Transcript:Savage, James. Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England/v3p51

had Mary, Abigail, and Andrew, all bapt. in Aug. 1646; John,
30 Jan. 1648; and with this s. I pause to expose many errors. To him
is giv. s. Samuel, b. 16 Mar. 1678 by w. Mehitable Hobart. Sorry am
I to obs. that in the Geneal. Reg. XIII 91, the statem. that "John,
bapt. in Norton, 30 June 1648, m. Mehitable Hobart," labors under
such incongru. It says that Andrew and Tryphena had seven childr.
when the names of nine are kn. No s. Samuel had he, no Mehitable
Hobart can be found for that John to m. and he could not be bapt. at
Norton that day, for the town was not begun to be sett. till many yrs. aft.
nor could he be bapt. anywhere else in N. E. on 30 June 1648, wh. was
not Sunday, but Friday. Beside those four ch. we find Ephraim, bapt.
Feb. 1650; Deborah, 20 June 1652; Joshua, 20 Aug. 1654; Caleb, 17
July 1657; and Hannah, 17 Oct. 1658; and he d. 1 May 1675. His
wid. d. 2 June 1707, "a. 95 yrs. of age," says the town rec. All the ds.
were m. Abigail m. perhaps, John Low, first, but certain. 27 Dec.
1665, Daniel Stodder, and Deborah m. 30 Dec. 1674, William Sprague;
but whether the date of Mary, wh. m. William Orcutt, were earlier or
later in m. than her sis. Abigail, is uncert.; and Hannah m. Thomas
with a surname utterly illegib. in the orig. and plain. false in the copy of
Prob. reg. All the s. and the hs. of the ds. gave, 27 July 1675, to their
ms. acquit. of the est. of dec. for her life, wh. has signa. of each, but
Orcutt's is by [ ] mark, and the h. of the youngest d. might as well have
used a bear's claw to write his. ANDREW, Hingham, s. of the preced.
freem. 1677, by w. Elizabeth had John, b. 13 Oct. 1673; Elizabeth 20 Nov.
1675; Andrew, 8 Feb. 1678; Bethia, 10 Aug. 1680; Isaac, 8 Apr.
1683; Jonathan, 27 Dec. 1685; and Solomon, 12 Jan. 1694, wh. d. at
21 yrs. He d. 4 Dec. 1717, and his wid. d. 12 Nov. 1727. DANIEL,
New London 1652, m. Catharine, wid. of Thomas Doxy, rem. 1661 to
L. I. was one of the grantees of Brookhaven 1666. EBENEZER. Hingham,
s. of George, m. 27 Dec. 1688, Hannah, whose surname is uncert.
had Sarah, b. 24 Dec. 1692; Ebenezer, 11 Dec. 1694; Peter, 25 May
1697; and Susanna He had serv. in brave capt. Johnson's comp. in
Philip's war. EDWARD, Boston, a merch. came in the Speedwell, from
London 1656, aged 36, hav. bot. 1651 est. of Robert Harding, m. 11
Dec. 1657, Ann, d. of Benjamin Keayne, had Ann, b. 5 Oct. 1660, a.
27 June foll.; and Edward, 20 Feb. 1662. He next yr. sold est. at
Malden to Richard Dexter, and liv. not long aft. His wid. m. Nicholas
Paige. EPHRAIM, Hingham, s. of Andrew, serv. in Philip's war, with
Johnson's comp. m. late in life, 20 Feb. 1701, Susanna, d. of Ephraim
Huet of Scituate, had Ephraim, b. July 1703; and his w. d. 15 May
1708. For sec. w. he took, 29 Dec. foll. Elizabeth youngest d. of Jeremiah
Beal, and had Jeremiah, 8 June 1710; a. 1 Dec. 1715, and his wid. d.