Transcript:Savage, James. Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England/v4p79

d. of Rev. Nicholas Streete, had Abigail, b. 5 Sept. 1665; ano. d. b.
1667, d. very soon; Daniel, 5 Sept. 1668; Mary 28 Oct. 1670; John,
Nov. 1673; Elizabeth 20 Sept. 1676; Samuel, 27 Jan. 1679; Eunice, 10
Nov. 1682; was ens. of the milit. 1676 and there liv. a propr. 1685.
DAVID, Stratford, youngest s. of the first Samuel (miscall. Daniel by
Cothren), m. Mercy, perhaps d. of Jeremiah Judson, was one of the found.
of ch. in Stratfield, now Bridgeport, 1695, and deac. in it and d. 1753.
EDMUND, Watertown, br. or more prob. Mr. Judd thot. f. of Rev.
John, a clothier, was one of the selectmen 1636, adm. freem. 25 May of
that yr. went home, and liv. at Dedham, Eng. 1648, and 66, says Bond.
EDMUND, Stratford, s. the first Samuel, by w. Susanna, says Cothren,
had Bezaleel, b. 11 Apr. 1676, wh. is error for 1 Jan. 1674; Sarah,
bapt. Aug. 1678; Samuel, b. 8 Jan. 1679; Edmund, 20 Mar. 1680,
and Matthew, 8 Jan. 1683; and d. in that yr. EDMUND, perhaps
rather, Edmund, Wethersfield 1636, is said to have foll. his s. Rev. John,
N. E. prob. the preeed. and was an orig. propr. of W. but gave
his d. to s. Samuel, being well advanc. in yrs. when he rem. to New
Haven, was adm. freem. 29 Oct. 1640, and d. 1641. HENRY, Boston,
perhaps, but I kn. nothing of him, exc. that in the inv. of John Mills,
1651, this man's name appears among debtors. JAMES, Sudbury, s. of
Rev. John, there began to preach 1677, m. 1680, Mary, d. of Thomas
Walker, had John, and Thomas, was very unhappy in his place, so as in
July 1705 to be strip. of his functions, "deposed from his pastoral
office," is the exact phrase of 1 Mass. Hist. Coll. 87, but for the
cause of such unusual proceed. I have less anxious. sought, than to learn
how he went to Elizabethtown in N. J. and aft. to Salem, there d. 1718.
See Mather's Hecatompolis. JOHN, Watertown, prob. s. of Edmund, b. at
Dedham, in Essex, 26 Dec. 1613, bapt. 4 Jan. foll. bred at Emanuel Coll.
Cambridge Univ. where "When his turn came to be a grad." says the Magnalia,
"he serious. consider. the subscript. requir. of him, and upon invincib. argum.
bec. so dissatisf. therewithal, that, advis. with Mr. Rogers, Dr. Preston,
and other emin. persons, wh. commend. his conscient. consider. counsel,
he WENT AWAY under the persecut. charact. of a COLLEGE PURITAN."
Now I testify that 12 July 1842, I saw at the Univ. of Cambridge, in the
origin. the subscript. of John Sherman on tak. his A. B. 1629-30, and
repeat. on commenc. A. M. 1633. Too easily was this man presumed to be
our John, and aft. large investigat. the correctness of that part of Mather�s
relat. is establish. By suggest. of Rev. Hen. B. Sherman of Newark, N. J.
I was led to obtain more minute nad very curious details of Three other
John Shermans at Cambridge Univ. but very short time bef. or aft. this
Watertown min. all by the acad. rec. made D. D. and one was even of
Emmanuel, and another of the three was from the same Essex Dedham
beside; yet all were anti-puritan. He of Dedham was at Queens, tak. A. B.
Jan. 1650, and aft. a fellow of Jesus, of wh. coll. he wrote a hist. was
arch-deac. of Salisbury, and d. 1671. The Emanuel scholar was a little
earlier, A. B. 1642, had been matricul. 1638, four yrs. after the N. E. cry
in the wilderness by his namesake began; but the Trinity divine, wh. misled
me, matricul. Dec. 1626, of course, something too old for our John, was
A. B. Jan. 1630; A. M. 1633; B. D. 1640; and D. D. 1660. He was eject.
from his fellowsh. 1650 for refus. to sign the �Engagement,� wh. was a
contriv. by the Independ. or Cromwell party to put down the other. See
Neal�s Hist. of Pur. IV. 27, of Ed. 1796. But he was learn. and gave
some of his skill to Walton�s Polyglot, and my Newark benefactor says,
he was of Ipswich, and d. 1663. The yr. aft. tak. his sec. degr. a. the
end of Apr. 1634, S. emb. in the Elizabeth at Ipswich, where he had fam.