Transcript:Savage, James. Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England/v3p298

1701. Hannah m. 14 May 1663, Peter Cheney; and Sarah m. 13
Sept. 1674, Matthew Pettingell. NICHOLAS, Salem, s. of the preced.
preach. many yrs. at Haddam, but having in 1682 a call to S. to assist
the venera. John Higginson, he became his collea. ord. 14 Nov. 1683,
as one of the promoters of the horrible delusion of 1692, and yet a d. of
his noble collea. was one of the accused. He did not altogether lose his
faculties, as his let. to Mather of the character of his uncle, wh. is certain.
one of the best parts of the strange. compound of materials in the Magnalia;
as also a good epistle to John Higginson in London, preserv. in
3 Mass. Hist. Coll. VII. 212, will prove. He d. 13 Dec. 1717, unm.
OLIVER, Boston, s. of John of B. m. Ann, d. of Hon. Andrew Belcher,
had Ann, b. 17 Apr. 1704; Oliver, 4 July 1705, d. in few days; Oliver,
again, 1 Sept. 1707, d. at 7 mos.; Belcher, 10 Oct. 1709, H. C. 1727;
Sarah, 21 Oct. 1710; John, 12 Aug. 1713, d. young; and John, again,
8 Aug. 1718, d. in few weeks; was rep. 1714, oft. aft. took sec. w. 6 Feb.
1719, Catharine, wid. of sec. David Jeffries; and d. 16 Mar. 1721.
Hutchinson, wh. well kn. him, gives character, II. 249. PETER, Sudbury
1639, came in the Confidence, 1638, from Southampton, latter part
of Apr. aged 47, with s. Thomas, 15; d. Elizabeth and three serv. is call.
yeoman in the custom-ho. rec. but aft. arr. gentleman. He was of Penton,
in Co. Hants, wh. is near Andover; went home aft. short visit or
explorat. here, well pleased with what he saw at Watertown, and next
yr. came again in the Jonathan, with sev. friends, and Nicholas, Dorothy,
Abigail, and Peter, all prob. his ch. beside John Waterman, Richard
Barnes, William Street, Agnes Bent, Elizabeth Plimpton, and Agnes Blanchard,
wh. I judge to be his serv. as he paid for their passages; but such
was not Agnes Bent, for she paid for herself, for d. Agnes, Thomas
Blanchard's w. with her h. and Richard Barnes, s. of said Blanchard's
w. and prob. Elizabeth Plimpton. Blanchard's w. with inf. d. on the passage,
15 days out, and Barnes's gr.mo. d. this side of the Banks. He had
share in the first div. of lds. in his town, and again in the 2d and 3d,
made 1640, was freem. 13 May 1640, selectman 18 yrs. rep. 1640, 1,
and 50, deac. of the ch. and d. 23 Sept. 1657. Three yrs. bef. he gave
his est. in Old Eng. to his eldest s. Thomas, and in his will, of wh.
Thomas was made excor. made the day bef. his d. he names other ch.
Peter, Joseph, Elizabeth w. of Josiah Haynes, Dorothy, w. of John Haynes,
Abigail, of Thomas Plympton, d.-in-law Mary, w. of his s. Thomas,
and kinsm. Shadrach Hapgood. PETER, Sudbury, s. of the preced.
m. 30 Nov. 1654, Elizabeth d. of Robert Darvell, had Elizabeth b. 26 Aug. 1655,
wh. m. 21 Aug. 1677, Thomas Hammond; Peter, 12 Feb. 1657; and,
perhaps, more, freem. 1672, rep. 1679, 90, and 1. RICHARD, Newbury
1647. THOMAS, Sudbury, eldest s. of Peter the first, had share in the