Transcript:Savage, James. Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England/v2p268

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unkn. A long prevalent mistake of Gosse of Watertown, freem. of 1631,
for this man, was encourag. by the identity of appear. of the names on
Col. rec. no differ. can be seen by the most practised eye. Elizabeth G. aged
26, a passeng. in the James from London in July 1635, may have been a sis.
JOHN, Boston, freem. 1678, mem. of 2d ch. He had bapt. there, Hannah, 2
Aug. 1691; Ebenezer, 12 Feb. 1693; Elizabeth 5 May 1695; Sarah, 13 Dec. 1696;
Sarah, again, 11 June 1699; Sarah, again 21 Aug 1709; and Mary, 15 Apr. 1711.
Of these, by my conject. the first five were of Hannah, d. of William
Sumner. PHILIP, Wethersfield, had Jacob, b. 1649; Rebecca,1651; Philip,1653;
Moses, 1656; and Aaron, 1658, was aged 28 in 1653, and d. 1674. SAMUEL,
Cambridge, s. of Edward, came with his f. 1635, m. 25 June 1656, Ann, d. of wid.[1] of
John Barnard of Watertown, had Hannah, b. 12 May 1657; Edward, 28 Nov. 1658;
Deborah, 22 Jan. 1661, d. 27 Dec. 1690; Samuel, 1 Jan. 1663; Lydia, 7 Jan. 1665;
John, 11 Nov. 1666; Elizabeth 6 Oct. 1668, d. 15 Jan. 1691; Susanna; Edmund, H. C.
1690; Nathaniel, 9 Apr. 1675; and Joseph, 23 May 1677; and the w. d. Apr. 1679,
aged 44. Harris, in Epit. says she was his sec. w. but this is prob.
wrong. Mary, perhaps his d. m. Thomas Trowbridge, and was mo. of the
learn. judge, who, out of regard to his uncle Edmund, his guardian, having
no ch. assum. the name of Goffe for a time, but reassum. the name wh.
was so adorn. by him.
[2] He took ano. w. 21 Nov. 1682, but I kn. not whom, d.
15 Jan. 1706, aged 76. WILLIAM, Hadley, a maj.-gen. in Eng. a mem. of the
pretend. High Court of Justice, selected by the minority of the Long,
Parliam. to sentence Charles I. to a. arr. at Boston 27 July 1660, staid
short time at Cambridge, and in Feb. foll. went to New Haven, reach. that
town 7 Mar. in comp. with lieut.-gen. Edward Whalley, whose d. Frances he
had m. They liv. in concealm. some yrs. but in Oct. 1664 took up perman.
resid. at Hadley with Rev. John Russell, where he outliv. W. some yrs. and
d. a. 1679. Dr. Stiles, in his Hist. mistook the gr.stone at New Haven of
dep.-gov. Matthew Gilbert, mark. M. G., 80, for his; but he was, we kn. bur.
without any mark at the gr. with his f.-in-law, at Hadley, more than a
hundred miles off, and our fathers prob. could not have violated the
sanctity and secrecy of their resting-place under an idle pretence of
doing honor to their memories. In our own days the remains have been
discov. close to the founda. of Russell's house. He was s. of Rev. Stephen
of Stanmer, in Co. Sussex. His three ch. Elizabeth Ann, and Frances, if this
last be not, as sometimes said, Frederic, remain. in Eng. with his
excellent w. of wh. three letters are in print. one in appx. to Hutch. I.
532; second ;n 3 Mass. Hist. Coll. 1. 60, and third in Hutch. Coll. 432. Very
large and impartial story of these regicides is in Hutch. I. 213-19; and
the cool judgment of modern times may ratify what "matchless" Mitchell
wrote contempor.