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tells. JOHN, Middletown, eldest s. of John of the same, m. 30 May
1682, Mary Ranney, d. of Thomas of the same, had John, b. 20 Feb.
1683, d. in few days; Thomas, 21 Aug. 1684; John, again, 30 Jan.
1686, d. in few mos.; John, again, 7 Aug. 1688; Mary, 11 Feb. 1691;
William, late in July 1693; Elizabeth 1696; Abigail, Dec. 1698, d. at 3
mos.; Sarah, late in Sept. 1700; Rachel, 15 Jan. 1704; and Mercy, or
this may be Mary, again, 10 Apr. 1706; as a capt and d. 31 Oct.
1726. His wid. d. 19 Aug. 1734. NATHANIEL, Middletown, youngest
s. of the first John of the same, m. 3 Nov. 1696, Esther, d. of Thomas
Ranney, had Esther; Nathaniel, wh. d. soon; Abigail; Susanna;
Mary; Elizabeth; John; and Nathaniel, again; and d. 4 Jan. 1735. His
wid. d. 1 Apr. 1750, aged 76. PEREZ, Boston, s. of the first
Thomas, ens. of Moseley's comp. "a noble, heroic youth," as the great
Ind. warrior, capt. Church, marks him, bad. wound. at Swansey in the
first week of Philip's war, 29 June 1675, and again wound. in the hard
swamp fight, 19 Dec. foll. where the concentra. power of the enemy was
brok. when he was lieut. of the same corps. He was never m. and
might have been omit. in this place, but for the events of his life, and
chief. the curious incid. grow. out of his wills. Bef. go. to London, from
wh. he carr. on trade to Spain, he made one, 8 Sept. 1690, nam. brs.
Thomas (made excor.), Ephraim, and Benjamin, with sis. Hannah Sylvester,
Mary Thacher, Dyonisia Ravenscroft, and Sarah Higginson, giv.
to ea. £10., to Thomas, wid. sis. Thacher's s. wh. accomp. him in his
voyages, £50., and resid. of his prop. to oldest surv. br. Thomas. This
was pro. 18 Apr. 1695, aft. his d. at Mequinez, in Barbary, had been
ascertin. See Vol. XIII. of Pro. rec. Contrib. to redeem from the
Turks him and his neph. Thacher, as well as many others, had in former
rrs. been made, as for more, in later yrs. by gen. concert of town and
country chhs. and for young Thacher they were not too late. But in,
the Prerogat. Ct. of the Archbp. of Canterbury, at London, 11 May
1702, was brot. in a later will of 24 May 1694, by the same testat.
"made in my sick bed." at Mequinez, whereby (aft. small money presents
to Robert Carver, or Carew, and four others, prob. is compan. in the
sad slavery, to wh. one of the two witness. was the same Carver), all
his prop. in hds. of Richard Hill of Cadiz, merch. or in London, or in
N. E. is bequeath. to the neph. then under 21 yrs. old, his companion, I
suppose, in that Algerine misery. This instrum. may be read in Vol.
XVII. together with revocat. by our Judge Addington, 10 Nov. 1708,
of the former admin. gr. by Judge Stoughton, when A. had been the
Reg. But in Vol. XVIII. subseq. proceed. mov. in the Ct. of Arches,
bef. Sir Charles Hedges, by Elizabeth wid. of Thomas, excor. of tbe Boston
will, wh. was aunt of the devisee in the Barbary will, show a reversal of
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