Transcript:Savage, James. Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England/v2p279

prob. fourteen yrs. in Virg. from 1630, whither he went with his f. perhaps
of the same name, who had gr. in that Col. 1620, came to Boston in a sh.
20 May 1644 with other passeng. flying from the Ind. massacre, on the
Sunday foll. was adm. of our Boston ch. and freem. 29, in both rec. call.
capt. and, on 7 Sept. next, May, his w. was adm. of Boston ch. yet we may
be sure he liv. at Roxbury, for there was b. his d. Elizabeth 14, bapt. 30 Mar.
1645; and Hannah, bapt. 23 May 1646, d. in few wks. and the town rec. omit.
b. soon after he rem. to C. of wh. he was rep. 1649, and speaker 1651,
assist. 1652 to the Andros usurp. 1686, except in 1676, when at the May
election he had the honor of being turned out for his noble care of the
friend. Ind. in the then raging war; maj.-gen. 1681, d. 19 Mar. 1687, aged 75.
In 1655 he went home for a short vis. of priv. business, but was taken
off by Oliver, who sent him back to induce our fathers to colonize
Jamaica, wh. was just then added to his domin. Of course his miss. was
fruitless, and he went in 1657 once more to Eng. and came hither again in
1660, by the sh. that brot. the regicides Whalley and Goffe, arr. at
Boston 27 July. Those self-exiled men he befriended, perhaps without
approv. their course; for he was loyal eno. to dedicate his Hist. Coll. to
the King. beside the ch. above ment. of wh. Elizabeth m. 23 May 1666, Rev. John
Eliot, jr. as his, sec. w. and next m. Edmund Quincy, and d. 30 Nov. 1700,
he had, b. at Cambridge, Daniel, who d. 3 Sept. 1649, few mos. old; Daniel,
again, 12 July 1650, H. C. 1669; Samuel, 21 Apr. 1652; Solomon, 20 June, wh.
d. 16 July 1654; Nathaniel, 22 Oct. 1656, H. C. 1675, and Mary, older than
any, wh. may even have come from Virg. wh. m. 8 June 1670, Edmund Batter
of Salem, as his sec. w. He had hims. sec. w. Hannah, wid. of Habijah
Savage, d. of Edward Tyng, of wh. in his will, 13 Aug. 1685, he speaks with
gr. tenderness, wh. d. 28 and was bur. 31 Oct. 1688, aged 48. DANIEL, Sherborn, eldest
surv. s. of the preced. long labored for instruct. the Ind. with apostle Eliot, freem. 1676,
was ord. 26 Mar. 1685, the first min. at S. of wh. Sewall's good acco. is in Geneal. Reg.
IV. 80, d. 8 Jan. 1718. By first w. Elizabeth d. of Edmund Quincy, m. 1681, he had
Daniel, b. 7 July 1682; and by sec. w. m. 4 Oct. 1682, whose Dame is not
seen, had Mary, 16 Oct. 1686; Edmund, 31 Mar. 1688; and Elizabeth 20 May 1690.
He m. ano. w. 21 July 1692, Bethia, d. of Edward Collicott, had Bethia, b. 7
Oct. 1693, d. within 5 mos.; Nathaniel, 5 June 1695, d. at two mos. and
Richard, 12 July 1696. The London Comp. for propag. the gospel contrib. to
his support. His s. Edmund and Richard had fam. NATHANIEL, Cambridge, br.
of the preced. fifth and youngest s. of the maj.-gen. ord. 15 Nov. 1682,
success. of Urian Oakes; m. Hannah, d. of Habijah Savage, had Nathaniel, b.
15 Apr. 1687, H. C. 1703, the min.