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Coll. Cambridge, where he had his A. B. 1625, m. one of four
coheiresses named Boyes of his native parish and Rev. Peter Prudden is
kn. to have taken ano. came a. 1635, perhaps with first w. by wh. he had
Jachin; and Hannah, wh. m. Sept. 1660, Job Lane often; beside an
elder d. wh was once thought, but erron. the first wife of Michael Wigglesworth,
m. 1642, for sec. w. Frances Clark, had John, H. C. 1663;
Joseph, 15 Apr. 1650, d. at two yrs.; Elizabeth Dorothy; Abigail; and
Judith, wh. perhaps bec. w. of Rev. Jabez Fox of Woburn. One of the
ds. whose name is lost from the Col. Rec. was b. 26 Dec. 1647. After
18 yrs. of serv. at P. he rem. to Dover, there d. 20 Apr. 1669. He
had est. at Gildersome, the place of his nativ. in the parish of Batley
in the W. riding of Yorksh. near Leeds, where the celebr. Dr. Priestly
was b. His will, made only one or two days bef. he d. pro. 30 June foll.
directs the div. of rents from his lds. at Gildersome, provides for his w.
and their five ch. having formerly provid. for ch. by first w. and in case
his w. m. again, carefully devises both the Dover and Eng. est. Mr.
Hunter, in Early Hist. of the Founders of New Plymouth, 4 Mass. Hist.
Coll. I. 84, supposed he may be derived from Bassetlaw in Co. Notts. But
he was b. at no gr. distance, as the same accurate inquirer, in his revised
work, London 1854, pp. 118 and 119, proves. He made his name Reyner.
JOHN, Dover, s. of the preced. ord. 12 July 1671, m. Judith, d. of
Edmund Quincy sec. of Braintree, and in short time after d. at B. 21
Dec. 1676, prob. without ch. aged 33. His wid. d. 8 Mar. 1679 or 80,
as the gr.-st. inscript. blindly makes it. JOHN, Charlestown, by w.
Catharine, wh. d. 22 Dec. 1682, in her 23d yr. had John, wh. d. the day
bef. is mo. and he m. 31 July 1685, Abigail Hathorne, wh. d. 17 May
1714, in her 47th yr.; had Abigail, bapt. 21 June 1691, d. young, and two
ds. Elizabeth wh. both d. young; beside John bapt. 25 Dec. 1687, wh.
reached mid. life. JOHN, Rowley 1691. JONATHAN and JOSEPH,
Southampton, L. I. 1663-73, were perhaps s. of Thurston. SAMUEL,
Watertown, had beer of Cambridge, where by w. Mary he had Hannah,
b.
2 Mar. 1654, wh. m. 7 Apr. 1670, Ephraim Winship; d. 1669, in his
will 26 Sept. of that yr. names w. Mary and a. d. SAMUEL, Charlestown,
by w. Mary had Sarah, bapt. 8 May 1687. THOMAS, Hempstead,
L. I. 1643, acc. Wood's Hist. yet possib. the name may be mistaken
for the foll. THURSTON, Watertown, came in the Elizabeth 1634,
from Ipswich, Co Suff. aged 40, with w. Elizabeth 36.; Thurston, 13; Joseph,
11; Elizabeth 9; Sarah, 7; and Lydia, 1; who, by the order of their names
in the rec. certif. up to London, may be thot. his ch. and Edward,
foll. on the same list, aged 10, may have, been s. or neph. in 1636; rem.
to Wethersfield, was rep. 1638, 9, and 40; rem. 1641 to Stamford, there
had commiss. from New Haven jurisdict. but in few yrs. rem. to