Transcript:Savage, James. Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England/v3p449

b. 15 Aug. 1668; William, 1 Feb. 1671 and perhaps by sec. w.
Mary, d. of Solomon Leonard of Bridgewater, m. at Taunton 24 Dec.
1673, had John, 20 Mar. 1676; Mary, 8 Mar. 1678; Samuel, 16 Jan.
1680; but no more is to be learn. JONATHAN, Boston, br. of the
preced. m. Mary, d. of Edward Winslow of the same, had Benjamin, b.
6 Jan. 1696; and Ann. 22 Jan. 1698; but the rec. tells no more.
SAMUEL, Boston, br. of the preced. by w. Mary, had Mary, b. 22 Nov.
1673, and nothing more is seen. THOMAS, Billerica, s. of William of
Coventry, Co. Warwick, m. Nov. 1692, his cous. Sarah, d. of Edward
Farmer of the same, had ten s. and five ds. and d. 4 Apr. 1724, and his
wid. d. 3 May 1725. The ch. were Mary, Edward, Barbara, Thomas,
William, John, Sarah, Joseph, Oliver, Sarah, again, Nathaniel, James,
Walter, Elizabeth and Benjamin, and we must in vain regr. that dates are not
giv. WILLIAM, Boston, innholder, by w. Ann had John, b. 4 June
1644; Samuel, 24 Jan. 1646; Hannah, 10 Jan. 1649; William, 20
Mar. 1653; Elizabeth 13 Jan. 1655; Joseph, 15 Mar. 1657; Sarah, 20 Oct.
1659; Benjamin, 22 Apr. 1663; Ann, 18 Oct. 1665; Jonathan, 12
Apr. 1666; and David, 18 Apr. 1668; the last with eight others were
bapt. at one time in O. S. ch. 26 June 1670. He made his will, 15 Oct.
1678, republ. it 16 Apr. 1686, pro. 3 June foll. in wh. he names eldest
s. John, but to other s. and ds. gives L10 ea. without naming, and appoints
w. Ann, with Ann, with Arthur Mason Excors. One Ann P. at Boston
prob. his wid. d. Monday, 6 Dec. 1625 in 105th yr. it is said, in Franklin's
N. E. Courant of Saturday foll. tho. something exagger. as we kn.
from her testim. less then twelve yrs. bef. that she was 89. Aft. this
age, and even bef. people are too apt to grow old. She was wont to tell,
that she went over in the first boat that cross. Charles river, in 1630, to
what is now Boston, that she was the first that jump. ashore, etc. Of
that exact truth of this pleasant myth, the possib. is not to be denied; but
I would fully learn three points -- the name of the sh. in wh. she arr. and
wh. brot. her; and still more import. is her maiden name. Tradit. has
not ascertain. the fact, and possib. it was not worth adding, whether
she was the only one of her sex, that cross from Charlestown in the first
boat. Small deduct. from the full tale of 105 yrs. will anybody
make on looking at the portrait tak. (when she is call. 100 yrs. 3 mos)
in 1721, Preserv. in the Historical Society's Collect. tho. to have liv.
near 58 yrs. aft. her eleventh ch. was b. ought to have satisf. the appetite
of any decent worshipper of tradit. without being. her over in Gov.
Winthrop's comp. Still a dozen or two of yrs. could easily be spared, if
the circumstance of the young maiden's jumping from the boat on
approach, the shore in Boston harbor, had made stronger impression on
her mind, then the petty concomit. of time and fellow-passeng. in cross.