Transcript:Savage, James. Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England/v4p212

mem. of the ch. he was not a landholder, nor indeed is anything more
certain. kn. of him aft. the gr. authentic purchase. If he were m. and
cont. in our country, he may have been ancest. of that Charles, wh. bec.
Secr. of the Prov. of N. H. 1696 and was acting in the same place
1714, beside being judge of the admiralty, and indeed may have been
counsel in the gr. cause, 1707, to support the forged deed of the whole
province of N. H. to Wheelwright, Story, and others, print. as Appendix
in the first vol. of Belkn. orig. Ed. with date of 17 May 1629, seven
yrs. bef. Wheelwright was on this side of the ocean. Wrestling Brewster
(the mythical) m. his d. Emila, says. Ashbel Steele in his fictitious
portion of that interesting work. See Brewster. GEORGE, Boston
1642, a young merch. wh. by tak. up the cause (trover for a pig) brot.
against Capt. Keayne by the w. of one Richard Sherman, with wh. he
liv. perhaps in a suspicious way, during the abs. of her h. brot. on the
gr. quarrel betw. rep. and Assit. that shook the colony that yr. and the
next to its founda. but no more is kn. of him, unless he were, in 1643,
of Maine. ISAAC, Watertown 1635, only come in by mistake of surname
for Stearns in Geneal. Reg. VII. 159. ROWLAND, Boston shipwright,
bot. est. 1673, by w. Bethia had Bethia, b. 15 July 1677; Abigail,
3 Apr. 1679; and by sec. w. Ann d. of the first Joseph Belcher,
had Rowland, 3 Sept. 1683; Joseph, 31 Mar. 1685; Ann, 28 Oct.
1686: John, 20 Mar. 1689; Ann, 14 Mar. 1691; Abigail, again, 11
Mar. 1693; Samuel, 20 Aug. 1694; Rebecca, 2 May 1696, d. soon;
William, 30 Mar. 1698; Rebecca, again, 1 Feb. 1700, d. soon; Rebecca,
again, 28 Aug. 1701; Jeremiah, 2 July 1702; Zachariah, 27
June 1706; and Benjamin, 15 Nov. 1707; yet in the rec. of one of
these, I think it is John), the name of this is giv. Richard, wh. whoso
will may believe. He d. prob. July 1709, for his inv. dat. 9 of that mo.
was by the admor. wid. Ann, produc. 14 Sept. foll. SAMUEL, Ipswich,
by w. Elizabeth had Ann b. 31 Mar. 1691; Ephraim, 22 Oct. 1692; John,
19 June 1694; Solomon, 13 Mar. 1696; and Stephen, 7 Oct. 1697.
SETH, d. 1669, leav. w. Sarah, and ch. Seth, aged 21, William, 19; and
Abigail, 15; may be gather. from Mr. Coffin in Geneal. Reg. VIII. 53;
but of what town we are left to ask, and my informat. yeilds no ans.
SETH, Ipswich, s. of William of the same, had. w. Elizabeth and ch. Zechariah,
b. 14 Mar. 1685; Martha, 28 Sept. 1691; Seth, 4 Apr. 1694;
and Damaris, 24 Jan. 1697; and he d. 9 Oct. 1732. WILLIAM. Ipswich,
came 1637, from Norwich, Co. Norf'k. as serv. of Samuel Dix,
emb. 8 Apr. and call. then 23 yrs. old, as seen in 4 Mass. Hist. Coll. I.
97. He was a carpenter of I. 1648, and beside d. Hannah, b. 19 Aug.
1662, and others perhaps, had Seth and William, to wh. in 1693 he gave
his prop. WILLIAM, Dover 1656, was there tax. 1657, had four ch.