4 John (Bursley), taxed Hampton 1645, Exeter same year. By 1649, aft. much controv. at Exeter, he had left town, and mortg. to Edward Gilman jr. several houses with lands prev. owned by Mr. Isaac Gross, Mr. Philemon Pormort, Belshazzar Willix, John Tedd, John Legett, Henry Robie, Goodman Littlefield, Griffin Montague. In Eliot Maj. Shapleigh in 1649 set out to him the farm he later sold to Humphrey Chadbourne. … Last ment. 1653. In 1655 his w., who was Susannah Wyeth, stepd. of Samuel Greenfield, was liv. on N. H. side when Richard Carle in ct. promised not to sleep in her ho. unless another woman was abed with her. Only kn. ch: Sarah, ag. 13 in 1667, liv. with her aunt Abigail Chadwell, was raped by a degenerate.
