Transcript:Savage, James. Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England/v4p148

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1669, m. a. 1665, Rebecca, d. of Robert Howard, had Rebecca, b. Mar.
1666; Jared, Jan. 1669; Benjamin, Mar. 1671; Lydia, 1673; and
Grace, Feb. 1677; and he d. 3 Aug. 1682. JOHN, E. Greenwich, in
his later days, had brot, fam. t o that town, as in the rec. we find "Thomas,
his seventh s. of John and Susanna Spencer, was b. in E. G. 22 July
1679. a. 5 o'clock in the morn. and was the first Eng. ch. b." there. But
he had liv. in some part of the Col. a dozen yrs. bef. for he was freem.
1668, yet since no trace of him is earlier seen, or any report of progenit.
my conject. is that he is one of the few that came over aft. the restorat.
of Charles II. and had w. and some ch. soon aft. Perhaps his w. was
d. Audrey or Susanna, of John Greene the sec. of Warwick. He had sec.
w. and d. 1684, as the will made by the town governm. ment. her and the
ch. in the order, prob. of age, John, Michael, Benjamin, William, Robert,
Abner, Thomas, Peleg, and Susanna. MICHAEL, Cambridge 1634, br.
of Jared the first, rem. to Lynn 1637, freem. Mar. 1638, m. the wid. of
Thomas Robbins of Salem, and d. 1653, leav. two ch. perhaps by a
former w.; Susanna, b. 1643, wh. m. 1 Aug. 1664, Daniel Bacon of
Salem; and MICHAEL, then aged 6 yrs. wh. under care of his gr.f.
Robbins, bec. a shipwright, and liv. at Cambridge, it is said, in 1670,
there m. 7 Dec. 1671, Rebecca, d. of Thomas Sweetman, had Rebecca,
b. 4 Nov. 1673. Porter claims the elder Michael as an inhab. of Hartford,
on Mill str. 1645; but I conject. that his eye mistook Mr. for this name.
NATHANIEL, Haddam, s. of Jared, m. 1681, Lydia, d. of Thomas
Smith, had Lydia, b. 10 Aug. 1682; Nathaniel, 15 July 1684; Elizabeth
18 Jan. 1686; John, 30 Mar. 1688; Mary, 9 June 1692; Daniel, 20
Aug. 1694; Susanna, 8 Nov. 1696; Dorothy, 8 Mar. 1699; and
Phineas, 20 Mar. 1701. A sec. w. brot. him no ch. and d. more
than 20 yrs. aft. him, 20 Feb. 1742. OBADIAH, Hartford, s. of
Thomas the first of the same, made freem. 1658, m. Mary, d. of Nicholas
Disbrow, had Obadiah, b. 1666; Thomas, 1668; Samuel; Ebenezer;
John; Disbrow; and Mary; and d. 1712. ROBERT, East Greenwich,
s. of John of the same, m. 15 July 1697, Theodosia Waite, had
Joanna, b. 1711. ROGER, Saco 1652, submit. then to Mass. came up to
Charlestown 1653, mariner, was a capt. at Saco the same yr. perhaps,
and aft. until 1669. His d. Mary m. John Hull of Boston, not the
mintmaster, and next, Sir William Phips, wh. was made Gov. of Mass.
and last, Hon. Peter Sargent; ano. d. Rebecca m. Dr. David Bennet,
and was mo. of Spencer, him wh. took the name of Spencer Phips, and
was Lieut.-Gov. of Mass. and ano. as I think, the eldest, was w. of
Freegrace Norton. See Folsom, 182, 3. SAMUEL, Hartford, s. of
William, b. in Eng. and the only one nam. in the will of 4 May 1640,
wh. gave him, then under 20 yrs. old, a third of his est. He was, may
be, instead of his cous. Samuel, s. of Thomas, the one meant in the ret.