Transcript:Savage, James. Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England/v4p288

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trans. resid. here 1639, bought the old ch. edifice and ground on wh. it
stood in State Str. for L160 in 1639. See note in Winthrop I. 318. Yet
he was satisf. I fear, with the outward benefit, for he did not join the
worship. assemb. But he was a powerful friend of Mass. and for serv.
our Ct. made gr. to him of 500 acres. In Hutch. Coll. some letters from
him show good disposition and judgment. SAMUEL, Braintree, s. of
Rev. William, b. in Eng. m. 25 Apr. 1656, Sarah, d. of Edward Shepard,
had Sarah, b. 27 Apr. 1657, d. soon; Deboroah, 25 Mar. 1660; Samuel,
6 Nov. 1662; Edward, 20 Apr. 1665, H. C. 1684; Abigail, 10 Nov.
1667; Sarah, again, 28 Apr. 1670, d. young; Hannah, 5 Aug. 1672;
William, bapt. 11 Apr. 1675, d. soon; William, again, 3 June 1676;
and Sarah, b. 1 Jan. 1679; deac. 1679 tho. not found in the list of
freem. was rep. 1676-86 exc. 81 and 2, and again 1691. His w. d. 15
Jan. 1680, aged 43, and in 1680 he had sec. w. Elizabeth Billings, perhaps
d. of Roger of Dorchester, wh. d. 5 Nov. 1706, aged 69; and he d. 18
June 1695. SAMUEL, New Haven, m. 14 Nov. 1695, Rebecca, youngest
d. of Hon. James Bishop. SIMON, Ipswich 1636, b. a. 1610, had Mercy,
wh. m. 26 Jan. 1653, Isaiah Wood; and Sarah, wh. m. 16 May 1655,
Abraham Fitts; and he took sec. w. 21 Aug. 1656, Rachel Glover, was
freem. 2 June 1641, and d. 1676. His will, 25 Mar. of that yr. provid.
for wid. names no s. and seven of W's ch. made Wood and Fitts, excors.
SIMON, Woburn, eldest s. of James the first, m. 19 Dec. 1643,
Mary, d. of Edward Converse, had John, b. 4 Apr. 1645, d. week foll.;
Sarah, 20 Feb. 1647; James, 29 Mar. 1649; a d. 25 Jan. 1652, whose
name, not then giv. we find to be Mary, when she d. 2 Feb. 1662; Ann,
30 July 1655; Rebecca, May 1658; was freem. 1648, and bec. a purch.
of Chelmsford, but d. in early manhood, making his will 15 May 1658,
in wh. he provides for the s. and three ds. names his f. and w. and her f.
and her two brs. Josiah and James. THOMAS, Farmington, may be that
youth of 18 yrs. wh. emb. in the Abigail at London, 1 July 1635,
[1] m. 14
Apr. 1646, at Hartford, Ann, d. of Gov. Thomas Welles, had there,
Beatrice, bapt. 17 Jan. 1647; John, b. 1649; Thomas, 1651; Mary, 7
June 1653; and Esther, posthum, bapt. 17 June 1655; the last four b. at
F. where he d. 25 Apr. of that yr. His wid. m. Anthony Hawkins; and
Beatrice m. a Parker; Mary m. a Hawley; and Esther m. Samuel Gridley.
THOMAS, Easthampton L. I. 1650. THOMAS, Farmington, s. of
Thomas of the same, was adm. freem. 1677, m. Elizabeth d. of William as Porter
thinks, but in my opin. of Arthur Smith, the first, had Elizabeth; Thomas,
b. 25 Mar. 1679; Arthur, 17 Oct. 1680; Philoeutheros, bapt. 12 Nov.
1682; John, 14 Dec. 1684; Margaret, 20 Feb. 1687; Ann, 10 Feb.
1689; Samuel, 18 Oct. 1691; and Daniel. But he had by a sec. w.
Abigail
(wh. murder. him); and ano. ch. strange. nam. Mercy, b. 15