Transcript:Savage, James. Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England/v3p561

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New London, s. of James of the same, a sea capt. m. 5 Nov. 1674, Mary,
d. of Jeffrey Jordan, of wh. very pleasant tradit. is told by Caulkins, p.
202, tho. as nothing was ever heard of her f. or mo. or bro. or sis. it may
fail of truth in some partic. had James, Mary, Elizabeth Sarah, Samuel, Jonathan,
Richard, and William. In 1677, his w. was fin. for absence from
pub. worship as estab. by the governm. and soon after he and his w.
were vexed for worsh. estab. by his f. and friends. He d. 8 Nov. 1713.
JEREMIAH, Dorchester, m. Mehitable,[1] d. prob. eldest of John Pierce, and
had three ch. as in the will of their gr.f. Pierce in 1661, is ment. viz.
Margaret, bapt. 1653; Mehitable, b. 6 Oct. 1658; and Ichabod, bapt. 27
May 1660, brot. to D. for the Ordin. from Lancaster, whither his f. had
rem. beside prob. that Sarah, wh. by rec. of D. d. 21 Sept. 1657.
JOHN, Duxbury 1634, prob. of Plymouth 1631, rep. 1657, by w.
Frances, had John, Joseph, Timothy, Ann, Mary, and Abigail. In his
will of 1 Feb. 1661, he calls hims. of Marshfield, names w. and the six
ch. beside gr.ch. George and John Russell. Ann m. John Hudson; and
one of the other ds. m. the sec. George Russell. He may have been br.
of the first Thomas. JOHN, Watertown 1636, freem. 17 May 1637;
JOHN, Weymouth, m. 16 Apr. 1639, Ann, d. prob. of Hugh Churchman,
had Lydia, b. 27 Mar. 1642, rem. 1644., to Scitutate, going thither,
with Rev. Mr. Witherell. This led Deane, he says, to conject. that he
was a descend. of him of Smithfield, whose martyrdom was above 99
yrs. bef. and perhaps a slighter conject. never was brought in aid
of a trifling tradit. A tradit. prob. equal. worthless, to sustain that,
is giv. by D. that the mo. of W. was also a descend. of the martyr.
He had also John, Thomas, and Samuel, prob. the first, if not
more, b. in Eng. and went back to W. there d. 11 Feb. 1662. The
Weymouth man was a deac. and his will of 8 Feb. 1661, pro. 30 Apr.
foll. satisfied me. that Deane had confus. two if not three Johns into one.
(See Geneal, Reg. X. 265-6). It gives est. to w. Judith, s. John, ds.
Mary Rane, i.e. prob. Rand, w. of John, Lydia, wh. m. 19 Sept. 1660,
Joseph White; Hannah m. the same day, Samuel Pratt, and Sarah.
The h. of Mary was John. So that we may be sure that Scituate man,
with s. Thomas and Samuel, was ano. and that Deane misled Barry in
his Hist. of Hanover; and Winsor in his Hist. of Duxbury. JOHN,
Watertown, freem. 13 Mar. 1639, m. 1640, Priscilla Dawes at Boston,
wh. on her join. the ch. is call. maid serv. of our Elder Thomas Oliver,
had John, b. 11 Sept. 1641; Mary, 26 Oct. 1643; Thomas; Daniel
Nathaniel; and prob. sev. ds. was perhaps a baker, rem. to Billerica,
there his d. Abigail m. Arthur Warren of Chelmsford; Priscilla, wh.
m. 19 Jan. 1682, Simon Coolidge, as sec. w. was prob. ano. His s. John
was k. by the Ind. 5 Aug. 1695, was also, on the same day, his br.