Transcript:Savage, James. Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England/v4p660

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Samuel, 17 May 1682; Dorcas, wh. d. 7 June 1686; John, 9 Aug.
1687; Hannah, 6 Feb. 1689; Stephen; Hezekiah, 22 May, 1695;
Dorcas; and Keziah, 21 Jan. 1702; as says the Notice in Geneal. Reg.
IV. 357, corrected and enlarged. He d. 29 Nov. 1734, at N. SAMUEL,
Westford, of wh. I see nothing exc. that he was f. of Abel, b. a. 1682,
over whose corpse, taken from Charles riv. in wh. he was drown. 28
June 1707, the monum. at Cambridge bears the inscript. of his date in
the UNIVERSITY, this term being thus early employ. SAMUEL, Wethersfield,
s. of the first Samuel of the same, m. 12 May 1686, Rebecca,
d. of Moses Crafts; she little older than 15 yrs. at the time, d. 14 Mar.
1711; and he m. Aug. 1723, Abigail, wid. of Samuel Walker, and d. 12
Oct. 1734. His wid. d. 1 Jan. 1740. SAMUEL, Sudbury, s. of Edward
of the same
, m. Mary, d. of Cyprian Stevens, had Mary, b. 10 Feb.
1704; Dorothy, 7 Mar. 1706; Abigail, 19 Feb. 1708; Isabel, 3 Feb.
1710; William, 22 Dec. 1712; beside Cyprian, and Hannah, both
earlier; and d. at Rutland, says Barry, 15 Jan. 1740, his w. hav. d. 18
May preced. SAMUEL, Springfield, youngest adult s. of the first Abel of
the same
, m. 1710, Mary Case of Lebanon, and in 1724 liv. at Norwich.
THOMAS, Exeter 1639. THOMAS, Wethersfield 1639,. may have been
earlier at Watertown, or other Mass. settlem. brot. from Eng. w. and ch.
sev. perhaps, had more on this side of the water. For sec. w. by wh.
he had no ch. he took Margaret, wid. of John Elson (wh. had been wid.
of Hilliard, perhaps Hugh, and had s. Benjamin, Job, and John H.)
He was much engag. 1658 in the controv. a. Rev. John Russell; and
d. Apr. 1670. Of his ch. Samuel, James, Thomas, Joseph, Lydia, it is
very diffic. to make any arrangem. of dates. Chapin, p. 179, adds to
these a Mary. The wid. d. 1671; and the d. Lydia d. bef. he came to
W. m. Joseph Smith. THOMAS, Wethersfield, s. perhaps eldest, of the
preced. freem. 1654, d. 23 Aug. 1683, leav. good est. to ch. Thomas, b.
1 Mar. 1660; Mary, 4 Mar. 1664; Hannah, 10 Mar. 1670; and Lydia,
12 Mar. 1673. Elizabeth b. 17 Feb. 1676 had d. bef. Wh. was his w. is
uncert. tho. Chapin gives him Elizabeth d. of Lieut. William Chittenden, yet
this may more prob. belong to the succeed. THOMAS, Guilford, m. 16
Jan. 1658, prob. Elizabeth d. of William Chittenden of the same, wh. d.
without issue. In 1673, he m. at G. Sarah Benton, had Mary, b. 1674,
wh. m. 1698, Gideon Allen; Daniel, 1676, d. at 22 yrs.; Mercy, 1680,
wh. m. Thomas Burges; Mehitable, 1684; Abel, 1688, d. young; but
aft. his f. wh. d. 6 Dec. 1692; and his wid. d. nineteen days aft. WALTER,
Andover, m. 26 Feb. 1668, Susanna Johnson, whose f. is unkn.
but prob. she was sis. of the same of the many Johnsons in that town, had
Christopher, wh. d. 16 Jan. 1673 or 4, and perhaps others. He w. d. 3
June 1684, and he m. 9 Sept. foll. Elizabeth with a surname to be reject. on