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but were recapt. by fresh pursuit at Conway, on their route to Canada.
Rose m. John Pinkham, had ten ch.; Experience m. Samuel Heard;
and Judith m. John Tuttle, wh. was k. by the Ind. In the first, sec. and
third generat. no fam. in N. E. I think, could match this of Richard O.
for measure of calam. from war. RICHARD, Dover, s. of the preced.
dissatisf. with the ch. was his f. has been 1663, proceed, further in dissent,
bec. a Quaker, yet was wound by the Ind. 26 July 1696, when his br.
Nicholas was k.; had w. Susanna, and ch. Rose; Richard; Rebecca, b.
11 July 1695; Stephen, 22 Aug. 1698; and Nicholas, 8 Apr. 1701;
and d. that yr. His wid. m. 1703, John Varney. STEPHEN, Dover, br.
of the preced. perhaps older, m. 16 Apr. 1674, Mary, d. of William
Pitman
, had Stephen, Nathaniel, and Mary; was k. by the Ind. 28 June
1689, the same time his f. and the s. were both carr. to Canada,
there liv. and d. as good Catholics. STEPHEN, Scituate, s. of John the
sec. m. 1685, Hannah, wh. d. 1 May 1729, only ch. of that John Ensign
who gave her all his est. aft. d. of his mo. by will made the evening bef.
he fell in the great battle of Rehoboth, 26 Mar. 1676; had Hannah, b.
16 May 1686; Mary, 7 July 1689; Ensign, 1691; John, 1694; Stephen,
3 Nov 1697; Isaac, 1699; Joseph, 1709; and Joshua, 1711; was a
capt. d. 26 May or Aug. as the gr.st. may have var. read. 1733. His
will was of 1729. Sixteen of the name had, in 1825, been gr. at Harv.
as Farmer notes, and none at other N. E. coll. all descend. of John the
sec. I believe. Mr. Otis, the assiduous antiquary of Yarmouth, from
wh. I have gain. much knowl. of Scituate, Barnstable, and Yarmouth
early sett. is deriv. from the first John, thro. five intermed. generat.

    OTLEY, ABRAHAM, Lynn 1651. Adam, Lynn 1641, perhaps br. of
the preced. ar. co. 1641, m. a d. of John Humfrey, Esquire, says Lewis.
Hutch. Coll. 121. Perhaps it is the same as Utley.

    OTWAY, JOHN, Boston 1657, own, ld. in Lynn, and may be of the
same fam. as the last. WILLIAM, Taunton 1654.

    OVELL, NATHANIEL., a cordwainer, from Dover, Co. Kent, came with
a serv. a. 1636, as by an authent. docum. I read in the Hist. of Sandwich,
Eng. appears; but where he sett. is unkn.

    OVERMAN, THOMAS, Boston, m. Hannah, wid. of Mahalaleel Munnings,
d. of John Wiswall, was freem. 1671, d. bef. 1675. Of his wid.
Hannah, admin. was giv. 5 June 1695, to Matthew Johnson of Woburn.

    OVERTON, ROBERT, Boston, had w. and s. John, and d. at sea 3 Sept.
1673, hav. made his will 27 Aug. preced. aboard ship, in lat. a. 24 degree pro.
5 Nov. full. by those who saw him die.

    OVIAT or OVIETT, THOMAS Milford 1665, propos. for freem. 1673.
Prob. he d. early in 1691, for his inv. of 30 May names w. Frances, and ch.
Hester; Amy; Frances, aged 22; Samuel, 19; Abigail, 17; Thomas, 14; and
Dorothy, 11.