Quoted directly from Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England by James Savage, Boston, 1860-1862 Vol I, pp. 50-51. Select abbreviations for futher definition by Savage.
ANDERSON , ARCHIBALD, Lynn, employ. at the iron works, came from Scotland, and d. 13 Aug. 1661. DAVID, New Haven 1639, whip. for drunk. and not much better in 1641, as in Col. Rec. 1. 28 and 59 appears. DAVID, Charlestown 1675, prob. s. of John of Boston, by w. Catharine Richardson, m. 12 Sept. 1672, had John, wh. d. that yr. at 3 mos. David, bapt. 23 Sept. 1677, perhaps a posthtum. ch. for his f d. in May preced. on his way, as master of the ship Blessing, home from London. His first w. m. 5 June 1667, was Hannah Nichols, wh. d. 18 July 1671. GAWEN, Roxbury, freem. 13 May 1640, of wh. no more is heard. JOHN, Boston 1647, shipwright, permit. in 1652 to build a wharf, m. 3 Jan. 1655, I suppose for sec. w. Mary Hodges of Charlestown (a former w. Jane hav. d. 4 May preced. and his s. Samuel, prob. inf. d. 10 July foll.), by her had Joanna, b. 25 Dec. foll. and Ann, 5 May 1657; and he d. 28 Sept. 1677. We learn from his will of 3 days preced. pro. 31 Oct. foll. that he had elder ch. as Emma, wh. m. 17 July 1655, John Brackenbury, afterwards m. Joseph Lynde, and d. 2 Sept. 1703 ; Cathrine, wh. m. 19 July 1655, John Phillips, and d. 24 Feb. 1699; Mary, wh. as wid. Lynde, m. 27 July 1682, Rev. Thomas Shepard, and, next Hon. Samuel Hayman, and was bur. 20 Aug 1717; and Joanna Newman; but much uncertain. hangs over these two last ds. i.e. what Lynde was h. of the former, what Newman of the latter, tho. much inquiry has been bestow. He had also Henry, who d. in Eng. and left his prop. to the f. JOHN, Ipswich 1665, whose inv. was render. 3 May 1701, had been a soldier in the Province serv. Possib. but not prob. he may have been one of the unhappy prisoners of the battle at Worcester, 3 Sept. 1651 (that "crowning mercy" to Oliver Cromwell), of wh. 272 were ship. In 'Nov. after, in the John and Sarah, from London, to be sold here, arr. in May foll. at Boston. Beside this John, Alister, David, and Williian A. were victims of the same cruel policy in the same ship. Part of the prisoners of Dunbar, import. in the former yr. had been well receiv. as Cotton wrote to Cromwell, and sold for 6, 7, or 8 yrs. servitude. Most of these unfortunate young men d. of scurvy, or of broken hearts; and some of the exiles ran away, perhaps with good-will of their purchasers, so that not one in fifty of these soldiers that foll. Charles II in the fatal fields of Dunbar and Worcester, and were sold in Boston, prob. five hundred in num. liv. to have fams. in our country. JOHN, Salem 1673, a shipmaster, had been, perhaps, of Boston, 1655, and adm. with w. Mary, of the sec. ch. 1672. RICHARD, New Haven, took o. of fidel. 7 Apr. 1657. ROBERT, in Mass. 6 June 1637 fin. for contempt L50, wh. was soon remit. may have been only a transient visitor. See Col. Rec. 1. 198, 245. WILLIAM, New Haven, took o. of fidel. 7 Apr. 1657, but neither of him. nor of Richard, who may have been his br. is any more seen. WILLIAM, Watertown, of wh. Dr. Bond found only, that he sat on a coroner's jury 26 July 1669. Gr. of this name up to 1828 Farmer found two at Harv. two at Dart. one at Yale, and eleven at the other coll. in N. E. and N. J. chiefly, I presume from the latter.
Note: words in italics have been added per Savage, Additions and Corrections, Vol. I, p. 499.
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