Transcript:Savage, James. Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England/v2p12

d. at sea, 8 Oct. 1678 on voyage to St. Kitts, where the vessel was afterwards
wrecked. FRANCIS, Boston 1675, mariner, m. Ann, d. of Dr. William Snelling.
HUMPHREY, Dorchester, came from Barbados, m. Rachel, d. of Thomas Holmes, had
Richard; rem. to Hartford, there had William; and in 1667 his w. was convict.
of playing cards. They rem. to New York, where greater laxity might be indulg.
in. JOHN, New Haven, first min. there, s. of John, says Wood's Athenae Oxon.
not, as the fondness of Mather states, mayor of Coventry, in idle attempt to
magnify a great man, was b. 1597, bred at Oxford, but not adm. as Mather has
it, of Brazen Nose, 1611, enter. 1613, at Merton Coll. thence after two yrs.
rem. to Magdalen Hall, where he proceed. B. D. 1625 was preach. at St.
Stephens, Coleman str. London, perhaps not quite so early as the Magnalia
imports; but being in 1633 complain. of for nonconform. went to Amsterdam,
thence came to N. E. 1637, with Gov. Eaton, arr. at Boston 26 June, and next
yr. with him sett. New Haven. Mr. Haven, the accomplish. editor of
Archaeologia Americana, Vol. III. in prelimin. rem. cxxxvi. corrects that
looselessn. of the Magnalia as to the mayor of Coventry; yet falls into slight
error as to the coming of this famous divine. On p. lxxxv. he says: "When the
times grew favorable for the Puritans he return. to Eng." from his refuge in
Holland; but more exact expression should be, in my judgm. thus: "As the times
grew not favorable for the Puritans, he ret. no more to Eng." exc. to emb.
privily, perhaps without landing, for he dared not appear in London. After
near 30 yrs. of great influence in the Col. of his own plant. rem. to Boston.
freem. 1669, hav. with very injurious controversy been instal. as success. of
Wilson, 9 Dec. 1668, at the first ch. causing foundation of third ch. in
Boston, gather. 12 May 1669 at Charlestown, and violent heats in the
commonwealth for many yrs. The great body of the clerg. favor. the new ch. as
did a major part of the assist. of six oppon. three, includ. Gov. Bellingham,
being of the old ch. He was at New Haven eager in defence of Goffe and
Whalley, the regicides in 1661, and perhaps much aid. in their escape. Yet a
most curious, if not characteristic, letter from him furnishes no small light
to the hist. of his acting giv. by Dr. Stiles, as it tends to exculpate, or
inculpate, him, according to the eyes with wh. it is read, in 3 Mass. Hist.
Coll. VIII. 327. With his name is frequent. assoc. that of a cous. possib. a
br. Christopher, b. 1598, a Catholic priest of great learning not a Jesuit,
under the name of Santa Clara, wh. d. 31 May 1680. Mather, III. 52, denies
that he was a br." as a certain Woodden Historian, in his Athenae Oxon. has
report." By this merciless punishm. of honest Anthony, the immortal author of
the Magnalia fully proves how much better qualif. he was for executioner than
judge. We kn. no ch. but John, call. only s.