Transcript:Savage, James. Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England/v2p452

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foll. He d. of fever, 2 Feb. 1646. tho. Farmer, obeying the town rec. says 18
Dec. 1645. He may have had older ch. or childr. certain. Joseph, to wh. doub.
portion was by the will giv. on condit. that he be "accept. among the saints."
ISAAC, Marshfield, br. of Abraham, m. Apr. 1678, Ann Rowe, wh. was d. of John,
but nothing more is kn. of him. ISRAEL, Scituate, br. of Abraham, was lost by
wreck entering the harbor of Plymouth, 24 Feb. 1685. Deane does not say, that
he had fam. yet m. Desire, wid. of William Sherman, jr. d. of Edward Dotey,
wh. next m. Alexander Standish, and outliv. him. Miss Thomas tells us, that
she bore five ch. to Sherman, two, Israel, and John, to Holmes, and three to
Standish. JOHN, Plymouth 1632, of wh. we would be glad to learn more than that
he was messeng. of their Gen. Court and cont. there 1643. Sarah, perhaps his
d. d. there 18 Aug. 1650. JOHN, Duxbury, was at H. C. in 1658, says Farmer,
but why he had not degr. we kn. not; yet possib. he was mature in his studies,
and as Partridge, his predecess. d. early in that yr. he may have been desired
to fill the place. We kn. not his f. tho. some call him eldest s. of William,
and I do not concur with Deane, wh. thinks he may have been s. of the first
John; but he m. 11 Dec. 1661, Mary, d. of John Wood or Atwood of Plymouth,
wh. bec. third w. of sec. William Bradford. He had not any ch. of that union
ment. by Winsor; but he says, he d. 24 Dec. 1675. JOHN, Portsmouth, m. a d. of
Thomas Walford. JOHN, Dorchester, s. prob. of George, by w. Sarah, wh. was a
mem. of the ch. of Roxbury, had George, bapt. there 10 July 1670. JOHN,
Cambridge, s. of Robert, m. 13 Sept. 1664, Hannah, d. of Samuel Thatcher of
Watertown, wh. d. 24 May 1670, had John, bapt. 9 June 1667; and Hannah, three
wks. after, as the mo. was rec. into Mitchell's ch. on 31 May of that yr.; was
at Salem 1673. JOHN, Salem, m. 21 Apr. 1672, Sarah Hone, unless the
surname be wrong (as I suspect) in Essex Inst. II. 152. She was a wid. and
they had Joseph, b. 14 Feb. 1673; Benjamin, 6 Oct. 1674; Sarah, 23 Feb.
1677; Elizabeth 21 July 1679; and Jane, 1 June 1683. JOHN, Northampton,
had John, b. 1678; rem. to Deerfield, there d. 1692. JOHN, Duxbury,
m. 20 Nov. 1661, Patience, sis. of Elder Faunce, had John, b. 22 Mar.
1663; Richard; Patience; Mehitable; Sarah; George; Nathaniel; Ebenezer;
Thomas; Joseph; and Desire; and he d. 1697. Winsor says the last nam. m.
bef. 1695, John Churchill. JOHN, Newport, perhaps s. of Obadiah, m. 1
Dec. 1671, Frances, eldest d. of Randall Holden, may have been freem. 1655.
JOHN, New Hampsh 1689, pray. for jurisdict. of Mass. JOHN, Roxbury, m. 9 Apr.
1690, Hannah, d. of Isaac Newell. JOHN, Haddam, s. of Thomas of New London,
prob. the only ch. furnish. the curious story from his f.'s dying mouth, of
his leav. Eng. JOSEPH, Roxbury 1651, m. Elizabeth d. of Capt. Roger Clap, rem. to
Boston, had Joseph, b. 6 Nov. 1661; Elizabeth 25 Dec. 1662; and Nathaniel, bapt.
10 July 1664. Perhaps he was s. of George, and freem. 1690. JOSEPH, Boston,
tailor, 1677. JOSHUA, Westerly, by w. Abigail had Joshua, b. 20 Aug. 1678;