Transcript:Savage, James. Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England/v4p140


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1662; Elizabeth 20 Dec. 1664; Abiel, 2 Aug. 1667; Abigail, 25 Jan. 1670;
and Anthony and Rebecca, tw. posthum. 2 June 1672; for he d. 27 Dec.
1671. From him descends Horatio G. Somerby, the assid. enquir. for
geneal. in Eng. ANTHONY, Newbury, s. of Richard, gr. s. of Henry
of Little Bytham, 8 ms. from Stamford, in Co. Linc. where he was bapt.
16 Aug. 1610, came in the Jonathan, 1639, was freem. 18 May 1642, the
first sch. master, town clk. from 1648 to his d. at the end of July 1686,
aged 76. By w. Abigail, wh. d. 3 June 1673, he had Abiel only, b.
8 Sept. 1641. HENRY, Newbury, br. of the preced. with wh. he came,
was bapt. 17 Mar. 1612, m. Judith, d. of Capt. Edmund Greenleaf, had
Sarah, b. 10 Feb. 1645; Eliz. Nov. 1646; John, 24 Dec. 1648, d.
within 2 yrs.; and Daniel, 18 Nov. 1650, wh. d. on serv. in Philip's war
1676; was freem. on 18 May 1642, and d. 2 Oct. 1652. His wid. m.
2 Mar. 1653, Tristram Coffin. Eliz. m. 25 Nov. 1663, Nathaniel Clark;
and next, 8 Aug. 1698, Rev. John Hale of Beverly.

    SOMERS, JOHN, Marshfield, by w. Elizabeth had Elizabeth b. 1686; John,
1688; Mary, 1691; and Nathan, 1693. That the fam. rem. to Rochester,
is told by Miss Thomas, but neither she, nor others, give the much
more interesting fact, where it came from.

    SOMES, JOHN, Boston, s. of Morris of Gloucester, m. Hannah, eldest
d. of Samuel Shattuck of Salem, the happy messeng. of Charles II.
who brot. the order to stop the execrable policy of persecut. the Quakers;
made his will 13 Nov. 1687, pro. in 1700, when of sev. ch. only
Benjamin was liv. to settle the est. MORRIS, Gloucester, by w. Margery
had Mary, b. 1 Mar. 1642, and Sarah, 15 June 1643. His w. d.
22 Jan. 1647; and he m. 26 June foll. Elizabeth d. of John Kendall of Cambridge,
had John, 22 Apr. 1648; Lydia, 3 Oct. 1649; and some others,
of wh. Hannah, 3 Sept. 1608. He d. 1689. Mary m. 17 Oct. 1660,
John Hammond, and Sarah m. 15 June 1665, Henry Witham. TIMOTHY,
Gloucester, perhaps s. of the preced. m. 2 Jan. 1672, Jane Stanwood,
perhaps d. of Philip, had Timothy, b. 27 July 1673; Jane, 1
Dec. 1674; Alice, 11 Mar. 1677; Joseph, 26 Aug. 1679; and William,
24 Jan. 1682.

    SOPER, JOSEPH, Boston, m. 6 May 1656, Elizabeth d. of Thomas Alcock;
but I see no more of him, exc. that their s. Joseph was b. 5 Jan. 1660.

    SOULE, SOLE or SOUL, GEORGE, Plymouth, came in the Mayflower
1620
, under protect. of Edward Winslow, sign. the Cape Cod
compact in Nov. was tax. in 1633 and 4 independ. of W. had rem. to
Duxbury bef. 1643, by w. Mary Becket had George; Zechariah; John,
b. 1632; Nathaniel; Benjamin, but the order is unk. as also Patience,
Elizabeth and Mary, wh. m. John Peterson; all as Bradford says, bef. 1650.
He was rep. 1645, and some yrs. later; an orig. propr. of Bridgewater,