Transcript:Savage, James. Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England/v4p243

Zechariah; Timothy; and Nathaniel; beside two others, perhaps ds. whose
names are unkn. washouseholder bef. 1678, when he was chos. tythingman,
but wh. was his first or sec. w. or when he was m. to either, and the
dates of b. of six ch. are unkn. He was not made freem. and finds not
place among Budington's ch. mem. d. 22 Sept. 1691, leav. seven ch.
His wid. Rev. Samuel Torrey. Sarah m. 7 Nov. 1671, Rev. Moses
Fiske of Braintree. WILLIAM, Medford or Charlestown, s. of the preced.
m. Ruth, perhaps d. of Josiah Convers of Woburn, had William, b.
10 Oct. 1705, wh. d. young; Zechariah, 1 Sept. 1707; Josiah, 7 Apr.
1710, d. young; Elizabeth; Timothy; John; and William, H. C. 1750, min.
of Andover; and d. 24 May 1764. ZECHARIAH, Charlestown, came in
1634, with Rev. John Lothrop, William Hutchinson and his w. the gr.
prophetess, arr. 18 Sept. brot. w. Sarah and ch. Sarah; William, bapt.
10 Jan. 1627; Mary, 16 Apr. 1628; Elizabeth 1 Jan. 1630; Hulda, 18 Mar.
1631; Hannah, 22 Aug. 1632; and Rebecca, 12 Feb. 1634; had here
Ruth, b. 18, bapt. 25 Oct. 1635; Zechariah, 9, bapt. 14 Jan. not 9, as
Geneal. Reg. XIII. p. 5, says, 1638, H. C. 1657; Timothg 7, bapt. 10
May 1640, d. soon Deborah, 28 Aug. bapt. 4 Sept. 1642; but the dates
of bapt. of the last three are wrong, in the copy by Budington scrupulously.
foll. and the orig. being lost, we are always doubtful, whether the
transcript is correct. In ea. of the three cases, the Geneal. Reg. XIII.
135, has used the day of birth, but without turn. to the almanac, call. it
the day of bapt. Worse error than this readers may be led into by tak.
the order of the ch. where Sarah is rank. under 12, as the youngest d.
when she was the eldest of the eight ds. if not of the thirteen ch. Timothy,
again, whose date is not found; and one more s. of Mather, III. 132,
has correct. quot. his epit. wh. is doubted. His neighb. Johnson, so
many yrs. his parishioner, speaks of ch. "their. numb. being ten, both s.
and ds. a certain sign of the Lord's intent to people this vast wilderness,"
he adds, with juster application of the doings of Providence, than he
usual. exhibits. He was b. at Canterbury, in Co. Kent, 5 Apr. 1599, s.
of Rev. William, matric. 1617 at Emanuel, and took at the Univ. of
Cambridge his A. B. 1620-1, preach. as a lecturer at the ch. of St. Atholines,
London, m. July 1621, and there had eldest d. Sarah, but in 1625
bec. rector of Dunstable, in wh. office he had large serv. dur. the plague
that extend. wide that yr. Mather, wh. confess. his informat. is not
large, says, he was always worried by the prelatists for insuffic. conform.
His liv. was not a very good one, as his success. in 1842 wrote me, and
his fam. beiug num. he saw prospects of more enlarg. usefulness on our
side of the water, join. the ch. of Boston, with his w. 5 Oct. 1634, and
that of C. 5 Dec. next, was freem. 6 May foll. was held in high regard,
and d. 28 Jan. and was bur. I suppose 4 Feb. 1672, tho. various