Transcript:Savage, James. Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England/v4p218

Memor. of Grad. Farmer, misled by the same high vouchers, erron.
calls him s. of Thomas, instead of his br. He was freem. 1645, while
undergr. but had his degr. few wks. aft.; went to preach at Middletown
a. 1653, where no ch. was gather. for many yrs. and seems never to
have been ord. but was the first and only min. there bef. 1668, by the
gen. assem. as early as 1660, the town had been liberat. from contrib. to
his support, on condit. of giv. him a recommend. to others. He, however,
was well content with civil duties, tho. during Philip's war, as sev.
yrs. bef. he preach. in various near towns, instead of more popular persons,
wh. were sometimes invalid, or call. from their pulpits to accomp.
the soldiers. By w. Hope, d. of William Fletcher he had John, b. at
Charlestown, 16 June 1650; Ichabod, at M. 20 Feb. 1653; Hope, 4
Feb. 1657; Dorothy, 1 Aug. 1659, wh. m. Jonathan Gilbert sec. and d.
14 July 1698; Eliz. 1 Aug. 1662; Thankful, 5 May 1664; Rachel, 13
Mar. 1667; and Margaret (nam. in the will of her f.) whose date of b.
is not kn.; and he d. 8 May 1704, aged 82, says Judge Sewall. His
will, of 13 Aug. 1702 is very minute, and enlarges our geneal. details
by ment. of his br. Nathaniel's s. Samuel of his dec. br. Thomas's s.
Nathaniel, Thomas, and John, of wh. the latter being d. his heirs are
ment. as also Samuel, s. of that neph. Thomas; beside his cous. Rev.
James Pierpont, whose mo. was sis. of the testat. His w. was d. as was
the younger of his two s. leav. only ch. Hope, and his oldest d. Hope,
wh. m. 13 Feb. 1678, Abraham Smith, and d. 17 Nov. foll. only 5 days
aft. the d. of her newborn inf. Aft. s. John, and the only ch. of Ichabod,
therefore, of his own ch. only the five surv. ds. are to be looked for;
Dorothy, wid. of Jonathan Gilbert; Eliz. wh. had m. 1691, Maybee
Barnes; Thankful, w. of William Trowbridge; Rachel, w. of Israhiah
Wetmore, m. 13 May 1692; and Margaret, w. of Beriah Wetmore.
SAMUEL, Marlborugh 1676, yet as he was taken station. at the garris.
ho. of Joseph Rice, as a soldier; he may have liv. at Concord, or other
neighb. town. I guess he was s. of Nathaniel of Concord. ║ THOMAS,
Braintree, eldest s. of the first John, b. in Eng. ar. co. 1638, m. 4 Dec.
1639, at Roxbury, Mary Gragg, or Griggs, had John, b. 3 Feb. 1641;
and Mary, 6 Feb. 1643; by 1648, or earlier, rem. to Concord, there
freem. 1653, thence a. 1654, to Middletown, had, also, Thankful, Eliz.
Nathaniel, Samuel, and Thomas. His w. d. 21 Aug. 1680, and he d.
prob. early in 1684, as inv. is of 23 Feb. in his will names only
John, Nathaniel, and Thomas as his s. and Samuel Bidwell, h. of his
dec. d. Eliz. Perhaps his est. was too small to give any pt. to two other
m. ds. or they may have had full shares on m. A d. says Hinman, 243,
m. Samuel Bidwell; Mary m. Spaulding; and Thankful m. a Hill,
perhaps John, the sec. of Guilford. THOMAS, Middletown, s. of the