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Jan. 1672; Susanna, 7 Apr. 1674; Abigail, 18 Feb. 1676; William, 5
Dec. 1677, d. soon; William, again, 10 Nov. 1678; and Ann, wh. d. 11
July 1683; and he d. 1694. His wid. d. 15 May 1696. His s. Nathan, wh.
m. Sarah, d. of Simon Cooledge, had eight ch. of wh. the eldest s.
Nathan, b. 25 Feb. 1702, m. Ann Warren, was f. of Rev. Nathan of
Brookfield, D. D. b. 9 Sept. 1733 at Weston, H. C. 1754. NATHANIEL,
Watertown, youngest br. of the sec. Nathan, m. 13 Apr. 1677, Mary,
wid. of John Child, d. of Daniel Warren, had Nathaniel, b. 8 June
1678; Hannah, 29 Aug. 1680; John, 17 Mar. 1683; Sarah, 4 July 1684;
Lydia, 2 Dec. 1687; Mary, bapt. 20 Apr. 1690; Elizabeth 24 June 1692; and
Abigail, 28 Aug. 1698. * PHINEAS, Salem 1641, or earlier, perhaps f.
but freq. call. br. of James, freem. 18 May 1642, rem. to Wenham 1644,
was capt. rep. 1653, had James, John, and Thomas, all b. in Eng.
and nam. in his will of 6 Mar. 1673. He d. 7 Apr. foll.
SAMUEL, Wenham, s. of John, not the Rev. but the constable, freem.
1680, of wh. I kn. no more, exc. that bef. Mar. 1694 he had rem. to
Milford. STEPHEN, Reading, call. by Eaton an early sett. * THOMAS,
Wenham, s. of Phineas, came prob. with his f. in early youth was rep.
1671, 2, and often after, espec. in the Revo. time 1689-91, a capt.
foreman of the jury in that sad case of witchcraft of Rebecca Nurse,
after verdict of not guilty, prevailed on to convict by the wonderful
perversity and extraordinary ignorance of the Court. His shocking
confession against hims. and the judges is in Hutch. II. 52. THOMAS,
Wenham, prob. s. of the preced. m. 3 Nov. 1678, Rebecca, youngest ch.
of Rev. William Perkins, was freem. 1690. * WILLIAM, Salem 1637, br.
of Rev. John, with wh. he prob. came, as he had gr. of ld. that yr.
freem. 18 May 1642, rem. to Wenham, and was the first town clk. or
clk. of the writs, 1644, had by w. Bridget Musket of Pelham, m. in
Eng. William, Samuel, Joseph, Benjamin, and Martha, some, perhaps
most, b. in Eng. but William was bapt. at Salem 4 June 1643, yet he
may have been 2d of the name; was rep. 1647-50, d. 1654. In the Col.
Rec. I. 235, is settlem. of rights betw. him and his br. John, by wh.
it seems that he was in Sept. 1638, under 24 yrs. of age. Endicot,
Hathorne, and two other of the ch. men of S. made the terms of agreem.
Prob. his wid. m. 3 Nov. 1661, Thomas Rix. of S. WILLIAM,
Salem or Wenham, s. of the preced. was freem. 1670. WILLIAM,
Watertown, s. of John the first, m. 20 Oct. 1693, Hannah, d. of John
Smith, had William, b. 24 Aug. 1694, d. young; Hannah, 13 Oct. 1696,
Mary, 1699, d. soon; Thomas, 12 Sept. 1701; William, again, 13 Mar.
1704; John, 24 Aug. 1706; and Samuel, 4 Jan. 1709. Of this name,
sometimes spelled without e, twenty had many yrs. ago been gr. at
Harv. of wh. 7 were clerg. and twenty at other N. E. coll. of wh. 9
were clerg. That the Coll. catal. capriciously divides the fam. is
plain eno. as Rev. Moses has the authentic Eng. letters, and his s.
Rev. Samuel loses the
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