Transcript:Savage, James. Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England/v3p481

riding of Yorkshire) and sev. ch. sat down first at Watertown, rem.
1645 or 6 to the foundat. of new sett. at L. Childr. were Mary, Sarah,
Martha, and John, all suppos. to be b. bef. com. hither; Lydia, b.
Aug. 1641; Jonathan; and Jonas, June 1648; the last prob. the only
one at L. Difficulty and loss in his cross. Sudbury riv. on his rem. is
told by Winthrop II. 306. He took o. of alleg. 1652, but was not adm.
freem. bef. 1669; was with his fam. rem. shortly aft. the doleful day of
10 Feb. 1676, and the town was wholly abandon. for sev. yrs. so that no
white man liv. betw. the towns on Conn. riv. and those of the Concord.
In 1682 the number of fams. was not more than one third so large as
seven yrs. bef. but of these, Presott's was one, and the yr. assign. for
his d. tho. with some hesit. is 1683. Mary m. Thomas Sawyer; Sarah
m. Richard Wheeler; Martha m. John Rugg, and d. a. 1655; and Lydia
m. 28 May 1658, Jonas Fairbanks. JOHN, Lancaster, s. of the preced.
b. in Eng. blacksmith, on the destruct. of the town, sett. at Concord.
freem. 1679; by w. Sarah, had Mary; John, b. a. 1672; and Ebenezer,
both of wh. perpet. the name. JOHN, Hampton, fourth s. of James the
first, m. Aug. 1701, Abigail, d. of James Marston, had John, b. 15
Aug. 1702; Rebecca, 10 Aug. 1704; Lydia, 20 Nov. 1706; Benjamin,
18 Sept. 1708; James, 11 Apr. 1711; Abigail, 29 Apr. 1713; Nathaniel,
25 July 1715; Abraham, 20 May 1717; Jedediah, 1 June 1719;
and Josiah, 2 Oct. 1721. He d. 1740; and his wid. d. at Kingston, 14
Nov. 1762. JONAS, Groton, s. prob. youngest ch. of John the first, call.
of Sudbury, when he took freeman's o. 1678, m. Oct. 1669, Thankful
Wheeler, as one acco. says[1], or 14 Dec. 1670, Mary, d. of John Looker,
as ano. has it, had eighth ds. wh all m. and four s. and d. 13 Dec. 1723.
The youngest of the s. Benjamin, b. 4 Jan. 1696, wh. d. 3 Aug. 1738,
was f. of col. William, the command. at Bunker Hill, 17 June 1775,
the f. of that disting. jurist, William, H. C. 1783, wh. was f. of the more
disting. historian of Ferdinand and Isabella. JONATHAN, Concord, br.
of the preced. by first w. Dorothy, m. 3 Aug. 1670, wh. d. 8 Oct. 1674,
had only Samuel, b. bef. he was driv. from Lancaster; by sec w. Elizabeth d.
of John Hoar, wh. d. 25 Sept. 1687, had Jonathan, b. 5 Apr. 1677; Elizabeth
27 Nov. 1678; Dorothy, 31 May 1681; John, 13 July 1683; Mary,
4 Aug. 1685; and Benjamin, 16 Sept. 1687, H. C. 1709, min. of Danvers;
by third w. Rebecca, wid. of Hon. Peter Bulkely, whose d.
Rebecca m. his s. Jonathan, and by fourth w. Ruth Brown wh. outliv.
him, and d. 9 Feb. 1740, he had no ch. was capt. freem. 1690, and rep.
1692 at first Ct. under the new chart. and his day of d. is not kn. but he
was on serv. Feb. 1707. JONATHAN, Hampton, third s. of James the
first, by w. Elizabeth had Jonathan, b. 16 July 1696; Jeremiah, 4 Oct.
1698; Benjamin, 2 Nov. 1700; Abigail, 28 Mar. 1703; Joseph, 27