Transcript:Savage, James. Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England/v4p567

&c. &c. d." ROBERT, Providence, tho. among the freem. of 1655, and
a br. of the noble founder of Providence, yet little more is kn. of him,
but that he was, ten yrs. later, sch.-master at Newport. ROBERT, Killingworth
1667, was propound. to be freem. 1669, had a d. b. 1671, but
no more is kn. of him. Ano. ROBERT was of Oyster Bay, L. I. 1650;
and Farmer MS. ment. one of N. H. as early as 1670, but he could not
detain him there, certain. not long eno. for any story of him to reach us.
ROBERT, Boston, by w. Margery, had Martha, b. 7 May 1672; Jonathan,
22 Sept. 1673; Mary, 2 Dec. 1675; James, 20 Feb. 1678;
Jacob, 19 Dec. 1679; Elizabeth 8 Nov. 1681; Robert, 13 Jan. 1686, prob.
d. young; Hepzibah, 1 Nov. 1688; and Robert, again, 3 Apr. 1691.
Dr. Thaddeus William Harris, the late learned libr. at our Univ. count.
the b. of his ancest. deac. Jonathan Williams eight yrs. too early. See
p. 319 of the Geneal. and Hist. of the Williams fam. ROGER, Dorchester
1630, came in the Mary and John, prob. with w. Frances, req. adm.
as freem. 19 Oct. of that yr. and was sw. on 18 May foll. serv. on the
jury 30 Sept. of the first yr. upon the k. of Bratcher by Palmer, rem.
early, prob. 1636 or 7, to Windsor, there was in good repu. had comfort.
est. serv. on the jury 1642, 3, and 4, lost his w. by d. 10 Dec. 1645.
He soon aft. 1647, or in that yr. sold ho. and ld. and came back to D.
m. 1649 or be. Lydia Bates, d. of the first James, had Ebenezer, b.
Jan. 1650, in that yr. call. hims. of Boston, when he sold ld. in D. to
Thomas Thaxter; but no more is told of him. * ROGER, Providence,
the great assert. of relig. freedom, b. in Wales 1599, as uncert.
tradit. says, and she would make him, partly, as least, educ. at Oxford,
where ano. Roger, or Roderic, was adm. 30 Apr. 1624, wh. was s. of
William, and by Felt in Eccles. Hist. I. 147, resceiv. as our N. E. reformer,
wh. to me, seems nearly impossib. But a strong prob. is, that
he was not be. earlier than 1605; and the fact is, he was bred up at the
Charter Ho. as in mod. days the sch. is call. but when W. was there,
Sutton's Hospital. On that foundat. he was chos. a scholar 25 June
1621, and on 9 July 1624, again. an exhibition under powerf. patronage.
This we learn from Mrs. Anne Sadler, d. of the gr. lawyer, Sir Edward
Coke, in a collection of letters, at the library of Trinity Coll. Cambridge,
by Williams, writ. a. 1652, to her; she wrote on the back of one of
them (wh. had shocked her devotion to ch. and king) that her f. "took
such liking to him, that he put him to Sutton's Hospitall, and he was the
sec. that ws placed there," mean. perhaps by his gr. patron. From this
favor of Coke arose, prob. the tradit. that our benign. founder of Providence
had enjoy. the protection of the Lord Ch. Justic of the Common
Pleas, had been support. at the Univ. of Oxford, and stud. the law for
a profession under the great oracle of jurisprudence. But from