"Dants, or Danks, Robert, Northampton 1671, m. Eliz. wid. of John Webb, had Mehitable; Robert, wh. d. 1675; Eliz. b. 1677; Robert, 1680; and Mercy, 1682. Eliz. mo. or d. d. Dec. 1691; and he d. 24 Feb. 1692. The name was long, kept up, but is now extinct at N. yet whence he came is unkn. A Robert Dants, perhaps his f., was freem. 10 May 1643, of course belong. to some E. town of the col."