Transcript:Savage, James. Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England/v4p616

ascrib. not the disappoint. of just expecta. as a train. politician might
have done, to any more cause than the rashness and imprudence of
Mather, wh. had craftily alarm. the fear of Gov. Hinckley by suggest.
of the peril that Plymouth jurisdict. might be annex. to New York.
He d. 23 July 1700, and his wid. d. 3 June 1714, aged 71. Of his will,
very judic. in bestowing, upon w. and five ch. the eldest d. w. of Elisha
Wadsworth having been provid. for at m. Francis Jackson, Esq. in
addit. to very many other favors, gave me a copy. JOHN, Dorchester,
must have come in 1634 or earlier, as he was made deac. on the gather.
in Aug. 1636 of the new ch. at D. for Richard Mather, when the
larger part of the first mem. had gone to Conn. with Warham. He
brot. w. Margaret, d. prob. of Thomas Smith of London. He was
freem. 14 Mar. 1639, rep. 1646, and oft. aft. selectman in 1648 and bef.
and aft. went to Eng. (Mr. Clapp in Hist. of D. says) 1652, and in
few yrs. aft. his coming again, rem. to Boston, was an ironmonger, and
gen. trader, made rul. elder at the first ch. and d. 16 Aug. 1687, aged
85 or 6 yrs. From the numb. and dates of many of his ch. I feel confid.
that he had sec. w. as Benjamin, bapt. 15 Apr. 1649; Henry, 9 June
1650; Martha, b. 23 Feb. bapt. 14 Mar. 1652; Esther, 7, bapt. 11
June 1654, prob. d. young; Ruth, bapt. prob. 25 May 1656; but afr.
most patient investigat. Mr. Clapp is sure only of portion of these, as
ch. of John, and thinks the two first nam. may have belong. to his br.
Thomas. No great value attaches to the decision, as neither liv. long.
But John, s. of John was also bapt. 15 Apr. 1649. By his will of 9
July preced. his dec. pro. 1 Sept. foll. are nam. only s. John; ds. Hannah
Overman, the eldest ch. w. of Thomas, wh. had first, in 1656, been
w. of Mahaleel Munnings; Deborah, bapt. 23 May 1641, wh. m. a
Cutter, as Clapp in Hist. of Dorchester, 138, reads, but I doubt, bec. d.
Deborah seems ment. apart from d. Cutter; d. Fisher, whose h. is call.
Daniel, tho. the reason is not seen, and perhaps the name is wrong; d.
Johnson, wh. was Rebecca, perhaps the eldest, bapt. 2 Dec. 1638, sec.
w. in Oct. 1662, of Matthew; d. Lydia Ballard, bapt. 13 Apr. 1645,
with whose h. I am unacq.; d. Mary Edmunds, whose h. is unkn.; and
d. Mountford, wh. prob. was Ruth, w. of Henry. JOHN, Boston, s. of
the preced. m. 5 May 1685, Hannah Baker, was freem. 1690, liv. perhaps
some time at Dorchester, where his w. d. 18 Sept. of that yr. had
28 yrs. NOAH, Newton, s. of Thomas of the same, m. 10 Dec. 1664,
Theodosia, d. perhaps eldest, of deac. John Jackson of the same, had
Thomas, b. 29 Apr. 1666, d. young; Elizabeth 30 Sept. 1668; Caleb; Margaret,
1 Mar. 1672; Hannah, 1 Apr. 1674; Mary; Esther, 1 Apr.
1678; Sarah, 5 Jan. 1681; and Thomas, again, 29 Apr. 1686; was
freem. 1685, capt. in 1690, when, march. to relieve Casco, in hard fight,