Transcript:Savage, James. Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England/v2p493

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the same that was min. at the first Bapt. ch. in Boston 1675-88. JEREMIAH,
New Haven, s. prob. elder of Richard, m. 6 May 1658, Hannah Baldwin,
had Jeremiah, b. 2 Jan. 1663; Hannah, 22 Oct. 1664; Mary, 8 Aug. 1666;
John, 13 Nov. 1668; Elizabeth 27 Feb. 1671, d. soon; Joseph, 11 Aug. 1672; Sarah,
4 Mar. 1675; and Martha, 27 Nov. 1677; was liv. a propr. 1685, and d. 13 Jan.
1701. JEREMIAH, Deerfield, perhaps s. of the preced. m. 1688, Mehitable, d.
of William Smead, had Elizabeth b. 1688; Jeremiah, 1690, wh. was burnt to d.
at 3 yrs.; and he d. 1691. His wid. m. 1692, Godfrey Nims.
|| JOHN, Dorchester, blacksmith, freem. 7 Aug. 1632, ar. co.
1638, rem. prob. to Boston; and it is said he d. 28 July 1666.
JOHN, Newbury, d. 1 Feb. 1670; and his wid. Margaret, wh. had been
wid. of William Goodridge, says Coffin, d. 3 Feb. 1683. � * || JOHN,
Boston, s. of Robert, b. as his own diary tells, a. 18 Dec. 1624, at Market
Harborough, Co. Leicester, in the borders of Northamptonsh. freem. 2
May 1649, m. 11 May 1647, Judith, d. of Edmund Quincy, had Elizabeth
and Mary, tw. b. 23, bapt. 30 Jan. 1653, both of wh. d. in few days;
John, 3 Nov. 1654, d. in few days; Hannah, 14 Feb. 1658; and Samuel,
1 Aug. 1661, wh. d. young; was of ar. co. 1660, capt. of it 1671, and
again 1678, treasr. of the Col. 1676, hav. in June 1652, been with Robert
Sanderson, both goldsmiths, appoint. "for the melting, refining, and
coining of silv." and faithfully adher. to their oaths, tho. asserting equal.
obligat. on the part of the public. Hutch. I. 178. He was rep. for
Wenham 1668, for Westfield 1671-4, and for Salisbury 1679; one of
those mem. of the first ch. disgusted at the equivoc. morality in managem.
for bring Davenport from New Haven, wh. found. the 3d or Old South
ch. and for sev. yrs. in oppos. to Gov. Bellingham after 1668, and chos.
Assist. from 1680 to his d. 30 Sept. 1683. His only ch. then liv. Hannah
m. 28 Feb. 1676, Samuel Sewall, after. Ch. Just. of the Prov. wh. had
the large est. extrava. misrepresent. by tradit. wh. would, ridicul. make
her portion at m. to be a balance in the scale against her own weight in
shillings of her f.'s making. Tho. he much overrates the amt. of her
fortune, Hutch. gives no countenance to that folly. Yet she could not
weigh half or even a quarter of what the est. furnish. her in reality.
His wid. d. 22 June 1695, aged 69. JOHN, New Haven 1657, s.
perhaps, of Andrew. JOHN, Boston, call. jr. to disting. him from the
mintmaster, but wh. Mather, II. 38, calls "a well-bred merch." m. Mary, d.
of capt. Roger Spencer, d. a. July 1673, the inv. of his est. offer. by the
wid. was only �81.12. She m. prob. the next yr. William Phips, the shipwright,
afterwards Sir William, the Royal Gov. of Mass. under the new
chart. and in her next widowhood m. Peter Sergeant, wh. was of the Counc.
in the same chart. by wh. Sir William had been nam. Gov. JOHN, Stratford,
1661-70, had John, b. 1662; Samuel, 1663; Mary, 1666; Joseph,
1668; and Benjamin, 1672; but he rem. to Derby a yr. or two after,
and had four more ch. there; Richard, Oct. 1674; Ebenezer, 1678;
Jeremiah, 1679; and Andrew, 1685. Perhaps he was the man wh.