Transcript:Savage, James. Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England/v4p208

Hertford in Co. Herts (a. 20 ms. from London), usually sound. Hartford,
and tradit. tells that the city in Conn. out of regard to him was thus
nam.; perhaps younger br. of Gregory, and of Simon, certain. bred at
Emanuel, where he was matric. 1620, and took his degrees 1623 and 7,
came in 1633, with Cotton, Hooker, and other men of note, passen.
embark. at the Downs, in the Griffin, arr. 4 Sept. at Boston, went with
Hooker to Cambridge, where 11 Oct. next he was made teacher and H.
pastor of the ch. and adm. freem. 14 May foll. in 1636 rem. with
Hooker, and they found. the ch. of H. there with univers. accept. they
fulfill. the same duties as bef. at C. and in the Pequot war, 1637, he was
chapl. to the troops under Capt. Mason. Aft. the d. of our judicious
Hooker, he had a sad controversy with some of his people, equally bitter
and unintelligib. of wh. Mather thot. the origin undiscov. But aft.
many yrs. of fruitless attemps at reconcil. Gov. Webster and many
frinds of influence rem. up the riv. beyond the rancor, and S. d. 20
July 1663. He had sec. w. m. 1641, Elizabeth Allen at Boston, by her had
Samuel and Elizabeth and three ch. were of former one, Rebecca, Mary,
and Sarah. The whole five are ment. in his will. More than one fifth of
his inv. was in books. It ought to be told, that the town rec. has other
ch. Joseph, bapt. 18 Oct. 1646; Lydia, 22 Jan. or Feb. 1648; a s.
bapt. 29 Apr. 1649, w. may be the Samuel of the will; and Abigail, b.
9 Sept. 1650; but prob. all exc. Samuel, and Elizabeth wh. must be the same
as Lydia, or Abigail of the town rec. d. early. His wid. m. Mr. George
Gardner, of Salem, outliv. him, and d. late in 1681. Her will of 6 June
pro. 4 Jan. foll. names her own two ch. Samuel, and Elizabeth wh. had been
w. of William Sedgwick, was aft. many yrs. of neglect, divorc. from him,
m. John Roberts, had s. John, wh. in this will was provid. for by his
gr.mo. She names her ds.-in-law, the ch. of his first w. Rebecca, w. of
Timothy Nash of Hadley; Mary, w. of Joseph Fitch of Windsor; and
Sarah, w. of Thomas Butler of Hartford. SAMUEL, Hartford, only s.
of the preced. was much respect. in Conn. and qualif. to assist Gershom
Bulkley, in 1676, at Wethersfield, in his work of the ministry, while
giv. his devot. to the other work of Surgeon to the forces in the Ind. war.
He also preach. at Wethersfield, Middletown, and other places, was
never m. nor sett. but he had liberal gr. of ld. by the legisl. of Conn. for
his f.'s services, bec. very intemper. in 1678 and 80 was punish. by fines
for drunk. "given over to the power" of that evil habit and d. 8 Oct.
1683, by falling down the bank of the riv. on the rocks. SAMUEL,
Cambridge, fourth s. of Gregory, prob. b. in Eng. freem. 1657, was m.
7 June 1665 to Sarah, d. of the first Isaac Stearns, had Samuel, b. 1
Oct. 1656; Isaac; both bapt. says the Reg. of matchless Mitchell, tho.
it gives not their dates; and Isaac prob. d. young; Sarah, 5 Feb. bapt.