Transcript:Savage, James. Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England/v1p307

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trust. as one in a commissn. with gr. powers; and d. prob. in 1692, as
the inv. of his est. was made 31 Oct. of that yr. The will of 11 Jan.
1690 names ch. Daniel; Peter, H. C. 1690; Samuel; Esther; Elizabeth;
Sarah; Joanna; and Abigail (of wh. some were minors); beside Mary,
wh. had m. Samuel Wakeman, and was d. leav. a d. JOHN, Fairfield,
br. of the preced. perhaps b. after his f. came to Roxbury, was adm.
freem. of Conn. 1664, rep. 1666, and with his br. Jehu, 1670, and more
yrs. was major, and d. 1694. His w. was, it is said, Sarah Fitch, but
whose d. she was is not told, and for the ch. in partial default of rec. we
must accept his will, nam. John, b. 2 May 1673; David; Samuel, 2
Apr. 1679, H. C. 1697; Jonathan; Sarah, 25 July 1675; Mary, 19
Aug. 1683; and Deborah; the last two unm. Joseph, b 21 June 1677,
and Ebenezer, 7 Feb. 1682, d. bef. their f. The wid. Sarah, in her will,
of 8 June 1696, names only the ds. Sarah Chauncy, wh. m. 29 June
1692, Rev. Charles of F., Mary, Deborah, and s. Samuel. JOHN,
Hingham, s. of Simon, m. 24 Dec. 1685, Mary, d. of John Warren of
Boston, had, it is said, ten ch. and d. 8 Dec. 1716, aged a. 57, and his wid.
d. 5 June 1742, aged 78, as the gr.stones tell. JONATHAN, Dorchester, b.
at Redgrave in Co. Suffk. it is said, bred at Corpus Christi, in Cambridge Univ.
where he took his degr. 1623, and 1627, was rector of Rickingshall, in his
native ld. but was silence. by his primate, Laud, and came with w. Frances,
and three young ch. to this asylum 1639. In the sec. foll. winter he was
call. to be collea. with Mather, but d. 9 Aug. 1641, aged 36, leav. Jonathan,
H. C. 1651; John; and Simon, wh. were b. in Eng. and Mary, b.
a. 1640, at D. wh. m. Zechariah Long of Charlestown, and d. 2 Aug. 1681.
Of John, and Simon, as nothing is relat. it may be infer. that both d.
early; but the mo. m. a. 1643, Hon. Richard Dummer of Newbury,
outliv. him, and d. 19 Nov. 1682, aged 70. Winthrop II. 22, and Magn.
III. 78. JONATHAN, Hingham, s. of the preced. was a physician, of wh.
we kn. only, that he accomp. the forces in the crusade of Sir William
Phips against Quebec, and d. of smallpox, 28 Nov. 1690
[1]. Nothing is
seen of w. or ch. NATHANIEL, Fairfield, s. of Jehu the first, freem.
1664, had m. Sarah, d. of Andrew Ward, as his wid.'s will, of 1665,
names this d. and her two ch. Sarah, and Nathaniel. Both these ch. d.
bef. the f. wh. had sec. w. Ann, and d. 26 Feb. 1712. His will of four
days bef. names seven ch. viz. the dec. Nathaniel, wh. had left four ch.
and John, Daniel, Esther, Ann Allen, Rebecca Sherwood, and Mary
Labarre
. PETER, Fairfield, s. of sec. Jehu, after leav. coll. taught a sch.
two or three yrs. bec. a judge of the Sup. Ct. of Conn. and d. 1724, or 5.
Good est. is exhibit. in his inv. of 18 Feb. of the latter yr. SAMUEL,
Hartford, s. of Benjamin of the same, m. Mary, d. of John Baysey, wh.
d. bef. her h. and he d. 29 Sept. 1682, leav. ch. Samuel, then aged 19;