Transcript:Savage, James. Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England/v4p627

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Prospect, freem. 13 May 1640, ar. co. 1642, may have been at Salem
1646. JOHN, Dorchester, freem. 10 May 1643, perhaps rem. JOHN,
Plymouth 1643, of wh. gladly would I learn more than that his s. John
was b. 4 Mar. 1650; and Nathaniel, 25 Feb. 1652; and Isaac, 27 Feb.
1654; Sarah, Abigail, Mercy, Elizabeth and Hannah; beside that Mary wh.
m. 11 Dec. 1661, Rev. John Holmes, wh. must have been b. long bef.
either of the others, of wh. it is strange to find neither in Windsor, nor
any other author, a precise report. His d. Sarah m. 13 Feb. 1668,
John Fallowwell; and his own name is sometimes mistak. for that of
Atwood. JOHN, Newport, on the list of freem. 1655. JOHN, Taunton,
sw. in 1662, as witness to a nuncup. will, that he was 42 yrs. old.
JOHN, New London 1660, s. perhaps of the first John, as Miss Caulkins
in her Hist. shows 324, m. prob. Mary, d. of Walter Buddington.
JOHN, Dorchester, m. Elizabeth d. of Richard Hall. JOHN, Marlborough,
prob. eldest s. of John of Sudbury, by w. Lydia had John, b. 1670;
Lydia, 1672; Hannah, 1677; Joseph, d. soon; Joseph, again, 1682;
Sarah, 1685; Silence, 1689; Benjamin, 1691; and James, 1694; serv.
under his f. in the garrison ho. Oct. 1675, was constable 1677, and deac.
prob. that freem. of 26 Mar. 1691, exult. in the title of ens. JOHN,
Ipswich, m. 1 May 1676, Mary Healey, had Margaret, b. Sept. 1679;
Mary, 19 Dec. 1681; and he d. 14 Aug. 1684. JOHN, Concord, s.
prob. of Michael of the same, freem. 1690. JONAS, Springfield 1636,
rem. early to Wethersfield, sett. at Stamford 1641, unless this settlem.
refer rather to Weed, and in few yrs. was of L. I. at Hempstead, prob.
under, patient of 1644, bef. 1654 was of Southampton, and in few yrs.
was a commiss. under the jurisdict. of Conn. there. JONATHAN, Shirborn,
as that part of Medfield has bec. elder s. of Nicholas of the same,
had only posthum. d. aprropri. call. Silence, as she was b. the day aft.
the fall of her f. (and a few hrs. bef. d. of her mo.) She was k. in Philip's
war, 21 Feb. 1676, tho. not prob. a soldier. JOSEPH, Taunton, m. 1
Jan. 1680, Esther Walker, d. of James of the same. JOSIAH, Charlestown,
m. 28 Oct. 1657, Lydia Bacon, d. perhaps of Michael of the sec. had
Josiah, b. 10 Oct. 1658; Lydia, 23 Nov. 1659, d. next mo.; Lydia,
again, prob. 1662, both bapt. 6 July 1662, the w. hav. join. the ch. on
preced. Sunday; Samuel, 12 Nov. 1671; Joseph, 27 Dec. 1674; and
Ruth, 4 June 1676. JOSIAH, Ipswich, br. of Obadiah of the same, m.
23 Dec. 1684, a wid. whose name I cannot make out, but kn. no more of
him. JOSIAH, Woburn, s. of the first Josiah, by w. Abigail had Josiah,
b. 31 Aug. 1687; Lydia, 1 May 1689; Abigail, 10 Sept. 1691; Samuel,
10 Dec. 1693; Joseph, 25 Apr. 1696, d. at 17 yrs. in Geneal. Reg.
II. 387, mispr. 57 yrs.; Solomon, 23 Jan. 1699, d. at 9 mos.; and Ruth,
4 Jan. 1702. MARK, one of the soldiers in Turner's comp. 1676, was