Transcript:Savage, James. Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England/v4p286

and from Mr. White, wh. furnish to Geneal. Reg. IX. that very valu. list
of baptisms, I am instruct. that the town rec. is usual. the true one, and
the ch. rec. frequent. false, or wonderful, careless rather. Prob. this
was kept by Rev. John Davenport, less precise in facts than in doctrine.
But the writer of that rec. little consider. to what vexations he would
subject those who came in a future age to consult his ambiguous oracle.
Often by omiss. as well as commiss. the teacher is blameworthy; and
the scrupulous Mr. White was misled to ascribe, p. 362, three ch. to this
John Thompson, by w. Ellen, scil. Hannah, Lydia, and Ebenezer, bapt.
1645, 7 and 8, respectiv. not one of wh. was hers, as her m. was some
yrs. later than their bapt. These three belong to his br. Anthony, whose
w. perhaps was the sis. Thompson ment. in the book by Mr. White mistaken
for Ellen. She long liv. a wid. dispos. of three ds. in m. scil.
Mary, Nov. 1674, to Samuel Lines; Ann or Hannah, 25 Dec. 1673, to
Abraham Bradley; and Elizabeth 29 Oct. 1677, to Benjamin Bradlee; and
made her will Oct. 1689, giv. her prop. to them. * JOHN, Plymouth 1643,
had John, b. 24 Nov. 1649, d. soon; was prob. rep. for Middleborough,
1674 and eight yrs. foll. JOHN, Dorchester, s. of that David the first
sett. kn. in Boston harbor, had confirmat. of his right to the isl. giv. by
our Gen. Ct. 1648; in Apr. 1650, pledg. to two Bristol merch. the isl.
for a large sum. payable in codfish at Marblehead or Isle of Shoals; but
the creditors had it in 1658, by appraise. of Robert Sedgwick and Richard
Sprague, for less than amo. of the excon. He or ano. John was of
Weymouth, the freem. of 1653. JOHN, Fairfield, eldest, s. of John of
Stratford, was a man of so great consequence, as in 1663, to have the Gen.
Ct. of Conn. interpose to attempt adjustm. of his diffic. with the ch. there,
is in the freemen's list of 1669. JOHN, Barnstable, had Esther, b. 28
July 1652; Elizabeth 28 Jan. 1654; Sarah, 4 Apr. 1657; Lydia, 5 Oct. 1659;
Jacob, 24 Apr. 1662; and Thomas, 19 Oct. 1664. JOHN, New Haven,
1659, call. for distinct. the farmer, m. at Branford, perhaps 29 Mar. or
22 May 1666, Priscilla, d. of Thomas Powell, had John, b. 6 Aug. 1667;
Priscilla, 7 Aug. 1671; Samuel, 29 Jan. 1674, d. soon; Samuel, again,
1 May 1677; Abigail, 24 Feb. 1680; and Ann, 20 Mar. 1683, wh. prob.
d. young; and he d. 13 Feb. 1694. This John is prob. s. of the first John
of the same, liv. at East Haven, and made his will the same day he d.
nam. four ch. only, the two s. and two ds. Priscilla Chidsy, or Chedsey,
w. of Ebenezer, and Abigail, then unm. JOHN, Wethersfield, bef. 1640,
rem. in few yrs. JOHN, Farmington, eldest s. of Thomas of the same,
propound. for freem. 1670, m. 24 Oct. of that yr. Mary Steele, d. of the
sec. John of the same, had John, b. 29 Dec. 1671; Thomas, 30 June
1674, but ano. acco. says, 13 Jan. 1675; Samuel, 29 Dec. 1676; Joseph,
25 Mar. 1679, d. in few wks.; James, 30 May, 1680; Mary, bapt. 1