"Abraham (Browne) … purchased land in Groton, where he proposed to settle near his sister Lydia. But, Mary Dix, to whom he was engaged to be married, was unwilling to go to Groton, and she 'desired Thomas Parks to go to Ipswich to treat with Mrs. Hodges to see what she would do for her son Abraham Browne upon his marriage.' He went, and 'Mrs. Hodges gave him (her son A.) full power to settle upon her land in Watertown,' &c. He m., Feb. 5, 1662-3, Mary Dix."