Transcript:Savage, James. Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England/v3p476


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25 Feb. 1672; William, 13 Sept. 1674; Deborah, 1 Oct. 1676;
and Robert, again, 22 June 1684. THOMAS, Malden. eldest s. of Richard
of the same
, had, by w. unkn. to me, Richard, John, Mary, Sarah,
and Thomas, b. 1707, wh. it is said, to 20 Aug. 1776; but the f. d.
1718. TIMOTHY, Boston, s. of John of Dorchester, m. 9 Nov. 1659,
Deborah Cooper, join. the sec. or Mather's ch. and was freem. 1683.
He had sec. w. Mary, as appears in his will of 16 Aug. 1694, in wh. he
ment. s. Josiah, and the Deborah, d. of his s. Timothy, dec. TIMOTHY,
Charlestown, s. of the preced. m. 19 Nov. 1679, Grace, eldest d. of
Thomas Shippey, had Deborah, nam. in the will of her gr.f. Pratt;
Rebecca, b. 22 July 1682, d. in one yr. aft.; and he d. 25 Mar. of the
same yr. He had been a barber of Boston. * WILLIAM, Hartford, an
orig. propr. prob. br. of John, the sec. of the same, by w. Eliz. d. of
John Clark of Milford, had Eliz. b. 1 Feb. 1642; John, 20 Feb. 1645;
rem. that yr. to Saybrook, there had Joseph, 1 Aug. 1648; Sarah, 1
Apr. 1651; William, 5, but Parsons quotes 15 May 1653; Samuel, 6
Oct. 1655; Lydia, 1 Jan. 1660; and Nathaniel, perhaps bef. the last,
but not nam. in rec. but by his f. in a deed to him; was lieut. in 1661,
rep. 1666, and eleven yrs. more. His eldest d. m. William Backus of
Norwich; Sarah m. 1670, Isaac Waterhouse; and Lydia m. 18 Nov.
1679, John Kirtland of Saybrook. WILLIAM, Weymouth, freem. 1651.
WILLIAM, Saybrook, s. of the first William, m. 20 Feb. 1679, Hannah,
d. of Nathaniel Kirtland, had Benjamin, b. 14 June 1680; Hannah, 24
July 1682, d. at 2 yrs.; Prudence, 11 Mar. 1685; Ebenezer, 17 Aug.
1688; and Jabez, 19 May 1691. WILLIAM, Weymouth, may have
been s. of William of the same, or neph. freem. 1680, by w. Elizabeth d. of
Richard Baker of Dorchester had Thankful, b. 4 Oct. 1683, and by w.
Experience, had Joanna, b.23 Sept. 1692; and William, 3 Oct. 1695.
He rem. to Dorchester. Six of this name, had in 1834, been gr. at
Harv. as many at Yale, and eleven at other N. E. coll.

    PRAY, ELISHA, Providence, sw. alleg. May 1682. EPHRAIM, Braintree,
s. prob. eldest, of John of the same, m. Elizabeth d. of John Hayden, had
Ephraim, b. 14 June 1681; John, 18 Aug. 1683; Elizabeth 27 Sept. 1685;
Hannah, 3 June 1687; Ruth, 28 Mar. 1689; Samuel, 14 May 1692;
Joseph, 14 Jan. 1696; Mary, 17 Sept. 1697; and Sarah, 16 Jan. 1700.
EPHRAIM, Providence 1676, "who staid and went not away," says the
rec. thro. the war. He m. the wid. of Benjamin Herendean. JOHN,
Braintree, m. 7 May 1657, Joanna Dowman, had John, b. 11 Mar. foll.
prob. d. bef. his f. beside Ephraim, Samuel, Joseph, and two ds. Hannah
Bell, and Dorothy Furbush, to div. his est. in July 1699; but I kn.
not the h.'s. JOHN, Providence, sw. alleg. 1671, another of those not
frightened away in 1676. QUINTIN and RICHARD, says Lewis, were of