Transcript:Savage, James. Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England/v4p633

barbarity inflict. its present name; and the governm. of the Col. made
him a gr. of 250 acres of ld. next yr. for his good conduct, but in 1679
he was sett. at Wethersfield. He m. 26 Oct. 1671, Abigail, eldest d. of
Gov. William Leete, and Miss Jones in the Geneal. Reg. VI. gives him
s. John, b. at K. 1678, H. C. 1694, the min. of West Springfield; but
she makes the f. d. bef. 1682, while the Coll. catal. notes him 1690.
Ano. s. was Ephraim, H. C. 1701, ord. 8 Nov. 1704 at Groton, Conn.
For a gr.s. John, Y. C. 1726, min. at Windsor, and aft. at So. Hadley,
s. of the W. S. min. a weak tradit. that he was "ninth John W. in the
min. thro. as many successive generat." Farmer adopts. Sufficient
honor it may be esteem. if a begin. of this tale be true, as the judicious
author of the memoir indicates "Rev. John W. a follower of Wickliffe,
b. not far from 1492. His s. John braved the dangers of the same profession
and faith, as also did John the third, John the fourth, and John
the fifth, in regular succession. The last named was the much esteemed
pastor of a puritan ch. in Stanton, Wilts." Now the same faith may
have been enjoy. in private by the first, sec. third, fourth, and fifth John;
but I shall doubt the profession was not pubic, until some account be
found of the benefices filled by them under the tyrannic. power of bluff
old Harry in his long reign, and during the power of his harder daur.
Queen Mary. On our side of the water, the fam. has been illustr. by a
long line of clerg. JOHN, Newbury, sch.-master 1719-31, was prob. s.
of Joseph of the same, d. 13 Dec. 1731. JOSEPH, Newbury, youngest
s. of John the first, b. in Eng. bef. 1634, and brot. that yr. by his f. m.
20 May 1680, Martha, eldest d. of Ezekiel Rogers of Ipswich, and gr.d.
of the historian, had Joseph, b. 7 May 1687; John, 13 Feb. 1690,
H. C. 1710; Nathaniel, 28 Jan. 1696; and Margaret, 1698; but when
he d. is not seen in Coffin's Hist. SAMUEL, Hartford, prob. s. of Timothy,
was first min. of the parish on E. side of the riv. says Dr. Allen,
wh. could tell no more but that he d. 1746, acc. Coll. catal. THOMAS,
Newbury, sec. s. of the first John, b. in Eng. m. 12 June 1671, Mary
Jones, d. of Ann, sec. w. of Capt. Paul White by a former h. had Paul,
b. 12 Feb. 1673; Mary, 20 Feb. 1675; Thomas, 28 Jan. 1677; and
John and Benjamin, tw. 24 Feb. 1679. He was capt. and d. 30 Mar.
1681, of suffer. from burn. in his ho. as Coffin, from Sewall's Diary
tells. His wid. m. Joseph Coker. TIMOTHY, fourth s. of the first John,
b. in Eng. was sixth min. of Hartford, but not ord. bef. 18 Nov. 1685,
m. Mehitable, d. of Samuel Wyllis, wid. of Rev. Isaac Foster, wh. was
predecess. of W. in the Hartford ch. but she had first been wid. of
Daniel Russell of Charlestown, by her had Samuel, H. C. 1701; Susanna;
and prob. others, beside Ashbel, b. 1704, Y. C. 1724, wh. by
mistake in Geneal. Reg. VII. 75, I presume, is made s. by a sec. w. that