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Pell, had Mary, b. 22 Aug. 1656; Hannah, 21 Jan. 1661; Thomas, 11 Oct. 1663;
Mary, again, 26 Jan. 1666; and Elizabeth 8 Apr. 1670. WILLIAM, Lynn 1637. Lewis.
In all prob. he is the gent. call. capt. wh. as one of the Commmissrs. of
Gorges, held a Court at Saco on 26 Mar. of the yr. bef. and may
reasonably be suppos. to have gone home.

    GERAERD, GARRIARD, GERIARD, GERAERDI (or other variation) . JOHN,
Warwick, was a Dutchman from Manhados, wh. a. 1651 sat down at Narraganset, m. that
d. of the sec. w. of Ezekiel Holliman, whose name bef. the m. of her mo. was Meribah
Sweet, d. of Isaac, and thereafter chang. to Renewed Hollyman. He is among the
freem. of 1655, and left childr. as by Judge Brayton I am assur. viz. Mary,
wh. m. 2 Jan. 1672, and JOHN, Warwick, wh. by w. Deliverance had John, b. 22
Dec. 1695; and Sweet, 15 May 1699.

    GERRISH, BENJAMIN, Salem, s. of capt. William, m. 24 Oct. 1676, Hannah, d. of
John Ruck, had five s. and six ds. but only four ch. by the first w. wh. d. 25 June 1685.
He m. 12 Nov. foll. Ann Paine, perhaps d. of John of Boston, by her had five ch. She d.
1695, and he m. 24 Sept. 1696, Elizabeth Turner, had two more ch. and was freem. 1681,
collector of the port 1682, d. 2 Apr. 1713. His eldest s. Benjamin, b. 17 Jan. 1683, was
made, it is said, Gov. of Bermuda 1754, and d. next yr. JOHN, Salem 1651, shipwright,
m. perhaps 1652, Elizabeth d. of Rev. John Higginson. See Geneal. Reg. VI. 339, and 342,
where I am sure there must be a chance for mistake, for John Higginson could have no d.
old eno. to be m. that yr. or the next; nor had he ever a d. Elizabeth that we hear of.
In a later generat. John G. m. Elizabeth H. and we may presume this earlier
John to be as mythical as his w. +* JOHN, Dover 1669, eldest s. of William
the capt. m. Elizabeth d. of Maj. Richard Waldron, had Richard, wh. was a couns.
and d. bef. 1737; John, a capt.; Paul, a col. and couns. for Mass.; Nathaniel,
a capt.; Timothy, a col. and couns. f. of Robert Eliot G. H. C. 1730, the
first double name in the Catal. and of Joseph, H. C. 1752; and Benjamin, wh.
was of Boston, ar. co. 1714. At the assault on her gr.f. Waldron's ho.
Sarah, prob. d. of this John, was tak. and car. away by the Ind. He was a
capt. sheriff, rep. 1684, couns. 1689, and judge of the Sup. Ct. of N. H. d.
1714. JOSEPH, Wenham, br. of the preced. freem. 1673, was ord. that yr. as
success. of Antipas Newman, m. Ann, d. of maj. Richard Waldron, had, beside
Ann, and ano. d. Elizabeth b. 9 Oct. 1673 (both of wh. m. min.), s. Joseph, b. 25
Apr. 1676; Paul; John; and Samuel; and d. 6 Jan. 1720. Of these Joseph, H. C.
1700, is in italic, as a min.; but the catal. does not give the yr. of his d.
and Samuel, the bookseller, was Suffk. Reg. of Deeds, and town clk. of
Boston. Moses, Newbury, youngest br. of the preced. m. 24 Sept. 1677,
Jane, d. of Henry Sewall, and sis. of Ch. Just. had Joanna, b. 3 Oct. 1678;
Joseph, 20 Mar. 1682; Sarah, 25 Dec. 1683; Elizabeth 27 Dec. 1685; Mary, 20
Sept. 1687, and John, posthum. 2 Apr. 1695; and d. 4 Dec. 1694. * WILLIAM,
Newbury, from Bristol,