Transcript:Savage, James. Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England/v1p270

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his care, and names s. James, and w. Dorothy excors. also names d. Mary
Willet
, and gr.d. Martha, w. of John Saffin, d. of Willet. His wid.
Dorothy d. at Swanzey, 27 Jan. 1674, aged 90. See Davis, in Morton's
Mem. 295-7. JOHN, Salem 1637, freem. 2 May 1638, rul. elder of the
ch. had John, bapt. Sept. 1638; and James, June 1640; d. 1685. JOHN,
Hampton 1639, d. 28 Feb. 1687, a 98 yrs. as is said. Much more prob.
is the age set against his name, 40, on hid embark. 17 apr. 1635, at the
London custom ho. especially if he be that baker, whose fellow-passeng.
were two serv. James Walker, aged 15, and Sarah Walker, 17, the latter
of wh. in 1640, bec. his w. as descend. suppose. By what I think
the wrong statement, he was b. 1589, and this maiden was b. 1618.
Beside the number and dates of his ch. disprove or make highly improb.
the great age : Sarah; John, b. 1644; Elizabeth; Benjamin; Jacob, 1653;
Mary, 13 Sept. 1655; Thomas, 14 July 1657; and Stephen, 1659, wh.
was k. by the Ind. at Scarborough 29 June 1677. JOHN, Maine 1641,
s. of Richard of Barton Regis. Co. Glouster, m. Margaret, d. of Francis
Hayward of the City of Bristol, as he told Robert Allen of Sheepscot,
for R. A. so swore on 21 Feb. 1659 at Bristol, Eng. (as there rec.) that
he kn. for 17 yrs. J. B. of Newharbor, a mason, and that he was in good
health in N. E. June preced. JOHN, Rehoboth, or Swanzey, s. of John
of the same, b. prob. in Eng. m. a d. of William Buckland, had John,
the eldest, b. 27 Sept. 1650; Joseph, 9 Apr. 1658; Nathaniel, 9 June 1661;
Lydia, 6 Aug. 1656; and Hannah, 29 Jan. 1659, all of wh. in his will
of 31 Mar. 1662, of wh. he made John, his f. the excor. he gave to his
care, and d. soon. Hannah m. 7 Jan. 1676, her cousin Hezekiah Willet.
JOHN, Ipswich 1641, may hav come in the Elizabeth, 1635, aged 40,
from London, or have been the tailor from Badstow, in Essex, near
Chelmsford, in the Defense, from London, 1635, aged 27. But whichever
sh. he came in, he had w. Sarah, and by the ch. Sarah; John;
Benjamin; and Elizabeth; prob. b. there; and at Hampton had Jacob, b.
1653; Mary, 13 Sept. 1655; Thomas, 14 July 1657; and Stephen,
1659, k. by the Ind. 29 June 1677 at Scarborough. Sarah m. 13 Mar.
1661, John Poor; and Eliz m. 23 Dec. 1669, Isaac Marston. JOHN,
taunton 1643, s. of Hon. John, may be the John of Providence 1646, and
after. JOHN, Milford 1648, had John; Mary; and Esther; all bapt. 16
Dec. 1649; Joseph, 1652; Mary, 1653; John again, b. 12 July 1655;
Hannah, bapt not 3, as the perpetual blunders of Davenport's ch. has it,
but 2 May 1658 at New Haven; and Phebe, 1660. His w. was Mary,
and he prob. rem. to Newark, N. J. JOHN, New Haven, s. of
Francis of the same, m. 1 Jan. 1661, Mary, d. of John Walker of the
same, had Mary, b. 2 May 1664; John, 9 Jan. 1667; Hannah, 7 Aug.
1669; and Grace, 9 Jan. 1673. She petitn. for divorce, and obt. it Oct.
1674. John, Newport, a freem. 1655. JOHN, Cambridge, call. a
Scotchman, m. 24 Apr. 1655, Esther, d. of Thomas Makepeace, and in