Transcript:Savage, James. Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England/v1p341

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the former only by name, and the latter, b. 6 June 1668, liv. at Hartford,
and had seven ch. LAWRENCE, Hadley 1686. NICHOLAS, Newtown,
L. I. 1656. PHILIP, Exeter, took o. of alleg. 30 Nov. 1677. RALPH, Boston
1676. RICHARD, Boston 1640, call. broadweaver, in one place, in
ano. carpenter, by u. Ann, wh. surv. him, had Mary, b. 3 July 1641, the
only ch. She m. William Hunter, and next, a. 1673, m. Joseph Cowell.
One Richard, and he may be the same as the preced. had Isaac, bapt. at
Dorchester, 20 June 1658. RICHARD, York 1680. ROBERT, Plymouth,
came in the Mayflower, 1620, as a serv. of William Mullens, and d. the
first season after. ROBERT, Malden 1674, had Sarah, b. Sept. 1669;
and Elizabeth 28 Aug. 1676. SAMUEL, Charlestown, s. of the first Thomas,
freem. 1647, ar. co. 1648, had Hannah, b. 28 Oct. bapt. 1 Nov. 1610;
Samuel, 8, bapt. 25 Sept. 1612; Zechary, b. 17 June 1644; Mary, 22 Nov.
1647; and perhaps others. Mary m. 2 Sept. 1664, Nathaniel Rand. In
his will of 1652 he names gr.s. John Green; but wh. that John was, may
not be easy of decis. SAMUEL, Charlestown, s. of the preced. m.
Bethia, d. of William Cowdry, wh. d. 17 Nov. 1663, and he m. 18 Sept.
1667, Abigail Damon, d. perhaps of John of Reading, had Samuel, b.
8 Aug. 1668; and d. of smallpox, 4 July 1678. SAMUEL, Woburn,
eldest s. of Rev. Thomas, m. 1672, Eunice, d. of John Brooks,
had Mary, b. 24 July 1673; Samuel, 27 Aug. 1675, d. soon; Samuel,
again, 7 Jan. 1678; John, 14 Mar. 1680; Thomas, 3 Apr. 1682; Nathaniel,
7 Apr. 1685; Eunice, 29 Mar. 1687; Abigail, May 1689; and
Abigail, again, 30 May 1690; liv. most of his days, perhaps, at Charlestown,
and d. 1693. But he had former w. Winifred. His wid. m. John
Kendall. SAMUEL, Deerfield, s. of Joshua the first, had at D. eight ch.
and in the assault by Fr. and Ind. 29 Feb. 1704, his w. and three ch.
were k. three were carr. to Canada, there to contin. and with one or
two he went to Norwalk, where in safety the fam. was perpet. A very
wild fiction of Samuel being entic. from London by a capt. at twelve
yrs. of age, and brot. to Boston, was adm. into so respectab. a work
as the Hist. of N. by Hall, p. 234. THOMAS, Charlestown 1636, s.
perhaps, of a wid. of Thomas, that was call. old in 1656 (and she prob.
brot. also, Joseph, and Samuel, wh. seem too old to be ch. of this Thomas,
and may well be thot. his brs.) was freem. 9 Mar. 1637, by w. Ann, wh.
d. 6 May 1679, in her 72d yr. had Ann, b. 10, bapt. 22 Mar. 1640; Elizabeth b.
22 Apr. 1642, d. young; Thomas, 6 July 1644; perhaps others; may have tak.
24 Oct. 1679, ano. w. Elizabeth Johnson, wh. d. 6 Oct. 1684, and he d.
30 Dec. 1694, in 88th yr. Ann m. 25 Jan. 1659, John Foule. THOMAS,
Woburn, the first min. there, was bred at St. John's Coll. Cambridge,
had his degr. 1629, and 1633, tho. the exemplary careless Mather puts
him, with Sherman, into his sec. classis, as if they were younger, instead
of elder, than Dunster or Harvard, came 1635, aged 25, in the Planter,
as a serv. under George Giddings, to elude detect. no doubt, by the
officers under orders of the Privy Counc. to prevent such embark. liv.
some yrs. at Watertown, and exert. his faculties first at Dedham, and was
ord. at W. 22 Nov. 1642, and there d. 5 Sept. (or by ano. rec. 1 Dec.)
1684, aged 74. His w. Mary, wh. may have been d. of Philemon Dalton,
as I infer from the will of his br. Timothy D.'s w. Ruth (hav. no ch.) in
wh. she rememb. Mary C. with the ch. of Philemon D. d. 6 Mar. 1665. By
her prob. his ch. were Samuel, b. 8 Aug. 1640, H. C. 1660; Judith;