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 Sargent, Seargeant, Sargeant, Sergeant, or Serjent, Edward, Newbury, by w. Eliz. had Edward, and Eliz.
 b. 2 Dec. 1684; Nathaniel, 16 Jan. 1687, all at Saco; Eliz. again, 3 Oct. 1689, at Portsmouth; Elisha, 24
 Oct. 1695; Rachel, 10 Oct. 1698; Ichaod, 5 Aug. 1701; and Abigail, 26 June 1704; as Coffin distrib.
 them. *EPES, Gloucester, s. of the sec. William of the same, m. 1 Apr. 1720, Esther Maccarty, had
 Epes, b. 1721; Esther, 1722; Ignatius, 1724; James, 1726, d. next yr.; Winthrop, 1728; Sarah, 129;
 Daniel, 1731; William, 1734; and Benjamin, 1736. He took sec. w. 10 Aug. 1744, wid. Catharine Brown
 of Salem, had Paul Dudley, and John; was rep. 1740; rem. to Salem, and d. 6 Dec. 1762. JOHN,
 Barnstable, s. of William of the same, m. 19 Mar. 1663, Deborah, d. of Hugh Hillier, had Joseph, b. 18
 Apr. 1663; John, 16 Feb. 1665; Mary; Jabez, Apr. 1669; rem. a. that time to Malden, and was
 selectman six yrs. His w. d. 20 Apr. 1669, and he m. 3 Sept. foll. Mary Bense, unless this name be
 wrong, wh. had no ch.and d. Feb. 1671. By third w. Lydia, d. of Elder John Chipman, he had Hannah,
 Dec. 1675; Jonathan, 17 Apr. 1677; William, 20 Nov. 1680; Ruth, 26 Oct. 1686; Samuel, 15 Sept.
 1688; Ebenezer, 25 Sept. 1690; Mehitable, 5 Sept. 1696; beside Lydia, Deborah, Hope, and Sarah,
 whose dates are not seen. He d. 9 [p.18] Sept. 1716, near. 77 yrs. old; and his wid. d. 2 Mar. 1730. All
 the fifteen ch. are ment. in his will of 20 May 1708. JOHN, Gloucester, eldest s. of the first William of the
 same, m. 24 Dec. 1679, Hannah Howard, had Hannah, b. 30 Mar. 1681; John, 1683; Thomas, 1685;
 Andrew, 1691; Joseph, 1702; and ano. s. and six more ds. *JOHN, Saco, was lieut. 1680, and at a Gen.
 Ct. held by Presid. Danforth, 1684, was rep. JONATHAN, Branford 1646, had tak. o. of fidel. 1644, at
 New Haven, where he had also four ch. bapt. at once, 10 Aug. 1651, nam. Jonathan, Hannah, Thomas,
 and John, most, perhaps all, able to walk to N. H. I suppose, some it may be adult. He d. 12 Dec. foll.
 and his wid. d. in seven days, and in few ys. the fam. was extinct in Conn. by John's d. a. 1675, at
 Guilford, without issue, as did Thomas, at Branford, 1700, and Jonathan, with his sis. wh. had m.
 Benjamin Baldwin, hav. rem. to Newark, N. J. at the great migrat. Of this fam. was the celebr. missiona.
 to the Stockbridge Ind. JOSEPH, Gloucester, youngest s. of the first William of the same, m. 1712,
 Martha Baker of Topsfield, had Joseph, b. 16 May 1713, and she d. few days aft. He m. 16 Sept. 1717,
 Hannah Haraden, and d. a. 1750. NATHANIEL, Gloucester, sixth s. of the first William of the same, m.
 24 Jan. 1695, Sarah Harvey, wh. d. 5 Feb. 1706; and next m. 26 Mar. 1710, Mary Stevens, had five s.
 and seven ds. but in Babson no names are ment. exc. of Nathaniel, b. 1702, and Daniel, 1714; and he d.
 12 Dec. 1732. ‡PETER, Boston, merch. came, 1667, from London, was a strenuous oppon. of Andros,
 and chos. on his overthrow, to be one of the com'tee of safety, freem. 1690, was nam. of the coune. in the
 new chart. His w. whose name I hear not, d. 10 Nov. 1700, and he m. 9 Oct. foll. Mary, the wid. of Sir
 William Phips, wh. first was wid. of John Hall, and d. of capt. Roger Spencer. Next, he m. 19 Dec. 1706,
 Mehitable, wid. of Thomas Cooper, d. of James Minot, and d. 8, was bur. 13 Feb. 1714. His will, of 17
 Jan. preced. ment. dec. brs. Joseph, and Henry, two surv. sis. beside nephs. and nieces of dec. brs. and
 sis. but no ch. nor do I find that he ever had one. His wid. m. 12 May 1715, Simeon Stoddard.
 SAMUEL, Gloucester, br. of Joseph, m. 24 May 1689, Mary, d. of Francis Norwood, had Samuel, b.
 1690; William, 1692; four ds. and four more s. of wh. Solomon, the youngest, was b. 1708. The f. was
 liv. 1746, but time of his d. is unkn. STEPHEN, Boston, by w. Dorothy had Eliz. b. 12 Apr. 1670;
 Margaret, 10 Mar. 1675; and Mary, 5 July 1677. THOMAS, Branford 1667. THOMAS, Amesbury,
 prob. s. of William of the same, m. 2 Mar. or by ano. story, 2 Apr. 1668, Rachel, d. of William Barnes,
 had sev. ch. as a careful hand writes in Geneal. Reg. X. 184, whose pen gives no name ut Thomas, b. 15
 Nov. 1676; but this s. perpet. the success. He was freem. 1690. WILLIAM, Ipswich, one of the first sett.
 [p.19] Mar. 1633, when John Winthrop, jr. plant. there, and short. aft. join. to sett. Newbury, and with
 Rev. Stephen Bachilor, began Hampton planta. 1638, lov. the pioneer's life so much, Coffin says, as to
 help build Amesbury, and there he found his final rest, a. 1673, aged 75. His w. was Eliz. d. of John
 Perkins, and ch. Thomas, b. 11 June 1643; William, 2 Jan. 1646; Mary; Eliz. 22 Nov. 1648; and Sarah,
 29 Feb. 1652. His will, of 1671, names w. and ch. Thomas, William, Mary, w. of Philip Challis, and her
 ch. William, Eliz. Mary, Philip, and Watson, beside his d. Eliz. w. of Samuel Colby, and her ch. Dorothy
 and Eliz. and his br.-in-law Thomas Bradbury, wh. had m. the sis. of his w. WILLIAM, Charlestown
 1638, adm. to the ch. 10 Mar. 1639, as was, on the next Sunday, his w. Sarah, may be the freem. of 22
 May foll. had John, bapt. 8 Dec. 1639; Ruth, b. 25 Oct. 1642; Samuel, 3 Mar. 1645; and, perhaps,
 others. Farmer thot. him the preach. at Malden 1648-50, of wh. slight ment. is seen in Johnson's W. W.
 Providences, Book III. cap. 7; yet as the min. is not nam. by Mather, he might be suppos. to have gone
 home, but he was never ord. acting only as lay preach. This William had long puzzled me much, but my
 final infer. was that he rem. to Barnstable, where a will of one William, 9 Mar. 1680, names w. Sarah, s.
 John, and Samuel, ds. Ruth Bourne (wh. had been wid. of Jonathan Winslow of Marshfield, m. Richard B.
 of Sandwich, July 1677, and had third h. John Chipman of the same town), and Hannah Felch, beside
 gr.s. Samuel Bill, whose mo. Eliz. had been wid. Nichols, when she m. 14 June 1653, Thomas Bill; but
 this d. Eliz. must have been b. in Eng. and she d. 5 Mar. 1658. Abundant proof of all this is obtain. by the
 diligence of Aaron Sargent, of the eighth generat. with success admira. exhibit. in the fam. geneal. print.
 1858. Hannah m. Henry F. of Reading. *WILLIAM, Gloucester, had gr. of ld. 1649, m. 10 Sept. 1651,
 Abigail, d. of Edmund Clark, had John, b. 1653; Andrew, 1655; William, 16 Aug. 1658; Samuel, 22
 Mar. 1662; Nathaniel, 30 Oct. 1663, d. soon; Abigail, 8 May 1665; Nathaniel, again, 28 May 1671;
 Joseph, 27 Mar. 1675; and Mary, 24 Nov. 1678, was rep. 1671, 90, and 1, and his w. d. 8 Mar. 1711,
 aged 79. He d. 19 Feb. 1717, aged 92. Abigail m. 15 June 1682, the sec. William Stevens. WILLIAM,
 Amesbury, s. of William of the same, took o. of fidel. 20 Dec. 1677, m. 23 Sept. 1668, Mary, d. of
 Anthony Colby, had William, and, prob. sev. more ch. WILLIAM, Gloucester, call. sec. to disting. him
 from the other, was b. in Bristol, Eng. m. 21 June 1678, Mary, d. of Peter Duncan, had Fitz William, b. 6
 Jan. 1680; and Mary, 19 Dec. 1681; Andrew, 1683; Daniel, 1686; Jordan, 1688; Epes, 1690, the
 ancest. of most of the disting. men of this name; Ann, 1692; Samuel, 1694, d. young; Fitz John, 1696, d.
 soon; one, with an [p.20] out of the way name, 1699, d. the same yr.; Jabez, 1700, d. the same yr.; Fitz
 William, 1701; and Winthrop, 1704. WILLIAM, Gloucester, s. of the first William of the same, m. 26
 Oct. 1681, Naomi Stanwood, perhaps d. of Philip, wh. d. 13 Mar. 1702, and he m. 14 Sept. 1703,
 Hannah Short, perhaps d. of the sec. Henry; and by the two ws. he had eleven ch. but Babson ment. no
 names, and thinks he rem. bef. 1721. Glad. would I learn, wh. was f. of that Nathaniel, gr. at Harv. 1707,
 by the catal. mark. as d. 1762, for to him Stephen Glover of G. gave all his prop. requir. that he should be
 “bred up to learn.” Of this name eighteen had been, in 1843, gr. at Harv. nine at Dart. and two at Yale. 
                                

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 Staples, or Staple, Abraham, Weymouth, m. 17 Sept. 1660, Mary, d. of Robert Randall of the same,
 rem. soon aft. and prob. was one of the first sett. of Mendon 1663. His wid. is nam. in the will of her f. 27
 Mar. 1691. ABRAHAM, Dorchester 1658, re. to Weymouth 1660, thence to Mendon, was freem.
 1673, by w. Hannah had Ephraim, b. 2 Sept. 1678; and Mary, 8 Feb. 1681; by w. Mary had Benjamin,
 27 Dec. 1682; and Hannah, 13 May 1686; but by a third w. Mehitable, perhaps, he had Mehitable, 19
 Dec. 1689, d soon; Mehitable, again, 20 May 1692; Isaac, 10 June 1699; Abraham, 12 Apr. 1702, and
 Abraham, again, 3 Apr. 1706. If it be object. that these three ws. hav. ch. seem too much for one man's
 felicity, conject. may be indulg. that the h. of the last w. may have been s. of the former Abraham.
 EDWARD, Braintree, early, says Farmer. JEFFREY, Weymouth, had Martha, wh. was bur. 17 Feb.
 1640. JOHN, Weymouth, freem. 1648, had Rebecca, b. 27 Nov. 1639, and Joseph, 19 Feb. 1642.
 Farmer names, also, Increase, of wh. noother report is found. But prob. he had, also, John; and d. in
 1658, or bef. I guess the name of his w. was Margery, for a deed of two parcels of ld. in W. 10 Jan.
 1659 is found in our Vol. III. of the registr. convey. to James Priest of W. by Margery Staples, wid. of W.
 JOHN, Weymouth, [p.169] prob. s. of the preced. by w. Sarah had John, b. 3 Nov. 1672; and Thomas,
 19 Apr. 1674; and perhaps he rem. across the brook that div. W. from Braintree, where one John d. 30
 Aug. 1692, and ano. John d. 5 Nov. 1700. JOSEPH, Taunton, prob. s. of John the first of Weymouth,
 had John, b. 28 Jan. 1671; Amy or Ann, 13 Apr. 1674; Mary, 26 Jan. 1678; Joseph, 12 Mar. 1680;
 Hannah, 17 May 1682; and Nathaniel, 22 Mar. 1685. SAMUEL, Braintree, m. 30 Aug. 1652, Mary
 Coles, had Mary, b. 24 Sept. 1655; Rachel, 31 Oct. 1657; and Sarah, 10 July 1660. THOMAS,
 Fairfield 1645, is on freem.'s list 1669. He had by w. Mary, Thomas; Mary, wh. m. Josiah Harvey; ano.
 d. m. John Beach; Mehitable; and John; but the order of success. is not kn. H d. bef. 1688; was a man of
 import. and spirit eno. to prosecute Dept. Gov. Ludlow, not long bef. his rem. to Virg. for defam. in
 report. that the w. of S. was a witch. The trial for satisfact. of both parties was in the neighb. Col. of New
 Haven, where the Court wisely held, “that there was no proof that goodw. S. was a witch,” mulct. L. to
 pay £10 to the h. for repar. of his w's. name, and £5 for his trouble and cost. Happily in a later day the
 New Haven Col. pass. unharm. by the doleful delus. spread in Mass. by rampant vanity and insane
 apprehension. Four of this name had, in 1834, been gr. at Yale, and three at some other N. E. coll. says
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 Tewksbury, Tewxberry, Tuksbery, or Tuxbury, Henry, Newbury, rem. to Boston, m. 10 Nov. 1659,
 Martha, wid. of William Harvey of B. had Eliz. b. 22 Aug. foll.; Hannah, 1 Sept. 1662; Henry, 15 Dec.
 1664; Naomi, 18 Jan. 1667; and Ruth, 10 Mar. 1669; ook o. of alleg. 13 May 1669, and again hav. rem.
 to Amesbury, was call. to the same, 20 Dec. 1677; grew to be freem. 1680. *THOMAS, Manchester
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 Wall, James, Portsmouth 1631, carpenter, sent over by Mason the patentee, was a witness to the true
 deed to Wheelwright, Farmer says, from the Ind. in Apr. 1838, rem. to Hampton 1643, when his d. Eliz.
 m. Thomas Harvey, at Exeter 1646, as our Col Rec. II. shows, tax. at Dover 1649, but in Oct. of that yr.
 is call. of Exeter, carpenter, when he rec. from Waldron, his right to erect a sawmill with sixty acres, stock
 of cattle, &c. at D. went back to H. and in 1654 his w. was d. and prob. he d. soon.His d. Sarah m.
 1663, Thomas Dow. One Joan W. emb. at London, June 1635, aged 19, in the Abigail. A JOHN, said to
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 Whedon, Thomas, New Haven, had been bound appr. in Eng. to John Meigs, just bef. com. to learn his
 art of tanner, took o. of fidel. 1657, m. 24 May 1661, Ann Harvey, had Thomas, b. 31 May 1663;
 Sarah, 23 Apr. 1666; Esther, 26 Jan. 1668; rem. to Banford where he had been propr. bef. 1667, there
 had John, a. 1671; and Hannah, a. 1675; join. the new compact of settlem. in lieu of that wh. by those wh.
 went to N. J. had govern. until then; and d. 1691, leav. wid. and five ch. Sarah m. Samuel Elwell; ad
 Esther m. Edward Johnson. THOMAS, Branford, s. of the preced. by w. Hannah, as we learn at the
 return of the inv. had Hannah and Abigail, of full age, in 1707; Thomas, aged 16; John, 13; Nathaniel, 10;
 Rebecca, 6; Jonathan, 3; and Martha, posthum. He left good est. See Weaden and Weeden. 
                                

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 Willis, Benjamin, Bridgewater, s. of the first John of the same, m. Susanna, d. of Thomas Whitman of the
 same, had, beside two ds. perhaps one nam. Susanna, the other Eliz.; Thomas, b. 1694; and Benjamin,
 1696, in wh. yr. the f. d. 12 May. COMFOR, Bridgewater, br. of the preced. had serv. in the cavalry in
 part of Philip's war. EDWARD, Boston, m. 15 June 1668, Ruth, d. of Rev. Zechariah Symmes, had
 Edward, b. 5 July 1670, d. soon; Edward and John, tw. 5 Nov. 1672; as the town rec. (or rather the cpy,
 for the orig. may have been lost a hundred yrs.) has it by mistake, possib. for the rec. of their bapt. at the
 O. S. ch. might seem to indicate 27 Oct. yet I would not hastily give preference to the eccles. over the civil
 rec. in this case; but take this occasion to warn all inquirers to ask for orig. of old rec. where accessib.
 Very little is the importance of accuracy, in the present instance, for both of the ch. d. soon; ano. ch. was
 Eliz. He was freem. 1673, when the name appears twice in the columnfor that Court, and again heads the
 list of 1684; was capt. bore a part in the ceremonies at the funer. of Gov. Leverett, Mar. 1679, ask. leave
 of Gen. Ct. to build a wooden ho. [p.574] in 1683, but was steadily refus. and d. 11 Dec. 1698, as mark.
 in the Diary of his friend, Samuel Sewall, wh. he made one of the overseers of his will of 25 Feb. 1696,
 pro. 22 Dec. 1698. That instr. div. his prop. half to his w. R. and half to his d. Eliz. wh. had m. Richard
 Willey, and her d. Ruth. ELKANAH, Bridgewater, s. of Nathaniel of the same, by w. Mercy had
 Nathaniel, b. 1678; and Judith, 1682. His w. d. 1709, and he d. 1711. EXPERIENCE, Boston, by w.
 Eliz. had Mary, b. 9 Oct. 1672; John, 29 Aug. 1673; Michael, 9 July 1674; Experience, 28 May 1676;
 Eliz. 8 Dec. 1677; Samuel, 31 Aug. 1682; Joseph, 2 Feb. 1684; John, 4 Sept. 1685; Obadiah, 5 Mar.
 1687; Experience, again, 19 Aug. 1688; Ebenezer, 23 Dec. 1689; and Temperance, 8 Apr. 1695.
 GEORGE, Cambridge 1637, freem. 2 May 1638, m. perhaps in Eng. wid. Jane Palfrey, wh. rot. her s.
 John P. had Thomas, b. 28 Dec. 1638; and Stephen, 14 Oct. 1644; both bapt. says Mitchell's reg. in that
 ch. when the name is writ. Willowes. Oft. his name appears Willow; and a very valu. petition from him
 thus call. at the age of 86, and John Gibson, 87, to the king, complain. of disturbance of title to ld. quiet.
 possess. for almost 60 yrs. is preserv. in Hutch. Hist. I. 367. Hon. William W. the historian of Portland,
 not less deserv. the gratitude of readers for diligence in research than their confidence for soundness of
 judgment, is descend. thro. the sec. son. One wh. gain. enviable reput. as a poet, thirty yrs. or more since,
 is thot. to be deriv. from the same line, but thro. a Charles of wh. the b. is not ascertain. §†‡GEORGE,
 Hartford, s. of Richard (or Timothy as ano. report makes him), a gent. from Fenny Compton, Co.
 Warwick, came in 1638, and is found one of the Assist. next yr. Dept.-Gov. in 1641, and Gov. next yr. d.
 9 Mar. 1645, hav. made his will 14 Dec. preced. with codicil of 22 Feb. and 4 Mar. as may be seen in
 Trumbull, Col. Rec. I. 468-72. In it we learn that his w. was Mary, eldest s. George, wh. had not come
 from Eng. and should have the Fenny Compton est. and if he came over was to have Wethersfield lds.; s.
 Samuel, wh. was here, to have est. aft. his mo. d.; Hester, wh. m. 17 Oct. 1645, capt. Robert Harding;
 and Amy, wh. m. 30 of the same mo. (or 6 Nov. by Hartford rec.) John Pynchon. Wyllys is oft. the
 spelling in rec. HENRY, Boston, by w. Mary had John, wh. d. 8 Mar. 1653, prob. very young; Mary, b.
 26 July 1655; and Henry, 2 Aug. 1657. From Farmer we learn, that one Henry, prob. not this man, was a
 volunteer in the expedit. 1636, against the Pequots; and that would make his resid. to have been in or near
 Salem, as Endicott was head of the force. Felt does not give the name. HEZEKIAH, Hartford, s. of
 Samuel, m. 2 May 1704, Eliz. d. of Rev. Jeremiah Hobart, had Ruth, b. 1705; Eliz. 1708; George, 1709,
 d. soon; George, again, 1710; Mabel, 1713; [p.575] Samuel, 1714, d. at 18 rs.; was Seer. of the Col.
 1712 to 1734, and d. 24 Dec. 1741. JEREMIAH, Lynn 1637, found at Newport in the freemen's list
 1655. JOHN, Boston, so early a mem. with his w. Jane, in the ch. at Boston, that it was not only bef. the
 date of orig. rec. and numb. 135 and 6 in our ancient copy, but not a short time even prior to 6 Nov.
 1632, when he was sw. freem. He perish. in the harbor, 21 Nov. 1634, as in Winth. Hist. I. 150 is told.
 His w. d. early, as we may infer from the fact being noted on the copy, that it was bef. the beginning of the
 subsist. first ch. rec. An error in the Index to my early Ed. of Winthrop's Hist. of N. E. had misled Farmer
 to the opin. that this Boston man was the rep. in the first Gen. Ct. from Lynn, or at least, to refer to my
 suppos. of identity. JOHN, Boston, m. 11 Jan. 1655, Hannah Else, as the rec. shows, but wh. was either
 h. or w. is unkn. *JOHN, Duxbury 1640, bec. one of the first sett. of Bridgewater, where he was deac.
 m. Eliz. wid. of the sec. William Palmer, wh. was a Hodgkins, had five s. and three ds. John; Nathaniel;
 Jonathan; Comfort; Benjamin; Hannah; Eliz.; and Sarah; says Winsor; but Mitchell gives Joseph instead of
 Jonathan. In the absence of the means of informat. I would suggest the inquiry, if that wid. were not sec.
 w. of Mr. Willis, and some of his ch. b. by a former one. Mitchell says his will, of 1692, pro. 1693, refers
 to the eight ch. of wh. Hannah was w. of Nathaniel Hayward; Eliz. m. a Harvey; and Sarah was w. of
 John Ames; further he tells that he had four brs. Jonathan, Lawrence, Nathaniel, and Francis, and leaves
 us to regret that only two of them can be well discern. thro. the distance. He was the first rep. that town
 ever sent, in 1657, and very oft. later. JOHN, Bridgewater, s. of the preced. was a deac. m. Experience,
 d. of Nicholas Byram, had John; Samuel, b. 1688; Experience; and Mary; and d. a. 1712, the only date,
 and that uncert. that the historian of the town yields. JOSEPH, by Mitchell made s. of the first John, was
 of Taunton, a propr. 1668-84, m. there a d. of Thomas Lincoln, and rem. to Scituate, where he liv. 1689.
 JOSHUA, Windsor. See Wills. JOSIAH, Boston, mariner, m. Oct. 1675, Hannah, d. of Mahalaleel
 Munnings, as in the deed to him by her mo. wid. of Thomas Overman, who had first been wid. of said
 Munnings, appears by our Reg. IX. 318. JOST, or JOIST, employ. Mar. 1631, as surveyor of ordnance
 and cannonier, at £10. per. an. prob. was a Dutchman, whose surname is near. as outlandish as that of his
 bapt. being Weillust in one place, Willust in others of our Col. Rec. I. wh. teaches us that in July 1632, he
 had leave to go home, not without regret of Gov. Winth. and was paid £5. towards his pass. but as in
 Mar. 1635, Humphrey and Endicot were appoint. to admin. on his est. to be div. among claimants, it may
 be feared that his skill was lost by [p.576] untimely d. on his way. LAWRENCE, Sandwich 1643, in the
 list of those able to bear arms, had Mary, b. 14 Apr. 1648, may have been br. of the first deac. John of
 Bridgewater, and liv. at B. when he m. 5 Sept. 1656, Mary, d. of Thomas Makepeace of Boston, but
 nothing is ascertain. with confidence, nor whether the freem. of Mass. 1669, were the same man, wh. is
 very prob. for the f. of his w. in the will made aft. his rem. to Boston, makes encourag. legacy to her in
 June 1666. MICHAEL, Dorchester, freem. 2 May 1638, by w. Joan had Joseph, bapt. 3 Feb. 1639, wh.
 prob. liv. not long; rem. with Powell to Boston, there was one of the found. of sec. ch. by w. Mildred had
 Michael, b. 11 Nov. 1652; whether he had any more bef. com. or any other than this one aft. I cannot
 learn, exc. by inf. from his will of 21 June 1669, pro. 7 Oct. foll. wh. makes it certain that he had s.
 Experience bef. and some ds. m. how many, or what their names is not kn. beside d. Temperance wh.
 was bapt. 13 Feb. 1648, unm. yet of inq. for sev. gr.ch. to wh. he gave legacies (of wh. none but Joseph
 Phillips is call. out), obscure diligence may fail of its reward. His w. to wh. he had giv. power to dispose of
 some of his prop. aft. herown d. in her will of 20 Sept. 1680, increases the confus. in part, and lends no
 clue to other part, only that one of his ds. Abigail was a. 1658, sec. w. of Thomas Bill. Other ds. are
 Lydia Nowell; Joanna Ellis; and beside the darkness that hangs upon gr.s. Michael and gr.d. Marah, tho.
 we may guess the former to be s. of Experience, suffic. trouble would remain in the search for “daur.
 Pollard's childr.” yet the diffic. seems inextrica. when we find that beyond the thick clouds wherein we
 would hunt for the ds. of her h. she scatters all hope of success, by speaking of her “five own ds.” So the
 only safe conclus. is that she was a young wid. with five ds. when Michael took her; but perhaps the ds.
 m. that he refers to in his will, may have been, some at least, not his offspr. but those of the sec. w. bef.
 their union. MICHAEL, Boston, s. of the preced. by w. Eliz. had Joseph, b. 4 Jan. 1680; Abigail, 12
 Mar. 1682; Deliverance, 1 Nov. 1684; Hannah, 14 June 1688; and Michael, 4 July 1694; was a cooper,
 went to London, it is believ. and there d. 1712. NATHANIEL, Bridgewater, br. of the first John of the
 same, an orig. propr. and perhaps the earliest sch.-master of the town, had Elkanah, and Bethia, and d.
 bef. 1687, is all that Judge Mitchell teaches. NATHANIEL, Bridgewater, s. of the first deac. John of the
 same, by w. Lydia had Nathaniel, Jonathan, John, Ebenezer, Sarah, and Mary, and d. 1716.
 NICHOLAS, Boston, a mercer, as he is call. on Join. the ch. 27 July 1634, as did his w. Ann the next
 Sunday, freem. 3 Sept. foll. was foreman of the jury on cap. trial of Marmaduke Pierce or Percy, Col.
 Rec. I. 283, of wh. details may be seen in Winth. I. 318. Prob. he had [p.577] left s. (if he had one) at
 home, for no b. or bapt. is found here. He d. early in 1650, for in June of that yr. Peter Oliver, James
 Penn, and James Johnson were by our Gen. Ct. as rec. III. 199 shows, made admors. and his inv. of
 same mo. was good. Perhaps he was from Co. Suffk. for Henry W. in Feb. 1651 call. hims. of Bury St.
 Edmunds, gave power of atty. with others, to recover from the admors. and I presume he was either br.
 or s. NICHOLAS, Boston, mark. as of first ch. when adm. freem. 1680, may have been, but prob. was
 not, s. of the preced. RICHARD, Plymouth, whose f. is not kn. m. 28 Dec. 1670, Patience, d. of George
 Bonum. ROBERT, Boston, by w. Sarah had Sarah, b. 10 Jan. 1643; and Mary, 18 July 1653; and no
 more is seen in town rec. but in Col. rec. we see he was on serv. at the castle on 15 July 1665, when it
 was struck by lightning, and the capt. of the garris. k. while he rec. injury, from wh. he was not recov. in
 May foll. ROBERT, Rowley 1691. ROWLAND, Scituate 1670, had, says Deane, been sev. yrs. bef.
 brot. by John Williams. ‡SAMUEL, Hartford, s. of George of the same, b. in Eng. 1632, H. C. 1653,
 next yr. chos. Assist. m. Mary, d. of Gov. John Haynes, says Farmer strangely, for her name was Ruth,
 had Mary, b. 1656, wh. a. 1684, bec. sec. w. of Rev. Joseph Eliot; Mehitable, a. 1658, wh. m. first, a.
 1676, Daniel Russell, next, a. 1680, Rev. Isaac Foster, and last Rev. Timothy Woodbridge, as his first w.;
 Ruth, wh. m. 2 June 1692, Rev. Edward Taylor, as his sec. w.; and Hezekiah, 3 Apr. 1672. He is the first
 nam. Assist. in the royal chart. Apr. 1662, and d. 30 May 1709. SAMUEL, Scituate, s. of William of the
 same, had Lydia, b. 1676, wh. m. 1691, as Deane tells, William Clift of Marshfield. STEPHEN,
 Braintree, s. of George, m. 3 Aug. 1670, Hannah, d. of Franeis Eliot, had Hannah, b. 1 Jan. 1672;
 Stephen; and Rebecca; as is said, bef. rem. to Medford, where he had Abigail, 3 Oct. 1677; Thomas, 19
 Sept. 1679; John, 6 Aug. 1681; Jonathan, 23 Feb. 1684; Benjamin, 30 Oct. 1686; and Mary, 15 July
 1690; and he d. 29 July 1718. His wid. d. 22 Mar. 1732. *THOMAS, Lynn 1630, a farmer of good est.
 and sense eno. to be one of the reps. in the first Gen. Ct. when delegates attend. instead of the body of the
 commons, 14 May 1634, yet in very many foll. Gen. Cts. he is never seen, perhaps bec. he was not a
 freem. until 14 Mar. 1639, aft. wh. he was commissn. to hold Ct. with others at Salem sev. yrs. He had
 gr. of ld. in 1638, in the town, 500 acres, none of the inhabs. hav. more, yet a. 1642 he was of Sandwich,
 prob. THOMAS, Billerica, s. of the patriot George of Cambridge, aft. some yrs. rem. with w. Grace to
 Medford, there had Jane, b. 1677, wh. m. Percival Hall, and was liv. in 1689, as Farmer's MS. tells.
 WILLIAM, Scituate, m. early in Sept. [p.578] 1638, w. Lucy, had Samuel, b. May 1640; and Lydia,
 Apr. 1645; and d. 1688, aged 90, if Deane be correct. His wid. d. 1697. Lydia m. 1666, James Torrey
 the sec. His name is usually Wills, as often is that of one or ano. of the foregoing. Six of this name at Yale,
 and five at Harv. may be seen as gr. in the respect. Catal.