WITCHFIELD, JOHN, Dorchester, came in the Lion, arr. 16 Sept.
1632, freem. 11 June 1633, rem. with first sett. to Windsor, where his
w. d. 26 Apr. 1659. He m. next, 1662, Margaret, wid. of Edward
Goffe of Cambridge, but had no ch. by either. The sec. w. d. a. the
end of June 1669 at Cambridge, where she had, 21 Apr. 1663, made her
will, giving a piece of plate to W. her h. small legacies to the childr. of
Samuel and Lydia, two ch. of her former h. by his first w. to her d.-inlaw
Elizabeth Hayward, wh. is unkn. to me, to Rev. Jonathan Mitchell, Mr.
Samuel Shepard, and Thomas Fanning, ea. £5. to the childr. of her sis.
Jane, first w. of Edwuard Winship, of wh. Joanna, the youngest, was to
have double portion; but the larger part of her est. was for her own ds.
Hannah and Abiah Goffe. This will was dr. by Thomas Danforth,
witness. by him, Thomas Chisholme, and Caleb, that solitary aborig. gr.
of H. C. 1665, wh. d. next yr. bef. he could be call. to verify his signat.
wh. is very handsome. He was deac. and d. 16 Mar. 1678 at Windsor.
The venerable Dr. T. M. Harris, mistook, in his Histor. Disc. 65, this
name, and gave it Whitfield.
