Transcript:Savage, James. Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England/v3p472

wedlock bef. the f. was twelve and a half yrs. old. Dr. Dwight should
therefore, have better called him 126, than 116 yrs. old; but as part of
the same chapter in Apocrypha is, that this veteran Ephraim had s.
Michael wh. d. 1826, aged 103, we may judge the honor of the myth
to have been designed for the junr. This younger Ephraim was not
99 yrs. old, when the credulity of Pres. Dwight was instructed by the
wonder-working old man that he had mowed grass one hundred and one
yrs. in succession, and only invalided the yr. past. Dr. Dwight, tho.
not sceptical. inclined, as a juryman, on a question of this man's will,
had he made it on the day of his visit, must have decided that it was
not good, I presume for want of disposing mind and memory in the testator.
So easily does the false story of great age obtain belief, even
from men of sagacity, like Pres. Dwight or Mr. Ward. Next we compress
the dimesions of Michael, tho. the day or yr. of his birth is unkn.
yet as his f. was not m. bef. 1724, he was less than one hundred; and
his f. from the last day of Nov. 1704 to any day in Mar. 1804 could
count but ninety-nine yrs. and a half. See Barry, Hist. of Framingham,
for more of the fables. JOHN, Cambridge, an expert surg. possib.
br. of Abraham, was of Hooker's ch. and freem. 14 May 1634; but
he had been so early as Mar. 1629, engag. for our comp. and came in
the Lion's Whelp, but rem. in the same sh. and when next he came, sat
down first at Braintree, in Nov. 1635 was animadvert. on for ill report
of the country, rem. to Hartford, prob. 1637, was rep. 1639-42, but not
after, excus. from watch, accord. to previous promise, in June 1644, but
went for home in Nov. foll. with his w. having no ch. and above 60 yrs.
old, and in Dec. drown. in the shipwreck on the coast of Spain. Winthrop
I. 173, and II. 239, with Trumbull, Col. Rec. II. 27, 108, and 450.
JOHN, Hingham, lost his ho. by fire, 15 Mar. 1646, and perhaps rem. to
Weymouth, and may have been f. of John, Joseph, Matthew, Samuel,
and Thomas of that town, or of some of them. JOHN, Hartford, an
orig. propr. was prob. a carpenter, and was f. of John, and Daniel, d. 15
July 1655. His will of 7 Oct. preced. names w. Elizabeth and the two
s. He has been sometimes confus. with the surg. wh. owned no ld.
whereas this man had sev. lots. See Trumbull, Col. Rec. I. 230. JOHN,
Dorchester, freem. 10 May 1643, had John, b. a. 1630, and Timothy,
and d. 1647, leav. wid. Mary, wh. m. William Turner. His will of 3
Mar. 1647 is abstr. in Geneal. Reg. VII. 36. Timothy sett. in Boston;
John, at Medfield. JOHN, Weymouth, s. of Matthew of the same, m.
27 Nov. 1656, Mary, d. of ens. John Whitman of the same. JOHN,
Hartford, s. of the sec. John, m. Hannah, d. of James Boosy, was
freem. 1657, had Hannah, b. 25 Nov. 1658; John, 17 May 1661; Eliz.
7 Oct. 1664; Sarah, 20 June 1668; Joseph, 6 Mar. 1671, Ruth, 21