Transcript:Savage, James. Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England/v4p355

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1673, driv. by the Ind. from M. had at Roxbury, Matthew, bapt. 9 Apr.
1676; John, b. 19 Feb. 1678; rem. to Andover (where Hopestill perhaps
his s. was adm. to be freem. 1691), and there had Joanna, 21 Nov.
1681; and James 8 Dec. 1683; and, as is said, sev. more. His w.
Mary and two ds. were charg. with witchcraft, and imprison. at Salem,
but happi. not being tr. bef. the smoke of the bottomless pit that affect. a
jury much, and judges more, had begun to diperse (even aft. confess,
by the w. and one of her ds. overcome by urgent appeals of friends),
were aquit. 6 and 7 Jan. 1693. In 1697 he sold his est. at A. and
prob. rem. JOB, Andover, may have had ch. bef. that town was sett. as
Hope or Moses, and Dr. Stiles found his name, tho. I doubt a mistake in
his vision, on the roll of adm. at Aquedneck, or Portsmouth, R. I. 1639.
Certain. at Providence was early a wid. Joan T. had sh. in div. of
lots in 1638, at that point call. Tockwotton, and she is nam. again in
1640. Possib. she was mo. of Job, who was b. a. 1619. By w. Mary,
those may have been b. to him, as certain. were Mary, a. 1643; John,
wh. d. 28 Sept. 1652; John, again, b. 6 Apr. 1653; and Samuel, 24
May 1655; in 1665 he was at Roxbury, and his w. join. the ch. 28 May
of that yr. and next Sunday had John and Samuel bapt. there. In
1669 he rem. to Mendon, thence driv. by the Ind. he ret. to R. but bef.
1681, was in Rowley, the part now Boxford, and next at A. where after
d. of his w. prob. in 1700, he divid. his est. to s. JOHN, Bristol, m.
Sarah, d. of William Havens, long bef. 1680, when her f. names her in
his will. His d. Tamar m. 5 Dec. 1678, Robert Cook of Portsmouth,
R. I. JOHN, Andover, s. of Job, m. 14 Sept. 1682, Hannah Parker,
perhaps d. of Nathan, had Nathan, and perhaps others; was freem.
1691; rem. to Mendon, where was deac. and d. 4 May 1742. JOHN,
Wallingford, s. of William of Milford. MOSES, Rowley, s. of Job, m.
at Andover, 6 July 1666, Prudence, d. of George Blake, liv. in that pt.
now Boxford, had John, b. 14 Sept. 1667, wh. was a sh.master, and d.
13 Jan. 1756; Moses; Joseph; Ebenezer; Job; Jonathan; Joshua;
James, 7 Dec. 1685; and two other s. 10 in all by this w. wh. d. 19
Mar. 1689; and by a sec. w. Sarah, had ano. s. and five ds. Joanna,
Abigail, Martha, Catharine, and Sarah. Of these sixteen ch. all but
Joseph, and two other s. without names, liv. to mature yrs. He was
quarter-master by com. title, rem. to Andover a. 1700, and there d. 2
Oct. 1727, aged 85 or 6. His will is in Geneal. Reg. XII. 319. Eight
s. three ds. and childr. of two ds. dec. had sharees in his est. either by
advancem. or testam. NATHANIEL, Lynn 1640, by w. Jane had Joseph,
and in Oct. 1652, mak. his will as he purpos. going on a voyage on the
sh. "N. E. merch." he would that his s. wh. liv. at Shrwsbury in Co.
Salop, should have £50. PETER, Branford 1668, perhaps br. of Francis,