Transcript:Savage, James. Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England/v4p566

Aug. 1643; and Benjamin, Aug. 1645, if the substitute for Robert in
the rec. marg. of the vol. of births be adjudg. reasonable, when the ch.
rec. of the bapt. of Phebe, a. eight days old, on 3 Sept. 1643, assigns
her to Robert; and the same Robert had s. Benjamin, tho. the ch. rec.
has John, of Robert, bapt. 7 Sept. 1645. RICHARD, Branford 1646,
had Samuel, b. 13 Sept. 1655; and Daniel, 15 Apr. 1657; rem. to
Fairfield 1658, but soon rem. again, and it is not kn. to what place.
One Richard was a town officer, says Mitchell, at Bridgewater, in 1665.
RICHARD, Stonington, or the disput. Narraganset territ. 1670, in 1677
had long controv. with Isaac Hall, a. lds at Misquamicut or Squamacuck,
or such Ind. name now perhaps Westerly, in wh. W. best H. at
last. RICHARD, Boston, by w. Bathsheba, had Joseph, b. 3 Dec. 1672,
d. very soon; John, 24 Oct. 1673; and Joseph, again, 7 Mar. 1677.
RICHARD, New Haven, a physician in 1691, of wh. no more is heard.
ROBERT, Roxbury 1637, freem. 2 May 1638, came, it is said, from Norwich,
Co. Norfolk, with w. Elizabeth by fam. tradit. nam. Stratton, and ch.
Samuel, Mary, if not more, as that ch. was five yrs. old, and I think
ano. s. John was a passeng. with his f. for clear is it, that he was not b.
at R. where the only b. appear, Isaac, 1 Sept. 1638; Stephen, 8 Nov.
1640; and in the fam. geneal. is nam. also Thomas, by Ellis said to be
b. after, and in the Hist. said to have d. young; but I doubt both the
authorities, as neither b. nor d. after long search is found in the rec. of
either town or ch. Still the deficiency of rec. is seen in other respects,
as the will of 26 Nov. 1685, names gr.ch. Deboroah Totman, and Elizabeth
Robinson, for wh. I find not the mos. so that we are uncertain, whether
he had two ds. m. or three. His eldest d. Mary m. Nicholas Wood; w.
Elizabeth d. last of June, or 28 July 1674, by strange carelessness in the
town rec. call. 80 yrs. old. when she prob. was a dozen yrs. younger.
He m. 3 Nov. 1675, Margaret, wid. of John Fearing of Hingham, but
whether he had a third w. is less certain, tho. in fam. geneal. he is supplied
with one, Miss Martha Strong, said to have d. 1704, in her 92d yr.
He d. 1 Sept. 1693, in the first art. of his will providing for the performance
of the covenant with his w. ROBERT, Boston, in 1641 was,
with Edward Goodwin, lessee of Winisemet ferry, wh. may render it
prob. that he was s. of Thomas, adm. of the ch. 10 Apr. 1642, freem.
10 May 1643, had Joseph, b. July 1641, bapt. 17 Apr. 1642; Phebe, 3
Sept. 1643, a. 8 days old; John, 7 Sept. 1645, wh. d. young; and Benjamin.
His will of 12 Oct. 1677, pro. 30 Jan. foll. gives lds. to his
eldest s. Joseph and Benjamin, beq. to d. Phebe Eglin and her childr. to
the eldest s. of Joseph and of Benjamin, and gr.d. Mary Eglin. ROBERT,
Boston, of wh. I kn. no more than is seen in the diary of Sewall, where
he says, under 25 Aug. 1695, "R. W. the grave-digger, bell-ringer,