Transcript:Savage, James. Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England/v4p503

princip. friends and adherents in 1638, he rem. to Exeter, of wh. he is
justly call. the founder, being the first signer of the civil combinat. on
Friday, 4 Oct. 1639; there prob. had Rebecca and Hannah, and at his
next home, prob. Eliz. and Sarah. When the N. H. planta. came under
rule of Mass. in 1642, he rem. to Wells, but aft. reconcil. with Winth.
and the rest of the governm. went 1647 to be collea. in the serv. of the
ch. with Dalton at Hampton, in 1657 was in Eng. and had favor with
Oliver Cromwell, wh. had been intimate with him at the Univ. but he
came back soon aft. the restorat. and was sett. min. 9 Dec. 1662, at Salisbury,
there d. 15 Nov. 1679, aged above 80 yrs. Of his s. John it may
be presum. that he was oldest ch. and never came to our side of the
Atlantic, but was a scholar, perhaps a preach. in Eng. wh. publish. at
London, a vindicat. of his f. in Nov. 1645, against the bitter aspersions
of Thomas Welde, and very likely may have thot. it useful to display
equal sprit. I can have no doubt that he was d. bef. the will of his f.
His will of 25 May preced. pro. 26 Nov. foll. names s. Samuel, but not
Thomas, wh. prob. was d. s.-in-law, Edward Rishworth, and gr. ch.
Edward Lyde, wh. was to pay something to his mo. Mary, then w. of the
first Theodore Atkinson, Mary White, d. of Edward Rishworth, Mary
Maverick, and William, Thomas, and Jacob Bradbury. In Lincolnsh.
and in Maine he had est. to bestow in beq. to heirs, but he thot. very little
of any in N. H. Several of these seem here not to be represent. but
prob. they had been provid. for at earlier days, or were d. without heirs.
We must look for fuller aco. to the will (made twelve yrs. bef.) of his
bach. br. Samuel Hutchinson. Of the six ds. with considerable confidence,
I assign. hs. to all: Sarah, the youngest, m. 1671, as his sec. w.
Richard Crispe (to her, for her portion, the f. call. hims. late of Belleau,
Co. Linc. gave, 22 Oct. 1677, his messuage, with appurtenanc. at Mawthorpe
in the parish of Willoughby, Co. Linc. to be enj. aft. d. of
donor); Eliz. m. George Parsons, Person, or Pearson; Rebecca m. 4
Dec. 1660, Samuel Maverick, and next, 12 Jan. or more prob. Mar.
1672, William Bradbury; Mary m. 4 Dec. 1660, Edward Lyde, and
next, Oct. 1667, Theodore Atkinson; Hannah m. Anthony Checkley;
and Catharine m. Robert Nanny, and next, Edward Naylor. * JOHN,
Wells, s. of Samuel, prob. or of Thomas, perhaps; was a col. and one
of the reps. 1692, bef. and aft. the new chart. a gent. of character above
suspicion, wh. to McGregor and his noble assoc. the pure blood of Londonerry
or Scotch Irish presbyterians, gave quitclaim deed, 20 Oct.
1719, at Boston, of the ld. "NOT TO EXCEED TEN MILES SQUARE," call.
Nutfield. That sale he deriv. authty. for, as he said, in the deed of Ind.
sachems to his gr.f. 17 May 1629, wh. most elaborately spurious, purported
to convey many thousand sq. miles, and has been satisfactor. shown