Transcript:Savage, James. Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England/v1p274

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R. I. a freem. 1655. PETER, Plymouth, came in the Mayflower, 1620,
m. two ws. and had two ch. by ea. says Gov. Bradford, after his com.
here, and both of those by the first w. had been m. and one of them had
two ch. when the Gov. wrote in 1650. For his first w. conject. assigns
him the wid. Ford wh. had come in the Fortune 1621; but, of course, this
must have been after the land div. in 1624; and he, at the div. of cattle,
1627 has assoc. with him Martha and Mary, perhaps w. and d. He is
somewhere call. br. of John of P. and both liv. on Duxbury side. He
d. 1633, and Standish and Brewster took his inv. 10 Oct. of that yr.
Stiles, in Hist. of Windsor, 558, confus. gr. of lds. at Plymouth and Salem.
He also adopts a tradit. that I do not respect, mak. this Plymouth pilgr.
f. of Windsor Peter. PETER, New Haven 1639, had Mercy, bapt. 6 Apr. 1645;
and Eliz. 1 Aug. 1647; rem. to Stamford, where his w. Eliz. d. 21 Sept. 1657;
and he m. 27 July 1658, Unity, wid. of Clement Buxton, and d. 22 of
the mo. foll. His s. Ebenezer had d. the day preced. but he may have
also had Thomas, and Hackaliah, by the first w. both of wh rem. to
Rye. His wid. m. 9 Mar. foll. Nicholas Knapp. PETER, Plymouth, I
suppose, s. of Peter of the same, b. after 1627, as his name does not
appear in the div. of cattle that yr. He was with Gov. Bradford and
thirty others among the first purch. of Dartmouth in 1652. PETER,
Windsor, m. 15 July 1658, Mary, d. of Jonathan Gillett, had Mary, b. 2
May 1659; Hannah, 29 Sept. 1660; Abigail, 8 Aug. 1662; Hepzibah,
19 Nov. 1664; Peter, 2 Mar. 1667; John, 8 Jan. 1669; Jonathan, 30
Mar. 1670; Cornelius, 30 July 1672; Esther, 22 May 1673; Eliz. [error for Isabel] 9
June 1676; Deborah, 2 Feb. 1679; and Sarah, 20 Aug. 1681; the
twelve were nam. at his d. 9 Mar. 1692, as all liv. Hannah was m. to
one not kn.; Abigail m. 1683, Samuel Fowler; Esther m. 1700, William
Barber; and Deborah m. 1696, John Hosford. PETER, Windsor,
s. of the preced. m. 1696, Mary Barber, d. prob. of the sec. Thomas of
the same, had Peter, b. 28 Jan. 1700; Dinah, 4 Jan. 1702; Samuel, 28 Aug.
1705; Mary, 28 Aug. 1708; Benjamin, 11 Aug. 1711; Ebenezer, 26 Aug. 1713;
and Mindwell, next day. PHILIP, Salisbury s. of Henry of the same, m. 21
June 1669, Mary, d. of the first Isaac Buswell, had Susanna, b. 8 Mar.
1670; Mary, 23 Feb. 1672, d.in few mos.; a s. 1 Apr. 1673, d. in few
days; Abigail, 4 June 1675; Mary, 1676; Sarah, 18 Mar. 1678;
George, 1 July 1680; Phebe, 2 Oct. 1681 wh. d. at 19 yrs. and Hannah,
5 Feb. 1683. His w. d. 27 Nov. foll. and he d. 21 July 1729.
RICHARD, Watertown 1630, prob. br. of first Abraham, came in the
fleet with Winthrop freem. 18 May 1631, hav. req. the privilege 19 Oct.
preced. was rul. eld. as he had been in a London ch. rep. at the first
gen. ct. of delegates 1634, and every time to 1639, and again 1647-55,
exc. 1653; rem. to Charlestown, and d. betw. Aug. 1659 and Mar. 1661,
the dates of mak. and prob. of his will. That instr. of wh. wid. Elizabeth
was extrix.
nam. s. Thomas, and gr.s. Richard, and George; but the est.
was not adequate, it is thot. to tempt either over the ocean. Winthrop I.
58. His wid. m. 12 May 1662, Richard Jackson of Cambridge.