Transcript:Savage, James. Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England/v4p516


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1654. Farmer, I think, was misinform. a. s. William. WILLIAM, Ipswich,
the freem. 1671, may have been that youth, in 1635, aged 14, wh.
came from London in the Increase, under protect. of Philemon Dalton,
and perhaps his serv. His w. Mary, by wh. he had ch. unkn. to me by
name, d. 22 Feb. 1682, and he m. 21 Sept. foll. Sarah Foster, wid. perhaps
of Renold. WILLIAM, Boston, nam. with two others by Sir
Edmund Andros in one of this few reasonable commiss. to obt. contribut.
for build. an Episcop. ch. in Boston, Mar. 1688. See 3 Mass. Hist.
Coll. I. 84. ZECHARIAH, Haverhill, call. serv. of Stephen Webster,
1665, was of Salem 1669, but sett. at H. took o. of alleg. 28 Nov. 1677,
m. 23 Oct. 1678, Sarah Rumery, had Zechariah, b. 15 May 1680.
Among the ch. mem. of Boston, No. 511 is Charity White, singlewoman,
adm. 13 June 1641, wh. had ho. and ld. to dispose of at her d. 18 yrs.
later, but prob. no near relat. as she gave most of her property to the
deacons of the same. See Geneal. Reg. X. 265. Seventy-nine gr. of
this name, in 1834, are noted by Farmer, of wh. thirty at Harv. seventeen
at Yale, and thirty-two at the younger N. E. coll.

    WHITEHAIRE, or WHITHEIRE, ABRAHAM, Salem, as Mr. Felt's Ann.
I. 171 ment. under 1638, perhaps stands for Whittier, sometimes appears
Whiteyear. He was 60 yrs. old in 1669.

    WHITEHAND, GEORGE, Charlestown, join. the ch. 4 Aug. 1633, was
made freem. 14 May 1634, and no more is heard of him by me.

    WHITEHEAD, DANIEL, Huntington or Newtown, L. I. 1650, was one
of the patentees in the gr. of Gov. Nichols 1666, left s. Daniel, Jonathan,
David, and Adam. DANIEL, Newtown, L. I. s. prob. eldest of the
preced. m. Abigail, d. of Thomas Stevenson, sett. at Jamaica on the isl.
was major, and d. 1704 in his 58th yr. leav. s. Jonathan, Thomas, and
sev. ds. [[ISAAC, New Haven 1648, had Susanna, b. 5 Aug. 1650;
Isaac, 20 Nov. 1652; Mary, 20 Nov. 1654; Sarah, 3 Jan. 1656;
Samuel, 15 June 1658; Joseph, 29 Apr. 1661; and Grace, 12
Nov. 1663; rem. soon aft. 1666, perhaps to N. J. Susanna m.
3 Jan. 1667, Nathan Bunnill. JOHN, Branford 1660, m. 25 May
of that yr. Martha, d. of Lesley Bradfield, had Mary, b. 6 May
1662; Hannah, 10 May 1664; John, 20 Feb. 1666; Martha or Mercy,
10 Jan. 1668; Damaris, 20 Jan. 1670; Samuel, 24 Nov. 1672; Eliphalet,
27 Sept. 1674; Eliz. Oct. 1677; and Thomas, 17 Feb. 1681; and
he d. 1695. Seven ch. and wid. Martha attend. the inv. He was one
of the party to new ch. covenant in 1667, and in 1669 nomin. for freem.
RICHARD, Windsor, serv. on the jury of July Ct. 1640, m. Mary, wid.
of William Hopkins, and no more is kn. of him; but his w. was liv.
1670 with her d. Lewis. SAMUEL, Cambridge 1635, Hartford, perhaps
an orig. propr. serv. in the Pequot war 1637, and long aft. he had rem.
to New Haven had gr. of 50 acres, in 1671, was made serg. of the N. H.