Transcript:Savage, James. Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England/v2p66

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4 and 8; was propos. for an Assist. in 1641, but not chos. His ch. were
George, b. prob. in 1623, or 4, and was, perhaps, kept in sch. at home until
his f. came; Mary, wh. came May 1633 with Gov. Coddington in the Mary and
Jane, and in Nov. of that yr. was adm. of the ch. in Boston; James, wh. was
brot. by his uncle, the Gov. in the Arbella 1630; Susan, wh. came at the
same time with Mary; Ann; Lucy; and these foll. b. on our side of the
ocean, John, bapt. 1 Mar. 1640; and Dorcas, 7 Feb. 1641. He went home
early in 1642, back next yr. and went again, in 1644, on business, but came
back next yr. The date of his d. is not found, nor that of his w. tho. we
see proof of his req. to the Gen. Ct. Sept. 1653 for his 600 acres to be
laid out, and of her liv. 4 Aug. 1656, when she gave to Capt. Joseph
Gardner dowry on his m. with her d. and the same shows that her h.
Emanuel was d. The s. James, I think, liv. at Ipswich; Mary m. Anthony
Stoddard of Boston; Ann was w. of the intrepid Capt. Gardner, k. at the gr.
Narraganset swamp fight in Philip's war, and after m. Gov. Bradstreet.
There was a John D. wh. d. at Boston 29 Apr. 1694, but he was a merch.
from Nevis, where was his fam. and est. GEORGE, Salem, s. of the preced.
b. in London, was partly prepar. for coll. by Rev. John Fiske, and gr. in
the first class H. C. 1642, went to Eng. by way of Newfoundland, St. Kitts,
Barbados, and Nevis, and in each isl. was desir. to preach, but perhaps
saw prospect of greater usefulness in his native land, where he bec. as
his uncle Winthrop tells, 1645, a chaplain in the regim. of Okey, wh. after
was made one of the judges to sign the warrant for execut. of Charles 1.
He got forward fast (possib. faster, as Okey sunk), in favor with
Cromwell, wh. made him his resident at the Hague; and in 1654 unit. with
"the blood of all the Howards" by m. with Frances, descend. thro. the sec.
s.
from that fourth Duke of Norfolk, wh. was by Queen Elizabeth behead. for
tenderness to Mary, Queen of Scots. The Hon. Charles Howard, br. of
Frances, was the first, of only three, by Oliver creat. peers of Eng.
under the title of Viscount Morpeth. The infirmity of this honor was,
soon after the restor. strengthen. by his creat. 20 Apr. 1661, as first
Earl of Carlisle, wh. title is now enjoy. by his lineal heirs. Previous to
this dignity conferr. on the Howard stock, and even bef. his restor. the
kin, had made D. a knight for his good conduct in Holland; and, 1 July, 1663,
he was made baronet, by the style of Sir George D. of Gamlingay, in Co.
Cambridge, where his est. was call. the largest in that county. His w. d.
10 July 1683, and he d. 1684. His s. Charles was one of the tellers in the
Exch. by indent. at London 13 Sept. 1700, sold the est. at Salem, that was
his gr.f.'s and to him from Emanuel had come thro. George, as in our Reg.
of Essex Co. Vol. XVII. appears. His eldest s. Sir George m. Catharine,
eldest d. of James, Earl of Salisbury,