Transcript:Savage, James. Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England/v4p435

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and by him enrol. of the ch. 23 May 1641. Such error is not so ludicr.
as that he commits in mak. our Walter Merry, the shipwright of Merry's
point, now the North battery, Merry Waters, as if any Boston puritan
two hundred and twenty yrs. since, could have been call. Merry, instead
of Sad, Stearn, or Severe. Dearborn, in Boston Notions, 63, foll. the
blunder of so high authority. He is mark. by Felt as freem. tho. he
omits his name among mem. of the ch. and in my opin. the person so
entit. was Ipswich man. He was one of the petitnrs. in 1665 for
conciliat. betw. the Col governm. and the crown, and was licensed to
sell ale in 1668, and by his will of 16 July 1676, pro. 25 Nov. 1677,
mak. w. Joyce extrix. we find other ch. beside the forenam. viz. James,
William, Martha, and Mary. Then Abigail was w. of William Punchard;
Mary of Clement English; Susanna of Benedict Pulsifer; and
Hannah of Joseph Striker. Martha was perhaps unm. and in that
instrum. ment. as well as her mo. and infirm. br. William. Perhaps
Sarah, wh. m. 26 Feb. 1652, Joshua Ray, and Phebe, wh. m. 11 Oct.
1658, Thomas West, may have been his ds. RICHARD, Ipswich, 1638,
was prob. the freem. of 22 May 1639. SAMPSON, Boston 1666, mariner,
by w. Rebecca, had Mary, b. 28 Aug. 1667; William, 3 Mar.
1669; John, 2 Jan. 1673; Rebecca, 28 May 1677; Elizabeth 1 Feb. 1683;
Sampson, 20 June 1685; and Robert, 5 May 1688; was in 1685, sent
out with 40 men, in pursuit of Veal and Graham, pirates on the coast,
off New London, says Farmer, in MS. SAMUEL, Woburn, freem. 1684,
by w. Mary, had Mary, b. 19 Oct. 1675; Sarah, 15 Jan. 1678; Daniel,
30 Nov. 1679; Samuel, 6 Nov. 1681; Abigail, 29 Nov. 1683; John, 22
Sept. 1685, d. in 4 yrs.; Ephraim, 12 Oct. 1687; John, again, 11 Dec.
1689; Nathaniel, and Daniel, tw. 10 Oct. 1691, both d. soon; Josiah
19 Sept. 1694; and Joanna, 28 Nov. 1696. STEPHEN, Charlestown
1678, perhaps br. of Jacob, had w. Sarah, wh. join. the ch. 26 June
1681; but of him I learn no more. THOMAS, Hartford, only s. of
Bevil of the same, m. 19 May 1696, Sarah, d. of the sec. Benjamin
Fenn, of Milford
, had Mehitable, b. 1697, d. young; Joseph, 1698;
Sarah, 1699; Mehitable, again, 1701; Dorothy, 1704; Samuel, 1707;
Benjamin, 1709, perhaps d. young; and Abraham, 1712; neither of the
last two are nam. in the will of gr.f. while the others liv. all are. WILLIAM,
Pemaquid, sw. alleg. to Mass. 1674, and was appoint. constable.
WILLIAM, Marblehead 1674, was prob. s. of Richard of Salem, and d.
1684, leav. ch. William, Thomas, Hannah, and Mary. WILLIAM, Boston
1653, of wh. I find no more but that when he made a deed June
1668, he is call. senr. so that it seems prob. there was a junr. WILLIAM,
Marblehead, perhaps s. of William of the same, m. 1 Aug. 1686,