Transcript:Savage, James. Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England/v4p521

if Mather may be trust. whose names are not giv. His w. d. 3 Mar.
1677. The letter of 1 Oct. 1677 to Rev. Increase Mather, wh. he calls
cousin, in Geneal. Reg. II. 198, is valua. and the s. and d. with him to
wh. reference is made, where Samuel, jr. and prob. his w. But why
Increase M. was call. his cousin or neph. is uncert. unless from his m.
with d. of famous John Cotton, to wh. the Magn. asserts "some affinity"
of W. He d. not 11 Nov. as Lynn Rec. in Geneal. Reg. V. 342 has
it, but 11 Dec. 1679. In our Col. Rec. IV. 406, the liberality of governm.
in giv. him 600 acres for the rights wh. his br. John, and
Richard Wesland, aldermen of Boston in Eng. had assign. him, aris.
from the original stock taken in the comp. bef. settlem. wh. would have
given them claim to 200, is to be read. SAMUEL, Billerica, s. of the
preced. b. in Eng. freem. 1656, m. 12 Nov. of that yr. at Charlestown,
Dorcas, d. of Leonard Chester of Wethersfield, had Eliz. b. 6 Oct.
1660; Samuel, 19 Dec. 1662; John, 1 July 1664, H. C. 1685, bef.
ment.; Oliver, 8 Oct. 1665, bef. ment.; Mary, 28 Apr. 1667; Dorothy,
23 Aug. 1668; Joseph 7 Jan. 1670, H. C. 1690, d. 6 Aug. 1701;
James, 20 July 1671; Eunice; Benjamin; and Benjamin, again; the
four last d. inf. He was ord. 11 Nov. 1663, the first min. of B. tho. he
had preach. there more than five yrs. bef. and he d. 28 Feb. 1713, his
w. hav. d. a fortnight earlier. One of this name, perhaps a trans.
stranger, d. at the ho. of capt. Thomas Lake, in Boston, 6 Sept. 1658.
SAMUEL, Dedham, perhaps s. of the first Nathaniel of the same, m. 23
Nov. 1676, Sarah, d. of Thomas Metcalf of the same. SAMUEL, Billerica,
s. of Rev. Samuel of the same, Farmer says, had issue, tho.
he names neither w. nor ch. but adds that he d. 14 Mar. 1715.
SAMUEL, Windham, s. of John of Hartford, m. at Norwich, when he
was stud. in divin. 14 Sept. 1696, Eliz. d. of Rev. William Adams of
Dedham, was ord. 4 Dec. 1700, first min. of W. where he had first
preach. almost eight yrs. earlier, and d. 27 Sept. 1725, on a visit to Rev.
Nathaniel Collins, his br.-in-law, at Enfield. His ch. were Ann, b. 2
Jan. 1698; Samuel, 20 Feb. 1700, who was lost at sea, aged 18 yrs.;
Eliz. 11 Feb. 1702; William, 22 Jan. 1704; Joseph, 17 Feb. 1705;
John, 20 Feb. 1706; Sybil, 6 May 1708; Martha, 12 Mar. 1710, d.
young; Mary, 24 Nov. 1712; Eliphalet, 8 Apr. 1715; Elisha, 17 Jan.
1717; Samuel, again, 15 May 1720; and Nathan, 4 May 1724. His
wid. m. 1737 Rev. Samuel Niles of Braintree, and after his d. 1 May
1762, went to her youngest ch. at New Haven, col. Nathan, and there d.
21 Dec. 1766. TIMOTHY, Dedham, freem. 1690, was perhaps s. of the
first Nathaniel. * WILLIAM, Hartford 1636, a wealthy merch. who
had been engag. in a patent for lds. at Swamscot with Lord Say and
Lord Brook, and had w. Susanna, s. William and perhaps John bef.