Transcript:Savage, James. Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England/v4p273

John, and Hannah, who were ch. of John Holmes and her d. Hannah,
m. 13 Sept. 1664, wh. d. 24 May 1670; s. Samuel and his first ch.
with sev. other person, wh. I judge to be not relat. but only friends.
SAMUEL, Watertown, s. of the preced. at Lynn m. 11 Apr. 1676, Mary
Farnsworth, prob. d. of Mathias, had Mary, b. 1 Aug. 1681, d. at 9
mos. Samuel, 8 Apr. 1683; John, 22 Jan. 1686; Hannah, 30 Apr.
1688, d. young; Mary, again, 17 Sept. 1690; Hannah, again, 10 Dec.
1692; Abigail, 6 June, 1694; Mercy, 2 Jan. 1698; Sarah, 30 Nov.
1699; and Ebenezer, 17 Mar. 1704; freem. 1690, was a lieut. and d.
21 Oct. 1726. Of the Watertown fam. descend. all retain the old spell.
as if deriving their name from the early occupat. of a thatcher, wh.
seems very prob. THOMAS, Weymouth, s. of Rev. Peter, rector of St.
Edmunds, Salisbury, in Co. Wilts, b. 1 May 1620, bef. his f. was induct.
(but the fam. orign was prob. Co. Somerset) came with his uncle
Anthony in the James from Southampton, arr. at Boston 4 June 1635,
went to Ipswich with his uncle and other friends, but avoid the peril of
their return in Aug. of the same, yr. in wh. all but Anthonly and his w.
were lost, was put under the direct. of Rev. Charles Chauncey of Scituate,
wh. prepared him for his profess. with great dilig. He m. 11 May
1643, Elizabeth youngest d. of Rev. Ralph Partridge of Duxbury, and was
ord. min. at W. (as success. of Samuel Newman, wh. rem. with any of
his flock to Rehoboth) 2 Jan.1645, not 1664, as in Gen. Reg. VIII. 183
the figures read, was freem. 1645, when the prefix of Mr. is strange.
omit. His good sense unit. with a general acquaint. in science of that
day acquir. for him great reput. as a physician, and to complete his
honors, Mather wh. always loves an exaggera. makes him compose a
Hebrew Lexicon, so compress. "that within one sheet of paper, he had
every considerable word of the language." The ch. were Thomas, Ralph;
alias Rodolphus; Peter, b. at Salem, (we kn. not by wh. accid. the mo.
was there) 18, bapt. 20 July 1651, H. C. 1671; Patience; and Elizabeth
wh. m. Nathaniel Davenport, the brave capt. k. in the gr. Narraganset
battle, 19 Dec. 1675, and next. m. 1677, Samuel Davis. His w. d. 2
June 1664, soon aft. wh. he m. Margaret, wid. of Jacob Sheaffe, d. of
Henry Webb, and rem. to Boston, join. the first ch. 4 Aug. 1667, and
was desir. to be min. of a new society there, since call. the O. S. ch.
growing out of the dissatisf. at the descept. artifices for bring. of Davenport
from New haven to succeed Wilson. In Oct. 1669, to save the feelings
of his fellow-worship. he took dismiss. to the ch. at Charlestown, and on
16 Feb. foll. was install, over the new ch. of B. and was held in high
esteem. In 1674, he with Increase Mather, was add. to former licensers
of the press; and he d. 15 Oct. 1678, as on p. 152 of the Magn. III. is
told, tho. on the next p. where he gives as a curiosity some elegiac