Transcript:Savage, James. Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England/v4p19

Mar. 1633, when John Winthrop, jr. plant. there, and short. aft. join. to
sett. Newbury, and with Rev. Stephen Bachilor, began Hampton planta.
1638, lov. the pioneer's life so much, Coffin says, as to help build Amesbury,
and there he found his final rest, a. 1673, aged 75. His w. was
Elizabeth d. of John Perkins, and ch. Thomas, b. 11 June 1643; William, 2
Jan. 1646; Mary; Elizabeth 22 Nov. 1648; and Sarah, 29 Feb. 1652.
His will, of 1671, names w. and ch. Thomas, William, Mary, w. of
Philip Challis, and her ch. William, Elizabeth Mary, Philip, and Watson,
beside his d. Elizabeth w. of Samuel Colby, and her ch. Dorothy and Elizabeth
and his br.-in-law Thomas Bradbury, wh. had m. the sis. of his w.
WILLIAM, Charlestown 1638, adm. to the ch. 10 Mar. 1639, as was, on
the next Sunday, his w. Sarah, may be the freem. of 22 May foll. had
John, bapt. 8 Dec. 1639; Ruth, b. 25 Oct. 1642; Samuel, 3 Mar.
1645; and, perhaps, others. Farmer thot. him the preach. at Malden
1648-50, of wh. slight ment. is seen in Jonson's W. W. Providences,
Book III. cap. 7; yet as the min. is not nam. by Mather, he might be
supos. to have gone home, but he was never ord. acting only as lay
preach. This William had long puzzled me much, but my final infer.
was that he rem. to Barnstable, where he succeed. famous John
Lothrop in the pulpit, and where a will of one William, 9 Mar. 1680,
names w. Sarah, s. John, and Samuel, ds. Ruth Bourne (wh. had been
wid. of Jonathan Winslow of Marshfield, m. Richard B. of Sandwich,
July 1677, and had third h. John Chipman of the same town), and Hannah
Felch, beside gr.s. Samuel Bill, whose mo. Elizabeth had been wid.
Nichols, when she m. 14 June 1653, Thomas Bill; but his d. Elizabeth
must have been b. in Eng. and she d. 5 Mar. 1658. Abundant proof of
all this is obtain. by the diligence of Aaron Sargent of the eighth
generat. with success admira. exhibit. in the fam. geneal. print. 1858.
Hannah m. Henry F. of Reading. WILLIAM, Gloucester, had gr. of
ld. 1649, m. 10 Sept. 1651, Abigail, d. of Edmund Clark, had John, h.
1653; Andrew, 1655; William, 16 Aug. 1658; Samuel, 22 Mar. 1662;
Nathaniel, 30 Oct. 1663, d. soon; Abigail, 8 May 166O; Nathaniel,
again, 1671; Joseph, 27 Mar. 1675; and Mary, 24 Nov. 1678,
was rep. 1671; and 1, and his w. d 8 Mar. 1711, aged 79. He d. 19
Feb. 1717, aged 92. Abigail m. 15 June 1682, the sec. William Stevens.
WILLIAM, Amesbury, s. of William of the same, took o. of fidel. 20
Dec. 1677, m. 23 Sept. 1668, of Anthony Colby, had William,
and, prob. sev. more ch. WILLIAM, Gloucester, call. sec. to
disting. him from the other, was b. in Bristol, Eng. m. 21 June 1678,
Mary, d. of Peter Duncan, had Fitz William, b. 6 Jan. 1680; and
Mary, 19 Dec. 1681; Andrew, 1683; Daniel, 1686; Jordan, 1688;
Epes, 1690, the ancest. of most of the disting. men of this name; Ann,
1692; Samuel, 1694, d. young; Fitz John, 1696, d. soon; one, with an