Transcript:Savage, James. Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England/v1p315

longev.) have subtract. a week without appar. authority. Had he boldly
struck off a dozen more yrs. skeptics would agree or would rejoice with
him. Yet B. was the oldest man, says Lewis, fondly, wh. ever liv. in
Lynn. This kindly affect. writer, in a generat. nearer to his won, enjoy.
the finding of a black woman of equal age in the same happy town.
Well stricken in yrs. at his com. over, must Burton seem, and prob. he
brot. some fam. or at least had little progeny here; and careful scrunity
proves, in many such instances, that peop. past mid. life, after reach
our shores, grew old very fast. BONIFACE, Boston, perhaps s. perhaps
gr.s. of the preced. d. 1667, from whose will, nam. only w. Frances, we
infer, that he left no ch. and kn. that he gave nothing to the centenary,
but that his largest bequest was ten shillings to Increase Mather. It is
possib. that the testator was that very aged Lynn man, and the only one
of so uncom. name. EDWARD, Charlestown 1633, rem. prob. to Hingham,
there had gr. of ld. 1647, and d. bef. 1675, when convey. of it was
giv. by his ch. of wh. I see no more. JOHN, Salem, a tanner, from
1637 to 1684, when he d. hav. been worried for a Quaker, 1659, 60
and 1. See Felt. RICHARD, Charlestown, was exempt. in Oct. 1675,
as one of the ferrymen, from milit. impressm. SOLOMON, Stratford,
m. Aug. 1687, Mercy, d. of Jeremiah Judson, had ch. whose names
and dates are unkn., but descend. contin. STEPHEN, Swanzey
1683, m. 4 Sept. 1684, Elizabeth only d. of Gov. Josiah Winslow, and
strange is it, that we kn. so little of him. Prob. he was s. of Thomas,
had for first w. Abigail, d. of Gov. William Brenton of R. I. and
in 1680 he join. with John Walley, Nathaniel Byfield, and Nathaniel
Oliver, men of large est. and distinct. in purch. the Mount Hope est. seat
of the gr. Sachem, Philip, from the Col. of Plymouth, assum. as fruit of
their conq. and sett. Bristol. Next yr. he was made constable at Boston,
with Paul Dudley, Adam Winthrop, Edward Raynsford, and Giles
Dyer. THOMAS, Hingham 1640, m. Margaret, d. of John Otis, had
Hannah, bapt. 30 May 1641; Phebe, 12 May 1644; Ruth, Aug. 1646,
d. next yr. and Sarah, 13 May 1649; but it is said, that his d. Martha
m. William Brenton, and if so, then she was by a former w. prob. b. in
Eng. He was one of thee gr. disturbers of our political state, as in
Winth, Hist. II. 262, 302, may be read. Very curious manifesto of our
Gen. Ct. contain. in the glorious Coll. of Hutch. 212, alludes to him as
"an old grocer of London," and his perversity is imput. to "his age and
some other infirmitites." This hardly consists with the dignity of a legislature;
and had the docum. been prepar. by the Assist. they might have
ascrib. his heretical pravity in so facatious desire of religious liberty to
long resid. at Newport after 1639. WILLIAM. Warwick, m. Ann, or
Hannah, d. of John Wicks, had Susanna, wh. m. 11 Dec. 1684, sec.
Samuel Gorton. Elder, and perhaps younger ch. he had, as Elizabeth wh.
m. 30 Oct. 1674, Thomas Hedger; Hannah, m. a Carpenter; John, b. 2