Transcript:Savage, James. Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England/v4p585

most prob.) the panegyric is even less neccessa.; but indeed this sec. w.
d. nine yrs. bef. the b. of the historian. More or less accomodat. of fact
to theory is observ. in other authors than him whose Magnalia is the
monum. to delineate his character no less than his desire, tho. prob. to
few it is ascribe. in equal extent. JOHN, Medfield, s. of the preced. b. in
Eng. Sept. 1621, H. C. 1642, had the benefit of join. the ch. of his f. 3
Mar. 1644, but was not freem. until 1647, ord. as collea. with Rev.
Richard Mather at Dorchester in 1649, but contin. only two yrs. and
was then sett. at M. by w. Sarah had John, bapt. at Boston, 8 July
1648; Thomas, b. 12 Nov. 1652; Elizabeth 1653; Increase, 1656; John,
again, 1660; and Thomas, again, 2 Mar. 1662, or, as Barry says, 18
Nov. of that yr.; beside Susanna, Dec. 1664, wh. m. 1683, Rev. Grindal
Rawson of Mendon; and d. 23 Aug. 1691. JOHN, Woburn, had
Samuel, b. 29 Dec. 1658; Abigail, 8 Aug. 1666; Elizabeth 6 Aug. 1668;
Benjamin, 15 Oct. 1670; and Hannah, 31 May 1672, wh. d. soon;
John, 3 Jan. 1673; Hannah, again, 28 Dec. 1674, d. soon; Hannah,
again, 11 Mar. 1677; and Susanna, 11 Mar. 1679. He may be the
man wh. Barry says came 1651, in the John and Sarah from London.
In so common a name to discern whose s. was that JOHN, the soldier in
Beers's comp. k. by the Ind. with his capt. 4 Sept. 1675, must be very
diffic.; and he d. 2 July 1687. JOHN, Dover, there tax. 1666, as was
found by the dilig. of Rev. John of Mefield, m. 4 July 1683, Sarah,
of the same, propound. for freem. 1675, m. Lydia, d. of John Cole, had
John; Stebbing; Hannah; and Mary; and he d. 16 Jan. 1698. JOHN,
New Haven, prob. s. of Rev. John of Medfield, m. 4 July 1683, Sarah,
d. prob. of Rev. Roger Newton of Milford, had Sarah, b. 1 Apr. 1684;
and no more is there kn. of him. He was not a propr. 1685; but was
liv. at Medfield, there had John, b. May 1686; Elizabeth Oct. 1689; and
Roger, 1691, JOHN, Billerica, freem. 1690, may have had fam. for in
the Court's list he is mark. sen. JOSEPH, Dorchester, freem. 2 May
1638, was perhaps, br. of Benjamin, as he is found with him among
earliest sett. at Taunton, in Baylies I. 286, and Mr. Clap has not included
either of the names at D. But whether either had fam. I see not.
JOSEPH, Lynn, m. 2 May 1670, Dorcas Randall, had Jacob, b. 3 Sept.
1671; and he may have rem. JOSEPH, Andover, s. of William of
Boston, m. 4 July 1670, Mary Lovejoy, prob. d. of John of the same,
had Mary, wh. d. 31 Mar. 1674, and his w. d 18 June 1677. He next
m. 24 Apr. 1678, Sarah Lord, and d. 1718. His w. Sarah suffer. long
imprison. on charge of witchcr. 1692, and sav. her life by confession.
JOSEPH, Malden, had Joseph, b. 27 Sept. 1673, was freem. 1685, and
allow. to be ensign the same yr. but so early as Dec. 1674, had been
call. to take o. of fidel. as a soldier, bec. capt. and d. or was bur. 14 Jan.