Transcript:Savage, James. Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England/v4p583

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GEORGE, Kittery, perhaps s. of the preced. or only by ill chirogr. may
be pervert. to mean ano. was 36 yrs. old in 1654. HENRY, Dedham
1639, freem. 2 June 1641, m. 24 Nov. 1642, Mary, d. of Michael Metcalf
the first, had Michael, b. 7 Aug. 1644; Mary, bapt. 21 Nov. 1652;
Sarah, 22 Jan. 1654; Ephraim, June 1656. HUMPHREY, Exeter 1645,
s. of Thomas, m. Dec. 1663, Judith, d. of William Hersey of Hingham.
ISAAC, Newton, s. of the first Nathaniel m. July 1685, Susanna
Andrews, had Isaac, b. 14 May foll.; Samuel; Ebenezer; Susanna;
Hannah; and Abigail. JACOB, Braintree, freem. 2 June 1641, had
Isaac, b. 28 Jan. of that yr.; and Sarah, 28 Jan. 1642. JAMES, Woburn,
by w. Deborah had a d. in 1688 whose name is not giv. prob. d.
soon; Deborah, 27 Feb. 1690; and Abigail, 8 Feb. 1692. Perhaps
he rem. JEREMIAH, New Shoreham, or Block Isl. s. of Samuel of
Portsmouth, R. I.
by w. Mary had Elizabeth; Mary; Samuel; Jeremiah;
John; Sarah; James; Mary; George; Alice; Ann; and Judith; and
d. 1740. JOHN, Boston 1630, b. at Windsor where his f. Rev. William,
of wh. he was third s. had a prebendal stall, in 1588, from Eton sch.
went to the univ. of Cambridge in 1602, as Mather tells, much of whose
story of his early days has apocryphal sound, there of Christ's Coll. had
his A. B. 1605-6, and A. M. 1609, as by me in the registry of the Univ.
seen, tho. Mather would have it Emanuel; and Farmer writes at King's,
where, indeed, may, as the Magnalia tells, have been the adm. Aft.
serv. as chaplain in sev. houses, he was induct. at Sudbury in the S.
border of Co. Suffolk; there contin. ten or twelve yrs. but disgust. with
the worhsip of forms and vestments growing in the ch. he encourag. the
coloniz. of the Mass. Bay, and came 1630, with the Gov. and Comp.
bring. the chart. in the Arbella. His w. Elizabeth whose name is not distinct.
read in Mather, tho. in his usual roundabout way he says, Magn.
III. cap. 3, p. 42, that W. designed to m. a d. "of the lady Mansfield,
wid. of Sir John," remain. in Eng. prob. with care of the ch. Edmund
first b.
(so nam. for his gr. uncle Edmund Grindall, the puritan archbishop
of Canterbury 1575-83); John; and others, if there were more;
but when he went back to Eng. and came again 1632, he brot. her and
s. John, but the oldest s. perhaps never was on this side of the ocean.
The w. was sis. of the w. of Robert Keayne, and her br. John with his
fam. got over to Boston, two yrs. later, in poverty; and torment Keayne
very much, if his will be good evid. as may, partly, be read in Geneal.
Reg. VI. 156. He made sec. voyage to Eng. 1634, and came again in
the summer, of 1635, wh. led me to mistake, formerly, the time of his
w.'s coming, as she did not join our ch. bef. 20 Mar. 1636; whereas we
see. that this d. Mary was bapt. 8 Sept. 1633, unless the ch. rec. means a
week later, the copy of town rec. certif. that she was b. 12 Sept. He