Transcript:Savage, James. Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England/v4p611

Coytmore, sis. of Increase Nowell, of Charlestown, in Dec. foll. bec. his
fourth w. and had Joshua, bapt. 17 Dec. 1648, wh. liv. little more than
three yrs. The Gov. d. 26 Mar. 1649, and so totally had he giv. his
est. as well as life to the public, that his inv. was only �103.10s. 11d.
His wid. m. 10 Mar. 1652, John Coggan of Boston, bef. six. mos. from
wh. day all of the sixteen ch. exc. four, John, Stephen, Deane, and
Samuel were d. Mary m. 1632 or 3, Samuel Dudley, and d. 12 Apr.
1643. She was the only d. wh. grew up to maturity. Samuel will not
seem. to be deserv. of a capital distinct. in this work, bec. he did not
reside. in N. E. but m. in Holland, had est. in Antigua, of wh. isl. he
was dep.-gov. when he d. a. 1677, had three s. Joseph, Henry, and
Samuel, as is said, and three ds. of wh. one m. Gov. Edward Byam, and
there d. a. 1700. Ano. d. m. George Thomas, as is said in the Hist. of
Antigua. To close this article without giv. extr. from docum. found
by me in a governm. office in London 1842, a print. in 3 Mass. Hist.
Coll. VIII. 323, would be ungrateful. A letter of 19 Nov. 1632 to Sir
John Cooke, princip. Secr. to his Maj. and one of the Privy Counc. from
Thomas Wiggin, describes the condit. of Mass. wh. he had lately visit.
and proceeds: "for the Gov. hims. I have obs. him to be discreet an
sober man, giv. good examp. to all the. plant. wear. plain appar. such as
may well beseem a mean man, drink. ordinar. water, and when he is not
convers. a. matters of justice, putt. his hand to any ordina. labor with
his serv. rul. with much. mildness, and in this partic. I observ. him to be
strict in execut. of justice upon such as have scandaliz. this state, either
in civ. or eccles. governm. to the gr. contentm. of those that are best
affect. and to the terror of offend." JOHN, Ipswich, eldest s. of the
preced. b. at Groton in Co. Suffk. bred. at Dublin Univ. 1622-5 (not,
as Mather says, first at Cambridge), sail. in the great fleet, fitted out
under the Duke of Buckingham, in June 1627, for relief of the Hugue nots
at Rochelle, serv. as Secr. of Capt. Best of the Due Repulse, but
was not encourage by the suceess of that expedit. to further serv. in ld. or
naval force, in 1628 was an attache of Sir Peter Wich, the ambass. from
Charles I. to Turkey, and the next yr. assist. his f. in prepar. for the gr.
work of coloniz. Mass. His f. left his w. and childr. exc. Henry, Samuel,
and Stephen, Mar. 1630, under his care, and in of Aug. of next yr. he brot.
in the Lion all the rest of the fam. with his own w. Martha, his cous. (d.
of Thomas Fones of London, dec.) wh. he m. at the age of 19, 8 Feb.
1631, at Groton. John Eliot, the gr. apostle of the Ind. was a fellowpasseng.
and the ship arr. at Boston, 3 Nov. At the elect. in May 1632,
being adm. freem. 30 Apr. bef. he was chos. one of the Assist. tho. "not
above twenty-three yrs. of age," says heedless Mather, II. cap. XI.
when his own figures in the same paragr. made him above twenty-six.