Transcript:Savage, James. Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England/v2p552

Jan. 1650; rem. to Scituate, there had John, b. Mar. 1653; Joseph, 24
June 1655; Benjamin, 27 Aug. 1657; and Margaret, Dec. 1659; may
have had ano. w. at Hingham, and by her Joseph, again, 1676; and
Isaac, at S. 1677. But he came back to R. and m. 6 Dec. 1678, Abigail
May, and had John, again, 17 Nov. 1679. Yet, that this was ano. man
is highly prob. and the younger Humphrey was one of the soldiers draft.
from Hingham for Narraganset campaign in the comp. of brave capt.
Johnson of Roxbury. � ISAAC, Salem, s. of Abraham, gr.s. of Robert
of Clipsham, Co. Rutland (wh. was arch deac. of Leicester, 1584, and
parson of North Luffenham in said Co. whose lineal descend. Ezekiel,
in 1727, was lord of the manor of Clipsham); and his mo. w. of Abraham,
was a d. of William Chadderton, D. D. the puritan Bp. of Lincoln. A
very remarka. paper, in Geneal. Reg. VIII. 360, calls his mo. Ann
Meadows, d. of Robert of Stamford; and an orig. will, made by him 28
Apr. 1627, it is said, confirms the fact by refer. to his gr.f. Robert M.
He had larger est. than any of the patentees that came to our country;
was an Assist. nam. in the royal chart. next to Sir Richard Saltonstall,
and in the list of mem. of the Boston ch. form. at Charlestown, stands
after Winthrop and Dudley, and bef. Wilson their min. He came with
Winthrop in the admiral sh. of the fleet, formerly nam. the Eagle, but
after purch. by the Gov. and Comp. for this exped. call. Arbella, in
complim. to the illustr. passeng. his w. She was one of the ds. of
Thomas Clinton, third Earl of Lincoln, and sis. of Theophilus the fourth
Earl, ancest. of the present Duke of Newcastle, whose eldest s. by
courtesy, has, therefore, the style of Earl of L.; and left, says, Mather, I.
21, in one of the few happy passages of his work, "An earthly paradise
in the fam. of an Earldom to encounter the sorrows of a wilderness,
for the entertainments of a pure worship in the ho. of God; and then
immediately left that wilderness for the heavenly paradise." She d. in
few wks. after landing at Salem, and was bur. there; and in a. one mo.
he foll. her, prob. to the same spot, bef. the settlem. of Boston. A
splendid myth as to his place of burial has possess. of the common
credul. His will, made less than a mo. bef. embark. in wh. he made the
ever memor. John Hampden one of his excors. with Winthrop and Dudley,
beside two Eng. neighb. may be read in 3 Mass. Hist. Coll. VIII. 244.
Prince, in his Ann. gives the tradit. acco. from Ch. J. Sewall of his
having ho. in such a part of his lot, to wh. he had rem. wh. is now the
chief square of Boston, and of being inter. at the upper end, &c. &c.
But as no earlier authority ever eludes to such a fact, and as Sewall
was not b. for near two and twenty yrs. after the event, and came not
here from Eng. for a. nine yrs. more, the prob. is far greater, that the
tradit. is worthless; and that after the d. of Johnson, 30 Sept. 1630, wh.
was earlier than any even the meanest cottage could be rear. on this
peninsula since their com. and bef. Winthrop or Wilson hall cross. from
Charlestown, where he d. the corpse was either bur. there, or, if rem. at