Transcript:Savage, James. Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England/v1p291

had a living at Fordham, whence, being eject. 1662, he rem. to Wapping,
near London, practis. physic with success, and d. a. 1689. Calamy's
Acc. II. 311. He was of the first class of gr. at Harv. 1642, and ranks
in the catal. next after Sir. George Downing. JOHN, Fairfield 1669, s.
of Thomas. JOSEPH, Fairfield, br. of the preced. m. Martha, d. of the
elder James Beers, had lds. 1672 from his mo. and four s. Thomas;
Daniel; Joseph, b. 9 May 1682; and Peter, 21 May 1684; are ment.
on rec. PETER, Concord, the first min. there, s. of Edward, D. D. of
Odell, in the hundr. of Willey, Bedfordsh. b. 31 Jan. 1583, was bred at
St. John's Coll. Cambridge, where he proceed. A. M. 1608, and was chos.
a fellow; had a consider. est. from his f. a moderate non-conform. wh.
he succeed. in his nat. parish, and serv. at that alter twenty yrs. thro.
favor of Lord Keeper Williams, then Bp. of Lincoln, his diocesan.
(Brook's Lives of the Puritans, III. 318.) He came in the Susan and
Ellen, 1635, his age at the custom ho. call. 50, and (for more perfect
decept. of the governm. spies), his w. Grace, 33, appears to be emb. in
ano. ship; and s. John, 15, some wks. earlier, beside Benjamin, 11,
and Daniel, 9 (wh. two tho. not names of his s. yet may stand for them),
all three in the same ship with hims. but set down at intervals in the rec.
both of time and space; and, of course, his cleric. charact. did not appear,
or he would have been stop. He was first on Cambridge, but next yr.
went to Concord, and was install. 6 Apr. 1637, d. 9 Mar. 1659. His
wid. rem. to New London, and bot. a ho. 1663, there d. 21 Apr. 1669.
By first w. Jane, d. of Thomas Allen of Goldington, he had Edward, above
ment.; Mary, bapt. 24 Aug. 1615, d. in few mos.; Thomas, b. 11, bapt.
18 Apr. 1617; Nathaniel, 29 Nov.1618, d. at 9 yrs.; John, 17 Feb.
1620, H. C. 1642; Mary again, 1 Nov. 1621, d. at 3 yrs.; George, 17
May 1623; Daniel, 28 Aug. 1625; Jabez, 20 Dec. 1626, d. under 3
yrs.; prob. Joseph; and perhaps one or two more; and by sec. w. Grace,
d. of Sir Richard Chitwood, or as ancient. spell. Chetwode, had Gershom,
b. 6 Dec. 1636, or 2 Jan. as fam. memo. has it, of course at Concord
(not, as is strangely said in Geneal. Reg. VII. 269, on the voyage), H. C.
1655; Eliezer, prob. 1638; Dorothy, 2 Aug. 1640; and Peter, 12 June
or more prob. 12 Aug. 1643. His will, giv. at large in Gen. Reg. X.
167, of 14 Apr. 1658, in his 76th yr. with codic. of 13 Jan. and 26 Feb.
foll. was pro. 20 June next. It names seven ch. tak. notice that Thomas
was d. yet rememb. his wid.; calls Mr. Samuel Haugh, cous.; and gives
his folio bible to Oliver St. John, Ch. Just. of the Com. Pleas; and
makes his w. extrix. PETER, Concord, eldest s. of the Rev. Edward,
m. 16 Apr. 1667, Rebecca, d. of Joseph Wheeler, had Edward, b. 18
Mar. 1669; Joseph, 7 Oct. 1670; John, 10 July 1673; and Rebecca,
1681; was capt. and maj. rep. 1673-6, in wh., last yr. he was speaker,