIEL, Ipswich, freem. 1682, m. 23 Sept. 1668, Sarah, d.
of John Dane the sec. had Sarah, b. 22 Oct. 1673; Philemon, 1 Aug. 1675; John,
30 July 1677; Rebecca, 16 Mar. 1679; Dane, and William, tw. 14 Apr. 1680, of wh.
William d. at four mos.; William, again, 24 Mar. 1682, d. in three mos.; and
Mercy, 5 Nov. 1686; and he d. 24 Nov. 1696, in his will nam. wid. Hannah, ch.
Dane, Philemon, John, and Mercy, brs. John and Philemon Dane. DANIEL, Ipswich,
s. of the first Daniel, by w. Dorcas had Dorcas, b. 7 Dec. 1700, d. next mo.;
and he d. 20 Jan. 1754. ELEAZER, Hadley, s. of the first John, m. 27 May 1689,
Esther Taylor, had Esther, b. 3 Aug. 1692; Eleazer, 29 July 1694; Stephen, 3
Nov. 1698; Mary, 30 Oct. 1699; Joanna, 22 Sept. 1706; and Ruth, a. 1712; and he
d. 8 May 1729, aged 66. His wid. d. 28 Dec. 1748, aged 82. GABRIEL, Boston, by
w. Mary, had Ann, b. 3 Dec. 1681; and Joseph, 22 Nov. 1685; perhaps rem. but
whither, or whence he came, or of what descent, are all unkn. GEORGE, New Haven,
d. in May 1681, by his will of 2 May in that yr. naming only Edward and George,
his s. in O. E. By his in. of June foll. amount to £36. 2s. 8d.
it may seem, that he was only a transient inhab. ISAAC, Hadley, s. of the first
Andrew, m. 31 May 1666, Sarah, d. of Robert Boltwood, had Sarah, b. 2 May 1668;
Isaac, 13 Jan. 1670; Mary, 6 Jan. 1672; Andrew, 24 Feb. 1673; Hannah, 14 Nov.
1674; Ebenezer, 1676; Daniel, 25 Feb. 1678; Samuel, 14 Mar. 1681; Ruth, 18 Oct.
1682; Mercy, 25 Sept. 1685; Ichabod; Lydia; Thankful; and Mehitable. He d. a.
1691, and his wid. m. 1696, deac. John Loomis of Windsor. JACOB, Hadley, was s.
of Andrew, old eno. to take o. of alleg. 8 Feb. 1679, and was sw. into the rank
of freem. 1690. His first w. Rebecca, and only ch. Jacob d. 1687; and by w.
Eliz. Goodman, d. of deac. Richard of the same, had Rebecca, b. 31 Mar. 1690;
Jacob, 29 Sept. 1691; Mary, 22 July 1694; Eliz. 20 Mar. 1696, d. young; John, 10
June 1698, d. in few [p.420] days; John, again, 10 Mar. 1700; Joseph, 30 Apr.
1707; and David, 4 June 1710; and d. 29 Nov. 1711. JOHN, Ipswich, s. of William,
brot. by him prob. for it is said he was b. a. 1616, or he may as well seem to
be that passeng. emb. at London in the Increase 1635, aged 20, wh. m. 1655,
Priscilla, d. of Mark Symonds, was one of the first sett. a. 1670 of Brookfield,
then hav. ch. Mark; John; Nathaniel; Mehitable, b. 16 Apr. 1659; prob. Daniel,
16 Apr. 1661; Eleazer, 13 Nov. 1662; but bef. rem. from I. had Joseph, 15 Aug.
1657, wh. d. at 10 mos.; and Daniel, 1660, wh. d. 8 June of that yr; beside Mark
and John, some of wh. were perhaps by a former w. On the destr. of B. in
Philip's war, he found refuge at Hadley, where Mark had sett. bef. and Mehitable
d. 12 June 1678; and he prob. d. there. JOHN, Providence 1637, m. Priscilla, d.
of Ezekiel Holliman, and perhaps his only ch. one of the orig. purch. from the
Ind. of Shawomet, of whom Samuel Gorton was chief, and was involv. with him in
the violent proceeding of Mass. against that humble col. brot. prisoner to
Boston, in Oct. 1643, but was set at liberty in Mar. aft. and in 1652, hav.
differ. with Gorton, Holden, Greene, and Potter, old friends, was indulg. with
leave to ship hims. and fam. for Eng. from any of the ports of Mass. “provid.
he take up his abode in the ship, and thence not to come forth until his depart.
exc. upon urgent occasion for his voyage, by order from two magistr.” Col.
Rec. III. 274 and Winth. II. 147 and 8. Such tyran. acts did not prevent him
from desir. to come back from Eng. but the fam. tradit. is, that the vessel in
wh. he was emb. for his ret. perish. with all on board. He left here only
Rachel, wh. was then a babe, m. 16 Nov. 1669, Abel Potter; and John, b. 1 Aug.
1645, with Susan and Mary, were carr. to Eng. whence John alone came back, being
sent for by gr. f. Holliman, in 1658, to inherit his est. JOHN, Farmington, had
been of the early sett. of Hartford, m. 1649, Ann Norton, d. of the first
Thomas; freem. 1664, as was JOHN jr. of the same town soon aft. both names being
in the list of 1669. The sen. went in 1673, to view Matatock, to ascert. if it
were desirable to plant there. He was, Hinman says, p. 90, a soldier in the
Pequot war, d. 1679, leav. wid. Margaret and s. Daniel; John; Thomas; and
s.-in-law, h. of his d. Sarah, William Higginson, to wh. he gave the tr. of ld.
grant. by the Col. of Conn. for his serv. The younger John foll. the recommend.
of good ld. at Waterbury, former. Mattatock, but d. 1707, at F. hav. had John;
Ephraim; Robert; Ebenezer; and Lydia, bapt. 13 Mar. 1680, wh. m. Samuel Brunson;
and Thomas, 6 May 1683. JOHN, Middletown, prob. br. of Andrew of the same, m. 14
Dec. 1669, Ann Ward; but if that be true, nothing else can be, of the issue in
Geneal. Reg. XIV. 135. JOHN, Warwick, s. of John of the same, was bd. apprentice
to William Field for 7 yrs. from 1 Aug. 1659, m. 4 [p.421] Aug. 1670, Ann, d. of
the great heretic Samuel Gorton, had John, b. 5 June 1673; Ezekiel; Ann; and
Priscilla; and d. 9 May 1712. JOHN, Ipswich, m. 20 Apr. 1665, Hannah Batchellor,
d. of Joshua of the same, had Eliz. b. 30 June 1666; William, 22 Sept. 1672, d.
soon; William, again, 20 June1673, d. next mo.; Hannah, 14 May 1674; Susanna, 3
Mar. 1677; William, again, 2 Mar. 1679, d. young; and Abigail, 18 Oct. 1681, d.
at 2 mos. His w. was bur. 10 Mar. 1688, and perhaps he had ano. w. JOHN, Hadley,
s. of John the first, m. 2 Apr. 1674, Lydia, d. of Robert Boltwood, rem. to
Springfield bef. more than one of his ch. was b. had Lydia; Priscilla, b. 11
Apr. 1677; John, 22 Feb. 1679; Ebenezer, 16 Feb. 1681; and Mary, 15 Jan. 1683,
d. in two weeks. His w. d. bef. the babe; and he m. a sec. w. Sarah Warner, 31
Aug. 1683, and had Nathaniel, b. 19 Aug. 1684, beside two other ch. wh. d.
without name, and he m. 30 June 1687, Sarah Ferry wh. had no ch. but d. 25 July
1689; and a fourth w. was Rebecca Cooley, the wid. of Obadiah, m. 26 Nov. 1691,
wh. brot. no ch. and d. 18 Oct. 1715. He d. 21 Jan. 1724. His will of 1718,
names a d. Sarah Dewey, whose mo. we kn. not. JOHN, Cambridge, a soldier in
Philip's war, for a wound was grant. 1678, by our Gen. Ct. the sum of £3. JOHN,
Woburn, had John, b. 26 May 1684; Sarah, 18 Mar.
1686; and perhaps rem. JOHN, Middletown, prob. s. of the first Andrew, d. 24
June 1700, leav. John, Jonathan, and other ch. beside reps. of a d. Mary, wh.
had m. John North, and was dec. JOSEPH, Hadley, the freem. of 1673, is of unkn.
lineage. MARK, Hadley, s. of the first John, m. 8 Dec. 1671, Abigail, d. of
Richard Montague, had Abigail, b. 18 Aug. 1675; and Mark, 20 Feb. 1678; and was
freem. 1683; rem. to Northampton a. 1684, thence to Westfield, after d. of his
w. 1705, where he m. 1713, wid. Mary Root of W. wh. d. 1732; but ret. on her d.
to Northampton, there d. 3 May 1738, aged 92, perhaps. NATHANIEL, Ipswich,
perhaps s. of the first Daniel, m. 24 Nov. 1673, Hannah Boynton, perhaps d. of
William, had Nathaniel, b. 20 Mar. 1677, wh. d. at 20 yrs.; Daniel, 11 Feb.
1678, d. at 8 yrs.; John, 12 Oct. 1679, d. next mo.; Hannah, 13 Feb. 1681, d.
young; and Hannah, again, posthum. 28 Aug. 1684. He was freem. 1675, d. bef. 29
Apr. 1684; and his wid. d. in less than 10 yrs. NATHANIEL, Hadley, br. of Mark,
with him, and br. John, and some cous. took o. of alleg. 8 Feb. 1679, m. 3 Feb.
1680, Joanna Gardner, d. of Samuel, had a ch. a. 12 Oct. 1680, whose name is not
found; Nathaniel, 28 Sept. 1681, wh. was k. at Deerfield, in the surpr. by the
Fr. and Ind. 29 Feb. 1704; John, 3 Sept. 1683; Samuel, 15 Jan. 1686, by town
rec. but 29 Jan. by ano. rec. yet prob. a differ. of a yr. renders it likely
there were two of the name; Daniel, 7 Aug. 1690; and Israel, 16 Apr. 1696. He
was freem. 1683, and d. 15 Jan. 1713, aged 64; [p.422] and the wid. d. 18 Mar.
1729, aged 66. Both were bur. at H. PHILEMON, Ipswich, perhaps s. of Daniel the
first, m. 27 Apr. 1690, Abigail Tuttle, had Philemon, b. 7 Jan. 1698; and
Daniel, 20 May 1699. RALPH, Dorchester, adm. inhab. 11 July 1664; but no further
ment. is found of him, unless as to me seems prob. he were of Newtown, L. I. in
few yrs. *ROBERT, Middletown, s. of Andrew the first, was freem. 1657, rep.
1663, 4, 5, by first w. Eliz. Grant, m. Feb. 1655, had Samuel, b. Sept. 1656, d.
young; Seth, 1 Mar. 1658; Eliz. Mar. 1660; John, 1 Feb. 1662; Mary, Sept. 1664;
Sarah, 6 Mar. 1670; and Mehitable, 21 Nov. 1673; this w. d. 26 Dec. 1673; and by
sec. w. Deliverance, wid. of John Rockwell, had Ruth, Nov. 1675; Bethia, 8 Oct.
1680; and Samuel, 9 or 19 May 1683. He d. 10 Apr. 1690; and his wid. m. a
Bissell, as from the indistinct express. of Geneal. Reg. XIV. 135, may be
hazardous. infer. and she d. 12 June 1718. SAMUEL, Ipswich, whose f. is not kn.
m. 21 Oct. 1662, Mercy Swan, perhaps d. of Richard of Rowley, had Priscilla, b.
25 Sept. 1666; Samuel, 5 July 1668; John, 2 Aug. 1670, d. within a yr.; Dorothy,
2 June 1672; Sarah, 28 May 1674; and Richard, 13 Aug. 1676. He was freem. 1675.
SAMUEL, Springfield, or Hadley, by my conject. is the man assoc. with Thomas
Parsons, in votes for reimburs. to them by our Gen. Ct. Vol. V. 58 and 75, for
cattle tak. by a commiss. for the use of troops in 1675, as I judge. SETH,
Middletown, s. of Robert, m. Mary Ward, whose f. is not seen, had Mary, b. 1
Dec. 1687; Robert, 22 June 1692; Samuel; and Seth, 29 July 1705; and d. 28 Nov.
1713. His wid. d. 17 July 1729. THOMAS, Wells, wh. took the o. of alleg. to
Mass. 1653, may be the same wh. in 1639, had been fined [Rec. I. 270] for a
quarrel with Richard Rodman; and perhaps was the fisherman wh. d. at Boston
1660. THOMAS, Norwalk, sold 1 Sept. 1665, his ho. and lds. says Hall, wh. tells
no more; and I conject. that he was k. by the Ind. at Hatfield, 19 Oct. 1675,
prob. a soldier. THOMAS, Waterbury, s. of the first John of Farmington, by w.
Eliz. had John, b. 1680; Mary, 1682; Martha and Thomas, tw. 1687; Samuel, 1690;
and Margaret, 1693; and he d. 1714. WILLIAM, Ipswich, one of the earliest sett.
1637, had Daniel, and John, beside a d. wh. m. Thomas Wells. WILLIAM,
Wethersfield, s. of Daniel of Ipswich, by w. Hannah, m. 1667, had William, b.
1672; John, 1676; Daniel, 1680; Abigail, 1683, d. soon; Abigail, again, 1685;
beside Hannah, perhaps the first b. was deac. and d. 28 Feb. 1714; and his wid.
d. 3 Mar. aft. Twelve of this name had been gr. at Yale, two at Harv. and eight
at other N. E. coll. in 1834, as Farmer notes.
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1663, favor. the jurisdict. of Conn. and it may be, that he had gone from Conn.
to promote annex. BEVIL, Hartford, found in the list of freem. 1669, had good
est. d. 14 Feb. 1730, says the gr.-st. i 97th yr. Wh. was his first w. and mo.
of his ch. is not kn. but when 92 yrs. old, he took ano. w. 13 Dec. 1722, Sarah,
wid. of Joseph Mygott. His will of 1 Feb. 1721 ment. Thomas, d. bef. his f. and
ds. Sarah, wh. m. 10 Feb. 1698, Joseph Benton; Hannah m.1708, Wilterton Merrills;
Mary m. 1711, Thomas Seymour. EDWARD, New Haven, took o. of fidel. 1647; and one
of [p.434] the same name liv. at Westchester 1663. EZEKIEL, Salem, s. of
Richard, had Samuel, b. 3 Sept. 1673; Mary, 19 Apr. 1676; Eliz. 4 Aug. 1678;
Ezekiel, 1 Aug. 1680; Sarah, 9 Aug. 1682; Joyce, 9 Mar. 1684; Susanna, 1 Jan.
1686; Elias, 11 May 1688, wh. d. next mo.; Ebenezer, 26 Oct. 1690; and Martha,
Oct. 1692. JACOB, Charlestown, had w. Sarah, wh. join. the ch. there 12 Nov.
1682, and of wh. I fid no more. JOHN, Boston, came with Winth. 1630, I suppose,
for he and w. Frances are among the very early mem. of our ch. Nos. 23 and 4,
and d. since is add. to the first copy of rec. He was from Neyland, in Co.
Suffk. was a serv. of the Gov. wh. in letters to his w. the first autumn after
arriv. ment. his loss. See Appx. A. to his Hist. Nos. 47 and 49. JOHN, Milford
1658, if Lambert be correct; but no more is found of him, not even his name
among freem. of 1669. JOHN, Salem, perhaps s. of Richard of the same, m. 1 Aug.
1663, Sarah, d. of John Tompkins of the same, had Richard and John, b. last of
June foll. and both d. in few days; John, 4 July 1665; Sarah, 30 Aug. 1667;
Richard, again, 13 Nov. 1669; Nathaniel, 6 Feb. 1672; Samuel, 29 Mar. 1674, d.
in few wks.; Samuel, again, 6 May 1675; and Eliz. 10 Jan. 1678. He was call.
Aug. 1692, witness against George Jacobs. His will of 14 Feb. 1707, was pro. 1
Mar. 1708. JOSEPH, New Haven 1649, aft. 1653, prob. rem. to Milford, at least
had gr. of ld. in that town 166 and 9; but no more is heard of him. JOSEPH,
Boston, m. 13 Sept. 1655, Martha, d. of Oliver Mellows, and no more is told of
him. LAWRENCE, Watertown 1634 or earlier, by w. Ann, d. of Richard Linton, had
Lawrence, b. 14 Feb. 1635; Sarah, 7 Dec. 1636; Mary, 27 Jan. 1638; Rebecca, Feb.
d. 1 Mar. 1640; Daniel, 6 Feb. 1642; in 1638, he or his w. or both, were warned
for hav. danced, and may have been induc. to rem. early to Lancaster, where the
high authty. of Willard makes him build the first ho. in that settlem. See
Centenn. Celebr. 75. There prob. he had, Bond thinks, Joseph, Ephraim, Jacob,
and Rachel; was blind in 1676, but happily rem. bef. the Ind. whirlw. fell on L.
and resid. at Charlestown, there d. 9 Dec. 1687, aged near 85. Adam his s. d. 15
Sept. 1670 at Charlestown. LAWRENCE, Boston, s. of the preced. by w. Hannah, had
Joseph, b. 14 Oct. 1663; Hannah, 26 Jan. 1666; Jonathan, 2 May 1671, d. young;
Jonathan, again, 3 Oct. 1674; and Stephen, 3 Apr. 1677; was freem. 1663; and d.
1693. RICHARD, Salem 1637, a gunsmith, had a ch. bapt. prob. John, 29 Nov. 1640;
Eliz. 26 Feb. 1643, d. unm. at 20 yrs.; Abigail, 18 May 1645; Ezekiel, 4 Apr.
1647; Susanna, 1 Apr. 1649; and Hannah, 30 Jan. 1653; tho. in whose right the
act was admin. does not so well appear, as the adm. of Joyce, wh. may have been
his w. is by Felt insert. under 1641. That w. I presume to be the person made by
Farmer a man (GEORGE), [p.435] and by him enrol. of the ch. 23 May 1641. Such
error is not so ludicr. as that he commits in mak. our Walter Merry, the
shipwright of Merry's point, now the North battery, Merry Waters, as if any
Boston puritan two hundred and twenty yrs. since, could have been call. Merry,
instead of Sad, Stern, or Severe. Dearborn, in Boston Notions, 63, foll. the
blunder of so high authority. He is mark. by Felt as freem. tho. he omits his
name among mem. of the ch. and in my opin. the person so entit. was the Ipswich
man. He was one of the petitnrs. in 1665 for conciliat. betw. the Col. governm.
and the crown, and was licensd to sell ale in 1668, and by his will of 16 July
1676, pro. 25 Nov. 1677, mak. w. Joyce extrix. we find other ch. beside the
forenam. viz. James, William, Martha, and Mary. Then Abigail was w. of William
Punchard; Mary of Clement English; Susanna of Benedict Pulsifer; and Hannah of
Joseph Striker. Martha was perhaps unm. and in that instrum. ment. as well as
her mo. and infirm br. William. Perhaps Sarah, wh. m. 26 Feb. 1652, Joshua Ray,
and Phebe, wh. m. 11 Oct. 1658, Thomas West, may have been his ds. RICHARD,
Ipswich 1638, was prob. the freem. of 22 May 1639. SAMPSON, Boston 1666,
mariner, by w. Rebecca, had Mary, b. 28 Aug. 1667; William, 3 Mar. 1669; John, 2
Jan. 1673; Rebecca, 28 May 1677; Eliz. 1 Feb. 1683; Sampson, 20 June 1685; and
Robert, 5 May 1688; was in 1685, sent out with 40 men, in pursuit of Veale and
Graham, pirates on the coast, off New London, says Farmer, in MS. SAMUEL, Woburn,
freem. 1684, by w. Mary, had Mary, b. 19 Oct. 1675; Sarah, 15 Jan. 1678; Daniel,
30 Nov. 1679; Samuel, 6 Nov. 1681; Abigail, 29 Nov. 1683; John, 22 Sept. 1685,
d. in 4 yrs.; Ephraim, 12 Oct. 1687; John, again, 11 Dec. 1689; Nathaniel, and
Daniel, tw. 10 Oct. 1691, both d. soon; Josiah, 19 Sept. 1694; and Joanna, 28
Nov. 1696. STEPHEN, Charlestown 1678, perhaps br. of Jacob, had w. Sarah, wh.
join. the ch. 26 June 1681; but of him I learn no more. THOMAS, Hartford, only
s. of Bevil of the same, m. 19 May 1696, Sarah, d. of the sec. Benjamin Fenn, of
Milford, had Mehitable, b. 1697, d. young; Joseph, 1698; Sarah, 1699; Mehitable,
again, 1701; Dorothy, 1704; Samuel, 1707; Benjamin, 1709, perhaps d. young; and
Abraham, 1712; neither of the last two are nam. in the will of gr. f. while the
others liv. all are. WILLIAM, Pemaquid, sw. alleg. to Mass. 1674, and was
appoint. constable. WILLIAM, Marblehead 1674, was prob. s. of Richard of Salem,
and d. 1684, leav. ch. William, Thomas, Hannah, and Mary. WILLIAM, Boston 1653,
of wh. I find no more but that when he made a deed June 1668, he is call. senr.
so that it seems prob. there was a junr. WILLIAM, Marblehead, perhaps s. of
William of the same, m. 1 Aug. 1686, [p.436] Eliz. Lattimore, perhaps d. of
Christopher. Farmer's num. of gr. in 1834, is two at Harv. one at Yale, and four
at other N. E. coll.
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Whitmore, oft. WETMORE,
BERIAH, Middletown, s. of the first Thomas, m. 1 Apr. 1691, Margaret, d. of Rev.
Samuel Stow, had Sarah, b. 6 May 1693; Hope, 27 Oct. 1695; Thomas, 8 Feb. 1698,
d. in few days; Margaret, 16 July 1700; Hannah, 2 May 1703; Bethia, 12 Nov.
1705, d. in few wks.; and Beriah, 23 Apr. 1707; and his w. d. 21 Feb. 1710. He
m. 11 Nov. 1714, Mary, d. of Obadiah Allen, had Mary, 6 Oct. 1715, wh. d. in two
mos. His w. d. 24 July 1737, aged 62, and he d. 11 Apr. 1756; and he and all
otherdescend. of his f. adopt. the spell. Wetmore. FRANCIS, Cambridge, s. prob.
of John of Wethersfield, b. in Eng. a. 1625, m. Isabel, d. of Richard Park of
Cambridge, freem. 1654, had Eliz. b. 1 May 1649; Francis, 12 Oct. 1650; John, 1
Oct. 1654; Samuel, 1 May 1658; Abigail, bapt. 3 July 1659; Sarah, b. 7 bapt. 30
Mar. 1662; and Margery, bapt. 27 Mar. 1664, d. young; and the w. d. 31 Mar.
1665. He m. again, 10 Nov. 1666, Margaret Harty, and had Hannah, bapt. not
perhaps as Mitchell's rec. says, 15 Feb. but Sep. 1667, d. soon; Margaret, b. 9
Sept. 1668; Francis, 3 Mar. 1671; Thomas, 1673; and Joseph, a. 1675; and d. says
the gr.-st. in Harris, 11, on 12 Oct. 1683, tho. he notes that rec. of the town
gives 1685; and this is better than the stone. His will of 8 Oct. in this yr. is
abstr. in Geneal. Reg. IX. 134. The wid. d. 1 Mar. 1686. Eliz. m. 3 Nov. 1669,
Daniel Markham; Abigail m. 9 May 1683, Samuel Wilcox of Middletown; Sarah m.
William Locke; Margaret m. Thomas Carter of Woburn;
and Frances m. Jonathan Thompson. FRANCIS, Middletown, eldest s. of the preced.
m. 8 Feb. 1675, Hannah, d. of William Harris, had Francis, b. 25 Nov. 1675;
Hannah, 23 Nov. 1677; Eliz. 1679; Abigail, 23 Jan. 1681; Martha, 1683; Joseph, 1
Aug. 1687; William, 18 Dec. 1689; Edith, 3 Mar. 1692; Isabel, Dec. 1694; and
John, Apr. 1698; was a lieut. and d. 9 Sept. 1700. IZRAHIAH, Middletown, s. of
Thomas, m. 13 May 1692, Rachel, d. of Rev. Samuel Stow, had Izrahiah, b. 28 June
1693; Stow, 31 Jan. 1695; James, 25 Dec. 1695; Ichabod, 18 Apr. 1698 d. young;
Seth, 18 Nov. 1700; Jeremiah, 8 Nov. 1703; Caleb, July 1706; and Josiah, 1 Mar.
1709; and d. 1743. *JOHN, Wethersfield 1639, but in what part of Mass. he had
first liv. is not found, but prob. he brot. from Eng. all the five ch. he ever
had, Thomas, b. a. 1615; Francis, a. 1625; and John, a. 1627; beside two ds.
Ann, said to be b. a. 1621; and Mary, a. 1623; rem. a. 1641 to Stamford, and was
one of the first sett. At S. he was in good repute, m. a wid. Jessup, was chos.
a rep. to New Haven assemb. 1647, and murd. by Ind. in Oct. 1648. The act was
not a case of private hatred, but seems to have been the deed of the whole
tribe, [p.527] and the Col. of Conn. was moved to unite with that of N. H. in a
just revenge. See Trumbull, Col. Rec. I. 197. JOHN, Hartford 1646, s. perhaps of
the preced. had Sarah, b. 16 Dec. 1647; rem. prob. to Stamford bef. or soon
after d. of his suppos. father. JOHN, Medford, s. of Francis the first, m.
Rachel, d. of Francis Eliot of Braintree, wid. of John Poulter of Cambridge, had
Francis and Abigail, tw. b. 8 May 1678, of wh. Francis d. young; and John, 27
Aug. 1683; was freem. 22 Mar. 1690, but the yr. bef. had been impress. into
serv. against the Ind. in the gr. war of 1689, and was on duty beyond Piscataqua.
See Magn. VII. 67. His w. d. 20 Mar. 1723, and he m. 3 June 1724, Rebecca
Cutler, and he d. 22 Feb. 1739. JOHN, Middletown, eldest s. of the first Thomas,
m. 30 Dec. 1680, Abigail, eldest d. of Andrew Warner, had Thomas, b. Apr. 1682;
and Abigail, 2 May 1685, both d. young; and his w. d. 5 May 1685. He m. 1 Apr.
foll. Mary, d. of John Savage of the same, had Eliz. 20 Mar. 1687; Mary, 18 Jan.
1692, d. young; John, 21 May 1694; and Ebenezer, posthum. 17 Sept. 1696. He had
made his will 6 Aug. 1689, and d. 31 Aug. 1696; and his wid. m. Obadiah Allen.
JOSEPH, Woburn, youngest s. of the first Francis,
m. 13 Feb. 1698, Mary, d. of Thomas Kendall of the same, wh. d. 19 Nov. 1760,
had Joseph, b. 17 Feb. 1699. JOSEPH, Middletown, seventh s. of Thomas the first,
m. 6 or 26 June 106, Lydia, d. of Nathaniel Bacon, wh. d. 24 Jan. 1750, had
Joseph, b. 19 Mar. 1707; Lydia, 22 Sept. 1708; Ann, 11 Feb. 1711, d. soon; Ann,
again, 14 Mar. 1713; and Nathaniel, 22 Feb. 1716; and d. 25 Mar. 1717.
NATHANIEL, Middletown, br. of the preced. perhaps had by first w. Thomas and
Moses, but for sec. w. m. 29 Dec. 1703, Dorcas, wid. of Obadiah Allen, jr. had
Deborah, b. 22 Sept. 1704; and Esther, 13 Feb. 1706, d. soon; and he d. 7 Mar.
1709. SAMUEL, Lexington, call. Cambridge Farms, s. of Francis the first, m. 31
Mar. 1688; Rebecca, Gardner, had Francis, b. 9 Dec. foll.; Samuel, 1 Apr. 1688;
Rebecca, 9 Feb. 1690; John, 1692, d. young; Benjamin; Abigail, 8 May 1698;
Sarah, 10 Apr. 1701; Nathaniel, 7 May 1702; and Mary, 4 May 1704. His w. d. 5
June 1709, and he m. Mary, wid. of Abraham Watson, had John, again, 25 Jan.
1715; and d. 22 May 1724. His wid. d. 14 Nov. 1730. SAMUEL, Middletown, third s.
of Thomas the first, m. 13 Dec. 1687, Mary, d. of Nathaniel Bacon, had
Mehitable, b. 14 Nov. 1689; Samuel, 13 Mar. 1692; Mary, 29 June 1694; Benjamin,
17 May 1696; Thomas, 20 Aug. 1698; Daniel, 9 May 1703; Bethia, 22 Jan. 1707; and
Jabez, 14 May 1709. His w. d. ten days aft. and he d. 12 Apr. 1746, aged 90 and
a half yrs. but mistake of Geneal. Reg. XV. 136, makes him 40 yrs. more.
*THOMAS, Middletown, who spelt his name Wetmore, as have all the descend. s. of
the [p.528] first John, m. 16 Dec. 1645, Sarah, d. of John Hall, had John, bapt.
6 Sept. 1646; Eliz. b. 1648; Mary, 1649; Sarah, bapt. 20 Apr. 1651, d. young;
Thomas, 19 Oct. 1652; Hannah, 13 Feb. 1654; Samuel, 10 Sept. 1655; Izrahiah, 8
Mar. 1657; Beriah, 2 Nov. 1658; Nathaniel, 21 Apr. 1661; Joseph, 5 Mar. 1663;
Sarah, again, 27 Nov. 1664. His w. d. 7 Dec. foll. and he m. 3 Jan. 1667, Mary
Akinson, wid. of Luke, and d. of deac. Richard Platt, had Josiah, 29 Mar. 1668;
and Mehitable, 17 June 1669, and his w. d. the same day. He m. 8 Oct. 1673,
Catharine Roberts, had Benjamin, 27 Nov. 1674; Abigail, 6 Nov. 1678; and Hannah,
4 Jan. 1681. He d. 11 Dec. foll. and his wid. d. 13 Oct. 1693. THOMAS,
Middletown, sec. s. of the preced. m. 20 Feb. 1685, Eliz. d. of George Hubbard
of the same, had Eliz. b. 2 Sept. 1686; and Thomas, 8 June 1689, who d. at 22
yrs. He d. 1 Feb. 1690, and his wid. d. 6 Dec. 1725. THOMAS, Cambridge, s. of
Francis of the same, perhaps was some time of Lexington, by w. Mary had Thomas,
b. 4 Nov. 1694; Francis, 5 Sept. 1696; Samuel, 22 Sept. 1698; Mary, 4 Sept.
1700; Daniel, 22 Feb. 1702; Ephraim, bapt. 1709, with Hannah, Abigail, and Sarah
at the same time. Aft. liv. many yrs. at Billerica, he rem. to Killingly, and d.
23 Jan. 1751.
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Whittemore, Witamore
or Whitamore, Benjamin, Malden, s. of Thomas, by w.
Eliz. d. of William Buckman, had Benjamin, b. Jan. 1668, d. in few wks.; Eliz.
Apr. 1669; Benjamin, again, 2 Nov. 1670, d. at 6 yrs. and prob. others, as
Benjamin, again, th inscript. on whose gr.-st. says he d. 6 Oct. 1703, aged 23;
and d. 16 July 1726, in 87th yr. and his wid. d. in two days in her 83d yr.
BENJAMIN, Malden, s. of the first John, m. 17 Aug. 1692, Esther Brooks, had
Mary, b. 12 July 1694; Benjamin, 9 Apr. 169; Nathaniel, 23 Nov. 1698; Grace, 20
Mar. 1701; Hannah, 15 July 1703; Mehitable, 19 Apr. 1705; Esther, 3 May 1707, d.
at 2 yrs.; Joel, 29 Apr. 1709; Aaron, 13 Dec. 1711; Susanna; and Esther, again,
and he d. 8 Sept. 1734. DANIEL, Watertown, br. of the preced. b. perhaps in Eng.
m. 7 Mar. 1662, Mary, d. of [p.534] Richard Mellen, as seems prob. had Daniel,
b. 27 Apr. 1663; John, 12 Feb. 1665; Thomas, 5 Mar. 1667; Mary, 12 Feb. 1669;
and Nathaniel, 7 Feb. 1670, beside others. His w. d. 11 May 1683, but the date
of his own d. is unkn. and he had bef. 1678, rem. to Malden. The will names two
oldest ch. and refers to seven others. DANIEL, Malden, s. of the preced. m.
Lydia Bassett of Bridgewater, had Daniel, b. 28 Feb. 1690; Lydia, 24 Jan. 1692;
Joseph, 13 Mar. 1694; Mary, 26 Mar. 1696; Richard, 14 Mar. 1698; Eliz. 28 Jan.
1701; Jonathan, 11 Apr. 1705; Hannah, 18 Mar. 1707; William, Jan. 1709; and
Sarah; and he d. 21 Sept. 1756. His will of 8 Feb. 1743 names all the ch. but
Joseph, prob. d. DANIEL, Malden, s. of the first John, had William, b. 1709, as
is said. JOHN, Charlestown, s. of Thomas of the same, b. prob. in Eng. one of
the tythingm. 1678, m. Mary, d. of deac. John Upham of Malden, had John; Thomas,
b. 1 Sept. 1664; Joseph, 29 Jan. 1666; Benjamin, 1 Sept. 1669; all bapt. 1671,
in right of the mo. wh. join. the ch. five wks. bef.; Nathaniel, 9 Mar. bapt. 13
Apr. 1673; Joel, b. and d. 27 Apr. 1676; and Joel, again, 15 June, bapt. 8 July
1677. His w. d. twelve days after, and he m. 8 Nov. foll. Mary, d. of Rev. John
Miller, had Mary, b. 24 Oct. 1678; Pelatiah, 7 May, bapt. 27 June 1680; Amos, 25
July, bapt. 2 Oct. 1681; Eliz. 26 Sept. bapt. 11 Nov. 1683; Daniel, 28 Dec.
1685, d. at 3 mos.; Rebecca, 3 Mar. bapt. 17 Apr. 1687; Hannah, 10 Feb. 1689;
prob. rem. to Watertown, and his 15th ch. was Daniel, again, 7, bapt. 17 May
1691. Of his own d. the date 8 Dec. 1694 is told, but his wid. d. 28 Jan. 1732,
aged 78. JOHN, Charlestown, s. of the preced. perhaps, at least, is call junr.
m. 26 May 1684, Eliz. Annable, and had John, b. next Feb. 23; Jonathan, 15 Mar.
1690, d. soon; Richard, 20 Mar. 1692; Joseph, 13 Feb. 1694; Sarah, 25 Mar. 1695;
Experience, 12 Apr. 1696; Thomas, Apr. 1697; Experience, again, 20 May 1698;
Jonathan, again, 23 May 1699; Abigail, 15 Aug. 1700; Ann, 21 July 1701; and
Josiah, 28 Aug. 1702. Yet of these ch. few of wh. grew up to adult yrs. all but
one, I suppose, may be by w. Sarah, but he d. 6 Apr. 1702. JOSEPH, Malden, br.
of the preced. m. 30 Mar. 1687, Joanna Mousall, d. prob. of John of Woburn,
had Joseph, b. 22 Feb. 1689; Joanna, 27 Oct. 1691; Jabez, 20 Jan. 1695; Susanna,
11 Apr. 1697; Huldah, June 1699; and Abiel, 6 Aug. 1701. He had for sec. w.
Susanna Frost, and d. 1741. LAWRENCE, Roxbury, came 1635, emb. Apr. in the
Hopewell, capt. Bundock, at London, aged 63, with w. Eliz. 57, was adm. freem.
18 Apr. 1637. His w. d. 13 Feb. 1643, “of an apoplexy wh. she had more than
two yrs. bef.” says the ch. rec. wh. next yr. on 18 Nov. ins. him under the
same descript. “an ancient Christian of 80 yrs. of age,” and the town rec.
borrows the statem. that will bear six or seven yrs. [p.535] subtract. They were
of Stanstead Abbey in Co. Herts, had prop. suffic. and no ch. so that he gave
all his est. to the free sch. all generat. foll. of R. bless his name therefor.
NATHANIEL, Malden, s. of Thomas, b. prob. in Eng. m. a d. it is said, of deac.
John Upham, tho. I doubt, as the name is giv. Mary, who was w. of his br. John;
yet by w. Mary had Mary, b. 26 Apr. 1668; Nathaniel, 26 Sept. 1670; and Rebecca;
d. at 3 yrs. and by his will of 22 Oct. 1671, pro. 19 Dec. foll. made w. extrix.
She m. 3 May 1673, John Mirable. NATHANIEL, Malden, s. of the first John, had
Eliz. b. 24 Aug. 1696. PELATIAH, Malden, s. of the first John, m. 14 Nov. 1706,
Margery, d. of William Pepperell of Kittery, sis. of Sir William, had Pelatiah,
b. 20 Jan. 1708; William, 10 Mar. 1710; Mary, 2 Nov. 1712; Margery, d. soon; and
Joel, 15 Dec. 1716; and d. 21 Oct. 1724, lost near the Isle of Shoals. All the
four surv. ch. are nam. in the will of the conqueror of Louisburg. SAMUEL,
Charlestown, s. of Thomas the first, by w. Hannah had Samuel, b. 24 Dec. 1672;
Hannah, 16 Dec. 1676; Eliz. 17 June 1679; Sarah, 16 Jan. 1682; and Mary, 9 Sept.
1684; all bapt. 5 June 1687, with the mo. also, then aged 30 yrs.; Abigail, 31
Jan. bapt. 8 Apr. foll.; Susanna, 17 Oct. bapt. 10 Dec. 1693; and d. 15 Sept.
1726, aged a. 75 yrs. and his wid. d. May 1728, aged a. 76, as Harris
(Cambridge) Epit. teaches. THOMAS, Charlestown, d. 25 May 1661, hav. made his
will 8 Feb. preced. in wh. he names w. Hannah, eldest s. Thomas, then in Eng. if
alive; Daniel; Nathaniel, bapt. 1 May 1636; John, 11 Feb. 1638; and Eliz. beside
five other minor ch. Benjamin; Thomas; Samuel; Pelatiah; and Abraham. Why he
call. two s. Thomas might, by conject. be explain. as if the last five were b.
by the sec. w. sure. and the first five were by w. Sarah, wh. d. in Eng. and for
the boys the opinion would answer better than for the d. Yet perhaps few, if any
of the ten, were b. in this country; at least, he is not found among inhabs. of
C. in 1658; tho. he may have liv. in some other town of Mass. at that day, as he
did few yrs. bef. at Reading. The wid. m. 3 June 1663, Benjamin Butterfield of
Chelmsford. THOMAS, Woburn, perhaps s. of the
preced. m. 9 Nov. 1666, Eliz. Pierce, d. prob. of Thomas of the same, had
Joseph, b. 14 Aug. 1667; and d. I think, in Mar. 1670, for 5 Apr. of that yr.
his w. Eliz. had admin. She m. 15 Oct. 1670, Hopestill Foster of Boston. THOMAS,
Malden, s. of the first John, m. wid. Mary Pease, had Thomas, b. 18 Mar. 1694;
and Martha, 17 Apr. 1709.
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Wilson, Andrew, Boston, by w. Bethia, wh. join.
Mather's ch. 26 Jan. 1690, and same day had three ch. bapt. whose names are not
seen in the rec. beside David, 27 Dec. 1691; and Mercy, 18 Feb. 1694; and
perhaps more. ANDREW, Cambridge, youngest ch of Robert of the same, by w. Hannah
had Andrew, b. 12 May 1696; Hannah, 10 Aug. 1698; Deborah, 12 Oct. 1700; John,
28 Jan. 1703; Mary, 11 Mar. 1707; Damaris, 1 Nov. 1708, d. soon; Damaris, again,
25 Aug. 1710; and he d. 1722. ANTHONY, Fairfield 1643, m. Rachel, wid. of John
Brandish, had Sarah; and next, m. Sarah, wid. of Thomas [p.582] Bulkley, d. of
Rev. John Jones, and d. early in 1662, leav. good est. to his only ch. Sarah,
beside £60. to his br. Samuel, and legacies to two other brs. Thomas, and John,
to brs. William, and Ignatius Hill, and mo. Hill, and sis. Ann, but whether she
was Wilson or Hill is uncert. and to four cousins, meaning nephews, Thomas
Wilson, Peter Clapham, Edward Wilson, and Samuel, the last of wh. liv. with him.
BENJAMIN, Taunton 163, wh. was there among first sett. in 1638, as Baylies
thinks, I. 289. BENJAMIN, Charlestown, by w. Ann had Ann, b. 1 July 1655;
Benjamin, 6 Oct. 1657; soon aft. as we must suppose, both mo. and ch. d. for
Benjamin and Eliz. are next seen on the rec. as hav. Benjamin, 4 June 1659,
unless the name of w. is here perversely changed, as seems very prob. Some aid
is furnish. by ch. rec. wh. certif. to us that Benjamin was bapt. 1 May 1664,
but how old is not ment. and Jeremiah, 22 Oct. 1665. He was a mariner, d. “at
sea lately,” says the County rec. when admin. was giv. 17 Dec. 1667, to his
wid. Ann. BENJAMIN, Roxbury, s. of Nathaniel of the same, had three ws. as
Jackson tells. By first, Sarah, had Benjamin, b. 6 Oct. 1678; rem. to Newton,
there had, says Barry, John, 17 Apr. 1688. His w. d. 15 Apr. 1689; and by sec.
w. Grace, had, if Jackson be correct, John; Benjamin; Joseph; Sarah; Mary; and
William, 14 Oct. 1697. His third w. Esther perhaps surv. him, and his est. was
admin. 1705. *DANIEL, Northampton, rep. 165. EDWARD of Boston or Roxbury, a
miller, prob. unm. d. 1638, as one might be justified by the will to inf. See
Geneal. Reg. VII. 30, where we may not be sure, that 19 Apr. was the date of
mak. rather than of pro. It made his br. Thomas excor. gave him half his prop.
and half to br. William, but if W. do not come over to N. E. then the whole to
Thomas. By Col. Rec. I. 235, it seems that Thomas present. to the Gen. Ct. on 4
Sept. foll. inv. of £48. 2s. EDWARD, Charlestown, join. the ch. 29 July
1660, m. 6 Nov. 1656, Mary, d. of deac. Robert Hale, wh. join. 23 Feb. 1662, had
William, bapt. 5 Aug. 1660; Mary, 20 July 1662; John, 6 Nov. 1664; Joanna, 21
Apr. 1667; Catharine, 14 Nov. 1669; Edward, 23 Apr. 1671; Eliz. 1 Feb. 1674,
prob. d. soon; Samuel, 25 July 1675, prob. d. soon; Eliz. again, 2 Sept. 1677;
Samuel, again, 23 May 1680; and Hale, 7 Aug. 1681. EDWARD, Salem 1646, had m. a
d. of Michael Sallows, wh. in his will of Nov. in that yr. nam. W. as one of his
excors. EDWARD, Fairfield, d. 1684, leav. Nathaniel, and Mary, w. of Jonathan
Moorhouse, but not wid. His inv. is of 12 Nov. in that yr. EPHRAIM, Dedham, s.
of Henry of the same, m. 10 May 1681, Rebecca, d. of Samuel Sumner, had Ephraim,
b. 27 Feb. 1684; Samuel, 5 Apr. 1687; and Rebecca, 28 Jan. 1695. FRANCIS, Woburn,
m. 6 Mar. 1683, Ruth Duntlen. GAWIN, Kittery, submit. to Mass. jurisdict. Nov.
1652. [p.583] GEORGE, Kittery, perhaps s. of the preced. or only by ill chirogr.
may be pervert. to mean ano. was 36 yrs. old in 1654. HENRY, Dedham 1639, freem.
2 June 1641, m. 24 Nov. 1642, Mary, d. of Michael Metcalf the first, had
Michael, b. 7 Aug. 1644; Mary, bapt. 21 Nov. 1652; Sarah, 22 Jan. 1654; Ephraim,
June 1656. HUMPHREY, Exeter 1645, s. of Thomas, m. Dec. 1663, Judith, d. of
William Hersey of Hingham. ISAAC, Newton, s. of the first Nathaniel, m. July
1685, Susanna Andrews, had Isaac, b. 14 May foll.; Samuel; Ebenezer; Susanna;
Hannah; and Abigail. JACOB, Braintree, freem. 2 June 1641, had Isaac, b. 28 Jan.
of that yr.; and Sarah, 28 Jan. 1642. AMES, Woburn,
by w. Deborah had a d. in 1688 whose name is not giv. prob. d. soon; Deborah, 27
Feb. 1690; and Abigail, 8 Feb. 1692. Perhaps he rem. JEREMIAH, New Shoreham, or
Block Isl. s. of Samuel of Portsmouth, R. I. by w. Mary had Eliz.; Mary; Samuel;
Jeremiah; John; Sarah; James; Mary; George; Alice; Ann; and Judith; and d. 1740.
JOHN, Boston 1630, b. at Windsor where his f. Rev. William, of wh. he was
third s. had a prebendal stall, in 1588, from Eton sch. went to the univ. of
Cambridge in 1602, as Mather tells, much of whose story of his early days has
apocryphal sound, there of Christ's Coll. had his A. B. 1605-6, and A. M. 1609,
as by me in the registry of the Univ. seen, tho Mather would have it Emanuel;
and Farmer writes at King's, where, indeed, may, as the Magnalia tells, have
been the adm. Aft. serv. as chaplain in sev. houses, he was induct. at Sudbury
in the S. border of Co. Suffolk; there contin. ten or twelve yrs. but disgust.
with the worship of forms and vestments growing in the ch. he encourag. the
coloniz. of the Mass. Bay, and came 1630, with the Gov. and Comp. bring. the
chart. in the Arbella. His w. Eliz. whose name is not distinct. read in Mather,
tho. in his usual roundabout way he says, Magn. III. cap. 3, p. 42, that W.
designed to m. a d. “of the lady Mansfield, wid. of Sir John,” remain. in
Eng. prob. with care of the ch. Edmund first b. (so nam. for his gr. uncle
Edmund Grindall, the puritan archbishop of Canterbury 1575-83); John; and
others, if there were more; but when he went back to Eng. and came again 1632,
he brot. her and s. John, but the oldest s. perhaps never was on this side of
the ocean. The w. was sis. of the w. of Robert Keayne, and her br. John with his
fam. got over to Boston, two yrs. later, in poverty; and torment Keayne very
much, if his will be good evid. as may, partly, be read in Geneal. Reg. VI. 156.
He made sec. voyage to Eng. 1634, and came again in the summer of 1635, wh. led
me to mistake, formerly, the time of his w.'s coming, as she did not join our
ch. bef. 20 Mar. 1636; whereas we sec, that his d. Mary was bapt. 8 Sept. 1633,
unless the ch. rec. means a week later, the copy of town rec. certif. that she
was b. 12 Sept. He [p.584] had request. adm. as freem. 19 Oct. 1630, and was sw.
3 July 1632, and d. 7 Aug. 1667, and was bur. on the Sunday foll. Of the good
desert of this first min. of Boston, abund. proof is found in the Magn. III.
cap. 3, with some few lamentab. characteristics of the author, perhaps little to
be regard. in derog. from the charact. of W. Yet of one trait in him, the zeal
for the glory of God, as exhib. in “Ill Newes from New Eng.” where the
testimony of Obadiah Holmes, the Bapt. confessor, is fully giv. we must regret
that it surpassed the limits of self-respect, as well as common decency. H.
tells aft. his sentence to imprisonm. and cruel scourg. “as I went from the
Bar, I express myself in these words: I bless God I am count. worthy to suffer
for the name of Jesus; whereupon John Wilson (their Pastor as they call him) struck
me bef. the judgm.-seat, and cursed me, saying, the curse of God or Jesus go
with thee.” For the imprecation upon the heretic lenity may be extend. as we
hope, by the final Judge, when he cometh in the clouds of heaven; but at the
tribunal of gentlemen the assault on a defenseless prisoner, even tho. convict.
by his own confess. of the crime of preach. what he thot. truth, meets no
indulgence. Gratitude has always been express. for this found. of Boston ch. no
doubt in some degr. arising from the munific. contrib. of £1,000. by his br.
William in Eng. and the most judicious invest. of part of that sum, as in Col.
Rec. I. 128 alluded to, and may by any minute antiquary be seen in 2 Mass. Hist.
Coll. VIII. 228, all assist. in keep. active the generous emotion. The eldest s.
travel. in Holland and Italy, where he gain. the honor of M. D. but as I doubt
whether he ever came across the sea, I do not inquire for much detail as to his
m. or wh. was his w. nor can I tell more than that he liv. at London as a
physicia, d. a. 1658, leav. s. John, and d. Bridget, wh. m. Nicholas Prideaux,
merch. of Barbadoes. His d. Mary m. 5 Nov. 1651, Rev. Samuel Danforth of
Roxbury, and next a Buck of Boston (whose bapt. name eludes my search, for many
hours, at var. times), and d. 13 Sept. 1713. Mather's life is, perhaps, the best
of any in his catal. of min. yet the caution to be used in read. all other parts
of the Magn. must not be neglect. here. In § 19 of that 3d chap. in proof of
the “certain prophetic afflatus, wh. oft. directs the speeches of” men like
Wilson, he refers to the success of John Hull, as foretold by W. bec. of his
attention to his mother “weak in body and poor in est.” Mather had no
intent. of casting ridicule upon prophecy, for he was giv. to showing his
ability in the same way, but his fancy, as usual, outran his judgment; and his
memory, great as it was, forever calls on invention to come to the aid of truth.
Hull's mo. Eliz. wh. d. above 16 yrs. bef. M. was b. is not to be specially
mark. as “poor in est.” and if the writer meant Judith the sec. w. of his f.
and mo. of the young man's w. (as is [p.585] most prob.) the panegyric is even less
necessa.; but in deed this sec. w. d. nine yrs. bef. the b. of the
historian. More of less accommodat. of fact to theory is observ. in other
authors than him whose Magnalia is the monum. to delineate his character no less
than his desire, tho. prob. to few it is ascrib. in equal extent. JOHN,
Medfield, s. of the preced. b. in Eng. Sept. 1621, H. C. 1642, had the benefit
of join. the ch. of his f. 3 Mar. 1644, but was not freem. until 1647, ord. as
collea. with Rev. Richard Mather at Dorchester in 1649, but contin. only two
yrs. and was then sett. at M. by w. Sarah had John, bapt. at Boston, 8 July
1648; Thomas, b. 12 Nov. 1652; Eliz. 1653; Increase, 1656; John, again, 1660;
and Thomas, again, 2 Mar. 1662, or, as Barry says, 18 Nov. of that yr.; beside
Susanna, Dec. 1664, wh. m. 1683, Rev. Grindal Rawson of Mendon; and d. 23 Aug.
1691. JOHN, Woburn, had Samuel, b. 29 Dec. 1658;
Abigail, 8 Aug. 1666; Eliz. 6 Aug. 1668; Benjamin, 15 Oct. 1670; and Hannah, 31
May 1672, wh. d. soon; John, 3 Jan. 1673; Hannah, again, 28 Dec. 1674, d. soon;
Hannah, again, 11 Mar. 1677; and Susanna, 11 Mar. 1679. He may be the man wh.
Barry says came 1651, in the John and Sarah from London. In so common a name to
discern whose s. was that JOHN, the soldier in Beers's comp. k. by the Ind. with
his capt. 4 Sept. 1675, must be very diffic.; and he d. 2 July 1687. JOHN,
Dover, there tax. 1666, as was found by the dilig. of Rev. Mr. Quint. JOHN,
Hartford, s. of Robert of the same, propound. for freem. 1675, m. Lydia, d. of
John Cole, had John; Stebbing; Hannah; and Mary; and he d. 16 Jan. 1698. JOHN,
New Haven, prob. s. of Rev. John of Medfield, m. 4 July 1683, Sarah, d. prob. of
Rev. Roger Newton of Milford, had Sarah, b. 1 Apr. 1684; and no more is there
kn. of him. He was not a propr. 1685; but was liv. at Medfield, there had John,
b. May 1686; Eliz. Oct. 1689; and Roger, 1691. JOHN, Billerica, freem. 1690, may
have had fam. for in the Court's list he is mark. sen. JOSEPH, Dorchester,
freem. 2 May 1638, was perhaps, br. of Benjamin, as he is found with him among
earliest sett. at Taunton, in Baylies I. 286, and Mr. Clap has not included
either of the names at D. But whether either had fam. I see not. JOSEPH, Lynn,
m. 2 May 1670, Dorcas Randall, had Jacob, b. 3 Sept. 1671; and he may have rem.
JOSEPH, Andover, s. of William of Boston, m. 4 July 1670, Mary Lovejoy, prob. d.
of John of the same, had Mary, wh. d. 31 Mar. 1674, and his w. d. 18 June 1677.
He next m. 24 Apr. 1678, Sarah Lord, and d. 1718. His w. Sarah suffer. long
imprison. on charge of witcher. 1692, and sav. her life by confession. JOSEPH,
Malden, had Joseph, b. 27 Sept. 1673, was freem. 1685, and allow. to be ensign
the same yr. but so early as Dec. 1674, had been call. to take o. of fidel. as a
soldier, bec. capt. and d. or was bur. 14 Jan. [p.586] 1705, aged 58. JOSEPH,
Newton, s. of Nathaniel of the same, by w. Deliverance had Hannah, b. 10 June
1685; Deliverance, 11 Oct. 1687; Margaret, 27 Feb. 1689; Sarah; Thankful, 24
Mar. 1692; Mary, 24 Jan. 1694; Exprience, 10 Nov. 1696; Abigail; Eliz. 30 May
1703; and Josiah, 31 Oct. 1704. JOSEPH, Andover, perhaps s. of Joseph of the
same, m. 25 Jan. 1700, Mary Richardson. LAMBERT, Salem, the surg. sent over
1629, by the Gov. and Comp. in London. See their letter of instruct. to capt.
Endicott, in Col. Rec. I. 396, by the hands of Higginson, wherein they inform.
the people here that the bargain was for his service three yrs. but my doubt is
strong, whether he contin. half the time. MATTHEW, New Haven 1642, of wh. no
more is learn. MICHAEL, Wrentham, perhaps s. of Henry of Dedham, by w. Mary had
Sarah, b. 18 Feb. 1676; Mary, 16 Feb. 1678; Michael, 6 Feb. 1682; Silence, 16
Feb. 1684; Noah, 4 Sept. 1686; and Henry, 9 Apr. 1690. NATHANIEL, Roxbury, whose
f. is never ment. and perhaps he never came to our side of the ocean, m. 2 Apr.
1645, Hannah, d. of Griffin Crafts, had Hannah, bapt. 2 May 1647; Ellis gives,
135, Hannah and Mary, tw. 1647, yet perhaps this is mistake of the name of the
month for that of a ch.; Susanna; Nathaniel, b. 30 Apr. bapt. 8 May 1653; Joseph
and Benjamin, tw. 31 Jan. bapt. 17 Feb. 1656; Isaac, 24, bapt. 29 Aug. 1658;
Mary, 22, bapt. 23 June 1661; Abigail, 1663; Samuel; and ano. d. perhaps
Rebecca; and d. 17 Sept. 1692, aged 70, says Jackson, wh. marks his rem. to
Newton, then call. Cambridge vill. and was freem. 1690, unless his s. of the
same name be there meant. His w. d. one mo. bef. him. Hannah m. 7 Feb. 1669,
Shubael Seaver, as Roxbury rec. says; Susanna m. 31 Dec. 1673, Thomas Gill; Mary
m. 19 Apr. 1682, Thomas Oliver as his sec. w.; and Abigail m. 1687, deac. Edward
Jackson, as his sec. w.; and Jackson says Rebecca m. Shubael Seaver, and if that
be correct, she was his sec. w. The d. of Hannah Wilson, 12 Nov. 1645, is ment.
by Ellis; but perhaps it was only a premat. b. NATHANIEL, Newton, s. of the
preced. was a soldier in Johnson's comp. in the hard serv. of Dec. 1675, espec.
when, in the swamp fight, his f.'s friend, the capt. was k. by the Ind. m. a.
1680 or bef. June 1681, Hannah, d. of Edward Jackson, sen. not (as the Hist. of
Newton, 445, by the dilig. Francis Jackson, Esq. makes her) of Rev. John Oliver,
a mistake easily fallen into, bec. Oliver had d. Hannah by the same w. who bec.
w. of Jackson, who had also, by his first w. a Hannah who. m. John Ward; but
Oliver's d. Hannah d. young; and his wid. mo. of that dec. Hannah, aft. m. with
Jackson brot. him this sec. Hannah. He had Nathaniel, b. 4 Dec. 1682; Eliz. 9
Nov. 1684; Hannah, 18 Oct. 1686; Susanna, 6 Nov. 1688; and Edward, 3 Oct. 1689;
and his w. d. 26 Sept. foll. He m. 11 Mar. 1693, Eliz. d. of Humphrey [p.587]
Osland, had Mary; Relief; Thankful; and Abigail; all b. aft. his rem. to
Framingham, where his w. d. 10 Mar. 1715, and he d. 26 Dec. 1721. NATHANIEL,
Hartford, s. of Phineas of the same, m. Susanna, d. of Dep.-Gov. William Jones
of New Haven, had Benjamin and Rebecca, but aft. much misconduct to her, and
foll. the evil courses begun bef. m. he desert. her, went to parts unkn. and was
regard. as d. insomuch that his est. was admin. 1703, when the inv. was only £606.
6s. and the w. d. 1705. Aft. est. was giv. to his sis. Rowlandson and
Jesse, the reprobate reappear. and long trouble in the law foll. until 1720,
when the assembled wisdom of the Gen. Ct. was invoked for final adjustm. PAUL,
Charlestown, a householder 1677, of wh. no more is learn. exc. that his w. Mary
join. the ch. 10 Apr. 1687. PHINEAS, Hartford 1675, had come from Dublin, and
was a prosper. merch. by first w. perhaps tak. in Eng. Mary, only d. of
Nathaniel Sanford, had Nathaniel; Hannah; and Mary; and by sec. w. Eliz. m. a.
1690, whose fam. name is sought in vain, wid. of John Hayward the Notary of
Boston, wh. had been wid. of Samuel Sendall, and earlier, the third w. of John
Warren, had no ch. and d. 22 May 1692, aged 64. His inv. 6 June next, shows £4,102.
By his will of 6 May 1691, he gave a small sum to ea. of three sis. of his, all
iv. near Hull in E. riding of Yorksh. and an equal amount to Abigail Warren, d.
of his w. wh. m. first, 14 Jan. 1693, Richard Lord, and next, Timothy
Woodbridge; and the shares of his ds. were £955. ea. Hannah m. Joseph
Rowlandson; and Mary m. David Jesse of Boston, and next Joseph King of Suffield.
The son had, of course, a larger amo. quite eno. to ruin him. Aft. d. of this
fourth h. the wid. transact. large business in money lending at H. until some
yrs. bef. her d. 9 or 19 July 1727, aged 86, by her will gladdens many
relatives, and the details may be agreeable: to her s. Rev. Timothy Woodbridge,
who had m. her d. Abigail, £50.; to the five s. of said Abigail, Elisha,
Richard, Epaphras, and Ichabod Lord, with Theodore Woodbridge, all her real est.
and £200. to ea. and to the gr. ds. Jerusha Whiting, Mary Pitkin, and Eliz.
Lord, £100. ea. and her furnit. and to d. Woodbridge all resid. of personal
est. to ea. of Woodbridge's childr. a gold ring; Rev. Thomas Buckingham, £10.;
Joanna Stone of Boston, £10.; to d. Warren of Boston, and her s. Thomas, ea. £10.;
to d. King, i. e. w. of Joseph, £10.; to Eliz. d. of John Hunlock of Boston, £3.;
to d. Mary, w. of John Burr of Hingham, £10.; to d. Sarah Gardner, £10.; to d.
Lydia Davis of L. I. £10.; and last to gr.d. Mary Jesse, £5.; beside £40. to
poor wids. in Hartford; and the sum of inv. was £7,154. RICHARD, Boston 1639, a
youth who stole money from his master, and was set to serv. for some yrs. to a
new master, but abus. him, so as to be sentenc. to be whip. in 1641, may not
reason. seem the same as the [p.588] foll. but may be he of Duxbury, able to
bear arms 1643, of wh. no more is heard. RICHARD, Boston, m. 7 Apr. 1654, Sarah
Hurst, perhaps d. of one wh. d. the yr. preced. made his will of 19 Aug. 1654,
of wh. William Kilcup was one of the overseers, and gave every thing to his wid.
and the amt. was worth having, tho. not large. See Geneal. Reg. V. 305, and
VIII. 277. ROBERT, Windsor, an early sett. tho. not among the first, m. Eliz. d.
of deac. Edward Stebbins, had John, rem. to Farmington, and had Samuel, b. 1653;
perhaps no other ch. and d. at F. 21 July 1655. His wid. m. 1658, Thomas Cadwell.
An Isabel W. m. 4 June 1645 or 6, the sec. William Phelps of Windsor, was prob.
sis. of Robert. ROBERT, Salem 1662, in wh. yr. his w. was severely punish. with
her mo. Buffum, perhaps w. of Joseph or Robert, and sis. Smith, perhaps w. of
James or John, as Quakers. Yet six yrs. later, he was join. with the majority in
petition. against imposts. His wid. Ann m. 21 Nov. 1683, Joseph Foster. ROBERT,
Cambridge, of wh. we see not when or whence he came, rem. to Sudbury, m.
Deborah, d. of Andrew Stephenson of C. had Deborah, b. 25, bapt. 30 Sept. 1666;
Sarah, 6 Oct. 1668; and Andrew, 17 Sept. 1670; and d. a. 1685. ROBERT, one of
the soldiers of capt. Lothrop's comp. call. “the flower of Essex,” cut off
18 Sept. 1675 at Deerfield. SAMUEL, New Haven, sw. fidel. 1644, rem. a. 1649,
and possib. may be the SAMUEL of Fairfield 1654, whose d. Mary, by w. Jane is
ment. on Boston rec. of deaths sub. an. 1654 for wh. various conject. may
furnish explanat. The ch. may have been sev. yrs. old, or but few days. Yet ano.
SAMUEL of Fairfield m. Phebe, d. of Joseph Middlebrook, under a contr. 1679, and
was liv. there 1686, when her f' s. est. was to be distrib. Still we kn. not
eno. to authorize infer. that he was or was not the same as the preced. SAMUEL,
Portsmouth, R. I. is among freem. 1655, was in 1657 one of the gr. Petaquomscot
purch. with John Hull and others, and perhaps of Wickford 1674, m. Tabitha, d.
of John Tift, had Samuel; James; and Jeremiah; beside Mary, wh. m. Robert
Hannah; and next, 1708, George Webb; and Sarah wh. m. John Potter; and he d. a.
1682, aged 60. SAMUEL, Windsor, s. of Robert of the same, m. May 1672, Mary, d.
of John Griffin, had Eliz. or Isabel, b. 24 Feb. 1674, to wh. the damnable name
of Jezabel is ascrib. by the queer blunder of Geneal. Reg. V. 364; Mary, 5 Aug.
1675; Samuel, 21 Nov. 1678, d. at 11 yrs.; Abigail, 1684; John, 1686; Samuel,
again, 1692; and Mindwell, early in 1696; and he d. 3 Aug. 1697, when all the
ch. exc. Samuel the first were liv. SAMUEL, Woburn,
m. 24 Feb. 1682, Eliz. Pierce, had Eliz. b. 28 Jan. foll.; Mary, 10 Apr. 1685;
Samuel, 2 Feb. 1688, d. very soon; Hannah, 24 Dec. 1688; Rebecca, 5 Mar. 1693,
d. next yr.; Samuel, again, 21 Nov. 1695; and Rebecca, again, 5 July [p.589]
1698. Ano. SAMUEL, perhaps that freem. of 1684, earlier by one yr. than Joseph
of Malden, may have been his br. and prob. the lieut. of 1690. SAMUEL, Newton,
s. of Nathaniel first, m. Experience, d. of the first James Trowbridge, had
Experience, b. 21 Sept. 1697, d. young; Margaret, 28 Aug. 1699; Samuel, 18 Mar.
1701; Thomas, 8 May 1703; and Experience, again, 2 Aug. 1705. SHOREBORN,
Ipswich, s. of William of the same, a cooper, m. 9 Sept. 1657, Abigail Osgood,
d. perhaps of Christopher of the same, had Joseph, b. 1 June 1660; Mary, 24 Aug.
1662, d. very soon; Samuel, 4 Apr. 1664, d. in few wks.; John, 4 May 1665;
Abigail, 10 Mar. 1667; William, 14 May 1672; Deborah, 22 Sept. 1673;
Christopher, June 1677, d. soon; and Christopher, again, 13 Dec. 1679.
THEOPHILUS, Ipswich 1636, had perhaps d. Seaborn, b. on his passage, freem. 13
Mar. 1639, was constable for long time, and prison-keep. had w. Eliz. in 1654,
wh. d. 10 Jan. 1681; but she may not have been mo. of all, or even any of the
ch. He d. 29 July 1689, aged 88, leav. s. Thomas, s.-in-law John Pindar, and
David Fiske, and gr.ch. Eliz. Lovell, Eliz. Russell, and Thomas Pindar. THOMAS,
Roxbury, came in June 1633, with w. Ann, and ch. Humphrey; Samuel; Joshua; there
had Deborah, b. Aug. 1634; Lydia, Nov. 1636; was made freem. 14 May 1634; lost
his ho. and goods by fire, as from the ch. rec. is seen, was delud. into the
heresy of Wheelwright, with wh. on his banishm. he went to Exeter, came back and
made peace with the ch. but contin. to reside at Exeter, there made his will, 9
Jan. 1643, in wh. w. and the five ch. are provid. for, as in Geneal. Reg. II.
384 is found. His wid. m. next yr. John Legat. See Col. Rec. II. 58. THOMAS,
Ipswich, perhaps s. of Theophilus, had Mary, b. 27 Dec. 1657; and may also have
had Hannah, wh. d. June 1682; but w.'s name is not heard. THOMAS, Fairfield,
accept. to be made free 1664, was br. or neph. of Anthony of the same, had good
est. and d. 1691, leav. wid. Hannah, no s. one d. whose name is not seen.
THOMAS, Milford, had b. there Benjamin in 1673, and soon rem. THOMAS, Brookfield
1667-72, may not be the same as the preced. but no more is kn. of him. WILLIAM,
Boston, a joiner, with w. Patience, was adm. of our ch. 6 Sept. 1635, had, as is
seen in the rec. of Geneal. Reg. III. 40, Shoreborn, b. 6 Aug. preced. and brot.
to bapt. 13 Sept. foll. but if this name imply that a ch. of the fam. had bef.
been nam. Seaborn, as Bond suppos. I doubt, for the incident might as well be
tak. for evid. that Theophilus was br. of William, since it is said that David
Fiske, wh. is call. s.-in-law of Theophilus, had m. Seaborn Wilson. Also he had
Mary, 11, bapt. 21 Jan. 1638; John, Jan. bapt. 9 Feb. 1640; Joseph, 10, bapt. 12
Nov. 1643, “a. five days old;” Newgrace, bapt. 23 Mar. 1645, “a. four days
old,” d. in Aug. foll. He [p.590] was freem. 25 May 1636, dept.-marshall, and
prison-keep. 1642, d. 1646, and the Gen. Ct. was hardly able to persuade his
wid. that she must not always liv. at the pub. build. WILLIAM, Lynn, m. 26 Oct.
1663, Priscilla, perhaps d. of Oliver Purchase, had William, b. 28 Aug. 1664;
Priscilla, 28 Mar. 1666; Oliver, 9 Feb. 1668; and Sarah, 5 June 1670; and his w.
d. 21 Oct. 1671, unless the d. ment. on the rec. be of his ch. instead of his w.
Of this name Farmer found forty-five had been gr. 1829 at N. J. and N. E. coll.
of wh. I find ten at Harv. two at Dart. and one at Yale.
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Wing, Ananias, Sandwich, s. of the sec. John, by w.
Hannah had nine ch. whose names I have not seen, and he d. 3 Aug. 1718. His wid.
d. 9 Dec. 1730. DANIEL, Sandwich 1643, s. of John, b. in Eng. m. 5 Nov. 1642,
Ann or Hannah, d. of the first William Swift, had eleven ch. Samuel and John,
nam. in the will, 12 Oct. 1662, of Swift's wid. beside ds. of wh. was prob.
Deborah, b. 10 Oct. 1648, and d. in 1659. See Geneal. Reg. V. 387 with VI. 96.
Besides Deborah's exact date of b. I have gained those of te other ch. Hannah,
28 July 1642; Lydia, 23 May 1647; Ephraim or Daniel, 1649; Samuel, 20 or 28 Aug.
1652;[p.594] Hepzibah, 7 Nov. 1654; John, 14 or 16 Nov. 1656; and Beulah, 16
Nov. 1658; beside Daniel, 28 Jan. 1664; and his w. d. 3 days aft. He favor. the
Quakers, and not a few of his descend. adhere to them. DANIEL, Sandwich, s. of
the preced. m. 1686, Deborah Dillingham, had Samuel, b. 12 Oct. 1690, and prob.
others. JOHN, Sandwich, had m. in Eng. Deborah, d. of Rev. Stephen Bachiler, and
had at least tree ch. Daniel, John, and Stephen, perhaps others, bef. cross. the
ocean, tho. in wh. yr. that was is uncert. but in 1643 the s. are all enroll.
among those able to bear arms, as in Geneal. Reg. IV. 257, is seen; so that the
youngest must have been b. bef. 1628. In rec. of Yarmouth is read “Old goody
Wing bur. 31 Jan. 1692,” wh. by Otis is refer. with prob. to w. of this first
John. JOHN, Sandwich 1643, may have been of Yarmouth 1648, when Col. Rec. says
his s. as if he then had but one, “was drown. in the snow a. 11 Dec.” of
that yr. and it is seen that he had Ephraim, b. 30 May preced. may be he wh.
perish. in the snow; and again, Ephraim, 2 Apr. 1649, bur. 10 Dec. foll. unless
this were s. of Daniel; Joseph, 2 Sept. 1650; Ananias; Susanna; Josiah; and
John. He was b. in Eng. br. of Daniel, and outliv. him. He had been at Lynn
1638, there perhaps found first w. of unkn. name, but he took later w. Miriam,
d. of Stephen Dean, had no ch. by her, and d. 1699. His wid. d. 1703. Susanna m.
William P—, and d. 2 Aug 1717; and Josiah m. a Turner. JOHN, Sandwich, s. of
the preced. d. 1683, leav. one ch. whose name is unkn. as also that of his w.
and date of m. JOHN, Rochester, perhaps s. of Daniel, as he came from Sandwich,
had Stephen, b. 5 Sept. 1684; Joseph, 23 Dec. 1686; Deborah, 15 Oct. 1688, d.
soon; John, 1 Mar. 1690; Hannah, 10 Jan. 1692; Daniel, 8 Feb. 1694; Deborah,
again, 23 Feb. 1696; Desire, 3 Feb. 1700; and Samuel, 12 Nov. 1704. ||JOHN,
Boston, shop-keep. s. of Robert of the same, ar. co. 1671, of wh. he was capt.
1693, m. Joshabeth, d. of James Davis of the same, had John, b. 14 Aug. 1660, d.
young; Joanna, 4 Sept. 1662, d. young; Sarah, 3 May 1664, d. soon; Sarah, again,
9 Feb. 1666; Joshabeth, 15 Dec. 1667; Ebenezer, 15 Oct. 1669; Eliz. 19 Sept.
1671; Robert, 8 Sept. 1673; John, again, 7 Aug. 1678; and Joanna, again, 25 Nov.
1680. He was a very thrifty man, so early as 1674 mak. bond to Samuel Shrimpton
for £4,200. secur. by Castle tavern near the midst of the town, and other est.
of wh. part was near the common, and this mortg. was disch. in three yrs. and he
d. 22 Feb. 1703. His will of 24 Feb. 1702, pro. 12 Mar. of next yr. wh. may be
seen in Vol. XV. 122, names w. s. Robert, John, and ano. wh. is strange to me,
Cord, beside the ds. Sarah Tomlin, and Eliz. Dowell, and gr.ch. James Dowell,
Sarah and Thomas Tomlin, of none of wh. can I learn any thing. JOSEPH, Sandwich,
s. of the sec. John, [p.595] m. 12 Apr. 1672, Jerusha Mayhew, but of wh. she was
d. is not read, and my conject. calls her of the sec. Thomas; and he d. 3 May
1679. JOSEPH, Woburn, freem. 2 Oct. 1678, sw.
again 15 Oct. 1679, unless two of the same name in that little town were then
inhab. wh. I do not suppose; but the ghost of Secr. Rawson would refuse to
appear, if summon. back from the other world to explain the suspicious condition
of his rec. here or other parts. ROBERT, Boston, came in the Francis, 1634, from
Ipswich, aged 60, with w. Judith, 43, wh. d. soon, and by w. Joan had John, the
preced. b. 22 July 1637; Hannah, 14 Feb. 1640; Jacob 31 July 1642; all bapt. 16
Oct. 1642; Eliz. b. July 1644; Joseph, 13 Oct. bapt. 1 Nov. 1646; and Benjamin,
bapt. 18 Feb. 1649, a. 7 days old; in 1647 prays the Gen. Ct. for relief, being
above 80 yrs. old, with nothing to live on, and four small ch. obtain favor of
being releas. from fine, as in Col. Rec. II. 216 appears. How fast he had grown
old, is quite observa. and may render us tender as to relators of similar
mistakes; and d. leav. four ch. as by the rec. of Prob. Ct. appears in the
autumn of 1651; but wh. one of the ch. had dec. is not seen; yet it was not that
one, whose bapt. is unkn. His will was nuncup. Eliz. m. 3 Apr. 1661, John Walley.
SAMUEL, Sandwich, s. of Daniel. STEPHEN, Sandwich 1643-59, br. of Daniel, b. in
Eng. had, by w. Oziah Dillingham, Deborah, b. 10 Oct. 1648; and Mercy, 13 Nov.
1650. His w. d. 29 Apr. 1654, and he m. 7 Jan. foll. Sarah Briggs, but I do not
ascert. the name of f. had Stephen, 2 Sept. 1656; Sarah, 5 Feb. 1658; John, 22
or 25 Sept. 1661; Abigail, 1 May 1664; Elisha, 2 Feb. 1669; Ebenezer, 11 July
1671; and Matthew, 1 Mar. 1674. His w. d. 26 Mar. 1689, and he d. 24 Apr. 1710.
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Winn, Edward, Woburn
1641, freem. 10 May 1643, by w. Joanna or Jane, wh. d. 8 Mar. 1649, had
Increase, b. 5 Dec. 1641, the earliest on rec. of the town; prob. earlier had
Joseph; beside ds. Ann and Eliz. yet whether these were all b. in Eng. as sems
prob. or only a part of them brot. over by him, can be only conject. for no
ment. of him at Charlestown is found bef. Dec. 1640. For sec. w. he m. 10 Aug.
1649, Sarah Beal, wh. prob. brot. him no ch. and d. 15 Mar. 1680. He took third
w. Ann or Hannah, wid. of Nicholas Wood, wh. bef. was wid. of William Page; and
d. 5 Sept. 1682. His will of 6 May of that yr. pro. 6 Oct. foll. names s.
Increase, s. Joseph's d. Sarah, three youngest ch. of s. Moses Cleaveland, wh.
had m. his d. Ann, and youngest three ch. of s. George Polly, wh. had m. his d.
Eliz. His wid. made her will, [p.597] 9 Sept. 1685, pro. 1 Nov. 1686; but she
does not enlarge our kn. of this fam. INCREASE, Woburn,
s. of the preced. first b. aft. incorp. of the town, m. 13 July 1665, Hannah, d.
of Richard Sawtell, had Hannah, b. 11 Apr. 1666; Edward, 15 June 1668; Mary, 1
May 1670; Sarah, 23 Dec. 1672; Abigail, 8 Jan. 1678; Rebecca, 5 Nov. 1679;
Jacob, 4 Oct. 1681; Joanna, 24 June 1683; and Increase, 9 Feb. 1685. He was serj.
and d. 14 Dec. 1690. JOSEPH, Woburn, s. prob. of
Edward, b. in Eng. had Rebecca, b. 25 May 1665, prob. d. young; Sarah, 9 Nov.
1666; Abigail, 18 June 1670, d. next wk.; Joseph, 15 May 1671; Josiah, 15 Mar.
1674; Timothy, wh. d. 22 Mar. 1678; Rebecca and Hannah, tw. 14 Feb. 1679, of wh.
Rebecca d. soon; Ann, 1 Nov. 1684, d. young; and Timothy, again, 27 Feb. 1687.
TIMOTHY, Woburn, s. of the preced. had w. Eliz.
wh. d. 14 May 1714, and he d. 5 Jan. 1753.
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Wiswall, Ebenezer, Newton, youngest s. of Thomas of
the same, m. 26 Mar. 1685, Sarah Foster, wid. of Elisha, and d. of Giles Payson,
had no ch. was freem. 1675 or 80, as he sw. in both yrs. if we believe the rec.
was lieut. and d. 21 June 1691, i his will giv. his est. (aft. the life of his
w. wh. surv. to 22 Aug. 1714) to John, Oliver, and Samuel, s. of his br. Enoch,
and made him, with his brs.-in-law, Samuel Payson and Nathaniel Holmes, excors.
ENOCH, Dorchester, eldest br. of the preced. b. in Eng. a tanner, m. 25 Nov.
1657, Eliz. d. of John Oliver of Boston, the scholar, had John, b. 10 Dec. 1658,
bapt. 20 Feb. foll.; Enoch, 10, bapt. 13 Jan. 1661, d. soon; Hannah, bapt. 6
Apr. 1662; Oliver, b. 25, bapt. 29 Jan. 1665; Eliz. bapt. 21 tho. rec. of b. is
28 Apr. 1667; Esther, b. 28 Dec. 1669, bapt. 2 Jan. 1670; Susanna, 2, bapt. 4
Aug. 1672; Enoch, again, 6, bapt. 11 Apr. 1675, d. young; Mary, 27 Aug. bapt. 2
Sept. 1677; Samuel, 2, bapt. 21 Sept. 1679, H. C. 1701, min. of Edgartown; and
Enoch and Ebenezer, tw. b. and bapt. 25 Feb. 1683; and d. 28 Nov. 1706, aged 73.
His wid. d. 31 May 1712, aged 75, says the gr.-st. of wh. we kn. the mistake, as
she was under 72 yrs. and 3 mos. Susanna m. Edward Breck. ICHABOD,
Duxbury, br. of the preced. had ent. H. C. 1654, but left in 1657 with the same
cause of dissat. as carr. away Brinsmead and others, was some yrs. employ.
perhaps at Pemaquid, there with a large part of the inhab. took o. of fidel.
1674, in 1676 was ord. at D. m. Priscilla, d. of William Peabody of that place,
had Mary, b. 4 Oct. 1680; Hannah, 22 Feb. 1682; Peleg, 5 Feb. 1684, H. C. 1702;
Perez, 22 Nov. 1686, prob. d. young; Mercy; Priscilla; and Deborah. He was sent
1689 to Eng. to procure new chart. for the Col. and stood stoutly for its
independ. but was overpow. by the name and influence of Mass. yet he [p.616]
ascrib. not the disappoint. of just expecta. as a train. politician might have
done, to any worse cause than the rashness and imprudence of Mather, wh. had
craftily alarm. the far of Gov. Hinckley by suggest. of the peril that Plymouth
jurisdict. might be annex. to New York. He d. 23 July 1700, and his wid. d. 3
June 1724, aged 71. Of his will, very judic. in bestowing upon w. and five ch.
the eldest d. w. of Elisha Wadsworth having been provid. for at m. Francis
Jackson, Esq. in addit. to very many other favors, gave me a copy. *JOHN,
Dorchester, must have come in 1634 or earlier, as he was made deac. on the
gather. in Aug. 1636 of the new ch. at D. for Richard Mather, when the larger
part of the first mem. had gone to Conn. with Warham. He brot. w. Margaret, d.
prob. of Thomas Smith of London. He was freem. 14 Mar. 1639, rep. 1646, and oft.
aft. selectman in 1648 and bef. and aft. went to Eng. (Mr. Clapp in Hist. of D.
says) 1652, and in few yrs. aft. his coming again, rem. to Boston, was an
ironmonger, and gen. trader, made rul. elder at the first ch. and d. 16 Aug.
1687, aged 85 or 6 yrs. From the numh. and dates of many of his ch. I feel
confid. that he had sec. w. as Benjamin, bapt. 15 Apr. 1649; Henry, 9 June 1650;
Martha, b. 23 Feb. bapt. 14 Mar. 1652; Esther, 7, bapt. 11 June 1654, prob. d.
young; Ruth, bapt. prob. 25 May 1656; but aft. most patient investigat. Mr.
Clapp is sure only of portion of these, as ch. of John, and thinks the two first
nam. may have belong. to his br. Thomas. No great value attaches to the
decision, as neither liv. long. But John, s. of John was also bapt. 15 Apr.
1649. By his will of 9 July preced. his dec. pro. I Sept. foll. are nam. only s.
John; ds. Hannah Overman, the eldest ch. w. of Thomas, wh. had first, in 1656,
been w. of Mahalaleel Munnings; Deborah, bapt. 23 May 1641, wh. m. a Cutter, as
Clapp in Hist. of Dorchester, 138, reads, but I doubt, bec. d. Deborah seems
ment. apart from d. Cutter; d. Fisher, whose h. is call. Daniel, tho. the reason
is not seen, and perhaps the name is wrong; d. Johnson, wh. was Rebecca, perhaps
the eldest, bapt. 2 Dec. 1638, sec. w. in Oct. 1662, of Matthew; d. Lydia
Ballard, bapt. 13 Apr. 1645, with whose h. I a unacq.; d. Mary Edmunds, whose h.
is unk.; and d. Mountfort, wh. prob. was Ruth, w. of Henry. JOHN, Boston, s. of
the preced. m. 5 May 1685, Hannah Baker, was freem. 1690, liv. perhaps some time
at Dorchester, where his w. d. 18 Sept. of that yr. aged 28 yrs. NOAH, Newton,
s. of Thomas of the same, m. 10 Dec. 1664, Theodosia, d. perhaps eldest, of
deac. John Jackson of the same, had Thomas, b. 29 Apr. 1666, d. young; Eliz. 30
Sept. 1668; Caleb; Margaret, 1 Mar. 1672; Hannah, 1 Apr. 1674; Mary; Esther, 1
Apr. 1678; Sarah, 5 Jan. 1681; and Thomas, again, 29 Apr. 1686; was freem. 1685,
capt. in 1690, when, march. to relieve Casco, in hard fight, [p.617] 6 July,
with Ind. he was slain, near Wheelwright's pond, in Lee, N. H. In the Magnalia,
VII. 75, may be read an acco. of this action, embellish. as usual, in style, but
as it is silent a. the d. of his s. John at the same battle, and we otherwise
hear of no such s. I reject. the tradit. Forty-three yrs. later, a gr. of ld. in
Lunenburg was extorted for these serv. from the tardy gratitude of the Province.
OLIVER, Dorchester, s. of Enoch the first of the same, m. 1 June 1690, Sarah
Baker, had Thomas; Enoch; Ebenezer; Oliver; Ichabod; John; and Samuel; and d. 28
Nov. 1706. His wid. d. 31 May 1712, aged 73. THOMAS, Cambridge, br. of John the
first, long dwelt with him at Dorchester, where he sett. 1635, and was a very
useful man, bring. w. Eliz. and s. Enoch, b. prob. in 1633, and perhaps Esther,
bapt. here 1635; yet was not freem. bef. 1653; had also, at D. Ichabod, a. 1637,
bef. ment.; Noah, bapt. 30 Dec. 1638, says Jackson; Mary; Sarah, bapt. prob. 19
Mar. 1643; Ebenezer, 1646; and Eliz. 15 Apr. 1649. Bef. July 1657 he had rem. to
C. and gave his est. at D. to his s. Enoch. When John Eliot, s. of the apostle,
was ord. 20 July 1664, the first min. of C. village, W. was made rul. Elder. He
took sec. w. late in his days, Isabella Farmer, a wid. from Eng. mo. of Edward
Farmer of Billerica, whose maiden name was Barbage, of Great Packington in Co.
Warwick, from wh. by one more step of descent, than is giv. in the first art. of
Geneal. Reg. I. came the diligent, judicious, and admired John Farmer, kn. thro.
the length and breadth of N. E. as the author of the Geneal. Reg. of the first
sett. print. at Lancaster 1829. W. d. at Newton, wh. had been incorp. from C.
some yrs. bef. on 6 Dec. 1683; and his wid. d. at her son's in Billerica, 21 May
1686. Esther m. 16 May 1655, William Johnson of Woburn;
Mary m. Samuel Payson of Dorchester, says Jackson, but she d. 25 May 1727 in
59th yr. if the gr.-st. tells truth, and ano. fate was that of this d. of
Wiswall; and Sarah m. Nathaniel Holmes.
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[p.625] Wood, or Woods,
Abiel, Middleborough, s. of Henry, m. 1683, Abiah Bowen, had Elnathan, b. 14
Apr. 1686; Abiah, 20 Feb. 1689; Abiel, 19 Mar. 1691; Timothy, 13 Oct. 1693;
Jerusha, 11 Nov. 1695; Ebenezer, 4 Aug. 1697; Judah, 28 July 1700; an Thomas, 30
Jan. 1703. With his w. he was among the found. of the first ch. at M. 1694; and
d. 10 Oct. 1719; and his wid. d. 21 May 1746, aged 83. ABRAHAM, Concord, s.
perhaps eldest of Michael of the same, was freem. 1690. ANTHONY, Ipswich 1665,
m. 1 June1666, Mary Grover, perhaps d. of Edmund of Salem, had William, b. 20
Mar. 1667. CONSIDER, New London, by Miss Caulkins is mark. as hav. a gr. of ld.
1648, but forfeit. for non-resid. CONSTANT, a passeng. aged 12 yrs. in the
Abigail from London, 1635, and there might seem some grounds for suspect. that
he was the same as preced. DANIEL, Ipswich 1643, d. 1648. DANIEL, Rowley, rem.
to Boxford, freem. sw. 22 Mar. 1690, and again in Oct. foll. if the Col. rec. be
true, yet possib. the solemnity may have been forf. and s. by w. Sarah, wh. d.
27 Sept. 1714, had David, b. 1670; Daniel; John; and others, as Barry says.
EDMUND, Springfield 1636, rem. to Wethersfield that yr. thence to Stamford 1641,
and next, in few yrs. more to Hempstead, L. I. and may again have rem. EDWARD,
Charlestown, was adm. to join the ch. 30 Mar. 1640, freem. 13 May foll. and his
w. Ruth join. in few days. She perhaps had Ruth, and certain. Tabitha, bapt. 30
May 1641; d. 29 Aug. 1642, and he d. 27 Nov. foll. In Geneal. Reg. III. 81, the
date of inv. would perhaps appear 4 Dec. aft. Farmer was led to mistake the name
of the Springfield Edmund for Edward, and so to think he might be s. of this
man. An EDWARD of Boston, mariner in 1659, had w. Eliz. and no more is kn.
ELEAZER, Medfield, youngest ch. of Nicholas of the same, was struck down, when
his br. Jonathan, 21 Feb. 1676, was k. by the Ind. wh. scalp. him, and suppos.
he was d. yet he reviv. in a good degree, and some yrs. aft. m. Dorothy, perhaps
d. of George Badcock of Milton, had Dorothy; Hannah, b. 11 Feb. 1689; and
Abigail, 25 Nov. 1692; and he liv. to 20 May 1704, with occasional mental aberra.
ELIAS, ELLICE, or ELLIS, Dedham, by w. Catharine had Mehitable, b. 17 June 1658;
Abigail, 19 July 1660; and his w. d. 29 May 1663. He took for sec. w. Miriam,
wid. of John Smith of D. wh. was the school-mistress many yrs. and d. 19 Oct.
1706, aged 73. The ludicrous solemnity of the gr.-st. inscript. is happily
preserv. in Geneal. Reg. IV. 277. He rem. to Dorchester, where he was freem.
1673 and liv. 1692. GEORGE, Saybrook 1660, m. that yr. but the name of his w. is
not seen; had George, b. 28 Sept. 1661, and prob. rem. HENRY, Plymouth 1643, m.
a. 1645, Abigail, d. of John Jenny, rem. to Yarmouth, had Sarah; [p.626] Samuel,
b. 25 May 1647; went back to P. there had John, 1649; Jonathan, 1 Jan. 1650;
David, 17 Oct. 1651; Isaac, 1654; and Abiel; and perhaps more ch. d. at
Middleborough; but the time of his d. is not seen, bec. the inv. ment. in
Geneal. Reg. VII. 235 is defic. in date. His d. Sarah m. 28 Nov. 1667, John
Nelson. HENRY, Concord, by w. Ellen had John, b. 17 Nov. 1651; Mary, 7 Sept.
1653; Hannah, 11 Mar. 1656; and Millicent, 4 Apr. 1660. Usually his name is
Woods; and I presume he rem. to Groton, was quarter-master of the troop of W.
Middlesex cavalry in 1671. HENRY, Newport, by w. Hannah had Henry, b. 24 Nov.
1670; Abigail, 15 Aug. 1672; James, 9 Nov. 1674; Hannah, 25 Sept. 1677; Richard,
28 Oct. 1679; and Eliz. 9 Jan. 1682. It ought to be add. that the rec. spells
this name as Whod, and possib. that may mean Hood. ISAAC, Marlborough, s. of
John of Sudbury, of wh. from Barry I learn, that by two ws. he had Isaac,
Joseph, Charles, Solomon, Dinah, Mary, and Eliz. and that his will was pro. 17
Aug. 1720. Sewall's Diary, as giv. in Geneal. Reg. VI. 72, says under 1685, July
4, “Isaac W. dies suddenly.” Perhaps this was some young man,
fellow-worship. with S. but my knowledge is limit. by him. ISAIAH, Ipswich 1668,
then said to be 41 yrs. old, m. 26 Jan. 1653, Mercy, d. of Simon Thompson of the
same, had Mary, b. 31 Oct. 1653; Simon, 18 Feb. 1655; Thomas, Nov. 1656, d. in 5
mos.; Sarah, Jan. 1658, d. next mo.; Samuel and Isaiah, tw. 20 July 1659, of wh.
Isaiah d. soon; Joanna, 14 Dec. 1661; William, 18 Feb. 1664; Sarah, again, 26
Dec. 1665; Thomas, again, 31 Jan. 1668; Thompson, 18 Feb. 1670; John, Feb. 1672,
d. soon; Joseph and Benjamin, tw. 22 May 1673, both d. soon; and Ebenezer, 3
Dec. 1676, d. in 3 wks. He m. 23 Dec. 1684, for sec. w. wid. Hannah Wheeler, but
prob. had no more ch. JAMES, on L. I. 1649. JAMES, Marlborough, s. of John of
Sudbury, was in garrison of serg. Wood, prob. his f. in 1675, freem. 1690, had
w. Hopestill. JEREMIAH, Stamford 1641, went to Hempstead, L. I. perhaps was br.
of Edmund, or William, or of both. JOHN, Saybrook, employ. by the younger John
Winth. was k. by the Pequots, as appears in Conn. Col. Rec. I. 29, prob. in
1637. JOHN, Sudbury, pin-maker, wh. seems an odd trade for a wilderness pioneer;
by w. Mary had John, b. 8 May 1641; perhaps Francis, 1645; James, 18 July 1647;
Catharine; Isaac, 14 July 1655; beside Hannah, prob. the oldest ch. wh. m. 7
June 1665, John Leavins of Roxbury, and d. early, leav. Hannah nam. in the will
of her gr. f. He d. 10 July 1678, and his wid. d. 1690, aged 80, says Barry. In
Oct. 1675 he was, I suppose, the serg. in one of the Marlborough garrison
houses, as John, James, and Isaac, his s. were there also. ¶JOHN, Lynn 1635,
passeng. in the Hopewell, Capt. Babb, late in the autumn of that yr. aged 26,
br. possib. of William, the author of N. E. [p.627] Prospect, freem. 13 May
1640, ar. co. 1642, may have been at Salem 1646. JOHN, Dorchester, freem. 10 May
1643, perhaps rem. JOHN, Plymouth 1643, of wh. gladly would I learn more than
that his s. John was b. 4 Mar. 1650; and Nathaniel, 25 Feb. 1652; and Isaac, 27
Feb. 1654; Sarah, Abigail, Mercy, Eliz. and Hannah; beside that Mary wh. m. 11
Dec. 1661, Rev. John Holmes, wh. must have been b. long bef. either of the
others, of wh. it is strange to find neither in Windsor, nor any other author, a
precise report. His d. Sarah m. 13 Feb. 1668, John Fallowell; and his own name
is sometimes mistak. for that of Atwood. JOHN, Newport, on the list of freem.
1655. JOHN, Taunton, sw. in 1662, as witness to a nuncup. will, that he was 42
yrs. old. JOHN, New London 1660, s. perhaps of the first John, as Miss Caulkins
in her Hist. shows, 324, m. prob. Mary, d. of Walter Buddington. JOHN,
Dorchester, m. Eliz. d. of Richard Hall. JOHN, Marlborough, prob. eldest s. of
John of Sudbury, by w. Lydia had John, b. 1670; Lydia, 1672; Hannah, 1677;
Joseph, d. soon; Joseph, again, 1682; Sarah, 1685; Silence, 1689; Benjamin,
1691; and James, 1694; serv. under his f. in the garrison ho. Oct. 1675, was
constable 1677, and deac. prob. that freem. of 26 Mar. 1691, exult. in the title
of ens. JOHN, Ipswich, m. 1 May 1676, Mary Healey, had Margaret, b. Sept. 1679;
Mary, 19 Dec. 1681; and he d. 14 Aug. 1684. JOHN, Concord, s. prob. of Michael
of the same, freem. 1690. JONAS, Springfield 1636, rem. early to Wethersfield,
sett. at Stamford 1641, unless this settlem. refer rather to Weed, and in few
yrs. was of L. I. at Hempstead, prob. under patent of 1644, bef. 1654 was of
Southampton, and in few yrs. was a commiss. under the jurisdict. of Conn. there.
JONATHAN, Sherborn, as that part of Medfield has bec. elder s. of Nicholas of
the same, had only posthum. d. appropri. call. Silence, as she was b. the day
aft. the fall of her f. (and a few hrs. bef. d. of her mo.) He was k. in
Philip's war, 21 Feb. 1676, tho. not prob. a soldier. JOSEPH, Taunton, m. 1 Jan.
1680, Esther Walker, d. of James of the same. JOSIAH, Charlestown, m. 28 Oct.
1657, Lydia Bacon, d. perhaps of Michael the sec. had Josiah, b. 10 Oct. 1658;
Lydia, 23 Nov. 1659, d. next mo.; Lydia, again, prob. 1662, both bapt. 6 July
1662, the w. hav. join. the ch. on preced. Sunday; Samuel, 12 Nov. 1671; Joseph,
27 Dec. 1674; and Ruth, 4 June 1676. JOSIAH, Ipswich, br. of Obadiah of the
same, m. 23 Dec. 1684, a wid. whose name I cannot make out, but kn. no more of
him. JOSIAH, Woburn, s. of the first Josiah, by
w. Abigail had Josiah, b. 31 Aug. 1687; Lydia, 1 May 1689; Abigail, 10 Sept.
1691; Samuel, 10 Dec. 1693; Joseph, 25 Apr. 1696, d. at 17 yrs. in Geneal. Reg.
II. 387, mispr. 57 yrs.; Solomon, 23 Jan. 1699, d. at 9 mos.; and Ruth, 4 Jan.
1702. MARK, one of the soldiers in Turner's comp. 1676, was [p.628] of
Charlestown, prob. had m. 2 Feb. 1665, Eliz. d. of Nathaniel Hancock of
Cambridge. MICHAEL, Concord, s. of William of the same, freem. 13 May 1640, had
Abigail, b. 10 Apr. 1642; and Shattuck gives him other ch. Abraham, Isaac,
Jacob, Thompson, or Thomas, and John, as left by him, at his d. 13 May 1674.
Next mo. his wid. Mary brot. inv. Abigail m. Stephen Hosmer. NATHANIEL, a
passeng. in the Increase from London, 1635, aged 12 yrs. of wh. no more is
heard, nor can any indicat. be seen, exc. that in the same ship came Eliz. aged
38, wh. may have been his mo. NATHANIEL, Ipswich, took the o. of fidel. 1678.
NATHANIEL, Groton, prob. s. of the first Samuel, by w. Alice had Nathaniel, b.
19 Oct. 1694; Daniel, 10 Aug. 1696; John, 4 Mar. 1698; Isaac, 20 Feb. 1700;
Bathsheba, 5 Apr. 1702; Hannah, 16 Mar. 1704; Phebe, 13 Feb. 1706; Aaron, 26 May
1707; Moses, 6 July 1709; Reuben, 11 Apr. 1711; Phebe, again, 13 Mar. 1713; and
Jonathan, 4 June 1716. NICHOLAS, Dorchester, had liv. at Braintree, when freem.
2 June 1641, and there m. Mary, d. of Robert Williams of Roxbury, as Mr. Clapp
assures me, had Mary and Sarah, tw. b. 25 Dec. 1642 as the Roxbury rec. in
Geneal. Reg. VI. 377, 8, affirms, tho. Clapp claims him as early as 1640 to be
overseer of Glover's farm until 1654. He had also Hannah. In 1645, he was one of
the petitnrs. for Pumham's ld. to be gr. to them. Farmer, relying on a passage
in Hutch. I. supposes he was of Medfield 1656, and there he certain. was soon
aft. and also earlier. Records at M. give to him and w. Mary, Jonathan, b. 3
Jan. 1652, wh. was k. by the Ind. 21 Feb. 1676; Mehitable, 22 July 1655, wh. m.
17 Oct. 1671, Joseph Morse; Abigail, 13 Sept. 1657; Bethia, 28 July 1660; and
Eleazer, 14 Mar. 1662; and his w. d. 19 Feb. foll. and he d. 7 Feb. 1670. His d.
Hannah m. 26 Nov. 1665, John Harding, but d. bef. her f. In his will of 16 Jan.
1670, all the six ds. are nam. of wh. Hannah was dec. and her s. Abraham, as
well as the two s. are well provid. for, out of his ample est. Mary m. John
Thurston; Sarah m. 4 Oct. 1660, deac. Thomas Bass of Braintree. Who was his sec.
w. call. Ann in his will, or whether he had more ch. bef. or aft. is wholly
unkn. Ano. NICHOLAS is nam. by Morse, as of Concord, but no more is told, than
that he had Abigail, b. 10 Apr. 1642. OBADIAH, Ipswich 1649, a baker, by w.
Margaret had a ch. b. 11 Apr. 1665; and Margaret, 28 June 1667, wh. d. the same
yr. but the mo. d. next wk. By a sec. w. Hazabelponah, he had Obadiah, 5 June
1675; James, Nathaniel; Josiah; Samuel; Eliz.; Mary; Susanna; and Margaret; and
he d. 3 Dec. 1694, leav. all these ch. and the wid. with the hard name. OBADIAH,
a soldier wound. in Philip's war late in 1675; for whose cure the Conn. counc.
made liberal paym. [see Col. Rec. II. 484], was of Hartford 1676, and perhaps s.
of the [p.629] preced. had there bapt. Margaret, 1687; Abigail, 1699; and
Margaret, again, 1705; and prob. others; but when he d. is not heard. ¶RICHARD,
Boston, ar. co. 1642, was capt. of that comp. 1677, and d. 23 Apr. 1681, leav.
good est. the amount of inv. giv. in by his wid. Frances being £1,090. includ.
1,500 acres at Quinebaug at £30. He wrote his name Woodde, an unpleasant
peculiarity, as it might be made into two syllab. and so confound. with Woody, a
distinct fam. RICHARD, Hingham 1659, a witness with Thomas Lincoln the weaver,
10 Jan. 1660, to the nuncup. will of wid. Margaret Johnson; may have liv. at
Marblehead, 1668, with s. of the same name. RICHARD, Norwalk 1694, may be the
man, wh. d. at Wallingford, 1705, leav. wid. and d. Miriam. ROBERT, Dedham, d.
30 Dec. 1638. SAMUEL, Ipswich 1643. SAMUEL, Groton, one of the earliest, tho.
not of the largest proprs. there, by w. Alice had Thomas, b. 9 May 1663; Eliz.
17 Sept. 1665; Nathaniel, 27 Mar. 1668; Mary, 2 Aug. 1670; Abigail, 19 Aug.
1672; and Hannah, 18 Sept. 1674; and he d. 29 Sept. 1703. SAMUEL, Danbury, a
physician in the early days of that town, came from Eng. SAMUEL, Groton, by w.
Hannah had Susanna; Rachel; Alice, b. 26 Sept. 1700; Abigail, 12 Sept. 1703;
Esther, 13 Nov. 1705; Joseph, 21 June 1707; and Martha, 15 Apr. 1709. He was m.
1685 at Chelmsford. SAMUEL, Middleborough, s. of Henry of Plymouth, was one of
the found. of the ch. 1694, had m. bef. 1679 w. Rebecca, by wh. he had Ephraim,
Samuel, and perhaps others. SAMUEL, Rowley, s. of Thomas the first of the same,
m. Margaret Elithorpe, prob. d. of the sec. Thomas of the same, had Thomas, b.
1689, and prob. others. SIMON, Ipswich, eldest s. of Isaiah of the same, m. 8
Aug. 1674, Eliz. Foster, had Eliz. b. 16 Aug. 1675, d. next mo.; Mary, 27 Dec.
1676; Jonathan, 6 Mar. 1678; Philemon, 4 Apr. 1679; Eliz. again, 15 Jan. 1683;
Daniel, 12 June 1685; and William, 3 Jan. 1690. He had sec. w. Abigail, wh. d. 1
Oct. 1732, aged 67. STEPHEN, Plymouth 1643, had John, b. 1648; and Hannah, 14
Oct. 1649; in the will of John Dunham, 25 Jan. 1669, is call. his s.-in-law.
THOMAS, Rowley 1655, by w. Ann had John, b. 1656; Thomas, 1658; Josiah, 1664;
Samuel, 1666; Solomon, 1670; Ebenezer, 1671; James, 1674; and four ds. of wh.
one m. the third Joseph Jewett, and next John Lunt. THOMAS, Rowley, s. of the
preced. of wh. I find no acco. of m. or fam. THOMAS, Groton, prob. s. of Samuel
the first, by w. Hannah had Esther, b. 29 July 1697; Josiah, 15 Sept. 1701;
Eliz. 9 Nov. 1702; and Thomas, 25 Nov. 1705. TOMPSON, Ipswich, s. of Isaiah of
the same, m. 8 Dec. 1691, Martha, d. of Isaac Foster, had Jemima, b. 18 May
1693, d. within twenty days. TRYALL, Salisbury, d. 11 June 1678, but we kn. not
whether male or fem. ch. or adult. WALTER, Newport, perhaps br. of Henry, at
least [p.630] the same perversity of spelling the name, Whod, leaves uncertain
what to call it, by w. Amy had Martha, b. 2 May 1676. WILLIAM, the valu. author
of New England's Prospect, London 1634, may well be thot. that freem. of 18 May
1631; but more prob. is it, that he was sett. at Lynn, as early as 1630, as
claim. by Lewis. He prob. came to Salem, 1629, and 15 Aug. 1633 left our
country, as his book relates. That was print. 1634, and it is conject. by
Shattuck, wh. would magnify the honor of Concord by so respectab. a citizen,
that he came again to our side of the water, and d. at C. aft. many yrs. resid.
14 May 1671, aged 86. For a William this is well vouch. Lewis has better
appear. of proof in p. 84, of his sec. Ed. quot. Wood's words of minute
descript. of Lynn river; beside wh. the fact of one of this name being rep. at
the Gen. Ct. Mar. 1636, when he was chos. either for Salem or Lynn, bef. any one
came from C. with the resid. at Sandwich 1643, so large a proport. of the first
inhab. of S. having gone from L. are no slight object. to the hopes of Shattuck.
Still the fame of Bulkley may have drawn him from S. where we never hear of him
more. One Miriam whose f. we kn. not, was b. 8 May 1648, bur. next day; and Mary
was b. 29 Mar. 1649, both at S. One WILLIAM came, 1635, in the Hopewell, Capt.
Babb, a husbandman, aged 27, with Eliz. 24, wh. may have been his sis. or w. and
John, 26, bef. ment. prob. his br. and it is clear, that if this be the author
(wh. I neither affirm nor deny), two points decide against the Concord claim to
him; for at C. w. of William d. 1 Sept. 1659, was call. Margaret; and the
passeng. in the autumn of 1635 on the Hopewell, must have been b. 1608, while
Shattuck's client could not have come into our world aft. 1585; or, if his
faculties were not weaken. when he made his will, 15 Sept. 1670, reckon. hims.
as 88 yrs. old, still earlier was his advent. At C. no ch. was b. to him; but he
had ch. perhaps all, certain most. b. in Eng. Michael; Ruth, wh. m. Thomas
Wheeler; and Abigail, wh. m. 24 Mar. 1667, Stephen Hosmer. The will names,
beside Michael, Ruth and her h. the gr.d. Abigail Hosmer. WILLIAM, Portsmouth,
R. I. m. Martha, d. of the first Ralh Earle. WILLIAM, Marblehead 1668, had
perhaps William, both old eno. to sign the petition to the Gen. Ct. that yr. and
was liv. 1678. WILLIAM, Ipswich, took the o. of fidel. 1678. WILLIAM, Newtown,
L. I. 1640-1686, may have come from Stamford, Conn. WILLIAM, Ipswich, s. of
Isaiah, d. 27 Sept. 1689, prob. unm. as he nam. no ch. but did sev. brs. and
sis. WILLIAM, Salem vil. now Danvers, freem. 1690. Gr. in 1834 were count. by
Farmer, thirteen at Dartm. twelve at Harv. five at Yale, and ten at other N. E.
coll. Woods are unit. as Wood.
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Woodward, Amos, Cambridge, s. of George of the
same, freem. 1677, d. 9 Oct. 1679, aged 38 yrs. as his gr.-st. tells, but from
his nuncup. will, we do not learn that his w. Sarah, wh. had d. 24 Sept. 1677,
left him any ch. He names brs. Thomas and Nathaniel Patten, wh. prob. were s. of
William, and brs. of his w. Daniel and John W. and sis. Mary Waite, w. of John
of Watertown; Sarah Gates, w. prob. of Stephen of Boston; and sis. Rebecca
Fisher, wh. m. 11 Dec. 1666, Thomas Fisher of Dedham. DANIEL, Watertown, where
he m. Eliz. d. of Richard Dana, and had Sarah, b. 5 Jan. 1689, at Medford; rem.
to Woburn, had Hannah, b. 1 May 1691; and Amos, 5
June 1693. EDWARD, Ipswich 1665. EZEKIEL, Boston, by w. Ann, d. of William
Beamsley, had Sarah, b. 21 Jan. 1654; Ann, 14 July 1653; Margaret, 24 Feb. 1656;
and Eliz. 12 Oct. 1657; unless the date of the first ch. in Geneal. Reg. IX.
252, should be error for 1652; beside Prudence, 4 Apr. 1660. He was of Ipswich
1678, when he took the o. of alleg. and there had Martha, 3 May 1662; Mary, 8
Dec. 1664; Ezekiel, 9 Aug. 1666; and Rachel, 20 Jan. 1669. GEORGE, is the name
of a fishmonger from St. Botolph's, Billingsgate, London, permit. to emb. in the
[p.644] Hopewell, 1635, aged 35, or in the Rebecca, for I must suppose the same
man to be intend. as the yrs. are the same, and the transact. in the same week,
as told in the custom-ho. rec. by 3 Mass. Hist. Coll. VIII. 254, and 256. Of
him, as nothing more is heard, we may presume he soon went home, and perhaps his
visit was only for purpose of trade. GEORGE, Watertown 1641, s. of Richard of
the same, with wh. he came from Ipswich, Co. Suffolk, in the Elizabeth, 1634,
aged 13, by w. Mary had Mary, b. 12 Aug. 1641; Sarah, 3 or 6 Feb. 1643; Amos;
Rebecca, 30 Dec. 1647; John, 20 or 28 Mar. 1649; Susanna, 30 Sept. 1651; Daniel,
2 Sept. 1653; and Mercy, perhaps, tho. town rec. says Mary, 3 June 1656. He was
freem. 1646, took sec. w. 17 Aug. 1659, Eliz. d. of Thomas Hammond the first of
Cambridge, had George, 11 Sept. 1660; and Thomas,15 Sept. 1662; Eliz. 8 May
1664; Nathaniel, 28 May 1668; and Sarah, 3 Oct. 1675; and d. 31 May 1676. His
wid. m. Samuel Truesdale, as his sec. w.; Mary m. 13 Jan. 1664, John Waite of
W.; Sarah m. prob. Stephen Gates of Boston, and next, as Barry says, a Stow;
Rebecca m. 11 Dec. 1666, Thomas Fisher of Dedham; Susanna d. unm.; Eliz. m. 7
Dec. 1693, Samuel Eddy; and the sec. Sarah m. an Eddy. GEORGE, Watertown, s. of
the preced. m. 31 Dec. 1686, Lydia, d. of Abraham Brown, had Abraham, b. 1 Feb.
1688; George; Nathaniel; Lydia; and Ichabod; rem. aft. b. of his first ch. to
that part of Boston, call. Muddy riv. now Brookline, and d. 1696. HENRY,
Dorchester 1639, came, says Clapp, in his careful Hist. of Dorchester, p. 141,
in the James, Capt. Taylor, in the summer of 1635, with Richard Mather, and he
calls him a physician. He had there, Experience; Freedom, bapt. 1642; Thankful;
and John; rem. 1659 to Northampton, with those ch. and the mo. Eliz. there was
one of the founders of the first ch. and had been an early mem. at D. He was k.
by accid. at the grist-mill, 7 Apr. 1685; and next mo. the wid. made her will,
tho. she d. not bef. 13 Aug. 1690. Of her s. she says “has been a dutif. and
well carriaged s. to me all my life.” Experience m. 21 Nov. 1661. Medad
Pomeroy; Freedom m. 18 Nov. 1662, Jedediah Strong; and Thankful m. 18 Dec. 1662,
John Taylor; all of Northampton. ISRAEL, Taunton, m. 4 Aug. 1670, Jane Godfrey,
perhaps d. of Richard the first, had Eliz. b. 15 June preced. if Col. Rec. be
right, wh. I distr. and it adds that be d. 15 June 1674, had Israel, posthum. 4
Oct. 1674. JAMES, Dover 1646, may be the same wh. was of Watertown 1630, in
serv. of Sir Richard Saltonstall, and then, by our Col. Rec. I. appears to have
been not valua. citiz. JOHN, Watertown, s. of Richard of the same, brot. by his
f. in the Eliz. 1634, aged 13, in Nov. 1639, partook of the paternal kindness of
our governm. on a complaint “admonish. to take heed of drink. strong water
again;” by w. Mary had [p.645] John, b. 20 Mar. 1650, prob. d. young; rem. to
Sudbury, where his w. d. 8 July 1654; next he rem. to Charlestown, there m.
Abigail, d. of John Benjamin, wid. of Joshua Stubbs, had Rose, 18 Aug. 1659, wh.
m. 10 Aug. 1686, Richard Norcross the sec.; again, at Sudbury, had John, 12 Dec.
1661; and Abigail, m. 13 Jan. 1682, Jeremiah Morse, was freem. 1690, and d. at
W. 17 Feb. 1696, his will being of 10 Jan. preced. JOHN, Cambridge, s. of George
of Watertown, liv. in that part wh. bec. Newton, m. Rebecca, d. of Richard
Robbins of the same, had John, b. 7 Sept. 1674, d. in few ds.; John, again, 18
July 1675; Richard, 26 Sept. or Dec. 1677; Rebecca, 29 Oct. 1679, d. young;
Daniel, 24 Sept. 1681; Rebecca, again, 2 Feb. 1683; Mary, 6 Oct. 1684, d. young;
Jonathan, 28 Sept. 1685; Joseph, 26 Nov. 1688; Ebenezer, 12 Mar. 1691; and
Abigail, 25 May 1695. His w. d. next yr. and he m. Sarah Goodnow, wh. d. 22
Sept. 1723. He had rem. to Newton a. 1681, and d. 3 Nov. 1732, in his will of
1728 names five s. of wh. Joseph was not one, and ds. Rebecca Hunting and
Abigail Greenwood; and made Ebenezer, excor. JOHN, Northampton, only s. of Henry
of the same, freem. 1680, m. 18 May 1671, Ann, d. of Thomas Dewey of Windsor,
had Eliz. b. 17 Mar. 1672; John, 2 Apr. 1674; Samuel, 20 Mar. 1676, d. at 7
mos.; Henry, 18 Mar. 1680; Thomas, 22 Apr. 1682; and Israel, 6 Feb. 1685; rem.
to Westfield, and in few yrs. more to Lebanon, Conn. Much distinct. in the
science of med. has been attain. by descend. JOHN, Taunton, m. 11 Nov. 1675,
Sarah Crossman. Perhaps he had John, b. at Taunton, 2 Mar. 1678; and Israel, 30
July 1681. JOHN, Reading, by Eaton call. one of the early sett. was freem. 1691.
JOHN, sec. min. of Norwich, s. of Peter of Dedham, succeed. Rev. James
Fitch, the first min. of that city, aft. long agitat. ord. Oct. 1699, m. 1703,
Sarah, d. I think, of Richard Rosewell of New Haven, but Caulkins, from wh. is
learn. most of the little kn. of him, in her Hist. of N. ment. no issue. He had
been Secr. to the Assembly of divines that formed the Saybrook platform, almost
as powerful in moulding the machinery of eccles. discipline in Conn. as for a
few yrs. was the Westminster Assembly in Eng. The majority of the people were
dissat. with his rule, tho. the greater part of the ch. sustain. him, and aft.
sev. yrs. of contention, he was dism. 13 Sept. 1716. Whether he obt. ano.
parish, is not heard, and by the Coll. Catal. he liv. to 1746. JOHN, Sudbury,
perhaps s. of John the first, in his will of 2 Oct. 1736, ment. s. John and
Daniel, and gr.d. Susanna Haines. JOSEPH, Providence 1676, there had liv. thro.
Philip's war. NATHANIEL, Boston, a mathematician and surveyor, employ. as our
Col. Rec. I. 237, shows, to run the line, 1638, betw. Plymouth Col. and Mass.
and Mass. and Conn. Afterwards he was sent to the Merrimac survey. See Winth. I.
284. It [p.646] is great mortificat. that we kn. not any thing of his fam. exc.
that he had s. John and Robert, of course b. in Eng. allow. to have lots in
Boston 1637. NATHANIEL, Boston 1633, perhaps s. of the preced. but on join. the
ch. 1 Dec. of that yr. is call. serv. to our br. William Coddington, and possib.
brot. by him that yr. when he ret. from Eng. was freem. 17 Apr. 1637, by w. Mary
had Elisha, bapt. 21 Apr. 1644, a. 6 days old; Nathaniel, 12 Apr. 1646, a. 7
days old; and prob. other ch. but perhaps he rem. for in 1648, he sold
dwell.-ho. and garden to John Langdon. *PETER, Dedham, freem. 18 May 1642, brot.
a fam. of wh. the names of four may be prob. found in the rec. Peter, William,
Rebecca, wh. m. 1666, Thomas Fisher, and Ann, wh. d. in that yr. He was rep.
1665, 9, and 70, but strange. miscall. 1669, Woodwine. He d. 9 May 1685, as the
date of 11 May may be understood as that of the bur. from Sewall's Diary in
Geneal. Reg. VI. 72. But when he calls him f. of the min. we must infer that he
intends William. PETER, Dedham, prob. s. of the preced. by w. Mehitable, had
William, b. 1 Jan. 1669; Ann, 2 Feb. 1670; John, 10 Sept. 1671, H. C. 1693;
Ebenezer, 15 Sept. 1675; Mehitable, 17 Nov. 1677; Peter, 29 Dec. 1679; Judith,
Mar. 1683; and Samuel, 26 Dec. 1685. Possib. he was b. in Eng. and his d. on 15
Feb. 1721, is noted as of the aged P. W. RALPH, Hingham, was of Dublin
1635, came in 1637, was freem. Mar. 1638, deac. ord. 2 Feb. 1640, says Lincoln,
was honor. by our governm. 1649, with a commiss. to solemn. m. RICHARD,
Watertown, came in the Elizabeth, from Ipswich, 1634, aged 45, with w. Rose, 50,
and two ch. George and John, ca. 13, if we accept the custom.-ho. papers, was
freem. 2 Sept. 1635. His w. d. 6 Oct. 1662, aged a. 80 yrs. says the rec. with
the usual tendency to exagger. and he d. 16 Feb. 1665; but first he m. 18 Apr.
1663, Ann, wid. of Stephen Gates of Cambridge, wh. d. 5 Feb. 1683. ROBERT,
Boston, carpenter, s. of the first Nathaniel, by w. Rachel, d. of John Smith of
the same, tailor, wh. as his w. had join. the ch. 6 Nov. 1641, had Joseph, b. 24
Oct. bapt. 7 Nov. 1641, d. prob. soon; Nathaniel, bapt. 30 Oct. 1642, a. 4 days
old; Smith, 4 Aug. 1644, a. 5 days; Robert, b. 14 Nov. 1646; John, wh. d. 23
Aug. 1652; Jeremiah, wh. d. 26 Nov. 1653; the f. d. five days bef. His wid. m. 7
July 1654, Thomas Harwood. ROBERT, Boston, s. of the preced. was k. in Philip's
war at Pocasset, 1675. SMITH, Dorchester, perhaps s. of Robert, had w. Thankful,
d. 15 June 1738, aged 66, by her gr.-st. His ch. were Sarah, bapt. 11 Sept.
1692; Thankful, 24 Dec. 1693; Mary, 15 Dec. 1695; Deliverance, 16 Jan. 1698;
Ebenezer and Abigail, tw. 19 Nov. 1699; all in right of their mo. for he was
adm. of the ch. not bef. 1701, aft. wh. were bapt. John, prob. 29 Mar. 1702;
Silence, 20 June 1703; Submit, 10 Dec. 1704; Samuel, 12 Jan. 1707; and Abigail,
[p.647] 1 June 1712. THOMAS, Boston, carpenter, rem. to Roxbury, m. 7 Mar. 1660,
Mary, d. of William Goose of Charlestown, had Thomas; Esther, both bapt. 1 May
1664, the f. hav. join. the ch. in the preced. mo.; Hannah, 14 May 1665; Eliz.
30 June 1667; Mary, 17 Jan. 1669; Rachel, 27 Nov. 1670; Robert, 19 Oct. 1673;
and Mehitable, 29 Apr. 1675; and he d. Oct. 1685, says Farmer, trust. the town
rec. wh. I distr. because it ment. not the day of d. contains not a single name
of the childr. and the ch. rec. of bur. or d. is 10 Sept. evidently nearer to a
contempo. authority. WILLIAM, Dedham, perhaps s. of Peter the first, was a
“min. of the gosp.” d. at D. 26 June 1669, as by the Roxbury ch. rec. is
told, and the Diary of John Hull calls him “a young but powerful preach.” Of
this name Farmer notes, that in 1834, twenty-one had been gr. at N. E. coll. of
wh. I count ten at Dartm. five at Yale, four at Harv.
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Wright, Abel, Springfield 1655, m. 1 Dec. 1659,
Martha, d. of Samuel Kitcherel of Hartford, had Joseph, b. 1 Sept. 1660; Martha,
29 Nov. 1662; Abel, 25 Sept. 1664; Benjamin, 14 Mar. 1667; Hannah, 28 July 1669;
Henry, 23 May 1671, d. young; Sarah,8 May 1673; Mary, 9 Mar. 1676; Henry, again,
6 Jan. 1677; Samuel, 17 June 1679; Eliz. 18 Aug. 1682, d. June foll.; John, 21
Apr. 1685, d. soon; and Eliz. again, 22 Aug. 1687, of wh. ten liv. to be m. His
resid. was on the W. side of the river, at that part of what is now Westfield,
then call. Skipmuck, much expos. to the invasion of border enemies, and his w.
was scalp. by the Ind. 26 July 1708, but liv. until 19 Oct. foll. and he d. 29
Oct. 1725, when he is call. lieut. and said to be 94 yrs. old; but wh. brot. him
over the sea is unkn. Martha m. 8 Dec. 1681, Thomas Morley; Hannah m. 1690,
Joseph Saxton, both of Westfield; Sarah m. 1694, Thomas Chapin; Mary m. 1698,
Nathaniel Bliss; and Eliz. m. 1709, Ebenezer Dewey of Lebanon. ABEL,
Springfield, s. of the preced. m. 1691, Rebecca, d. of Samuel Terry of the same,
had Rebecca, b. 1692; Samuel, 1694, d. soon; Abel, 1695; Samuel, again, 1698;
and was freem. 1690, but no more is heard of this branch. ANTHONY, Sandwich
1643, rem. to Wethersfield bef. 1658, when he was one of the first troop of
caval. in the Col. m. bef. 1670, Mary, d. of the first Richard Smith, and wid.
of Matthew or Matthias Treat, had no ch. and d. 1679. BENJAMIN, Guilford 1649,
rem. to Killingworth, and d. 29 Mar. 1677, leav. ch. Benjamin; Joseph; James;
Eliz. b. 15 Oct. 1653, wh. m. Edward Lee or Lay; Jane, wh. m. Joseph Hand; and
Ann, wh. m. John Walstone of K. His wid. Jane, d. 26 Oct. 1684. BENJAMIN,
Killingworth, s. prob. eldest, of the preced. was propound. for freem. 1669.
BENJAMIN, Northampton, s. of the sec. Samuel, in the imperf. notice of descend.
of Samuel Wright, Geneal. Reg. IV. 357, is said to have m. Thankful Taylor, to
have had Benjamin, three other s. and five ds. but many points of informat.
beside dates, are omit. To make perfect the acco. of him, I add that his first
w. Thankful m. 22 Mar. 1681, d. 4 Apr. 1701; and that the first ch. was b. 26
Feb. 1682; Thankful, 13 Nov. 1683, d. soon; a s. Remembrance, 26 Jan. 1685;
[p.655] Thankful, again, 23 May 1687; Jacob; Mindwell, Oct. 1694; Daniel, 15
Apr. 1697; that he m. 19 July 1701, Mary Barker of Springfield, had William, 26
Nov. 1702; Mary, 7 Sept. 1704; and Experience, 9 Dec. 1706; all the ten at
Northampton. He was famous for his readiness to fight Indians in every expedit.
and soon after mid. life rem. to Northfield, there reach. mature age to d. 1743.
BENJAMIN, Springfield, s. of the first Abel, m. 1694, Mary Chapin, perhaps d. of
Henry, had Benjamin b. 22 May 1697; Henry, 19 May 1700; and Mary, posthum. 1 May
1705; he d. 25 Dec. preced.; and his wid. d. 13 Jan. 1708. BENONI, Hatfield,
youngest ch. of Samuel the sec. b. ten days aft. the fall of his f. in Ind. war,
m. Rebecca Barrett, prob. d. of Benjamin, had Rebecca, b. 1700; and Hannah,
1702. He d. in the same yr. quite young; and his wid. m. 1706, Samuel Dickinson.
DAVID, Wethersfield, youngest s. of the first Samuel of the same, m. 28 Dec.
1699, Rebecca, d. of John Goodrich, sec. of the same, had Ann, b. 19 Dec. 1700;
and David, 10 Apr. 1703; his w. d. same day, and he m. 8 June 1710, Mary, d. of
Lieut. Jonathan Belden, and d. 6 Sept. 1752; and his wid. d. 9 Jan. 1769.
EBENEZER, Northampton, s. of the sec. Samuel of Springfield, m. Hannah Hunt, d.
of Jonathan, had Obadiah, b. 1695; Noah, 1699; Clemence, 1703; Elisha, 1705; and
others, says the notice in Geneal. Reg. IV. 357. To supply the deficiencies as
well as to correct the errors, of that notice, we may learn from the highest
authority, that the m. refer. to, was on 19 Dec. 1691, and that the first issue
of it was Experience, b. 20 Aug. foll. wh. d. next mo.; the next, Obadiah, 26
July 1693, not 1695; Experience, again, 1695; Noah, 29 Nov. of the yr. above;
Clemence, 4 Nov. of the yr. above; Elisha, in May of the yr. above; Esther, 6
May 1708; and Mary, 8 May 1711. But the striking omiss. is of the first w. Eliz.
d. of Jedediah Strong, m. 16 Sept. 1684, wh. d. 17 Feb. 1691, had only ch. Mary,
wh. d. five days bef. her mo. The f. was a deac. and d. 1748. EDWARD, Concord,
by w. Eliz. had Edward, b. 21 Jan. 1658; Matthew, 18 June 1659; perhaps others;
Barry says Samuel; Peter; and three ds. and d. 1691. He was entit. says Barry,
451, to houses, lds. &c. in the manor of Castle Bromwich, in Co. Warwick.
EDWARD, Boston, m. 27 May 1657, Mary Powell, had, says Barry, Mary, b. 19 Jan.
foll. In a deed 1667, he is call. cordwinder. EDWARD, Sudbury, perhaps brot. by
his wid. mo. Dorothy (wh. m. John Blanford), m. 18 June 1659, Hannah Axtell,
prob. d. of Thomas of the same, had Hannah, b. 9 Jan. 1661; Dorothy, 20 Oct.
1662; Sarah, 17 Jan. 1665; Mary, 2 Jan. 1667; Eliz. 6 Mar. 1669; Samuel, 9 Apr.
1670; Abigail, 15 Sept. 1672; Edward, 16 Mar. 1677; and Martha, 25 Dec. 1681;
was a capt. and d. 7 Aug. 1703. His wid. d. 18 May 1708. EDWARD, Scituate, m. 25
May 1664, Lydia, d. of [p.656] Richard Sylvester, wid. of Nathaniel Rawlins, had
Mercy, b. 1666; Hannah, 1668; Grace, 1669; David, 1670; Edward, 1671; and
Joseph, 1673. One EDWARD was a soldier in Turner's comp. for Philip's war, 1676.
EDWARD, Sudbury, youngest s. of Edward of the same, had Nehemiah, b. 23 May
1707, as Barry tells, and at Framingham, Zerubabel, 14 Aug. 1708; Bezaleel, 22
July 1710; William, 21 Sept. 1711; Tabitha, 27 Mar. 1713; Eliz. 11 Mar. 1717;
Hannah, 15 Apr. 1719; Edward, 10 Mar. 1721; Mehitable; and Lois, a. 1728. ELIZUR,
Northampton, s. of Samuel the sec. of Springfield, m. Mary Pardee, as in Geneal.
Reg. IV. 357, is said, and there are also giv. to him, ch. Elizur, b. 1689;
Azariah, 6 Mar. 1697; Nehemiah, Jan. 1699; Eldad, 2 Mar. 1701; Benoni, 26 Nov.
1702; Phineas, 20 July 1710; and five ds. but no names of these are call. in
that tract; and from ano. hand I find them, Hepzibah, 14 Feb. 1691, d. at 2
yrs.; Mary, 12 Sept. 1695; Martha, 8 Dec. 1704; Sarah, 10 Jan. 1707; and Miriam,
13 Feb. 1715. I am also instruct. by the same, that he rem. to Northfield, and
d. 12 May 1743. GEORGE, Salem 1637, of wh. we kn. no. more. Eliz. of the ch.
1641, may have been his w. GEORGE, Braintree, freem. 18 May 1642, if we may add
a W. to the Right of the rec. was a lieut. there, may not, I hope, have been
that capt. wh. in Jan. 1649, stab. Walter Lettice at Newport, as Roger Williams
writes to his friend John Winth. jr. See 3 Mass. Hist. Coll. IX. 280. HENRY,
Dorchester, freem. 6 May 1635, by w. Eliz. had Mary, b. 1 Apr. 1635; and Samuel,
14 Feb. 1637. Of him, as no more is seen in the rec. it is safely conject. that
he rem. but whither is uncert. One HENRY was a soldier of Turner's comp. in
1676. HENRY, Springfield, s. of the first Abel of the same, m. 1705, Hannah,
youngest d. of John Bliss of the same, had Hannah, b. 18 May 1706; Henry, 9 Jan.
1708, wh. was k. 26 July foll. by the Ind. wh. at the same time, carr. away his
w. and soon k. her. He m. 1711, Sarah Root, prob. d. of Thomas of Westfield, had
Moses; Stephen, 1716; Caleb, 1718; Elisha, 1720; Sarah, 1723; and Deborah, prob.
earlier. His will of 1760, was pro. 1769. It names ch. Hannah, Deborah, Sarah,
Moses, Stephen, Caleb, and Elisha. ISAAC, Hingham 1637, came from Co. Norfolk,
d. 1652; and of him we kn. nothing more. ISAAC, Lancaster, of wh. that he d. in
1663, is all that is told. JAMES, Wethersfield, s. prob. eldest of the first
Thomas of the same, and b. in Eng. freem. 1654, had w. Mary, wh. d. 6 Oct. 1659,
and he m. 20 Nov. 1660, Dorcas, d. of Jonas Weed of Stamford, had James, b.
1661; Thomas; Jonas; Daniel, 1674; and Hannah; to wh. Chapin, in p. 179 of
Glastonbury celebrat. erron. adds Lydia. Middletown was later resid. and his w.
d. 24 Dec. 1692, and he d. 1705. JAMES, Northampton, s. of the first Samuel of
Springfield, m. 18 Jan. 1665, Abigail, d. [p.657] prob. of William Jess of
Springfield, had Abigail, b. 26 Dec. foll. d. young; Helped, 2 July 1668, wh.
liv. unm. to Jan. 1745; James, 9 Nov. 1670, d. at 18 yrs.; Lydia, 24 Mar. 1673,
d. at 5 ds.; Samuel, 16 May 1675; Preserved, Jan. 1679; Jonathan, 19 Dec. 1681;
Esther, 20 Aug. 1684; and Hannah, 1688, wh. d. 1691; and his w. d. 24 May 1707.
He d. 1723. Between this acco. and that of Geneal. Reg. IV. 358, some discrepancy
appears, but the correct vers. is here obey. *JOHN, Woburn
1641, had been of Charlestown, and there was one of the project. thirty-two in
numb. for settlem. of the new ch. and town, freem. 1643, had John; Ruth, b. 23
Apr. 1646; Deborah, 21 Jan. 1649; and Sarah, 16 Feb. 1653; rep. 1648. His w.
Priscilla d. 10 Apr. 1687, and he d. 21 June 1688. *JOHN, Gloucester, rep. 1648,
with spell. of Write, of wh. I see no more, and think he may be the preced.
JOHN, Charlestown, had John, b. 27 Sept. 1646, if the rec. be trustworthy, and I
see no reas. to doubt it. JOHN, Newbury, by w. prob. Alice, had Jonathan, b. 7
Dec. 1650; and Ruth, 31 May 1652; rem. to Boston, bef. 1656, and d. 1658. Admin.
was giv. 30 Dec. to Edward Bragg. JOHN, Chelmsford, prob. s. of the first John,
m. 10 May 1661, Abigail Warren, whose f. is not kn. but she, I suppose, d. at Woburn,
6 Apr. 1726, aged 84; had Joseph, b. 14 Oct. 1663, was freem. 3 May 1665, liv.
there in 1679, but, I think, rem. to Woburn,
there d. 30 Apr. 1714, aged 83, if we agree to accept the gr.-st. inscript.
JOHN, Watertown, freem. 1690. An alderman of Boston, Co. Lincoln, in 1630, was
nam. John Wright, and may reasonab. be suppos. to have descend. here. JOSEPH,
Wethersfield, s. of the first Thomas of the same, freem. 1667, by fam. tradit.
is said to have had two ws. By the first Mary, m. 10 Dec. 1663, wh. d. 23 Aug.
1683, aged 38, he had Mary, b. 15 Apr. 1665; Eliz. 18 Nov. 1667; Joseph, 14 Feb.
1670; Sarah, 16 May 1674; Thomas, 18 Jan. 1677; John, 19 May 1679; and Jonathan,
18 June 1681. His next w. Merey, m. 10 Mar. 1685, brot. him Benjamin; and
Nathaniel, 16 Oct. 1688; and he is said to have d. early in 1715, but to have
made his will three yrs. bef. JOSEPH, Medfield, freem. 1674. JOSEPH,
Northampton, sec. s. of the sec. Samuel of Springfield, m. 6 Nov. 1679, Ruth, d.
of the first Isaac Sheldon of the same, had Joseph, b. 23 June 1681; Samuel, 13
Aug. 1683, d. young; Ruth, 14 Feb. 1685, d. in few wks.; Ruth, again, 26 Apr.
1687; James, 5 Dec. 1689, d. young; Mary, Jan. 1691; Samuel, 13 Aug. 1693; and
Benoni, 4 Oct. 1697; supply. some failure in Geneal. Reg. IV. 357. He was freem.
1690, and d. 16 Feb. 1697. His wid. m. 28 Oct. 1698, Samuel Strong. JOSEPH,
Springfield, s. of the first Abel, m. 1687, Sarah Osborne, perhaps d. of John of
Windsor, had Mindwell, b. 24 Sept. 1688, d. young; Joseph, 14 Oct. 1690; Sarah,
20 Nov. 1692; Benjamin, [p.658] 11 Nov. 1694, slain, 1712, by the Ind.;
Mindwell, again, 4 Mar. 1697; Martha, 16 June 1699; Mary, 24 Sept. 1702; and
Rachel, 4 Dec. 1706. JOSIAH, sometimes writ. Joseph, Woburn,
m. 1 Nov. 1661, Eliz. Hassall, perhaps d. of Richard of Watertown, had Eliz. b.
2 July 1664; Joseph, 14 Mar. 1667; Sarah, 25 Feb. 1670; John, 2 Oct. 1672;
Joanna, or Hannah, as ano. rec. has it, 18 Apr. 1675; James, 10 Nov. 1677;
Timothy, 3 Apr. 1679; Stephen, 22 Feb. 1681; Jacob, 22 June 1683; Ruth, 10 Oct.
1685; and Bryan, 14 Mar. 1688. Of this w. I suppose, was b. 23 Feb. 1671, a
creature, minutely describ. Farmer MS. says in p. 33 of Incr. Mather's Hist.
Ind. Wars; and that explains the orig. of the love of the marvellous in his s.
“greater than his f.” For ano. w. he had Ruth, wid. of John Center, and she
d. 18 Feb. 1717, aged 60, if the gr.-st. be true; but I have a memo. slightly
inconsist. that he rem. to Charlestown, and m. 7 July 1692, Eliz. Bateman; wh.
may seem very prob. bec. 2 Nov. 1686 his d. Eliz. m. Eleazer Bateman; and it may
be that the wid. of Center bec. his third w. JOSIAH, Woburn,
perhaps s. of the preced. was deac. d. 22 Jan. 1748, aged 73, by Mr. Wyman's
inser. of the gr.-st. JUDAH, Northampton, youngest s. of the first Samuel of the
same, m. 7 Jan. 1667, Merey, d. of Henry Burt, had Samuel, b. 6 Nov. foll. d. in
3 mos.; Merey, 14 Mar. 1669; Esther, 18 Aug. 1671, d. soon; Judah, 14 Nov. 1673,
d. in two ds.; Judah, again, May 1677; Ebenezer, Sept. 1679; Thomas, 8 Apr.
1682; Patience, 18 Apr. 1684; and Nathaniel, 5 May 1688. He was freem. 1676, m.
sec. w. 11 July 1706, Sarah, wid. of Richard Burk, wh. d. 1712; and he d. 26
Nov. 1725. MORDECAI, Plymouth, of wh. I find only that he was b. 30 Oct. 1649
and bur. 20 Mar. 1650, but wh. was his f. must be left to conject. NATHANIEL,
New Hampsh. in Feb. 1690, request. protect. of Mass. NICHOLAS, Sandwich 1643,
had been of Lynn 1637. PETER, Sandwich 1643, had rem. to that place 1638. My
conject. is that he was br. of Nicholas; and in his MS. collect. for new edit.
Farmer had noted, that he had s. Adam, b. 20 Mar. 1650, wh. prob. sett. at
Oyster Bay, L. I. RICHARD, Lynn, perhaps as early as 1630, certain. in 1632, one
of the Comtee. of that town to confer with two others of ea. town in advis. the
Gov. and Assist. a. rais. a public stock, freem. 14 May 1634, was of Boston 1636
or earlier, being No. 89 of the ch. so that it may well seem to be a differ.
man. The Boston man had ld. at Mount Wollaston, and was call. capt. He there had
a mill, wh. with forty acres, he gave, in 1640, to Thomas Dudley, as price of
five cows. I hope he had a good bargain, but it seems a hard one. Prob. he liv.
sometime at Dorchester, aft. 1636. RICHARD, Plymouth 1643, had Esther, b. 1649;
and Isaac, 26 Aug. 1662. RICHARD, Rehoboth 1644. ROBERT, Boston, came as a
runaway, 1630, from London, where [p.659] he had been a draper in Newgate
market, and a brewer in Thames street, was here arrest. as in his let. to the
Countess of Lincoln, our Dept.-Gov. Dudley shows, and was to be sent home by the
same ship that carr. the let. ROBERT, Boston, ar. co. 1643, by w. Mary had John,
wh. was bur. Mar. 1645; John, again, wh. d. 22 June 1652; Robert, b. 16 June
1653; and Joseph, 14 Nov. 1655. SAMUEL, Springfield 1641, brot. w. and ch. some
of wh. were b. in Eng. but in what town he had first liv. is unkn. freem. 13
Apr. 1648, was deac. and appoint. by the town (aft. ret. of Rev. Mr. Moxon, the
first min. to his native ld. in 1653) “to dispense the word of God for the
present;” but a. 1656, he rem. to Northampton. In his will of 1663, he names
seven ch. Samuel; James; Judah, b. 10 May 1642; Mary; Margaret; Esther; and
Lydia; beside wh. he had Helped, 15 Sept. 1644, wh. was d. Prob. most of the
five elder ch. were b. in Eng. and all they, with Judah, were liv. in 1680; and
he d. “in his chair,” says the rec. 17 Oct. 1665. His wid. Margaret names,
in her will of 1680, only the four ds. and she d. 24 July 1681. Of the ds.
Esther m. 18 Feb. 1682, Samuel Marshfield; Margaret m. 8 Dec. 1653, Thomas
Bancroft; Lydia m. 25 Oct. 1654, Lawrence Bliss, and in 1678, John Norton, and
in 1688, John Lamb, and in 1692, George Colton. The other d. Mary was m. but the
date and name of the h. are unkn. SAMUEL, Springfield, s. prob. eldest of the
preced. and b. in Eng. m. 24 Nov. 1653, Eliz. d. of Henry Burt of the same, had
Samuel, b. 3 Oct. 1654; rem. to Northampton, there had Joseph, 2 June 1657;
Benjamin, 13 July 1660; Ebenezer, 20 Mar. 1663; Eliz. 31 July 1666; Eliezur, 20
Oct. 1668; Hannah, 27 Feb. 1671; and Benoni, 12 Sept. 1675, posthum. He was a
soldier on serv. at Northfield, there k. by the Ind. ten days bef. the b. of his
youngest s. The wid. m. 16 Sept. 1684, Nathaniel Dickinson of Hatfield, and at
the same time were m. her s. Ebenezer, and the eldest d. Eliz. m. Thomas
Stebbins; Hannah m. 18 Nov. 1686, she then less than 16 yrs. old, Samuel Billing
of Hatfield. Of this Samuel descend. the late Silas, a Senator of the U. S. of
no humble rank from New York. SAMUEL, Wethersfield, s. of Thomas of the same, b.
prob. in Eng. freem. 1657, m. 29 Sept. 1659, Mary, d. of Deac. Richard Butler of
Hartford, had Samuel, Mary, Hannah, Sarah, Mabel, and David, the last b. 12 Jan.
1678; had good est. and d. Feb. 1690, call. 56 yrs. old, hav. made his will the
mo. bef. in wh. the ds. Sarah and Mabel are not nam. perhaps d. SAMUEL, Sudbury,
m. 25 Mar. 1663, Hannah, d. of Benjamin Albee of Medfield, I think; but 3 May
1664 m. Lydia Moore, and d. 21 Aug. foll. and his wid. m. 15 June next, James Cutter.
SAMUEL, Northampton, eldest s. of the sec. Samuel of Springfield, freem. 1683,
m. 3 Jan. 1678, Sarah, d. of John Lyman of the same, had nine ch. Sarah, b. 20
Dec. 1678; [p.660] Samuel, 17 May 1682; Dorcas, wh. d. 7 June 1686; John, 9 Aug.
1687; Hannah, 6 Feb. 1689; Stephen; Hezekiah, 22 May, 1695; Doreas; and Keziah,
21 Jan. 1702; as says the Notice in Geneal. Reg. IV. 357, corrected and
enlarged. He d. 29 Nov. 1734, at N. SAMUEL, Westford, of wh. I see nothing exe.
that he was f. of Abel, b. a. 1682, over whose corpse, taken from Charles riv.
in wh. he was drown. 28 June 1707, the monum. at Cambridge bears the inscript.
of his date in the UNIVERSITY, this term being thus early employ. SAMUEL,
Wethersfield, s. of the first Samuel of the same, m. 12 May 1686, Rebecca, d. of
Moses Crafts; she little older than 15 yrs. at that time, d. 14 Mar. 1711; and
he m. Aug. 1723, Abigail, wid. of Samuel Walker, and d. 12 Oct. 1734. His wid.
d. 1 Jan. 1740. SAMUEL, Sudbury, s. of Edward of the same, m. Mary, d. of
Cyprian Stevens, had Mary, b. 10 Feb. 1704; Dorothy, 7 Mar. 1706; Abigail, 19
Feb. 1708; Isabel, 3 Feb. 1710; William, 22 Dec. 1712; beside Cyprian, and
Hannah, both earlier; and d. at Rutland, says Barry, 15 Jan. 1740, his w. hav.
d. 18 May preced. SAMUEL, Springfield, youngest adult s. of the first Abel of
the same, m. 1710, Mary Case of Lebanon, and in 1724 liv. at Norwich. THOMAS,
Exeter 1639. THOMAS, Wethersfield 1639, may have been earlier at Watertown, or
other Mass. settlem. brot. from Eng. w. and ch. sev. perhaps, had more on this
side of the water. For sec. w. by wh. he had no ch. he took Margaret, wid. of
John Elson (wh. had been wid. of Hilliard, perhaps Hugh, and had s. Benjamin,
Job, and John H.) He was much engag. 1658 in the controv. a. Rev. John Russell;
and d. Apr. 1670. Of his ch. Samuel, James, Thomas, Joseph, Lydia, it is very
diffic. to make any arrangem. of dates. Chapin, p. 179, adds to these a Mary.
The wid. d. 1671; and the d. Lydia d. bef. he came to W. m. Joseph Smith.
THOMAS, Wethersfield, s. perhaps eldest, of the preced. freem. 1654, d. 23 Aug.
1683, leav. good est. to ch. Thomas, b. 1 Mar. 1660; Mary, 4 Mar. 1664; Hannah,
10 Mar. 1670; and Lydia, 12 Mar. 1673. Eliz. b. 17 Feb. 1676 had d. bef. Wh. was
his w. is uncert. tho. Chapin gives him Eliz. d. of Lieut. William Chittenden,
yet this may more prob. belong to the succeed. THOMAS, Guilford, m. 16 Jan.
1658, prob. Eliz. d. of William Chittenden of the same, wh. d. without issue. In
1673, he m. at G. Sarah Benton, had Mary, b. 1674, wh. m. 1698, Gideon Allen;
Daniel, 1676, d. at 22 yrs.; Mercy, 1680, wh. m. Thomas Burges; Mehitable, 1684;
Abel, 1688, d. young; but aft. his f. wh. d. 6 Dec. 1692; and his wid. d.
nineteen days aft. WALTER, Andover, m. 26 Feb. 1668, Susanna Johnson, whose f.
is unkn. but prob. she was sis. of some of the many Johnsons in that town, had
Christopher, wh. d. 16 Jan. 1673 or 4, and perhaps others. His w. d. 3 June
1684, and he m. 9 Sept. foll. Eliz. with a surname to be reject. on [p.661] wh.
the contribut. of that valua. rec. in Geneal. Reg. III. 67, wrote to me, shortly
aft. its publicat. in 1849: “Is not this name, Sadir, a strange one? I could,
however, make nothing else out of it, unless I call it Sadie.” Resort to
conject. would be unjustifiab. as the orig. may be turn. to, but I doubt the
first letter more than the last. If some undiscip. eye assail the MS. he may
scrutinize each letter, and if the initial seem an S, other letters may turn out
adler, or any thing exc. Sadir. WILLIAM, Plymouth, came in the Fortune, 1621,
had w. Priscilla, but by his will of 16 Sept. 1633, might seem to have no ch. at
least to her he gives all. WILLIAM, Sandwich, whose rec. of bur. 2 May 1648 is
all that is told of him. WILLIAM, Boston 1670. In 1834 Farmer count. ten gr. of
this name at Yale, eight at Harv. four at Dartm. and thirteen at other N. E.
coll.
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Wyman, or Weyman,
Benjamin, Woburn, s. of Francis of the same, m.
20 Jan. 1703, Eliz. d. of Nathaniel Hancock the sec. of Cambridge, had Eliz. b.
1 May 1705; Benjamin, 17 Dec. 1706, or a few wks. earlier; Lucy, 17 Apr. 1708;
Zebediah, June 1709; Eunice, 16 Nov. 1710; Jerusha, 23 July 1712; Tabitha, 7
Apr. 1714; Abijah, 20 Sept. 1715; Catharine, 6 May 1717; Nathaniel, 26 Jan.
1719; Abigail, 26 [p.664] Aug. 1720; Martha, 7 May 1722; Noah, 30 July 1724, d.
young; Jonas, 21 July 1725, a soldier at capt of Louisburg, d. soon aft.; and
Reuben, 9 Nov. 1726; and d. 19 Dec. 1735. His wid. m. 22 Aug. 1739, Jonathan
Bacon. DAVID, Woburn, a tanner, s. of John of the
same, m. 27 Apr. 1675, Isabel, d. of John Farmer of Concord, had David, b. 29
Mar. 1676, d. in few ds.; Isabel, 5 July 1677; and d. of smallpox, 27 Dec. 1678,
or very soon aft.; and his wid. m. 19 Nov. foll. James Blood of Concord.
FRANCIS, Woburn, a tanner, one of the thirty-two
inhabs. of Charlestown, wh. on 18 Dec. 1640, estab. the town of W. m. 3 Dec.
1644 or 30 Jan. 1645, Judith Pierce of W. b. at Norwich in O. E. d. of John, but
of this union was no issue, nor is the time of her d. kn. yet he took sec. w. 2
Oct. 1650, Abigail, d. of William Read of W. had Judith, b. 29 Sept. 1652, d. in
few wks.; Francis, a. 1654, d. at 22 yrs.; William, a. 1656; Abigail, wh. m. 2
Jan. 1675, Stephen Richardson; Timothy, 16 Sept. 1661; Joseph, 9 Nov. 1663, wh.
d. unm. 24 July 1714; Nathaniel, 25 Nov. 1665; Samuel, 29 Nov. 1667; Thomas, 1
Apr. 1671; Benjamin, 25 Aug. 1674; Stephen, 2 June 1676, d. in few wks.; and
Judith, again, 15 Jan. 1679, wh. m. Nathaniel Bacon. He was an early propr. at
Billerica, freem. 1657, and d. 28 or 30 Nov. 1699, aged, perhaps, 82. JACOB, Woburn,
a tanner, youngest s. of John of the same, freem. 1690, m. 23 Nov. 1687, Eliz.
d. of Samuel Richardson of the same, had Jacob, b. 11 Sept. foll.; Samuel, 7
Feb. 1690; Eliz. 5 or 7 Jan. 1691; David, 14 Apr. 1693; Martha, 13 Oct. 1695;
Mary, 8 July 1698; John, 11 Dec. 1700, H. C. 1721, d. very soon aft.; Solomon,
24 Apr. 1703, d. at 22 yrs.; Patience, 13 Apr. 1705; Ebenezer, 5 May 1707, H. C.
1731, min. of Union, Conn.; Isaiah, 28 Feb. 1709; Peter, 27 Sept. 1711; and
Daniel, 27 May 1715. His w. d. 21 Nov. 1739, and he m. 4 Feb. foll. Eliz. Coggin
of W. and d. 31 Mar. 1742. JOHN, Woburn, a
tanner, was one of the inhabs. of Charlestown, that formed the town of W. m. 5
Nov. 1644, Sarah, d. of Miles Nutt of W. had Samuel, b. 20 Sept. 1646, d. in few
ds.; John, 28 Mar. 1648; Sarah, 15 Apr. 1650, wh. m. 15 Dec. 1669, Joseph Walker
of Billerica; Solomon, 26 Feb. 1652; David, 7 Apr. 1654; Eliz. 18 Jan. 1656, d.
young; Bathsheba, 6 Oct. 1658, wh. m. 30 May 1677, Nathaniel Tay; Jonathan, 13
July 1661; Seth, 3 Aug. 1663; and Jacob; was a lieut. and d. 9 May 1684. His
wid. m. 25 Aug. foll. Thomas Fuller of W. JOHN, Woburn,
s. of the preced. m. 1671, Mary, eldest d. of Rev. Thomas Carter of the same,
had John, b. 23 Apr. 1672; and Mary, 25 June 1674; was one of the troop under
the brave Capt. Thomas Prentice, and was k. by the Ind. in Dec. 1675, in the
Narraganset country, and his wid. m. 31 Oct. foll. Nathaniel Batchelder of
Hampton. Ano. JOHN of Woburn, wheelwright, whose
[p.665] f. is not seen, m. 14 Dec. 1685, Hannah, d. of John Farrar of the same,
had John, b. 16 Nov. 1686; Thomas, 25 Mar. 1689; Jasper, 6 Jan. 1692; Nathan, 8
Jan. 1696; Hannah, Aug. 1703; Ann, 10 Apr. 1705; Rachel, 24 Oct. 1707; and he d.
19 Apr. 1728. JONATHAN, Woburn, s. of the first
John, m. 29 July 1689, Abigail, d. of James Fowle of the same, wh. d. in few
mos. and he m. 31 July foll. Hannah, d. of Peter Fowle of W. had Abigail, b. 1
June 1691; Hannah, 2 Nov. 1694; Mary, 26 Jan. 1697; Eliz. 15 Feb. 1701;
Jonathan, 13 Sept. 1704; Sarah, 18 Aug. 1706; and Zechariah, 19 July 1709; was
freem. 1690; and d. 15 Dec. 1736. NATHANIEL, Woburn,
s. of Francis of the same, m. 28 June 1692, Mary Winn, perhaps d. of Increase of
W. had Nathaniel, b. 23 May foll.; Mary, 28 May 1694; Abigail, 5 Oct. 1695;
Ruth, 17 Apr. 1697; Hannah, 23 Apr. 1699; Eliz. 11 Nov. 700; Phebe, 11 June
1702; Rebecca, 14 Apr. 1704; Joanna, 25 July 1705; Increase, 1 Mar. 1707; Sarah,
21 Aug. 1710; Kezia, 5 Apr. 1713; and he d. 8 Dec. 1717. His wid. m. 30 Nov.
1720, John Locke of W. SAMUEL, Woburn, br. of the
preced. m. 1692, Rebecca, d. of Matthew Johnson of the same, had Rebecca, b. 11
Nov. 1693; Abigail, 5 Feb. 1695; Hannah, 10 Dec. 1696; Sarah, 2 Feb. 1698;
Samuel, 18 Mar. 1700; Oliver, 5 Sept. 1701; Lydia, 1 Jan. 1703; Patience, 9 Jan.
1705; Matthew, 3 Aug. 1707; and Esther, 25 Feb. 1709, wh. liv. 100 yrs. less one
month; and he d. 17 May 1725. SETH, Woburn, s. of
the first John of the same, m. 17 Dec. 1685, Esther, d. of William Johnson of
the same, had Seth, b. 13 Sept. 1686; Esther, 25 Oct. 1688; Sarah, 17 Jan. 1690;
Jonathan, Nov. 1693, d. at two mos.; Susanna, 30 June 1695; Abigail, 6 Feb.
1698; and Love, 14 Feb. 1701; was freem. 1690; and d. 26 Oct. 1715. His wid. d.
31 Mar. 1742. STEPHEN, spell. Wayman, was in the Narraganset serv. Feb. 1676,
but of what town, or in whose comp. I kn. not, nor any thing further of him.
THOMAS, Boston, by the diligent inq. in the Geneal. Reg. III. 34, call. a
tailor, said to have serv. in the Narraganset winter campaign 1675 and 6, and to
have had Thomas, Daniel, Mary, Sarah, and Abigail, but dates of b. could not be
found by him. At first, it is said, the name was Weymouth. THOMAS, Woburn,
s. of Francis of the same, m. 5 May 1696, Mary, d. of Nathaniel Richardson of
the same, had Thomas, b. 12 May 1697; Josiah, 18 Mar. 1700; Phineas, 1701;
Timothy, 1 Mar. 1702; Benjamin, 12 June 1704; John, 6 July 1706; Mary, 10 Mar.
1708; Aaron, 6 Dec. 1709; Eleazer, 13 Apr. 1712; Nathaniel, 18 May 1716; Eliz.
19 Dec. 1718; and he d. 4 Sept. 1731. His wid. m. 17 Aug. 1733, Josiah Winn of
W. TIMOTHY, Woburn, br. of the preced. by w.
Hannah had Hannah, b. 7 July 1688; Timothy, 5 Apr. 1691; Solomon, 24 Oct. 1693;
Joseph, 1 Nov. 1695; Eunice, [p.666] 24 Feb. 1697; Ann, 26 Mar. 1700; Judith, 16
June 1702; Eliz. 11 Mar. 1704; Ebenezer, 21 Mar. 1706; Esther; Eliz.; and
Prudence, 8 Mar. 1709; in wh. yr. he d. WILLIAM, Woburn,
elder br. of the preced. m. Prudence, d. perhaps of Thomas Putnam of Salem, had
William, b. 18, d. 20 Jan. 1683; Prudence, 26 Dec. foll.; William, again, 15
Jan. 1685; Thomas, 23 Aug. 1687; Eliz. 5 July 1689, d. next yr.; Francis, 10
July 1691; Joshua, 3 Jan. 1693; a d. 1694, d. very soon; Edward, 10 Jan. 1696;
Eliz. again, 16 Feb. 1698; Deliverance, 28 Feb. 1700; and James, 16 Mar. 1702;
was freem. 1690, and d. 1705. Farmer in 1834 counts the gr. of this name, seven
at Harv. and two at other N. E. coll.
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P. 306. l. 18, aft. 1667. ins. Hannah m. 5 Nov. 1666, Joseph
Richardson of Woburn.
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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