Transcript:Savage, James. Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England/v1p306

was quite large), acc. inv. of 14 July 1727. Of six s. we may judge
the order of success. in age to concur with the arrangem. at pro. office,
Jehu; Stephen; Peter; David; Moses, Y. C. 1734; and Aaron, Y. C.
1735; and more confid. can we presume, that sev. of the ds. Hannah,
Mary Wheeler, Elizabeth Hull, and Jane Sherwood were b. bef. sev. of the s.
i wish the hs. of the m. ds. could be respectiv. assign. Moses and Aaron
were minors; and their brs. Stephen and Peter were several. made
guardns. Nine of these ch. had ea. L545. and double that sum was sh.
of the eldest s. The youngest s. Aaron, b. 4 Jan. 1717, was the disting.
good man, presid. of N. J. coll. f. of the more disting. (but not as a good
man), Aaron of N. Y. the great manager of the more polit. change for our country
in 1800, wherein he was made third Vice-Presid. of the U. S. JEHU,
Roxbury 1630, came, prob. in the fleet with Winthrop req. adm. as freem.
19 Oct. of that yr. and was sw. 18 May foll. Of his w. the bapt. name
is not seen, tho. she was, at the same time with h. mem. of the ch. He
was a carpenter, appoint. in 1633, by the Col. governm. to see to "the
bridges betw. Boston and Roxbury," wh. suggests interest. queries in our
topogr. In 1636 he rem. with Pynchon to the foundat. of Springfield,
and for that town, not suppos. to belong to Mass. in 1638, was rep. at
Hartford; and soon after went to Fairfield, of wh. he was rep. 1641, 5,
and 6, prob. d. soon after. Four s. Jehu, John, Daniel, and Nathaniel,
are kn. and perhaps he had not other ch. How easy mistakes occur in
read. ancient MS. is well exhibit. in this man's case. Copy from entr. in
Col. rec. 1630 and 1631, of his name, print. in my list of freem. as
Appendx. to Winthrop II. 361, giv. it John; and the well-practis. eyes of
Pulsifer, transcrib. for the Antiq. Soc. of Worcester, and the more
scrupulous Paige, in the Reg. of N. E. Hist. Geneal. Soc. III. 90 and
1, were equal. deceiv. and even Felt, wh. had giv. so many yrs. of his
life to those rec. fell under the same delusion; while, to immortalize the
wrong, it is assert. by Trumbull, in Conn. Rec. I. 12. In read. the
sec. and fourth letters of this bapt. name, not one in a thousand experts
would be likely to differ from us, as John appears in the reverse proportion
to Jehu. Yet from the unusual distinctness of the Roxbury ch.
rec. wh. I have examin. and the concur. later ones at Springfield and
elsewhere. all doubt is dispel. Trumbull, in Conn. Col. Rec. I. 12.
of his text; and the 1835 Ed. of Winthrop's Hist. II. 441, had giv. the
true name. JEHU, Fairfield, s. prob. eldest, if the preced. perhaps b.
in Eng. m. Mary, d. of Andrew Ward, had sev. ch. certain. Daniel and
Esther, in the will 1665 of their gr. mo. Ward. But other childr. he
had, prob. some by this w. and some by ano. w. Esther, wid. of
Joseph Boosy. He was a promin. man, rep. 1659, 60, and after
junct. of Conn. with N. H. sev. yrs. In Philip's war he was capt.