Transcript:Savage, James. Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England/v4p380

Apr. 1662; Mary, 13 Nov. 1665, d. young; William, 1671; Nathaniel,
1674; James, 1677; Thomas, 1680; and Hezekiah, bapt. 24 Dec. 1682.
His inv. is of 6 Nov. 1689; the will of two mos. bef. ment. the seven s.
and d. Sarah w. of Stephen Root. He was rep. 1672-7, and was
nominat. in the last yr. of Assist. but not chos. until 1679, had distinct.
in the milit. and with the Gov. and others was of the standing council for
affairs in Philip's war. * JOHN, Farmington, s. of the preced. m. 20
Aug. 1696, Eliz. d. of John Stanley, had Sarah, b. 3 July 1697; Eliz. 3
May 1700; John, 9 Oct. 1702; Daniel, 14 Nov. 1704, Y. C. 1726;
Lydia, 6 Oct. 1706; Ruth, 14 Apr. 1711; and Mercy, 11 Sept. 1713;
was rep. for 9 sess. betw. 1703 and 16, and d. 1718. His w. had d. 25
Oct. 1713, and he took sec. w. Mary Gridley, wh. had been sec. w. of
Samuel. * JOSEPH, Hartford, s. of William, was propound. for freem.
1676, with his brs. Samuel, and Thomas, and all adm. the same yr. was
a lieut. and serv. in Philip's war; m. Elizabeth d. of Bartholomew Barnard, [that Eliz. married this man's half-brother Thomas Wadsworth]
wh. d. 26 Oct. 1710, had Joseph, b. 1682; Eliz.; Jonathan, bapt. 20
Feb. 1687, d. young; and we kn. other ch. (from Hinman 323) to have
been Ichabod; Hannah; and Jonathan, again. His sec. w. was perhaps
Eliz. d. of the sec. John Talcott. But he is most rememb. with gratitude
in our times, as the preserver of the charter, in opposit. to the demand of
the royal Gov. by the perilous expedient of extinct. of the lights in the
Council chamber, 31 Oct. 1687, and hiding the parchment in the great
oak. He m. late in life, Mary, d. of John Blackleach, the younger, wh.
had been first w. of Thomas Welles, next of John Olcutt, and she surv.
Wadsworth. He was capt. d. 1730. * NATHANIEL, Farmington, s. of
John, m. 21 Mar. 1705, Dorothy, d. of John Ball of New Haven, had
Eunice, b. 10 June 1706; Timothy, bapt. 5 June 1709; Esther, prob. 3
May 1713; Sarah, 20 Jan. 1717; Nathaniel, perhaps 14 Sept. 1718;
Mary, 14 Aug. 1720; Hezekiah, 16 Sept. 1722; and Timothy, again,,
perhaps 26 Nov. 1727; was rep. 1727, and d. 20 Dec. 1761. SAMUEL,
Milton, s. of Christopher, freem. 1668, m. Abigail d. of James Lindall of
Marshfield, had perhaps Recompense, wh. d. 12 July 1679, only a few
days bef. he would have been gr. at Harv. in 21st yr.; Ebenezer, b. a.
1661; Christopher, a. 1663; prob. others, and certain. Benjamin 1669,
H. C. 1690, min. of the first ch. in Boston, ord. 8 Sept. 1696, and Presid.
of Harv. Coll. He was disting. as a capt. in Philip's war, and in Apr.
1676, going to relief of Sudbury on a sudden assault by the enemy, was
overpower. by numbers, and with the lieut. Sharpe of Brookline, and
half his comp. cut off 21 Apr. Yet many authorities gave the date 18.
The matter seems stated with much plausibility and with suffic. caution
as to weight of evid. in Geneal. Reg. VII. 221. SAMUEL, Hartford, s.
of William, d. 1682, his will of 16 Aug. in that yr. gave est. above