Transcript:Savage, James. Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England/v2p110

days later. She d. 22 Mar. 1687, had Hannah, b. 17 Sept. 1633, wh. m. 4 May
1653, Habakuk Glover, and was liv. when Mather wrote the Life of her f.;
John, 3 or 31 Aug. 1636, H. C. 1656; Joseph, 20 Dec. 1638, H. C. 1658; Samuel,
22, bapt. 27 June 1641, H. C. 1660; Aaron, 19 Feb. bapt. 3 Mar. 1644, d. 19
Nov. 1655; and Benjamin, 29 Jan. 1647, whose bapt. is not kn. as the foot
of the page in ch. rec. where prob. it was writ. is cut off. This youngest
s. H. C. 1665, was, it is said, a preacher, and assist. his f. many yrs.; but
he was never ord. nor m. and d. 15 Oct. 1687. In the trembl. hand of the f.
it is writ. that he was bur. 26, the rec. next but one above being "in this
yr. my ancient dearly beloved w. d. I was sick to death, but the Lord was
pleased to deliv. me." A very curious tract, proving Eliot's simplicity of
heart, the Christian Commonwealth, compos. like William Aspinwall's Fifth
Monarchy, under a strong persuasion of the "rising kingdom of Jesus
Christ," being near at hand, may be seen in 3 Mass. Hist. Coll. IX. 130. In
the humble apology, extort. in May 1661, he says, it was sent to Eng.
"about nine or ten yrs. since." As the more proximate reign of Oliver
Cromwell was then in concoction, the work was kept back for the
preposterous, but natural, anarchy after his death, and then came forth
to enjoy short popular. or prob. none at all. Our peop. gladly acknowl. the
gov. of Eng. in King, Lords, and Commons, for the millennium seem.
premature; yet it was hardly an object of true policy to compel the auth.
to profess his sorrow for the harmless mistakes. Ever honor. will be the
name of Eliot for the better work, not of a statesman, but a philanthro.
laborer of forty yrs. in spread. among our aborig. the sentiments and in
some degree the doctr. of his relig. He had sec. collea. Danforth, and
third, Walter, and d. 20 May 1690. JOHN, Watertown 1633, by w. Margaret
had Elizabeth b. 2 Feb. 1634; John, 1636; Ann, 12 July 1638; Samuel, 1640, d. soon;
Martha, Jan. 1641, d. soon; and Sarah, 22 Dec. 1643; sold his est. in 1646,
and prob. rem. to Stamford 1650, where w. Margaret d. 17 Aug. 1658, and d.
Sarah was m. 1659. JOHN, Newton, first min. of that town, then Cambridge
vill. s. of the apostle, freem. 1660, ord. 20 July 1664, had w. Sarah, third
d. of Thomas Willet, the disting. first Eng. mayor of N. Y. of wh. the
Cambridge rec. gives date of d. 13 June 1664, but Jackson's Hist. says
1665. By her he had Sarah, bapt. 21 Sept. 1662, wh. m. 16 Nov. 1681, John
Bowles. He m. next, 23 May 1666, Elizabeth d. of Daniel Gookin, had John, b. 28
Apr. 1667, H. C. 1685, wh. was a man of some distinct. at Windsor in Conn.
At the age of only 32 he was cut off, 13 Oct. 1668, in his will of 15 Aug.
preced. provid. for the two ch. and ano. if his w. Extrix. had one. She m. 8
Dec. 1680, Edmund Quincy. JOHN, Amesbury, took o. of alleg. 20 Dec. 1677.
JOSEPH, New London 1667, rem.