Transcript:Savage, James. Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England/v4p440

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that the edifice was erect. on the ld. by Thomas Welles in Feb. 1667,
convey. to Way, and by him held to his d. 12 July 1687, and in 1696,
assign. to Ebenezer, his only ch. b. at H. 4 Nov. 1673, by w. Mary.
The wid. Mary d. 1701. Of three ds. we kn. the m. Sarah, 4 Sept.
1684, to Ichabod Welles; and Elizabeth to his br. Joseph; and Lydia m.
1705, Jabez Whittlesey. GEORGE, said to be a partak. with Thomas
Purchase, in the early settlem. of the country near the junct. of the
Androscoggin with the Kennebeck, bef. 1630. He was a contribut. in
Eng. GEORGE, Dorchester, s. prob. of Henry the first, had div. in
neck lds. now South Boston, 1637, aft. at Boston, by w. Elizabeth had Elizabeth
b. 19 Mar. 1651; and as no more is heard of him at B. it seems to me
prob. that he was of Providence soon aft. there bound hims. in alleg. to
Charles II. 31 May 1666. George, Saybrook and Lyme, m. Elizabeth
only d. of John Smith of New London, whither he rem. had George and
Thomas, wh. d. there. GEORGE, New London, s. of the preced. m.
Susanna, d. of Joseph Nest, and d. a. 23 Feb. 1717. By reason of the
marvelous deep snow, his corpse could not be brot. to bur. bef. 7 Mar.
See Caulkins, 362. HENRY, Dorchester, prob. br. of the first Aaron,[1]
came in the Mary and John, 1630, says Roger Clap, a fellow passeng.
well adv. in life, brings w. Elizabeth and ch. prob. Samuel, Henry, Richard,
and Elizabeth beside ano. of his w. wh. was lost in the winter pass. hither of
the Lion, that had been charter. here soon aft. arr. of the Gov. and comp.
to go to Bristol for food, and was coming back in Dec. and Jan. 1630-1.
He had good est. but never desir. to be freem. liv. to 1667, aged 84, as
Blake's Annals tell. His w. had d. 23 June 1665, at the same age.
HENRY, Dorchester, s. or more prob. gr.s. of the preced. had in his will of
2 Dec. 1674, nam. sis. Elizabeth and br. Richard, beside uncle Aaron, so that
my infer. is, that he had no w. or ch. was a mariner, and s. of Richard.
JAMES, Newton, L. I. is first found there in 1656, and had large est.
soon, was a Quaker, had ch. James, Francis, John, Hannah, Elizabeth and
Martha, and d. 2 Oct. 1665. Riker, 378, makes Hannah m. Jeremiah
Burroughs; Elizabeth m. Arthur Albertis; and Martha m. Thomas Taylor.
Highly respect. are descend. RICHARD, Dorchester, s. of Henry the first,
b. in Eng. a . 1624, adm. freem. 10 May 1643, rem. to Salem, there by
w. Esther, d. of Thomas Jones, had Henry, bapt. 28 Dec. 1651; Elizabeth
8 Sept. 1653; Richard, 1654; Jonathan, 29 Dec. 1657, d. young; with
his w. join. the 2d ch. in Boston 17 Feb. 1661, yet had no more ch.
bapt. here, tho. by town rec. it seems, that w. Esther brot. him Hannah,
23 May 1662; and w. Bethia brot. Hannah, 13 July 1677. I strongly
suspect that in this last rec. by carelessness of the writer mo. and ch.
changed names; but it is of very slight importance, for his will of 2
Jan. 1697, pro. 28 Oct. foll. gave all his est. to w. Hannah, "hav. no