Transcript:Savage, James. Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England/v2p6

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had Nathaniel, b. 26 Mar. 1684. But he had liv. at Concord, was one of the
tythingmen there 1680. FRANCIS, Andover, s. of John of Roxbury, b. in Eng.
was of Ipswich 1648, and soon after ord. sec. min. of A. was brot. by his f.
1636, it is said, in the same ship with Nathaniel Rogers, wh. was half a yr.
on her passage from London to Boston; by w. Eliz. d of Edmund Ingalls, m. bef. he went
to A. wh. d. 9 June 1676, were all his ch. prob. b. but we have not their names or dates,
with exactness; yet two, Nathaniel, and Eliz. were b. perhaps bef. his ordin.
Besides these, he had, also, Albert, and two nam. Francis, wh. all d. young;
Hannah, wh. m. 14 Nov. 1666, William Goodhue; Phebe m. 30 May 1671, Joseph
Robinson
; Abigail m. 12 Oct. 1675, Francis Faulkner; and Francis, again. He
m. sec. w. 22 Nov. 1677, Mary Thomas, wh. d. 18 Feb. 1689; and, third, Hannah,
wid. of George Abbot, wh. surv. to June 1711. He d. 17 Feb. 1697, aet. 82. He
was in danger from the cruel infatua. of 1692, when others of high rank fled
from the suspicion of witchcraft, and of his humbler neighb. sheep of his
fold, innocent of the nonsense as hims. not a few suffer. Hutch. Il. 38.
FRANCIS, Andover, s. of the preced. m. 16 Nov. 1681, Hannah Poor, freem. 1691,
d. 1738, aet. 81, leav. Francis, John, Joseph, and Daniel. JOHN, Roxbury, from
Co. Essex, Eng. came 1636, bring. ch. of a dec. w. Francis, Eliz. and John;
was perhaps the freem. of 2 June 1641, m. 2 July 1643, Ann, or Hannah, or
Annis
, wid. of William Chandler, and d. says town rec. bur. says the ch. rec.
14 Sept. 1658. His will, of a week preced. pro. 16 Oct. names only those ch.
of wh. he calls Eliz. Howe, perhaps w. of the sec. Abraham of Roxbury.
Perhaps he had rem. a short time to Ipswich, and came back to R. His wid. had
third h. John Parmenter of Sudbury, and d. 15 Mar. 1683. JOHN, Ipswich, s. of
the preced. b. in Eng. at Colchester 1613, perhaps came to Roxbury 1636, with
his f. freem. 2 June 1641, unless that name in the rec. of the Col. apply to
his f. and he be freem. of 1682, was a surgeon, d. 29th Sept. 1684, leav.
good est. for that day; had Mary b. 1639, wh. m. 24 Aug. 1658, William
Chandler
of Andover, wh. was s. of her gr.f.'s sec. w. His will names w. two
s. John, and Philemon, ds. Eliz. and Sarah, gr.ch. Mary Chandler, and Daniel
Hovey. In the close investigat. of recent days it is found, that Eliz. m.
Reginald Foster; Sarah m. 23 Sept. 1668, Daniel Warner; and a d. Rebecca m.
James Hovey, wh. perhaps was the man k. by the Ind. at Brookfield, 2 Aug.
1675. The deficiency of Ipswich rec. leaves all else unkn. but he was ancest.
of Hon. Nathan, H. C. 1778, LL. D. of Beverly, disting. in jurisprud. and of
Hon. Joseph, H. C. 1799, of Maine. NATHANIEL, Andover, s. of Rev. Francis,
m. 12 Dec. 1672, Deliverance, d. of Robert Hazeltine, had Nathaniel, d. 16 Oct.
1674; and Francis, d. 3 Nov. 1679; prob. others; and d. 1725, aet. 80.
His wife was imprison. on charge of witchcr, 1692; and when innocence
would not avail, sav. her life by false confession of guilt. On either plea,
guilty or not, the father of lies was sure to triumph. PHILEMON,
Ipswich, s. of sec. John, freem. 1674, was a physician, m. 7