Transcript:Savage, James. Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England/v3p329

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came in the James. 1635, from Southampton, emb. 6 Apr. arr. at Boston
3 June, call. in the custom-ho. clearance, skinner, late of London, wh.
precision makes me suspect, that he was of the comp. or guild of the
skinners, and a liveryman of the metrop. who could not at London have
obtain. liberty to leave home, as he prob. was a subsidy man, that would
not be spared; m. 24 Nov. 1639, Alice, d. of Edmund Freeman, had
Elizabeth b. 12 Nov. 1641; John, 25 Nov. 1643, d. at 18 yrs.; Samuel 1
Aug. 1645; Thomas, 6 Sept. 1647; Joseph, 10 Sept. 1649, d. in few
mos.; and Mercy; was one of four rep from his town in the first gen.
Court of dep. for the Col. June 1639. His w. d. 24 Apr. 1651, and he
m. at Boston, 3 Dec. foll. Mary, wid. of Bezaleel Payton, sis of William
Greenough the first, had William, a. 16 Sept. 1652, d. under 20
yrs.; rem. to Boston, was ar. co. 1652, here had Nathaniel, b. 5, Bapt. 9
Nov. 1653, d. under 19 yrs.; Hannah, 8 Jan. 1656; Benjamin, 23 Feb.
1658; and Rebecca, posthum. bapt. 3 Apr. 1659, whose b. in the town
rec. is strange. put 3 Aug. of that yr. when her f. d. 24 Aug. preced.
age 58. His will of 20 Aug. pro. 9 Sept. foll. (abstr. in General Reg.
VIII.355), names all his 9 ch. besides the two Paytons, and provides
for the expected one. His wid. d. 21 Oct. 1675, aged a. 60. Elizabeth m.
John Wensley; and Mercy m. Leonard Dowden. Nathaniel, who was
prob. unm. d. soon aft. make. his will, 16 Sept. 1680. in wh. he gave est.
to his sis. Mary Shore, aunts Sarah Phillips, and Elizabeth Greenough, cous.
Elizabeth Greenough, and others. Farmer was led into a striking error in
giving from Boston rec. death of William P. 11 Nov. 1653, by omission
in his correspondent's transer. of the words that precede, for the orig. is
thus: "Susan, the d. of Edward Breck of Dorchester, serv. to Mr.
William Paddy, d. 11 Nov. 1653." In his Appendix he made stranger
explanat. wh. would have bene avoid. had the rec. been scrutiniz.
More preposerous than either of these two mistakes was the supposit.
started some 20 yrs. since, on finding a gr.st. with his name and descript.
laid in the common sewer, near the old town ho. in State str. that this
was the spot of his interm. as if so excellent a pub. officer had been bur.
in the highway. It had, prob been reject. for its coarseness. To correct
ano. error wh. comprehends sev. is almost indispensa. needful, on
account of the authority it might carry from it place in 3 Mass. Hist.
Coll. VII.286, where upon the first described of the Portraits of the
Windslow fam. that of Mrs. Alice Wensley is strange. call. of the d. of
Edmund Freeman, who, aft. the d. of her h. deac. William Paddy, bec.
the w. of Samuel Wensley, Esq. and then to extend the confusion
thorough. wh. was deep eno. bef. a d. of hers of by her last h. was made
w. of the Hon. Isaac Winslow, only s. of Gov. Josiah. Whose portrait
that canvas exhibits, whether the mo. or gr.mo. of the w. of Isaac.