Transcript:Savage, James. Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England/v4p185

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war of 1675-6 he had ben driv. by the Ind. to make his resid. nearer
Boston, prob. in some of the interval, at Sudbury, and had authty. to
receive an Ind. ch. of six yrs. prob. of a friendly tribe whose f. might be
serv. in our ranks; but he went back, aft. the peace, to L. Mary m.
Samuel, Wright of Rutland. EDWARD, Boston, by w. Mary had Thomas,
b. 15 Apr. 1669. EDWARD, Marshfield, is by Miss Thomas seen there,
prob. some time betw. 1665 and 1691, but no date is supplied exc. by infer.
and tho. she gives him ch. Edward, William, Elizabeth and Patience, she
could not tell his f. EDWARD, Boston, wh. m. 8 Oct. 1700, Rebecca,
wid. of Thomas Harris, first, however, wid. of John Croakham, d. of
Abraham Josselyn, had mov. in from ano. town, for he was not householder
in 1695. EPHRAIM, Andover, s. of John of the same, m. 11
Oct. 1680, Sarah, d. of the first George Abbot, had Sarah, b. 8 Nov.
1681; Elizabeth 18 Aug. 1683; Hannah, 29 Nov. 1685; Mehitable, 10 Oct.
1691, d. young; Mary, 21 Feb. 1694; Ephraim, 14 July 1698; and
Mehitable, again, 10 Sept. 1700. His w. d. 28 June, 1711; and he d.
26 Juen 1718, a. 69 yrs. old. ERASMUS, Boston, by w. Elizabeth had John,
b. 16 Aug. 1671; and Mary, 1673, but the mo. and day are lost by the leaf
of rec. being torn; beside Erasmus. He prob. kept an inn, for, 1686, a poor
Carolina overseer of a planta. hav. been made prison. by pirates, and escap.
from them at Casco, was by Ed. Randolph, collector of our port, referr.
to him for food and clothing. See 3 Mass. Hist. Coll. VII. 157. FRANCIS,
Rehoboth 1658, had div. of lds. there in that yr. and ten yrs. later.
His inv. of 1 Jan. 1670 shows that he was then d. and being call. sen.
makes it prob. that he had s. FRANCIS, Rehoboth, wh. had Gilbert, b.
26 Feb. 1675; and his w. Elizabeth was bur. six days aft. GEORGE, Boston,
Cooper, d. Oct. 1655, by will giv. all his little prop. to Isaac Collimore,
so that he may well be thot. unm. and prob. only trans. HENRY,
Boston, stone mason, as the ch. rec. calls him, came in the Defence
1635, from London, aged 24, liv. in the pt. call. Muddy riv. now Brookline,
by w. Alice, on London custom h. emb. 2 July in the Abigail on
the same day with her h. (no doubt by error of the clk.) aged 22, had
John, b. 10 Sept. 1637; James, 10 Apr. 1640; Joseph, 1 Sept. 1642;
all bapt. 18 June 1643, on the same day, that she join. our ch. and Deborah,
25, bapt. 27 Apr. 1645; and by sec. w. Mary had Joanna, 28 May
1652; Henry, 20 July 1656, d. young; Joshua, 15 May 1659; Henry,
again, 25 May 1663; and Samuel, 24 Sept. 1665; was there in 1674.
Ano. HENRY was of Lynn 1634, serv. to John Humfrey, Esqr. and for
burn. his master's ho. was 1640, sentenc. to 21 yrs. serv. as in Col.
Rec. I. 311, wh. may be compar. with the detail in Winthrop II. 13 By
a letter ano. HENRY, 29 June 1675, wh. I suppose was of Stonington,
1670, but the preced. day, an inhab. of Swanzey, perhaps s. of