Transcript:Savage, James. Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England/v4p282

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more, also at Boston, under the new chart. 1692, had serv. in Philip's war
as a capt. on the first outbreak, and was of the Mass. Counc. d. 2 by town
rec. but 22 Oct. 1718, in his 76th yr. by the gr.st. His d. Deborah m. 1
Dec. 1692, John Croad. PETER, Boston, s. of George, m. Elizabeth d. of the
Rev. George Burrows (wh. had on 19 Aug. 1692 suffer. by judicial
murder under Stoughton, at wh. Cotton Mather assit.) and George,
Elias, Peter, William, and Moses. This last is head of a numerous and
disting. progeny. RICE, or RISE, Kittery, 1647 submit. to Mass. Nov.
1652, was of Boston 1654, then 38 yrs. old. ROWLAND, Springfield,
1646, m. 14 Apr. 1647, Sarah, d. of Samuel Chapin, had Joseph, b. 6
Jan. 1648, d. next yr.; Samuel, 2 Mar. 1649, d. in few days; Mary, 25
Mar. 1650, d. in few days; Joseph, again, 25 Mar. 1651; Benjamin, 23
May 1653; Josiah, 4 Apr. 1655, d. soon; Josiah, again, 28 Oct. 1657,
d. in few days; Samuel, again, 6 May 1662, d. at 39 yrs. unm.; a d. 14
Sept. 1666, wh. m. 1692, James Warriner the sec. Mary, 9 Jan. 1669,
d. next yr.; and Mercy 15 May 1671, wh. m. 30 Mar. 1689 John Bagg;
beside two others of wh. neither liv. long eno. to find a name, so that of
13 only 5 ch. liv. to adult age. he took o. of alleg. 31 Dec. 1678, or
next day, had been at Hadley 1669, and perhaps at Westfield 1670; his
w. d. 5 Aug. 1684; and he d. at S. 21 Feb. 1698. SAMUEL, Marshfield,
s. perhaps of William the sec. m. 27 May 1680, Mercy, d. of the
sec. William Ford, but I kn. no more exc. his d. 2 Sept. 1720. THOMAS,
the first name in the list of passeng. in the William and Francis, wh. arr.
at Boston, 5 June 1632, hav. sail. from London, 9 Mar. bef. was only
placed there, as I am wholly satisf. to befool the officers wh. might make
disagreea. inquir. See 4 Mass. Hist. Coll. I. 92. WILLIAM, Newbury,
came in the Mary Ann of Yarmouth 1637, emb. in May, aged 16, unm.
husbandman of Great Comberton in Co. Worcester [See 4 Mass. Histo.
Coll. I. 99], m. 8 Mar. 1666, Susanna, wid. of Robert Rogers, wh. by
this m. had no ch. and d. 29 Mar. 1677. He d. 30 Sept. 1690. WILLIAM,
Marshfield, a. 1640, made freem. of the Col. 17 Mar. 1642, had
come, I think, with Rev. Richard Blinman, Hugh Caulkins, and other
pious persons from the princip. of Wales, or the W. of Eng. not in 1630,
as Farmer had it, and Miss Thomas repeats, merely, I suppose, out of
reverence for the inscr. on the gr.st. call. him "one of the founders of
New Plymouth Col." as if a man of his reputa. and import. would not
many yrs. earlier be made freem. or mortuary legends applied in a
subsequ. age were not proverbial for lack of precision. He was chos.
Assit. 1642, and so contin. exc. in 1645 and 6 to his last yr. d. Aug.
1651, aged 78 nearly. His will of 9 July preced. in abstr. in Geneal.
Reg. IV. 319. WILLIAM, Marshfield, s. perhaps of the preced. but more
prob. of the first Nathaniel, and Miss Thomas says, in 1638, b. in Eng.