Transcript:Savage, James. Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England/v1p100

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head of a fam. 1691; and ano. THOMAS at Lynn was freem. 1691.
THOMAS, Yarmouth, youngest s. of Francis, by w. Bathsheba had Mary,
b. 7 Apr. 1701; and Thomas, 4 Mar. 1703. TIMOTHY, Northampton,
s. of Edward, freem. 1676, m. 16 Jan. 1672, Grace. d. of John Marsh of
Hadley, had Grace, b. 1673, a. soon; Timothy, 1675; and his w. d. 31
May 1676. For sec. w. he took Sarah, wid. of Rev. Hope Atherton, d.
of John Hollister, and had John, b. 3 Feb. 1680; Thomas, 14 May 1682;
Edward, 12 Nov. 1685 ; Prudence, 14 May 1687; and Deliverance, 13
Nov. 1689. His w. d. 8 Dec. 1691; and he d. 30 Aug. 1729. His
third s. was the youth, wh. m. Christina, d. of Richard Otis, that was
taken by the Ind. at 3 mos. old, from Dover; with her mo. when they k.
her f. 1689, and car. to Canada, there after a priestly educat. made a
Catholic by bapt. and m. a Frenchman, wh. had by her two ch. bef. his
d. Baker had been made a pris. by the Ind. prob. tak. to Canada in
1704, and in differ. capacity in 1719, accomp. Col. Stoddard to bring
home the prisoners from Quebec. Many descend. in N. E. and remote
parts spring from this m. among others Hon. John Wentworth, late M.
C. from Chicago, and present mayor of that prosper. city. WALTER,
Scituate, was suspect. in 1651, of murder of John Winter; but no support
was found for that surmise. WILLIAM, Charlestown 1633, freem.
3 Sept. 1634, hav. join. the ch. in Aug. 1633, was one of the petitnrs.
in favor of Wheelwright, but seasona. chang. his mind, and contin. in
good stand.; by w. Joan had Sarah (Mr. Wyman calls her Mary), bapt. 20
May 1638; Stephen, 20 Feb. 1642; and Martha, 21 Apr. 1644; was a selectman
1646, and d. 8 Nov. 1658. His wid. d. 26 Sept. 1669. Frothingham, 82, 5.
WILLIAM, Plymouth 1643, may, I think, have been first of R. I. as early as 1638,
and prob. went thither again, being count. among the freem. 1655, at
Portsmouth. WILLIAM, Boston, pump-maker, m. 23 Sept. 1651, Mary,
d. of Edmund Eddington, had Mary, b. 16 May 1602, d. at 3 mos.;
John, 14 Dec. 1653; and William, 19 Oct. 1650. His w. d. 12 Dec.
foll. and he m. 22 Apr. next, Pilgrim, eldest d. of John Eddy of Watertown.
But gr. uncert. or confils. appears after this, for Bond, 203, and
755, makes a doubt, whether she were w. of P. Stedman bef. or after
Baker. Yet she was young, when B. m. her, and he rem. prob. to
Concord, and there he or ano. William d. leav. wid. Mary and s. William.
His inv.is of 17 June 1679.
[2] WILLlAM, New London 1652-60, was perhaps
f: of Thomas. WILLIAM, Yarmouth, s. of Francis, by w. Mercy had
Mercy, b. 6 Jan. 1698; William, 8 Jan. 1694; Dorcas, 15 Nov. 1696;
Experience, 8 Jan. 1698; Judah, 2 Mar. 1701; Elizabeth 11 Feb. 1703;
Josiah, 16 Dec. 1704; Joanna, 8 Feb. 1707; and Patience, 27 Feb.
1709; and d. 1727. His wid. d. 1753. Of this name, 1834, Farmer
counts nine gr. at Harv. seven at Yale, four at Dart. and seven at the