Transcript:Savage, James. Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England/v4p120

his s. d. 15 June 1646; and she was adm. of the ch. 23 Sept. 1652, and
he and they may have been bapt. as the rec. for many yrs. bef. 1659 is
wholly defic. and 5 Feb. 1660 appears Rebecca, d. of sis. S. His will
of 8 Mar. 1672, of wh. w. Sarah, s. John, and ano. were Excors. names
her, and Ch. John, James, Josiah, Eliz.; Sarah, and Mary, and he d. 6
Mar. foll. JOHN, Providence, call. the mason for distinct. m. bef. 1661,
a d. of Samuel Comstock had Leonard, d. young; John, d. young; and
Joseph; rem. to Warwick, there d. without will, and the municipal governm.
supplied the want, 14 Sept. 1668. He was useful as a surveyor.
JOHN, Watertown, may have been that youth, aged 13, wh. came from
London in the Planter, 1635, prob. s. of Alice, 40, in the same sh. In
his will of 12 Apr. 1665, pro. 27 Sept. 1669, names ch. John, Richard,
Alice, and Ann, w. of John Moore, wh. is made Ex'cor. and may have
been his fellow-passeng. JOHN, Dedham, by w. Margaret had John, b.
5 July 1641, and the next entry is, John, d. 14 Aug. 1645, says the rec.
but he may have been the ch. and the f. liv. 1660. JOHN, Milford
1640; and ano. JOHN was there 1646, both sen. and jun. freem. in
1669; but tho. not f. and s. are easily disting. The elder, wh. d. 1684,
by w. Grace, wh. join. the ch. 1642, had there bapt. Ephraim, 13 Oct.
1644; John, b. 27 Aug. 1616; Mary, 1648; Ebenezer, 10 Nov. 1651,
d. young; Mercy, bapt. 5 Dec. 1652, d. at 18 yrs.; and Mehitable, 25
Mar. 1655. Only four of these liv. to maturity, viz. Ephraim; John;
Mary, wh. m. Abel Gunn of Derby; and Mehitable, wh. m. 1674, Edward
Camp. His wid. d. 1690. Of the younger John, not s. of the
preced. we learn, that he was a blacksmith, m. 19 July 1665, Sarah, d.
of Lieut. William Fowler of the same, had Joseph; John, b. 1669, d.
young; Jonathan, 5 Sept. 1671; and John, again, 18 June 1674, wh. d.
young. For sec. w. he m. 1694, Clemence, wid. of Jonathan Hunt of Northampton,
and d. 1704. JOHN, Hampton 1614, was, prob. the progenit. of
a line of Smiths in that town, and his d. Deborah was first w. of Nathaniel
Bachiler. JOHN, wh. by Farmer is nam. of Boston, com. from Ireland,
and adm. of the ch. 1640, must be look. at as a supernum. for the
ch. rec. in the yr. foll. giv. only this foundat. for such a statem. "21 of
the 12th 1640 Mrs. Hannah S. the w. of one Mr. John Smyth in Ireland"
and it may seem as prob. (no more being heard of her) that she
went to him, as that he came to her. The gr. rebellion in I. broke out;
the same yr. JOHN, Dorchester, came in 1635 with w. and d. Mary (in
the James of Bristol), the ch. brot. from Warrington, Lancash. on a horse
in a pannier, balanc. by young Nathaniel, s. of Rev. Richard Mather,
then five yrs. old, as a decent tradit. relates; and in that voyage partook
the vexat. and dangers so well relat. by Mather, in Young's Chron.
Here he uas prob. freem. 7 Dec. 1636, and hall by w. Catharine other