Transcript:Savage, James. Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England/v2p22

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war, wh. is in 3 Mass. Hist. Coll. I. 101. He liv. at Hull in latter days d.
1704, leav. w. but no ch. His will, 8 Apr. 1703, pro. 6 May 1704, gives all
his quarter of Casco lds. to 3 ds. of James English, ea. of them paying £3. to
his w. and all his other est. to John Nelson, he "promising justice and
kindness" to D.'s w. Willis, I. 161, 209. THEOPHILUS, Saco, constable in 1636.
Folsom, 33,121. It is almost certain that he soon rem. THOMAS, Newbury, a
sawyer, from Marlborough in Co. Wilts, came in the James 1635, embark. at
Southampton in Apr. arr. at Boston 3 June, freem. 2 June 1641, rem. next yr.
to Haverhill, where he had s. Joseph, and d. 1683, aged 80. He brot. says
Coffin, w. Christian from Eng. and his posterity is num. This name among the
passeng. from Southampton in the James, by rec. at State Paper off. Somerby
read Thomas James. It seems a wild error of his or mine; but if my read. be
correct, his surname may be that of the ship. THOMAS, Saco, an early sett.
assessed towards pub. worship 1636. THOMAS, Boston, s. of William, m. 12 Sept.
1689, Hannah Allen (wid. of one whom no research of mine, or even of
Shurtleff, can identify), d. of Gov. Leverett, had Thomas, the Secr. of the
Prov. of New Hamp. 1692. The late, beloved, John Davis, editor of Morton's
Memo. Presid. of the Mass. Hist. Soc. above forty yrs. judge of the Distr.
Court of the U. S. was not, in male line, of N. E. ancestry, but was s. of
Thomas, wh. was b. 1722 at Albany, whither his f. had rem. from N. Carolina. *
TOBIAS, Roxbury, br. of Richard of the same, m. Sarah, d. of Isaac Morrill,
had Sarah, b. 10 Feb. 1647, and his w. d. 23 Jan. by ch. rec. but 15 Feb. says
the town, 1649. He m. 13 Dec. next, Bridget Kinsman, had John, b. 17 Apr.
1651; Tobias, 10 June 1653; Isaac, 7 Dec. 1655, wh. d. at 27 yrs.; Samuel, bapt. with the
three preced. 12 June 1659, wh. d. young; Samuel, again, 24 Mar. 1661, d. at 18; and
Abigail, in town rec. said to be b. 6 Sept. 1671; was of ar. co. 1666, and d.
25 Apr. 1690. TOBIAS, Dover, freem. 1666. TRISTRAM, Scituate, s. of Robert of
Yarmouth, m. 1694, perhaps for sec. w. Sarah Archer of Braintree, had Elizabeth b.
1695, and rem. as Deane thinks, but yet supposes Hannah D. wh. m. there 1709
to be a d. WILLIAM, Boston, by w. Mary had Abigail, b. 31 Oct. 1635, d. at 4
yrs.; Thomas, 15 Mar. 1637, d. young; Aaron, 20 July 1638, d. next yr.; John,
wh. d. young, in 1641; Trine, 10 Aug. 1642; Mary, 3 Oct. 1644, perhaps d.
soon; and Thomas, again, 8, bapt. 7 Sept. 1645. The Book of possessions in
early days shows W. sen. and W. jr. in Boston, but wh. was f. of these ch. is
to be determin. I fear, only by conject. One was a gunsmith, and one was d. 10
Nov. 1655, when Isaac Collamore gave in the inv. of his est. only £7. His wid.
Mary soon m. John Cowdall WILLIAM, New Haven 1639, had John, H. C. 1651, the
scholar, bef. ment. lost on his voyage to Eng. He d. 1659, leav. wid. Martha, wh.