Transcript:Savage, James. Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England/v1p248

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perhaps, other ch.; and d. 20 Dec. 1683, aged 82. Mary m. I think,
23 Nov. 1661, Samuel Gay. JOHN, Cambridge 1632, perhaps br. of
the preced. freem. 4 Mar. 1635, rep. 1637, was deac. and often selectman,
d. Apr. 1665. He was f. of Matthew, and Thomas, brot. from Eng.
beside a d. Sarah, b. 16 Feb. 1649, wh. prob. d. young. His sec. w. Elizabeth
was wid. of Martin Saunders of Boston, as she had first been of Roger
Bancroft, and got a fourth h. Edward Taylor. His will ment. w. s.
Matthew, Dorcas, d. of his s. Thomas, and sis. Betts. JOHN, Roxbury,
s. prob. of Edward, by w. Prudence, d. of William Robinson of Dorchester,
had Mary, b. 21 Apr. 1661, bapt. 29 Mar. 1663; Prudence, b.
11 June 1664; Margaret, 18 July 1666, d. at 4 yrs.; Edward, 9 Sept.
1668; John, 11 Jan. 1671; and Margaret, again, 11 Mar. 1672 or 3;
and he d. 20 Aug. 1674. Mary m. 23 Mar. 1681, Joseph Lyon; Prudence
m. 2 June 1684, John May. JOHN, Boston 1671, d. Sept. 1672,
own. a ho. there. JOHN, Wickford, R. I. 1674. MATTHEW, Cambridge,
s. of first John, b. in Eng. by mischance k. John Abbot in May
1637, was of ar. co. 1613, m. Ann, d. of Nicholas Danforth, had John, b.
15 June 1645; Ann; Martha, 15 or 19 Jan. 1649, d. young; Matthew, 5
May 1650; Samuel, 14 Feb. 1653, says his gr.stone, but town rec. has
17 Feb. and County rec. 24, d. 25 Feb. 1673; Thomas, 1 June 1655, by
gr.stone, but 1656 by town rec. d. 28 Mar. 1673; and Elizabeth bapt. 18
Sept. 1659. He d. 28 Apr. 1700; and his wid. d. 2 Dec. 1704. Ann
m. 4 June 1668, Samuel Livermore; and next, Oliver Wellington, and
d. 28 Aug. 1727, aged 81, perhaps exagger. by ten yrs. MATTHEW,
Cambridge, s. of the preced. by w. Abigail Russell, d. of Joseph of Cambridge,
wh. d. 14 Dec. 1727, aged 56, had nine ch. and d. 29 May 1738.
His will, made shortly bef. names s. Matthew, Joseph, John, and Samuel,
beside ds. Abigail Whitney, Elizabeth and Martha, ch. of his d. Ann, w. of
Abraham Watson, and gr.s. William Russell. The ch. were Mary, b. 19
June 1688, mo. of William Russell; Ann, 12 Sept. 1691; Matthew, 1
Mar. 1694; Abigail, 1 Apr. 1696; Josepb, 8 July 1698; John, 1 Sept.
1700; Elizabeth 30 Nov. 1703; Samuel, 2 May 1705; and Martha, 20
Sept. 1707. SAMUEL, Boston 1671, a carpenter, freem. 1672, ar. co.
1679. THOMAS, Cambridge, s. of first John, b. in Co. Essex, Eng.
by w. Dorcas had Dorcas, b. 16 Feb. 1649, wh. m. 3 Jan. 1666,
Daniel Champney, and d. 7 Feb. 1684. Both he and his w. were d. 10
Mar. 1657, when their inv. was tak. THOMAS, Boston, merch. b. at
Hackney, near London, 1637, came here and was bred at Harv. where
he had his A. B. 1675; after preach. in Jamaica, New Providence, Bermuda,
and West Jersey, bec. min. of the first ch. ord. 10 May 1705, d.
26 Sept. 1715, of apoplexy. Eliot's Biogr. Dict. WILLIAM, Watertown
1636, Boston 1643, had Peter, b. Jan. 1644. He came, he
says, with John Oldham, and calls him f.-in-law, but perhaps that
means, that J.O. m. his mo. and yet he is not ment. by Bond, exc.
very slight p. 95, but not at all 861-4. WILLIAM,