Transcript:Savage, James. Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England/v4p272

blessing of the cape. JUDAH, Yarmouth, s. prob. eldest, of Anthony, on
our side of the water, m. Mary, d. of Rev. Thomas Thornton, and of
descend. this report is giv. Elizabeth b. Oct. 1667, wh. was sec. w. of first
Joshua Gee; Thomas, 18 May 1669; Mary, 17 Mar. 1671, wh. was
sec. w. of Moses Draper, and next of Joseph Grant; Judah, d. soon;
Ann, 31 Oct. 1674; and Judah, again, 7 Dec. 1676. PETER, Yarmouth
1678, may have been s. of that John, b. aft. his f.'s shipwreck, and so
call. in mem. of that babe lost in the disaster of 1635. Yet I marvel,
that some earlier writer was not enabled to foll. up the geneal. PETER,
Milton, youngest s. of Rev. Thomas, freem. 1678, at the same time with
his friend, the first Ch. just. Sewal, accomp. ano. classmate, Samuel
Danforth, to Europe, and on his d. near the end of 1676, came back
soon; m. 21 Nov. 1677, Theodora, d. of Rev. John Oxenbridge of the
first ch. wh. had eight yrs. bef. been in fierce enmity with the third
ch. founded for his f. and so. I hope, some help was giv. to the quiet that
began, soon aft. the d. of Gov. Bellingham, to reign thro. the colony so
long disturb. He was ord. first min. of M. 1681, had Theodora; Bathsheba;
Oxenbridge, b. 17 May 1681, H. C. 1698; Elizabeth; Mary; Peter,
6 Oct. 1688, H. C. 1706, min. of Middleborough; John, d. young;
Thomas, 1693, d. at 28 yrs. and John, again. His ord. at M. was, if we
obey the auth. of Farmer, in Sept. 1681. There his w. d. 18 Nov.
1697, and he m. next Susanna, wid of Rev. John Bailey, wh. d. 4 Sept.
1724 in her 59th yr. and he m. Elizabeth wid. of the first Joshua Gee, and d.
Eliot says 17, but Farmer incorrect. 27 Dec. 1727. Strange. does
Farmer give him the wid. of Rev. Joshua Gee at 3d w. when Gee was
the surv. by many yrs. and his mo.-in-law Elizabeth d. of Judah Thacher bec.
third w. of Peter T. His preach. a Serm. that Eliot calls beautif. on the
d. of G.'s w. but that was only a single yr. bef. his own. RODOLPHUS,
or RALPH, Duxbury, s. of Thomas, m. 1 Jan. 1670, Ruth, d. of George
Partridge of the same, had Thomas, b. 9 Oct. foll. Elizabeth 1 Mar. 1672;
Ann, 26 Nov. 1673, d. young; Ruth, 1 Nov. 1675; Rodolophus, 9 Jan.
1678; Lydia, 24 Jan. 1680; Mary 8 Mar. 1682; Ann, again, 30 Mar.
1684; and Peter, 17 Aug. 1686; was constable 1678, and sev. yrs. from
1685, clk. of the town. But his benevo. carr. him to Chilmark on
Martha's vineyard, where he preach. many yrs. and in June 1711 gave
to his s. "Rodolphus, alias Ralph" est. of 60 acres. See Mather's
Hecatompolis, in Mag. I. 27,and Geneal. Reg. XI. 242. Winsor,
235, misleads. * SAMUEL, Watertown, freem. 18 May 1642, was deac.
oft. selectman, rep. 1665-9, on 30 Nov. of wh. last he d. by w. Hannah
adm. of the ch. at Cambridge, 31 May 1667, had Hannah, b. 9 Oct.
1645; and Samuel, 20 Oct. 1648. The wid. Hannah, in her will of 16
Apr. 1682, with codic. of 20 Dec. foll. pro. 3 Apr. next, ment. gr.-ch.