Transcript:Savage, James. Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England/v2p97

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His w. with her childr. exc. Benoni, bef. ment. foll. him to Virg. in a sh.
never heard of after. Winthrop II. 22. SAMUEL, New Haven, br. of the
preced. s. of Richard, bred at Magdalen Coll. Cambridge, where he had his
degr. in 1624 and 1628, came to N. E. 1637, had w. Mabel, wid. of Gov. Haynes,
m. 17 Nov. 1654, but no ch. went home after three yrs. had a living at Duckenfield, Co.
Chester, near Manchester, until the great ejection, and d. at the neighb. parish of
Denton, 9 Jan. 1665 or 6, aet. 68. SAMUEL, Duxbury, s. of Francis, prob.
b. in Eng. or Holland, was a sucking ch. on board the Mayflower, apprent.
1636 to John Cook, was among the purch. of Dartmouth in 1652, m. 10 Jan.
1661, Martha Billington, perhaps d. of Francis, wh. had m. his f.'s wid. rem.
to Middleborough, there d. a. 1684. + SAMUEL, New Haven, s. of Gov.
Theophilus
, b. prob. in London 1630, came with his f. 1637, H. C. 1649, and
afterwards a tutor there, chos. 1654, an Assist. of the Col. m. 17 Nov.
1654, Mabel, wid. of Gov. John Haynes of Hartford, and with his w. d. in
July of the yr. foll. & THEOPHILUS, New Haven, br. of first Samuel and of
Nathaniel, the two min. was b. at Stony Stratford in Co. Bucks, not Oxford,
as Mather has it. His f. was min. there, and after at Coventry. But an
Eng. authority makes him s. of Richard, vicar of Great Budworth, in
Cheshire. He was dep. gov. of East land or Baltic comp. in London, and by
king James was empl. as his agent at the Court of Denmark. He had w. and
ch. wh. d. at London, and he m. for sec. w. Ann, wid. of David Yale, d. of
Thomas Morton, Bp. of Chester, wh. had kindness for the Puritans. The
fam. seat was in that shire, and the Gov. in his will devises the est. at
Great Budworth in the same Co. He came in 1637 to Boston, and in Apr.
went with his fellow pass. Davenport to found the sett. of New Haven, in
1639 was made Gov. and so, by annual choice was cont. until his d. 7 Jan.
1658, aet. 67. His will, of 12 Aug. 1656, names three ch. only, Theophilus,
Mary, w. of Valentine Hill of Boston, late of Piscataqua, and Hannah; but
ment. his w. her s. Thomas Yale, and s.-in-law Edward Hopkins, late Gov. of
Conn. then in London, whose d. preced. Eaton's by ten mos. The inv. includ.
the est. in Eng. of 1440 15. 7. was made Feb. 1658, and the will pro. 31
May foll. yet the rec. at New Haven carelessly makes the bur. 11 Jan. 1656,
near a yr. bef. his d. The wid. (wh. had been sadly worried by the church
a. 1644, then prob. insane, when Mary Launce, an inmate of the household,
and prob. a ward of her h. was call. to testif. as to her extrav. behavior,
of wh. Dr. Bacon in his charming lectures upon the early history, has
furnish. adequate detail to illustrate the melancholy hist. of ch. discipline
in that era) went home, and d. 1659. The s. and unm. d. went with the
Theophilus liv. after at Dublin; but did not please his f. and d. unm. 1707;
Hannah m. 4 July 1659, at London, William Jones, wh. next yr. came to
New Haven and spent his