Transcript:Savage, James. Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England/v3p203

that his w. was Elizabeth his s. Thomas, b. in Eng. prob. and gr.s. Joseph,
Mary, and Elizabeth but, perhaps this had d. soon. His wid. m. 8 Nov. 1670
Edward Beacham. JOSEPH, Ipswich, s. of Thomas, prob by w. Rebecca,
had Jacob, b. 8 June 1685, prob. d. soon; and Abigail, 29 Mar.
1686. MICHAEL, Dedham, b. 1586, at Tatterford, in Co. Norfolk, was
a dornock weaver at Norwich, and free of the city, where all his ch.
were b. m. 13 Oct. 1616, Sarah, had Michael, b. 13 Nov. 1617, d. soon;
Mary, 14 Oct. 1618, but the geneal. of the fam. in Reg. VI. 173,
says 14 Feb. 1619; Michael, again, 29 Aug. 1620; John, 5 or 15 Sept.
1622, bef. ment. Sarah, 10 Sept. 1624: Elizabeth 4 Oct. 1626; Martha, 27
Mar. or Oct. 1628, Thomas, 27 Dec. 1629 or 30; Ann, 1 Mar. 1631 or
34, d. soon; Jane, 24 Mar. 1632; and Rebecca, 5 Apr. 1635; his w.
was b. at a village near Norwich, he says, 17 June 1593, but possib.the
figures have been mistaken, as in the examin. one week bef. the sail. of
the ship, call. I think, the Rose, of Yarmouth, from Yarmouth, Apr.
1637, he calls hims. 45 yrs; of age, and w. 39. "From the relig.
tyranny" exercised a by Wren, then Bp. of Norwich, he felt forced to
esc. even at the expense of separ. from his fam. for a time, and emb. at
London, 17 Sept. 1636, for N. E. but was sadly tormented by equal
tempests on the water, and the ship at Christmas put back to Plymouth;
and so far was this a happiness that in Apr. foll. he had license for the
whole. fam. to come; only 8 ch. are ment. in the custom-ho. docum. but
can hardly doubt that the name of John was casually overlook. At
Boston he arr. "three days bef. mid. sum. with w. nine ch. and a serv."
wh. was Thomas Comberbach, aged 16, I presume in one of the three
ships ment. by Winthrop as coming in, from Ipswich, 20 June. He may
have been br. of Joseph; was freem. 13 May 1640, or 18 May 1642, and,
perhaps, swore on both days, tho. more prob. it is a fault of the Secr. as
in the list appears. His w. d. 21 Feb. 1645, and he m. 13 Aug. foll.
Martha, wid. of Thomas Pigg, or Pidge; and he d. 27 Dec. 1664. A
very curious docum. his engagm. aft. 70 yrs. of age to keep the town
ch. in 1656, is giv. in Geneal. Reg. X. 282. His will, made six wks.
bef. gives to eight ch. Michael being d. and ea. of the ds. m. Martha
hav. then a sec. or third h. to gr.ch. Michael, s. of Michael, and gr.ch.
William Brignall, s. of d. Martha, wh. was a mem. of Roxbury ch. by
her first h. and to Martha Bullard, d. of his w. Mary, m. 24 Nov. 1642,
Henry Wilson, Sarah m. Robert Onion, was his sec. w. the first hav. d.
in Apr. 1643; Elizabeth m. 5 Sept. 1648, Thomas Bancroft of Reading;
Martha m. William Brignall, next, 2 Aug. 1654, Christopher Smith as
the Geneal. Reg. VI. 173, says, tho. I doubt its correctness, for Christopher
Smith in 1668, is nam. in his will. by Jonathan Fairbanks as h. of
his d. Mary, and third h. . . . Stow; Jane m. 1654, Samuel[1] Walker,