Transcript:Savage, James. Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England/v1p278

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s.-in-law Abraham R. His wid. mo. 26 Sept. 1662, Henry Walker as
his third w. and d. Mary m. 3 July 1667, William Haskell. WILLIAM,
Plymouth, m. 16 July 1649 Mary Murcock, had Mary, b. 14 May
1650; George, 16 Jan. 1652; William, 1 Apr. 1654; and Samuel,
early in Mar. 1656; beside John, James, and Mercy; yet some of
these, perhaps most, were b. at Eastham; and d. a. 1694. WILLIAM,
Salisbury 1641, br. of George of Haverhill, m. 1645 or 6,
Elizabeth Munford, had Mary, b. 14 June 1647; William, 24 Feb.
1649, d. young; Ephraim, 24 June 1650; Martha, 5 July 1654;
Elizabeth 6 Aug. 1656, wh. m. 3 Aug. 1679, Samuel Clough; and
Sarah, 12 Apr. 1658, wh. m. Benjamin Brown of Hampton; and
he d. 24 Aug. 1706. WILLIAM, Boston, soapboiler, liv. prob. some yrs.
at Salem, had James, wh. d. 15 Nov. 1653; but perhaps others earlier,
possib. at S. and d. 1662, leav. wid. Hannah, and six ch. to ea. of wh.
by will of 1 July 1662, he gave one shil. WILLIAM, Boston, m. 2
Apr. 1655, Elizabeth d. of George Ruggles of Braintree, had Mary, b. 16
Mar. foll.; and Sarah, 8 Jan. 1658; beside Elizabeth 5 May 1659; and
George, 5 Apr. 1668. But my confidence does not reach to all the statem.
in a genealog. table, publ. in 1852, by a descend. that makes this last ch.
b. "soon after his parents landed." Prob. the compiler paid too much regard
to an untrustworthy tradit. that they, �William and Elizabeth emigra. from
Scotland a. that time, i. e. 1667--that he was a seafar. man, and that he
d. soon aft. land. in Mass. that Elizabeth his wid. m. a man by the name of
Baldwin, and sett. in Woburn.� The only William in Boston, wh. had
near those days w. Elizabeth had been here, I think, at least thirteen yrs. and
to me it seems very improb. that he came from Scotland bef. 1655. I may not
disbelieve, that he d. soon aft. b. of the only s. but fourth ch. yet much do I
doubt the story of wid.'s m. to a Baldwin of Woburn, for the only man at
W. of that surname wh. had w. Elizabeth was Timothy, and she bore him
sev. ch. down to 1692, wh. is quite inconsist. with her being wid.
of Boston William Brown. Ano. WILLIAM, Boston, prob. br.
of Job, had by n. Lydia, wh. d. 30 July 1680, aged 46, Mary, b. 23
Apr. 1657; and Susanna, 24 Oct. 1659. Perhaps this is the man, m.
by dep.-gov. Bellingham, 11 Apr. 1656 to some fam. in the Geneal. Reg.
XI. 201, call. William Parchment. Surely we may presume this to be wanton
folly, or inexcusab. carelessness. Was it design. for a sneer at the dep.-gov. ?
WILLIAM, Salem, s. of Hon. William, m. 29 Dec. 1664, Hannah, d. of
George Esp; had William, b. 28 July 1666, d. soon; Hannah, 16
Mar. 1668, d. soon; Samuel, 8 Oct. 1669; William, again, 5 Sept. 1671,
d. next yr; John, 2 Nov. 1672; Sarah, 10 Dec. 1674, d. at 14; and
Mary 22 Aug. 1679. His w. d. 21 Nov. 1692; and he m. 26 Apr.
1694, Rebecca Bayley, was freem. 1668, one of Andros's counc. 1687-9,
and of the counc. of safety, when the usurp. was put down, not nam. by
Increase Mather in the chart. of 1692, but chos. next yr. by a full vote
of the reps. of the people, and d. 23 Feb. 1716. The benefact. to Harv.
Coll. of this gent. of his f. br. and s. are honorab. commemo. by Quincy
in his great work. One of his s. Samuel was rep. couns. and judge, and
d. June 1731, f; of William, H. C. 1727, and of Samuel, H. C. 1727.
This last was f. of William, H. C. 1755, a judge of the Sup. Court 1775
wh. adher. to the crown, and after some yrs. was Gov. of Bermuda d.
WILLIAM, Charlestown, m. 5 Jan. 1665, Elizabeth Downs, had Elizabeth b. and
d. that yr. James, 3 Aug. 1666, and William, 6 Aug. 1668. WILLIAM,
Salem, liv. I presume, on Marblehead side in 1674, and earlier, by w.
Sarah, had John, b. 10 Oct. 1669; Joseph, Aug. 1672; and Benjamin,
Aug. 1674. WILLIAM, Sudbury, s. of William, m. 11 Jan. 1676, Margaret,
d. of deac. John Stone of Cambridge, and d. 1705. WILLIAM,
Charlestown, perhaps br. of Job, m. 29 Feb. 1672, Mary Goodwin,
wh. d. 28 July 1678, aged 22; and by her had Job, bapt. 3 Oct. 1675.
He had sec. w. Mary Lothrop, m. 21 May 1679, wh. d. 23 Dec. 1713,
aged 54. Other ch. he had, most, perhaps not all, by this w. as in his will of
1721 are nam. William, John, Sarah, w. of Richard Randall, Mary, w. of Samuel
Whitehead, Martha, w. of Elias Kingsley, and Abigail, then unm. He d. 19 Oct.