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arr. 4 Sept. join. to the ch. 14 July 1639 under the spiritual teacher, wh.
he had always heard from his b.; freem. 13 May foll. m. Hannah, eldest
d. of Ralph Hudson, had Hudson, bef. ment. b. 2, bapt. 10 May 1640;
John, bapt. 4 July 1641, four days old (but the town rec. differs much),
d. young; Hannah, b. 16, bapt. 23 Apr. 1643, d. young, but aft. Sept.
1651, nam. then in the will of her gr.mo. Hudson; and his w. d. perhaps
the same yr. He m. next, Sarah, perhaps d. but perhaps sis. of
Major Robert Sedgwick, wh. long outliv. him, d. 2 Jan. 1700, had John,
b. 17, bapt. 22 Mar. 1646, d. young; Sarah, 12, bapt. 16 July 1648, d.
soon; Sarah, again, 2, bapt. 19 Aug. 1649, d. soon; Elizabeth 26 Apr. bapt.
4 May 1651; Ann, 23, bapt. 28 Nov. 1652; Sarah, again, bapt. 20
Aug. 1654, d. soon; Mary, 12 Feb. bapt. 16 Mar. 1656; Hannah,
again, b. prob. in Eng. dur. his agency; Rebecca, 5, bapt. 11 Dec. 1664;
John, 20 Aug. 1668, d. young; Sarah, again, 30 June, bapt. 3 July
1670, d. young; and Sarah, again, being the fifth of this name, 15, bapt.
22 June 1673. No man in our country ever fill. more import. offices,
nor with happier repute. He was rep. 1651, and some yrs. again,
speaker in 1663 and 4, maj.-gen. 1663, as success. to Denison, Assist.
1665 to 71, dep.-gov. 1671 to 3, and, on the d. of Bellingham, Gov.
1673 to his own d. 16 Mar. 1679, aged 62. He had been sent agent for
the Col. late in 1655 to Eng. whither his w. foll. him in June 1657, and
there he cont. for the first yr. aft. the restor. of Charles II. reach. Boston
on 19 July 1661. In Aug. 1676, the king knighted him by a special
grant, and he had sense enough to keep the letter secret for his descend.
His will, made the day bef. he d. wh. was by the afflict. disease of stone,
gave all his est. to w. but names as deserv. provis. three unm. ds., neph.
Isaac Addington, the s. of his sis. Ann, and her three ds. Ann Moseley,
Rebecca Davenport, and Sarah Townsend; desires his gr.s. John to be
brot. up to learning, as was most felicitous. accompl. and on the d. of his
w. the prop. to go to s. Hudson 1/4, and 3/4 to six ds. Of these Elizabeth m.
June 1668, Elisha Cooke; Ann m. John Hubbard; Mary m. Paul
Dudley, s. of Gov. Thomas, and next, Penn Townsend, wh. had been h.
of her cous. Sarah Addington; Hannah m. 12, Sept. 1689, Thomas
Davis, but she may first have been w. of an Allen; Rebecca m. 3 Nov.
1691, James Lloyd; and Sarah, the youngest, m. 17 Apr. 1718, Nathaniel
Byfield as his sec. w. His wid. Sarah d. 2 Nov. 1704, in her 75th
yr. C. Mather wrote an Elegy; but this was bef. her gr.s. was chos.
Presid. of H. C. THOMAS, Boston, came in the Griffin, arr. from London
4 Sept. 1633, hav. in July preced. resign. his place as one of the
aldermen of the borough of Boston, Co. Lincoln, with w. Ann, ds. Jane
and Ann, and prob. s. John; was soon made rul. Elder, and selectman,
in ea. place contin. till his d. wh. occur. 3 Apr. 1650. On the day preced.
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