Transcript:Savage, James. Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England/v2p302

the seven here ment. His w. was d. of Rev. Francis Johnson, it is
said, a puritan of eminence, who had fled to Amsterdam. She with her h.
join. the ch. 29 Mar. 1633, and he was made freem. three days after,
call. on the rec. serg. but his milit. distinct. was sunk in the more import.
title of ruling elder, the only one Charlestown ch. ever had; was some
time town clk. and selectman twelve yrs. begin. in 1646, d. 22 Apr. says
the gr.stone or May 1658, aged 65. His will of 21 Apr. of that yr. names w.
Joanna, wid. of John Shatswell of Ipswich, and as she had brot. him good
est. that had lessened in his hands, he gave her most of his prop. He
names in it gr.s. John and Jacob, s. of his s. Jacob, gr.d.
Joanna, ch. I suppose, of Richard Shatswell of Ipswich, call. by him s.-in-law,
had three ch. at Charlestown, but lost three also, and the surv.
were John, Jacob, and Mary, this last b. 1, bapt. 6 Apr. 1634. So much was
this name early spread at Malden, that in the remonstrance against the
action of the Gen. Ct. upon the case of Rev. Mr. Matthews, their
min. sign. by thirty-six females, in 1651, three were nam. Elizabeth and one,
Margaret, Green. JOHN, Roxbury, liv. with Daniel Brewer, d. bef. 14 Feb.
1639. JOHN, Providence 1636, may be that surg. who came
from Southampton in the James, a. 6 Apr. and arr. at Boston 3 June
1635, had been of Salisbury, in Wilts; brot. w. and five ch. John, b. 1620;
Peter; James, 1629; Thomas, 1631; and Mary, prob. older than the last
two. He partook largely in the exertions of Gorton and his friends to
obtain security for their worldly as well as spirit. rights, and went to
negotiate in London in 1644 for Narraganset, of wh. Warwick was the chief
settlem. with full success; and d. betw. 28 Dec.
1658, the date of his will, and 7 Jan. next, when it was pro. The w.
brot. from Eng. mo. of all the ch. d. 1643, at Conanicut, where she had
sought refuge in conseq. of her suffer. when the Mass. forces came to
Gorton's planta. and took him and all his adher. prisoners. A sec. w. was
Alice Daniels m. in Eng. but ch. is not heard of, nor by third w. Philippa,
wh. d. 1687, aged 87. Mary m. James Sweet. The farm on wh. he was bur. is
still enjoy. by his descend. JOHN, who came in the
Francis from Ipswich, in Co. Suffk. 1634, aged 27, may have been of Salem,
d. early, leav. wid. to h. Felt says gr. of ld. was made in 1638, but that
diligent writer, I. 516, thot. the husband was of the comp. in the James
from Southampton a yr. later. In aid of that conject. perhaps rather
slight, is the fact, that six or seven of the passeng. in the more recent
sh. bec. inhabs. of Salem. But it is easy to mistake with so common bapt.
and surnames. JOHN, Charlestown, s. prob. of first John, b. in Eng. was
adm. of the ch. 17 Apr. 1642, and freem. 18 May foll. He
digested, from sev. verbal stories, the acco. of settlem. of, the town,
wh. has remarkably misled Prince and other inquirers. The first seven