Transcript:Savage, James. Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England/v3p591

constable in 1648, brought, no doubt, s. John, b. a 1626, H. C. 1645,
rem. soon aft. to Wethersfield, where had raged a very unpleasant quarrel
betw. Rev. Henry Smith and a part of his people, end. in 1648 by
his death. He next yr. m. Dorothy, the wid. of Mr. Smith, and the s.
succeed. him as min. By former w. he had also Philip, b. perhaps in
Eng. perhaps at our Cambridge; rem. 1659 to Hadley, and d. 8 May
1680, aged 83. Hinman calls him a rep. 1646-8, but tho. he says nothing
else of him, p. 70, I suppose that is wrong. In neither of those yrs.
does Trumbulls Col. Rec. so honor him, indeed he was not made freem.
bef. 1655, nor was he ever so chose. If my conjecture would benefit
the eye of a reader of those rec. he might see the name that mislet H.
to be John Bissel, sometimes Byssel, wh. was more than half the time
that R. lib. in Conn. one of the reps. JOHN, Charlestown 1640, one of
the first sett. of Worburn, freem. 1644, was shoemaker and deac. had w.
Elizabeth wh. d. 16 Dec. 1644, s. John, perhaps b. in Eng. and d. Mary, wh.
m. 2 Dec. 1659, Timothy Brooks; and no other are ment. in his will
of 27 May 1676, five days bef. he d. but he had m. sec. w. 13 May
1645, Elizabeth Baker, perhaps d. of William of Charlestown, and she d. 17
Jan. 1690. Some distinct. is justly claim. for him as one of the founders
of the first Bapt. ch. of Boston, 1669, gather, first in Noddle's isl. some
yrs. earlier, and was its elder or deac. JOHN, Marshfield, 1643-51.
JOHN, Wethersfield, s. of John of the same, b. in Eng. m. at Hartford,
28 June 1649. Mary d. of John Talcott, had John, b. 23 sept. 1650 (by
the false rec. in Geneal. Reg. XII. 197, said to be bapt. that day, wh.
was Monday), wh. d. at 20 yrs. and Jonathan, 1655, H. C. 1675, but
this s. may have been by sec. w. Rebecca, d. of Thomas Newbury of
Windsor, wh. d. 21 Nov. 1688, aged 57. In 1650 he was made freem.
but aft. long controv. that may seem to have ben the pastor's inherit.
from his predecess. in 12659, he had rem. to Hadley, and carr. both s.
with major part of the ch. had Samuel, b. 4 Nv. 1660, H. C. 1681;
Eleazer, 8 Nov. 1663, wh. d. bef. his f. Daniel, 8 Feb. 1666, d. next yr.
and he d. 10 Dec. 1692, aged 66. At his ho. in Hadley were long conceal.
the regicides, Whalley and Goffe, wh. d. there some yrs. apart, and
both corpses were bur. in his ground close to the foundat. of his ho.
where, to contradict an absurd tradit. of rem. of the bones to New Haven,
the authentic remains were, a few yrs. since ascert. by rem. of the
cellar wall for the railroad. JOHN, Woburn, s. of John of the same, b. perhaps
in Eng. a shoemaker, m. 31 Oct. 1661, Sarah Champney, perhaps d. of
John of Cambridge, had John, b. 1 Aug. 162; Joseph, 15 Jan. 1664; Samuel,
3 Feb. 1667, d. at 10 mos. Sarah, 10 Feb. 1671; Elizabeth 19 Feb. 1673;
Jonathan, 6 Aug. 1675; and Thomas, 5 Jan. 1678. After the loss of their
teacher, Gould, by the first Bapt. ch. in Boston, to wh. he had unit. hims.