Transcript:Savage, James. Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England/v4p21

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few wks.; Ruth, 16 Dec. 1642; and John, again, 10 Dec. 1644; and he
went home, own. an est. in Wiltsh. leav. his br.-in-law Richard Dole of
Newbury, his atty. To prevent confus. of the two Johns, we may further
note, that one of the name came in the Confidence of London, aged 25,
husbandman of Longford, also in Co. Wilts, with w. Sarah, emb. at
Southampton 24 Apr. 1638; and if we accept him as the John to wh.
(with w. Sarah) Coffin gives ch. Sarah, b. 20 Aug. 1647; Mary, 12
June 1649; Abigail, 12 Apr. 1651, Joseph, 1653, d. soon; and Elizabeth
26 Jan. 1655; we may feel sure that Pike's w. was not his d. It may
indeed seem that she might have been sis. of either of the two. JOHN,
Salem 1637, mem. of the ch. had m. a d. of the firt Joseph Grafton, in
his will of 28 Oct. 1642, pro. Dec. 1643, ment. s. John, and f. Grafton.
JOHN, Wells 1645, had been of Hampton bef. 1643, was freem. 1653,
lieut. 1658, and of that gr. jury 1660, then call. sen. His will, of 13
June 1670, pro. 3 Aug. foll. names w. Ann, and s. Thomas, to wh.
the homestead was giv. to s. John a thousand acres 8 or 9 miles "above
Cape Porpus riv. falls." wh. means, I judge, the Saco riv. and to all the
resid. of his ch. equal sh. The whole est. was L139. JOHN, Braintree,
perhaps s. of Martin, b. in Eng. m. 9 Oct. or 8 Nov. 1650, Mary Munjoy,
sis. of George the first, had Mary, b. 12 Dec. 1653; John, 23 Nov.
1657, d. in few days; Judith, 28 Feb. 1663, d. very soon; Rachel, 4
Feb. 1664, d. in few days; Judith, again, 23 Jan. 1665, d. very soon;
and John, 1 Sept. 1669. JOHN, Salem, m. 5 Nov. 1661, Hannah
Pickman, prob. d. of Nathaniel, had Hannah, b. 15 Mar. 1663, wh.
d. at 9 yrs.; John, 22 Oct. 1665; James, 23 Sept. 1667; Nathaniel, 2
July 1670; Joseph, 21 Aug. 1673, d. next yr.; and Elizabeth 28 Aug. 1678,
had JOHN, Billerica 1679. JOHN, perhaps of Salem, and possib. s.
of John of the same, m. 14 Sept. 1688; Return, d. of Samuel Shattuck,
wh. rec. that name on acco. of happy com. from Eng. of her f. in 1662,
bef. her b. with royal rescript for lenity to the Quakers. JOSEPH, Dover
1656, was k. by the Ind. in the night betw. 27 and 28 June 1689 at
the same time, says Mr. Quint, when Waldron's garrison ho. was
destroy. MARTIN, Boston, currier, came in the Planter from London,
in the spring of 1635, aged 40, with w. Rachel, 40, and ch. Leah, 10;
Judith, 8; and Martin, 4; beside Mary, prob. older than either. Here
his w. join. our ch. 8 Nov. of that yr. but as they liv. at the Braintree
planta. he was one of the found. of that ch; kept the inn in 1639,
was adm. freem. 13 Mar. 1640. His d. Judith d. 7 July 1651.
and his w. d. 15 Sept. foll. For sec. w. he took, 23 May 1654, Elizabeth
Bancroft, wid.
of Roger, and d. 4 Aug. 1658, hav. made his will 5 July
preced. His wid m. deac. John Bridge of Cambridge, and had fourth
h. Edward Taylor
; d. Mary m. bef. 1641, Francis Eliot; Leah, m. perhaps,
Robert Parmenter; and ano. d. Rachel, is also giv. to P. MARTIN,
Braintree, s. of the preced. brot. from Eng. by his f. was freem. 1651,
and m. 1 Apr. of the same yr. Lydia, d. of Richard Hardier; had
Joseph, wh. d. 17 May 1667; Joseph, again, b. 3 Oct. 1657; Elizabeth 2