Transcript:Savage, James. Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England/v4p631

br. of our John, wh. prob. brot. him in the Mary and John, 1634, and
s. of Rev. John of Stanton, near Highworth, Co. Wilts, where he was b.
1622. Strangely confus. is an acco. in Geneal. Reg. VI. 279, that he
was brot. by his br. on his return from Eng. 1663, aft. wh. he "became
one of the first br. of Harv." He had, if we receive the acco. that
Mather gives, Magnalia, III. 219, been tak. by that br. wh. had gone
back to Eng. in 1637, on receiv. news of d. of his f. but I see no small
reason to doubt the narrative in the Eccles. Hist. Yet it is more consistent
with itself than the Geneal. Reg. story. He went home, soon
aft. grad. and obtain. a living in his native Co. perhaps at Salisbury, into
wh. he was induct. 16 Nov. 1648; and honor. at Oxford with degree of
S. T. D. the same yr. He next succeed. famous Dr. Twist at Newbury
in the adjoin. shire of Berks, and in 1662 was eject. from office, and d.
1 Nov. 1684, at Englefield, in the same Co. His verses on our John
Cotton, purport. to be inscript. on gr.-st. are in the Magnalia, III. 31.
But in Allen's Biogr. Dict. the ingenious lines ae ascrib. to his neph.
and his opinion should have weight, yet it may be that either of us
follow. no course of inquiry to ascertain, which Benjamin has the best
claim. BENJAMIN, Medford, s. of Rev. John of Andover, b. in Eng.
whither his f. had gone a. 1647, and was prob. brot. by him, when he
came back in 1663, m. 3 June 1672, Mary, d. of Rev. John Ward of
Haverhill, wh. d. 11 Oct. 1680. By her prob. was b. only ch. Benjamin,
that had been heard of by Farmer, as in his MS. notes to his Reg.
is told. But in the "Ancestry of the Jones Fam." of Geneal. Reg. VI.
besides this s. he is enrich. with Dudley, of Barbadoes, and Rev. Samuel
of E. Hartford, H. C. 1701. That article contains too many errors to
entitle it to the confidence desirable, among others one suspic. point is,
that this s. was b. some yrs. aft. the d. of his w. He preach.
some yrs. at Bristol, and aft. at Kittery 1688, and was resid. 1694 at
Newcastle, N. H. but at last sat down 17 June 1702 at M. says Farmer
in MS. and there d. 15 Jan. 1710. I wish the fair author of that Jones
Geneal. could teach us, wh. are the two Dudley Woodbridges, for only
one should be ascrib. to Benjamin, in our Coll. Cat. 1694 and 1696.
JOHN, Newbury, s. of Rev. John of Stanton in the N. E. part of Wiltsh.
b. 16l3, had been bred at Oxford, Mather says, but on the requirem. of
the o. of uniformity, he left the Univers. for "a course of more private
studies," and was brot. by his uncle, Rev. Thomas Parker, whose living
was at Newbury in the neighborhood, in comp. with his cous. Rev.
James Noyes, 1634, in the Mary and John, was one of the first planters
of our Newbury, but he seems to have little tendency to preach, as in
1637, the yr. when his f. d. in Eng. (for by the Registry of Diocese
I obs. that a successor was then appoint. to the vacancy) he was made