"JOHN, Boston, call. jr. to disting. him from the mintmaster, but wh. Mather, II. 38, calls "a well-bred merch." m. Mary, d. of capt. Roger Spencer, d. a. July 1673, the inv. of his est. offer. by the wid. was only �81.12. She m. prob. the next yr. William Phips, the shipwright, afterwards Sir William, the Royal Gov. of Mass. under the new chart. and in her next widowhood m. Peter Sergeant, wh. was of the Counc. in the same chart. by wh. Sir William had been nam. Gov."
