Transcript:Savage, James. Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England/v4p632

"surveyor of the arms," and rep. to the Gen. Ct. He not long aft.
taught a sch. in Boston, when Portmorth had gone, in the religious schism,
to Exeter, and he is even claim. as a mem. of ar. co. 1644, and m. a.
1639, Mercy, d. of Gov. Thomas Dudley, and was liv. at N. when his
f.-in-law, in Nov. 1642, stir. him up to seek. advancem. as a min. and on
24 Oct. 1645 he was ord. not 16 Sept. 1644, wh. is Mather's date (more
than a yr. bef. the ch. was gather.), as first min. at the new town of
Andover. More trustworthy, however, is the tale, that he went, in
1647, "on the invitat. of his friends" to Eng. once more. exc. in this last
circumstance; tho. why friends should withdraw him, in less than two
yrs. from his first settlem. in the pulpit here, is not easi. explain. Sixteen
yrs. contin. in Eng. first having employ. in the serv. of the able
men of that Parliam. commiss. for treating with the king in his prison
at the Isle of Wight bef. the overthrow of Parliam. authority by the
soldiers wh. adopt. the more summary mode of negotiat. for remodel.
tle old constitution of their country. Here, prob. he was fix. in the
presbyter. views of ch. governm. in opposit. to the levellers and Cromwellians,
and was employ. aft. as min. at Andover, in Hampsh. and a
less import. parish in Wilts, finally at a sch. in Newbury, whence,
Mather says, the Bartholomew Act exclud. him. In 1663, July 27, he
reach. Boston in the ship Society, and in two yrs. was engag. as asssist.
in the min. of his unlce Parker. In this honorble duty, aft. two or
three yrs. a sad controv. distract. the quiet of the ch. and he was dismiss.
some time bef. 1670, tho. Parker remain. in the tempestuous sea to his
d. in 1677. Of his ch. Coffin names Sarah, b. 7 June 1640; Lucy, 13
Mar. 1642, wh. m. 2 Oct. 1667, Rev. Simon Bradstreet of New London,
her cous. and next, Capt. Daniel Epps; John, H. C. 1664; but this
last and other eight or nine were b. aft. he left our Newbury, and most
of them in Eng.; Thomas, 1649; Mary, 1652; Benjamin; Timothy,
1656, H. C. 1675; Dorothy; Ann; Joseph; Martha; but tradit. in
Mather gives ano. without name, and says eleven liv. to adult age.
Aft. retiring from the ministry, the notice in Geneal. Reg. VI. 279,
proceeds,"he was immediately chos. into the magistr." but it was not
until 1683, and Mather left him out of the Counc. in his new chart. of
1691, as prob. too old. His w. d. 1 July 1691, and he d. 17 Mar.
1695. JOHN, Killingworth, s. of the preced. b. prob. at Andover, began
to preach there 1666, but early in 1668 at Windsor, where in Oct.
preced. had been gr. div. of the sentiment of the old parishion. of Warham,
wh. was grown too infirm, a major part unit. in desire of one of
the s. of Presid. Chauncey. Aft. long disquiet, the earlier and elder
candidate went to Eng. and W. was ord. 7 Apr. 1669 for Kenilworth as
the settlem. was first call. by the people and the rulers bef. modern