Transcript:Savage, James. Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England/v4p281

1672; Abigail, 21 Nov. 1674; John, 4 Mar. 1676; Hannah, 26 Apr.
1678; Josiah, 15 Jan. 1680; Rebecca, 20 Sept. 1681 or 2; Jeremiah,
16 Feb. 1685; and perhaps others. JOHN, Stratford, of wh. I kn. only
the curious caution, deriv. in part from the will of Rev. Adam Blakeman,
16 Mar. 1665, in which he gave L5 to his d. Dorothy (the wid. of his s.
John, w. d. so long bef. as 1662) "if she m. not J. T. and shall take her
friends' consent in the matter or contin. a wid." and in part from the
decision of a court, 10 Oct. 1665, relat. to a reference of the claim of T.
to the person of the wid. wh. prob. had giv. encouragem. to ano. suitor.
Poor Thomas lost by the award, we may presume, for on 31 Oct. 1665,
the wid. m. Francis Hall. See Goodwin's Genealog. Notes. JOHN,
Woodbury 1690 perhaps, but not prob. s. of the preced. and John, bapt.
30 Aug. 1695; Samuel, 10 Sept. 1699; and Thomas, 5 Mar. 1701. Of
one JOHN, wh. d. at Framingham, 1730, Farmer in MS. relates that his
f. was one of the first sett. of Boston, to wh. tradit. his judgm. would
have yield. little credit, had it not been assail. on it weak side; for the
story went on, that he, the Framingham, man, was upwards of 100 yrs.
old. Now only one man ever reach. his century at F. and that was
Isaac Clark, while the names of sixty-eight persons in F. wh. d. at the
age of 85 and upwards, furnish. us by Barry, do not include any Thomas.
The first part of the myth, then, may not be more than ten yrs. beyond
the truth, but his example of longevity is sixteen yrs. at least, short of
the pretence. JOSEPH, Springfield, s. of Rowland, by w. Mary had
Mary, b. 1674; a ch. 1675; ano. 1676, wh. all d. soon; Samuel, 1677;
the preced. all b. at Hatfield whence he rem. prob. to Springfield, and
lastly to Lebanon; but at S. may have been b. most of the other ch.
Mary, 29 Dec. 1679; Joseph, 14 June 1682; Rowland, 26 Mar. 1685;
Sarah, 5 Feb. 1687; Ebenezer, 24 Nov. 1688; Josiah, 7 Oct. 1690;
and Mercy, 12 Dec. 1692; sw. alleg. 8 Feb. 1679, and was adm. freem.
1690. NATHANIEL, Marshfield, 1643, s. of William, b. in Eng. a.
1606, prob. came with his f. 1640, may have brot w. and ch. William;
had Nathaniel, b. 1643, and ds. certain, Mary; Elizabeth b. 1646; and Dorothy;
perhaps one or more b. in Eng. nam. in the will of their gr.f. and
d. 13 Feb. 1675. He was lieut. and soon made capt. Mary m. Simon
Ray of Block Island, as Miss Thomas tells. * NATHANIEL, Marshfield,
s. of the preced. m. 19 Jan. 1664, Deborah, youngest d. of Nicholas
Jacobs of Hingham, had Nathaniel, Joseph, Deborah, Dorothy, William,
Elisha, Joshua, Caleb, Isaac, and Mary; of wh. Dorothy b. 6 Nov.
1670, m. 20 Nov. 1688, Joseph Otis. His w. d. 17 June 1696, and he
took 3 Nov. foll. sec. w. at Boston, Elizabeth wid. of Capt. William Condy
(but the m. certif. by Cotton Mather is of Elizabeth Dolberry) wh. d. 11 Oct.
1713, if we believe the inscr. on the gr.st.; was rep. 1672, and seven yrs.