Transcript:Savage, James. Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England/v4p80

relat. and reach Boston in June. At Watertown he, resid. near a yr.
and was dism. with others from the ch. at W. 29 May 1635, says Bond,
to form a new one on the Conn. riv. tho. we read in the Magn. "not
many wks. at W. bef. he rem. upon mature adv. unto New Haven."
Now instead of not many wks. we know New Haven was not sett. until
more than four yrs. after he arr. at W. Such is the perpetual laxity of
narrative in the ecclesiast. histori. of N. E. Beside this, it was not to
New Haven that he first went, but to Hartford and Wethersfield, where
the attractions of Hooker or Smith were strong eno. and at the latter he
obt. gr. of a house lot alongside of that giv. by Rev. Henry Smith to
his s. Samuel. Prob. no work in the ch. was early desir. or at least
gain. for he was releas. from serv. of watch and ward not until 1640 at
May sess. of Gen. Ct. Soon aft. he sold to Thomas Bunce his Wethersfield
lot, and rem. to MiIford, join. the ch. there, yet acting only in civ.
life, rep. 1643, and preach. for short season in 1645 for the early days
of Branford. There he was desir. to sett. as their min. but no ch. was
then gather. By first w. Mary (wh d. says the ch. rec. at M. 8 Sept.
1644, he had, says Mather, six ch. wh. is liable to doubt (tho. we are
igno. of the date of m. as well as the parents of w.) for it is not prob.
that he was m. in Eng. nor in our country bef. 1638, then 24 yrs. old.
Four ch. are ment. Mary, b. perhaps in 1639; Bezaleel, bapt. at M. 15
Nov. 1640, H. C. 1661; Daniel, 27 Mar. 1642; and Samuel, 14 Apr.
1644, wh. prob. d. soon. At New Haven he m. sec. w. Mary Launce,
late in 1645, a maiden in the fam. of Gov. Eaton, and glad eno. must
she have been to escape the perpetual trouble grow. from the unhap.
temper of the w. of the Gov. full report of wh. is giv. in Appx. to the
charm. Hist. Discours. of Rev. Dr. Bacon. By her he had Samuel,
again, bapt. at N. H. 23 Aug. 1646, and next yr. he rem. to Watertown,
wh. on req. obt. his dismis. from Milford ch. 8 Nov. 1647. With more
than his usual exuberance of invent. Mather makes it" upon the d. of
Phillips" that was in July 1644), Watertown offer. a call and he
accept. tho. he adds," at the same time one of the chhs. at Boston used
their endeav. to bec. the owner of so well talented, a person, and sev.
chhs. in London also by lett. much urged him to come over and help
them." If this be true (wh. is quite unlike.) for London, we kn. it must
be false for B. since there was only one ch. many yrs. later, and in that
Cotton and Wilson could wish or rec. no collea. Our sec. ch. where
Mather was all his days a min. was not gather. bef. 5 June 1650, and
could sett. no pastor bef. Nov. 1655. Stranger than such inexcusa.
carelessn. however, is what he tells of this w. call her mo. d. of Darcy,
Earl Rivers, one of the Popish Counsellors of Charles I. wh. had no d.
that m. a Launce; and next, in mak. this w. bring "no less than twenty