Transcript:Savage, James. Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England/v3p47

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29, bapt. 30 Mar. 1684; and Eunice, bapt. 22 Nov. 1685, of wh. is no
ment. in the town rec. that supplies Huldah, b. 31 Jan. 1688. He
d. Barry thinks, a. 1697. DANIEL, Springfield, prob. s. of John, freem.
1690, had a fam. and d. 1692. EDWARD, Watertown 1633, had w.
Margaret
; ch. Hannah, b. 27 Dec. 1633; Mary, 10 Sept. 1635, d.
soon; Samuel, 3 Apr. 1637; Mary, again, 30 Apr. 1639; John, and
Increase, tw. 13 Feb. 1640, d. both in a wk.; and rem. to Boston, there
had Elizabeth bapt. 27 Aug. 1648, a. 11 days old. His wid. m. Samuel
Allen
. Coll. Rec. III. 216 and IV. pt. I. p. 31. JOHN, Springfield
1653, prob. s. of Thomas, came 1630, with his f. had John, b. 1654, d.
soon; John, and Thomas, tw. 1655, of wh. John d. at 21 yrs.; Joanna,
1657; Sarah, 1660; Samuel, 1663; Daniel, 1666; Mary, 1669, d.
young; Abigail, 1670; and Joshua, 1674. He for sec. or third w. in
1688 m. Lydia, wid. of John Norton, wh. bef. was wid. of Lawrence
Bliss
, and d. of deac. Samuel Wright, and d. 28 Sept. 1690. His ds.
Joanna, wh. m. Samuel Stebbins, and Sarah d. aft. m. but bef. him;
Thomas, and Joshua, prob. rem. to Stonington; at least they at S. have
no ch. on rec.; Samuel and Daniel liv. at S. JOHN, New London
1664-9, was offer. in the latter yr. to be made freem. in Nov. 1677
lost a s. by being struck by a mill-wheel, as told in Bradstreet's Journ.
He perhaps was in 1712 in that pt. made Groton. JOSHUA, Roxbury,
B. of Thomas, m. Mary, d. of John Alcock, had Joshua, bapt. 7 Mar.
1675; Dorothy, 8 June 1679; George, 27 Mar. 1681; John, 22 Apr.
1683, d. soon; Elizabeth b. 2 Mar. 1684, d. soon; John, again, 3, bapt. 8
Feb. 1685, d. at four mos.; and Samuel, 9, bapt. 11 Apr. 1686. He
was a merch. purch. of Sir William Berkeley, lands at Roanoke in
Virg. wh. he sold 1677, and d. 23 Sept. 1690. His wid. d. 9 Oct. 1700.
Dorothy, m. Rev. Dudley Woodbridge, first min. of Simsbury, and, also,
his successor, Rev. Timothy Woodbridge. SAMUEL, Springfield, freem.
1690. THOMAS, Roxbury, came, 1630, in the fleet with Winthrop brot.
w. Elizabeth and two ch. Thomas, and John, req. adm. 19 Oct. had Samuel,
b. in Oct. bapt. that yr. at Dorchester, bef. the ch. at R. was gather. and
was freem. 18 May foll. had Abel, fourth s. b. Oct. 1633; Decline, the
first d.
b. Apr. 1637, wh. m. 7 Dec. 1666[1], Stephen Smith; and Benjamin,
the sixth ch. Oct. 1639, d. soon, as did his mo. both bur. on 28 Nov.
Barry calls this last ch. of Elizabeth Caleb; but the ch. rec. is copious, and
explicit to the contra. The town rec. said Benjamin, b. 27 Nov. but a
modern hand eras. that, and wrongful. ins. Caleb. Such violat. of the
vestal purity of rec. is less rare than might be expect. He m. 16 July
1640, Dorothy Harbottle, "a godly sis. of the ch." had Caleb, b. 9 Apr.
1641; Joshua, 27, bapt. 28 Nov. 1642; Mary, bapt. 29 Sept. 1644; and
Abiel, 2 Aug. 1646. The f. d. 28 Mar. preced. and apostle Eliot notes