Transcript:Savage, James. Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England/v4p520

me. tho. Goodwin calls him Samuel, b. 20 Nov.; Hannah, 17, bapt. 22
Feb. 1652; Timothy, b. 5 Jan. 1653; Mary, 8 July 1656, d. soon;
Mary, again, 12, bapt. 24 Oct. 1658; Sarah, 3 Dec. 1660; Abigail, 7
June 1663; John, again, 19, bapt. 23 July 1665; and Jonathan, 9, bapt.
20 Oct. 1667, and perhaps more. Goodwin adds Judah, b. 20 Mar.
1670; and Ann, 25 Feb. 1672. I suppose he liv. in that part wh. bec.
Medfield. NATHANIEL, Medfield, s. of the preced. was freem. 1672,
driv. by Ind. hostil. to Roxbury, by w. Hannah had Jonathan, b. 9 Oct.
1677; and prob. had other ch. at M. for the name spread much in that
vicinage. OLIVER, Billerica, s. of Rev. Samuel of the same, m. 22
Jan. 1690, Ann. d. of capt. Jonathan Danforth of the same, had nine ch.
of wh. only Samuel, b. 6 Sept. 1702, f. of a respecta. line, is kn. to me;
d. 22 Dec. 1736. SAMUEL, Lynn, b. at Boston, Co. Line. 20 Nov.
1597, s. of John Whiting, the mayor of the borough, was matric. 1613
at Emanuel, the Puritan Coll. of the Univ. of Cambridge, as it was
then stigmatiz. had his degrees 1616, and 1620, preach. as chaplain three
yrs. in private fams. if Mather be correct, after his master's degr. and
then went to Lynn Regis, Co. Norfolk, spent ano. three yrs. as collea.
or curate of the rector, and being disturb. by his diocesan, rem. to Skirbeck,
close to his native place. Aft. bur. his first w. by wh. he had two
s. wh. d. in Eng. and one d. brot. to our country, Mather says he m. a
d. of Oliver St. John, a Bedforsh. man. of fam. nearly relat. to the
Lord St. John of Bletso, wh. may all be true, but the writer confuses
the time very cruelly, when he should tell the date of her m. or d. by
saying she "stayed with her worthy consort forty-seven yrs. went in the
seventy-third yr. of his age unto him to whom her soul had been," &c.
Taking the pains to extract meaning out of this gabble, by common arithmetic,
we find reason to see that Mather need not be believed literally;
as thus, W. was in his 73d yr. in 1669, and the union having existed 47
yrs. of course it began in 1622, wh. is rather rearly for him who had obt.
his master's degree in 1620, m. one w. had three ch. and lost her. I
have learn. to distrust the author of the Magnalia in all cases where he
employs roundabout instead of direct phraseology, and even in this is
sometimes careless. He came in the same ship with Wheelwright, who
had been his neighbor in Co. Line. arr. 26 May 1636, and sett. 8 Nov.
next in the ch. of Lynn, freem. 7 Dec. foll. tho. the prefix of respect is
not found with his name. With him came w. s. Samuel, b. at Shirbeck,
25 Mar. 1633, H. C. 1653, but not entit. to his A. M. until 1656, and
two ds. of wh. one was Dorothy, b.; by the first w. who m. 4 June 1650,
Thomas Weld of Roxbury; and the other, Elizabeth by sec. w. m. Rev.
Jeremiah Hobart. At L. he prob. had John, H. C. 1657, bef. ment.
and certain. Joseph, b. 1641, H. C. 1661, bef. ment. ano. s. and ano. d.