Transcript:Savage, James. Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England/v3p402

was b. 1599, at the parish of St. Ewe, or, as commonly said, in the town
of Fowey, Cornwall, bred at Trinity Coll. Cambridge, where he had his
degrees, 1617, and 22, preach. in London with gr. success, until he was
driv. to Holland, there taught, with famous William Ames, the eng. ch.
at Rotterdam, and for some two yrs. after d. of Ames. He came, I presume,
in the Abigail, 1635, tho. his name for good reason, does not appear
at the London custom ho. and perhaps he got on board in the downs,
arr. 6 Oct. in comp. with sec. John Winth, the mo. of whose first w. he
had m. as it seems, was freem. 3 Mar. 1636, sett. in the ch. at S. 21 Sec.
foll. in Aug 1641, with Hibbins and Welde, as agents for the Col. he went
home, by way of Newfoundland, in the sh. with John Winthrop the younger,
and Lechford, the lawyer, engag. with great zeal, in the civil war, and
partook largely in the triumphs of this cause and for the detesta. felt at his
violence was execut, soon after the restor. 16 oct. 1660, being, I think, the
only clerg. of sev. thousand, who thus suffer. he had not, prob. brot. over
his fist w. by wh. he had no ch. but m. here Deliverence Sheffield, one of
the ch. of Boston, by wh. he had Elizabeth bapt. 8 Mar. 1640, the only ch. top
wh. his dying legacy was address. The w. was many yrs. bef.
his d. insane, and to some extent this may palliate his ill carriage, and
violence, that caus. him so many enemies. She was depend. on private
charity in London 1677. Hutch. Coll. 514. he usually wrote his nam,e
without final s. A question of slight value is raised, wh. was Ann Peters,
on the list of Boston ch. mem. No. 104 "rec. from the ch. of Salem" bef.
Nov. 1631. A curious extr. from a fugitive tract, call "Fresh Discovery
of Newandering Blazing Stars and Firebrands" 1646, by the famous
William Prynne (wh. suffer. so cruelly from sentence of the Star Chamber)
in p. 33 of Ed.2, gives the subscript. 17 Aug. 1627, at Hugh peter
to the Bp. of London, setting forth is submiss. to the Ch. of Eng.
and for the governm. thereof by Archbps. and Bps. and the ceremonies
in use, granting his full approbat. and allowance, and for the Bk. of Com.
Prayer, the Liturgy, and what is in them cont. "subscribe with my
heart and hand," and submit myself to your Lordship's pleasure. To
wh. the learned barrister of Lincoln's Inn adds, "If master Peter be now
of ano. judgement, it manifest either his gross ignorance, or temporizing
then, or his levity now, and the he is as unsteady in his opinions, as in his
eccentrics motion from place to place." Peter denied his master, and was
not frightened by such animadversion. JOHN, Gravesend L. I. 1650.
Thompson, RICHARD, Salem, perhaps eldest s. of Gilbert, by w. Bethia,
had William, b. 11 Jan. 1688; and Richard, 5 June 1690. SAMUEL,
Andover, s. prob. youngest of Andrew, m. 15 Dec. 1696, Phebe
Frye, d. prob. of Samuel of the same, but I kn. no more. THOMAS,
New London, younger br. of Hugh, of far milder temper, said
to have been bred at Oxford, but on uncert. authty. was a min.
in his native shire of Cornwall, whence driv. in 1643, by the royalist
forces, he came next yr. to this country, assisted the younger Winthrop in