Transcript:Savage, James. Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England/v4p511

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Volume 4, Page 511

Ruth for good provis. to be furnish. by testat. in one half of his Wenham
farm to ea. -- beside his own ds. that were m. and already portion.
Joan, Elizabeth Mar, and Sarah, as also youngest Hannah wh. liv.
with him. JOHN, Watertown 1642, mortgag. his est. at W. and at Cambridge
that yr. to John Sherman as guard. of ch. of wid. Ong. JOHN,
Kittery 1640, took o. of fidel. to Mass. 1652, as did ano. John at Wells
next yr. and one or both may have been of Kennebeck 1665. JOHN,
Boston, liv. in that pt. now Brookline bef. 1654, had John, Joseph,
Mary, Martha, but the ds. both d. young. He d. betw. 30 Apr. 1691,
the date of his will, and Mar. 1692, where it was pro. and may have
resid. in Roxbury. His est. was good. JOHN, Charlestown 1658.
JOHN, Lancaster, s. of John who was first at Salem, had Thomas, and
prob. sev. other ch. of wh. Mary, w. of Rev. Joseph Rowlandson, has
been long rememb. for her gr. suffer, with her fam. on the destruct. of
the town by the Ind. Feb. 1676. He had d. the yr. bef. JOHN, Sudbury,
by w. Elizabeth had John, b. 8 Aug. 1653; Thomas, 9 Sept. 1655;
Elizabeth 1658; and Hannah, to wh. Barry gives date of 1669. JOHN,
Boston 1669, a feltmaker. JOHN, Hatfield, s. of John of Hartford, m.
Sarah, d. of Thomas Bunce of Harford, d. 14 Sept. 1665, leav. ch.
John and Sarah, both quite young; and his wid. m. a 1668, Nicholas
Worthington
, and she d. 20 June 1676. JOHN, Haverhill, s. of William
of the same, freem. 1666, m. Hannah, d. of Edward French, and
d. early. Evidence remains that he had cultivat. in some reputa. degree
his mental powers, and a copious illustra. of shorthand writing by him is
still preserv. His will was pro. Apr. 1669. It names s. John, and f.
His wid. m. Thomas Philbrick, under a m. contract in very judicious
terms of 2 Aug. 1669. JOHN, Dorchester, had Thankful, b. 18, bapt. 20
Jan. 1678; in right of his w. a mem. of the N. ch. at Boston; and
Susanna who d. 18 Jan. 1679, prob. very young. JOHN, Taunton,
m. 24 Feb. 1680, Hannah Smith, had John, b. 16 Aug. 1681; Hannah, 19
Apr. 1683. JOHN, Watertown, only s. of Anthony, m. 11 Apr. 1684,
Rebecca, d. of Joseph Bemis of the same, was k. in few wks. and his
wid. m. 1 Apr. 1686, Thomas Harrington. JOHN, Roxbury, the freem.
of 1677, liv. perhaps sev. yrs. bef. at Muddy riv. now Brookline, was a
lieut. and m. Elizabeth eldest d. of Elder John Bowles. He d. 28 Mar.
1695, aged 53, and his wid. d. 7 Jan. 1700, aged 48, tho. gr.-stone makes
it something less. JOHN, Hartford, s. of Nathaniel of Middletown, by
w. Mary had John, b. 24 June 1687; Mary, 14 Aug. 1689, both d.
young; John, again, 8 Feb. 1691; a d. that d. soon; Nathaniel, 8 Apr.
1694; Mary, again, 4 May 1696, d. young; Eliz. 11 June 1698; Jacob,
22 Sept. 1700; Sarah; and Ann; and he d. July 1748. JOHN, Boston,
made req. to the Gen. Ct. in 1683 and 4, for leave to erect wooden