Transcript:Savage, James. Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England/v2p528

Stepney, came a. 1643, caus. entry on our County rec. of a certif. from
the Treasr. under Ordin. of the two ho. of Parliam. at Westminster,
that he had brot. in for them light gold and money to amt. of �40. on 7
Sept. 1642, and again �22.10 on 12 Oct. and again �32.10 on Feb.
foll. In an Indent. betw. the Right Honor. Sir Richard Saltonstall, knt.
Lord Mayor of London, and two other Commisrs. of her Majesty, 40th
yr. of Queen Elizabeth and the parties deput. to collect the first of three
subsidies grant. by Parliam. the yr preced. bear. date 1 Oct. 1598, for
the rat. of St. Helen's Parish, Bishopgate Ward, I find the names of
Edward Jackson, John Alsop, and Thomas Child (all in a foll. generat.
repeat. among N. E. peop.) chargeab. with William Shakspeare, the
great poet of humanity, as liable with others to that rate. Among the
details of minute circumstances in the life of our immortal bard by a
score of pens, I do not recollect, that his resid. in that parish of London
is ment. He was freem. 1645, purch. 1646 the beautif. farm of 500
acres from Gov. Bradstreet, for �140, wh. had been sold to him for six
cows by Thomas Mayhew, in 1638, bef he went to the Vineyard, rep.
1647 and 15 yrs. more, sev. times honor. with notice as the aid of
apostle Eliot in the evang Elizabeth of the Ind. d. 17 July 1681 in 77th yr.
perhaps, tho. the gr.st. whose accuracy I distrust, says, aged 79 yrs. 5
mos. mak. large gift of Id. in Billerica to Harv. Coll. He liv. in what
was call. the village, now Newton. By his first w. brot. prob. from Eng.
nam. Frances, he had, says the fam. tradit. four s. and four ds. but we
may doubt the story, as names of only six that were there bapt. are
furnish.; and yet others may have been b. to him after that rec. On the
parish rec. of bapt. at Whitechapel, Mr. Somerby found Israel, 9 Mar.
1631, wh. d. in infancy; Margaret, 1 Jan. 1633; Hannah, 1 May 1634;
Rebecca, 12 Oct. 1636; Caleb, 10 Oct. 1638; and Joseph, 13 Sept.
639. In favor of the tradit. one may add Jonathan; Sebas, wh. was b.
on the pass. from Eng. it is said; and Frances, wh. d. 5 Oct. 1648; but
that this was his w. is far more prob. tho. the histor. of Newton counts
her the ch. His sec. w. m. 14 Mar. 1649, was Elizabeth d. of John Newgate
of Boston, wid. of John Oliver, the scholar (wh. d. 30 Sept. 1709 at a
good age, even if deduct. from the report of 91 yrs. be allow.) by wh. he
had Sarah, 5 Jan. bapt. at Boston 21 Apr. 1650; Edward, 15 Dec.
1652; Lydia, 1656; Elizabeth 28 Apr. 1658; ano. Hannah, a. 1660, m. a.
1681, the sec. Nathaniel Wilson; and Ruth, 16 Jan. 1664, wh. a. 1692,
unm. Hannah, the first b. of those brot. from Eng. m. a. 1650, John
Ward; Rebecca m. sec. Thomas Prentice; Sarah m. 21 Mar. 1678,
Rev. Nehemiah Hobart of N. and d. 23 Feb. 1712; Lydia m. 1680,
Joseph Fuller, and d. 12 Jan. 1726; Elizabeth m. 28 Mar. 1677, John Prentice,
and next, Jonas Bond, and d. 25 Jan. 1741. EDWARD, Cambridge,