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If only one was f. of these sev. ch. he d. at London, bef. July 1658,
when his inv. of good est. was appr. here and in that yr. his wid. Phebe
m. Augustine Lindon. But one William left a wid. Jane, wh. d. 16
July 1659, and confus. easi. spreads into the assign. of offspring among,
those of sim. names. We may obs. that Coffin has thus giv. this last
born Eleazur to that man (mem. of Roxbury ch.) hanged a yr. and a
half prior for murder of Nathaniel Sewell, his apprent. a pauper sent
from Eng. See Winthrop II. 183-5. WILLIAM, Windsor 1648.

    FRANKS, JOHN, m. 23 July 1663, Sarah, d. of Joseph Weld of
Roxbury, had John, b. 26 May 1664; Joseph, 14 June 1666; and Sarah,
26 Feb. 1669. Ano. JOHN, of Boston, if the rec. be true, by w. Grace
had Deborah, b. 11 Jan. 1666.

    FRARY, ELEAZUR or ELIEZUR, Hadley, s. of John, m. 1666, Mary,
d. of Isaac Graves, had Samuel, Eleazur, Isaac, Jonathan, Prudence,
and Hannah; was call. of Northampton when freem. 1680; rep. for
Hatfield often betw. 1692 and his d. at that place 1709. JOHN, Dedham, by
w. Prudence had Isaac, b. 29 Dec. 1638; Eleazur, 14 Feb.
1640; Samuel, 27 Oct. 1641; Theophilus; and prob. others bef. these,
some b. in Eng.; was one of the found. of the ch. 8 Nov. 1638, freem.
13 Mar. 1639, liv. in that pt. wh. bec. Medfield, there d. July 1675, at
great age, as he says in his will, made the mo. preced. in wh. he ment.
only w. Prudence, and three s. Theophilus, Eleazur, and Samson, and
some of their ch. but no d. of his own. Worthington, Hist. 104, led
Farmer to the error of suppos. that he rem. to Deerfield. JOHN, Medfield,
perhaps s. of the preced. b. 1620, or perhaps a neph. or other rel.
freem. 1656, m. 25 Dec. 1656, Elizabeth Harding, perhaps wid. of
Abraham. RICHARD, Northampton, d. 31 Jan. 1697. SAMSON,
Hadley, liv. on W. side of the riv. wh. bec. Hatfield, was s. of John, had
Mehitable; Susanna, b. 1668; John, 1669; both of wh. soon d.
and Nathaniel, 1675; rem. to Deerfield, there was k. 29 Feb. 1704, by
the Fr. and Ind. wh. took his w. Mary and k. her bef. reach. Canada
Mehitable m. 1682, Hezekiah Root of Northampton; ano. d. prob. elder,
hav. m. his br. Jacob R. THEOPHILUS, Boston, br. of the preced.
cordwainer, m. 4 June 1653, Hannah, d. of Jacob Eliot, had Theophilus,
20 Sept. 1657, d. soon; John, 19 Sept. 1658; Theophilus, again, 4 Dec.
1660, d. young; Theophilus, again, 30 Jan. 1662; Abigail, 5 Sept.
1663; Mehitable, 23 Jan. 1665, d. soon; Mehitable, again, 4 Feb. 1666;
John, again, 11 Dec. 1668; Prudence, 23 Aug,. 1670; Samuel, 13 May
1673; and Bethia, 5 Dec. 1674. He had also Hannah, as by his will
of 11 Sept. 1697, pro. 31 Oct. 1700, appears, in wh. he gives to now w.
Mary, ds. Hannah Belcher, Abigail Arnold, and Mehitable Lillie, brs.
Samson and Eleazur, and makes ds. excors. so that we may presume the
s. were all d. He was deac. of the third, or O. S. ch. rep. 1689, and d.
17 Oct. 1700.