Transcript:Savage, James. Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England/v2p431

JOHN, Scituate 1643, I believe came some yrs. bef. with his mo. Joanna, brs.
Daniel and Leonard, and sis. Margery, and Joanna; rem. to Concord 1660, had w.
Alice, only s. Daniel, b. 1650, bef. ment. who was gr.gr.f. of the late Hon.
Samuel, of Lincoln, who d. 1832 in 89th yr. Bond is not answera. for an
absurd tradit. that his f. was a "wealthy banker of London, wh. d. soon after
his arr. at Boston." John is, in Geneal. Reg. XII. 111, made. h. of that
Joanna, wh. was mo. of Daniel, Hezekiah, John, and Presid. Leonard; but, I
suppose, this is only a conject. LEONARD, Cambridge, br. of John, b. in Eng.
but never has it been kn. wh. was the f. wh. we therefore presume, did not
come to our land; his mo. Joanna, who d. at Braintree, 21 Dec. 1661, brot. the
three s. and ds. Margaret, wh. was prob. the eldest ch. and m. Rev. Henry
Flint, and d. 10 Mar. 1687; and Joanna, wh. m. 26 July 1648, the sec. Edmund
Quincy. He was gr. at H. C. 1650, went to Eng. was min. at Wenstead, Essex,
a. 7 ms. from London, and one of the ejected under the Bartholomew Act,
took the degree of M. D. at the Univ. of Cambridge, 1672, and came again
hither to preach by invit. at third, or Old South Ch. but with commend. from
strong friends in London, that he should be made Presid. of the coll. to
succeed Chauncey, late dec. He arr. 8 July 1672, and same mo. was chos. to the
office; but was sadly unfortunate in his place. A combination against him of
three of the corp. created such diffic. that all the stud. left the Inst. and
in Mar. 1675 he resigned, as the Gen. Court in Oct. preced. had, not
indistinctly, desired, tho. on his coming two and a half yrs. bef. they had
voted a salary half as much again as they gave C. on the sole condit. that H.
be elected. On 28 Nov. foll. he d. prob. of broken heart for his treatm. aged
only 45 yrs. Cotton Mather was then one of the undergrad. and may, perhaps, bc
believed in what he says of "the unhappy countenance of sev. very good men,"
towards the ungovernable youths in their ungovernableness, at least as to the
latter portion he was an unwilling, if we may presume he could have been, a
witness. See Magn. IV. 129, among the best, tho. characterist. pages of that
strange work. Contempo. documents should be referred to in the Coll. of Hutch.
435, 45, 52, 64, and 71; but the noble Hist. of Univ. by Quincy, I. 31-5, may
seem to be adequate in its decision. His w. Bridget was d. of that lady,
sacrificed by the detestab. governm. of James II. and his worthy Ch. Just.
Jeffries, 2 Sept. 1685, and of John Lisle, the regicide a lawyer of distinct.
made by Cromwell one of his Commissrs. of the Great Seal, sometimes call.
erroneously, Lord Lisle because the Protector summoned him to the "other
house," who met a death by violence, after the restoration, in Switzerland).
We kn. not of any ch. but d. Bridget, b. at Cambridge, 13 Mar. 1673, who went
with her mo. 1687, to England, and bef. her ret. 1697, after d. of her