Transcript:Savage, James. Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England/v4p612

His num. as a mem. of Boston ch. is 121, and the wife's 130. In
Mar. foll. he went to sett. with a small comp. at I. and there w. d.
the next yr. Soon aft. he went home, took w. Elizabeth prob. d. of
col. Edward Read of Wickford. Co. Essex, and brot. her in Oct. 1635,
enmbark. at London, in the Abigail, for Boston, in July. On this side of
the water he had very import. serv. in direct. as Gov. a new planta. for
Lord Say and Seal, his puritan friend, and other gr. associates, at the
mouth of Conn. riv. By the first w. no ch. is heard of, but the sec. had
Elizabeth bapt. at Boston, 3 July 1636, tho. the copy of town rec (too oft.
suppos. orig.) says she was b. 24 of the same; Fitz-John, b. 14 Mar.
1638, perhaps bapt. at Ipswich; Lucy, 28 Jan. bapt. 2 Feb. 1640;
Waitstill, 27 Feb. bapt. 6 Mar. 1642; Mary, bapt. 15 Sept. 1644, a.
nine days old; all at Boston. He went to found New London, 1645,
and carr. his fam. next yr. had there Martha, b. 1646; Margaret; and
Ann. Yet the people of Mass. chos. him constant. one of the Assist.
thro. that yr. and three foll. and once or twice he took the o. for the
office; but in 1647 had been commiss. to execute justice under Conn.
jurisdict. tho. not adm. a freem. of that col. bef. 1650, and at the elect.
in 1651, was chos. first of the Assist. By annual choice of the people
he was made Gov. from May 1657 every yr. till his d. (for wh. purpose
their constitut. that permit. no man to be Gov. two yrs. in success. was
alter.) even tho. sent in May 1661, to present the congratul. address to
the k. wh. he had dr. up, together with petit. for chart. wh. by his judicious
agency was obt. 23 Apr. 1662, and by him brot. in Sept. By this
very valua. instrum. of liberal privileges, the two Cols. of Conn. and
New Haven, were made one Col. At London he was assoc. in the
foundat. of the Royal Soc. Oft. he was one of the Congress of the
N. E. Colon. and his peculiar sagacity was need. there for gr. affairs, as
it had been much tried in the intrigues for so small matter as to draw
him from Hartford, aft. he had twice been made head of the Col. to the
humbler from jurisdict. of New Haven; as is seen by Davenport's curious
letters in 3 Mass. Hist. Coll. X. 21-25. Ano. visit to Eng. in 1675, to
obtain from the crown some redress for the vexatious interfer. of Sir
Edmund Andros with the liberties of Conn. was in project by him, but
the gr. Ind. war prevent. and on 5 Apr. of the next yr. at the meeting
of the N. E. congress in Boston, he d. His w. had d. 24 Nov. 1672.
Of his will nothing special. deserves notice, but that it was made in his
illness, two days bef. his dec. that Rev. Thomas Thacher was one of the
two witnesses, that it was pro. 27 July foll. and made all the seven ch.
excors. giv. two ninths to ea. of the sons, and one to ea. of the ds.
abatem. to be made for the advances to Elizabeth and Lucy, ea. in possessn.
of good farms. Elizabeth m. 1658, Rev. Antipas Newman of Wenham, and