Transcript:Savage, James. Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England/v1p463

but aft. open confess. was restor. next mo. went soon and preach. at
Guilford 1664; ord. at P. 30 June 1669, but when he had serv. near 28
yrs. was dism. (Judge Sewall marks in his Almanac 29 Sept.) 5 Oct.
1697, under very unpleasant circumstances, went to Charleston, S. C.
in Nov. 1698, there was min. to his d. of the yellow fever, 18 Sept. foll.
A letter to his wid. at Plymouth by his neph. Cotton Mather, of 23 Oct.
foll. ment. arr. of news that "the horrible plague of Barbados was brot.
into" C. "by an infected vessel," that a. the end of Sept. it had been there
little above a fortnight, yet in this little time "had made an incredible
destruct." "many above an hundred were dead," and that his friends
wrote "that all the ministers in C. were dead." Whether in this
incredible loss, all the ministers were one, or two, beside Cotton, is not
told; but in so small a city, I judge the smaller number most worthy of
belief. Mather never cultivat. precision or sobriety of narrat. and his
word must seldom be tak. as exact truth. No exagger. of the suffer.
in the gr. mart of Mediterranean commerce, by the terrible plague of
1720, was attempt. when history told how M. de Belsance stood in his
post of duty, and outliv. the peril more than thirty-five yrs. tho. our
great ethical poet immortaliz. the deed, without nam. the prelate:

Why drew Marseilles' good bishop purer breath,
When Nature sickened, and each gale was death ?

His ch. were John, b. 3 Aug. 1661, H. C. 1681; Elizabeth; Sarah, 17 June
1665, d. young; Rowland, 27 Dec. 1667, H. C. 1685; Sarah, again, 5
Apr. 1670; Maria, 14 Jan. 1672; a s. 28 Sept. 1674, wh. d. soon;
Josiah, 10 Sept. 1675, d. young ; Samuel, 10 Feb. 1678, d. young;
Josiah, again, 8 Jan. 1680, H. C. 1698, well kn. in public offices of
Plymouth Co. where he d. 19 Aug. 1756; and Theophilus, 5 May 1682,
H. C. 1701. Of these ch. John was min. of Yarmouth, collea. with
Thornton and by w. Sarah, d. of Richard Hubbard of Ipswich, had
seven ds. and d. 21 Feb. 1706; Elizabeth m. Rev. James Alling, and 2d his
successor, Rev. Caleb Cushing of Salisbury, as Rowland, min. of Sandwich,
ord. 2 Nov. 1694, by w. Elizabeth only d. of Nathaniel Saltonstall, and
wid. of Rev. John Denison, had, beside four ds. ana s. Rowland, H. C.
1719, four other s. John, Nathaniel, Josiah, and Ward, all mins. and d.
22 Mar. 1722, and his wid. d. 8 July 1726, at Boston; Josiah, by s. Rev.
John of Halifax, was head of an excel. line, includ. Rev. Ward and
Rev. Josiah; and Theophilus, min. of Hampton Falls, ord. 2 Jan. 1712,
d. 18 Aug. 1726, had two ws. but no ch. JOHN, Hampton, s. of Rev.
Seaborn, succeed. his f. aft. long interval, ord. 19 Nov. 1696, d. 27 Mar.
1710, by w. Ann, d. of capt. Thomas Lake of Boston, m. 17 Aug. 1686,
had John, b. 5 Sept. 1687, d. young; Mary, 5 Nov. 1689, Dorothy, 16