Transcript:Savage, James. Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England/v3p475

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wh. the prob. is remote. PHINEAS, Plymouth, came in June 1622, as
one of capt. Weston's men, planted at Weymouth, but in Mar. foll. as
Gov. Winslow tells in Young's Chron. of the Pilgr. he went to P. had
sh. in the div. of ld. as if he had come in the Ann with Joshua, wh.
may have been a br. and so may we excuse the error of Mitchell, 279,
wh. says he came in the Ann, when it is plain he was here one yr.
earlier; m. 1630, a d. of Cuthbert Cuthbertson, it is said, rem. aft. many
yrs. to Charlestown. He address. a petition to our Gen. Ct. in 1662,
accomp. with a narrative of the first planting, whereupon, they gave him
300 acres. That tract, with illustrations by the diligence of Frothingham,
is print. in 4 Mass. Hist. Coll. IV. 476. He d. 19 Apr. 1680, hav.
been so reduced in est. as to need aid from the town. Frothinghm, 156.
Perhaps in mak. his age a. 90 yrs. the inscript. on his gr.st. at Charlestown
may be 10 or 12 yrs. too liberal. See Prince, Ann. I. 131, or Mr.
Hale's Ed. 213. RICHARD, Charlestown, b. it is said, youngest of nine ch.
to John of Malden in Co. Essex, and there bapt. 29 June 1615, by w.
Mary, had Mary, b. 7 or 30 Sept. 1643; Thomas, 5 Mar. or May 1646;
Mercy, 15 June 1650, d. young; John, 1655; Elizabeth; Martha, 1663;
and Hannah. He liv. on Malden side, and d. 1691. Mary m. Thomas
Skinner; Elizabeth m. Gershom Hawkes; Martha m. 18 Nov. 1686, John
Pratt; and Hannah on slight report is call. w. of a Hovey. SAMUEL,
Weymouth, a carpenter, freem. 1666, by w. Hannah, perhaps d. of John
Rogers of the same
, had Judah, b. 25 June 1661; ano. ch whose name
is out, 17 Aug. 1633; Hannah, 21 Dec. 1665; Mary, 3 Mar. 1668;
Samuel, 15 Nov. 1670; Experience, 8 Jan. 1673; and perhaps Martha,
8 Aug. 1675. He was engag. in settlem. of Mendon 1663. SAMUEL,
Wickford 1674. SAMUEL, Weymouth, s. of Samuel of the same, by w.
Patience, had Judith, 23 Nov. 1695. THOMAS, Watertown, freem.
1647, unless, I suspect, Barry overlooked one generat. and it was not
that freem. but his s. wh. had, partly bef. and partly aft. rem. to Framingham,
after being of Sudbury, these eleven ch. Thomas, b. a 1656;
John; Ebenezer; Joseph; Philip; David; Jabez; Nathaniel; Abial,
fem. Ephraim; and Jonathan; in 1682 had ld. set to him at Sherborn,
and d. a. 1692; at least, admin. that yr. was giv. to wid. Susanna and s.
John. All these ten s. m. and had fams. It seems prob. that the f. of
these many ch. was he wh. sw. fidel. in 1652, rather than the freem. of
1647, wh. may have been his f. THOMAS, Weymouth, had William, b.
6 Mar. 1659. A serg. Pratt of Weymouth, perhaps not this man, but
Joseph, Matthew, or Samuel, was k. by the Ind. in Philip's war, 19 Apr.
1676. THOMAS, Malden, by w. Sarah had Sarah, bapt. 6 Jan. 1661, d.
young; Elizabeth 2 Feb. 1662; John, 29 May 1664; Sarah, again, 19 Aug.
1666, Robert, 19 Apr. 1668, d. young; Edmund, 30 Jan. 1670; Hannah,