Transcript:Savage, James. Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England/v3p555

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The s. Thomas I judge to be that in Roxbury, b. 5 Nov. 1677. THOMAS,
youngest s. of Isaac, by Mr. Otis said to have own ld. in Edgartown 1700, and
to have rem. to Guilford. TIMOTHY, Salem, wh. m. 20 Feb. 1666, Mary, d. of
John Kitchen, d. 1668, his inv. being of 20 June, left wid. and Timothy, b. 15
Mar. preced. was s. of William. TIMOTHY, Dover, perhaps s. of Stephen,
by w. Mary had Abigail, b. 23 May 1693; Mary, 10 Apr. 1695; Elizabeth 14 Apr.
1700, d. at 10 yrs.; Sarah, 3 Oct. 1702; Hannah, 21 Nov. 1707; Timothy, 1
Aug. 1710; and Elizabeth again, 30 July 1712. WILLIAM, Braintree 1662.
WILLIAM, Dorchester 1636, freem. 18 May 1642, ar. co. 1643, had
Samuel, bapt. 14 June 1640; Increase, 14 Mar. 1642; Prudence, 1643;
and Waiting, 26 Apr. 1646; and he d. 6 July 1668. His will, tho.
without date, was allow. 31 July foll. It names, beside his own offspr.
Mary Streeter, my wife's d. His wid. Ursula wh. had been wid. of
Samuel Hosier, as Stephen Streeter at an earlier day, was not prob.
mo. of these ch. m. 15 July 1673, Griffin Crafts; and this fourth h. bur.
her, but suppli, his loss by ano. w. Prudence m. John Bridge of Roxbury;
and Waiting m. Joseph Penniman of Braintree. WILLIAM,
Salem, a tailor, by w. Isbella had Ann, bapt. 3 Dec. 1637, the mo. have.
unit. with the ch. that yr.; Samuel, 26 Jan. 1640; Mary, 12 Mar. 1643;
Timothy, 28 Apr. 1644; and Esther, 28 May 1654; was freem. 27 Dec.
1642; names in his will of 9 Feb. 1677, pro. 29 Nov. 1678, s. Joseph,
eldest, wh. then liv at Barbados; Samuel, and John, wh. were made
excors. d. Sarah Newbury, whose h. is not of my acquaint. and gr.ch.
Timothy R. when he comes of age. WILLIAM, Boston 1659, suffer.
whip. as a quaker, and soon aft. not being sufficient. enlighten by that
evangelic. discipline, on 27 Oct. was hanged, says the Diary of John
Hull, with Marmaduke Stephenson, ano. youth, ea. "LITTLE ABOVE
TWENTY YRS. OF AGE." We may judge of the perfect sincerity of the
persecutors in their ferocious bigotry, from the same Diary, 1661, relat.
that, after this execut. of R. and his three fellow martyrs, "the rest
of the Quakers had liberty, if they pleased to use it, to depart the jurisdict.
tho. some of them capitally guilty;" and the pious writer adds this
ejacul. prayer: "The good Lord pardon this timidity of spirit to execute
the sentence of God's Holy Law upon such blasphemous persons,"
that the delusion spread can excite no wonder, even in this day, when
some prayer rather for pardon of the judicial murder, than for that of the
treacher. Timidity that liberated the innocent. Hull was a milit. man,
and felt that discipline requir. the enemy of God especial. to be put
to death. No man in the Col. was held in higher esteem than John
Hull. See Josselyn; Hubbard, 572; Hutch. I. 199, 200; and Sewel's
Hist. 220-4. WILLIAM, Concord, by w. Elizabeth had Hannah, b. 13 July
1671; rem to Cambridge, in that part now Newton, there by w. Elizabeth