Transcript:Savage, James. Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England/v2p27

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deac. Edward Stebbins. She is nam. in his will, 20 May 1648, wh. is print. in
Trumbull's Col. Rec. of Conn. I. 487; but tho. childr. are provid. for, we
find not names nor number. They were Thomas; Sarah, wh. m. Sept. 1658,
Nathaniel Gunn of Hartford, and next, 24 Nov. 1664, Samuel Kellogg of
Hatfield, and was k. with her s. Joseph, 19 Sept. 1677, by the Ind.; Mary, wh.
m. 28 Oct. 1659, Samuel Ely of Springfield, and next, 12 Apr. 1694, Thomas
Stebbins, and next, 11 Dec. 1696, deac. John Coleman of Hatfield, where she d.
1725; and John, bef. ment. His wid. m. John Maynard of Hartford, wh. d.
without ch. leav. to the ch. of D. "provided they carry themselves well
towards" their mo. some decent est. and next m. in 1657 or 8, Elizur Holyoke
of Springfield wh. she surv. by twelve yrs. and d. 24 Oct. 1688. Of descend.
of this Robert, in the male line, full acco. is print. by Rev. George E. Day
of Northampton. ROBERT, Ipswich, came in the Hopewell, Capt. Bundocke, 1635,
from London, aged 30, freem. 2 June 1641, was liv. in 1681. Perhaps Sarah, uh.
m. at I. 17 June 1674, David Fiske was his d. Hannah, wh. came in the
Elizabeth and Ann 1635, aged 20, may not have been a relat. SAMUEL, Gloucester, s. of
Anthony, m. 9 Aug. 1692, Rachel, d. of Hugh Rowe, had two ch. whose names are not
seen in Babson, wh. says she d. 6 Sept. 1698, and of the h. no more is kn. STEPHEN,
Cambridge, the earliest printer on our side of the ocean, was a locksmith of
Cambridge, Eng. brot. over, in the John, 1638, by Rev. Josse Glover wh. d. on
the voyage. He began business in Mar. 1639, but was, I fear, unthrifty, for in
1647 the Almanac of his press purports to come from his s. wh. was very young,
and the yr. foll. Greene bec. ruler in the office. Yet he was enterprising,
hav. for his great service, unluckily, been reward. by grant of 300 acres in
1641, he was 2 yrs. after engag. in sett. of Lancaster, and reduc. to work as
journeyman of Greene all his latter days. He brot. from Eng. w. Rebecca wh.
had been wid. mo. of William Boardman, had Matthew, bef. ment. and prob. after
com. hither had Stephen, wh. d. 1 Dec. 1639, and possib. but not prob. Moses. His w. d.
27 Oct. 1659, he was adm. of the ch. 28 Feb. 1661, but was never freem. and d. 22 Dec.
1668, aet. 58. A catal. of books of his print. is giv. by Thomas in his Hist.
I. 227-34. THOMAS, Springfield 1658, s. of Robert of Hartford, m. 27 Oct.
1659, Sarah, d. of Lieut. Thomas Cooper, had Thomas, b. 23 Mar. says the town
rec. but fam. rec. says Nov. 1662, the freem. of 1690; Sarah, 14 June 1664;
Mary, 15 Dec 1666; John, 20 Feb. 1669, d. soon; Samuel, 20 May 1671; John,
again, 20 Sept. 1673; Ebenezer, 8 Sept. 1675, d. soon; Ebenezer, again, 5
Sept. 1677; Jonathan, 8 Aug. 1680; and Abigail. Eight of these ch. liv. to m.
bef. his d. He was freem. 1668, and d. 27 Dec. 1711, and the wid. surv. to 21
Nov. 1726. THOMAS, Gloucester, m. 30 Dec. 1673, Mary Laughton, or Langton, had
Thomas, b. 27 May 1675; Mary, Dec. 1677; and Joseph, 24 Jan. 1680. His w. and d.
were k. by lightning in his ho. 15 July 1706; and he d. 29 Jan. 1726. An earlier
THOMAS, whose inv. was found by Coffin 1670, was perhaps f. of the preced. b. a.
1651, and of Sarah, a. 1652, may have been of Salem, a signer of memor. 1668,
against imposts,