Transcript:Savage, James. Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England/v4p473

desire only that my submiss. continue until competent opinion be obtained
as to whose back it should fall upon. Yet the sentence pronounc.
against my criminality, in exposing the attempt at decept. by Rev. T.
Weld, may lessen the reverence due to the spotless judicial ermine, even
on the shoulders of the historian of Boston. Some readers perhaps will
rejoice that so many hours were giv. to this investigat. by sev. of my
friends, tho. that the collation of both copies of Mr. Choules's vol. under
the true and the spurious title, was confin. of necessity to few hours by
a most cautious reader in the auction room, only few days bef. the sale,
is much regret.; yet they may hereafter be on their guard against the
artifice of a casuist, that for a season delud. the sagacity of the sublibrarian
of Harv. and triumph. over the innocence of Felt.
* THOMAS, Roxbury, s. of the preced. b. in his f's parish in Eng.
where certif. of his bapt. may be seen, freem. 1654, m. 4 June 1650,
Dorothy, d. of Rev. Samuel Whiting of Lynn, had Samuel, bapt. 20
July 1651, d. at 2 yrs.; Thomas, 12 June 1653, H. C. 1671; Samuel,
again, b. 10, bapt. 19 Aug. 1655; John, 9, bapt. 11 Oct. 1657, wh. d.
25 July 1686, prob. unm.; Edmund, 29 Sept. bapt. 2 Oct. 1659; Daniel,
bapt. 16 Mar. 1662, d. says town rec. that omit. his b. next yr.;
Dorothy, 2 or 28 Apr. 1664; Joseph, 3 May 1666; and Margaret, 29
Nov. 1669; but of the three last, my list of bapt. extend, only half way
thro. 1662, is defic. He was greatly esteem. as in Col. Rec. IV. pt. 2, pp.
434 and 55, was rep. 1676 and 7, and d. of fever, 17 Jan. 1683. His
wid. d. 31 July 1694; and d. Dorothy m. 12 May 1686, William Dennison,
and next Samuel Williams of Roxbury; Margaret m. 17 Mar.
1690, Nathaniel Brewer. * THOMAS, Dunstable, s. of the preced. may
have liv. at Ipswich, and there when adm. freem. 1675, but preach. sev.
yrs. bef. he was ord. when the ch. was found. 16 Dec. 1685, and had m.
9 Nov. 1681, Elizabeth d. of Rev. John Wilson of Medifield, had Elizabeth b 13
Oct. 1682; and Thomas, 7 Feb. 1685, H. C. 1701, wh. d. at Roxbury,
21 July 1704. His w. d. 19 July 1687, and he m. next, Mary, d. of
Habijah Savage of Boston, and so gr.gr.d. of the pestifer. Mrs. Hutchinson,
wh. his gr.f. so painfully labored to convert from, the errors of her
imagina. and all in vain, whereby he was in spirit and in print compel.
to leave her under the delusions of the gr. adversay; had Samuel, b.
4 Mar. 1701, d. at 13 yrs.; and Habijah, H. C. 1723, posthum. 2 Sept.
1702, unless 20 June, as Roxbury town rec. has it, be tak. as more
prob. He serv. as rep. for Deerfield soon aft. overthr. of Andros, if
Farmer's Collect. in 3 Mass. Hist. Coll. IV. 291 be not distrust. and d.
9 June 1702, and his wid. d. 2 June 1731. Of this name Farmer in
MS. says nineteen had been gr. in 1834, of wh. I find fourteen at Harv.
and three at Yale.