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and he d. 26 Jan. 1709. JOSIAH, Dedham, freem. 1678, and the same or
ano. is in the list of 13 Feb. 1684. Prob. there were two Josiahs of
D. and the latter m. Mehitable, d. of William Veazie of Braintree.
NATHANIEL, Dedham, br. of Cornelius, m. 26 Dec. 1649, Esther, d. of
John Hunting, had only ch. kn. to me, Nathaniel, b. 31 July 1660; and
d. 23 May 1676; and his wid. d. 24 May of next yr. He made his will 26
Jan. 1661, tho. it was not pro. bef. 28 July 1676. * OLIVER, Wrentham,
rep. 1689. SAMUEL, Boston, m. 22 Mar. 1659, Milcha, d. of Thomas
Snow. * SAMUEL, Wrentham, s. of Thomas the first of Dedham, by
w. Meletiah Snow had Samuel; Elizabeth; Ebenezer, b. 20 Dec. 1670;
Hannah, 25 Oct. 1672; Melatiah; and Abigail, 11 Feb. 1674; was deac. rep.
1689, and d. 5 Jan. 1703. STEPHEN, Billerica, aged man, d. 26 Dec.
1682. THOMAS, Cambridge 1634, came, perhaps, from Winton in Eng. but
it is not told whether the town were in Westmoreland or Yorksh. and I
doubt the spell. may have been Winston, in Co. Suffolk. had Thomas,
Samuel, perhaps a d. was freem. 4 Mar. 1635, rem. to Dedham 1637,
was engag. to build the meeting-ho. and d. 1638. His wid. Elizabeth d.
21 Jan. 1651. THOMAS, Dedham, perhaps s. of the preced. m. 5 Dec.
1666, Rebecca, d. of the first George Woodward of the same, freem.
1678. He had six ds. no s. and the same or ano. is in the list of 1678. A Mary
F. wid. join. Boston ch. 25 Dec. 1647, and d. 6 Sept. 1653, but I kn. not wh.
was her h. VIGILANCE, Medfield, s. of lieut. Joshua, m. 27 Nov. 1678, Rebecca
Partridge, perhaps d. of John, had Lydia, b. 26 Aug. 1679; Samuel, 12 Dec. 1681;
James, 4 Apr. 1686; Rebecca, 25 June 1688; David, 12 Nov. 1690, d. soon; and
Abigail, 25 Aug. 1692. His w. d. 6 July 1694; and by sec. w. Hannah he had
Benjamin, 29 Nov. 1697; Joseph, 28 Aug. 1699; Hannah, and Mary, tw.
29 Oct. 1702; and Ebenezer, wh. d. young. The f. d. 10 Apr. 1713.
WILLIAM, Marshfield, m. 17 Mar. 1684, Lydia, d. of Houlton
or Holten. Eleven of this name had been gr. at Harv. and fifteen at
other N. E. coll. some yrs. back, of wh. five from Harv. and seven
from the others were clerg. Great labor I have found to conciliate
these Fishers, and some of it may seem unsuccess.

    FISKE, BENJAMIN, Medfield, m. 1674, Bathshua Morse, had
Benjamin, and other ch. Possib. he was s. of William. DAVID,
Watertown 1637 or earlier, had w. Sarah, d. of Edmund Smith of
Wrentham in Co. Suff. but I kn. not, whether she liv. to come with him
and their childr. He was freem. Mar. 1638; d. prob. 1661, for his will
is of 10 Sept. 1660, and pro. 22 Jan. 1662. In it he ment. s. David,
d. Fitch, s.-in-law Fitch, bapt. names not express. and the gr.ch. *
DAVID, Cambridge, s. of the preced. b. in Eng. a. 1623, by w. Lydia
Cooper, d. of that wid. wh. m. Gregory Stone, had Sarah, wh. d. young,
was bur. 8 May 1647; Lydia, b. 29 Apr. 1647; David, 1 Sept. 1648, wh.
d. at one yr. The w. d. 29 Nov. 1654, and he m. 6 Sept. 1655,
Seaborne, or Sarah, as the rec. of license to William Hubbard for the
m. says, d. of William Wilson of Ipswich, had Elizabeth; Sarah, again;
Hannah, bapt. 27 Nov. 1659; and Abigail, b. 1 Feb. 1674; was freem.
1647; was lieut. and rep. in the Courts of 1689 and 90. In 1686 he
gave import. depon. then call. hims. 63, and he d. 14 Feb. 1711, when
his gr.st. makes him 87, so that Barry here fails of his usual care.
He liv. at the Cambridge Farms, now Lexington. His will of 1708 ment.
w. Seaborne, and ch. David, Elizabeth Ann, and Abigail; the d. Lydia,
older than any of these, wh. m. Nicholas