Transcript:Savage, James. Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England/v4p621

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Conn. in Oct. 1635, and outliv. him but few wks. Their ch. Henry, b.
a. 1610; George; Christopher; Ann, b. a. 1620; Simon, 1625; and
Mary; were all brot. from Eng. He is the first officer. nam. in the rec.
of Conn. p. 1, chos. 26 Apr. 1636, constable, and in Apr. 1643 Assist.
till his d. was largely engag. in business, and d. 30 May 1655. No will
is preserv. His wid. d. 7 or 17 July foll. aged 73, Ann m. Matthew
Griswold; and Mary m. 25 June 1646, Job Drake. Of Christopher
notice is never seen, but that he d. 7 Sept. 1662. HENRY, Windsor,
eldest s. of the preced. b. in Eng. at Tolland near Wiveliscombe, Co.
Somerset, m. 8 Nov. 1640, Sarah, d. of that Thomas Newberry or
Newbury
, wh. was engag. in the migrat. from Dorchester, but prevent.
by d. had Henry, b. 6, bapt. 8 Jan. 1643; John, b. 28 Feb. 1646;
Samuel, 8 Oct. 1647, prob. d. young; Sarah, 5 July 1649; Mary, 8
Dec. 1651; Hannah, 8 Mar. 1654; Samuel, 16 Apr. 1656; and Josiah,
22 July 1659; was rep. 1655, 6, and 61, Assit. 1662, bef. the com. of
the royal chart. of that yr. in wh. Gov. Winthrop had caus. the insert.
of his name, and was contin. in the office of Assist. as far as our publish.
rec. runs, was of the counc. of war in 1675-6, and d. 12 July 1680.
Sarah m. as fam. tradit. tells, Walter Price of Salem; but it should say
his s. John; Mary m. James Russell of Charlestown; and Hannah d.
at 29 yrs. for wh. tradit. found no h. His wid. d. 16 June 1684. The
will of Henry, 21 Sept. 1670, provides for w. and the seven ch. to the
ds. all then unm. �250. ea. to Henry, housing and ld. at Tolland Mill, to
John, other tenement in Tolland, and notices his est. at Wellington.
Other est. he had of large extent on our side of the water in Windsor
and Wethersfield; and he was very dilig. in the cultivation. Great
sales of fruit trees thro. muh of the region betw. Fairfield on the
Sound and Springfield on the bank of the Conn. are spoken of; and
Josselyn, wh. went home in the same ship when W. visit. his native ld.
in 1671, relates, that W. inform. him that he made 500 hogsheads of
cider from his orchard in a yr. What allowance for Josselyn's ciphers
should be made may be guessed from his enumera. of the dwellinghouses
in Boston, on his earlier visit, wh. Drake, in Hist. 244. fails to
explain. HENRY, Windsor, eldest s. of the preced. m. 12 Oct. 1664,
Abiah, youngest d. of Edward Goffe of Cambridg, whose wid. had two
yrs. bef. m. John Witchfield of W. had Elizabeth b. 27 Aug. 1665; Henry,
13 Apr. 1667, d. soon; Abiah, 1 May 1669; Sarah, 27 Mar. 1671, d.
soon; Henry, again, 30 Jan. 1673, wh. d. at 24 yrs.; Sarah, again, 16
Apr. 1676; and Samuel, 26 Mar. 1679; was freem. 1667, and d. 15
Feb. 1710. His wid. whose name is so pervert. in Geneal. Reg. I. 252,
and again V. 463, d. 18 June 1717, in her 72d yr. Neither Henry, nor
Samuel, wh. d. 1712, had issue, and the male line of this branch ceased.