Transcript:Savage, James. Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England/v4p575

Samuel, 1714, d. at 18 yrs.; was Secr. of the Col. 1712 to 1734, and d.
24 Dec. 1741. JEREMIAH, Lynn 1637, found at Newport in the freemen's
list 1655. JOHN, Boston, so early a mem. with his w. Jane, in
the ch. at Boston, that it was not only bef. the date of orig. rec. and
numb. 135 and 6 in our ancient copy, but not a short time even prior to
6 Nov. 1632, when he was sw. freem. He perish. in the harbor, 21
Nov. 1634, as in Winthrop Hist. I. 150 is told. His w. d. early, as we
may infer from the fact being noted on the copy, that it was bef. the
beginning of the subsist. first ch. rec. An error in the Index to my
early Ed. of Winthrop's Hist. of N. E. had misled Farmer to the opin.
that this Boston man was the rep. in the first Gen. Ct. from Lynn, or at
least, to refer to my suppos. of identity. JOHN, Boston, m. 11 Jan.
1655, Hannah Else, as the rec. shows, but wh. was either h. or w. is
unkn. * JOHN, Duxbury 1640, bec. one of the first sett. of Bridgewater,
where he was deac. m. Elizabeth wid. of the sec. William Palmer, wh.
was a Hodgkins, had five s. and three ds. John; Nathaniel; Jonathan;
Comfort; Benjamin; Hannah; Elizabeth; and Sarah; says Winsor; but
Mitchell gives Joseph instead of Jonathan. In the absence of the
means of informat. I would suggest the inquiry, if that wid. were not
sec. w. of Mr. Willis, and some of his ch. b. by a former one. Mitchell
says his will, of 1692, pro. 1693, refers to the eight ch. of wh. Hannah
was w. of Nathaniel Hayward; Elizabeth m. a Harvey; and Sarah was w.
of John Ames; further he tells that he had four brs. Jonathan, Lawrence,
Nathaniel, and Francis, and leaves us to regret that only two of
them can be well discern. thro. the distance. He was the first rep. that
town ever sent, in 1657, and very oft. later. JOHN, Bridgewater, s. of
the preced. was a deac. m. Experience, d. of Nicholas Byram, had
John; Samuel, b. 1688; Experience; and Mary; and d. a. 1712, the
only date, and that uncert. that the historian of the town yields.
JOSEPH, by Mitchell made s. of the first John, was of Taunton, a propr.
1668-84, m. there a d. of Thomas Lincoln, and rem. to Scituate, where
he liv. 1689. JOSHUA, Windsor. See Wills. JOSIAH, Boston, mariner,
m. Oct. 1675, Hannah, d. of Mahalaleel Munnings, as in the deed
to him by her mo. wid. of Thomas Overman, who had first been wid. of
said Munnings, appears by our Reg. IX. 318. JOST, or JOIST, employ.
Mar. 1631, as surveyor of ordnance and cannonier, at £10. per. an.
prob. was a Dutchman, whose surname is near. as outlandish as that of
his bapt. being Weillust in one place, Willust in others of our Col. Rec.
I. wh. teaches us that in July 1632, he had leave to go home, now without
regret of Gov. Winthrop and was paid £5. towards his pass. but as in
Mar. 1635, Humphrey and Endicot were appoint. to admin. on his est.
to be div. among claimants, it may be feared that his skill was lost by