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preach at Marblehead, with all their respect. ch. and fam. exc. his neph.
Thomas, then 15 yrs. old, wh. prefer. ld. travel, emb. in a pinnace of
Isaac Allerton to return from I. to M. on 15 Aug. 1635, and next day
were wreck. on a rock, or rather ledge off Cape Ann. Of 23 persons in
that little bark, all but Thacher and his w. were drown. He and she
were cast on the barren islet, ever since call Thacher's woe, as the outer
rock, gain. the name of Avery's fall. Slight acco. of this sad occur. is in
Magn. II. cap. 2, but fuller in Winthrop I. 165, and the personal relat. of
the whole by the suffer. is in Young's Chron. of Mass. 483, and I can
recommend no more strik. narrative in our early hist. He was by the Ct.
made admor. of Joseph Avery, as Col. Rec. I. 154, shows. Our Gen. Ct.
bestow a good sum in money on the surv. suffer. as in Rec. I. 1557 appears,
and afterwards, Ib. 191, made a gr. of that diastrous isl. for an
inherit. wh. was not, I imagine, worth tak. into possess. He preach. perhaps,
short time at Marblehead, where he had prob. Judah; John, b. 17
Mar. 1639; but went for perman. settlem. bef. 1643, to Yarmouth, and
had Bethia, wh. m. Jabez Howland; and Rodolphus in my conject.
For a season he was of Marshfield, rep. for Y. 1643-7. He had at
Salisbury in O. E. Benjamin, b. 13, bapt. 27 Apr. 1634, but this ch.
perhaps d. soon; as did his mo. Mary if a fam. mem. be correct, wh. says
that his sec. w. tak. a few wks. bef. sail. was Elizabeth Jones; and he d. at
Y. where his inv. is dat. 22 Aug. 1667, if Alden's Epit. I. 120 may be
correct. aged 80. * John, Yarmouth, youngest s. of the preced. m. 6
Nov. 1664, Rebecca, d. of the first Josiah Winslow, and niece of the
first Gov. w. had Peter, b. 26 Apr. as one report is, or by ano. 20 May
1665; Josiah, 26 Apr. 1667, both bapt. 26 Apr. 1668; Rebecca, 1, bapt.
6 June 1669; Bethia, 10, bapt. 16 July 1671; John, 28 Jan. bapt. 14
Feb. 1675; Elizabeth 19 June, bapt. 22 July 1677; Hannah, 19, bapt. 24
Aug. 1679, d. at ten yrs.; and Mary, 3 Aug. bapt. 24 Sept. 1682, d.
young. His w. d. 15 July foll. and many lamentable verses he wrote on
her. By sec. w. m. 11 Jan. 1684, Lydia, d. of John Corham, he had
Lydia, 11, bapt. 22 Feb. 1685; Mary, again, 5 Feb. bapt. 6 Mar. 1687;
Desire, 24 Dec. 1688, bapt. 27 Jan. foll.; Hannah, 9, bapt. 12 Oct.
1690; Mercy, 23 July 1692, d. next mo.; Judah, 20, bapt. 27 Aug.
1693; Mercy, again, 28 Dec. 1695, bapt;. next day, d. at 8 mos.; Ann,
7 May, bapt. 27 June 1697; Joseph, 11, bapt. 16 July 1699; Benjamin,
25 June, bapt. 3 Aug. 1701; Mercy, again, 7 Feb. bapt. same day 1703;
and Thomas, 2 Apr. bapt. 20 May 1705, as the town rec. has it, tho. I
have seen a fam. MS. that makes the yr. 1711, wh. is prob. erron.
Forty-one yrs. would seem a suffic. period for hav. ch. He was rep.
1668 and twelve yrs. foll. Assist. many yrs. aft. and a counsel. under
new chart, d. 8 May 1713. Fourteen of his twenty ch. m. for the
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