Transcript:Savage, James. Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England/v3p467

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MATTHIAS, Braintree 1661; but this must, prob. belong to Puffer.
NATHANIEL, New Haven, s. prob. of William, m. 1 Apr. 1675, Elizabeth
Hawes
, had large fam. as Porter writes, but gives no detail; a propr.
1685. NATHANIEL, Portsmouth, s. of that wid. Dorothy wh. m.
John Albro, d. 20 Oct. 1704. NICHOLAS, Lynn, 1651, much
engag. in the iron works, rem. to Salem, 1660, there call. a bricklayer,
had Hannah, bapt. 25 Mar. 1661; and Mary, 15 Nov. 1663;
Samuel, b. 9 Jan. 1665, d. at one yr.; Hannah, again, 27 Mar. 1666,
wh. m. William Roach; Lydia, 26 Feb. 1667, d. next yr.; Bethia, 23 May
1668; Samuel, 22 Apr. 1669; Lydia, again, 16 July 1670, d. in Apr. foll.;
Benjamin, 6 Nov. 1671; and Joseph, 9 June 1673. His w. Mary d. soon aft.
and he d. 18 Oct. 1677. His inv. was tak. 25, and his will made 10 of that
mo. That he had ch. by two ws. is infer. and that sec. w. Mary was d.
of John Gedney appears in Essex Inst. II. 275; but for the bapt. name
of the mo. of the ch. Robert, Elizabeth Sarah, wh. were prob. b. at Lynn by
first w. certainty is unattain. tho. from the transcr. of the will it may
seem, that ea. w. brot. both Samuel and Benjamin. A flickering of
light comes from p. 301, indicat. that the first w. was Alice, wh. d. 26
Jan. 1659. Elizabeth m. Thomas Newhall. ROBERT, Lynn 1630, freem. 3
Sept. 1634, rem. to Newport, where in July 1638, he was adm. an inhab.
and in 1641 unit. with Gorton in settlem. of Shaomet, wh. they call. Warwick,
and two yrs. later was seized with the whole comp. and brot. prisoner to Boston,
where the governm. sentenc. them to be confin. in various places, enjoin.
them not to preach their monstr. absurd doctr. on pain of death. Soon,
however, as sympathy for such suffer. was unavoidab. excit. they all
were banish. and he went to Eng. and obt. justice by restorat. to their
est. He kept an inn at W. in 1649, and d. in the autumn of 1655, or
betw. that and the spring foll. leav. s. John, b. a. 1639, and Deliverance,
w. of James Greene; Elizabeth wh. m. Richard Harcutt of the same;
beside wid. Sarah, not. mo. of either of the ch. wh. bec. w. 19 Feb.
1657 of John Sandford, the sch.-master of Boston. Of his first w. the
name is not kn. but Gorton in narrat. of the invasion and assault by
the Mass. forces upon the new settlem. of W. tells that she d. at that
time, perhaps of trepidat. ROBERT, Roxbury 1634, on join. the ch. had
w. Isabel, of neither of wh. do I find any other ment. in rec. of town or
ch. but that he was bur. 17 Jan. 1654; yet in Boston ch. he had his d.
Deliverance bapt. 5 Mar. 1637, and in the rec. of d. is error, no doubt,
of Robert for William. Prob. he rem. ROBERT, Lynn, perhaps s. of
the first Robert,
[1] b. in Eng. had Samuel, b. 28 May 1657; and his w.
whose name is not giv. must have d. soon after; for he m. 25 Jan. 1660,
Ruth Driver, perhaps d. of Robert the first, had Robert, b. 18 Mar.
1661; Nathaniel, 14 Apr. 1663; John, 13 Sept. 1665; Elizabeth 9 Feb.
1668, d. soon; Elizabeth again, 15 Aug. 1670; Ruth, 27 Feb. 1674; Joseph,
25 Dec. 1676; Benjamin, 11 Apr. 1680; and Samuel, 8 May 1682.