Transcript:Savage, James. Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England/v4p400

25 Aug. 1684; Abiel, 30 Aug. 1686; William 23 Dec. 1687; John, 19
July 1689; but Bridgman makes him b. at Bristol, 11 Sept. 1691.
Strong suspicion is felt that some of these may be ch. of the other John.
But indeed the whole is uncert. exc. John. He was of ar. co. 1671,
freem. 1673, capt. in the milit. 1679, in 1683 rem. to Barnstable, or
other town in Plymouth jurisdict. was engag. much in settlem. of Bristol,
and assist. of that col. 1684, and one of the council nam. in the
royal commissn. to Andros 1686. The yr. foll. the overthrow of A.
Walley had the disadvantage of being chief milit. officer in the expedit.
of 1690 against Quebec, wh. Sir William Phips ahd project. and of wh.
he took all the command; and thus was Walley reliev. of real responsibility,
tho. expos. to pop. censure by the errors of Phips. Sir W. on
board ship summoned the city, and directed all the land operations of
the campaign, for wh. he had no adequate skill, and in the ill success of
wh. his eminent. incaustious panegyrist natural. saw more of "the hand
of heaven' than of the ignorance and rashness of his hero. See Magn.
II. 51, the most curious biogr. of Sir William Phips, afterwards made
Gov. of Mass. by hte f. of Mather dictat. to King William III. Hutch.
Hist. of Mass. I. gives Walley's acco. in Appx. In the same charter
W. was nam. of the Council, and by the Gov. and Council appoint. one
of the Sup. Ct. judges 1700-11. He d. 11 Jan. 1712, aged 68, wh.
might be suspect. for 58, if as Bridgman, 34, says he was b. at our
Barnstable. Nothing can be more certain, than that he was b. at least
8 or 10 yrs. bef. the com. of Rev. Thomas, for he was an Assist. of
Plym Col. as early as 1684, beside being sw. as freem. 1673. His d.
Sarah m. first Charles Chauncy of Boston, merch. and bore him 1 Jan.
1705, a s. of the same name, one of the most disting. divines on our side
of the ocean, and prob. she aft. m. a Willoughby, and Elizabeth m. 29 Oct.
1713, Rev. Joseph Sewall, and with much study good fam. connex. can
be learn. from his will of 4 Feb. preced. pro. 25 foll. It makes s. John
Excor. gives him beside ho. ld. and whf. L3,000, two unm. ds. Elizabeth and
Lydia L1,500. ea. and refers to no other ch. beside Sarah, wid. of
Charles Chauncy, nam. her four ch. Charles, Mary, Isaac, and Walley;
but neph. and niece had favor, as Hannah, w. of James Leonard, d. of
Thomas W. the br. of testat. with her two ch. by first h. William Stone,
and also Elizabeth Admas, ano. d. of said br. Thomas. JOHN, Boston, s. of
the preced. m. it is prob. Elizabeth d. of the sec. John Alden, perhaps d. in
distant ld. and his wid. m. 30 Apr. 1702, Simon Willard, s. of Rev.
Samuel. THOMAS, Barnstable, one of the eight min. wh. came from
London (where he had been rect. of St. Mary's Whitechapel) in the
Society, capt. Peirce, arr. at Boston 24 May 1663, bring. not as too oft.
said s. John, but ds. Hannah, wh. m. 10 May 1664, Samuel Allyn or