Transcript:Savage, James. Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England/v4p458

to the Country recorder, as in Geneal. Reg. VI. 377, makes her to be b.
31 Dec. of that yr. Yet what was the day of bapt. is unkn. since the
earliest ch. rec. of Roxbury is also lost; Daniel, 18, bapt. 25 Sept.
1642; Joseph, 6, bapt. 9 Feb. 1645, d. at 10 mos.; and Marah, bapt. 2
Aug. 1646, tho. the town rec. makes her bapt. on the impossib. day 6
July, and the child's name Jeremiah. The apostle Eliot in his rec. asigns
the cause for the bitter name, that the f. "is now in gr. afflict. by a sore
on his tongue." He was freem. 3 Mar. 1636, rep. 1637 and sev. yrs.
more, was capt. of the milit. of good est. and high reput. and d. of a
cancer, or was bur. not as Ellis says, 8 Sept. but 7 Oct. foll. the b. of his
last ch. His will of 2 June, with codic. of 22 July preced. is well abst.
in Geneal. Reg. VII. 33. The wid. m. next yr. Anthony Stoddard of
Boston, whose mar. contr. in our register of Deeds I. 137, bound him to
pay portions to the three ch. she bore to W. on their com. of age, or m.
but if all d. then to div. among his ch. by former w. Elizabeth had m. 20
Mar. 1641, Edward Denison; Mary m. a. 1648, Daniel Harris of
Middletown; Hannah seems by the lang. of her f.'s will, to have been
engaged to m. a. s. of famous Hooker, but nothing is kn. further; Sarah
m. 23 July 1663, John Franks of Boston; and Marah m. Comfort Starr,
says Ellis. JOSEPH, Roxbury, s. of John the first, m. 2 Sept. 1674,
Elizabeth d. of Edward Devotion, had Margeret, b. 5 Nov. 1675, d. young;
and Elizabeth 1 Jan. 1678,d 12 of next mo. and the mo. d. 3 days aft. he
m. next, 27 Nov. 1679, Sarah, d. of Thomas Faxon of Braintree, had
Margaret, 16 Feb. 1681; Joseph, 12 July 1683; Sarah, bapt. 25 Oct.
1685, d. at 2 mos.; Sarah, again, 16 June 1687; John, 19 Aug. 1689;
Thomas, 10 Jan. 1692, d. soon; Deborah, 22 Feb. 1694; Mary, 10
Apr. 1695 (but of these last four, I find not any entry on the town rec.
and am indebt. for them to an elegant memo. of the sev. descend. of
Rev. Thomas, and capt. Joseph, by William G. Weld. Esq.); Daniel,
14 Aug. 1697; Edward, June 1700, d. Feb. foll.; and Ebenezer, 19
Oct. 1702; and the f. d. 14 Feb. 1712. Yet he had made his will 6
Dec. 1692, in a season of illness. The wid. m. 29 Apr. 1719, Jacob
Chamberlain of Brookline, outliv. him, and d. 14 Oct. 1745. SAMUEL,
Roxbury, s. of Thomas the sec. m. 23 June 1683, Susanna, d. of John
Polley of the same, had Dorothy, b. 28 May 1684; Samuel, 21 July
1686, d. in few days; Samuel, again, 30 Oct. 1687, d. in few mos.;
Ebenezer, 24 Jan. 1690, d. young; was freem. 1690. His w. d. 20
Apr. 1729, and he d. 2 Sept. 1737. THOMAS, Roxbury, br. of Joseph
the first, and prob. younger than him, was bred at Trinity Coll. Cambridge,
where he had his degr. 1613 and 18, was min. 1624, at Terling,
Co. Essex, a 38 ms. from London, by w. Margaret had John, bapt. 6
June 1625; Thomas, 1626; Samuel, 8 Oct. 1629; and Edmund, 8 July