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1687; and Mary, 29 Mar. 1690; was freem. 1690. PHILIP, Haverhill, br. of the
preced.
tak. by the Ind. in 1676, redeem. the same yr. m. 22 Aug. 1678,
Mary, d. of Robert Morss of Newbury, or,[1] I think, wid. of Anthony Morse,
the younger
, had Ebenezer, b. 10 Jan. 1680; and prob. others. He had bef.
1695 rem. to the planta. call. New Roxbury, now Woodstock, in Conn. then
thot. in Mass. ROGER, Salisbury, an orig. propr. ancest. it is believ. of all
of the name in our land, d. 16 Dec. 1694, aet. 83; and his wid. Sarah d. 11
Mar. 1698. They had John, b. 9 Mar. or Apr. 1640; Nathaniel, 18 May 1643;
Philip, 20 Dec. 1644; Thomas, 11 Nov. 1646; Timothy, 29 Nov. 1648; Joseph, 8
Jan. 1651; Benjamin, 12 Feb. 1653; Sarah, 25 Sept. 1655; Samuel, 20 Nov.
1657; and Ruth, 22 Mar. or Apr. 1662. Sarah m. 13 June 1678, Joseph French
jr. and next, 4 Aug. 1684, Solomon Shepherd, by both had ch. and d. a wid.
of gr. age 1 Dec. 1748. That he came from Southampton 1638, on board the
Confidence, in comp. with many wh. sat down at Salisbury, and neighb.
towns, as presum. from a paper supplied by Henry Stephens of London, in
Geneal. Reg. II. 108-10, after some correct. of errors found by H. G.
Somerby, giv. in Geneal. Reg. V. 440, would be rec. as prob. in spite of the
name being in the latter chang. to Robert, and the other circumst. of his
being call. serv. 15 yrs. sold, for the numeral should be 25, and the
designat. may well seem only a deception to get clear from the orders in
counc. to embarrass emigrat. SAMUEL, Salisbury, s. of the preced. m. 1686,
Elizabeth Severance, or Screven, had Ruth, b. B Mar. 1688; Elizabeth 1 Dec. 1689;
Mary, 4 Jan. 1692; Sarah, 3 Apr. 1694; Samuel, 5 Jan. 1696; Joseph, 6 Jan.
1698; d Jane, 10 June 1700; was freem. 1690. THOMAS, Haverhill, took o. of
alleg. 28 Nov. 1677. TIMOTHY, Suffield, br. of the preced. m. 1682 Lydia, d.
of William Markham of Hadley, had William, b. 1684, to Hadley, there had
Lydia, b. 1691; Sarah, 1694; and Timothy, 10 Jan. 1697. He d. 1 Apr. 1733;
Timothy, his s. d. 25 Mar. preced. leav. three ds. only; so that the fam.
name in this branch was extinct; William d. at 21 yrs.; Lydia d. unm. 1746;
and Sarah m. 1716, William Montague. Often this is spell. as was the early
sound, Easman. See geneal. Reg. VI. 101, 2, and 3. Twenty-one of this name
had been gr. in 1834, at the other N. E. coll. but none at Harv.

    EASTON, § † JOHN, Newport, s. of the first Nicholas of the same, by
him brot. from Eng,. was freem. bef. 1655, Dept. Gov. 1666, and Gov. of the
Col. 5 yrs. 1690-4, d. 12 Dec. 1705, aet. 81. He m. 4 Feb. 1661, Mehitable
Gaut or Gault
, had James, b. 23 Feb. 1662; Peter, 10 Sept. d. under 25 yrs.;
Mary, 16 June 1668; John, 7 Sept. 1670; Paul, 2 Feb. 1673; and his w. d. 11
Nov. foll. He had sec. w. Alice, 24 Mar. 1689, and his descend. own. pt. of
the ancestr. lds. in the