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had Joshua, and perhaps other ch. but no dates are giv. LANCELOT,
Pegypscot, m. a d. of Thomas Stevens, had William. Willis I. 163.
MARK, Cambridge 1642, rem. next yr. to new Haven. MARMADUKE,
Salem 1639, charged with k. his apprent. See Winthrop I. 318, 9, where
the surname seems Percy or Perry. He came 1637 from Sandwich, in
Kent, with w. Mary and a serv. In Boys's Hist. of Sandwich, p. 752, it
is spelled Peerce, and in Felt I. 169, Percie, but in Ib. II. 458, Pierce.
MICHAEL, Hingham 1646, had there bapt. that yr. Persis; other ch. were
Benjamin, John, Ephraim, Elizabeth Deborah, Ann, Abia, and Ruth,
all nam. in his will, beside prob. Abigail, b. 1662, when his w. d. Soon
aft, he rem. to Scituate, took sec. w. Ann; was a capt. of great bravery,
in command of 50 Eng. and 20 friend. Ind. from Cape Cod. in Philip's
war, and was with most of them k. 26 Mar. 1676, at Pawtucket fight in
Rehoboth. Deane, 122, 325. NATHANIEL, Woburn, s. of Robert of
the same, was a soldier in Philip's war, and engag. in the memo. Falls
fight, 19 May 1676, wh. he long surv. m. 27 Dec. 1677, Hannah Convers,
had Nathaniel, b. 2 Feb. 1679; and his w. d. 23 Mar. foll. He m.
23 Mar. 1680, Elizabeth Foster, perhaps wid. of Hopestill of Charlestown,
had Robert, wh. d. 14 May 1689. NEHEMIAH, Boston 1661, a cooper,
ar. co. 1671, m. perhaps sec. w. 1684, Ann, wid. of capt. Samuel Mosely,
eldest d. of Isaac Addington, and d. 1691. Admin. was giv. 28 Apr. of
that yr. to his wid. RICHARD, Portsmouth, R. I. had perhaps other ch.
beside that Susanna wh. m. 4 Dec. 1673, George Brownell. RICHARD,
Pemaquid, a carpenter, I think is the man to wh. in Jan. 1642, an Ind.
sagamore made large gr. of lds. and islds. as may be seen in Geneal.
Reg. XIII. 365; took o. of fidel. 1674. RICHARD, Boston, printer, m.
27 Aug. 1680, Sarah, d. of Rev. Seaborn Cotton. Thomas, Hist. I.
282. For Benjamin Harris, bookseller, he publish. 25 Sept. 1690,
the first No. of a newspaper, of wh. the sec. never appeared. See Felt
II. 14. ROBERT, Dorchester, perhaps 1630, but not very likely, may
have been br. of John, the mariner, by w. Ann, d. of John Greenway,
had Deborah, b. Feb. 1640, d. in few wks was freem. 18 May 1642, and
d. 6 Jan. 1665, leav. only s. Thomas, and Mary, wh. m. Thomas Herring,
not (as oft. said) Haven, of Dedham; and his wid. d. 31 Dec.
1695, "the oldest person, prob. that ever liv. in D." says the Hist. 261,
aged "about 104 yrs." unless we suppose some exagger. in Blake's
Ann, as may be reasona. if not unavoida. Of his will, good abstr. is in
Geneal. Reg. XIII. 154. Some of the bread brot, over the ocean by
him, tradit. fondly reports to be still in posess. of descend. and so, by
more than 165 yrs. older even than her. It may as well keep many centuries
more. ROBERT, Ipswich, m. Abigail, d. of Mark Symonds of the
same. ROBERT, Watertown 1646, s. of John of the same, rem. prob. to