Transcript:Savage, James. Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England/v3p158

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Lydia; and Mercy; was freem. 1690. SAMUEL, Boston 1681 had w.
Ruth
, freem. 1691. THOMAS, Dorchester 1634, freem. 6 May 1635,
rem. it is thot. to Windsor; was rep. in Mar. and Apr. 1638; but no
more is kn. with certainty. In Stiles, Hist. 698, he is said to m. 2 Mar.
1637, Mary Drake, wh. may have been d. of the first John; and we
might suppose, from the same line, the same man m. 10 May 1660,
Bethia Parsons, but the darkness is palpable, upon the same page, where
he teach. that Thomas Maskell m. that day that same woman; and
great distrust springs up, when we see him, p. 735, give the same woman,
the same day, to Thomas Haskell. THOMAS, Boston, shoemaker, or
ferryman, or both, call. widower on adm. to the ch. 31 Aug. 1634;
freem. 4 Mar. 1635, had brot. from Eng. prob. s. Thomas and Samuel,
ds. Sarah and Frances; and here by sec. w. Alice had Eliakim, b. 1
Mar. 1637, yet not bapt. until 15 Apr. 1638, no doubt on acco. of the
antinom. quarrel in the ch. for acting with the major part of wh. in
support of Wheelwright, he was requir. in Nov. 1637 to surrender his
arms; but like most of the rest, thus abused, regain. high esteem, was
selectman 1647-58, deac. and rep. 1650, and d. perhaps 1663. Frances
m. 16 July 1652, Joseph Howe; and Sarah m. James Penniman.
Great indulgence must be granted to investigat. a. this name, for ano.
THOMAS, Boston 1643, a tailor, adm. of the ch. 17 Feb. 1644, had
Thomas, bapt. 7 Jan. 1644, 5 days old; freem. in May of same yr.
prob. and in June foll. was excom. I think he went to New Haven, aft.
recov. in 1646, the favor of his former fellow-worshippers. THOMAS,
Reading, came, prob. in the James from London 1635, aged 22, had
Hannah, b. 7 June 1640; Samuel, 1 Sept. 1643, d. in one wk.; Abigail;
Sarah, d. young; Thomas and Rebecca, tw. 20 Feb. 1648; Elizabeth;
Sarah, again, 14 Feb. 1655; was freem. 1653, a lieut. and aft. very
long deliberat. by me, is thot. to be that man of Lynn, always call. capt.
who there had Joanna, 14 Sept. 1657; John, 14 Feb. 1660; Ruth, 14
Aug. 1662; and Mary, 25 May 1665; was of ar. co. 1640, and, perhaps,
freem. 4 June 1641; certain. rep. 1659, 60, 3, 4, 7, and 8; d. 23
Dec. 1689; and his wid. Rebecca d. Aug. 1693. Hannah m. at Lynn,
17 June 1659, John Lewis; Sarah m. 15 July 1674, Ebenezer Stocker;
and Mary m. 7 Apr. 1685, Edward Baker. Lewis seems to me, to
have confus. f. and s. and to have misled Farmer. See p. 92 of Lewis,
Ed. 2d. But for what John Dunton, in Life and Errors, says of this
capt. hav. been one of Cromwell's soldiers, I am compell. to suspect, that
the author mistook his jolly host, or that the veteran designedly impos.
on him. THOMAS, Salem 1657. THOMAS, Middletown 1669, then
offered as freem. may have had Thomas, Joel, and Mary, wh. m. 27 July
1665, John Cutlin, but it is not certain. THOMAS, d. at Northampton,