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in Boston harbor, ever since call, by his name, of wh. it is said his agent,
William Trevore, had tak. possn. 1619, as is suppos. to be prov. by evidence
of an Ind. sagam. of Tevore hims. and of capt. Standish; but the
value of such testimony is small. See the note of Deane, on Bradford's
Hist. 209. It belongs to the town of Dorchester, but gr. by our governm.
to T. and there he d. a. 1628, leav. inf. ch. John. EBENEZER, Guilford,
s. of the fist Anthony of New Haven, m. June 1671, Deborah, d. of
William Dudley of G. had s. Jabesh, b. 16 Oct. 1672, d. young; and
John, 1674, wh. d. early; was propound. for freem. in 1669; but prob.
d. bef. mid. age, his will of 16 Aug. 1676, recit. that he was "a. 28
yrs. old." It gave his prop. 1/3 to w. 2/3 to s. John; and his inv. was
brot. in 6 Nov. foll. He is call. a Scotchman, but this must have regard
to his f. and as the number of the name of John was unusually great,
among the Thompsons, most of wh. would be Eng. yet one prob. was
from the Northern kingdom. EDMUND, Salem 1637, from the neighb.
of Framingham, in Co. Sufflk, where he had m. Martha, d. of John
Fiske, had Martha; Edmund; Thomas, bapt. 12 Feb. 1643; and Hannah,
bapt. 4 July 1647; all b. in N. E. adm. of the ch. at S. 29 Dec.
1639; went home and liv. at Yarmouth, there had three more ch. wh. d.
inf. John, Esther, and John, again; was a sea capt. and in the fine tract
of Suffolk emigrants, by Mr. Hunter, 3 Mass. Hist. Coll. X. 159, he
quotes Candler's MS. as saying, that aft. the d. of Charles I. he serv. the
States of Holland. he was s. of John of Holkham, Co. Norfk. EDWARD
came in the Mayflower 1620, d. 4 Dec. bef. the sh. reac. Plymouth
from Cape Cod. He was a serv. of William White. EDWARD,
Newbury, s. of deac. Samuel of Braintree, says Farmer in MS. taught
the sch. sev. yrs. bef. and aft. leav. coll. began to preach at Simsbury,
June 1687, by w. Sarah had Samuel, b. 1 Sept. 1691, H. C. 1710 (the
min. of Gloucester wh. d. 8 Dec. 1724); and Edward, 14 May 1696;
was ord. at Marshfield, 14 Oct. 1696, and had William, 26 Apr. 1697,
H. C. 1718 (min. at Scarborough, f. of Rev. John of Berwick, H. C.
1765, wh. d. 21 Dec. 1828, aged 88); John, 1699; and Joseph, 1704;
beside ds. Sarah; Ann; and Abigail. He d. sudden. 16 Mar. 1705;
acc. the ch. rec. in Gen. reg. VIII. 229, tho. the inscript. on his gr.st.
Gen. Reg. IV. 316, reads 10 Mar. and the dilig. Edit. had (General. Reg.
VII. 278) correct. Farmer on that author. as if the gr.st. had suffer.
less by exposure to the weather, than the rec. of the ch. in a century and
a half. GEORGE, Lynn, by w. Sarah, had Sarah, b. 25 Oct. 1659; rem.
to Reading, there had John, b. 24 Mar. 1661; and d. 7 Sept. 1674. In
his will of 4 Dec. 1669, of wh. he made w. Sarah extrix. he names ch.
John, Mary, George, and Sarah; and by the codic. of 1 July 1674, s.
Jonathan, all minors. HENRY, Cambridge, but of Boston perhaps short