i JOHN, b. about 1631 (deposed 28 June 1672 aged 41 [EQC 5:68-9]; deposed aged about forty-nine years June 1680 [EQC 7:390]); m. Salem 27 April 1658 Sarah Wells, daughter of Thomas and Abigail Wells (in her will of 22 July 1671 widow Abigail Wells of Ipswich named "my daughter Sarah Massey" [EPR 2:241]); d. Salem 1 September 1710, at which time the town clerk entered after his name "one of the first persons that was born in this Town of Salem of the English Nation."