Transcript:Savage, James. Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England/v2p296

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Eng. freem. of Conn. 1657, d. 1682, leav. no s. and ds. Sarah, b. 1656; Mary,
1638; Rebecca, 1660; Martha, 1667; and Abigail, 1669. RICHARD, Salem, came
from London in the Abigail 1635, aged 23, a pewterer, had bapt. there, in
right of his w. who was rec. into the ch. just bef. three ch. at once, 14
Mar. 1641; Joseph, 16 Oct. 1642; Benjamin and Elizabeth I suppose tw. 6 Aug.
1645; Mar, 16 Apr. 1648; Richard, 6 Oct. 1650; Hannah, 15 Aug. 1652; and
Deliverance, 16 July 1654. In the autumn of 1635, by the Hopewell, capt.
Babb, from London, came John Grave, aged 30, and Mary 26, but whether
they were, or either of them, maid, or w. or wid. or any way relat. to any
in our country, is altogether beyond conject. RICHARD, Boston, had Ruth,
wh. m. 7 Aug. 1656, Henry Keskeys. ROBERT, Ipswich 1638. SAMUEL, Lynn
1630, had Samuel, and prob. sev. other ch. of wh. we have no report. Lewis,
64. SAMUEL, Ipswich 1658, feltmaker, m. Grace, d. of William Beamsley of
Boston, where he may have liv. at first, had Samuel, b.5 Aug,.1658; John, 1
Aug.1660; Elizabeth Hannah, 19 Dec. 1668 and Jonathan, wh. d. young. His d. is
not dated, but his wid. liv. to 26 Nov. 1730, so was 95 yrs. Old. SAMUEL,
Lynn, s. of Samuel of the same, m. 12 Mar. 1678, Sarah Brewer, had
Crispus, b. 3 Aug. 1679; Hannah, 27 Aug. 1681; and Samuel, 2 Aug. 1684.
SAMUEL, Ipswich, s. of the first Samuel of the same, took o. of fidel. 1678, by w.
Joanna had Abigail, b. 11 Feb. 1683; Mary, 18 Feb. 1685; and Samuel, 26 Mar.
1687; and d. 4 Oct. 1732, aged 74. THOMAS, Charlestown, the engineer, who
laid out the place in 1629, came (under contr. of 10 Mar. 1629), in the
fleet with Higginson, with possib. but not prob. w. and five ch. from
Gravesend, Co. Kent, arr. at Salem in June; by the Gov. and Comp. of the
Mass. Bay was join. with the three min. two Brownes, and Samuel Sharp, as
advisers of Endicott, wh. was never able to consult them, as a body; req.
adm. 19 Oct. 1630, and 18 May foll. was made freem.; and no more is kn. of
him, but prob. he went home in the spr. of 1632, when his engagem. end. or
rather in the yr. after, for Frothingham, pp. 52 and 140, renders it prob.
that he was still here in Mar. 1633; certain. he did not come to ch. union
with his neighb. That his w. and ch. came to this side of the ocean is not
cert. since the accurate Prince mistook him for the Adm. We may less
wonder at this, for the fam. tradit. of the latter has confus. the two
persons; and a vexatious uncertain. ran through all the books, until
Young's Chron. 262; Budington, 168; and Frothingham, 140, particular. the
last, by the widely diverse autographs, taught us, happi. to discrimin.
THOMAS, Hartford, not an orig. propr. an old man, excus. from train. 1645,
rem. to Hadley, perhaps had not any ch. b. here, yet had brot. from Eng.
Isaac, John, and perhaps Samuel, and a d. whose name is unkn.