Transcript:Savage, James. Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England/v4p659

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he had been a draper in Newgate market, and a brewer in Thames street,
was here arrest. as in his let. to the Countess of Lincoln, our Dept.Gov.
Dudley shows, and was to be sent home by the same ship that
carr. the let. ROBERT, Boston, ar. co. 1643, by. w. Mary had John, wh.
was bur. Mar. 1645; John, again, wh. d. 22 June 1652; Robert, b. 16
June 1653; and Joseph, 14 Nov. 1655. SAMUEL, Springfield 1641, brot.
w. and ch. some of wh. were b. in Eng. but in what town he had first
liv. is unkn. freem. 13 Apr. 1648, was deac. and appoint. by the town
(aft. ret. of Rev. Mr. Moxon, the first min. to his native ld. in 1653)
"to dispense the word of God for the present;" but a. 1656, he rem. to
Northampton. In his will of 1663, he names seven ch. Samuel; James;
Judah, 6. 10 May 1642; Mary; Margaret; Esther; and Lydia; beside
wh. he had Helped, 15 Sept. 1644, wh. was d. Prob. most of the five
elder ch. were b. in Eng. and all they, with Judah, were liv. in 1680;
and he d. "in his chair," says the rec. 17 Oct. 1665. His wid. Margaret
names, in her will of 1680, only the four ds. and she d. 24 July 1681.
Of the ds. Esther m. 18 Feb. 1682, Samuel Marshfield; Margaret m. 8
Dec. 1653, Thomas Bancroft; Lydia m. 25 Oct. 1654, Lawrence Bliss,
and in 1678, John Norton, and in 1688, John Lamb, and in 1692,
George Colton. The other d. Mary was m. but the date and name of
the h. are unkn. SAMUEL, Springfield, s. prob. eldest of the preced. and
b. in Eng. m. 24 Nov. 1653, Elizabeth d. of Henry Burt of the same, had
Samuel, b. 3 Oct. 1654; rem. to Northampton, there had Joseph, 2 June
1657; Benjamin, 13 July 1660; Ebenezer, 20 Mar. 1663; Elizabeth 31
July 1666; Eliezur, 20 Oct. 1668; Hannah, 27 Feb. 1671; and Benoni,
12 Sept. 1675, posthum. He was a soldier on serv. at Northfield, there
k. by the Ind. ten days bef. the b. of his youngest s. The wid. m. 16
Sept. 1684, Nathaniel Dickinson of Hatfield, and at the same time were
m. her s. Ebenezer, and the eldest d. Elizabeth m. Thomas Stebbins; Hannah
m. 18 Nov. 1686, she then less than 16 yrs. old, Samuel Billing of
Hatfield. Of this Samuel descend. the late Silas, a Senator of the
U. S. of no humble rank from New York. SAMUEL, Wethersfield, s. of
Thomas of the same, b. prob. in Eng. freem. 1657, m. 29 Sept. 1659,
Mary, d. of Deac. Richard Butler of Hartford, had Samuel, Mary,
Hannah, Sarah, Mabel, and David, the last b. 12 Jan. 1678; had good
est. and d. Feb. 1690, call. 56 yrs. old. hav. made his will the mo. bef.
in wh. the ds. Sarah and Mabel are not nam. perhaps d. SAMUEL,
Sudbury, m. 25 Mar. 1663, Hannah, d. of Benjamin Albee of Medfield,
I think; but 3 May 1664 m. Lydia Moore, and d. 21 Aug. foll. and his
wid. m. 15 June next, James Cutter. SAMUEL, Northampton, eldest s.
of the sec. Samuel of Springfield, freem. 1683, m. 3 Jan. 1678, Sarah,
d. of John Lyman of the same, had nine ch. Sarah, b. 20 Dec. 1678;