Transcript:Savage, James. Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England/v2p413

by the Gov. and Comp. 16 Oct. shows us that if the Reasons of Higginson
accomp. his letter, it was ano. paper than that circulat. in MS. during
the month bef. Had it been print. Gov. Winthrop would not have
taken the pains to write it off for his son to show his uncle and aunt
down in the country. See Appx. A. 28 in Winthrop Hist. I. Ed. 1853.
After Gov. Cradock, on 28 July 1629, submit. his propositions for
advancem. of the settlem. by transfer. "the governm. of the Planta. to
those that shall inhabit there, and not to contin. the same in subordin. to
the comp. here, as now it is, "all the puritans of old Eng. were electrif.
by the anticip. of the hardsh. and the triumphs that await. their cause in
the world beyond the W. flood. Nothing, could be more timely than
this tract, prepar. by Winthrop prob. in consult. with Rev. leaders, White,
Davenport, and others, and not unlikely with previous adv. of Cradock;
and he wh. had not been ment. in the rec. from the grant of the chart.
in Mar. 1629 to 15 Oct. when he first attend. a meet. was five days after
chosen Gov. tho. such import. men as Sir Richard Saltonstall, Isaac
Johnson, and John Humfrey, wh. were all in the Counc. of Assist. from
the May bef. and of equal est. with him, were in the nominat. for that
office. His wid. Ann liv. some yrs. bef. and after 1636 at Charlestown,
3 yr. or two at New Haven, there d. at the begin. of 1640. His sec.
s. Francis, adm. of the ch. at Salem 14 Apr. 1639, went home, and
stud. at Leyden, and other places on the continent, was estab. in the ch.
of Kirby Steven, in Westmoreland, where he conform, and d. 1672, in
his 55th yr. Mather, Magn. III. 75. Timothy, the third s. was a
mariner, and d. unm. Samuel, the fifth s. went with his mo. to New
Haven, there after her d. was apprent. to Gov. Eaton, took o. of fidel. 1
July 1644, at the same time with elder br. Theophilus; and Charles, b. a.
1628, was on d. of his mo. apprent. to Thomas Fugill of New Haven.
these, by the fam. tradit. became mariners, and it adds, that Samuel
was capt. of a vessel of war in Cromwell's day, and d. aged 44; and
Charles, master of a Jamaica sh. d. aged 49. Neophitus, seventh s. b. at
Salem, and the only ch. b. after leav. Eng. exc. sec. Mary (whose existence I
doubt), there b. a. 1630, was by Atherton Hough taken to bring
up, and d. unm. as one acco. says, in 20th yr. but ano. in 25th. Ann, b.
a. 1623, m. Thomas Chatfield of Guilford. JOHN, Salem, disting. in
the annals of that place, eldest s. of the preced. b. 6 Aug. 1616, at
Claybrook, Co. Leicest. (wh. was dwell. of ano. fam. of the same name),
came with his f. was freem. 25 May 1636, serv. as chaplain 1637, at
Saybrook, but in 1641 went to Guilford, and was some yrs. collea. with
Rev. Henry Whitefield, whose d. Sarah he m. by wh. he had John; Nathaniel, b.
11 Oct. 1652, H. C. 1670; Thomas; Francis, b. 9 June 1660,
went to Eng,. and was, it is said, sent to the Univ. by his uncle Francis,