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Feb. 1662, d. at six yrs.; John, 16 June 1664, d. at one yr.; Hannah,
28 Sept. 1666, d. at 12 yrs.; Samuel, again, 6 Aug. 1668, a lieut. wh. d.
30 Jan. 1725; Experience, 8 July 1670, d. at one yr.; Unite, 6 Dec.
1672, d. at two yrs.; Return, 11 May 1675, d. next yr.; John, again, 8
May 1677, d. unm. at 24 yrs.; Elizabeth 11 Feb. 1680[1]; and Hannah, again,
13 Sept. 1681. He was capt. rul. elder, rep. 1689, 90, 1, 5, 7, 9, and
selectman many yrs. and d. 16 Oct. 1708, of grief for loss of his w. aged
68, eight days bef. SAMUEL, Scituate, s. of Thomas, m. June 1666;
Hannah, d. of Thomas Gill, had Samuel, b. 15 May 1667; Joseph, 14
Dec. 1668; Stephen, 4 Mar. 1671; Hannah, 15 Jan. 1673; Bethia,
1675; John, 30 Sept. 1677; Abigail, 1 Oct. 1679; David, Nov. 1684;
Deborah, Feb. 1687; and Jane, Nov. 1689; was rep. to Plymouth 8 or
9 yrs. and, after the new chart. five more, to Boston. Deane, wh. has
not giv. the time of his d. well commemo. many of his descend. His s.
Stephen was a deac. and f. of Rev. Thomas, b. 26 June 1703, H. C.
1722, Presid. of Yale Coll. wh. d. 7 Jan. 1767. THOMAS, Weymouth,
br. of Ambrose, John, Nicholas, and Richard, b. at Dorchester in Dorsetsh.
freem. 13 Mar. 1639, had Thomas, b. 15 Mar. 1639, bapt. at Dedham,
17 or 24 May 1640; rem. again to Scituate, there was deac. 1647, rep.
1649, and had Samuel, Elizabeth, Prudence, Eleazer, wh. fell in Rehoboth
fight, 26 Mar. 1676, unm. of all of wh. the dates of b. are unkn. beside
John, 1658, and Abigail, 29 Jan. 1660, wh. both d. young; and d. 20 Apr.
1684. His will of that yr. calls him 87 yrs. old, provides for w. (prob. a
sec. one) Abigail, s. Thomas and Samuel, and d. Elizabeth that had m. 1669,
Thomas King. THOMAS, Dedham, s. of the preced. m. 10 Nov. 1662,
Mary d. of Joshua Fisher, d. 1690, leav. wid. Mary, and ch. Thomas, b.
26 Sept. foll.; Joshua, 1667; Mary, 13 Dec. 1669; Eliezer, 4 Nov. 1671;
Samuel, 21 Aug. 1682; Abigail; and Hannah, as nam. in his will; beside
John, b. Feb. 1663, wh. d. in few days. WILLIAM, Dorchester 1664,
with suffix of sen. is one of the patriotic petitioners of D. against compliance
with demands of the crown, as print. in Geneal. Reg. V. 394.
Yet I can hear nothing of him in other affairs of the town, nor whether
he had w. and ch. Some of these productive stocks add a p to the
common name. Ten of this name had been gr. in 1834, at Harv. and
all the other N. E. coll. had made up equal num.

    CLAPHAM, ARTHUR, New Hampsh. d. as early as 1676. PETER,
Norwalk 1672, had been 2 yrs. bef. at Fairfield, but still at N. 1688;
yet it may be some times spell. Clapton, and in the valua. Hist. of N. by
Hall, is giv. p. 61, Lupton, by mistake.

    CLARK, ADAM, a soldier of Lothrop's comp. the flower of Essex, k.
at Bloody brook, 18 Sept. 1670. ANDREW, Boston, s. of Thomas of
Plymouth, by w. Mehitable had Thomas, b. 10 July 1672; Susanna, 12
Mar. 1674; and Mehitable, 8 Dec. 1676; rem. to Harwich, there had