Quoted directly from Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England by James Savage, Boston, 1860-1862 Vol IV, pp. 643-647. Select abbreviations for futher definition by Savage.
WOODWARD, AMOS, Cambridge, s. of George, of the same, freem. 1677, d. 9 Oct. 1679, aged 38 yrs. as his, gr.-st. tells, but from his nuncup. will, we do not learn that his w. Sarah, wh. had d. 24 Sept. 1677, left him any ch. He names brs. Thomas and Nathaniel Patten, wh. prob. were s. of William, and brs. of his w. Daniel and John W. and sis. Mary Waite, w. of John of Watertown; Sarah Gates, w. prob. of Stephen of Boston; and sis. Rebeeca Fisher, wh. m. 11 Dec. 1666, Thomas Fisher of Dedham. DANIEL, Watertown, where he m. Eliz. d, of Richard Dana, and had Sarah. b. 5 Jan. 1689, at Medford; rem. to Woburn, had Hannah, b. 1 May 1691;and Amos, 5 June 1693. EDWARD, Ipswich 1665. EZEKIEL, Boston, by w. Ann, d. of William Beamsley, had Sarah, b. 21 Jan. 1654; Ann, 14 July 1653; Margaret, 24 Feb. 1656; and Eliz. 12 Oct. 1657;unless the date of the first ch. in Geneal. Reg. IX. 252, should be error for 1652;beside Prudence, 4 Apr. 1660. He was of Ipswich 1678, when he took the o. of alleg. and there had Martha, 3 May 1662; Mary, 8 Dec. 1664; Ezekiel, 9 Aug. 1666; and Rachel, 20 Jan. 1669. He m. later, Sarah, wid. of John Solart of Wenham. GEORGE, is the name of a fishmonger from St. Botolph's, London, permit. to emb. in the Hopewell, 1635, aged 35, or in the Rebecca, for I must suppose the same man to be intend. as the yrs. are the same, and the transact. in the same week, as told in the custom-ho. rec. by 3 Mass. Hist. Coll. VIII. 254, ind 256. Of him, as nothing more is heard, we may presume he soon went home, and perhaps his visit was only for purpose of trade. GEORGE, Watertown 1641, s. of Richard of the same, with wh. he came from Ipswich, Co. Suffolk, in the Elizab@th, 1634, aged 13, by w. Mary had Mary, b. 12 Aug. 1641;Sarah, 3 or 6 Feb. 1643; Amos; Rebecca, 30 Dec. 1647;John, 20 or 28 Mar. 1649;Susanna, 30 Sept. 1651;Daniel, 2 Sept. 1653; and Mercy, perhaps, tho. town rec. says 3 June 1656. He was freem. 1646, took sec. w. 17 Aug. 1659, Eliz. d. of Thomas Hammond the first of Cambridge, had George, 11 Sept. 1660; and Thomas, 15 Sept. 1662;Eliz. 8 May 1664; Nathaniel, 28 May 1668; ind Sarah, 3 Oct. 1675; and d. 31 May 1676. His wid. m. Samuel Truesdale, as, his sec. w.; Mary m. 13 Jan. 1664, John Waite of W.; Sarah m. prob. Stephen Gates of Boston, and next, as Barry says, a Stow; Rebecca m. 11 Dec. 1666, Thomas Fisher of Dedham; Susanna d. unm.;Eliz. m. 7 Dec. 1693, Samuel Eddy;and the sec. Sarah m. an Eddy. GEORGE, Watertown, s. of the preced. m. 31 Dec. 1686, Lydia, d. of Abraham Brown, had Abraham, b. 1 Feb. 1688; George; Nathaniel; Lydia; and Ichabod; rem. aft. b. of his first ch. to that part of Boston, call. Muddy riv. now Brookline, and d. 1696. HENRY, Dorchester 1639, came, says Clapp, in his careful Hist. of Dorchester, p. 141, in the James, Capt. Taylor, in the summer of 1635, with Richard Mather, and he calls him a physician. He had there, Experience; Freedom, bapt. 1642; Thankful; and John; rem. 1659 to Northampton. with those ch. and the mo. Eliz. there was one of the founders of the first ch. and had been an early mem. at D. He was k. by accid. at the grist-mill, 7 Apr. 1685; and next mo. the wid. made her will, tho. she d. not bef. 13 Aug. 1690. Of her s. she says "has been a dutif. and well carriaged s. to me all my life." Experience m. 21 Nov. 1661, Medad Pomeroy; Freedom m. 18 Nov. 1662, Jedediah Strong; and Thankful m. 18 Dec. 1662, John Taylor; all of Northampton. ISRAEL, Taunton, m. 4 Aug 1670, Jane Godfrey, perhaps d. of Richard the first, had Eliz. b. 15 June preced. if Col. Rec. be right, wh. I distr. and it adds that he d. 15 June 1674, had Israel, posthum. 4 Oct. 1674. JAMES, Dover 1646, may be the same who. was of Watertown 1630, in serv. of Sir Richard Saltonstill, and then, by our Col. Rec. I. appears to have been not value. citiz. JOHN, Watertown, s. of Richard of the same, brot. by his f. in the Eliz. 1634, aged 13, in Nov. 1639, partook of the paternal kindness of our governm. on a complaint "admonish. to take heed of drink. strong water again;" by w. Mary had John, b. 20 Mar. 1650, prob. d. young; rem. to Sudbury, where his w. d. 8 July 1654; next he rem. to Charlestown, there m. Abigail, d. of John Benjamin, wid. of Joshua Stubbs, had Rose, 18 Aug. 1659, wh. m. 10 Aug. 1686, Richard Norcross the sec.; again, at Sudbury, had John, 12 Dec. 1661; and Abigail, m. 13 Jan. 1682, Jeremiah Morse, was freem. 1690, and d. at W. 17 Feb. 1696, his will being of 10 Jan. preced. JOHN, Cambridge, s. of George of Watertown, liv. in that part wh. bec. Newton, m. Rebecca, d. of Richard Robbins of the same, had John, b. 7 Sept. 1674, d. in few ds.;John, again, 18 July 1675; Richard, 26 Sept. or Dec. 1677; Rebecca, 29 Oct. 1679, d. young; Daniel, 24 Sept. 1681; Rebecca, again, 2 Feb. 1683; Mary, 6 Oct. 1684, d. young; Jonathan, 28 Sept. 1685; Joseph, 26 Nov. 1688; Ebenezer 12 Mar. 1691; and Abigail, 25 May 1695. His w. d. next yr. and he m. Sarah Goodnow, wh. d. 22 Sept. 1723. He had rem. to Newton a. 1681, and d. 3 Nov. 1732, in his will of 1728 names five s. of wh. Joseph was not one, and ds. Rebecca Hunting and Abigail Greenwood; and made Ebenezer, excor. JOHN, Northampton, only s. of Henry of the same, freem. 1680, m. 18 May 1671, Ann, d. of Thomas Dewey of Windsor, had Eliz. b. 17 Mar. 1672; John, 2 Apr. 1674; Samuel, 20 Mar. 1676, d. at 7 mos.; Henry, 18 Mar. 1680; Thomas, 22 Apr. 1682; and Israel, 6 Feb. 1685; rem. to Westfleld, and in few yrs. more to Lebanon, Conn. Much distinct. in the science of med. has been attain. by descend. JOHN, Taunton, m. 11 Nov. 1675, Sarah Crossman. Perhaps he had John, b. at Taunton, 2 Mar. 1678; and Israel, 30 July 1681. JOHN, Reading, by Eaton call. one of the early sett. was freem. 1691. JOHN, sec. min. of Norwich, s. of Peter of Dedham, succeed. Rev. James Fitch, the first min. of that city, aft. long agitat. ord. Oct. 1699, m. 1703, Sarah, d. I think, of Richard Rosewell of New Haven, but Caulkins, from wh. is learn. most of the little kn. of him, in her Hist. of N. ment. no issue. He had been Secr. to the Assembly of divines that formed the Saybrook platform, almost as powerful in moulding the machinery of eccles. discipline in Conn. as for a few yrs. was the Westminster Assembly in Eng. The majority of the people were dissat. with his rule, tho. the greater part of the ch. sustain. him, and aft. sev. yrs. of contention, he was dism. 13 Sept. 1716. Whether he obt. ano. parish, is not heard, and by the Coll. Catal. be liv. to 1746. JOHN, Sudbury, perhaps s. of John the first, in his will of 2 Oct. 1736, ment. s. John and Daniel, and gr.d. Susanna Haines. JOSEPH, Providence 1676, there had liv. thro. Philip',s war. NATHANIEL, Boston, a mathematician and surveyor, employ. as our Col. Rec. 1. 237, shows, to run the line, 1638, betw. Plymouth Col. and Mass. and Mass. and Conn. Afterwards he was sent to the Merrimae survey. See Winth. I. 284. It is great mortificat. that we kn. not any thing of his fam. exe. that he had s. John and Robert, of course b. in Eng. allow. to have lots in Boston 1637. NATHANIEL, Boston 1633, perhaps s. of the preced. but on join. the ch. 1 Dec. of that yr. is call. serv. to our br. William Coddington, and possib. brot. by him that yr. when he ret. from Eng, was freem. 17 Apr. 1637, by w. Mary had Elisha, bapt. 21 Apr. 1644, a. 6 days old; Nathaniel, 12 Apr. 1646, a. 7 days old; and prob. other ch. but perhaps be rem. for in 1648, he sold dwell.-ho. and garden to John Langdon. *PETER, Dedham, freem. 18 May 1642, brot. a fam. of wh. the names of four may be prob. found in the rec. Peter, William, Rebecca, wh. m. 1666, Thomas Fisher, and Ann, wti. d. in that yr. He was rep. 1665, 9, and 70, but strang. miscall. 1669, Woodwine. He d. 9 May 1685, as the date of 11 May may be understood as that of the bur. from Sewall's Diary in Geneal. Reg. VI. 72. But when he calls him f. of the min. we must infer that he intends William. PETER, Dedham, prob. s. of the preced. by w. Mehitable, had William, b. 1 Jan. 1669; Ann, 2 Feb. 1670; John, 10 Sept. 1671, H. C. 1693; Ebenezer, 15 Sept. 1675; Mehitable, 17 Nov. 1677; Peter, 29 Dec. 1679; Judith, Mar. 1683; and Samuel, 26 Dec. 1685. Possib. he was b. in Eng. and his d. on 15 Feb. 1721, is noted as of the aged P. W. RALPH, Hingham, was of Dublin 1635, came in 1637, was freem. Mar. 1638, deac. ord. 2 Feb. 1640, says Lincoln. was honor. by our governm. 1649, with a commiss. to solemn. m. RICHARD, Watertown, came in the Elizabeth, from Ipswich, 1634, aged 45, with w. Rose, 50, and two ch. George and John, ea. 13, if we accept the custom.-ho. papers, was freem. 2 Sept. 1635. His w. d. 6 Oct. 1662, aged a. 80 yrs. says the rec. with the usual tendency to exagger. and he d. 16 Feb. 1665; but first he m. 18 Apr. 1663, Ann, wid. of Stephen Gates of Cambridge, wh. d. 5 Feb. 1683. ROBERT, Boston, carpenter, s. of the first Nathaniel, by w. Rachel, d. of John Smith of the same, tailor, wh. as his w. had join. the ch. 6 Nov. 1641, had Joseph, b. 24 Oct. bapt. 7 Nov. 1641, d. prob. soon; Nathaniel, bapt. 30 Oct. 1642, a. 4 days old; Smith, 4 Aug. 1644, a. 5 days; Robert, b. 14 Nov. 1646; John, wh. d. 23 Aug. 1652; Jeremiah, wh. d. 26 Nov. 1653; the f. d. five days bef. His wid. m. 7 July 1654, Thomas Harwood. ROBERT, Boston, s. of the preced. was k. in Philip's war at Pocasset, 1675. SMITH, Dorchester, perhaps s. of Robert, had w. Thankful, d. 15 June 1738, aged 66, by her gr.-st. His ch. were Sarah, bapt. 11 Sept. 1692; Thankful, 24 Dec. 1693; Mary, 15 Dec. 1695; Deliverance, 16 Jan. 1698; Ebenezer and Abigail, tw. 19 Nov. 1699; all in right of their mo. for he was adm. of the ch. not bef. 1701, aft. wh. were bapt. John, prob. 29 Mar. 1702; Silence, 20 June 1703; Submit, 10 Dec. 1704; Samuel, 12 Jan. 1707; and Abigail, 1 June 1712. TH0MAS, Boston, carpenter, rem. to Roxbury, m. 7 Mar. 1660, Mary, d. of William Goose of Charlestown, had Thomas; both bapt. 1 May 1664, the f. hav. join. the ch. in the preced mo.; Hannah, 14 May 1665; Eliz. 30 June 1667; Mary, 17 Jan. 1669; Rachel, 27 Nov. 1670; Robert, 19 Oct. 1673; and Mehitable, 29 Apr. 1675; and be d. Oct. 1685, says Farmer, trust. the town rec distr. because it ment. not the day of d. contains not a single name childr. and the ch. rec. of bur. or d. is 10 Sept. evidently nearer to a contempo. authority. WILLIAM, Dedham, perhaps s. of Peter the first, was a "min. of the gosp.," d. at D. 26 June 1669, as by the Roxbury ch. rec. is told, and the Diary of John Hull calls him "a young but powerful preach." Of this name Farmer notes, that in 1834, twenty-one been gr. at N. E. coll. of wh. I count ten at Dartm. five at Yal four at Harv.
Note: words in italics have been added per Savage, Additions and Corrections, Vol. IV, p. 714.
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