Genealogical Dictinary Volume 1 of 4

A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England
showing three generations of those who came before May 1692
on the basis of John Farmer`s Register

Second revision published by James Savage 1965
Baltimore Genealogical Publishing Company 1965
History of Congress Catalog Card no. 65-185451

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John Farmer`s original continuous text has been found by many genealogists to be quite cumbersome, not easy to follow with his constant use of abbreviations, and in places almost impossible to interpret. Over the past 18 months I have painstakingly sifted through Farmer`s condensed text, editing, rearranging, and reformating in the hopes of aiding researchers in their quest for family histories.

I cannot guarantee that my interpretations are correct, so like any professional genealogist using resource materials, I would suggest that other sources be used in your search for exactness.

CHARLES BAALAM, is the name of a passenger, last on the list, coming to Boston from London 1656, aged 18, in the Speedwell, the same voyage on which came the earliest Quakers; and though it is not charged against him, that he was of that sect, yet is it almost certain that he soon left this land.

JONATHAN BABB, Springfield, took oath of allegiance with Samuel Babb, perhaps his brother 31 December 1678, or the next day, but no more is known of either.

PHILIP BABB, Kittery 1652, and next year was associate under commission from Massachusetts with Major Bryan Pendleton, Nicholas Shapleigh, and others, in the government of Isle of Shoals, and a few years later lived there, in 1666 was empowered to take depositions. The name is perpetuated in New Hampshire.

CHRISTOPHER BABBAGE, CHRISTOPHER BABBIDGE, sometimes CHRISTOPHER BABRIDGE, Salem, freeman 1665, by wife Agnes, had Ruth, born 20 March baptized 8 May 1664; and John, 15 April 1666; and his wife died 17 November 1667. He married 5 October 1674, widow Hannah Carlton, perhaps relict of John Carlton of Haverhill, had Hannah, 15 July 1675, and Mary, 7 March 1677. Christopher, 11 November 1678; Richard, 1 October 1680, who died in 5 months; Richard, again, 14 July 1682; and Neheminah, 25 March 168.

GEORGE BABCOCK, Boston, who died 2 September 1693, perhaps was he that Governor Eaton brought over 1638 to New Haven, conditional to serve six years, called Badcock.

JAMES BABCOCK, Portsmouth, Rhode Island, 1642, Westerly 1661, whither he removed from Newport, had by first wife (whose name is not heard) James, born about 1641; John, 1644; Job; and Mary. By tradition it is said, that he came from County Essex, and on giving evidence with his two elder sons 1670, called them 29 and 26 years respectively, he swore that he was 58, and spells with d at the end of his first syllable. From the idle and discorded tradition that he brought from England children born from 1612 to 1620 (when the father would have been between 1 and 8 years old), this testimony relieves the genealogy. A second wife Elizabeth, and three children by her, one named Joseph, the oldest only 9 years old, are provided for in his nuncupative will, 12 June 1679, the day he died, of who sons John and Job were witnesses, as also to Job were given his smith's tools, besides gifts to Mary Champlin, his daughter, thought to be wife of William Champlin, and to son Joseph, when he comes to 21 years.

JAMES BABCOCK, Westerly, eldest son of the preceding, died 1698, leaving widow Mary, and eldest son James, as the record of Westerly it is said, proves; but names of other children are not given. They were Sarah, Jane, Mary, Hannah, Elizabeth, William, and Job. Part of the account of this James may be easily confused with that of his brother John Babcock.

JOB BABCOCK, Westerly, a miller, probably brother of the preceding, died about 1718, and in his will calls eldest son Job, other children John, Benjamin, Jane Braman, Sarah Hall, Mary Tanner, Elizabeth Brand, Hannah, and Mary.

JOHN BABCOCK, Stonington 1670, son of the first James Babcock, who had probably owned land on both sides of the river within disputed bounds of Connecticut and Rhode Island. He had wife Mary Lawton, children James, Ann, Mary, John, Job, George, Elihu, Robert, Joseph, and Oliver. Family tradition makes his wife to be a Lawton, perhaps sister of George Lawton the first; and it may be nearer the truth, when it tells of his runaway match with the death of his master, their kind reception by the Indians in the wilderness, discovery of his daughter and her husband some four years after by the bride's father and forgiveness, liberality, etc. than as it relates his death 19 July 1719, "aged over one hundred years". For another John Babcock, perhaps his son, that protraction of days, though unlikely, might be correct, yet the father died from twenty to forty years too early, and his widow married before 1700 Erasmus Babbit. Indeed his death is marked 1685, and his widow named Mary, and eldest son James, but these three items concurred with those of his brother James, lead us to apprehend that the genealogy may be confused between them.

JOSEPH BABCOCK, Westerly, son probably youngest, of the first James Babcock, married 13 April 1696, Dorothy Key, had Elizabeth, born 29 January 1698; had his wife died 14 December 1727. By second wife Hannah Coats, he had Authority, 2 February 1730; Abigail, 30 April 1731; Joseph, 14 October 1733; and John, 26 January 1736.

RETURN BABCOCK, Dartmouth before 1686, and lived to be named November 1694 in deed of confirmation of the town. Strange is the combination of errors, in Hinman, 111, about one James Babcock who went to Leyden in Holland 1620, joined the friends of Robinson, and came in the Ann, 1623, to Plymouth, the narrative enlarged about the residence of the family there. Now we know that no passenger of this name came in that ship; and I have very strong reason, after much inquiry, to doubt that any such man lived in the Colony for its earliest forty years of this name. In 1834, both forms of spelling included seven had been graduates at Yale, and five at Harvard, as Farmer found.

EBENEZER BABSON, Gloucester, youngest son of James Babson, wonderfully bewildered by diabolical agency, as told by Reverend John Emerson, his spiritual guide, to C Mather, and in its appropriate place, Magnalia VII. 82-84, may be read. Niles, in his tale, 3 Massachusetts History Collections VI. 231, seems more cautious, or less inclined to honor Satan.

JAMES BABSON, Gloucester, came, no doubt in Company with his mother Isabel (a widow who had lands there, 1644, and after until her death 6 or 8 April 1661, aged 81, or more, as also graduated in 1637 at Salem), married 16 November 1617, Elinor Hill, son of Zebulon Hill, had James, born 2 September 1648; Elinor, 15 June 1601; Philip, 15 October 1654; Sarah, 15 February 1657, died at 20 years; Thomas, 21 May 1658; John, 27 November 1660; Richard, 1 June 1663; Elizabeth, 8 October 1665; and Ebenezer, 8 February 1668, the before mentioned playmate with the devil; besides Abigail, 1670. He was freeman 1666, and died 1683. His son Thomas served long in Philip's war but soon died, probably unmarried.

JOHN BABSON, Gloucester, son of the preceding, married 1686, Dorcas Elwell, daughter of Josiah Elwell, had Elizabeth, born 1687; James, 1689; John, 1691; and Josiah, 1703. He and wife died 1737.

PHILIP BABSON, Salem, brother of the preceding, married 1689, Hannah Baker, had Ann, and his wife died 1692.

ALEXANDER BACHILER, ALEXANDER BACHELOR, ALEXANDER BACHELLER, ALEXANDER BACHELDER, ALEXANDER BATCHELOR, or ALEXANDER BATCHELDER, Portsmouth 1652, of who I know no more, but that he was the ferryman.

DAVID BACHILER, DAVID BACHELOR, DAVID BACHELLER, DAVID BACHELDER, DAVID BATCHELOR, or DAVID BETCHELDER, Reading, son of John Bachiler the first, of the same, is not otherwise known to me.

HENRY BACHILER, HENRY BACHELOR, HENRY BACHELLER, HENRY BACHELDER, HENRY BATCHELOR, or HENRY BATCHELDER, Ipswich, a brewer, from Dover, County Kent, came in 1636, with wife Martha, and four servants, as set forth in 3 Massachusetts History Collections VIII. 276, became the founder of a numerous line, as was thought in former days from so many springing at Ipswich; probably child of two brothers of Henry Bachiler; but any knowledge of his children is not gained, and we know only that he died 2 February 1679, and his widow died 4 April 1686. Yet inventory of his estate was not returned before many years. Its date is 15 May 1696. Of his brother John Bachiler are named three children John, Josiah, and Hannah; and of his brother Joshua Bachiler are named three, John, Elizabeth, and Hannah Warner, wife I presume of John Varner, unless her daughter Hannah be meant, if these names are found in order of distribution of the estate as is most probable.

HENRY BACHILER, HENRY BACHELOR, HENRY BACHELLER, HENRY BACHELDER, HENRY BATCHELOR, or HENRY BATCHELDER, Reading, probably son of Reverend Stephen Bachiler, may be he, who was persecuted 1660, as a Quaker.

JOHN BACHILER, JOHN BACHELOR, JOHN BACHELLER, JOHN BACHELDER, JOHN BATCHELOR, or JOHN BATCHELDER, Dedham, had been of Watertown, freeman 6 May 1635, not, as Bond states, 13 May 1640, that being the day of another having the same name, was selectman of Watertown 1636, and at Dedham had Samuel, born 8 (Bond says 11) January 1640; Jonathan, and David, born 14, baptized 24 December 1643, described in the homely phrase of church record "being the children of one burthen to our brother John Bachiler and his wife our sister" when it would have been agreeable to see her name. He removed, Mr. Haven 13, says, to Hampton.

JOHN BACHILER, JOHN BACHELOR, JOHN BACHELLER, JOHN BACHELDER, JOHN BATCHELOR, or JOHN BATCHELDER, Salem 1638, perhaps earlier, had grant of land 1639, was the freeman of 13 May 1640, is by tradition said to be from Dorsetshire, but more probably was that tailor from Canterbury, County Kent, who came in 1636, perhaps brother of Henry Bachiler, before mentioned, by wife Mary, had at Salem John, baptized January 1639, died at 7 years; Mary, September 1640; Abigail, 12 February 1643; Hannah, 23 June 1644, died soon; Hannah, again, 25 May 1645; John, again, 23 June 1650; and Joseph, 8 May 1653; and died 13 November 1675, his wife Elizabeth, having died three days before unless some confusion of name exist in the report. In his will of 1673, wife Elizabeth, sons John, and Joseph, daughter Hannah Corning, and grandchild John Cressy are mentioned.

JOHN BACHILER, JOHN BACHELOR, JOHN BACHELLER, JOHN BACHELDER, JOHN BATCHELOR, or BATCHELDER, Reading, freeman 1666, had Jonathan, who died 4 December 1653; David; and John, but the order of births is not seen, besides Samuel, who died 20 March 1662, the mother Rebecca having died sixteen days before, and he died May 1676.

JOHN BACHILER, JOHN BACHELOR, JOHN BACHELLER, JOHN BACHELDER, JOHN BATCHELOR, or JOHN BATCHELDER, freeman 1670, it is not known where he lived, but it may well seem, that he was son of the preceding. He died at Reading 1705.

JOHN BACHILER, JOH N BACHELOR, JOHN BACHELLER, JOHN BACHELDER, JOHN BATCHELOR, or JOHN BATCHELDER, Salem, probably son of the first John Bachiler, married 14 August 1673, Mary Herrick, perhaps daughter of Zechary Herrick, had John, born 26 April 1675; and Jonathan, 29 March 1678; besides Josiah, 6 March 1680; and he died 6 August 1684, and the widow died within two weeks after.

JOHN BACHILER, JOHN BACHELOR, JOHN BACHELLER, JOHN BACHELDER, JOHN BATCHELOR, or JOHN BATCHELDER, at Salem 1692, was one of the jurors in the sad witchcraft trials, and recanted magnanimously from their damnable verdicts. John Batchelder, late President of the Berkshire Medical Institute, and other descendants of this stock give uniformed spelling of their name Batchelder.

JOSEPH BACHILER, JOSEPH BACHELOR, JOSEPH BACHELLER, JOSEPH BACHELDER, JOSEPH BATCHELOR, or JOSEPH BATCHELDER, Salem, a tailor, perhaps, elder brother of John Bachiler the first, came, 1636, from Canterbury, County Kent, with wife Elizabeth, one child, and three servants according to the certificate of the Mayor of Sandwich, where they embarked, was freeman March 1638; removed to Wenham, of which he was Representative 1644. What was the name of the child he brought or whether he had more on our side of the water, or when he died are unknown.

JOSEPH BACHILER, JOSEPH BACHELOR, JOSEPH BACHELLER, JOSEPH BACHELDER, JOSEPH BATCHELOR, or JOSEPH BATCHELDER, Charlestown, son of William Bachiler, married 22 December 160, Agnes, widow of William Gillingham.

JOSEPH BACHILER, JOSEPH BACHELOR, JOSEPH BACHELLER, JOSEPH BACHELDER, JOSEPH BATCHELOR, or JOSEPH BATCHELDER, Salem, youngest son of the first John Bachiler of the same, married 8 October 1677, Miriam Moulton, had Joseph, born 18 July following.

JOSHUA BACHILER, JOSHUA BACHELOR, JOSHUA BACHELLER, JOSHUA BACHELDER, JOSHUA BATCHELOR, or JOSHUA BATCHELDER, Ipswich, brother of Henry Bachiler of the same, came from Kent, but no more can be heard of him, except that he had at least three children John, Elizabeth, and Hannah, wife of Daniel Warner of the same, entitled to share in the estate of his brother Henry Bachiler.

MARK BACHILER, MARK BACHELOR, MARK BACHELLER, MARK BACHELDER, MARK BATCHELOR, or MARK BATCHELDER, Wenham, freeman 1663, may have been son of the preceding or not, was a soldier in the Company of Gardner, and in the great battle of 19 December 1675 was killed with his Captain.

NATHANIEL BACHILER, NATHANIEL BACHELOR, NATHANIEL BACHELLER, NATHANIEL BACHELDER, NATHANIEL BATCHELOR, or NATHANIEL BATCHELDER, Hampton, eldest son of the Reverend Stephen Bachiler, born about 1611, married 1656 Deborah Smith, daughter of John Smith, and had, it is said, seventeen children (only nine by her), many of whose names it might be not easy to find, but one was Nathaniel. At Woburn he took second wife 31 October 1676, Mary Carter, widow of John Wyman, and daughter of Reverend Thomas Carter, had eight children, and from Coffin's gatherings in Genealogical Registrar VI. 207 we learn that he had third wife Elizabeth. She was widow of John Knill of Charlestown, married 23 October 1689.

STEPHEN BACHILER, STEPHEN BACHELOR, STEPHEN BACHELLER, STEPHEN BACHELDER, STEPHEN BATCHELOR, or STEPHEN BATCHELDER, Lynn, the first minister there, born about 1561, came to Boston in the William and Francis, 5 June 1632, from London, preached at Lynn next year, was freeman 6 May 1635, and next year was at Ipswich, perhaps at Yarmouth 1637, but in 1638 went to Newbury, in 1639 to Hampton, whence in 1641 he was dismissed, and some time after may be heard of at Saco. Willis, I. 37. Finally in 1653 or 4 he went home, leaving third wife Mary here, who prayed for division in 1656, because he was gone to England and had taken new wife. Her suit may hardly have prospered for, in his History of Lynn, Lewis copies from York records sentence against her, in 1651, for adultery, and that she and her paramour were whipped for it. Probably he had good reason for leaving her, and in few years after, he died 1660, at Hackney, near London. Some account though imperfect, we have of four sons and three daughters. One had married in England John Sanborn, who was dead before the family crossed the ocean; another called Theodata, had, in England probably married Christopher Hussey, after of Lynn, removed to Hampton, and she died 1649; and Deborah married John Wing, of Lynn, who removed to Sandwich. Names of sons were Henry, Nathaniel, before mentioned Francis, and Stephen, who both were of London, and the last is said to have been living 1685, but the dates of births are all unknown. Descendants are very numerous. See Winth I. and II. in many places; Prince's Annals sub. 1632; and Lewis, most copiously, Ed. 2d pp. 78, and 92-97.

WILLIAM BACHILER, WILLIAM BACHELOR, WILLIAM BACHELLER, WILLIAM BACHELDER, WILLIAM BATCHELOR, or WILLIAM BATCHELDER, Charlestown 1634, freeman 1644, by wife Jane, had Seaborn, baptized 11 January 1635, probably died young; Abigail, 2 July 1637; and by wife Rachel, had Joseph, born 20 August 1644; and he died says the gravestone 20 February 1670, aged about 72. His will made nine days before gives us knowledge of other children besides Joseph and Abigail, who are named in it. She had married 11 November 1659, Richard Austin. The wife Rachel was made executrix, and provisions in the will follows for her daughter of the same name, wife of Philip Atwood, and I judge; for Susanna Lawrence, his grandchild, daughter of Susanna his daughter, who had married 2 November 1664, John Lawrence, and was dead, and for several other grandchildren named Cromwell, of whose father or mother I have inquired assidously but in vain. Correct spelling of various family with name of so nearly simple sound, must be unattained and after trying, different heads, I felt compelled to use only one. Under its many shapes, in 1829, Farmer found eleven had been graduates at New England colleges.

STEPHEN BACKUS, Norwich 1660, son of William Backus, by wife Sarah Gardiner, daughter of Lyon Gardiner, had Sarah, born April 1668; Stephen, October 1670; Mary, November 1672; Ruth, 19 December 1674; Lydia, November 1677; and Timothy, 7 October 1682.

WILLIAM BACKUS, Saybrook 1638, had there William and Stephen, removed to Norwich about 1660, was freeman 1663, and died June 1664, leaving second wife Ann, who died May 1670. His first wife was Sarah Charles, daughter of John Charles.

WILLIAM BACKUS, Norwich, son of the preceding, married Elizabeth Pratt, (probably the eldest daughter of William Pratt of Saybrook), who died 1730, aged 87, had William, born 1660; John, 1661; perhaps Sarah, 1663; Samuel, 1665; Joseph, 6 September 1667; and Nathaniel, 1669; and died about 1720. Of this name twelve had, in 1828, been graduates at Yale and Dartmouth colleges. Reverend Isaac Backus, distinguished minister of Middleborough, died 1806, aged 82.

ANDREW BACON, Hartford 1639, one of the original proprietors, born probably in Rutlandshire England, had perhaps been of Cambridge, was Representative 1642 to 56, soon after removed to Hadley, and died 1669. His wife was Elizabeth, who had been widow of Timothy Standley, brought from England as his wife, but he had no children.

DANIEL BACON, Charlestown, son probably of one Michael Bacon, brother of another brought from Ireland as tradition goes, freeman 26 May 1647, was an original projector of settlement at Woburn 1640, there had Thomas, born 13 April 1640; John, 8 September 1647; Isaac, 4 April 1650; Rachel, 4 June 1652; Jacob, 2 June 1654; Lydia, 6 March 1656; Daniel; and John; removed about 1669 to Cambridge village now Newton, says Jackson, who tells of his wife Mary Read of Bridgewater, and that he died 7 September 1691. His widow died within 4 weeks.

DANIEL BACON, Boston 1660, son of the preceding, removed to Salem, there married 1 August 1664, Susanna Spencer, daughter of Michael Spencer, had Daniel, born 1665; Alice, 28 October 1669, died soon; Susanna, 18 July 1670; Mary, 8 June 1673; Michael, 23 October 1676; Lydia, 23 February 1679, died young; and John, 24 January 1681.

DANIEL BACON, Dedham, son of John Bacon of the same, married 21 April 1685, Elizabeth Martin, perhaps daughter of Richard Martin, had Daniel, Isaac, and Timothy.

GEORGE BACON, Hingham, a mason, came in the Increase from London 1635, aged 43, with children Samuel, 12; Susan, 10; and John, 8; and died 1642. Lincoln's History 43.

ISAAC BACON, Newton, son of Daniel Bacon of the same, died 1684, leaving wife Abigail, who died 10 July 1715, but no children.

JACOB BACON, Newton, brother of the preceding, by wife Elizabeth, had Elizabeth, born 26 March 1677, died next year; Jacob, 9 March 1680; John, 27 February 1683; Elizabeth, again, 12 May 1684, died young; Ruhami, 8 April 1686, died young; Mary, 1689; Elizabeth, again, 6 May 1692; and Isaac, 28 June 1698; and by second wife Dorothy Bradhurst, daughter of Ralph Bradhurst of Roxbury, had Ruhami, again, 18 December 1700; Abigail, 16 February 1702; John and Dorothy, twins born at Roxbury, 30 July 1704; and Ralph, November 1706.

JEREMIAH BACON, Barnstable, son of Nathaniel Bacon the first, married 10 December 1686, Elizabeth Howes, perhaps daughter of Joseph Howes of Yarmouth, had Sarah, born 16 October 1687; Ann, 16 November 1688; Mercy, 30 January 1690; all baptized 26 April 1691, as in Genealogical Registrar X. 347, but with wrong name, Pason, instead of Bacon; Samuel, 15, baptized 17 April 1692; Joseph, 15, baptized 23 June 1695; Ebenezer, 11 March baptized 19 June 1698; Elizabeth, baptized 17 September 1699, died soon; Nathaniel, 11, baptized 15 September 1700; Job, born 23 March 1703; and Elizabeth, again, 6 August 1705.

JOHN BACON, Dedham, son of Michael Bacon the first of the same, born in Ireland, as tradition gives it, freeman 1647, (the name spelled with k) by wife Rebecca, had John, born 17 July 1656; Rebecca, 1658, who married 13 February 1679, John Gay; Daniel, 10 March 1661, before mentioned; Samuel, 8 October 1665; and Thomas, 23 August 1667; besides Mary, who married Nathaniel Kingsbury; and Susanna, who married Jonathan Dewing; and he died 17 June 1683. His widow died 27 October 1694. Of this first John Bacon, descendants still enjoy part of their ancestral property and from this stock is the Reverend Leonard Bacon of New Haven, the perspicacious student of early New England manners.

JOHN BACON, Charlestown, perhaps son of Daniel Bacon the first, for all the knowledge of which we are indebted to Hammond's Diary, related that his child (as if he had but one) died 18 March, his wife on 20th, and himself on 7 April 1678, all of smallpox. By Mr. Wyman I am informed that he married 2 September 1668, Susanna Draper, daughter of James Draper, had John, born 27 August 1670; Susanna, 3 January 1672; and Ephraim, 17 November 1675. The day before his death he made his will in favor of the two sons of which John was living several years after.

JOHN BACON, Dedham, eldest son of the first John Bacon of the same, married 15 December 1683, Lydia Dewing, perhaps daughter of Andrew Dewing of the same, had Lydia, Rebecca, John, and Michael, perhaps others, and died 27 October 1732.

JOHN BACON, Barnstable, son of Nathaniel Bacon the first, married 17 June 1686, Mary Howes, perhaps daughter of Joseph Howes of Yarmouth, had Hannah, born 7 June 1687; Desire, 15 March 1689; Nathaniel, 16 January 1692; Patience, 15 June 1694; John, 21 March 1697; all baptized 2 October 1698; Isaac, born 29 March 1699; Solomon, 3 April 1701; and Jude, 9 December 1703.

JOHN BACON, Watertown, and Newton, perhaps youngest brother of Jacob Bacon, from 1690, by wife Abigail, who died 10 July 1715, had Mary, baptized I suppose, at Watertown, as Bond furnishes the fact, 25 December 1687; and John, born 28 March 1689.

MICHAEL BACON, or MIGHILL BACON, Dedham 1640, brought it is said, from Ireland, wife and four children, Michael, Daniel, John and Sarah, named In his will, of 14 April 1618, probated in the following spring. His wife had died 1617.

MICHAEL BACON, Woburn, eldest son of the preceding, probably lived some time at Charlestown, but at Woburn by wife Mary, had probably Michael, unless he were born at Charlestown; Elizabeth, born 4 January 1642; and Sarah, 24 August 1644, perhaps others. His wife died 26 August 1655, and he married 26 October following Mary Noyes, who died 19 May 1670; removed to Billerica about 1678, had no more children, and died 4 July 1688.

MICHAEL BACON, Woburn, eldest son of the preceding, married 22 March 1660, Sarah Richardson, daughter of Thomas Richardson of the same, had Mary, born 1 March 1661; Sarah, 24 August 1663; Abigail, 5 March 1666; and he died I think, before his father.

NATHANIEL BACON, Barnstable, married 4 December 1642, Hannah Mayo, daughter of Reverend John Mayo, had Hannah, born 4 September 1643, baptized 8 December 1644; Nathaniel, born 5, baptized 15 February 1616; Mary, 12, baptized 20 August 1618; Samuel, 20 February baptized 9 March 1651; Elizabeth, born 28 January 1654; Jeremiah, 8 May 1657; Mercy, 8 February 1660; and John. He was proposed as freeman 1645, chosen Representative 1655, and made an Assistant of Plymouth Colony 1667. Hannah married Thomas Walley, and next Reverend George Shove. Mercy, married 18 July 1683, John Otis, third of that name.

NATHANIEL BACON, Middletown 1653, is called son of William Bacon of the parish of Stretton, County Rutland, by wife Ann Miller, daughter of Thomas Miller of the same, had Nathaniel, who died 8 April 1655; Hannah, born 14 April 1655; Andrew, 4 February 1657, died at 5 years; Nathaniel, 20 July 1659, whose name was changed for Thomas; John, 14 March 1661; Mary, 7 April 1664; Andrew, again, 10 June 1666; Abigail, 13 July 1670; Lydia, 18 February 1673; perhaps another Nathaniel, whose date may be lost. His wife died 6 July 1680, and he married 17 April 1682, Elizabeth Pierpont, probably widow of one whose name is not seen, had Beriah, 17 August of the same year, unless we suppose an error in the record of marriage or of birth. He was nephew of Andrew Bacon, had part of his uncle's estate and died 27 January 1706, having made his will 1698, probated twelve days after his death in which are named sons Thomas, John, Andrew, Nathaniel, and Beriah, with daughters Hannah, Mary, Abigail, and Lydia. Evidence, given in 1661, by Deacon John Fletcher of Milford (who died the following year) relative to the ancestry of this Nathaniel, at which was present a party adversely interested might, without violence, be construed to refer equally to the Barnstable family though it is less probable.

NATHANIEL BACON, Barnstable, son of the first Nathaniel Bacon, married 27 March 1673, Sarah Hinckley, daughter of Governor Hinckley, had Nathaniel, born 9 September 1674 ; Mary, 9 October 1677; Elizabeth, 11 April 1680; and Samuel, 20 January 1682. His wife died 16 February 1687; and he died December 1691.

RICHARD BACON, may be that passenger in 1635 on board the James from Bristol, called Becon by Richard Mather, when he relates the loss of his right hand in the great August storm, for which see Young's Chronicles of Massachusetts 475. Certainly no more is known of him.

SAMUEL BACON, Barnstable, married 9 May 1659, Martha Foxwell, had Samuel, born 9 March 1660; and Martha, 6 January 1662.

SAMUEL BACON, Barnstable, son of Nathaniel Bacon the first, married 17 December 1675, Mary Jacob, daughter of John Jacob of Hingham, whither he removed, had Hannah, born 12 October 1676, died at 2 months; Hannah, again, 10 February 1678; and Mary, 7 February 1680; and he died 18 February 1631.

THOMAS BACON, Roxbury 1665, had Joseph, born 1 January 1666; and George, 12 September 1671, who died at 2 years, and the father died 25 October 1701.

WILLIAM BACON, Salem 1640, brother of Michael Bacon, had Isaac, baptized 12 September 1641; and died November 1653, leaving widow Rebecca Potter, daughter it is said, of Thomas Potter of Coventry, who had been Mayor of that borough. His will mentioned wife and son, also Ann Potter. They had lived in Dublin, and, on the outbreak of the Irish rebellion, she was sent over here, says tradition and her husband followed soon; but her brother Humphrey Potter and other relatives perished in the massacre. Her will of 23 March 1655, probated 29 November following, names cousins, i. e. niece, Ann Potter, and John Bacon, besides sister Judith in Old England. Some community of origin may be, perhaps, traced to this tradition and to that of Michael; yet the flight from the rebellion would seem more natural in that early day to be directed to England Felt says, William was freeman after 1643; but the evidence is not seen. In 1834 Farmer found the graduates of this name to be seven at Yale, four at Harvard, and four at other New England colleges, the earliest of who Jacob Bacon, Harvard College 1731, minister of Plymouth, was great grandson of the first Michael Bacon.

BENJAMIN BADCOCK, Milton, son of George Badcock, married 11 February 1673, Hannah Daniel, daughter of William Daniel, had William, born about 1684, and in January 1692, administration was given on his estate.

EBENEZER BADCOCK, Sherburn, son of Robert Badcock, by wife Hannah, had Abigail, born 5 March 1687; Hannah, 28 September 1690, probably died young; Hannah, again, 25 March 1694; and Ebenezer, 4 September 1697; was selectman 1711, and died 15 December 1717.

ENOCH BADCOCK, Dorchester, brother of Robert Badcock, died 1711, leaving William, Susan, Mary, Elizabeth, and Sarah.

GEORGE BADCOCK, New Haven 1640, servant of Governor Eaton, under indenture for six years, may have removed to Dorchester, lived in that part now Milton, perhaps brother of Robert Badcock of the same, had George, born 26 February 1658; possibly other children.

GEORGE BADCOCK, Milton, son perhaps of the preceding, or of Robert Badcock, had, as Morse supposes, Dorothy, who married Ebenezer Wood, and, it may be, more; yet this seems very loose, without dates. His will, of 26 September 1671, mentioned wife Mary, sons Benjamin, Return, Enoch, and several daughters.

JAMES BADCOCK, Portsmouth, Rhode Island, among freeman in 1655, removed to the other side of Narraganset Bay. See Babcock, and observe, that the strange delusion of Hinman about the glorious Company of Leyden pilgrims by the Ann, 1623, is adopted by Morse, as if such a brat were better reared than stifled.

ROBERT BADCOCK, Dorchester 1648, next of Milton, had Nathaniel, born 14 March 1658; Caleb, 1660; Ebenezer, baptized at Dorchester 5 July 1663; Hopestill, 8 November 1663; Hannah, 28 May 1665; Elizabeth, 24 October 1666; besides other children of which one I think, was George. Harvard college calalogue has the spelling unchanged.

GILES BADGER, Newbury 1635, married Elizabeth Greenleaf, daughter of Edmund Greenleaf, had John, born 30 June 1643; and died 10 July 1647. His will, of 29 June, was probated in September, and his widow married 16 February following Richard Brown.

JOHN BADGER, Newbury, son of the preceding, by wife Elizabeth, who died 8 April 1669, had John, born 4 April 1664, died soon; John, again, 26 April 1665; Sarah, 25 January 1667; and James, 19 March 1669. For second wife he married 23 February 1671, Hannah Swett, daughter of Stephen Swett, had Stephen, 13 December following; Hannah, 3 December 1673; Nathaniel, 16 January 1676; Mary, 2 May 1678; Elizabeth, 30 April 1680; Ruth, 10 February 1683; a son 9 March 1680, died soon; Abigail, 29 June 1687; and Lydia, 30 April 1690. He died 31 March 1691, and his wife at near the same date, both of smallpox.

NATHANIEL BADGER, Newbury 1635, brother of Giles Badger, perhaps elder, had wife Hannah, but I can hear no more of him, nor of another brother Richard Badger.

THOMAS BADGER, New Haven 1639, of who no good is told. In 1834 four graduates of this name had come from Yale, two from Harvard, and two from other New England colleges.

WILLIAM BADLAM, Boston, by wife Joan, had John, born 8 February 1687; may be the same man that had, at Weymouth, by wife Mary, William, 20 December 1693; and Mary, 14 July 1699.

JOHN BADMAN, Boston, by wife Sarah, had Lydia, born 26 April 1656. No more is known.

JOHN BAGG, Springfield, married 1659, Hannah Burt, daughter of Henry Burt of the same, had ten children of which few are reported, as Daniel at Westfield; John, at Springfield, died 5 September 1683; and Hannah, who married 3 February 1651, Nathaniel Sikes, and lived to 13 May 1740.

JOHN BAGLEY, who had, I suppose, been one of Lyon Gardiner's men at Saybrook in 1637, should be found at Watertown 1643, but Bond in his all embracing volume has not appointed him a place there. One John Bagley, perhaps a son, was a soldier, and James Bagley was another of Gallop’s Company to Quebec, 1690.

ORLANDO BAGLEY, Salisbury, married 6 March 1654, Sarah Colby, daughter of Anthony Colby, had Orlando, born at Boston, 18 February 1659; and perhaps other children.

ORLANDO BAGLEY, Amesbury, son probably of the preceding, took oath of fidelity 20 December 1677, freeman 1690, married 22 December 1681, Sarah Sargent, perhaps daughter of William Sargent of the same, had Sarah, born 27 February 1683; John, 21 January 1685; Jacob, 13 December 1687, and Orlando, next day; and Judith, 13 November 1690.

SAMUEL BAGLEY, Weymouth, by wife Mary, had Samuel, born 7 September 1658; and perhaps more.

SAMUEL BAGLEY, Weymouth, son of the preceding, married Mary Thayer, daughter of Shadrach Thayer, of Braintree, had James, baptized 8 July 1688; Sarah, 17 May 1696; Abigail, 1 October 1699; and Mary, 5 July 1702.

WALTER BAGNALL, Searborough 1628, at Richmond's Isle, had great dealing with the Indians of the neighborhood, which for some imprudent or perhaps worse treatment after some years, killed him. See Winthrop I. 62; Willis, I. 15 and 21, and Southgate 10.

HENRY BAILEY, Falmouth, lived before 1690, in that part now Cape Elizabeth. Willis, I. 216.

JOHN BAILEY, Hartford, was constable in 1656, but removed to Haddam, there had Benjamin, born 15 November 1665.

JOHN BAILEY, Watertown, a minister, born at Blackburn, in Lancashire, 24 February 1644, came in 1683, preached some time as assistant to Reverend Samuel Willard, at third, or Old South church in Boston, but was settled as successor to famous John Sherman, at Watertown 6 October 1686. His wife Lydia, by whom he had no children, died 12 April 1690; and in 1692 he removed to Boston again, became assistant minister at first church 17 July 1693, and died 12 December 1697. John Dunton highly commends his sermon and Mather has given one of the best churches of the Magnalia to his honor. He left widow Susanna, who married Reverend Peter Thacher. To a brother Henry Bailey, of Manchester in England, he wrote in 1688, of his love to mother and sister Lydia Bailey in his native land of his own infirm health here, and in a querulous temper. The Magnalia, III. 232 finds, in his early service in Ireland the wounds to his constituted "which could never be recovered". All that need be known of him is well told by Francis, in History of Watertown 52, 8, and 141.

JOHN BAILEY, Scituate, married 25 January 1673, Sarah White, had John, born 5 November 1673; Sarah, October 1675; Mary, December 1677; Joseph, October 1679; Benjamin, April 1682; William, February 1685; Hannah, January 1688; and Samuel, August 1630. For second wife 9 December 1699 he took Ruth Clothier; if the name be right, and died 1718. I presume he was born on this side of the water; but who was his father is not seen. The two elder sons perpetuated the line at Scituate. Mary, married 1 January 1701, James Perry, and Hannah married 24 December 1716, James Briggs.

JOHN BAILEY, Marshfield, married 9 May 1677, Ann Bourne, probably daughter of John Bourne.

JOSEPH BAILEY, Bradford, son of Richard Bailey, of Salem, by wife Abigail, had Abigail; Richard, born 30 September 1675; and perhaps others, was a Deacon.

PALMER BAILEY, a miller, came in the Planter, 1635, aged 21, from Kingston, near London, but no more is heard of him.

RICHARD BAILEY, Lynn, came in the Bevis from Southampton, 1638, in the service of Richard Dummer, aged probably 15 years, brother of James Bailey of Rowley, married Edna Lambert, probably daughter of Francis Lambert of Rowley, had Joseph, but no other children is mentioned in his will of 1648. His widow married Ezekiel Northend of Rowley before 15 November 1649.

RICHARD BAILEY, Newport, 1670, was an important man, clerk of the Council of the Colony, and named in the will of John Clark; to be one of the trustees of his charity.

SAMUEL BAILEY, Weymouth, by wife Mary, had Mary, born 30 April 1661; James, 21 February 1664; John, 12 December 1668; and Joseph, 18 December 1672.

THEOPHILUS BAILEY, Lynn 1645, married perhaps Ruth Ivory, daughter of Thomas Ivory the first, and died 1694.

THOMAS BAILEY, Weymouth, freeman 13 May 1640, by wife Ruth, had Christian, born 26 February 1662; Samuel, 21 February 1666; Mary, 10 February 1670; and Sarah, 29 September 1674.

THOMAS BAILEY, Watertown, a minister, younger brother of Reverend John Bailey, by wife Rebecca, had Thomas, baptized 19 August 1688; but he had before his birth made a will 26 November 1686, in which Bond says, he names son John, his wife’s brothers John and Henry; and he died 21 January 1689, aged only 30. His widow married 26 April 1694, William Brown the second of Salem. Of this name, including Bayley, that is perpetuated interference with this, as does this with that, the graduates in 1834 at Harvard are eleven, at Dartmouth five, Yale two, and the other New England colleges count nine, besides seven, spelled Baylies, of which four are at Harvard.

ALEXANDER BAKER, Boston, ropemaker, came in the Elizabeth and Ann, 1635, aged 28, from London, with wife Elizabeth, 23; and children Elizabeth, 3; and Christian, 1; had Alexander, born 15 January 1636; Samuel, 16 January 1638; John, 20 June 1640; Joshua, 30 April 1642; Hannah, 29 September 1644; all baptized 5 October 1645, as he and his wife were administered of the church the preceding day, was freeman 1646; had, also, William, 15 May 1647; Benjamin, 16 March 1653; Josiah, 26 February 1655; and Josiah, again, 26 February 1658, if we accept the record. Not one of the four last were baptized in first church which may provoke inquiry for the reason. At Gloucester he had sat down on first coming; and in the grant to Reverend Richard Blinman, 1642, the same land is given that had before been offered to Alexander Baker. His daughter Christina married 18 July 1654 Simon Roberts.

CORNELIUS BAKER, Salem, married 26 April 1658, Hannah Woodbury, daughter of John Woodbury, had Hannah, born 14 October 1660, died at 2 years; Hannah, again, 28 November 1662; lived on Beverly side 1671-86.

DANIEL BAKER, Yarmouth, son of Francis Baker, married 27 May 1674, Elizabeth Chase, daughter of William Chase the second, had Daniel, born 1675; Samuel, 1676; Elizabeth, Hannah, 1696; Thankful, 1698; and Tabitha, 1700.

EBENEZER BAKER, Salem, a soldier in Gardner's Company, wounded 19 December 1675, in the great Narraganset battle.

EDWARD BAKER, Lynn 1630, freeman 14 March 1638, had wife Jane, certainly five sons, perhaps other children besides daughter Mary, who married 7 November 1662, George Sumner of Dorchester, having followed her to Northampton where Baker lived many years, leaving sons Joseph and Timothy at Northampton whose names are misprinted batter in Genealogical Registrar IX. 88; he went back to Lynn, there died March 1687, giving estate to sons John of Dedham, Edward, and Thomas, of Lynn.

EDWARD BAKER, Lynn, son of the preceding, married 7 April 1685, Mary Marshall, daughter of Captain John Marshall, was Ensign of the military, and freeman 1691.

FRANCIS BAKER, Boston, came in the Planter, 1635, aged 24, married 1641, Isabel Twining, perhaps daughter of William Twining, had Nathaniel, born 27 March 1642; removed to Yarmouth, and there had John; Samuel, 1 May 1648; Daniel, 2 September 1650; William; Thomas; Elizabeth, who married John Chase; and Hannah, who married a Pierce, and he died 1696, in 85th year. In his will of 4 March 1693, as all these children but Samuel are named, it may be thought that he was dead. His widow died 16 May 1706.

JAMES BAKER, Dorchcester, known to us solely by the gravestone, which tells, that he died 30 March 1721, aged 69; but we may guess, that he was father of that James Baker, whose gravestone says, that he "died 24 August 1734, aged 60 years 20 days."

JEFFREY BAKER, Windsor, married 25 November 1612, Joan Rockwell, daughter of William Rockwell, had Samuel, born 30 March 1644; Hepzibah, 10 May 1646; Mary, 15 July 1649; Abiel, a daughter 23 December 1652, died young; and Joseph, 18 June 1655; and 7 July following the father died. His widow married 1668, Richard Ingram.

JOHN BAKER, Ipswich, 1634, freeman 14 May of that year perhaps, is in later years mentioned in the town record with prefix of respect; yet so frequent is the concurrence of this name of baptism with the surname, as to justify doubt, whether that day's freeman were not.

JOHN BAKER, mentioned by Frothingham, 80, as coming to Charlestown 1630, and removed 1637, or that

JOHN BAKER, of who Winthrop II. 29, tells, how he removed from Boston to Newbury, grew rich too fast, went thence to York, and back with contrition to Boston. Assignment of residence becomes especially difficult in such cases, as in the freeman of 2 June 1641, where twice John Baker is counted and after minute comparison of the incident belonged to the names above and below each John, a confident conjecture may be offered that one was of Ipswich, perhaps he who was born at Norwich, County Norfolk, a grocer, that came 1637, aged 39, to Boston, in the Rose of Yarmouth, with Elizabeth, his wife 31, three children Elizabeth, John, and Thomas, four servants Mercy, and Ann Alexarson, aged 24, and 20, respectively, Bridget Bull, 32; and Samuel Ayres or Samuel Acres, 14, as certified copy of record from her Majesty's Remembrancer Office instructed me. See 4 Massachusetts History Collections I. 96, print. 1852, or Genealogical Registrar XIV. 324, 5, printed 1860, where his last name is various Ipswich, John had, also, Martha, who married Obadiah Antrim. To this Ipswich John and his wife Elizabeth, the widow Alice Ward gave, on her deathbed, March 1653, her daughter Sarah and her property to bring up the said children. For the other, Charlestown is entitled unless better claiming appear, for he had, by wife Rebecca, there baptized Sarah 13 September 1640.

JOHN BAKER, Boston, that early member of the church, who by wife Charity, had Charity, baptized 12 April 1635, may be the freeman of 18 May 1642.

JOHN BAKER of Wells, who may be the man, that had house in 1675 on west side of Kennebeck, lived near Arowsick Island when the war broke out, was, we know sworn freeman 1653; but tolerable sure am I, that

JOHN BAKER of Woburn was not, since he was sentenced to be whipped, and to marry Susanna Martin (the infliction of the latter part of the punishment being on 28 May 1654); by her he had John, born 25 March preceding; Mary, 22 February 1656; Joseph, 15 June 1657, died soon; Joseph, again, 1 February 1660; Susanna, 15 March 1652, died soon; Susanna, again, 12 April 1663; a son whose name is not seen on the record 8 March 1664, died next week; Samuel, 21 April 1665; Benjamin, 24 May 1667; James, 10 June 1670; Jonathan, 2 April 1674; and William, 18 August 1679.

JOHN BAKER, Boston, blacksmith, Artillery Company 1644, had married eldest daughter of Thomas Swift, of Dorchester, several years (probably ten) before 5 November 1657, which date from the MS volume in the Boston office of registrations, usually accepted as a record while it is only a copy, is truly printed from the false certifate of Governor John Winthrop, who died 26 March 1649 as the error may be read in Genealogical Registrar XI. 202. By her he had John, who died young, 20 June 1654; Thomas, born 12 February 1654; Samuel, 16 April 1650, died in 3 months; Nathaniel, 4 April 1656, died soon; of which four children the false certificate on record would make all born before the marriage. Also he had John, again, 17 July 1658, died in few months; and Elizabeth, 26 June 1660; and died I think in July 1666, leaving good estate but in his will of 26 March preceding, names only the son Thomas, and daughter Elizabeth. For second wife he married 8 January 1664, Thankful Foster, eldest daughter of Hopestill Foster, had John, born 26 February 1665; and Silence, posthumous, who died soon. His wife long survived, died 17 January 1698.

JOHN BAKER, Dorchester, son perhaps of Richard Baker, freeman 1673, married 11 July 1667, Preserved Trott, daughter of Thomas Trott, had Sarah, born 12 July 1668; Mary, 10 November 1670, died at 2 months; John, 25 November 1671; James, 4 August 1674; Mary, again, 24 August 1676; Thankful, 13 April 1679; Hannah, 22 July 1682, died at 1 year; Elizabeth, 18 July 1684; Hannah, again, 11 July, 1687 died at 3 years; and Abijah, posthumous 25 February 1691. He died 26 August 1690, and his widow died 25 November 1711.

JOHN BAKER, Ipswich, son of John Baker of the same, brought from England, married 13 May 1667, Catharine Perkins, daughter of Reverend William Perkins, had Elizabeth, born 1670; John; and perhaps others.

JOHN BAKER, Yarmouth, son of Francis Baker, by wife Alice, had John, born May 1672; Bethia, November 1673; Sarah, September 1677; Jonathan; Isaac; Mary; and Elizabeth.

JOHN BAKER, Hartford, was there as early as 1665, married Lydia Baysey, daughter of John Baysey, had John, Baysey, and Joseph, all sons, and perhaps other children. His wife died 16 May 1700.

JOHN BAKER, Dedham, son of Edward Baker, was living there 1678, may have been father of that Daniel Baker, born 18 April 1686, Harvard College 1706, who was minister of Sherborn, ordained 1713.

JOHN BAKER, Woburn, perhaps son of John Baker of the same, married 18 October 1682, Hannah Polley, daughter of George Polley, had Hannah, born 5 December 1683, died soon; Hannah, again, 3 August 1685; and John, 27 June 1687, perhaps more.

JOSEPH BAKER, Northampton, son of Edward Baker, married 5 February 1663, Ruth Holton, daughter of William Holton, was killed by the Indians 29 October 1675, with his son Joseph, born 20 January 1665; leaving Ruth, born 6 May 1668; Mary, 5 September 1670; and Samuel, 11 September 1672. Joseph was the name given to his posthumous son born 25, baptized 30 January following. His widow married 1678, Thomas Lyman.

JOSEPH BAKER, Windsor, son of Jeffrey Baker of the same, married 30 January 1677, Hannah Cook, widow of Thomas Buckland the younger, daughter of Nathaniel Cook, had Joseph, born 13 April 1678; Lydia, 5 July 1681; and Samuel, 17 October 1684, who died 16 October 1685. The father died 11 December 1691; and his widow married John Loomis. Yet the recent history of Windsor, page 526, gives two more children, Hannah, 19 December 1686, who died next year; and Ebenezer, 17 July 1689, which may be correct. But great is my doubt of the accuracy of his addition of second wife 8 July 1702, Hannah Pomeroy of Northampton, and ten more children the latest, 14 May 1722. Hinman, in his calalogue of 1852, page 110, says, his will was made 1691, and he died that year, referred to Windsor record probably Stiles confused two persons.

JOSEPH BAKER, Woburn, probably son of John Baker the first, of the same, married 4 October 1686, Hannah Bauk, if rightly this name be written.

JOSHUA BAKER, New London, son of Alexander Baker, married 13 September 1674, Hannah, widow of Tristram Minter, had Elizabeth, born 9 May 1676; Alexander, 16 December 1677; Joshua, 5 January 1679; John, 24 December 1681; Hannah and Sarah, twins January 1684; Mercy; Benjamin; and Patience; and he died 27 December 1717, his wife survived. His daughter Elizabeth married Richard Atwell.

LANCELOT BAKER, Boston, by wife Judith, had Elizabeth, born 13 December 1644; removed to New Haven, and had John, born 31 December 1651.

NATHANIEL BAKER, Hingham 1635, by wife (who is mentioned but not named in the will of her father William Lane of Dorchester), had Mary, baptized July 1639, who married 16 December 1657, John Loring, perhaps his only child, and died 3 June 1682. In his will of 11 May preceding after provisions for his widow and two Indians slaves, he gave most of his property to grandchildren, yet with 3 reasonable members, to six children of his late brother Nicholas, of Scituate. See Lincoln, Cent. Addr. 39. Farmer mistook him for son of Nicholas Baker.

NATHANIEL BAKER, Yarmouth, eldest son of Francis Baker, had three sons Samuel, born 29 October; Nathaniel, 27 January 1672; and probably the other was named Silas, says Mr. Otis. Both he and his wife died December 1691, as Mr. Otis assures me.

NICHOLAS BAKER, Hingham 1635, brother of the first Nathaniel Baker, freeman 3 March 1636, Representative 1636 and 8, removed to Scituate, there was ordained 1660, third minister of the First Church, and was of such good temper as to reconcile the two churches which had quarrelled for thirty years. He had Samuel, baptized 7 October 1638; John, 6 November 1642; Elizabeth, November 1644; and Deborah, 6 June 1652. Mather, with his habitual carelessness, says, in the Magnalia III. 219, "he had but a private education" taking occasion to utter one of his brilliant clauses; yet I found at St. John's college Cambridge that he had his A.B. 1631-2, and A.M. 1635. A short time he stopped at Roxbury. His wife that probably was mother of all his children died 4 April 1661, and he next year took another, of who the baptized name Grace only is known, and died 22 August 1678, aged 67. Her he made executrix of his will, in which he names six children, Samuel, Nicholas, Elizabeth, Sarah, Deborah, and Mary. The widow Grace died 22 January 1697. All the daughters were married Mary, 26 February 1662, to Stephen Vinal; Elizabeth married 1664 to John Vinal; Sarah, married 1671, Josiah Litchfield; and Deborah, married 1678, Israel Chittenden. Deane, 181-3.

NICHOLAS BAKER, Marblehead, who Willis, I. 135, says married Elizabeth Bartlett, daughter of George Bartlett of Scarborough, may have been son of the preceding, but we want the illumination of a date. Of one Nicholas Baker, late of Boston, mariner, who may have been a grandson of Reverend Nicholas Baker, administration was granted 8 October 1695, to his mother in law, Jane Colyer of Hull.

RICHARD BAKER, Dorchester, 1639, freeman 18 May 1642, Artillery Company 1658, by wife Faith Withington, daughter of Henry Withington, who died 3 February 1689, had Mary, born 27 April 1643, besides five other daughters perhaps, and certainly two sons, only one having date, and one even without a given name, as by his will of 7 October 1689 is shown, viz. John; James; Thankful, wife of William Griggs; Elizabeth, wife of a Pratt; Hannah, born 9 January 1663, who had married 5 May 1685, John Wiswall; Sarah, then deceased, who had been wife of James White, married 22 February 1665, though the History of Dorchester makes her born three years later than this mother, page 106;-- also, for one daughter Mary; and one, the wife of Samuel Robinson. He had been selectman 1653, constable, 1663, and died 25 October 1689, as Genealogical Registrar V. 395 teaches.

ROBERT BAKER, Salem, who had grant of land 1637, was killed by casualty 1640. See Winthrop II. 24.

ROBERT BAKER, Roxbury, by wife Mary, had Robert, born 29 October 1673, who died at 11 years; Mary, 11 October 1675; Sarah, 24 December 1676; Matthew, 5 September 1678, who died at 17 years; Joseph, 4 November 1680; Benjamin, 15 August 1682; and Ann, 8 June 1685; and he died 25 October 1720. Mentioned on the record of death is seen of two children, viz. Elizabeth, 11 September, and Jonathan, 24 September 1694, of neither of which can the births be found.

SAMUEL BAKER, Lynn, came in the Elizabeth and Ann 1635, aged 30, from London; but he was of County Kent, says tradition, and died 16 December 1666.

SAMUEL BAKER, Marshfield, not son of Nicholas Baker, as was once thought, married 29 December 1656, Elinor Winslow, daughter of Kenelm Winslow, had Kenelm, born 23 March 1658; Lydia, 18 February 1660; Elizabeth, 18 March 1662; Alice, 19 May 1663; and Elinor; 1665; besides others in 1667, 9, and 71, of whose names, in the mutilated state of the records, no certainty can be attained. His wife died or was buried 27 August 1676, and he married 21 February following Patience, widow perhaps of the first Moses Simmons of Duxbury, had Samuel.

SAMUEL BAKER, Windsor 1669, then among freeman, married 30 June 1670, Sarah Cooke, eldest daughter of Nathaniel Cooke of the same.

SAMUEL BAKER, Hull, son of Reverend Nicholas Baker, freeman 1677, married Fear Robinson, daughter of Isaac Robinson, removed to Barnstable, there had administration with his wife 1687, to that chuch on dismissal from Hull.

THOMAS BAKER, Milford 1639, Easthampton, Long Island, 1650, was, perhaps, that Assistant of Connecticut from 1658 to 63.

THOMAS BAKER, Roxbury, son of John Baker the first of Ipswich, freeman 1619, by wife Elizabeth, had Elizabeth, born 2 October 1641; John; Joseph, 24, baptized 27 February 1648; Sarah, 24, baptized 28 April 1650; Mary, baptized 6 June 1652, died in 5 weeks; Mary, again, 11 September 1653; and for second wife took 27 March or May 1663, Mary Gamlin, daughter of Robert Gamlin, had Thomas, born 7 January 1664; and Mary, 27 July 1667; and he died 28 January 1684, "old, blind, godly," in the expressed record of church. His son Thomas was killed by the Indians at Sudbury fight April 1676, surely a very young soldier, under Wadsworth, but he had served in the Narraganset campaign as one of Johnson's Company in December before, i. e. less than twelve years old. No incident of those days more strikingly gives proof of the extensive reach of the perils. Sarah married 19 April 1671, Sebas Jackson; and Mary married Roger Adams.

THOMAS BAKER, Lynn, son of the first Edward Baker of the same, married 10 July 1689, Mary Lewis, perhaps daughter of John Lewis. In June 1730, he testified that he was 77 years old, and that Andrew Townsend of Lynn, who he had well known 55 years, was wounded in the great Narraganset fight, 19 December 1675, under Captain Gardner.

THOMAS BAKER, Topsfield, son of the first John Baker of Ipswich, brought by his father 1637, freeman 1665, married 26 March 1673, Priscilla Symonds, daughter of Deputy Governor Samuel Symonds, had Priscilla, born 8 December 1674; Martha, 14 October 1682; Rebecca, 16 November 1685; Thomas, 17 February 1688; John, 6 January 1691; and Elizabeth, baptized 17 September 1693. He died 18 March 1718, aged by family tradition 81 years 6 months 5 days; so born 13 September 1636; and the widow died 2 January 1733, aged 85. Priscilla married Isaac Appleton, was a military officer, and Representative 1686, 9, and 90.

THOMAS BAKER, New London 1686, may have been son of William Baker, and certainly left children, but names and dates of them are unknown.

THOMAS BAKER, Yarmouth, youngest son of Francis Baker, by wife Bathsheba, had Mary, born 7 April 1701; and Thomas, 4 March 1703.

TIMOTHY BAKER, Northampton, son of Edward Baker, freeman 1676, married 16 January 1672, Grace Marsh, daughter of John Marsh of Hadley, had Grace, born 1673, died soon; Timothy, 1675; and his wife died 31 May 1676. For second wife he took Sarah Hollister, widow of Reverend Hope Atherton, daughter of John Hollister, and had John, born 3 February 1680; Thomas, 14 May 1682; Edward, 12 November 1685 ; Prudence, 14 May 1687; and Deliverance, 13 November 1689. His wife died 8 December 1691; and he died 30 August 1729. His third son was the youth, who married Christina Otis, daughter of Richard Otis, that was taken by the Indians at 3 months old, from Dover; with her mother, when they killed her father 1689, and carried to Canada, there after a priestly education, made a Catholic by baptism, and married a Frenchman, who had by her two children before his death. Baker had been made a prisoner by the Indians, probably taken to Canada in 1704, and in different capacity in 1719, accompanied Colonel Stoddard to bring home the prisoners from Quebec. Many descendants in New England and remote parts spring from this marriage, among others, Honorable John Wentworth, late M.C. from Chicago, and present Mayor of that prosperous city.

WALTER BAKER, Scituate, was suspected in 1651, of murder of John Winter; but no support was found for that surmise.

WILLIAM BAKER, Charlestown 1633, freeman 3 September 1634, having joined the church in August 1633, was one of the petitioners in favor of Wheelwright, but seasonably changed his mind, and continued in good standing; by wife Joan, had Sarah (Mr. Wyman calls her Mary), baptized 20 May 1638; Stephen, 20 February 1642; and Martha, 21 April 1644; was a selectman 1646, and died 8 November 1658. His widow died 26 September 1669. Frothingham, 82, 5.

WILLIAM BAKER, Plymouth 1643, may, I think, have been first of Rhode Island, as early as 1638, and probably went thither again, being counted among the freeman 1655, at Portsmouth.

WILLIAM BAKER, Boston, pump-maker, married 23 September 1651, Mary Eddington, daughter of Edmund Eddington, had Mary, born 16 May 1602, died at 3 months; John, 14 December 1653; and William, 19 October 1650. His wife died 12 December following, and he married 22 April next, Pilgrim Eddy, eldest daughter of John Eddy of Watertown. But great uncertain or confusion appears after this, for Bond, 203, and 755, makes a doubt, whether she were wife of P. Stedman before or after Baker. Yet she was young, when Baker married her, and he removed probably to Concord, and there he or another William died, leaving widow Mary and son William. His inventory is of 17 June 1679.

WILLIAM BAKER, Yarmouth, son of Francis Baker, by wife Mercy, had Mercy, born 6 January 1698; William, 8 January 1694; Dorcas, 15 November 1696; Experience, 8 January 1698; Judah, 2 March 1701; Elizabeth, 11 February 1703; Josiah, 16 December 1704; Joanna, 8 February 1707; and Patience, 27 February 1709; and died 1727. His widow died 1753. Of this name, 1834, Farmer counts nine graduates at Harvard, seven at Yale, four at Dartmouth, and seven at the other colleges in New England, probably as the name is so very common, some families are omitted.

BENJAMIN BALCH, Beverly, eldest son of the first John Balch of the same, married Sarah Gardner, daughter of the first Thomas Gardner, had Samuel, born 1651; John, 1654; Joseph, a soldier of "the flower of Essex" under Captain Lathrop, killed by the Indians 18 September 1675, at Bloody Brook; and Freeborn, 9 August 1660; and he died about 1706, many years after his wife, as we infer from her not being mentioned in his will of 18 January 1689. Being called 77 years old, it has been hastily assumed that he was the first born of Massachusetts as the late Dr. Bentley stoutly asserted the same honor for John Massey, and brought forward, as his best evidence the cradle, in which he was rocked. But Felt seems to prove, that Roger, son of Roger Conant, was born at Salem before Massey or Balch. It is thought all of this name in New England descendants.

FREEBORN BALCH, Salem, youngest son of the first John Balch, disappears about 1658, probably going for England that year, and not heard of after.

JOHN BALCH, Salem, one of the earliest settlers of Massachusetts from the vicinity of Bridgewater, County Somerset, came, it is said with sufficient probability in 1623, with Robert Gorges, to make establishment at Cape Ann, or Nantasket, and on encouragement from White the minister of Dorchester, a most earnest promoter of the colony, removed with Roger Conant to plant at Salem, on Beverly side, then called Bass river. He required administration as freeman 19 October 1630, and took the oath 18 May following. By his wife Margaret, one of the earliest members of the church of Higginson, was born Benjamin, about 1623, John, and Freeborn; but he had second wife Agnes, or Annis, named with those sons in his will of 15 May, probated 28 June 1648.

JOHN BALCH, Beverly, son of the preceding, married Mary Conant, daughter of Roger Conant, had Mary, who died young; and it is not seen, that he had other issue, except daughter Mary, again. He was drowned 16 June 1662, and his widow married William Dodge. Good memoirs of this family is printed in Geneal. Reo. IX. 233. Farmer notes, that in 1829 five of this name had been graduates at Harvard, and one at Dartmouth.

ALEXANDER BALCOM, or ALEXANDER BOLKCOM, Providence, called junior when he swore allegiance May 1682, though of an earlier Alexander Balcom there, perhaps his father I find nothing. He removed to that part of Rehoboth, since called Attleborough, married Sarah Woodcock, daughter of John Woodcock, had William, born 3 September 1692; Catharine, 7 February 1694; Alexander, 4 April 1696; John, 29 April 1699; Baruch, 12 June 1702; Sarah, 8 February 1704; and Joseph, 23 February 1706; and died 31 January 1728. See the valuable History of Attleborough, by Daggett.

HENRY BALCOM, or HENRY BOLKCOM, Charlestown, married Elizabeth Haines, daughter of John Haines, had Sarah, who died 8 December 1665, probably very young; Hannah, 16 March 1668; John, 15 October 1669; Elizabeth, 14 August 1672; and Joseph, 17 December 1674. The son had estate at Sudbury, given by their grandfather.

BENJAMIN BALDWIN, Milford, second son of Joseph Baldwin the first of the same, long before the will of his father, removed probably with the great migration to New Jersey about 1668; or at least no more of him is known

DANIEL BALDWIN, Milford, son of Nathaniel Baldwin of the same, married 27 June 1667, Elizabeth Botsford, daughter of Henry Botsford, had Daniel, born 1668; Elizabeth, 1670; both died young; Samuel, 29 December 1673; Daniel, again, 1678; John, 1679; and Elizabeth, again, 1680.

DANIEL BALDWIN, Woburn, son of Henry Baldwin the first, married 6 January 1685, Hannah Richardson, daughter probably of Joseph Richardson of the same, had Hannah, born 21 August 1686; Phebe, 13 May 1690; Henry and Joseph, twins 15 March 1693; Susanna, 31 March 1694; Daniel, 16 December 1693; Dorcas, 18 October 1697; Joseph, again, 17 March 1699; Dorcas, again, 11 August 1701; John, 28 August 1703; Rebecca, 19 December 1705; Benjamin, 30 March 1707; and Phebe, again, 28 December 1708.

DAVID BALDWIN, Milford, youngest brother of Benjamin Baldwin, married 11 November 1674, Mary Stream, daughter of John Stream of the same, had three sons whose names are not known to me, and died 1689.

GEORGE BALDWIN, Boston, by wife Ann, had John, born 25 October 1639, who died under 4 years, perhaps removed to Warwick, there was among the freeman in 1655. In 1672 one of this name was at Huntington, Long Island, but we may not infer that he was the same, as this family name was very abundant especially in Connecticut whose people spread much upon Long Island,

HENRY BALDWIN, Portsmouth 1631, sent by Mason, the patentee. See Adams, Annals 18.

HENRY BALDWIN, Woburn, freeman 1652, was, as is said, from Devonshire, married 1 November 1649, Phebe Richardson, eldest daughter of Ezekiel Richardson, of the same, had Susanna, born 30 August 1650, died soon; Susanna, again, 25 July 1652; Phebe, 7 September 1654; John, 28 October 1636; Daniel, 15 March 1659; Timothy, 27 May 1661; Mary, 19 July 1663, died within 6 months; Henry, 15 November 1664; Abigail, 20 August 1667; Ruth, 21 July 1670; and Benjamin, 20 February 1673; was Deacon, and died 14 February 1698.

HENRY BALDWIN, Woburn, son of the preceding, married 4 May 1692, Abigail Fiske, daughter of David Fiske the second, had Henry, born 12 January 1693; David, 9 April 1696; Isaac, 20 February 1700; Abigail, 13 February 1702, died soon; James, 11 July 1703, died at 4 years; Abigail, again, 19 November 1707; James, again, 19 October 1710; and Samuel, 31 August 1717. David, his son was father of William Baldwin, Harvard College 1748; and of Samuel Baldwin, Harvard College 1752; and James Baldwin, his son was father of Loammi Baldwin, as the friend and pendentondent of Count Rumford, who projected the Middlesex canal, the earliest undertaking of that kind in New England, Loammi Baldwin, Harvard College 1800, a great civil engineer, was son of that Loammi Baldwin.

JOHN BALDWIN, Dedham, one of the first settlers, by wife Joanna, had John, born 24 June 1635, perhaps more.

JOHN BALDWIN, Milford 1639 (son of that Sylvester Baldwin, who coming from England in the Martin, 1638, to Boston, with this son, died on the voyage, leaving good estate), by first wife Mary, had John, born 1640 (who died unmarried about 1677, on a voyage); Josiah, 1642; Samuel, 1645; Nathaniel, 1648; Elizabeth, 1649; and Joseph, 1651; and he married 1653, Mary Bruen, daughter of Obadiah Bruen, had Mary, born 7 September 1654; Sarah, 25 December 1655; Abigail, November 1658, baptized at New Haven, 27 March following; Obadiah, October 1660; George, 1662; Hannah, 1664; and Richard, 1666; removed a year or two after to Newark, New Jersey but came back to Milford. He made his will 24 May 1681, and died before 5 July next; in that instrument he names all the children except Samuel, Mary, and Sarah, who as well as his wife were probably dead, and we learn from it, that Elizabeth had married a Porter; that Abigail had married a Baldwin; and Hannah married 17 January of next year Dr. John Fiske.

JOHN BALDWIN, Guilford, married 12 April 1653, Hannah Birchard, probably daughter of Thomas Birchard, had John, born 5 December 1654; Hannah, 6 October 1656, and Thomas, 1662; but he had removed 1662 to Norwich.

JOHN BALDWIN, Stonington 1671, removed to New London, there married 24 July 1672, second wife Rebecca, widow of Elisha Cheesebrough, had Rebecca, born 20 May 1673; Mary, 24 February 1675; Sylvester, 4 March 1677; Sarah, 1680; and Jane, baptized October 1681; and died 19 August 1683. From giving a child the name Sylvester; Miss Caulkins infers, that the father was son of the son, of him of the same name who died 1638 on his voyage to our shore.

JOHN BALDWIN, the passenger in the Speedwell to Boston from London, 1656, aged 21, with Mary, 20 (perhaps his sister, more probably his wife), may not be certainly determined among so many of this name.

JOHN BALDWIN, Salem, married September 1664, Arabella Norman, daughter of John Norman, had Hannah, born 15 October 1667; and John, 26 November 1668; and died November 1673.

JOHN BALDWIN, Billerica, may have been petitioner in 1603 for grant of Chelmsford, married 15 May 1655, Mary Richardson, probably eldest daughter of Thomas Richardson of Woburn, had several children of which the first, Mary, born 28 July 1659, died four days after, was freeman 1670, and died 25 December 1687, leaving sons John, Jonathan, and Thomas; daughters Susanna, Phebe, and Mary, whose descendants are very numerous in all that region.

JOHN BALDWIN, Milford, eldest son of Nathaniel Baldwin of the same, married 19 November 1663, Hannah Osborn, daughter of Richard Osborn, had one son born 1666, and perhaps soon removed to Newark.

JOHN BALDWIN, Milford, eldest son of John Baldwin the first, of the same, married 30 October 1663, Hannah Bruen, daughter of Obadiah Bruen, sister of the second wife of his father, had one son born 1665; another named Richard, 1666; removed to Newark, where it is said, are descendants.

JOHN BALDWIN, Guilford, son of John Baldwin of the same, married 1680, Experience Abell, removed to Lebanon, there died 1705, leaving widow, one son John, and four daughters.

JONATHAN BALDWIN, Northampton 1668, probably son of Joseph Baldwin, was of Milford 1674.

JOSEPH BALDWIN, Milford 1639, by wife Hannah, had Joseph, born 1640; Benjamin, 1642; Hannah, 1644; Mary, 1645; all baptized at once; Elizabeth, 1646; Martha, 1647; Jonathan, 1649; David, 1651; and Sarah, 1653; removed about 1663, to Hadley, there was freeman 1666; married for second wife Isabel Northam, widow of James, who had come with her son John, as widow Catlin, from Newark, New Jersey. For third wife he took Elizabeth, widow of William Warriner of Springfield, and died 2 Nov 1684. His widow died 25 April 1696; by a will in 1680 he disposed of estate judiciously, thus, land in Hadley to children of his eldest son Joseph, then disposed land in Milford to Benjamin, Jonathan, and David; personal property to his eldest daughter Hannah, wife of Jeremiah Hull of New Haven, to Mary, wife of John Catlin of Arthur Kill, New Jersey, to Elizabeth, wife of James Warriner of Springfield, to John, and Hannah Hawkes, child of John of Hatfield, in right of their mother Martha, deceased, and to Sarah, wife of Samuel Bartlett of Northampton, who was another child, perhaps youngest, of the testator.

JOSEPH BALDWIN, Hadley, son of the preceding, made freeman 1670, had first wife Elizabeth, and next married Sarah Cooley, daughter of Benjamin Cooley, and died in middle life, 21 November 1681, leaving Joseph, James, Samuel, Mary, and Hannah; but whether these children were all by the second wife or whether she married second husband is not told to me. Of the sons, Joseph soon removed to Malden; James to Milford; and in short time this name had vanished from Hadley.

JOSIAH BALDWIN, Milford, son of John Baldwin the first, married 25 June 1667, Mary Camp, daughter probably of Edward Camp of New Haven, and died 1683, leaving young wife and seven children whose names I see not.

NATHANIEL BALDWIN, Milford 1639, had John, before mentioned, born before 1640; Daniel, 1644; Nathaniel, 1645; Abigail, 1648, all by wife Abigail, who died 22 March 1648. He next married Joanna Westcoat, widow it is said, of Richard Westcoat of Fairfield (but of him I know nothing), lived at Fairfield 1654, had Sarah, Deborah, and Samuel; died 1658, and his widow married Thomas Skidmore. His children went back to Milford.

NATHANIEL BALDWIN, Milford, not son of the preceding, was killed in the great swamp fight, 19 December 1675. Other Nathaniels there were at Milford nearly at the same time, as in 1677 one is named senior, and another junior in a division of town lands but ten years later one called weaver, the other, cooper.

NATHANIEL BALDWIN, Milford, son of Nathaniel Baldwin the first, married 1671, Henry Botsford's daughter Hannah Botsford, had Elizabeth, born 1672; Hannah, 1674; Nathaniel, 1676; possibly Esther, 1683; and Samuel, 1684. One Nathaniel Baldwin died at Milford 1692; and that Nathaniel Baldwin, who fell in Philip's war may have been a stranger to this blood. That son of the first John Baldwin who bore this name would have been among the later inhabitants of Milford.

PETER BALDWIN, Salem, married 27 May 1672, widow Rachel Dellaclose. Felt. II. 589, shows, that Mrs. Baldwin, a French lady, from the Isle of Jersey, joined the church of Salem 4 August 1678. In a MS he had reduced her name, when widow, to the first syllable.

RICHARD BALDWIN, Braintree 1637, had daughter Jane, and from Winthrop II. 348 is seen all that is known.

RICHARD BALDWIN, Milford 1640, came not with father and mother probably (of who he was eldest son) in the Martin to Boston 1638, but following soon; married 1642, Elizabeth Alsop, sister of Joseph Alsop the first, of New Haven, had Mary, baptized 1643; Elizabeth, 1644; Sylvanus, born 1646; Sarah, baptized 1649; Temperance, 1651; Mary, again, 1653; John; Theophilus, baptized at New Haven, 19 September 1658; Zechariah, born 22 September 1660; Martha, 1 April 1663; and Barnabas, posthumous baptized 1666. In some records will be seen Theophilus, born 26 April 1659, but perhaps it is an error of the year he was town clerk 1648, and Representative 1660 to his death 23 July 1665. Perhaps he was one of the first settlers at Derby, as mentioned by Trumbull, Colony record I. 271, 322. He left good estate to his children and widow who married William Fowler. Of the children a sufficient story is obtained. Elizabeth married 1663, Zechariah Burwell; Sarah married 1667, Samuel Riggs; Temperance married 14 January 1674, Nathan Burwell; Mary married but I find not her husband; Martha, married 1681, Samuel Nettleton; Zechariah, and Barrnabas lived at Milford in 1713; and the rest are herein accounted for except John, who had gone to England, as in 1702 was said, twenty-five years before and was thought to be dead.

SAMUEL BALDWIN, Milford 1664, son of John Baldwin the first, was drowned 1674, leaving widow Rebecca, who married it is said, a Prince of Boston, who is unknown to me.

SAMUEL BALDWIN, Guilford, left wife Abigail, and children Abigail, aged 17; Dorothy, 12; Joanna, 20; Samuel, 7; Timothy, 5; and Nathaniel, 2; by inventory of January 1696 to divide good estate.

SYLVANUS BALDWIN, Milford, eldest son of Richard Baldwin of the same, married 20 September 1670, Mildred Prudden, daughter of Reverend Peter Prudden of the same, of which I regret to be able to tell only that he was living 1713.

SYLVESTER BALDWIN, the passenger who died 1635, on the voyage of the Martin from England to Boston, was son of Richard Baldwin of St. Leonards in the parish of Aston Clinton, near Wendover in County Bucks, where his father by will of 18 February 1632, had given him a cottage and close, which his widow (who had married John Astwood, and was then his widow) gave 1 October 1666 to Edward Baldwin of Guilford, County Surrey, called him "kinsman." He brought wife Sarah, and perhaps all his children (except Richard), daughters Sarah, Mary, Martha, Ruth, and son John. "On the main ocean, bound for New England" his nuncupative will was made 21 June, and probated 13 July of that year before Deputy Governor Dudley by oaths of Chad Brown, Francis Bolt, James Weedon, and John Baldwin, presumed to be his son. The estate was good, and provision liberal for the six children as well as the widow to whom with son Richard our General Court 4 September following committed the administration. After some time lived at New Haven, and Milford, she married 1640, Captain John Astwood of Milford, when her property was valued at £800, besides several parcels of land. She long outlived him, and in her will of 9, probated 20 November 1669, she provides for son John, and John his son for Sylvanus, son of her son Richard, deceased, and three of her daughters (one probably having died) of whom two were married Sarah, first wife of Benjamin Fenn, and Mary, widow of Robert Plum, besides six granddaughters.

THEOPHILUS BALDWIN, Milford, son of Richard Baldwin of the same, married 8 February 1683, Elizabeth Campfield, perhaps daughter of Thomas Campfield, and died 1698, leaving four children, Abigail, aged 14; Martha, 8; Theophilus, 4; and Hezekiah, 1.

THOMAS BALDWIN, Norwich, son of John Baldwin of Guilford, married 1684, Sarah Caulkins, daughter of John Caulkins, who died next year, and he married 1692, Abigail Lay, probably daughter of John Lay of Lyme, by her had four sons and four daughters. Of this Norwich stock descendants, it is thought the late Reverend Dr. Baldwin of Boston, Honorable Simeon, and Governor Roger S. Baldwin, gentleman of high repute in Connecticut.

TIMOTHY BALDWIN, Milford 1639, had right in New Haven 1640 to lot of land, had first wife Mary, who died 21 July 1647, and he married 1649, widow Mary Mepham, relict of John Mepham, of Guilford; by the first he had Mary, baptized 1643, who married 21 October 1660, Benjamin Smith; Hannah, 1614, who married 12 December 1667, as his second wife Elnathan Botsford; Sarah, 1645, who married 14 December 1663, Samuel Buckingham. He had by the second wife Abigail, born 1650, died at 10 years; Ann, 1655, died soon; and Timothy, 1658; and died 17 January 1665. His widow took third husband Thomas Tappin. The only son lived at Milford.

TIMOTHY BALDWIN, Woburn, son of Henry Baldwin the first of the same, by wife Elizabeth, had Elizabeth, born 29 May 1688; Timothy, 20 November 1689; Ralph, 28 June 1691; Hannah, who died 6 September 1692; and he removed to Stoneham, there was living 1726. Of this name Yale counts her graduates up to 1834, thirty four, while at Harvard and Dartmouth only three each, and seven only at all the other New England colleges, if Farmer be correct, as usual.

ALLEN BALL, ALLIN BALL. or ALLING BALL, New Haven 1643, by wife Dorothy, had John, born 15 April 1649; Eliphalet, 11 February 1651; and Alling, 27 June 1656; besides Mercy, who married 10 February 1676 George Pardee second of the same, and perhaps others before or after, or both. He was a Captain, and his wife died 22 February 1690.

ALLING BALL, New Haven, son of the preceding, married 24 November 1678, Sarah Thompson, daughter of John Thompson the first of the same, had Sarah, born 26 August 1679; Lydia, 30 January 1681; Alling, 21 October 1684; who died young; Mercy; Mary, baptized 30 July 1693; Mabel, born 1695; and Alling, again. He was a Captain, and died 1710.

EDWARD BALL, Branford 1667, removed that year to Newark, New Jersey, had Caleb, Abigail, Joseph, Lydia, Moses, and Thomas; of whom the last was progenitor of great multitude. One of this name, in 1684, was living at Block Island.

ELIPHALET BALL, New Haven, son of Alling Ball the first, married 13 February 1673, Hannah Nash, daughter of John Nash of the same, and died 11 July following. His widow married 2 April 1689 Thomas Trowbridge senior.

FRANCIS BALL, Dorchester, removed to Springfield, there married 1644, Abigail Burt, daughter of Henry Burt, had Jonathan, born 1645; and Samuel; was drowned in the river October 1648. His widow married next year Benjamin Mun, and next, 14 December 1676, Lieutenant Thomas Stebbins.

FRANCIS BALL, Dorchester, married 27 January 1664, Abigail Salter, had John, born 15 April 1665, died next year; Abigail, 14 August 1667; Francis, 21 February 1670; and Benjamin, 30 August 1675.

JOHN BALL, Isle of Shoals 1649, of who I learn, only from our Suffolk probable record, that he was one of the debtors to estate of Isaac Grosse, of Boston, which probably supplied him with outfits for his fishing.

JOHN BALL, Concord, freeman 1650, had brought from Wiltshire as is said, sons Nathaniel, and John, was buried 1 October 1655.

JOHN BALL, Watertown, son of the preceding, born in England, married Elizabeth Pierce, daughter of John Pierce of the same, had John, born 1644; Mary; Esther; Sarah, 1655; and Abigail, 20 April 1658, who died soon; was much troubled by insanity of his wife who made separation needful. After her death he married 3 October 1665, Elizabeth Fox, daughter probably of Thomas Fox, had Joseph, born 12 March 1670; removed to Lancaster, where he had short residence 1648, there was killed by the Indians 10 September 1675.

JOHN BALL, Watertown, son of the preceding, married 17 October 1665, Sarah Bullard, daughter of George Bullard of the same, had Sarah, born 11 July 1666; John, 29 June 1668; James, 7 March 1670; Joseph, 1 May 1674; Jonathan, 29 March 1680; Daniel, 2 August 1683; and Abigail, 5 October 1686; and he died 8 May 1722.

JOHN BALL, New Haven, son of Alling Ball the first, married 1678, Sarah Glover, daughter of Henry Glover, had Eliphabet, born 29 May 1680; insane; a son 12 September 1681, died soon; Dorothy, 10 December 1682; John, 30 September 1683; Sarah, 26 September 1687; Hannah, 12 January 1690; Mercy, 5 April 1692; Mary, 21 October 1694; and Caleb, 6 June 1697. He married Hannah, widow of his brother Eliphalet, were among proprietors 1685.

JONATHAN BALL, Springfield, eldest son of Francis Ball of the same, by wife Mary, had Sarah, born 1673; and for second wife married about 1685, Susanna, widow of Nicholas Worthington (who had been his second wife and bore him two children), and had twelve children of which half died young, and the others were Samuel, Sarah, Francis, Benjamin, Jonathan, and Joseph, whose respective dates are not known. He was a Captain, and lived to 95 years, died 21 May 1741; but his wife died 9 March 1727.

MATTHEW BALL, Dorchester 1652, was living in 1664 to sign a petition to the General Court but no more can be heard of him.

NATHANIEL BALL, Concord, son, perhaps elder, of the first John Ball, in the will of Ralph Mousall called cousin, i.e., nephew by wife Mary, had John, who died 27 July 1649; Nathaniel, born 28 September 1649, died at 2 months; Ebenezer; Eleazer; John, again, 15 August 1660; and perhaps others; lived in that part of Concord which is now Bedford.

RICHARD BALL, Salisbury 1651, removed to Dover 1668, yet perhaps only for short time.

SAMUEL BALL, Northampton, son of Francis Ball of Springfield, was freeman 1681, and died 1689, leaving Francis, Mary, Elizabeth, and Abigail. His widow Mary married 11 April 1690, Benjamin Stebbins.

WILLIAM BALL, New Haven 1643, died April 1648. Of this name in 1834 Farmer found graduates at Harvard, Yale, and Dartmouth, two at each, and five at the other New England colleges.

JOHN BALLANTINE, Boston, son of William Ballantine of the same, was a Captain twice of Artillery Company into which he was chosen 1682 Colonel of regiment, by wife Lydia Barrett, daughter probably of William Barrett of Cambridge, had John Ballantine, born 15 March baptized 4 April 1675, Harvard College 1694; Lydia, born 2 June 1676, died young; William, 23 August 1679; and Lydia, again, 24 October 1682. He had second wife Mary Woodward, widow of Saxton; and died 27 April 1734, in his 81st year, and she died 10 November 1740 in her 86th.

JOHN BALLANTINE, Boston, son of the preceding, married 9 March 1703, Mary Winthrop, daughter of Honorable Adam Winthrop, had John Ballantine, Harvard College 1735, (that minister of Westfield, who died 12 February 1776); besides Mary, and William; was of Artillery Company 1694, was in high esteem, and perhaps the Representative of 1726, though in Genealogical Registrar Vl. 371 this honor is ascribed to his father, who was then rather advanced in life, and whose death was only short time before that of this son 2 January following.

WILLIAM BALLANTINE, Boston, cooper, married 23 July 1652, Hannah Hollard, daughter of Angel Hollard (not Holland, as too often given) had John, born 29 September 1653, before mentioned; William, 22 September 1655; David, 24 August 1656; the two latter died young; William, again, 20 December 1657, died young; David, again, 5 February 1659; Elizabeth, 8 March 1660; Benjamin, 22 July 1661; Hannah, 15 November 1662; Sarah, 18 September 1664; William, again, 26 November 1665; Susanna, 2 February 1667; and Jonathan, 19 September 1669. His will of 6 December 1669, but few days before he died, names wife Hannah and only seven children so that it may be concluded that Benjamin and Sarah, not mentioned, had died young. Of the inventory of any cooper in the early years I have commonly found a good result, and such was his; yet more important are the questions of his birth and of his coming. Differing in opinion from a distinguished descendant (Hinman in Genealogical Registrar VI. 376,) because he calls him "a Scotch gentleman from Ayr as early as 1653," I ought to offer reasons. Hinman contrary to the common error, that is of assumed too early a year for the arriving of an ancestor on our shore, takes a date that would afford currency to a suspicion of his being, one of the melancholy exiles from the of the civil war. Surely he was here pretty early in 1651, probably a year or two before, as otherwise he would hardly have gained Hollard's death so early. A Scot we may easily believe he was, one of the founders, we know of the Charitable Society of that nation, which with the ever active spirit of nationality begun in Boston 1657, then composed of twenty-seven members, of whose names his is tenth. No sufferer in the cause of Charles Stuart can be supposed so early to have acquired social position and property to contribute to "the box." See Drake's Boston, 455. A cooper was more likely, two hundred years ago, to have been bred at Glasgow than its neighboring, little village of Ayr; and one of those tradesmen, whose motto was "let Glasgow flourish," would hardly be called gentleman of Ayr. Often the name appears Bellantine, sometimes Ballentyre.

JARVIS BALLARD, often written as sound. JARVIS BALLATT, Boston 1670, merchant, perhaps not permanent resident.

JOHN BALLARD, often written as sound. JOHN BALLATT, Lynn, son of William Ballard the second of the same, born probably in England, had William, born 1 October 1667; Sarah, early in July 1669; Rebecca, 1 April 1671; Jane, 1 December 1674; John; Priscilla, 20 December 1680; removed to Andover, there married second wife 16 November 1681, Rebecca Hooper, perhaps daughter of William Hooper of Reading, had William, 8 November 1683, died soon; and Dorothy, 30 January 1685. He died 1715, aged 62, but this, though the record says it, seems to me twenty years short of the truth.

JOSEPH BALLARD, often written as sound. JOSEPH BALLATT, Andover, brother of the preceding, married 28 February 1666, Elizabeth Phelps, daughter perhaps of Edward Phelps the first, had Joseph, and two daughters of who one, Tabitha, died 30 March 1687; and the other died 24 February 1691. His wife died 27 July 1692, and he married 15 November following, widow Rebecca Horne, but of who she was relict, I see not, and died 1722.

NATHANIEL BALLARD, often written as sound. NATHANIEL BALLATT, Lynn, who may have been brother of the preceding, married 16 December 1662, Rebecca Hudson, perhaps daughter of Thomas Hudson, had Mary, born 13 June 1666; Nathaniel, 4 December 1670 died at less than 2 years; Susanna, 12 June 1673; Elizabeth, 2 November 1670; Esther, 14 February 1678; Sarah, 13 May 1681; Jemima, 20 January 1684; and William 23 April 1686. He died 12 January 1722; and his widow died 16 May 1724. Mary married Moses Haven of Framington.

ROBER BALLARD, often written as sound. ROBER BALLATT T, Portsmouth, Rhode Island, is among the freeman of 1655.

SAMUEL BALLARD, often written as sound. SAMUEL BALLATT, Charlestown, freeman 1680, by wife Lydia, had Lydia, born 27 October 1670; John, 23 November 1672; who died at 30 years; and Elizabeth, 24 February 1673; and his wife died 1 May 1678. On 1 September following he married Hannah Belcher, perhaps eldest daughter of Andrew Belcher the first; who died 14 May 1691; and 4 September following he married third wife Lydia Hale; was a Lieutenant, and died 12 November 1708, aged 70.

WILLIAM BALLARD, often written as sound. WILLIAM BALLATT, Lynn 1630, as claimed for him, though of that date I feel less confident than of that of 1634, when he came in the Mary and John, Captain Sayres, from London, taking the oath to qualify him for embarking 26 March, had wife and children, and died in few years making a day or two before his nuncupative will, as may be seen in Genealogical Registrar II. 183, giving one half to wife, one half to be divided among children.

WILLIAM BALLARD, often written as sound. WILLIAM BALLATT, Lynn, perhaps son of the preceding, came in the James from London, 1635, aged 32, with wife Elizabeth, 26; and children Esther, 2; and John, 1; freeman 2 May 1638, Artillery Company 1638, lived I think, at Newbury, for short time, but fixed at Andover, there may have had several children, and died 10 July 1689. One of his children Sarah married 24 February 1670, Henry Holt; and his widow Grace died 27 April 1694.

WILLIAM BALLARD, often written as sound. WILLIAM BALLATT, Andover, perhaps son of the preceding, married 20 April 1682, Hannah Hooper, probably daughter of William Hooper of Reading, perhaps as second wife, for by former one must have been born Rebecca, 2 October 1668; unless some confusion can be referred to record Barry labor. Much on this family in his History of Framingham, 172, yet not to his thorough satisfaction. Where he saw evidence of William's taking oath of freeman 18 May 1631, that no other eyes discern, must be noted as one of the few errors in that valuable volume.

MATURIN BALLOU, Providence 1639, ought to have his descendants noted, were it in my power. One of the same name, baptized minister of Richmond, New Hampshire 1770, was father of a race of preachers of distinction.

JAMES BALSTONE, or JAMES BAULSTON, Boston, married Sarah Root, daughter of Ralph Root of the same, had Sarah, born 26 August 1653; John, 3 December 1654; and James, 22 June 1657; James, again, 8 April 1660.

JOHN BALSTONE, or JOHN BAULSTON, Boston, had wife Lydia, who joined the First Church 22 August 1647. Whether he were brother of Jonathan Balstone, or William Balstone, does not appear; yet it seems likely enough that he was of one or both.

JOHN BALSTONE, or JOHN BAULSTON, Boston, came from London, where he, with others, had made a contract 31 May 1687, with Judith, widow of Stephen Winthrop, they being then about to embark for New England. He died here 6 June 1706, aged 86, so that possibly he is the same as the preceding, though not very probable.

JONATHAN BALSTONE, or JONATHAN BAULSTON, Boston, by wife Mary, had John, born October 1645; Mary; Jonathan, 2 March 1652; Prudence, 28 May 1655; Lydia, 9 October 1656, died at 3 months; James, 1657, yet I fear this may be repetition of the son of James; Elizabeth, 12 August 1659; Robert, 1662; and Benjamin, 1663. Mary married about 1668, Isaac Vergoose.

WILLIAM BALSTONE, or WILLIAM BAULSTON, Boston, came, no doubt, with Winthrop's fleet, desired administered as freeman of the Company 19 October 1630, and took the oath 18 May following, by wife Elizabeth, who died early, had daughter Pity, baptized October 1630, being, the third child so favored in record of our first church. Other children here baptized were William, 14 April 1633; Mary, 14 September 1634; Mehitable, 24 January 1636; and Meribah, 9 April 1637; I presume, all by second wife Elizabeth, and all these died before him; besides another child Elizabeth, after his banishment. He was in steady employment for town affairs, trusted among the worthiest, chosen a selectman 1637, yet in the latter part of the same year was disarmed with the majority of his fellow worshippers as being, under the fascination of Mrs. Hutchinson, and several favorers of Wheelwright, went, 1638, to Portsmouth Rhode Island, where his associate purchased that season, was held there in high regard, made an Assistant 1639, 41, and 56, named in the royal Charter 1663, and died 14 March 1679, aged 78. His widow died 14 April 1683, aged 86. See Haz. II. 612; 2 Massachusetts History Collections VII. 98 and any of the Histories of Winthrop, Hutchinson, Barry, or Arnold. His daughter Elizabeth, married the second John Coggeshall, about 1647, bore him two sons and one or more daughters, but by mutual consent they separated after which he having gained liberty from the government to marru again in June 1655, she next month obtained the same license, and thereupon married Thomas Gould of Wickford.

GUY BAMBRIDGE, GUY BANBRIDGE, GUY BAINBRIDGE, or GUY BAINRICK, Cambridge 1634, freeman 4 March 1630, was buried 10 April 1640; and his widow Justice long survived.

EPHRAIM BANCROFT, Windsor, son of John Bancroft of the same, married 1 May 1681, Sarah Stiles, daughter of John Stiles second, had Ephraim, born 8 February 1683; John, 1685, died soon; Sarah, 26 February 1687; John, again, 19 December 1690; Benjamin, 10 May 1694, died young; Nathaniel, 1698; Daniel, July 1701; and 14 December Thomas, 1703, died young.

JOHN BANCROFT, Lynn, perhaps with wife Jane, came in the James, from London April 1632, arriving 12 June in 8 weeks passage, died about 1637, leaving widow and sons John and Thomas. The name is spelled with r instead of n in the official volume at Westminster, that tells how John and his wife were qualified to pass to New England, and in England both forms are common enough. But in our country we had not for one century, if not two, such a surname as Barcroft; though in our printed Colony record I. 108, we read that John Barcrofte entered into recognition in £40, with Samuel Maverick surety in £20, conditional that Jane, wife of said John should be of good behavior, yet in the Index the n is given for r.

JOHN BANCROFT, Lynn, son perhaps of the preceding, unless it be more likely, that he was grandson to which the judgment inclines, when we see, that he married 24 September 1678, Elizabeth Eaton, probably daughter of the first John Eaton of Reading, then few days more than sixteen years old.

JOHN BANCROFT, Windsor, married 3 December 1650, Hannah Dupper (if such be the true spelling), had John, born December 1651; Nathaniel, 19 November 1653; Ephraim, 15 June 1656; Hannah, 6 April 1659; and Sarah, 26 December 1661. He died 6 August 1662, and his widow married John Lunden.

NATHANIEL BANCROFT, Westfield, married 1675, Hannah Gardner; probably daughter of Samuel Gardner of Hadley, and died 10 February 1721. Children were John; Nathaniel; Benjamin, born 6 June 1684, died in few days; Elizabeth, 31 October 1685; Edward, 30 May 1688, died at 19 years of a wound by Indians a few weeks before in July 1707; and their widowed mother died 15 March 1728.

NATHANIEL BANCROFT, Windsor; son of John Bancroft of the same, married 26 December 1677, Hannah Williams, daughter of John Williams of the same, had John, born 28 January 1679; and Nathaniel, 25 September 1680.

ROGER BANCROFT, Cambridge 1636, freeman 18 May 1642, died 28 November 1653. His will of two days preceding gave all to wife Elizabeth, except small sums to Reverend Mr. Mitchell and Elder Frost. His widow married 23 May 1654, Martin Saunders, of Boston, and next Deacon John Bridge of Cambridge, and thought herself bound to take fourth husband Edward Taylor.

THOMAS BANCROFT, Reading, son of John Bancroft the first, born in England, married at Dedham, 15 September 1648, Elizabeth Metcalf, daughter of Michael Metcalf, had Thomas, baptized 28 December 1651, died soon; Elizabeth, born 7 December 1653; Thomas, again; Sarah, 14 March 1658, died young; Ralph, 20 August 1660, died within 12 months; Ruhama, 27 June 1662; John; Ebenezer (or Eleazer, as in another record he is called), 26 April 1667; and Mary, 16 May 1670; was freeman 1678, and died 12 March 1705. His widow died 1 May 1711; and daughter Elizabeth married 26 May 1674, Joseph Brown.

THOMAS BANCROFT, son of the preceding, who married Sarah Poole, daughter probably of Jonathan Poole, was Deacon, and died 12 June 1718, is related in the Magnalia IV. chapter 1, to establish a favorite theory of the writer's father, the wonderful story of restoration from the smallpox. With his usual reverence for that father, Mather, in Life of Brock, unites his own opinion. In 1828 Farmer found of this name four graduates at Harvard, one at Dartmouth, one at Brown, none at any other New England colleges. Reverend Aaron Bancroft, D.D. a minister of highest character, ordained at Worcester 1 February 1786, there died 1839, was son of Samuel Bancroft from the Reading stock, and father of Honorable George Bancroft, Harvard College 1817, the eloquent historian of the United States

THOMAS BANFIELD, Charlestown, married 2 June 1670, Elizabeth Long, had one son, died 21 June 1676. His widow died 16 August 1689.

EDWARD BANGS, Plymouth, born perhaps 1592, at Chichester, County Sussex, came in the Ann, 1623, and married after 1627, as is presumed, Lydia Hicks, daughter of Robert Hicks, had Rebecca; John; Sarah; Jonathan, born 1640; Lydia; Hannah; Joshua; Bethia, 28 May 1650; Mercy and Apphia, twins 15 October 1651. He had removed with Governor Prence, 1644, to Eastham, was a shipwright, and directed the labor, says a reasonable tradition, on the first vessel built in the Colony, though earlier ones had been launched in Massachusetts. Was Representative 1647, and several other years, died 1677, in his will of that year 19 October, probated 5 March 1678, furnished evidence to us, that all his children were then living, except Rebecca, who had married 26 October 1654 Jonathan Sparrow, and left children. Sarah married 1656, Thomas Howes; Lydia married 24 December 1661, Benjamin Higgins; Hannah married 30 April 1662, John Doane; Bethia married Gershom Hall of Harwich; Mercy married 28 December 1670, Stephen Merrick; and Apphia married the same day, probably John Knowles, and next Joseph Atwood. No certainty is attained as to order of births of most of these children.

JOHN BANGS, Eastham, son, probably eldest of the preceding, married 23 January 1661, Hannah Smalley, daughter of John Smalley; was a Lieutenant perhaps; but very loose is the tradition as to him probably confusing his youngest brother with him.

JONATHAN BANGS, brother of the preceding, married at Eastham, 16 July 1664, Mary Mayo, daughter of Samuel Mayo of Barnstable, had Edward, born 30 September 1665; Rebecca, 1 February 1668; Jonathan, 30 April 1670, died in few days; Mary, 14 April 1671; Jonathan, again, 4 May 1673; Hannah, 14 March 1676; Tamosin, May 1678; Samuel, 12 July 1680; Mercy, 7 January 1682; Elizabeth, 15 May 1685; Sarah, August 1687; and Lydia, 2 October 1689. He was a Captain, Representative to Plymouth 1674, and five other years in 1692 to Boston under the new Charter, had second wife Sarah, who died 11 June 1719, aged 78; and next year he proposed to marry Ruth Cole, probably widow of John Young the second, and daughter of Daniel Cole, who led him to Harwich, and there he died 9 November 1728. Of his eldest son Edward, who died 22 May 1746, by wife Ruth, who died 22 June 1738, was born Edward Bangs, whose son Benjamin Bangs was father of Honorable Edward Bangs, Harvard College 1779, who was father of the late Edward Bangs, the diligent and faithful Secretary of Massachusetts.

JOSHUA BANGS, Eastham, youngest son of Edward Bangs the first, married 1 December 1669, Hannah Scudder, daughter of John Scudder; had Joshua, who died young; was Lieutenant, and died 14 January 1710. In his will of 13 February 1707, named not nor referred to any issue, he mentioned wife Hannah, who next married Moses Hatch.

JOHN BANKS, Windsor, one of the first settlers, married a daughter of Charles Taintor of Wethersfield, as tradition tells, had one child born there, where he was town clerk 1613, removed soon after to Fairfield, of which he was Representative several years between 1651 and 66, removed to Rye, and was Representative from that town 1670-3; had good estate, made his will 12 December 1684, and died next month. He mentioned in it wife Mary (not, probably his first), sons John, Samuel, Obadiah, and Benjamin; daughters Susanna Sturges, Hannah, wife of Daniel Burl; and Mary Taylor. His child Joseph had died October 1682, perhaps unmarried, as he gave estate to four brothers and sister Mary Taylor; of Samuel nothing, is known but Obadiah died, we are told, in Fairfield February 1691, and Benjamin next year and both at Fairfield and Greenwich, adjacent to Rye, the name continued 1713.

JOHN BANKS, Greenwich, son of the preceding, had wife Abigail, and died 14 July 1699.

JOSEPH BANKS, who embarked 12 March 1679 for New England by the William and Susan, was only transient visitor as is presumed from never being heard of on this side of the water.

RICHARD BANKS, Kittery, 1649, was living at York 1673, had married Elizabeth Alcock, daughter of John Alcock, for she had share of his estate. He took oath of allegiance to the king 22 March 1681.

RICHARD BANKS, Boston, one of the founders of the first society for Episcopal worship 1686. Four of this name by Farmer are found graduates at Yale 1834.

CHRISTOPHER BANISTER, or CHRISTOPHER BANNISTER, Marlborough 1657, married Jane Goodenow, daughter of Thomas Goodenow, had Mary, born 1672; and he died 30 March 1678.

EDWARD BANISTER, or EDWARD BANNISTER, New Haven 1639, had wife Ellen, and a daughter Mary, who married Benjamin Bowsen; made his will 8 May 1649. See New Hampshire Colony record 1. 479.

JOHN BANISTER, or JOHN BANNISTER, Marlborough, married 1695, Ruth Eager, who derived I know not, having not met the name so early in New England, had John, born 1696; Ruth, 1699, died soon; Mary, 1700; Ruth, again, 1702; Jane, 1705, Huldah, 1707; Martha, 1710; and Sarah, 1713; was a Lieutenant, and died 19 July 1730, aged 59.

NATHAN BANISTER, or NATHAN BANNISTER, Charlestown, by wife Mary, had Nathan, who died 29 March 1669, probably young; and Mary, born 24 January following.

THOMAS BANISTER, or THOMAS BANNISTER, Boston 1685, by wife Sarah, had Samuel, born 11 July 1686; Hannah, 30 September 1688, died soon; Mary, 10 July 1690; and Hannah, again, 19 March 1692; and died 1709. He had come to Boston with family and good share of property, as from his will of 25 January with codicil of 13 July, probated 20 August following in that year is apparent. It provides for wife Sarah, daughter Mary, sons Thomas Banister, Harvard College 1700, Samuel, and John, and gives to his grandchild Thomas, eldest son of his son Thomas, £500, besides annuity for his mother and equal sums to his brother John, sister Ann Carter, and Mary Alline, who all were of Banbury in Oxfordshire.

THOMAS BANSHOTT, embarked at Southampton, 1638, aged 14, in the Bevis for Boston; but where he disposed of himself after arriving at Boston, is beyond my knowledge.

GILBERT BANT, Boston, by wife Mercy, had Mary, born 28 April 1689; Gilbert, 30 October 1694; William, 4 February 1698; and Elizabeth, 11 July 1701, was a Captain.

EDWARD BARBER, Dorchester, perhaps son, perhaps father of the preceding, died 9 June 1677, in his 80th year.

GEORGE BARBER, Dedham 1643, Artillery Company 1646, freeman 1647, married 24 November 1642, Elizabeth Clark, had Mary, born 27 August 1643, died in 3 months; Mary, again, 31 January 1646, died soon; Samuel, 6 January 1647; John, 13 March 1649; and Elizabeth, 11 April 1651; removed to Medfield, there had Hannah, 16 April 1654; Zechariah, 29 September 1656; and Abigail, 29 October 1659; was Representative 1668 and 9, and the chief military officer.

JAMES BARBER, Dorchester, a tailor, married 1683, had Elizabeth, baptized 18 May 1684; James, 29 May 1687; Patience, 20 October 1689; and Ebenezer, 1 November 1702 (but he may have been born some years); and died 13 October 1732, aged about 80. His widow Elizabeth, died 4 December 1739, aged 81.

JOHN BARBER, Salem 1637, carpenter, administered of the church 3 April 1642.

JOHN BARBER, Windsor, son of Thomas Barber of the same, married September 1663, Bathsheba Coggin, or Bathsheba Cogens, had Joanna, born 8 April 1667; John, 14 July 1669; removed to Springfield, there had Return, 29 May 1672, died soon; Thomas, 4 February 1675; and Mary, 13 February 1678; was Deacon, and died 27 January 1712.

JOHN BARBER of Springfield there was, not son of the preceding, as each on 31 December 1678 or the following day, swore allegiance, but who was senior, it may not be easy to prove or whether the name of only one person was written twice.

JOHN BARBER, Medfield, son of George Barber, freeman 1671, was Representative 1677; by wife Abigail, had John, born 24 April 1676; Abigail, 26 April 1679; Elizabeth, 28 November 1681; George, 5 December 1684; and Abiah, 12 September 1689.

JOSIAH BARBER, Simsbury, son of the first Thomas Barber, married 22 November 1677, Abigail Loomis, daughter of Nathaniel Loomis, had Abigail, born 12 March 1679, and probably several others.

RICHARD BARBER, Dedham, freeman 13 May 1640; died 18 June 1644, leaving probably neither wife nor children, for by his will the estate which was small, was given to the poor.

SAMUEL BARBER, Medfield 1678, eldest son of George Barber, by wife Mary, had Mary, born 20 February 1675; Samuel, 7 January 1677; James, 25 December 1680; Hannah, 25 September 1683; Thomas, 4 July 1686; and Mary, again, 28 May 1693.

SAMUEL BARBER, Windsor, son of Thomas Barber, by first wife Mary, had Thomas, born 7 October 1671; Samuel, 26 January 1674; and by second wife Ruth Drake, daughter of John Drake, had John, 25 January 1677; and Hannah, 4 October 1681; Ruth, 24 July 1683; Elizabeth, 9 February 1685; and perhaps others; but I dare not copy the list of Stiles, 528.

THOMAS BARBER, Windsor, came in the Christian, 1635, aged 21, resided probably at Dorchester first, was engaged in the Pequot war, I suppose, under Stoughton, married 7 October 1640, Joan, had John, baptized 24 July 1642; Thomas, 14 July 1644; Sarah, 19 July 1646; Samuel, 1 October 1648; Mary, 12 October 1651; and Josiah, 5 (not 15, as printed in History of Windsor 528) February 1654; and died 1662, as did his wife. His daughter Mary married 8 July 1669 John Gillett.

THOMAS BARBER, Windsor, son of the preceding, married December 1665, Mary Phelps, daughter of the first William Phelps, had Mary, born 11 January 1666; Sarah, 2 July 1667; removed to Simsbury, to

Charlestown. Son of William Barber of Marblehead, married 25 June 1667, Hannah Roper, who died 27 March 1691. He took second wife 12 January 1693, Hannah Stedman, and died 14 July 1725. His children were Thomas, Hannah, who married a Newman, and Rebecca; but by whose wife, each was born, is not known.

THOMAS BARBER, Gloucester 1662, removed perhaps 1669 to Newbury, married 27 April 1671, Ann Chase, daughter of Aquila Chase, had Thomas, born 16 February 1672; and probably Elizabeth, before he removed to Suffield, there had Joseph and Benjamin, twins born 1677; Aquila, 1679; Ann, 1681; John, 1684; and Moses, 1687; and died 25 July 1689.

WILLIAM BARBER, Salem 1639, of Marblehead 1648, may be the man who had grant of land in Dorchester 1638.

WILLIAM BARBER, Salem, perhaps son of the preceding, married 4 March 1673, Elizabeth Reick, or (if Lewis did not mistake, as I fear), Elizabeth Kirk, had Elizabeth, born 1 November 1673, died at 3 months, and William 8 January 1675. Perhaps he was of Lynn. The widow Elizabeth had administration 29 June 1677.

ZECHARIAH BARBER, Medfield, youngest son of George Barber of the same, married 30 August 1683, Abial Ellis, had Benoni, born 9 September 1684; Zechariah, 19 October 1685; Joseph, 4 October 1687; Abiel, 4 October 1691; John, 12 October 1693; Ruth, 5 March 1690; Thomas, 2 May 1698; Elizabeth, 6 July 1700; and Mary, 26 May 1703.

JOHN BARD, Lynn, had John, born 29 January 1678. Sometimes this spelling is substituted for Beard, and perhaps opposite mistake may even the balance.

WILLIAM BARDEN, Marshfield 1643, removed to Barnstable, married February 1661, Deborah Barker, daughter of John Barker of Marshfield, had Mercy, born 1 November 1662; Deborah, 28 June, 1665; John, 17 March 1668; Stephen, 15 April 1669; Abraham, 14 May 1674; Joseph, September 1670; and Ann, 26 August 1677.

NATHANIEL BARDING, Hartford 1636, yet not an original proprietor. Had only child Sarah, by first wife and by second wife Abigail, widow of William Andrews, the schoolmaster had none, and died 1674. His daughter married 11 September 1645, Thomas Spencer, who called a son Nathaniel Barding to perpetuate the name. His will speaks of these children of William Andrews, viz. Samuel, John, and Thomas, and of Samuel's wife Elizabeth.

ROBERT BARDWELL, Hatfield, a soldier in Philip's war, 1676, a partaking in the Falls fight under Captain Turner; married 29 November 1676, Mary Gull, daughter of William Gull, had Ebenezer, Samuel, John, Thomas, Mary, Sarah, Esther, Thankful, and Abigail, and died 1726. Samuel and Thomas went to Deerfield, but of them I know no more.

WALTER BAREFOOTE, of Great Island (Newcastle), New Hampshire 1660, was a counsellor of the Colony 1682, and Deputy Governor 1685, died about 1688, and his will may be read in our Suffolk Register. His conduct in office is much spoken against, and something prejudicial to his character is seen in a deposition of William Davis, of March 1677, as to facts more than fourteen years before, for which, see Genealogical Registrar V. 358. Chalmers, in Pol. Annals 509, gives a letter of his, 29 March 1683, wherein he remarks, that his experience of more than 25 years in the country enables him to speak, as very shrewdly he does, of the clerical influence prevalent here.

GILES BARGE, Gloucester 1653-5, removed to Scarborough, married Eleanor, widow of Jonas Bayley of the same, was selectman 1669, and Representative in 1682; and Southgate says, he removed to Dorchester.

PHILIP BARGER, Boston, a Huguenot exile about 1685, came first to Casco, with Pierre Baudouin, as in Willis is told I. 185. He died 1703, leaving widow Margaret, and probably son Philip, who died 1720. The birth of Mary is found on our town record but it is not clear whether child of the elder or the younger Philip.

BARZILLAI BARKER, Rowley, eldest son of James Barker the first, of who I can tell no more, but that he married 6 December 1666, Ann Jewett, eldest child of Maximilian Jewett.

BENJAMIN BARKER, Andover, son probably youngest of Richard Barker first of the same, married 2 January 1689, Hannah Marston, daughter perhaps of John Marston, and died 1750, aged 83.

EBENEZER BARKER, Andover; brother of the preceding, married 25 May 1686, Abigail Wheeler, perhaps daughter of David Wheeler, died 1747, aged 95. His wife was, October 1692, in gaol under charge of witchcraft.

EDWARD BARKER, Boston 1650, by wife Jane, had Elizabeth, born 17 July of that year; Mary, 15 February 1653; John, 15 January 1654; Sarah, 9 March 1655; and Thomas, 1657. He may or may not, be the same as

FRANCIS BARKER, Duxbury, son of Robert Barker the first, married 5 January 1675, Mary Lincoln, daughter of Thomas Lincoln the husbandman, of Hingham, had Joshua, born 16 November 1676; Elizabeth, 31 October 1677; Josiah, 21 September 1679; Francis, 18 October; 1681; and Ruth, 31 January 1683.

ISAAC BARKER, Duxbury, brother of the preceding, married 28 December 1665, Judith Prence, daughter of Governor Thomas Prence, had Rebecca, Lydia, Judith, Martha, and another daughter without a name; besides Francis; Samuel, born 1693; Isaac; Jabez; and Robert.

JAMES BARKER, Rowley, freeman 7 October 1640, died 1678, leaving wife Mary, and children Barzillai, James, Nathaniel, Eunice, wife of John Watson, and Grace. He was not, like most of the Rowley early settlers from Yorkshire, but came from Ragwell in County Suffolk.

JAMES BARKER, Newport, 1651, born about 1617, brought by his father James Barker in 1634 on board the Mary and John, with probably no other children, and his father died on the passage. To the protection of his sister Christian, wife of Thomas Beecher of Charlestown, was this youth of seventeen years committed, and she, soon after the death of her husband, married Nicholas Easton as his second wife, and it is thought Easton had come over in the same ship with Barber. At least he recorded friendly care of Easton until reaching full age. He came from Harwich, County Essex, married 1644, Barbara Dungan, or Barbara Dungin, daughter of Thomas Dungan of Newport, became a friend of John Clark, named in the royal Charter 1663, when he was an Assistant. Was chosen Deputy Governor in 1678, after death of Governor Coddington. His children were Elizabeth, who married 30 November 1666, the second Nicholas Easton; James; Mary, who married Elisha Smith, and, next, 16 April 1677, Israel Arnold of Warwick; William; Joseph; Peter; Christian, who married William Phillips; and Sarah, unmarried at death of her father.

JAMES BARKER, Suffield 1679, Springfield 1686, had children at both, as I hear, but know no more than that he died 1723.

JAMES BARKER, Newport, son of James Barker of the same, married before December 1674, Sarah Jeffery, daughter of William Jeffery of the same, but I hear no more.

JOHN BARKER, Duxbury, married 1632, Ann Williams, daughter of John Williams of Scituate, removed to Marshfield 1638, and was drowned 1652. He had daughter Deborah, who married William Barden; and son John born about 1650. His widow married Abraham Blish, or Abraham Blush.

JOHN BARKER, Scituate, son of the preceding, a prominent man, married 18 January 1677, Desire Annable, youngest daughter of Anthony Annable, had John, born 4 May 1678; Desire, 22 September 1680; Ann, 26 August 1682, died soon; Ann, again, 1 November 1683. His wife died 24 July 1706; and he married the same year Hannah, widow of Reverend Jeremiah Cushing, who died 30 May 10; and he died 1 December 1729 leaving widow Sarah, who died 7 September 1730, aged 70.

JOHN BARKER, Andover, son of Richard Barker, perhaps eldest, married 6 July 1670, Mary Stevens, had Ephraim, who died 21 February 1695, was a Lieutenant, and died 1722.

JOSEPH BARKER, Weymouth, had before June 1652, married Ruth, by Dorothy King, in her will of that date, called daughter, and he was by her made executor. Yet evident it is, that the executor's wife was born to a former husband of the testator, not named King.

JOSEPH BARKER, Newport, son of the first James Barker of the same, married Sarah Read.

NATHANIEL BARKER, Rowley, freeman 1677, was son of James Barker, and gladly would I find more of him.

NICHOLAS BARKER, Boston 1655, carpenter, had daughter Esther, who married 10 February 1652, Ambrose Dew, but as no more can be found of him, I must conclude that her father had brought her from England.

PETER BARKER, Newport, son of James Barker the first of the same, married a daughter perhaps of John Bliss, at least my correspondent says Major Bliss.

RICHARD BARKER, Andover 1615, was one of the founders of the church there, by wife Joanna, had John, William, Richard, Ebenezer, Stephen, and Benjamin, who all settled in Andover, besides daughters Sarah, who married 17 November 1673, John Abbot; Esther, who married 10 August 1676, John Stevens; and Hannah, who married 27 May 1680, Christopher Osgood; and he died 18 March 1693.

RICHARD BARKER, Andover, son of the preceding, married 21 April 1682, Hannah Kimball, had Richard, who died 22 December 1698; and nothing more is known to me.

ROBERT BARKER, Duxbury 1648, brother of the first John Barker, had Robert; and from his will of 18 February 1689, we know that other children were Francis, Isaac, Rebecca, wife of William Snow, and Abigail Rogers, but who was husband of this last is not seen.

ROBERT BARKER, Duxbury, son perhaps eldest, of the preceding, had two wives Alice, and Hannah, and children Abigail, born 24 August 1682; James, 1 January 1684; Caleb, 24 May 1685; Deborah, 7 December 1686; Susanna, 20 December 1689; Robert, 5 July 1693; Alice, 3 June 1695; Lydia, 5 September 1697; all these by Alice; and by the next wife, Isaac, 15 March 1699; Mary, 13 May 1701; and Margaret, 18 April 1704.

STEPHEN BARKER, Andover, son of the first Richard Barker, married 13 May 1687, Mary Abbot, daughter of George Abbot the second of the same, but I hear nothing of issue.

THOMAS BARKER, Rowley, perhaps brother of James Barker of the same, freeman 13 May 1640, Artillery Company 1641, died 1650. His widow Mary, married 16 July 1651, Reverend Ezekiel Rogers, as his third wife but whether she bore children to either husband is not known.

THOMAS BARKER, Boston, by wife Jane, had Thomas, born 23 August 1657; was freeman 1678.

WILLIAM BARKER, Andover, son of the first Richard Barker, married 20 February 1677, Mary Dix, but whose daughter she was, is undiscovered, had John, who died 13 April 1689, and no more is in my power to tell, save that the father died 1718, aged 71.

WILLIAM BARKER, Newport, brother of Peter Barker of the same, married Elizabeth Easton, probably daughter of Peter Easton of the same.

AARON BARLOW, Rochester, by wife Beulah, had Elizabeth, born 22 August 1684; Mary, 30 March 1688; Shubael, 13 May 1691; and Nathan, 1 July 1697. He was Representative 1690, says Samuel David 2 Massachusetts History Collections IV. 260.

BARTHOLOMEW BARLOW, Boston, cooper 648--57, in which last year he died 26 September, by nuncupative will gives to his son Thomas what little he had, refusing any thing to servant.

EDWARD BARLOW, Malden, married Mary Pemberton, daughter of James Pemberton, before 1660, as in her father’s will is read, and had children, as the same document proves, but no names can be heard. But I think his baptized name may have been.

EDMUND BARLOW, for Mr. Wyman gives me such a one, with wife Mary, who in his will, probated 1697, names children James; Mary; Sarah Grover, perhaps wife of Simon; Elizabeth Whiting; and Deborah Hovey; besides grandchildren Edmund, and Elizabeth Chadwick.

GEORGE BARLOW, Exeter 1639, Saco 1652, was a preacher at both, and elsewhere, but, in 1653, was forbidden by the General Court to preach or prophesy on penalty of £10 for every offence. He had been that very year sworn freeman of Massachusetts 5 July at Wells, but removed to Sandwhich 1658, married Jane, widow of Anthony Bessey, and there essayed to be a lawyer. Greenleaf in Eccl. Sk.52; Bishop's New England Judged, 389; and Sewell's History I. 571.

GEORGE BARLOW, Milford, had before 1690, married a daughter of Vincent Stetson, as in the will of Stetson appears.

JAMES BARLOW, Suffield 1680, married 10 January 1688, Sarah Huxley, daughter of Thomas Huxley of the same, died 16 March 1690, leaving James, born 27 January 1689.

JOHN BARLOW, Fairfield 1668, died 1674, in his will of 28 March of that year, mentioned wife Ann, son John, and daughters Elizabeth Frost, Martha, wife of James Beers, Deborah, wife of John Sturges, Ruth, wife of Israel Bradlee, and Isabella Clapham.

JOHN BARLOW, Fairfield, perhaps son of the preceding, married Abigail Lockwood, daughter of Robert Lockwood.

MOSES BARLOW, Rochester, perhaps brother of Aaron Barlow of the same, had removed thither from Sandwich before 1684.

THOMAS BARLOW, Fairfield 1653, had been a juror in 1645, by wife Rose, according to Hinman, in Ed. second page 131, had Phebe, Deborah, and Mary, and made his will 8 September 1658.

THOMAS BARLOW, Boston, by wife Elizabeth (whose children by two later husband's in choosing their guardian, Joseph Royall, called him uncle), had Elizabeth, born 13 November 1657; and Sarah, 18 July 1659; and died 23 October 1661. His widow married 24 February next John Coombs of Boston, and in 1669, married John Warren. Barlow's property had been so much reduced by Coombs that after his death, the Court gave most of his residual to Barlow's only child Sarah.

THOMAS BARLOW Charlestown, married 29 October 1681, Elizabeth Mellins, had daughters Elizabeth Hurd and Mary Moore. Sometimes this name appears in early record Barley. Joel Barlow, known as the author of the Columbiad, an heroic poem, and of Hasty Pudding, an agreeable one, was by Hinman, in his first Ed. page 14, called a descendant of that Thomas Barlow of Fairfield, though on later inquiry, he found him son of Samuel Barlow, born at Reading, Connecticut 24 March 1754, Yale College 1778. He transfered his allegiance from the muses to worldly politics, and died 24 December 1812, minister plenipotentiary of the U.S. represented their honor and independence following in the train of Napoleon the first (like the vassal kings, which felt none of this American's audacious enthusiasm), in the madman's march to Moscow, at a wretched house on the desolate plains of Poland.

In Duyckinck's Cycloped. I. 391, large extract in more than twelve pages are given from the poetry of Barlow with impartial election from pleasant, indifferent, or dull pieces, and even his detestation homage to the guillotine; but much gratitude is due for publication of the last notes of the dying swan, a few days before he died, in advice to a Raven in Russia, being far the most forcible lines ever composed by him. They seem to be a holy cry of vengeance for the degrading service to which he was called.

JAMES BARNABY, Plymouth, married 8 June 1647, Lydia Bartlett, daughter of Robert Bartlett, had, perhaps, James, and Stephen. His widow married John Nelson of Middleborough.

JAMES BARNABY, Plymouth, son probably of the preceding, by wife Joanna, had James, born 1698, and Ambrose, 1706.

STEPHEN BARNABY, Plymouth, perhaps brother of the preceding, married 1696, Ruth Morton (whose father is not known to me), had Lydia, Ruth, Elizabeth, Timothy, and Hannah; and by second wife Judith, widow of Joseph Church, had Joseph, born 1712.

BARTHOLOMEW BARNARD, Boston 1651, carpenter, had perhaps been and a dozen years before at York, and brought from England a family Matthew Barnard, perhaps others, of whom I see no record.

BARTHOLOMEW BARNARD, Hartford, perhaps son of the preceding, married 25 October 1647, Sarah Birchard, daughter of Thomas Birchard, died 1698, leaving John, Joseph, and four daughters Elizabeth Wadsworth, Sarah Steele, who was born 3 December 1648; Mary Bemis, and Hannah, unmarried at the date of his will, 1692.

BENJAMIN BARNARD, Watertown, removed to Dover, and next to York, but in latter days back to Watertown, was youngest son of John Barnard first of the same, by wife perhaps second Sarah, had Sarah, born 1692; and Benjamin, 24 August 1693; and died 12 September 1694. His widow married 12 January 1699, Samuel Winch of Farmingham.

FRANCIS BARNARD, Hartford 1644, removed 1659, or soon after, to Hadley, freeman 1666; in 1683, petitioned the government to pay him their debt, and died 3 February 1698, aged 81. He had married 15 August 1644, Hannah Marvin, sister of Matthew Marvin and Renold Marvin, had Thomas Barnard, Harvard College 1679; Samuel; Joseph; Hannah; John; and Sarah, who died 1676. Hannah married 1667, Dr. John Westcar of Hadley, and next, 1680, Simon Beaman of Hadley and Deerfield. He is ancestor of all the divines of this name from Harvard, except John Barnard, Harvard College 1700, and Jeremiah Barnard, Harvard College 1773. By second wife Frances Foote, widow of John Dickinson, daughter of Nathaniel Foote (per contract 21 August 1677), he had no children. See the admirable Foote genealogy of Goodwin.

JAMES BARNARD, Sudbury, son of John Barnard the first of Watertown, married 8 October 1666, Abigail Phillips, youngest daughter of Reverend George Phillips, perhaps youngest child, who died September 1672, had no children, and he died 1720, leaving widow Sarah.

JAMES BARNARD, Watertown, youngest son of John Barnard the second of the same, married 16 December 1692, Judith Jennison, eldest daughter of Samuel Jennison of the same, had James, born 3 Aug 1696; Samuel, 19 July 1699; Isaac, 13 March 1702; and Hannah, 1 June 1705; and died 23 January 1726; and his widow married in May following John Bemis.

JOHN BARNARD, Cambridge, came, probably in the Francis from Ipswich, 1634, aged 36, with wife Mary, 38, was perhaps the freeman of 4 March 1635, removed 1636, to Hartford, thence to Hadley 1659, or soon after, and died 1664, leaving no children. He left good estate, made his kinsman Francis Barnard executor giving much to Morgan and Thomas Bedient, child of his sister Mary, then lived in Old England, who came over to enjoy it. His widow Mary died next year, and she gave much of her estate to Daniel and William Stacy, of Barnham, near Malden in County Essex, her brothers and £10, to bring up Thomas, son of Francis Bedient to school. This legacy was well bestowed for the father was poor, and the son worthy.

JOHN BARNARD, Watertown, came 1634, aged 30, with wife Phebe, 27, sons John, 2, and Samuel, 1, in the Elizabeth, from Ipswich; perhaps was freeman 3 September 1634; had here Hannah; James, before mentioned; Mary, born 7 November 1639; Joseph, 12 November 1642; Benjamin, before mentioned; and Elizabeth; was a selectman 1644, and was buried 4 June 1646. His widow died 1 August 1685. Hannah married 25 June 1655, Samuel Goffe; Mary married 16 June 1662, William Barrett, both of Cambridge; and Elizabeth married 7 January 1671, John Dix of Watertown.

JOHN BARNARD, Watertown, son of the preceding, born in England, married 15 November 1654, Sarah Fleming, daughter of John Fleming of the same, had John, born 24 August 1656, died soon; John, again, 30 October 1657; Sarah, 19 September 1659, died at 4 months; Samuel, 25 March 1664; Sarah, again, February 1666, died next month; James, 14 January 1667; Ann, September 1670; Phebe, 8 August 1673; and Jane, 17 May 1678. He was freeman 1671; and his daughter Ann married 16 December 1692, Nathaniel Bowman, Phebe, married Captain Joseph Bowman, and Jane married 15 January 1713, John Smith, and lived over 85 years.

JOHN BARNARD, Nantucket, only son of Robert Barnard of the same, married 25 February 1669, Bethia Folger, daughter of Peter Folger, and they were drowned 6 June following.

JOHN BARNARD, Hadley, son of Francis Barnard, with whom he removed from Hartford, died without issue, perhaps unmarried, being killed at Bloody brook, with Captain Lathrop, 18 September 1675.

JOHN BARNARD, Boston, son of Matthew Barnard of the same, Artillery Company 1677, freeman 1678, by wife Esther, who died 1689, had John Barnard, born 6 November 1681, Harvard College 1700 (a minister of much distinction, ordained 18 July 1716, died 24 January 1770, for whose very interesting autobiography the curious reader will turn to 3 Massachusetts History Collections V. 178); and by second wife, had William, 30 August 1691; Jonathan, 15 January 1693; and Matthew, 17 June 1694; and died December 1732. His widow lived to 94th year, 31 January 1758.

JOHN BARNARD, Watertown, son of the second John Barnard of the same, married 5 March 1683, Sarah Cutting, daughter of Richard Cutting, had only Elizabeth, born 29 October 1684, by her; and he married 17 November 1692, Elizabeth Stone, daughter of John Stone of the same, had Sarah, born 25 January 1694; and this wife died 6 May following, and 23 July next he married Mary Morse, daughter of Joseph Morse the second of the same, had John, 27 June 1695; Mary, 1 April 1697; Fleming, 19 April 1699; Joseph, 21 May 1700; Jonathan, 20 May 1703; Lydia, 2 May 1705; and Grace, 31 March 1707. His will of 12 August 1727 was probated 27 March 1732, as Bond tells.

JOSEPH BARNARD, Northampton, son of Francis Barnard, married 13 July 1675, unless more probable date be 19 December or 13 January after (as each of the three is given), Sarah Strong, daughter of Elder John Strong, removed to Deerfield, had John born 1676, Joseph, Thomas, Samuel, Ebenezer, Sarah, Rebecca, Hannah, Abigail, and Thankful, but no dates are known of their births. He was mortally wounded by the Indians 18 August, and died 6 September 1695.

JOSEPH BARNARD, Springfield, son of Richard Barnard of the same, a shopkeeper, died 3 December 1728 leaving children Elizabeth, Mary, Sarah, and Joseph.

MASSACHIEL BARNARD, Weymouth, had Mary, born 27 September 1637; and Sarah, 5 April 1639; but of him I hear no more.

MATTHEW BARNARD, Boston, carpenter, son of Bartholomew Barnard, born in England, Artillery Company 1660, freeman 1673, was a Lieutenant, and died 9 May 1679, aged 54; by first wife Sarah, who died 31 August 1659, had John, born 29 September 1654; Thomas, 14 April 1657; and by second wife Alice, who died 1663, had Benjamin 6 January 1663. Another wife he had, probably named Martha, by Nicholas Davis of York called cousin, in his will of 27 April 1667.

NATHANIEL BARNARD, Boston, married 11 February 1659, Mary Lugg, daughter of John Lugg, perhaps removed to Nantucket, there had Mary, born 24 February 1667; Hannah, 19 July 1669; John, 24 February 1671; Nathaniel, 24 November 1672; Stephen, 16 February 1675; Sarah, 23 March 1677; and Elinor, 18 June 1679; besides Benjamin, Ebenezer, Timothy, and Abigail, all, or most before the preceding. But high Nantucket authority claims that the father of those seven children came in 1650, with his uncle, Robert Barnard, from England, whose daughter he married, and there died 29 April or 3 May 1718, as also that his wife died 17 March preceding. Of the right Nathaniel, I suppose, Thomas of Salisbury was the father and he (whether husband of the daughter of Lugg or not) is called progenitor of all the inhabitants of the Island of this name.

RICHARD BARNARD, Springfield, married 1671, Sarah Clark, died 19 November 1683, had six children of which Benoni, who died 1673, perhaps Daniel, who died 1689, and Joseph alone, before mentioned, is known to me. Sometimes he is called Barnet.

RICHARD BARNARD, Boston, brother of Matthew Barnard, married 2 March 1659, Elizabeth Negus, daughter of Benjamin Negus, was of Artillery Company 1662, and died December 1706.

ROBERT BARNARD, Salisbury, had only son John Barnard, born 2 March 1612, and about 1663 removed to Nantucket, there had Martha, who married William Rogers; Sarah, who married James Skiff of Nantucket; and Mary, who married her cousin Nathaniel Barnard, and he died 1682; and his widow Joanna died 31 March 1705.

ROBERT BARNARD, Andover, one of the founders of the church 1645, had Stephen, John, and Hannah, who married 13 June 1662, John Stevens. Of this stock was Jeremiah Barnard, Harvard College 1773, minister of Amherst, New Hampshire.

SAMUEL BARNARD, Watertown, son of John Barnard the first, and brought by him from England, took oath of allegiance 1652, but probably died unmarried.

SAMUEL BARNARD, Hadley, son of Francis Barnard, died 1728, leaving Samuel, and two daughters.

SAMUEL BARNARD, Watertown, son of John Barnard the second of the same, housewright, married 4 April 1700, Mercy Sherman, youngest daughter of Reverend John Sherman, had Esther, born (if Bond's record be right) 9 September 1700; Elizabeth, baptized 18 January 1702; Grace, born 14, baptized by name of Mercy 20 August 1704; and Samuel, baptized 14 April 1706, as Bond tells; but he adds, that he soon after removed probably to Cambridge; and there he may have had more children.

STEPHEN BARNARD, Andover, son of Robert Barnard, married 1 May 1671, Rebecca How, but of him I hear no more.

STEPHEN BARNARD, Nantucket, son of Nathaniel Barnard, married Damaris Gardner, daughter of Joseph Gardner.

THOMAS BARNARD, Salisbury, by wife Helen, had Thomas, born 10 May 1641; Nathaniel, 15 January 1643; Martha and Mary, twins 22 September 1645; Sarah, 28 September 1647; Hannah, 24 November 1649; Ruth, 16 October 1651; John, 12 January 1655; and a daughter 20 January 1657; and he was killed by the Indians. His widow had administration. Sarah married 31 January 1667, William Hacket; and Hannah married 28 October 1673, Benjamin Stevens.

THOMAS BARNARD, Salisbury, eldest son of the preceding, by wife Sarah Peasley, daughter of Joseph Peasley, had Thomas, born 22 January following; took oath of allegiance December 1677.

THOMAS BARNARD, Boston 1678, a carpenter, was, probably son of Matthew Barnard, but no more is found of him.

THOMAS BARNARD, Andover, son of Francis Barnard, ordained as colleague with Dane 1682, died 13 October 1718, in 61st year. He had married 14 December 1686, Elizabeth Price, daughter of Theodore Price, who died 10 October 1693; and next married 28 April 1696 Abigail Bull, who died 1702 ; and next married 1704 Lydia Goff. Of his children the dates are not all given, nor is any daughter, named the sons, were Thomas, born 1688, who died without issue, before his father John Barnard, 26 February 1690, Harvard College 1709, who succeeded his father in the pulpit at Andover, ordained 8 April 1719, and died 14 June 1738, leaving Thomas Barnard, Harvard College 1732, minister at Newbury and Salem, and Edward Barnard, Harvard College 1736, minister of Haverhill.

TOBIAS BARNARD, Of the first class at Harvard College 1642, went soon to England, as Johnson, in Wonderwolk provided 165, tells; but of him no more is heard. In his enumeration of graduates 1834, Farmer would have counted at Harvard 13 up to 1774, and 2 more since, and Yale 3. Prince I.151, named one of this name at Weymouth as a minister, yielded I fear, too much to tradition as letters from the oldest people there give no confirmation. Perhaps for the early years of the plantation a lay brother officiated in part of the service.

BENJAMIN BARNES, Farmington, son of Thomas Barnes of Hartford, removed to Waterbury, had wife Sarah, and children Joseph; Thomas, baptized 8 June 1690, at Farmington; Ebenezer; and perhaps others.

CHARLES BARNES, Easthampton, Long Island, 1663, a schoolmaster, was son of William Barnes of East Winch, near Lynn, County Norfolk. Esquire as is told.

DANIEL BARNES, New Haven, son of Thomas Barnes of the same, was proprietor 1685.

EBENEZER BARNES, Southington, son of Thomas Barnes of the same, married 8 April 1699, Deborah Orvis, and died 1756, leaving fifteen children, as Mr. Porter assures me.

JAMES BARNES, Boston, had wife Hopestill, who died 19 August 1676; and he was freeman 1681.

JOHN BARNES, Plymouth 1632, probably of Yarmouth 1639, married Mary Plummer (whose father is not known), had John born that year, who died 25 December 1648; Jonathan, 3 June 1643; Lydia, 24 April 1647; besides Hannah, and an elder daughter Mary, who married 1659, at Plymouth, Robert Marshall. His wife died 2 June 1651, and he had seen wife Jane, at Plymouth, whither soon after death of his first wife, he removed and there died 1671, by violence of one of his cattle. See Haz. I. 326.

JOHN BARNES, Concord 1661, married 1664, Elizabeth Hunt, daughter of William Hunt, was probably father of Deacon John Barnes of Marlborough, (who died in 86th year 5 April 1752); and was killed by the Indians at Sudbury fight, April 1676.

JOHN BARNES, Boston 1669, son of Thomas Barnes of Hingham, a cooper, married Elizabeth Heaton, daughter of Nathaniel Heaton; but I know nothing more of him.

JOHN BARNES, New Haven, probably son of Thomas Barnes of the same, was a tanner, married 16 November 1669, Mercy Betts, had Hannah, born 23 December 1670; Thomas; John, 12 January 1673; Nathaniel, 7 November 1677; Israel, 22 April 1680; Joanna, or Susanna, 16 December 1682; and Benjamin, 24 August 1692, was a proprietor 1685.

JONATHAN BARNES, Plymouth, son of John Barnes, married 4 January 1666, Elizabeth Hedge, daughter of William Hedge of Yarmouth, had Mary, born 14 August 1667; John, 5 March 1669; William, 14 February 1670; Hannah, 11 November 1672; Lydia, 4 July 1674; Elizabeth, 16 August 1677; Sarah, 28 February 1680; Esther, 18 February 1682; and Jonathan, 27 August 1681; besides two more daughters of names unknown.

JOSEPH BARNES, Farmington, son of Thomas Barnes of the same, married 8 July 1684, Abigail Gibbs, had Rebecca, born June 1685, Jacob, born 18 September 1687, baptized soon after; Abigail, 18 baptized 23 February 1690; Elizabeth, 1 baptized 9 October 1692; Mary, 6 baptized 17 February 1695; Esther, born 31 July 1697; Rachel, 19 October 1699; Joseph, 17 August 1702; and died 23 January 1741 at Southington.

JOSHUA BARNES, Yarmouth, came in 1632, and was bound for 5 years from landing to Mr. Paine, in 1642 was fined for scoffing at religious or disturbing worship; perhaps was of Easthampton, Long Island, in 1650.

MATTHEW BARNES, Braintree 1640, a miller, had Sarah, born 29 August 1641, removed to Boston 1652, there by wife Rebecca, had Alice, 22 December 1652; and Hannah, 14 March 1655. His wife died 19 September 1657, and he married 4 November following Elizabeth, widow of Thomas Hunt of Boston, and died perhaps, at Malden, June 1667. His daughter Sarah married 26 December 1660, John Tomline

MATTHEW BARNES of Boston, I find, that by wife Sarah, he had John, born 29 September 1654.

MAYBEE BARNES, Middletown, son of Thomas Barnes, of New Haven, married 1691, Elizabeth Stow, daughter of Reverend Samuel Stow of Middletown, but I hear of him no more.

NATHANIEL BARNES, Boston 1675, a merchant of who I hear no more, but that in 1679 he was chosen clerk of the writs, i. e. town clerk.

PETER BARNES, Hingham, youngest son of Thomas Barnes the first, married July 1679, Ann Canterbury, daughter of Cornelius Canterbury, had Cornelius, born 24 August 1684, died young; and John, 10 December 1685.

RICHARD BARNES, Marlborough, had come in the Jonathan, 1639, with his mother Agnes (who was then wife of Thomas Blanchard), and her mother Agnes Bent, and the grandmother, the mother, and a younger child died on the voyage, so that he was some years under care of his uncle John Bent, and was put apprentice to said Blanchard, when Barnes was only ten years old, who also became his guardian. After death of Blanchard, May 1654, John Grout of Sudbury was made guardian; and for part of this early History see Genealogical Registrar IX. 371. He married 16 December 1667, perhaps as second wife, widow Deborah Dix, but all inquiries who was her first husband is baffled, neither the diligence of Bond, nor the skill of Dr. Harris being adequate to solve it. Yet the list of children accepted, from Barry by Bond, seems hardly to consist with the prior list of children. She had born Leonard, John, and William. See Bond, 753. However some may be administered as Sarah, born 1669; Richard, 1673; and Abigail, 1683, who married 1700, Peter Bent. He died 22 January 1708.

RICHARD BARNES, Marlborough, son probably of the preceding, married Ann Hide, youngest daughter of the first Jonathan Hide of Cambridge, but I learn no more.

THOMAS BARNES, Hingham 1637, freeman 1645, came with wife Ann from Hingham, Old England, had Thomas, and John, both baptized 21 May 1643, of which the first died young; Elizabeth, 8 December 1644; Ann; Hannah, June 1647, died young; James, 8 April 1649; and Peter, 6 June 1652. Ann married a Brimsden of Boston.

THOMAS BARNES, Salem, by wife Mary, had Benjamin, born 1 October 1655; Thomas, 1657, died soon; Mary, 12 October 1658, died at 2 years; and Mary, again, 19 March 1662; and was drowned December 1663.

THOMAS BARNES, Hartford 1639, had Sarah, who married 29 May 1666, John Scovil; removed to Farmington, had Benjamin, baptized 24 July 1653; Joseph, 1655, and Thomas, who married Mary Jones, daughter of Richard Jones. He took second wife Mary Andrews, eldest daughter of John Andrews, had by her that Thomas, besides Ebenezer, and died 1688.

THOMAS BARNES, New Haven 1643, removed to Middletown, and died 1693. He had service in the Pequot war, 1637, and left sons John; Thomas, born 26 August 1653; Daniel, 29 August 1659, baptized 1661, on the same day with Abigail, his sister born 16 March 1657, but the day on the record of church is a false one, 27 June, which was a Thursday; and Maybee, born 25 June 1663, as the careful town record tells, baptized not, as the careless church record tells, 20 July of that year, which was on Monday; besides three other daughters of who Elizabeth, perhaps eldest, was born 28 May 1650. His wife Mary died 1676, and his daughter Mercy married 20 October or December 1666, Bartholomew Jacobs.

THOMAS BARNES, Swanzey 1669, was a prominent man in the Baptist Church there, had Elizabeth, born 14 February 1675, and probably others.

THOMAS BARNES, Marlborough, the freeman 1673, who prayed for a grant of Indians land because his house and goods had been burned by the enemy in Philip's war, may be he who came from London 1656, aged 20, in the Speedwell.

THOMAS BARNES, New Haven, son of Thomas Barnes of the same, by wife Abigail, had Mary, born 21 November 1679; Sarah, 17 February 1682; Thomas, 24 July 1684, died young; Thomas, again, 26 July 1687; Sarah, 1689; Rebecca, 12 March 1691; Abigail, 10 June 1693; Elizabeth, 10 November 1695; Deborah, 1 February 1698; Hannah, 31 May 1702; Samuel, 11 April 1705; Nathaniel, 11 January 1707; and Abraham, 1711. The father died 1712.

THOMAS BARNES, Farmington, probably son of Thomas Barnes of the same, married June 1690, Mary Jones, daughter of Richard Jones, had Ruth, baptized 23 October 1692; and Elizabeth, 21 July 1695; Samuel, born 4 June 1700; Martha, 8 March 1703; Patience, September 1705; Hannah, 6 September 1708.

THOMAS BARNES, of New Hampshire 1690, was of those who prayed for protection of Massachusetts jurisdiction.

WILLIAM BARNES, Salisbury 1610, freeman 2 June 1641, by wife Rachel, had Mary, who married 23 June 1659, second John Hoyt; William, who died 11 June 1648; Hannah, born 25 January 1644; Deborah, 1 April 1646; Jonathan, 1 April 1648; Rachel, 30 April 1649, who married 2 March 1668 or 9 (both dates being given), Thomas Sargent; Sarah, who married 8 September 1670, Thomas Rowell, and next, 26 October 1676, John, or more probably Thomas Harvey, as the Amesbury record gives the name; and Rebecca, who married Moses Morrill. Deborah married 19 December 1663, Samuel Davis. He was one of the first settlers of Amesbury about 1654. It has been thought that he is the man in the list of passengers by the Globe from London for Virginia, 1635, and the names of William Brown, and Richard Wells in the same list are seen, both, also, found at Salisbury. But those surnames are so frequent on both sides of the ocean, that the argument must not be pressed too far. Some persons might, at that time, think it easy to go from one part of America to another; but most of those for Virginia were not puritans, and all who would come to New England especially from London, easily gained direct, instead of circuitous passage. Of this name, including those spelt without e, Farmer, in 1834, counted seven graduates at Yale, five at Harvard, and five at other New England colleges.

BARTHOLOMEW BARNETT, MATTHEW BARNETT, ROBERT BARNETT, and others, may seem to be only perverse spelling for Barnard, but

THOMAS BARNETT, New London, who preached there 1686 and 7, must be printed with this form of the name, out of regard to that Eccl. History of New England called the Magnalia, III. 4, where this man is inserted in the third classis, though with studied carelessness, Mather omits his baptized name. Caulkins could find no more than this useful designation for this side of the water; while in vain I searched Palmer's Non. Conf. Mem. III. 150 and 1 for mention of any but Andrew Barnett of Trinity Colony Cambridge, and Joshua Barnett, son of Humphrey Barnett of Shropshire who were respectable among the clergy confessors.

JOHN BARNETT, Salem, with alias, Barbart, married 14 October 1661, Mary Bishop, had Mary, born 30 October 1662; Familiar (if a possible name), 26 September 1664; and Elizabeth, 5 July 1666.

JACOB BARNEY, Salem, freeman 14 May 1634, had John, baptized 15 December 1639, was Representative 1635, 8, 47, 33, and died 1673, aged 72.

JACOB BARNEY, Salem, son of the preceding, perhaps born in England, married 18 August 1657, Hannah Johnson, who died 5 June 1659; and next he married 26 April 1660, Ann Witt, daughter of Jonathan Witt of Lynn or Salem, had Hannah, born 2 March 1661, probably died young; Sarah, 12 September 1662; Abijah,31 October 1663; John, 1 August 1665; Jacob, 21 May 1667; Ruth, 27 September 1669; Dorcas, 22 April 1671; Joseph. 9 March 1673; Israel, 17 June 1675; Jonathan, 29 March 1677; Samuel, 10 February 1679; and Hannah, again, 6 February 1681, who married John Cromwell.

JACOB BARNEY, Boston 1668, was one of the founders of the First Baptist society in the town; yet no more is told of him, even in the valuable History of Boston by Mr. Drake.

RICHARD BARNUM, or RICHARD BARNAM, may perhaps be thought of Boston, as he was in Moseley's Company killed in the bloody assault, on Sunday, 19 December 1675, upon the Narraganset fort.

RICHARD BARNUM, or RICHARD BARNAM, Danbury, married before 1696, Mary Hurd, daughter of the second John Hurd of Stratford. Perhaps he was son of Thomas Barnum, who married the mother of Mary.

THOMAS BARNUM, or THOMAS BARNAM, Norwalk 1662, was before that at Fairfield, and after at Danbury, had Thomas, born 9 July 1663; John, 24 February 1678; Hannah, 14 October 1680; and Ebenezer, 19 May 1682; but six more children he had, two sons, four daughters, yet at Norwalk are no more records, nor I can find the names of these six, or either of them, or of either of two wives, one of which outlived him, who died 1695. His widow Sarah, who had been probably widow of the second John Hurd, died 24 January 1718.

GEORGE BARNELL, Boston 1638, a cooper, freeman 10 May 1643, died 2 September following. In Genealogical Registrar 11. 383 is an abstract of his will, made 28 May, probated 30 October of that year, gives house and lands to wife Ann for life, provided for childen John, James, and Ann, and two grandchildren when they shall be 21 years old; but the names of these two seem strangely spelt. "The tools of his trade " lead the diligent compiler, in a note, to explain, that he seems "to have been a mission;" but I follow the church record at his administration into that body, 5 September 1641, as probably the correct designation, and Mr. Drake from town record shows it. His daughter Ann had married William Semond.

JAMES BARNELL, Boston, son of the preceding, probably born in England, was living in 1677; but the record has no account of a family.

JOHN BARNELL, Boston, cooper, brother of the preceding, born in England, Artillery Company 1643, and 1656 was Ensign of that distinguished Company, by wife Mary Colbron, daughter of Elder William Colbron, held John, born 6 August says the town record but the more trustworthy church record says baptized 3 August 1645, died young; Mary, born 16 March 1647; Hannah, 23 April 1651; John, again, 15 March 1653, died young; William, 28 July 1654; and John, again, 1666; and died 29 August 1658. His widow married Daniel Turell. But in the will of grandfather Colbron, another son James, is remembered.

JOHN BARNELL, Watertown, by wife Elizabeth, had Abigail, born 20 April 1658; but the wide-seeing eye of Dr. Bond did not discern this inhabitant and therefore I am compelled to trust the Middlesex record of births.

JOHN BARNELL, Boston, son probably of John Barnell of the same, by wife Elizabeth, had Elizabeth, born 4 April 1677.

THOMAS BARNELL, the Massachusetts freeman of 1645, was of Braintree; but of him I can see no more, and can feel no doubt that what appears Barrill in print, should be Barrett.

WILLIAM BARNELL, Boston, brother of George Barnell of the same, died 20 August 1639.

WILLIAM BARNELL, Scituate, perhaps son of John Barnell of Boston, though Deane calls him son of William Barnell, married 1680, Lydia Turner, daughter of John Turner, widow of John James, had William, born 1683; Lydia, 1684; Mary, 1686; and James, 1687.

CHRISTOPHER BARR, Charlestown, a young man, who died of fever, 17 October 1694.

BENJAMIN BARRETT, Hatfield, a soldier under Captain Turner, 1676, who may have been son of Humphrey Barrett, but more probably of John Barrett of Malden, married 1677, Sarah Graves, perhaps daughter of John Graves of Hadley, and second wife Mary Alexander, daughter of Robert Alexander, removed to Deerfield, and died 1690, leaving children Benjamin, John, Jonathan, Sarah, and Rebecca.

CHARLES BARRETT, Newport, by wife Catharine, who he took at Barbados, had Rosamond, born May 1665, as the Friends' record proves to me, but it certifies no more.

HUMPHREY BARRETT, Concord 1640, freeman 1657, who died November 1662, aged 70, had Thomas, who was drowned in the river 1660; Humphrey; and John, by Shattuck said to have settled at Marlborough. His widow Mary, in her will of 15 June, probated 20 October 1663, names sons John and Humphrey, and grandchild Mary Barrett, as also her brother Oliver, who died September 1671.

HUMPHREY BARRETT, Concord, son of the preceding, freeman 1682, had, I suppose, married a daughter of Robert Hawes of Roxbury, who in his will calls him son, had Joseph, and Benjamin, was Representative October 1691.

JAMES BARRETT, Charlestown, married Hannah Fosdick, daughter of Stephen Fosdick, had James, born 6 April 1644; Hannah, 21 March 1648; Mary; Sarah; John, 6 May 1655; and Stephen, specially named in the will of grandfather Fosdick. He died 16 August 1672; and his widow died 1681. Hannah married John Scolley.

JAMES BARRETT, Malden, son of the preceding, married 11 January 1672, Dorcas Green, daughter of Thomas Green of the same (that Thomas, who died 1682), had James, born 1672; John, 1675; and Jonathan, 1678; and died 1694.

JOHN BARRETT, Malden 1653, had Benjamin, born 18 December of that year, removed to Wells, there was made constable 1657, Ensign 1660, Representative 1681. Perhaps he was brother of James Barrett; and his wife Mary Littlefield, was daughter of Edmund Littlefield of Wells, who in his will of December 1661, probated 17 April following, names her and son John, probably meaning the husband.

JOHN BARRETT, Marlborough, son of Humphrey Barrett the first, married 19 September 1656, Mary Pond of Sudbury, and died July 1711, leaving son John.

JOHN BARRETT, Chelmsford, by wife Sarah, had Lydia, born 22 September 1659; and (unless we suppose error in the record) Samuel, 16 June 1660.

JOHN BARRETT, Charlestown, married 6 June 1664, Elizabeth Cousins, removed to Chelmsford, there in 1679, called senior, so that another of the same name was living there.

JOHN BARRETT, Charlestown, son of James Barrett of the same, was probably never married, but of slender health, made his will, 1678, in which he opens with saying he was 23 years old, not likely to live long, and directs, that mother brothers and sister should have his property. It was probated 1682.

JOSEPH BARRETT, Chelmsford, freeman 1676, was perhaps son of the second Humphrey Barrett.

ROBERT BARRETT, Charlestown 1674, died 1675, and his widow Hannah died 5 January 1691.

STEPHEN BARRETT, who served as commissary for Connecticut in Philip's war, 1675. I have been unable to discover any thing more about his residence or family.

STEPHEN BARRETT, Charlestown, son of James Barrett the first, married 14 May 1680, Elizabeth, (of an undecypherable or hieroglific name, whereof the initial is M), and he died 1689.

THOMAS BARRETT, Braintree, may probably be he who came at 16 years in the Increase, 1635, was made freeman 1645, though the printed list has Barrill, and was of the number of petitioners for grant of land at Warwick that our General Court had confiscated, and to part of which they gave 10,000 acres forfeited by the misbelieving friends of Gorton; married 14 September 1655, Frances Woolderson, had Martha, born 17 September 1656; Mary, 17 April 1658; and perhaps others, and died at Chelmsford 1668, in his will of 1 July 1662, probated 6 August following, names wife Margaret, eldest son John; Thomas; and Joseph, the youngest.

THOMAS BARRETT, Cambridge, had wife Lydia, and removed to Marlborough, there died January 1673, in his will of 16 January, probated 1 April following, provided for wife and three children.

WILLIAM BARRETT, Cambridge, brother of the preceding, by wife Sarah, Champney daughter of Richard Champney of the same, married 19 August 1636, had Lydia, born 17 September 1657; and John, 1660. His wife died 21 August 1661, and he married 16 June 1662, Mary Barnard, daughter of John Barnard, had William, born 3 May 1665; Edward, 8 January 1667; Samuel, 7 February 1669; and Bartholomew, 1 April 1672, who died next month. She died 28 March 1673, and he took for third wife 8 October following, Mary Sparhawk, daughter of Nathaniel Sparhawk of the same, and died 16 March 1689, aged about 60. By John Pool of Reading, in his will, Barrett is called son in law, which seems to prove, that Pool had married the mother of Barrett's first wife. Of this name, the graduates at Harvard in 1832 were 7, at Dartmouth 3, and at other New England colleges 4.

ELLIS BARRON, or ELLIZ BARRON, Watertown, freeman 2 June 1641, brought from England probably three or four children, for Bond names the issue in this order, Ellis Barron; Mary, who married 10 December 1650, Daniel Warren; Susanna, who married 14 December 1653, Stephen Randall; Hannah, who married about 1659, Simon Coolidge; John; Sarah, born 4 July 1640; Moses, 1 March 1643; and Peter, a soldier in Moseley's Company killed by the Indians September 1675. He had two wives Grace (thought to be mother of all those children), and Hannah, widow of Timothy Hawkins, married 4 December 1653; was constable 1658, selectman 1668, and died 30 October 1676. His will made four days before, probated 19 December following, provides for wife, for the seven children remaining after loss of Peter, and for grandchild Elizabeth Barron.

ELLIS BARRON, Watertown, son of the preceding, married Hannah Hawkins, daughter of Timothy Hawkins, and Bond gives the date which I have taken for marriage of her mother with the father of this husband, though he may be right, and possibly mother and daughter, father and son were married on one day, yet it seems less probable. He had Ellis, born 22 April 1655; Hannah, 6 March 1658; Elizabeth, 14 April 1660, died soon; Sarah, 4 November 1662; and perhaps Elizabeth, again; removed to Groton, there had Grace, 29 July 1665; Mehitable, 22 June 1668; Timothy, 18 April 1673; Dorothy, 6 March 1675, perhaps died young; and Abigail, 14 November 1676. At Lancaster he made his will 31 December 1711, probated 7 October following, which teaches us the names of husbands for six of his daughters Abigail Houghton, Mehitable Parker, Hannah Cady, wife of James, Elizabeth Philbrick, wife of Ephraim, Sarah Taylor, and Grace Stevens. He had preferred Lancaster to Groton, after the equal destruction of both. From Groton he was in Philip's war, and reappears at Watertown with wife Lydia.

ELLIS BARRON, Lancaster, son of the preceding, married 27 May 1679, Mary Sherman, daughter of Reverend John Sherman, and honorable venerable record may distort a name is shown here, where the clerk must certify that Elizabeth Barron junior married Mary Sherman; and he had second wife Lydia, unless Bond have confused him with his father as he suspected.

JOHN BARRON, Groton, son of Ellis Barron the first, had John, born 4 April 1665; Moses, 26 March 1669; Ellis, 4 June 1672; and Elizabeth, 28 September 1677; but the name of his wife or date of his death is not seen.

MOSES BARRON, brother of the preceding, may have lived at Woburn, at least he married Mary Learned, eldest daughter of Isaac Learned of that place, but probably died early.

PETER BARRON, Marblehead, fisherman, made his will 28 October 1675, going on service against Indians, and died 26 November following.

TIMOTHY BARRON, Watertown, a weaver, son of Ellis Barron the second, married 10 March 1698, Rachel Jennison, daughter of Samuel Jennison of the same, had Joseph, baptized 30 October following; Timothy, 1 July 1700; Peter, born 26 July 1702; Samuel, October 1704, died next month; and Hannah, 6 August 1709; and his widow Rachel married John King. Of Oliver Barron, Harvard College 1788, it is said by William Winthrop, in his interleaving catalogue, that he died 1809, a physician in the Isle of Man.

JAMES BARROWS, or JAMES BARROW, Dover, was taxed 1670, says Mr. Quint, but he tells no more.

JOHN BARROWS, or JOHN BARROW, Plymouth, had wife Deborah, sons Robert, Benajah, Joshua, and Ebenezer, besides two daughters, when he died 12 January 1692. Perhaps he had son John Barrows to be a soldier of Gallop’s company 1690.

ROBERT BARROWS, or ROBERT BARROW, Plymouth, perhaps brother of the preceding, married 28 November 1666, Ruth Bonum, daughter of George Bonum, had Eliezur, born 15 September 1669, who died soon; and no more is known of the father

ROBERT BARROWS, or ROBERT BARROW, Plymouth, son of John Barrows, married Lydia Dunham, had Robert, born 1689; Thankful, 1692; Elisha, 1695; Thomas, 1697; and Lydia, 1699.

JOHN BARRY, New London 1659, may have been only transient, as he is seen only as a witness to deed of land.

JOHN BARSHAM, Portsmouth, or as Bond thinks, of Exeter, eldest son of William Barsham, by wife Mehitable, had Annabel, born 31 May 1670; Mary, 26 February 1672; Dorothy, 2 February 1674; Sarah, 11 August probably 1675; and William, 25 April 1678.

JOSHUA BARSHAM, Watertown, brother of the preceding, outlived his father, but in Bond's opinion was never married.

NATHANIEL BARSHAM, Watertown, brother of the preceding, married 13 March 1679, Elizabeth Bond, eldest daughter of the first William Bond, was town clerk, selectman several years, and a Lieutenant in the wretched expedition of Phips against Quebec, 1690, after a Captain, had no children, and died 2 August 1716. His widow died 23 December 1729.

PHILIP BARSHAM, Deerfield, killed by the Indians at Bloody brook, with Captain Lathrop, 18 September 1675, left wife and perhaps children.

WILLIAM BARSHAM, Watertown, came, it is thought 1630, freeman 9 March 1637, by wife Ammiel, or Annabel, had John Barsham, born 8 December 1635, Harvard College 1658; Hannah, 7 January 1638; William; Joshua, 15 March 1641; Susanna, 28 January 1642; Nathaniel, 1644; Sarah; Mary, 24 June 1648; Rebecca, 12 December 1657; and Elizabeth, 29 July 1659. He died 13 July 1684, in his will of 23 August preceding, with codicil of 15 April following, not named wife leads us to infer, that she was dead. No doubt he was a man of good public spirit, selectman 1653, and filled other office of importance. Hannah married 19 December 1656, John Spring junior; Susanna, and Sarah married and had children, but their husbands are not marked; Mary married 7 May 1675, Deacon John Bright, and next, 12 December 1700, Hannah Parker of Reading; Rebecca married 14 May 1683, Edward Winship of Cambridge; and Elizabeth married 5 July 1694, Adam Eve of Boston; yet to so odd a name Bond puts a quere for place, while my suspicion attaches more to the person's spelling.

GEORGE BARSTOW, GEORGE BAIRSTO, or GEORGE BERESTO, Boston, came from London, in the Truelove, 1635, aged 21, was in 1636, favored with grant of land at Dedham, but probably went not thither before 1642, Artillery Company 1644, no wife or children at Dedham, is mentioned before he removed to Scituate, there besides some children, who died early, had Margaret, baptized 24 February 1650; and George, born March 1652, baptized 12 June 1653, after death of his father at Cambridge, on 18 March of that year. His widow Susanna Marrett, daughter of Thomas Marrett, or Thomas Marryott, of Cambridge, died 17 April 1654.

GEORGE BARSTOW, GEORGE BAIRSTO, or GEORGE BERESTO, Roxbury, probably son of the preceding, by wife Mary, had Susanna, born 2 November 1684; and George, August 1687. Perhaps he removed to Rehoboth, there had Samuel, 1 May 1705; and died 6 April 1726.

JEREMIAH BARSTOW, JEREMIAH BAIRSTO, or JEREMIAH BERESTO, Scituate, son of John Barstow of Cambridge, by wife Lydia, had John, and Jeremiah; the last was taken by the Indians a few weeks after death of his father (who fell in the Rehoboth fight 26 March 1676), and soon killed by them. His widow married 1677, Richard Standlake.

JOHN BARSTOW, JOHN BAIRSTO, or JOHN BERESTO, Cambridge, usually written Baistoe, was youngest brother of George Barstow the first, by wife Hannah, had Michael, born 1653; John; and Jeremiah; was drowned 13 February 1658, aged 33, by falling through ice of Charles river travelling from Dedham in the night.

JOHN BARSTOW, JOHN BAIRSTO, or JOHN BERESTO, Scituate, brother of Jeremiah Barstow of the same, married 1678 Lydia Hatch, daughter of William Hatch second of the same, had Job, born 8 March 1679; Jeremiah, 28 August 1682; John, 16 February 1684; Jerusha, 21 November 1687, died soon; Susanna, 5 May 1689; Abigail, 8 March 1692; and Lydia, 26 March 1696.

JOSEPH BARSTOW, JOSEPH BAIRSTO, or JOSEPH BERESTO, Scituate, son of William Barstow the first, married 16 May 1666, Susanna Lincoln, daughter of Thomas Lincoln, the husbandman, of Hingham (who died very aged, 31 January 1730), had Susanna, born 3 June 1667; Joseph, 22 January 1675; Benjamin, 1 March 1679; Deborah, 26 December 1681; and Samuel, 1 January 1683; and died 17 April 1712. His house was a garrison 1675.

MICHAEL BARSTOW, MICHAEL BAIRSTO, or MICHAEL BERESTO, or MILES BARSTOW, MILES BAIRSTO, or MILES BERESTO, Charlestown, eldest brother of George Barstow the first, with wife Marcia, joined the church 5 December 1635, and was made freeman 3 March following, removed before 1642 to Watertown. He was from Shelf, near Halifax, County York, West Riding, son of Matthew Barstow, says Bond, baptized 17 November 1600, married 16 February 1625 Grace Halstead, who Bond, 677, notes as the same with Marcia. He brought probably his wife's sister Susanna, who died unmarried. As he had no children, his will of 23 June 1674 proves his estate good, as was the spirit in which he divided it (see Genealogical Registrar VIII. 169); and his wife having died 20 July 1671, many relatives partook, besides the benefactor to his spirited guide, Reverend John Sherman, the farm of 100 acres. He died 1676, not, as sometimes said, the day of date of his will. He wrote his name Bairstow.

MICHAEL BARSTOW, MICHAEL BAIRSTO, or MICHAEL BERESTO, Watertown, eldest son of John Barstow of Cambridge, freeman 1690, married 12 January 1677, Rebecca Train, daughter of John Train of Watertown, had only child Hannah, born 20 January 1679.

WILLIAM BARSTOW, WILLIAM BAIRSTO, or WILLIAM BERESTO, Dedham, next brother of Michael Barstow the first, carne with his younger brother George Barstow, in the Truelove, 1635, aged 23, from London, where their names at the custom house were written Beresto, by wife Ann, had Joseph, born 6 June 1639, baptized 25 April 1641, his mother joined the church that month; Mary, 28 December 1641, baptized next Sunday; Patience, 3 December 1643, baptized 9 June following. He removed to Scituate, there had, probably Sarah; and another daughter whose name is not seen; certainly Deborah, August 1650; William, September 1652; and Martha, 1655; and he died 1 January 1669. His widow married John Prince of Hull. Patience married Moses Simmons, 1662, as Bond, 678, tells; Mary married 14 May 1656, William Ingram of Boston; Sarah married about 1665, Nathaniel Church; Deborah married 9 November 1670, Philip Shattuck; and Martha married 9 December 1674, Samuel Prince, son of the husband of her mother. Worthington calls him Wilkin, which is more strange than his spelling Bearstowe.

WILLIAM BARSTOW, WILLIAM BAIRSTO, or WILLIAM BERESTO, Scituate, son of the preceding, by wife Sarah, had Rebecca, born 12 March 1676; Martha, 1678; a son baptized 7 November 1680, says Barry, probably died young, but his name is not told by Barstow; Ann, 26 June 1681; William, 23 November 1684; Mary, 21 February 1687; Benjamin, 22 July 1690; and Susanna, 8 March 1693. Descendants of two of the four brothers are much distributed in Fairhaven, Rochester, Hanover, and perhaps Salem; and six of the name, if one without r may be included, are seen among Farmer's graduates at New England colleges in 1834.

HENRY BARTHOLOMEW, Salem 1635, said by tradition to have arrived 7 November of that year, was freeman 17 May 1637, then aged 36, by wife Elizabeth, had Elizabeth, baptized there 3 October 1641; Hannah, 12 February 1643; John, 10 Nov 1644; Abraham, 8 November 1646; Eleazer, 29 July 1649; Abigail, 6 October 1650; William, 3 October 1652; Elizabeth, again, 2 July 1654; and Henry, 10 May 1657; besides Sarah, born 29 January 1659; was Representative 1645, and 17 years more, but not as Felt makes him, in his list for 1635, probably then mistaking him for William, as he did also in citing testimonial against Mrs. Hutchinson. About 1679 he removed to Boston, and his wife died 1 September 1682; and he died 22 November 1692. His daughter Abigail married 2 January 1672, Nehemiah Willoughby.

HENRY BARTHOLOMEW, Salem, son of the preceding, had wife Catharine, but no children, and died 1698, leaving in his will of 25 September 1694, no subjects of remark.

JOSEPH BARTHOLOMEW, Boston 1667, mariner, may have been son of William Bartholomew.

RICHARD BARTHOLOMEW, Salem, 1638, brother of Henry Bartholomew the first, freeman 2 June 1641, Artillery Company 1643, died 1646 on voyage from Boston to London, probably unmarried, certainly leaving no wife or children, as is inferred from his will of 6 January probated 4 August following.

WILLIAM BARTHOLOMEW, Ipswich, came from London 1634, in the ship with Reverend John Lothrop, Zechary Symmes, and Mrs. Ann Hutchinson, arriving September. Against the scheme of that lady's revelations, he was a ready witness, as Hutchinson in History II. 510 exhibits him. Made freeman 4 March 1635, he was a Representative 1635, and 7 years more; liberated short time, about 1657, at Gloucester; removed as a merchant to Boston, about 1660, perhaps at Marblehead 1674, and died at Charlestown 18 January 1681. His widow died 29 January 1683; and daughter Mary married 24 December 1657, Matthew Whipple of Ipswich and, next, the first Jacob Green of Charlestown.

WILLIAM BARTHOLOMEW, Roxbury, perhaps son of the preceding, a carpenter, married 17 December 1663, Mary Johnson, probably daughter of Isaac Johnson of the same, had Isaac, born 1 November 1664; William, 16 October 1666; Mary, 26 October 1668; and Elizabeth, 15 March 1674; removed soon after, to Hatfield, where one of his children was taken by the Indians 19 September 1677; and may have been of Branford 1685.

ABRAHAM BARTLETT, Middletown, youngest son of George Bartlett of Guilford, married 11 June 1693, Mary Warner, daughter of the first Andrew Warner of the same, had Mary, born 18 May 1694; Abraham, 4 March 1697; Joseph, 24 October 1699; Timothy, 25 March 1702; and Ebenezer, 6 November 1705; and died 20 February 1731. His widow died 28 May 1738, aged 74.

BENJAMIN BARTLETT, Duxbury, son of Robert Bartlett of Plymouth, married 1656, Sarah Brewster, daughter of Love Brewster, had Benjamin, Samuel, Ichabod, Ebenezer, and Rebecca, besides Sarah, probably all by that wife, but he had in 1678 a second wife Cicely. He was Representative 1685, as in Baylies, IV. 19.

BENJAMIN BARTLETT, Windsor, son of John Bartlett of the same, married July 1665, Deborah Barnard, had Deborah, born 3 April 1666; Benjamin, 21 June 1668, died young; Isaiah, 9 December 1670, died soon; Isaiah, again, 26 July 1672; Ephraim, 17 January 1674; Jehoida, 2 November 1675; and Benjamin, again, 5 December 1677.

CHRISTOPHER BARTLETT, Newbury 1635, married 16 April 1645, first wife Mary; had Mary, born 15 October 1647, died young; Ann, 28 September 1650; Martha, March 1653; Christopher, 11 June 1655; and Jonathan, 5 July 1657, died at 2 years; and his wife died 24 December 1661. He married 19 December 1663, Mary Hoyt, perhaps daughter of John Hoyt, had John, 13 September 1665, who died at 3 months, and the father died 15 March 1670, aged 47.

CHRISTOPHER BARTLETT, Newbury, son of the preceding, married 29 November 1677, Deborah Weed, daughter of John Weed of Salisbury, had Christopher, born 26 February 1679; Deborah, 23 June 1680; Mary, 17 April 1682; Ann, 29 March 1684; Lydia, 19 April 1688; Hannah, 2 November 1689; Sarah, 23 October 1691; Abigail, 7 November 1695; Samuel, 16 May 1698; and Mehitable, 18 October 1701; and he died 14 April 1711.

DANIEL BARTLETT, Guilford, brother of Abraham Bartlett, married 11 January 1686, Sarah Meigs, daughter of Deacon John Meigs, who died 8 April 1688, leaving only child Daniel, born 31 March before. Next he married 11 February 1691, Concurrence Crane, daughter of Henry Crane, of Killingworth, had John, 21 January 1692; Nathaniel, 10 February 1694, died at 10 months; Deborah, 4 November 1695; George, 7 February 1698; Nathaniel, again, 1 July 1700; and Ebenezer, 12 February 1702. His wife died 9 October 1703; and he next married 8 October 1707, Susanna Lord of Saybrook, had Collins, 7 March 1709, died young; Lucy, 23 June 1713; Jared, 1 March 1715, died at 6 months; and Sarah, 22 July 1717. He died 14 November 1747, and his widow died 2 February 1758.

EDWARD BARTLETT, Windsor, a young man probably, but certainly, had no wife or children when, 24 February 1676, he was called to serve in the Indians war, and made his will; nor does Stiles give him any relatives.

GEORGE BARTLETT, Guilford 1641, of Branford 1649, married 14 September 1650, Mary Cruttenden, daughter of Abraham Cruttenden, had Elizabeth, born March 1652; Mary, 1 February 1654; John, 9 November 1656, who died under 3 years; Hannah, 5 November 1658; Daniel, 14 December 1665; Abraham, 19 February 1667; and Deborah, 1668. He was Lieutenant, Representative 1665, Deacon, and died 3 August 1669; and his widow died next month. Elizabeth married 29 August 1677, Abraham Fowler; Mary married 10 July 1673, Nathaniel Stone; and Deborah married 16 March 1687, John Spinning.

GEORGE BARTLETT, Scarborough 1663, who died 1674, had daughter Elizabeth, who married Nicholas Baker of Marblehead, as teaches Willis, I. 135.

HENRY BARTLETT, Braintree, was one of the Company of brave Captain Johnson, in the great Narraganset fight.

ISAIAH BARTLETT, Windsor, son of John Bartlett of the same, married 3 December 1663, Abia Gillet, had John, born 12 September 1664.

JEHOIADA BARTLETT, Hartford, son of John Bartlett of Windsor, had Martha, born 28 July 1674; Sarah, 30 May 1677; James, 7 December 1681; Joseph; Samuel, 4 April 1688; and Isaac, 22 May 1696; and died 14 June 1718.

JOHN BARTLETT, Newbury 1635, came, 1634, in the Mary and John from London, was of County Kent, freeman 17 May 1637, had John, but other children is not known, and died 13 April 1678, and his widow Joan died 5 February following.

JOHN BARTLETT, Windsor 1640, brother of George Bartlett of Guilford, had Isaiah, whose name is wildly spelled on record Stiles, 532, born 13 June 1641; Benjamin, baptized 26 March 1643; Hepzibah, born 14 July 1646; Jehoiada, baptized 23 December 1 649; and Mehitable, 11 May 1 651; was living 1669.

JOHN BARTLETT, Newbury, son of John Bartlett of the same, married 5 March 1660, Sarah Knight, daughter of John Knight, had Gideon, born 18 December following; and Mary; was freeman 1669.

JOHN BARTLETT, Newbury, son of Richar Bartlettd the second of the same, called (to distinguish him as one of four contemporary Johns there), the tanner, married 29 October 1680, Mary Rust, had Mary, born 17 October 1681, who died at 5 months; John, 24 January 1683; Mary, again, 27 April 1684; Nathaniel, 18 April 1655; Dorothy, 22 August 1686; Sarah, 27 November 1687; Hannah, 13 March 1689; Nathan, 23 December 1691; Abigail, 12 August 1693; and Alice, 18 March 1695; and died 24 May 1736.

JOSEPH BARTLETT, Plymouth, son of Robert Bartlett of the same, had Robert, Joseph, Benjamin, Elnathan, Mary, Hannah, and Lydia.

JOSEPH BARTLETT, Cambridge village or Newton, married 27 October 1668, Mary Waite, had Mary, born 17 February 1672; Joseph and Mary, twins 5 March 1673; Elizabeth, 5 February 1677; John; and Sarah; and died 26 December 1702. His widow died 21 December 1721. Elizabeth married 8 March 1709, James Prentiss, says Jackson; but he makes him, in a later part of his History married that same day, Elizabeth, daughter of Henry of Marlborough; and Sarah married 1708, Jonathan Willard.

JOSEPH BARTLETT, Newton, son of the preceding, by wife Hannah, had Thomas, born 25 July 1697; Benjamin, 24 May 1699; Elizabeth, 23 September 1701, died next year; Joseph, 8 April 1703; and perhaps Ebenezer. His wife died December 1730, and he married 1732, Mercy Hyde, who died 2 years after, and he died June 1750.

JOSEPH BARTLETT, Newbury, fifth son of Richard Bartlett the third of the same, was a soldier, taken at the assault on Haverhill, 29 August 1708, when his Captain Wainwright was killed by the Indians, and held in captivity four years of which he left a narrative, and died 1754. See the excellent History of Coffin, 331.

NATHANIEL BARTLETT, Newbury, whose father is not heard of by me, had James, and Mary, December 1679. Coffin.

NICHOLAS BARTLETT, Kennebunk 1651, was living at Salem 1700, as Willis shows, I. 67.

RICHARD BARTLETT, Newbury 1637, shoemaker, brother of the first Christopher Bartlett, had brought two sons and one daughter, and others he had here, though we are ignorant of the dates of any but the youngest, and approximated the eldest. Their names were Richard, born 1621, probably the first born, John, Christopher, Joanna, and Samuel, who was born 20 February 1646; and the father died 25 May 1647.

RICHARD BARTLETT, Newbury, son probably eldest of the preceding, born in England, by wife Abigail, had Richard, born 21 February 1649; Thomas, 7 September 1650; Abigail, March 1653; John, 22 June 1655; Hannah, 18 December 1657; and Rebecca, 23 May 1661. His wife died 1 March 1687, and he died 1698, aged 76.

RICHARD BARTLETT, Newbury, eldest son of the preceding, married 18 November 1673, Hannah Emery, daughter of John Emery, had Hannah, born 8 November 1674; Richard, 20 October 1676; John, 23 September 1678; Samuel, 8 July 1680, died at 5 years; Daniel, 8 August 1682; Joseph, 18 November 1686; Samuel, again, 2 May 1689; Stephen, 21 April 1691; Thomas, 14 July 1695; and Mary, 15 November 1697. His eldest son was grandfather of Richard Bartlett of Pembroke, New Hampshire, whose grandson Richard Bartlett was late Secretary of the State; and Stephen Bartlett, his seventh son, was father of Governor Josiah Bartlett, born at Amesbury, November 1729, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence.

ROBERT BARTLETT, Plymouth, came in the Ann, Ju]y 1623, married 1628, Mary Warren, daughter of Richard Warren, had Benjamin; Joseph, born 1638; besides six daughters; Rebecca, married 20 December 1649 William Harlow; Mary, married 10 September 1651, Richard Foster, and next, 8 July 1659, Jonathan Morey; Sarah, married 23 December 1656, Samuel Rider of Yarmouth; Elizabeth married 20 December 1661, Anthony Sprague, of Hingham; Lydia, born 8 June 1647, married James Barnaby, and next John Nelson, of Middleborough; and Mercy, born 10 March 1651, married 25 December 1668, John Ivey of Boston. He was of the first purchasers of Dartmouth, and died 1676, aged 73; and his widow married 24 October 1692, or 1699, Thomas Delano. Unhappy both years are given in Winsor's History.

ROBERT BARTLETT, Hartford, an original proprietor, had been of Cambridge 1632, if, as is probably he came in the Lion, arriving 16 September of that year, had Samuel; Nathaniel, who died unmarried; Abigail; and Deborah, baptized 8 March 1646; removed to Northampton, a 1655, there was killed by the Indians 14 March 1676. His widow Ann died the same year; Abigail, married 17 December 1657, John Stebbins of Northampton as his second wife, and Deborah married John Cowles junior of Hatfield.

ROBERT BARTLETT, New London 1658, brother of William Bartlett, and heir to his estate, had wife Sarah, who died first, and he died 1673. He had no children nor is any relationship ascertained between these brothers and either of the scores with the same patronym. By nuncupative will he gave to the town all his property for support of a school in grateful remembrance of which is named the New London Bartlett Grammar school, and as he was a merchant of mark, Bartlett's reef in the sound preserves his memory.

ROBERT BARTLETT, Marblehead 1674, may have been brother of John Bartlett of the same, was freeman 1683, and married Mary Walton, youngest child of Reverend William Walton of the same.

SAMUEL BARTLETT, Newbury, son of Richard Bartlett the first, freeman 1672, married 23 May 1671, Elizabeth Titcomb, daughter of William Titcomb, had Elizabeth, born 13 May 1672; Abigail, 14 April 1674; Samuel, 28 May 1676; Sarah, 7 July 1678; Richard, 13 February 1680; Thomas, 13 August 1681; Tirzal, 20 January 1684; and Lydia, 5 November 1687. His wife died 26 August 1690, and he died 15 May 1732. SAMUEL BARTLETT, Northampton, eldest son of Robert Bartlett of the same, married 1672, Mary Bridgeman, daughter of James Bridgeman, who died 1674, in so unnaturally named, that her husband father and others less exposed to making wrong judgment ascribed this to witchcraft, and upon that capital charge was Mary, wife of Joseph Parsons, sent down to Boston for trial. In May 1675, she was acquitted. By second wife Sarah Baldwin, daughter of the first Joseph Baldwin, he had Samuel, born 1677; Sarah, 1679; Mindwell, 1681; Joseph, 1683; Ebenezer, 1685; Elizabeth, 1687; Preserved, 1689; William, 1693; David, 1695; and Benjamin, 1696; all these living to marry, and the father died 1712.

THOMAS BARTLETT, Watertown 1631, came in the employment of William Pelham, I think, the year before and is called by Bond, an original proprietor and freeman 4 March 1635, not 6, as he had printed page 18, was made Ensign 1639, and by wife Hannah, had Hannah, buried 26 August 1639; Mehitable, born 15 July 1640; Hannah, again, 6 August 1642; Bathshua, 17 April 1647; and Abial, 28 May 1651; was often selectman, and died 26 April 1654, aged about 60. In his will the wife and four children are provided for, and she died 11 July 1676. Mehitable married 7 January 1658, Henry Spring; Hannah married 19 January 1668, John Kendall; Bathshua married 23 November 1671, John Applin; and Abial married 24 October 1669, Jonathan Saunderson.

THOMAS BARTLETT, Newbury, son of Richard Bartlett the second, married 1685, Tirzah Titcomb, and died 6 April 1689. His widow married James Ordway.

WILLIAM BARTLETT, New London 1647, died in about ten years, leaving widow Susanna, but no children. Of this name Farmer found, in 1834, sixteen graduates at Harvard, eight at Yale, and thirty-one at the several other colleges of New England.

JOHN BARTOLL, Marblehead, by wife Parnel, had Mary, born 1 February 1643; and he died November 1664. His widow sold, 1665, to John Hooper, parcel of land at Marblehead, next to Robert Hooper.

WILLIAM BARTOLL, Lynn, married Susanna Woodbury, daughter probably of Humphrey Woodbury of Salem, as second wife, had Susanna, born 25 January 1666, who I presume, died young, for at Salem he brought to be baptized 25 July 1669, William, John, Robert, Thomas, Samuel, Mary, and Alice; besides Andrew, 22 August 1680, and William, again, born 4 October 1682. Reverend Cyrus Bartoll, a minister of Boston, Bowdon college 1832, is of later stock than this work regards.

BENJAMIN BARTON, Warwick, son of Rufus Barton of Providence, married 8 June 1669, Susanna Gorton, daughter of the celebrated Samuel Gorton, was freeman 25 March in the same year, chosen an assistant 1674, and died 1720. In his will of 22 October of that year are named children Rufus, Andrew, Phebe, Naomi, and Susanna. Another daughter who had married 16 May 1697, Jabez Green of Providence, was then probably deceased.

EDWARD BARTON, perhaps of Exeter 1657, was of Cape Porpus to about June 1671, leaving a widow to administrate on his property.

EDWARD BARTON, Pemaquid, perhaps son of the preceding, was administered freeman of Massachusetts 1674.

JAMES BARTON, Newton 1688, had been of Boston, where he had good estate, and was a ropemaker, by wife Margaret, had Margaret; John, born 5 September 1686; and others, for which the record of birth furnishes no light. He died 1729, aged 86, leaving widow who died 1731, aged 87. Jackson, in his will of 1729, finds two daughters if not three, as Margaret Simpkins, and Ruth Cook, grandson Thomas Stanton, together with grandson James, John, Samuel, and Michael, a remember. The four last may be thought son of John. His daughter Margaret had married 23 December 1699, Robert Calef.

JOHN BARTON, Salem, son probably of the preceding, a physician, married 90 April 1676, Lydia Roberts, perhaps daughter of Thomas Roberts of Boston, had John, born 2 February 1677, died in 5 days; John, again, 30 January 1678, died young; Thomas, 7 or 17 July 1680; Zaccheus, 1 April 1683; Elizabeth, October 1685; and Samuel, 30 August 1688. He was a Captain, went home more than once, and died on a voyage to Bermuda. Thomas and Samuel were men of good repute in Salem, the former a physician, many years town clerk, Colonel of the regiment, married 10 May 1710, Mary, granddaughter of Deputy Governor Willoughby, had John Barton, Harvard College 1730; and died 28 April 1751; the latter had two wives Mary Butler, and Elizabeth Marston, and died 13 March 1772.

MARMADUKE BARTON, of some part of Massachusetts was in 1643, condemned to slavery, and to be branded, but in the Colony record II. 16, the offence is not set out.

MATTHEW BARTON, Salem, 58 years old in 1709, by wife Sarah, had Susanna, born 10 May 1680; Matthew, born 6 November 1682. Sarah, 1 April 1685; and Elizabeth, 20 April 1687.

RUFUS BARTON, Providence, had fled from persecution by the Dutch at Manhattan, and sat down 1640, at Portsmouth, Rhode Island. In Winthrop II. 323 is a letter from him to the Governor in 1648, and a few months after he died in such a manner, as caused one to be charged with his murder, but without conviction. By the town council of Providence, as Judge Brayton assures me, a sort of distribution as testament of his estate was made 20 March 1666 to the children Elizabeth, Benjamin, who was then under 21 years of age and Phebe, with widow Margaret, who married Walter Todd. Phebe married 23 May 1671, Richard Codner of Swanzey.

SAMUEL BARTON, Salem 1692, son probably of James Barton, a physician, not unemployed in the infernal cases of witcher.

STEPHEN BARTON, Bristol, perhaps son of the preceding or of Thomas Barton, was Representative 1690, at Plymouth Court, and under the new Charter 1692, at Boston.

JOHN BARTRAM, Stratford, had Hannah, born 1668, perhaps other children, and died 1675.

THOMAS BARTRAM, Charlestown, by Elizabeth, who died 21 January 1673, had Elizabeth, born five days before who died in July following.

WILLIAM BARTRAM, Lynn, by wife Sarah, had Rebecca and Esther, twins born 3 April 1658; and Ellen, 17 October 1660; perhaps removed to Swanzey 1669. Baylies, III. 241. Yet I doubt the Swanzey man may have been another, Esther married 18 June 1677, John Newhall of Lynn.

THOMAS BASCOM, Dorchester 1634, came perhaps in July 1633 with the Company that sat down at Dorchester then, though Dr. Harris wished to number him as of 1630, removed to Windsor, there had Abigail, baptized 7 June 1640; Thomas, 20 February 1642; Hepzibah, 14 April 1644; removed to Northampton, about 1661, and there died 9 May 1682. An elder daughter Hannah, married John Broughton, and, next, William James; Abigail married 2 December 1656, John Ingersol; and Hepzibah married 1662, Robert Lyman. His widow Avis died 1676.

THOMAS BASCOM, Northampton, son of the preceding, married 1667, Mary Newell, daughter of Thomas Newell of Farmington, had Thomas, born 1668; John, 1672, who went to Lebanon; and Mary, who died young; and he died 11 September 1689. Of this father and son, the names are misprinted. Bostoun, in Genealogical Registrar IX. 89, as are several others in the same list variously distorted. As the copy was procured from the Massachusetts archives for that publication by a careful hand, we can be sure, that the original signatures were not very plain. Farmer, in 1836, counted graduates of this name in the New England colleges ten, of which two each for Harvard, Yale, and Dartmouth.

JOHN BASS, Braintree, son of Samuel Bass the first, married 3 or 13 by record February 1658, or (as different reading of the same numerals for months and day would express), 12 May 1657, Ruth Alden, third daughter of John Alden, the Mayflower passenger, had John, born 26 November 1658; Samuel, 25 March 1660; Ruth, 28 January 1662; Joseph, 5 December 1665; Hannah, 22 June 1667; Mary, 11 February 1669, or 70; and Sarah, 29 May 1672. His wife died 12 October 1674; and he died 12 September 1716, aged 83.

JOSEPH BASS, Braintree, younger brother of the preceding, had Mary, who died without children 15 March 1678; and he by wife Deborah, had Deborah, baptized 23 December 1700; and died about 16 January 1711.

SAMUEL BASS, Roxbury 1632, freeman 14 May 1634; removed in 1640 to Braintree, was the first Deacon there 50 years, Representative 1641, and often later; by wife Ann, had Samuel, Mary, and Hannah, born probably in England and John, Thomas, Joseph, and Sarah, born here. His wife died 5 September 1663, and he died 30 December 1694, aged 93, having seen 162 descendants. His daughter Mary married 20 September 1647, Elder John Capen of Dorchester, as his second wife; Hannah married 15 November 1651, Stephen Paine; and Sarah married Deacon John Stone of Watertown, about 1662, bore him ten children, next married 10 May 1693, Joseph Penniman, and was living September 1739.

SAMUEL BASS, Braintree, son of the preceding, born in England, freeman 1648, married Mary Howard, daughter of Robert Howard, had Mary, born 26 April 1643; and he died early in 1653. His widow married 7 April 1659, Isaac Jones. Samuel Bass, the soldier in December 1675 of the brave Captain Johnson's Company, must have been that son of John Bass, who was less than sixteen years old in that terrible campaign.

THOMAS BASS, Braintree, son of Samuel Bass the first, married at Medfield where he lived several years, 4 October 1660, Sarah Wood, daughter of Nicholas Wood of Medfield, had Abigail, born 2 January 1668; Samuel, 20 December 1669, Mary, 20 April 1672; John, 26 March 1675; and Mehitable, 18 September 1678, who died in January following, as had the mother in December. He married 1680, Susanna, probably the widow of Nathaniel Blanchard of Weymouth. He was Deacon at Braintree. Very large account of this family in later times may have seen in Thayer's Genealogy, but of graduates at New England colleges in 1834, Farmer could have been few, if any, except seven at Harvard, three first of which were ministers.

PETER BASSAKER, PETER BUSSAKER, or PETER BUSICOT, Boston, whipped for drunkenness September 1636, removed before 1643, to Hartford, was after at Warwick most of his days. had daughter Mary, who married 15 December 1670, Peter Spicer of Norwich; Abigail, who married Hugh Stone; and Peter, perhaps only son who accidentally shot himself.

DAVID BASSETT, Boston, had Mary, baptized at Old South Church 13 April 1681; and David, 25 September 1687. The record marks him, as French, so that, I presume, he was a Hugenot.

ELISHA BASSETT, Lynn, son of William Bassett of the same, had wife Elizabeth, but I know no more.

JOHN BASSETT, New Haven 1647, died February 1653, leaving wife Margery, son Robert, and in his will no other children. He and his son were of Stratford 1674.

JOHN BASSETT, New Haven, son of William Bassett, married as is thought Mercy Todd, daughter of Christopher Todd, and was a proprietor 1685.

JOSEPH BASSETT, Hingham, son probably youngest of the first William Bassett, married October 1677, Martha Hobart, had Joseph, William, Elnathan, Jeremiah, Lydia, Ruth, and Elizabeth, and died 1712.

NATHANIEL BASSETT, Yarmouth 1672, son of William Bassett the first comer, married a daughter of John Joyce. He died 16 January 1710, in his will of six days preceding, he mentioned nine children then living, whose names are not given. Probably he had second wife Hannah, who died 1709, and it is uncertain who was mother of the children respectively.

PETER BASSETT, Boston, perhaps in 1678, a physician, may be the same who took oath of allegiance at York 1680.

ROBERT BASSETT, New Haven 1643, son of John Bassett the first, born in England, was a shoemaker, and town drummer. He had Mary, born 8 March 1650, died in few days.

SAMUEL BASSETT, New Haven, son of William Bassett of the same, married 21 June 1677, Mary Dickerman, daughter of Abraham Dickerman, was a proprietor 1685.

THOMAS BASSETT, Windsor 1641, had come in the Christian 1635, aged 37, and probably first sat down at Dorchester, though not mentioned there, and before 1653 removed to Fairfield, died 1668, leaving wife and children but their names are not heard.

WILLIAM BASSETT, Plymouth, came in the Fortune 1621, with wife Elizabeth, married at Leyden, as his second wife 13 August 1611, being the earliest marriage of any of our pilgrims in that foreign land, had Sarah, William, and Elizabeth, counted in the division of cattle 1627, but neither of the three is reckonized in the division of land 1623, so that we may believe they were born in the interval, lived at Duxbury in 1637, and was Representative 1640, and four years more; in 1652, with Governor Bradford and others joined in purchasing of Dartmouth, removed to Bridgewater, and died 1667. Other children besides a second William, were Nathaniel, Ruth, Jane, and Joseph. His daughter Sarah married 1648, Peregrine White; and Elizabeth married 8 November of the same year Thomas Burge.

WILLIAM BASSETT, Lynn 1640, a farmer, had William; John, born November 1653; Miriam, September 1655; Mary, March 1657; Hannah, 25 February 1660; Elisha; Samuel, 18 March 1664; and Rachel, 13 March 1666. His wife was, I suppose, a daughter of Hugh Burt of Lynn, who in his will, of 7 October 1661, calls Bassett his son.

WILLIAM BASSETT, New Haven, son perhaps of John Bassett the first, born in England married 1648, the widow of William Ives, had Hannah, born 13, baptized 15 September 1650; John, born 24 December 1652; Samuel, 15 February 1655; Abigail, baptized 7 February 1658; and Phebe, and died 29 August 1684. Hannah married 8 November 1670, John Parker; Abia married 27 April 1681, Ralph Lines; and Phebe married a Rose. A good-wife Bassett was executed for a witch, it is thought at Stratford. Kingsley, 101.

WILLIAM BASSETT, Sandwich, son of William Bassett the first, married Mary Burt, daughter of Hugh Burt the first of Lynn, had Mary, born 21 November 1654; and William, 1656; perhaps others, and died 1670. Yet it may be, that the Lynn and the Sandwich William were the same.

WILLIAM BASSETT, Salem, son perhaps of William Bassett of Lynn, married 25 October 1675, Sarah Hood, daughter of Richard Hood, had Sarah, born 6 December 1676; William, 2 October 1678; Mary, 13 June 1680; and John, 8 September 1682. Descendants are widely dispersed. Reverend Nathan Bassett, Harvard College 1719 of Charleston, South Carolina, was of the stock of the first comer William Bassett.

THOMAS BASSOM, or THOMAS BASSUM, Windsor, had Abigail, born 7 June 1640; Thomas, 20 February 1642; and Hepzibah, 14 July 1644.

WILLIAM BASSOM, or WILLIAM BASSUM, Watertown 1636, as Dr. Francis, 131, gives the name; but Bond is silent, and I conjecture that it was abbreviated for Bassumthwaite, who died early, and his widow had share of lands with other Watertown settlers at Sudbury 1639. See Barry, History of Framingham, 134. Yet one William Bassom there was a proprietor at Wethersfield, perhaps brother of Thomas Bassom of Windsor.

JOSEPH BASTARD, Fairfield, married 1685, Hannah, widow of Esbon Wakeman, was of Bristol, February 1689, having one child and died 1697, leaving good estate. If research should show, that he came from Boston, it might be presumed that he was son of Joseph Barstow.

JOSEPH BASTAR, Cambridge, a tailor, had wife Mary, and daughter Mary, born 13 May 1643; removed to Boston 1647, had Joseph, 25 or 29 September of that year; Benjamin, 4 April 1652; Susanna, 1 September 1654; and John, 25 March 1657; besides Ann, 26 July 1660.

EDWARD BATEMAN, Maine, was one of the purchasers from the Indians Sachem, Robin Hood, of the region above Woolwich, 1654. Drake's Book of the Indians III. 97.

ELEAZER BATEMAN, Woburn, married 2 November 1686, Elizabeth Wright, daughter of Joseph Wright, had Elizabeth, born 11 July 1688; Mary, 16 June 1696; Joseph, 7 September 1699; Martha, 16 February 1702; Thomas, 20 May 1704; and Ruth, 25 July 1707.

JOHN BATEMAN, Boston, by wife Hannah, had John, born December 1644; Hannah, 10 March 1646; Elizabeth, 30 September 1647; all baptized 14 May 1648; Sarah, baptized 7 October 1649, though town record makes her born 6 May 1651; Rachel, born 28 May, baptized 1 June 1651; Mary, 16, baptized 23 January 1653, died young; William, 8, baptized 11 March 1655; Joseph, born 28 August 1658; and Mary again, baptized 9 September 1660. Perhaps he removed to Woburn, for then Hannah married 12 June 1667, Zechariah Green; and Sarah married 3 July 1671, John Green, both of Woburn.

JOHN BATEMAN, Woburn, son perhaps of the preceding, married 30 June 1680, Abigail Richardson, probably daughter of Theophilus Richardson, had Abigail, born 18 October 1682, died soon; Abigail, again, 1 January 1685; John, 13 August 1687; William, 29 September 1690, died young; William, again, 3 May 1693; and Peter, 3 November 16953. Perhaps he removed.

JOSEPH BATEMAN, Boston, son of John Bateman of the same, was of Turner's Company in Philip's war, 1676.

THOMAS BATEMAN, Concord, freeman 18 May 1642, died 6 February 1669, aged 51, leaving by Martha, sons Thomas, Peter, who died at Woburn 13 February 1676, John, and Ebenezer; besides daughters Martha, Elizabeth, who was born 6 March 1660, and Sarah. Eight days before he died, all these are named in his will.

WILLIAM BATEMAN, Charlestown 1638, had long before been in the Colony, as he was administered freeman 18 May 1631, so that he probably came in the fleet with Winthrop, perhaps removed to Chelmsford, though as two of the name were in Massachusetts it is uncertain for.

WILLIAM BATEMAN of Concord, brother of Thomas Bateman, was probably the freeman of 2 June 1641 (since his name in the list is next to that of William Hunt of Concord), yet he removed to Fairfield 1650, or earlier there died 1658, in his will of 24 March 1656, gives £5 to grandchild Joseph Middlebrook, and one half of his estate to son Thomas Bateman, "now of Concord," the other half to son-in-law Henry Lyon.

BENJAMIN BATES, Hingham, youngest son of Clement Bates that he brought from England, was freeman 1672, and died of smallpox 28 November 1678. He was a Lieutenant had wife Jane, named in his will, made two weeks before his death, gives estate to her and the children of his brother, having as we are therefore led to infer, no children of his own.

BENJAMIN BATES, Hingham, son of James Bates of the same, married 10 October 1682, Mary Leavitt, daughter perhaps of John Leavitt; probably removed, after death of his father, to Huntington, Long Island, but many years before was a soldier in December 1675 of Johnson's Company.

CLEMENT BATES, Hingham, a tailor, said to be from County Herts, but more probably from Kent, came in the Elizabeth, 1635, aged 40, with wife Ann, 40, and children James, 14; Clement, 12; Rachel, 8; Joseph, 5; Benjamin, 2; and two servants, and here had Samuel, baptized 24 March 1639; and Hopestill, September 1644; was freeman 3 March 1636, and died 17 September 1671.

CLEMENT BATES, Hingham, son of the preceding, brought from England by his father, died before 1669, leaving widow Ruth, who in a petition to the government of the Colony April 1676, set forth, that she had two sons Clement and Solomon, served with Captain Lothrop when "the flower of Essex" was slain, that Clement was killed by the Indians soon after at Westfield, wherefore she prayed that Solomon might be discharged.

EDWARD BATES, Boston 1633, came with Thomas Leverett, as his apprentice in the Griffin, freeman 9 March 1637, was disarmed as a favorer of Wheelwright, had John, baptized 23 January 1642.

EDWARD BATES, Weymouth, freeman 13 March 1639, had Prudence, born 11 June that year; and Increase, 28 December 1641, was Representative 1639-41 and 60, as well as church Elder. His daughter Susanna, married 16 December 1658, Nathaniel Blanchard.

EDWARD BATES, Weymouth, perhaps son of the preceding, by wife Elizabeth, had Susanna, born 6 February 1680; Edward, 3 February 1683; John, 16 January 1686; and Mary, 11 December 1697.

FRANCIS BATES, Topsfield 1661, married Ann Oldham, daughter of Sarah Oldham, and granddaughter of Richard North, had Ebenezer, born 20 January 1662; but my diligent inquiries has not learned what Oldham married Richard North's daughter.

GEORGE BATES, Boston, a thatcher, freeman 25 May 1636, lived at Muddy river now Brookline, went to Exeter, but came back. Belknap I. 20.

INCREASE BATES, Weymouth, son of Edward Bates the first, by wife Mary, had Edward, born 31 January 1682; Ebenezer, 1 March 1686; and Ann, 23 August 1695.

JAMES BATES, Dorchester, husbandman, came in the Elizabeth, 1635, aged 53; with wife Alice, 52; and children Lydia, 20; Mary, 17; Margaret, 12; and James, 9; freeman 7 December 1636, selectman next year and after; Representative for Hingham, 1641. He was perhaps brother of Clement Bates, and died 1655. His widow died 14 August 1657. Lydia married Roger Williams of Dorchester; Mary married Hopestill Foster; and Margaret married Christopher Gibson. He had a son Richard Bates, who lived at a hamlet, called the town of Lid in County Kent, whence, probably the family came.

JAMES BATES, Hingham, eldest son probably of Clement Bates of the same, married 19 April 1642, or 3, Ruth Lyford, that may be conjectured as daughter of Reverend John Lyford, left by him when he went to Virginia, had John, born 1649; Ruth, September 1651; at Scituate, where he lived some years but returned to Hingham, had Joseph, baptized 20 November 1653; Benjamin, baptized 15 July 1655; Solomon, 23 August 1657; perhaps others; and died 5 July 1689. He petitioned the Governor and Assistant for relief on account of two sons pressed into the service against the Indians. His widow died 9 March following. Deane thought him son of James Bates of Dorchester, but so do not agree. His daughter Rachel, married 8 May 1684, Caleb Lincoln.

JAMES BATES, Haddam 1667, probably son of James Bates of Dorchester, where he married Ann Withington, daughter of the first Henry Withington, and soon after went home, and came again soon, perhaps went again to England and came back soon, may have first been at Huntington, Long Island, died before 1692, where of his children at Haddam were Samuel, baptized at Dorchester, 18 June 1648; James, born October 1666; John; Hannah; Margaret, baptized at Dorchester 19 June 1664; Mary, baptized 11 March 1666; and Elizabeth. He was Representative for Haddam 1670, and often after. Mary married 16 August 1685, William Hough of Saybrook. The late Honorable Isaac C. Bates, United States senator, was probably a descendant by one of these who removed to Durham, whose son removed to Granville, Massachusetts.

JOHN BATES, Weymouth, by wife Susan, had Edward, born 10 December 1655; was perhaps of Chelmsford 1666, freeman 1682. See Allen, History of Chelmsford 169.

JOHN BATES, Haddam, perhaps brother of James Bates of the same, was of Stamford 1669, had John, born 8 June 1678; and Solomon February 1680. My conjecture is confirmed by authority of Williams Patterson.

JOHN BATES, New London 1677, had baptized there John, 4 May 1679; Solomon, 1 August 1680; and Sarah, 27 August 1682; but, no more being mentioned of him, I think he may be the same as the preceding, easily removed from town to town.

JOSEPH BATES, Hingham, son of Clement Bates, born in England, married 28 January 1658, Esther Hilliard, perhaps daughter of Anthony Hilliard of the same, had Joseph, Caleb, Hannah, Joshua, August 1671; Bathsheba, Clement, 21 September 1676; Eleazer, and perhaps others. He was freeman 1672.

JOSEPH BATES, Hingham, son of the preceding, married 3 January 1684, Mary Lincoln, daughter of the first Samuel Lincoln.

ROBERT BATES, Wethersfield 1640, removed to Stamford, there died 11 June 1675, leaving son John; daughter Mary Ambler, wife of Abraham, and son-in-law John Cross, mentioned in his will of that date. He was one of the first purchasers of Stamford 30 October 1640.

ROBERT BATES, Lynn, had John, who died 5 March 1672; Rebecca, born 29 August 1673; and Sarah, 16 July 1676.

SAMUEL BATES, Hingham, youngest son of Clement Bates the first, married 22 February 1667, Lydia Lapham, daughter of Thomas Lapham of Scituate, had Lydia, born 2 September 1669; Sarah, 23 December 1673; a daughter born 23 April 1676; another 17 April 1678; Samuel, March 1680; and David, 20 February 1683; was freeman 1672.

SAMUEL BATES, Saybrook, married 2 May 1676, Mary Chapman, daughter of Robert Chapman of the same, had Samuel, born 15 April following, died at 8 months; Ann, 19 September 1678; Silence, 27 July 1680; Samuel, again, 8 November 1682; James, 16 December 1685; Robert, 22 December 1686; Stephen, 1 June 1689; Ephraim, 29 May 1692; Daniel, 18 August 1697; and died 28 December 1699.

JOHN BATSON, Kennebunk, perhaps son of Stephen Batson, married 1660, Elizabeth Saunders, perhaps daughter of John Saunders of Wells, was Representative at the General Assembly at York 1682 and 4.

ROBERT BATSON, Marshfield, married 13 July 1676, Ann Winter, perhaps daughter of Christopher Winter.

STEPHEN BATSON, Saco 1636, then had wife Mary, and daughter Margery, removed to Cape Porpus, or Kennebunk 1653, was made freeman that year. Folsom, 33,124. From his will of 8 March 1674, it is learned that he had son John; and daughter Elizabeth Ashley, perhaps wife of William; daughter Margery Young, perhaps wife of Rowland; and daughter Mary Brookhouse, of whose husband I search in vain for, indicated besides grandchild John Trott, perhaps son of Simon.

CHRISTOPHER BATT, Newbury, tanner, came from the city of Salisbury, County Wilts, in the Bevis, embarked at Southampton, 1638, aged 37, with wife Ann, 32; sister Dorothy, 20; and five childen under 10 years, freeman 13 Mar 1639, removed to Salisbury, of which he was Representative 1640, 1, 3, and 50, removed to Boston, and there was casually killed 10 August 1661 by a son firing at a mark in the orchard. His widow made her will 14 March 1679, called herself 76. We know not the names of those children he brought from England but one was probably Thomas, for he carried on the business of his father at Boston. Eight or more were born in this country, for Coffin mentioned thirteen, yet gives dates of only three, John, born at Southampton 4 March 1641; Paul and Barnabas, twins 18 February 1643. Others (perhaps born in England) were Christopher, Ann, Samuel, Jane, Sarah, Abigail, Timothy, Ebenezer, and Elizabeth. This last died 6 July 1652, perhaps young; Ann married 12 June 1657, Edmund Angier; Jane married 3 April 1661, Dr. Peter Toppan, and may therefore be supposed to have been born on our side of the water, while the other side must be thought birthplace of Ann, as she was second wife of Angier. Christopher was of Dover in 1662; Paul was a glazier, and Timothy a tailor, both freeman 1673, at Boston, and both probably certain one of them interested in the tannery; and of Samuel it is said that he was, as is minister in England and inferred that he never came back to this land if he was, as is probably born here.

NICHOLAS BATT, Newbury, perhaps brother of the preceding, came in the James from Southampton, with wife Lucy, arriving at Boston 3 June 1635, is called in the ship's clearance, "of the Devizes, linen weaver," had Sarah, born 12 June 1640, and two more daughters. He died 6 December 1677; and his widow Lucy died 26 January 1679.

TIMOTHY BATT, Boston, son probably of Christopher Batt, was associated with Penn Townsend and others, September 1677, involuntary Company of Military, married 3 August 1699, Sarah Tudman.

JOHN BATTELLE, or JOHN BATTLE, Dedham, eldest son of Thomas Battelle, married 18 November 1678, Hannah Holbrook, had Hannah, born 26 July 1680; Mary, 12 March 1684; John, 17 April 1689; Ebenezer, 2 January 1692; and died 30 September 1713.

JONATHAN BATTELLE, or JONATHAN BATTLE, Dedham, brother of the preceding, married 15 April 1690, Mary Onion, perhaps daughter of Robert Onion, had Martha, born 13 March following; Jonathan, 3 January 1693; Sarah, 20 October 1698; and Abigail, 11 December 1699.

ROBERT BATTELLE, or ROBERT BATTLE, Boston, died 23 December 1658, perhaps was only transient visitor, and if not, I can tell no more, but that in Dearborn's book, called Boston Notions, page 44, he is called freeman 1657, when no such name appears, nor even any baptized name of Robert in that year.

THOMAS BATTELLE, or THOMAS BATTLE, Dedham 1642, married 5 September 1648, Mary Fisher, daughter of Joshua Fisher, had Mary, born 6 baptized 12 May 1650; John, 1, baptized 3 July 1653; Sarah, born 1654; Jonathan, 24 July 1658; and Martha, 19 August baptized 9 September 1660, died at 14 years. He was freeman 1654, in 1664 lived at Sudbury, but of Dedham again in 1674. Elizabeth, wife died 7 August 1691, and he died 8 February 1706, called "the aged." In the will of their grandfather Fisher, of who Battle was an overseer, most of the children are mentioned, Mary married 20 March 1677, John Bryant; and Sarah married 23 October 1679, Silas Titus. Very improbable seems to me the recent tradition that he came to New England from France; and Cothren enlarges the extravagance of it by transfer of the circumstances imagined to his som John. In the will of John Luson, a neighbor of Battelle, John and Mary Battelle were kindly remembered, but he have the larger part of his property (having no near relative this side of England) to their father, spelt by the testator, Battely.

BENJAMIN BATTEN, Boston, merchant, married October 1671, Elizabeth Cullick, daughter of John Cullick, Esquire.

HUGH BATTEN, Dorchester 1658, married Ursula Greenway, daughter of John Greenway, and died 8 June 1689.

EDMUND BATTER, Salem, a minister from Salisbury, County Wilts, came in the James from Southampton, April 1635, arriving 3 June, with wife Sarah, freeman 3 March following, Representative 1637, and 16 years more. His wife died 20 November 1669, and he married 8 June following Mary Gookin, daughter of Major-General Daniel Gookin, had Edmund, born 8 January 1674; and died 1685, aged 76. Other children were Daniel, Mary, and Elizabeth, but probably most of these, if not all, were by former wife.

EDMUND BATTER, Salem, son of the preceding, married Martha Pickman, daughter of Benjamin Pickman the first.

JOSEPH BATTER, and TIMOTHY BATTER of Northampton 1668, as printed in Genealogical Registrar IX. 88, are fictitious people, the real names being of son of Edward Baker.

NICHOLAS BATTER, Lynn, freeman 14 December 1638, had grant of 60 acres. Lewis, 103, tells no more of him.

DANIEL BAXTER, Salem 1639, by wife Elizabeth, had Elizabeth, born September 1644; Susanna, September 1646; Rebecca; and Priscilla, June 1652. Susanna married 12 July 1665, Isaac Hyde.

GEORGE BAXTER, Providence, in 1650 was constituted umpire between the Dutch Colony of New Netherlands and New Haven Colony for settling the boundary. Hutchinson I.159; but in Appendix, 515, his signature is erronously printed Theodore Baxter. See Haz. II. 169, 173. Bancroft, II. 306. Knowles, 319. He carried the royal Charter 1663, from Boston to Newport.

GREGORY BAXTER, Roxbury 1630, came, probably in the fleet with Winthrop, freeman 6 March 1632, by wife Margaret Paddy, who died 13 February 1662, had Bethulia, or Bethia, born June 1632; Abigail, September 1634; and John, 1 December 1639; removed next year to Braintree, and died 21 June 1659. His will of 2, with codicil of 19 of that month, names the wife, children Bethia, and Abigail, only, as wives of their husbands, and son John. See Genealogical Registrar IX. 136. Bethia married Samuel Deering; and Abigail married 29 November 1650, Joseph Adams.

JOHN BAXTER, Braintree, son of Gregory Baxter, married 24 June 1660, Hannah White, daughter of Thomas White of Weymouth, had (besides several other children of who Hannah, wife of Joseph Dyer of Weymouth was one) Joseph Baxter, born 4 June 1676, Harvard College 1693, minister of Medfield, ordained 21 April 1697. He was a Lieutenant, and died 29 April 1719.

JOHN BAXTER, Charlestown, married 2 March 1659, Hannah Trumbull, daughter of John Trumbull of the same, and died 15 May 1687, aged about 60; and his widow died 27 April 1703. Of children, Mr. Wyman gives me the list, Hannah, born 11 October 1663; Sarah, 2 July 1665; John, 14 August 1667; William, 5 July 1670; Mary, 3 December 1672; all baptized 10 June 1677, when their mother was administrator of the children; Abigail, 17 May 1675, died soon; Abigail, again, 14 June 1676, died soon; Abigail, again, 5 November 1677, died soon; and Isaac and Rebecca, twins 8, baptized (both) 12 September 1680. Hannah married 30 April 1685, George Luke; and, next, John Price; and Sarah married 10 September 1685, Samuel Wilson.

JOHN BAXTER, Salem, married 25 November 1667, Abigail Whitney (but, of so common a surname, it is difficult to find the father and Essex Inst. History Collections I. 35, makes her name Whiterig, but to her it may be equally hard to find father), had John, born 14 December 1668; Abigail, 15 December 1670; Elizabeth, 25 May 1673; and Mary, 26 December 1674, who died within 9 months; besides William, 14 October 1676. His wife died 22 November following, and he married 4 November 1679, widow Elizabeth Macmallen, had Sarah, born 15 August 1680; and Samuel, 10 June 1683.

NICHOLAS BAXTER, Boston 1639, mariner, by wife Ann, had Mary, born February 1640, baptized 1 September 1644, who married 1658, John Bull. But the record says, also, that by the same maiden name, she married 1660, Thomas Buttolph; and this is true, and the other record no doubt about mistake.

NICHOLAS BAXTER, Boston, probably son of the preceding, was gunner at the castle 1674-6, perhaps later, and died 10 January 1692.

RICHARD BAXTER, Hingham, came 1638, in the Diligent from old Hingham, employed by Francis James, says Lincoln in Centen. Addr. 41.

THOMAS BAXTER, Fairfield 1654, had wife Bridget, who for his desertion of her, obtained divorce in 166-2. See Haz. II. 285.

WILLIAM BAXTER, Marblehead 1674. Six of this name had, in 1815, been graduates at Harvard.

THOMAS BAY, or THOMAS BAYES, Dedham, by wife Ann, had Ruth, born 2, baptized 16 July 1643; and Thomas, 1, baptized 22 March 1646; removed to Boston.

GUIDO BAYLEY, Salem, by wife Elizabeth, had Elizabeth, born 27 July 1642; and Joseph, 6 November 1644.

HENRY BAYLEY, Salisbury, son perhaps of John Bayley the first, by wife Rebecca, had Henry; and Rebecca, born about 1640.

ISAAC BAYLEY, Newbury, son of John Bayley the second of same, married 13 June 1683, Sarah Emery, daughter of John Emery of the same, had Isaac, born 30 December 1683; Joshua, 30 October 1685; David, 12 December 1687; Judith, 11 February 1690; and Sarah, 11 February 1692. His wife died 1 April 1694; and he married second wife 5 September 1700, Rebecca Bartlett, but probably had no more children, at least Coffin names none.

JAMES BAYLEY, Rowley 1641, by wife Lydia, had John, born 1642; James, 1650; Thomas, 1653; and Samuel, 1658; besides Damaris, wife of Thomas Leaver; and Lydia, wife of .....Platt, but whether of Abel, or James, or John, or Jonas, or Jonathan, or Samuel, my inquiries do not ascertain.

JAMES BAYLEY, Salisbury, son of John Bayley the second, was freeman 1673, married 17 September 1672, Mary Carr, daughter of George Carr of the same, had Mary, born 5 July 1673; James, 12 April 1675; John, 29 September 1676, died next year; John, again, 10 May 16, 8; Samuel, 2 March 1680; and Isaac, 22 October 1681; all except the first, after removed to Salem village now Danvers, there was a preacher, but neither Bentley's History nor Felt's Annals of Salem (the best places to seek for such information) tells us whether he was ever ordained, yet it is safely inferred that he was not, for the latter writer instructed us, that in April 1680, a committment was chosen to obtain another preacher instead of him; see II. 589. We know also, that he was succeeded by the unfortunate George Burrows. By Sprague, Annals of the American Pulpit, I. 186, Bailey's death is marked for 1707, and Coffin, 351, more precise, 17 January at Roxbury. I venture a conjecture that he is the one ordained at Weymouth, 26 September 1703, as told in 1 Massachusetts History Collections IX. 195; yet the record of death at Roxbury of James Bailey calls him Esquire.

JOHN BAYLEY, Salisbury, a weaver from Chippenham, County Wilts, came, in the Angel Gabriel, from Bristol, April 1635, and was cast away at Pemaquid, in the great storm of 15 August. He removed 1650 to Newbury (where probably he had been resident before settlement of Salisbury), and died 2 November of next year. His wife never came over the ocean, and he was afraid to go back for her and his other children Robert and two or more daughters. But in his will he tried to tempt them hither by parts of his estate.

JOHN BAYLEY, Salisbury, son of the preceding, came with his father, married Eleanor Emery, perhaps daughter of John Emery of Newbury, had Rebecca, born 24 November 1641; and John, 18 May 1643, died at 20 years; removed to Newbury, and there had Sarah, 17 August 1644; Joshua, died young; Joseph, 4 April 1648; James Bayley, 12 September 11, 1650, Harvard College 1669; Joshua, again, 17 February 1653; Isaac, 22 July 1654; Rachel, 19 October 1662; Judith, 3 August 1665, died at 3 years. He was freeman 1669, and died March 1691, aged 78.

JOHN BAYLEY, Rowley, eldest son of James Bayley of the same, freeman 1669, married Mary Mighill, daughter of Thomas Mighill of the same, had Nathaniel, born 1675; Thomas, 1677; and James, 1680, besides two daughters.

JOHN BAYLEY of Weymouth, freeman 1681, probably belonged to families, brief account of which appeals under Bailey.

JOHN BAYLEY, Salem, had John, born May 1681; Thomas, 16 May 1682; Elizabeth, 16 July 1684; and Nicholas, 26 September 1686.

JONAS BAYLEY, Scarborough 1650-63, swore allegiance to Massachusetts 1658, married Elizabeth, widow of George Dearing, for a first wife, and next Elinor, widow of John Jackson, who survived him, and he died 1663. His will of 11 November of that year, probated 9 February following, directed his body to be buried next his wife Elizabeth, in the orchard, gave most of his estate to wife Elinor, legacies to six sons of Robert Jordan, to Francis Neale senior, and his sons and two daughters, to John Jackson, perhaps son of his wife, to his brother Nicholas Baley, as he spelled the name, to Elizabeth, and John Bryers and others, but he had no children.

JOSEPH BAYLEY, Huntington, Long Island, was administered as freeman of Connecticut 1664.

JOSEPH BAYLEY, Newbury, son of John Bayley the second, by wife Priscilla, had Rebecca, born 25 October 1675; Priscilla, 31 October 1676; John, 16 September 1678; Joseph, 28 January 1681; Hannah, 9 September 1683; Daniel, 10 June 1686; Judith, 11 February 1690; Lydia, 25 November 1695; and Sarah, 14 February 1698. He removed to Kennebunk, there was killed by the Indians October 1723.

NICHOLAS BAYLEY, Saco 1663, brother of Jonas Bayley, had perhaps been of New Haven 1644, and may have been brother of Samuel Bayley at New Haven in the same year. See Bailey.

ROBERT BAYLEY, came from London in the Hopewell, Captain Babb, in the autumn of 1635, aged 23.

ROBERT BAYLEY, came in the Confidence from Southampton, 1638, aged 23; but nothing more is to be heard of either of them.

THOMAS BAYLEY, New London 1652, married 10 January 1656, Lydia Redfyn, daughter of William Redfyn, or William Redfield, had Mary, born 14 February 1657; Thomas, 5 March 1659; John, April 1661; William, 17 April 1664; James, 26 September 1666; Joseph; and Lydia, baptized 3 August 1673, who married Andrew Lester; was a soldier under Lothrop and fell at Bloody brook, 18 September 1675. His widow married 1676, William Thorne; the sons Thomas, John, and William left descendants; Mary married Andrew Davis.

THOMAS BAYNLY, Concord, died 18 May 1643, leaving probably no wife nor children. See his nuncupative will in Genealogical Registrar II. 185, and in October preceding he was witness.

JOHN BAYSEY, Hartford, weaver, an original proprietor, by wife Elizabeth, had Lydia, who married John Baker; Mary, who married Samuel Burr; and Elizabeth, baptized 24 August 1645, who married Paul Peck; and died 1671. His widow died 1673. In the will made the last year of his life, he gave land to daughter Elizabeth, and her son Paul Peck. A son of Baker, and a grandson of Burr had each the name Baysey given for perpetuation.

PETER BAZICOTT, Warwick, one of the freeman 1655; and without knowing whether this were a Dutch, French, or English name, we may be sure it was variously spelt. See Bassaker.

AZARIAH BEACH, or AZARIAH BEECH, New Haven, son of Richard Beach, died 1696, leaving 7 children between 6 and 21 years of age.

BENJAMIN BEACH, or BENJAMIN BEECH, Stratford 1659, was son of Richard Beach of New Haven, I judge, and married 1673, Mary Peacock, daughter of John Peacock, and next married 1 February 1678, Sarah Welles, daughter of John Welles of the same, had Sarah, born 4 May 1679; and Hannah, September 1681; and he died 10 April 1715. But his first wife had brought him Benjamin, born 1672; Bethia, 1674; and died 1677. Goodwin, in Genealogy Notes, 254, led me into the error of making Sarah, widow of Beach to marry, whereas Beach long survived her, and the record of Stratford shows his third wife "December 1705, Benjamin Beach senior, married widow Mary Fairchild,"

ISAAC BEACH, or ISAAC BEECH, Newton 1678, then part of Cambridge, had wife Mary, who died 1724, and he died 1735, aged 90, without children. In History of Newton, it is said that he gave his property 1727, to the first Isaac Jackson, to whom he had taught the carpenter's trade.

JOHN BEACH, or JOHN BEECH, New Haven 1644, Stratford 1660, not Preston; John, 1654; Mary, 1656; Thomas, 1659; Nathaniel, 1662; Hannah, 1665; Sarah, 1667; Isaac, 1669; Joseph, 1671; and Benjamin, 1674; and died very suddenly 1677, son of Richard Beach, of New Haven, if he were not brother as seems probable, married a daughter of Thomas Staples, of Fairfield, was one of the early settlers at Wallingford 1670.

RICHARD BEACH, or RICHARD BEECH, Cambridge 1635, soon after at Watertown, had (by wife Mary) John, born 6 August 1639; and Mary, 11 December 1641; and by second wife Martha, had Isaac, 5 July 1646; Martha, 10 March 1650; Abigail, 4 June 1653; Joseph, 15 December 1655; and Richard, 28 October 1657; and died 21 October 1674. Martha married 24 January following Joseph Whitney.

RICHARD BEACH, or RICHARD BEECH, New Haven 1639, one of the signers of the original compact, married about 1640, the widow of Andrew Hull, and had, in her right, there baptized in 1642, Mary, born in June of that year; Benjamin, born October 1644; Azariah, July 1646; and Mercy 1648; all three baptized 21 May of that year, removed to New London 1667; but had kept an inn at Stratford 1666; and perhaps was of Elizabethtown, New Jersey 1685.

THOMAS BEACH, or THOMAS BEECH, Milford 1658, brother of Richard Beach, had lived at New Haven, and there, by wife Sarah Platt, daughter of Deacon Richard Platt of Milford, had Sarah, born 1 March 1654; but at Milford had John, 19 October 1655; Mary, 1657; Samuel, 1660; and Zopher, 1662; and died in that year. His widow married Miles Merwin, and died 1670. Thirteen of this name are seen in the last list of graduates at Yale.

NATHANIEL BEADLE, Salem, son of Samuel Beadle, married 20 April 1671, Mary Hicks, perhaps daughter of Richard Hicks of Boston, had Thomas, born 21 January 1672; Mary, 20 November 1673; Nathaniel, 17 December 1675; John, 29 April 1678, died soon; Elizabeth, 25 October 1679; and John, again, 12 August 1683.

SAMUEL BEADLE, Charlestown 1658, removed to Salem, by wife Susanna, had Dorothy, born 8 March 1660; Abigail, born 24 September 1661, died next month; and his wife died 13 February 1663; and he died 10 March 1664. His will mentions children Nathaniel, Dorothy, Samuel, Thomas, and Eliza.

SAMUEL BEADLE, Salem, perhaps son of the preceding, married 10 June 1668, Hannah Lemon, daughter of Robert Lemon of the same, had Nathaniel, born 29 March 1669; Samuel, 11 October 1672; Thomas, 28 November 1673, died under 3 years; and Susanna, 20 April 1676. Before this date he was wounded in Philip's war, and as an invalid, in 1653, was permitted to keep an inn. His wife bore him other children: Mary, 21 May 1678; Lemon, 30 July 1680; Hannah, 18 December 1682; Robert, 14 November 1684; Jonathan, 24 July 1687, who died within 10 months; and Caleb, 2 February 1689.

THOMAS BEADLE, Salem, mariner, perhaps brother of Nathaniel Beadle of the same, married 18 September 1679, Elizabeth Drake, daughter of Abraham Drake of Hampton, had Elizabeth, born 9 July 1681; Mary, 5 April 1683; Thomas, 16 March 1686, died soon; Benjamin, 7 September 1687; Thomas, again, 10 February 1690; and John, 14 February 1692. He was Captain 1686; traded to Barbadoes, and died 23 May 1700 at Gloucester.

ABRAHAM BEAL, or ABRAHAM BEALS, Charlestown, by wife Catharine, had Abraham, who died 16 January 1657; Abraham, again, 17 November following; and Isaac, 10 October 1662.

CALEB BEAL, or CALEB BEALS, Hingham, son of John Beal, born in England, married 30 December 1664, Elizabeth Huet, perhaps daughter of Thomas Huet of the same, had a daughter born 30 March 1666, died soon; Caleb, 17 March 1670; Joseph, 7 January 1672; Solomon, baptized June 1673, died soon; Elizabeth, 18 November 1674; Josiah, 31 May 1676, died soon; Josiah, again, 24 October 1677; Joshua, 6 November 1678, died soon; Joshua, again, 6 September 1680; Ruth, 25 March 1683; and Benjamin, 2 June 1687, died soon; was freeman 1672, and died 18 June 1716, aged 79. His widow died 31 December 1721. Ruth married 1703, Peter Lincoln.

JACOB BEAL, or JACOB BEALS, Hingham, youngest son of John Beal, freeman 1672, died unmarried 7 January 1718.

JEREMIAH BEAL, or JEREMIAH BEALS, Hingham, brother of the preceding, born in England, married 18 October or November 1652, Sarah Ripley, daughter of William Ripley of the same, had Jeremiah, baptized 13 May 1655; John, 28 November 1655; Sarah, 3 July 1609, who married 21 January 1680, John Lane; Lazarus, born 7 September 1661; Phebe, 2 March 1664, died next year Mary, 6 May 1666; and Elizabeth, 16 May 1669, who married 1708, Ephraim Lane; was freeman 1657, Representative 1692 and 1705, and died 10 August 1716, aged 85.

JOHN BEAL, or JOHN BEALS, Hingham, a shoemaker from old Hingham, County Norfolk, came with wife, five sons, three daughters, and two servants in the Diligent, 1638, from London, administered freeman 13 March 1639, had Jacob, baptized 2 October 1642, and no other children, perhaps here, except Rebecca, who died unmarried after October 1657. He was Representative 1649, and his wife Nazareth died 23 September 1658; but he took second wife 10 March 1659, Mary, widow of Nicholas Jacob, died 1688 (as Sewall in his Diary, sub. 1 April mentioned), in his 100th year though perhaps the report may not have been exact. Of his daughters, Martha married 16 May 1640, it is said, William Falloway, of Plymouth, and next 29 June 1649, Samuel Dunham; Mary married 30 December 1647, James Whiton; and Sarah married 22 March 1649, Thomas Marsh, and next 1 September 1662, Edmund Shefield of Braintree. His will of 27 September 1687, probated 18 June following, names the six sons and daughters Sarah, Mary, and Martha.

JOHN BEAL, or JOHN BEALS, Hingham, son of Edmund Beal (who never came over), being about to go home, made his will 26 October 1657, probated 28 July following, as printed in Genealogical Registrar IX. 38, by which we are taught that the children of John Beal the first were his cousins, and inferred that he had no wife or children.

JOHN BEAL, or JOHN BEALS, Hingham, son probably eldest, of the first John Beal of the same, freeman 1672, married 6 January 1659, Elizabeth, who brought him Elizabeth, born 19 November following, and died next year, and he married 14 November 1660, Mary Gill, daughter of Thomas Gill, had Mary, 7 September 1661, who married 3 September 1683, John Stowell; John, 26 March 1665, died soon; John, again, 17 September 1667, died next year; John, again, 19 December 1669; Thomas, 15 March 1672; and Hannah, 13 March 1676, who married Nathaniel Hobart; and died 12 September 1694.

JOSEPH BEAL, or JOSEPH BEALS, Portsmouth, sent over by Mason the patentee in 1631. Adams, 18.

JOSHUA BEAL, or JOSHUA BEALS, Hingham, son of John Beal the first, by wife Elizabeth, who died 12 January 1689, had Elizabeth, born May 1663, died soon; a son 25 January 1665, who died in few weeks; Sarah, 7 October 1667, probably died young; Abigail, 24 April 1671, who married Stephen French; and Josiah, 4 June 1676, died in few days. He married 10 April 1689, Mary, widow of Samuel Stowell, but probably had no other children, for in his will he mentioned only his children Stephen and Abigail French, and grandchildren Samuel, David, Jonathan, Daniel, Elizabeth, Mary, and Hannah French, their children, and he died before 7 April 1718.

NATHANIEL BEAL, or NATHANIEL BEALS, Hingham, brother of the preceding, born in England, was perhaps at Marshfield 1643, but for short time, freeman 1650, Representative 1677, 83, 91 and 3, died 20 December 1708. His will probated 29 December following, names son Nathaniel, eldest son baptized October 1648; Martha, baptized 2 August 1646, who had married 1668, John Chubbuck, wife of Samuel Stodder; daughter Mary Lee of Boston; granddaughter Sarah (daughter of Sarah Greenleaf, deceased), grandson Thomas Baker (son of daughter Christiana, who was perhaps baptized 19 November 1654, married 1 November 1674, Thomas Beal, and died 20 September 1677); grandson Solomon Beal (son of Nathaniel); died Hannah, who married 15 December 1676, John Fearing; and grandson Thomas Chubbuck; but he had, also, not mentioned in that document, John, baptized 23 August 1650, died at 5 years; John, again, 8 March 1657, died soon; John, again, born 7 December 1609, died under 9 years; and Susanna, who married 14 December 1686, Benjamin Jones, who probably died before her father.

NATHANIEL BEAL, or NATHANIEL BEALS, Hingham, son of the preceding, served in brave Captain Johnson's Company December 1675, died before his father, as I judge, leaving son Solomon.

ROBERT BEAL, or ROBERT BEALS, by Morse called an original proprietor of Sudbury 1640.

ROGER BEAL, or ROGER BEALS, Saco 1658, perhaps a Quaker, at least was charged with disturbing public worship.

SAMUEL BEAL, or SAMUEL BEALS, Charlestown, by wife Susanna, had Dorothy, born 8 March 1659, and of him no more is known.

SAMUEL BEAL, or SAMUEL BEALS, Salem, married 28 March 1682, Sarah Lovell (but Lewis, 134, calls him of Lynn, and son of Thomas, and names the wife Patience Lovell), had Samuel, born 3 July 1685; and Ebenezer, 30 January 1688; was probably an early settler at Dunstable.

THOMAS BEAL, or THOMAS BEALS, Cambridge 1634, freeman 8 December 1636, died 7 September 1661. Matchless Mitchell, in the register of his children names his wife Sarah, but mentioned no children, nor does his will (wherein he calls himself about 63 years old), made 24 August preceding.

THOMAS BEAL, or THOMAS BEALS, Lynn, had Samuel, and William, as Lewis says, and we wish he had said more.

WILLIAM BEAL, or WILLIAM BEALS, Plymouth, came in the Fortune, 1621, has share in the division of land early in 1624, but in 1627, at the division of cattle is not mentioned so must be counted dead, or removed.

WILLIAM BEAL, or WILLIAM BEALS, Marblehead 1679, then in his 49th year, had married in 1655, Martha Bradstreet, daughter of Humphrey Bradstreet.

WILLIAM BEAL, or WILLIAM BEALS, Dunstable 1684, brother of Samuel Beal of the same, married at Salem, 7 April 1685 (though Lewis says, with higher probability 5 March 1684), Mary Hart, had William, born 12 March 1685; and Elizabeth, 16 November 1686, if Fox is correct. He was, in 1692, one of the wretched witnesses against Philip English, charged with witchcraft, as is well shown on page 497, of Drake's History of Boston.

GAMALIEL BEAMAN, Dorchester, came in the Elizabeth and Ann, 1635, aged only 12 years, spelled at the London custom house Bement, by wife Sarah, had Thomas, born 1649; Joseph, 1651; Gamaliel, 1653; Mary, 1656; all baptized 14 June 1657; Sarah, born 19 January 1658; removed to Lancaster, there had Noah, 3 April 1661; Thankful, 18 April 1663; and perhaps John; and died 23 March 1678. Mary married 23 January 1690, Henry Cookery, as second wife, and Thankful had married 27 September 1683, Nathaniel Wilson. But this last is unknown to me.

JOHN BEAMAN, Lancaster, perhaps son of the preceding, had Sarah, born 25 January 1681; removed to Taunton, and had Gamaliel, 29 February 1684; probably removed again to Lancaster, and died at Sterling, 1745. See Worcester Mag II. 39.

THOMAS BEAMAN, Marlborough, perhaps eldest son of Gamaliel Beaman, by wife Elizabeth, had Elizabeth, born 1679; Eleazer, 1683; Sarah, 1685; and Abraham, 1692.

WILLIAM BEAMAN, Salem 1637, spelled the first syllable without a, and at the London custom house Beamond, when he embarked in the Elizabeth, 1643, aged 27, as in the next article.

DANIEL BEAMOND, or DANIEL BEAMON, Springfield, son of Simon Beamopnd of the same, took oath of allegiance 31 December 1678, or next day.

JOHN BEAMOND, or JOHN BEAMON, who came in the Elizabeth, from London, 1635, aged 23, may have lived at Salem 1640, and at Scituate 1643.

SAMUEL BEAMOND, or SAMUEL BEAMON, Windsor, probably son of William Beamond, married 18 May 1693, Margaret Chapman, had Hannah, born 2 April 1698; Samuel, 6 June 1704; and his wife died 12 August 1715, unless this Margaret were a daughter not marked on record.

SIMON BEAMOND, or SIMON BEAMON, Springfield, married 1655, Alice Young, had John, born 1657; Daniel, 1659; Thomas, 1660; Josiah, 1663; Benjamin, 1671; besides three daughters, and died 1676.

WILLIAM BEAMOND, or WILLIAM BEAMON, Saybrook, perhaps brother of John Beamond, came in the same ship, at the same time, aged 27, married 9 December 1643, Lydia Danforth, daughter of Nicholas Danforth, had Lydia, born 9 March 1645; Mary, 12 November 1647; Elizabeth, 2 March 1650; Deborah, 29 November (probably) 1652; Abigail, 20 February 1655; Samuel, 28 February 1657; and Rebecca, 7 September 1659. Lydia, married 3 February 1668, Samuel Boyes, and next, 15 April 1684, Alexander Pygan; Mary married 3 January 1672, John Tully; Elizabeth, married 26 March 1677, Captain John Chapman; and Deborah married 27 September 1681, Thomas Gilbert, and died 17 June 1683. He was freeman of Connecticut 1652, and his wife died 16 May 1686; and he died 4 February 1699. His wife was the only female named among eight grantees of Saybrook in the will of Joshua, son of Uncas, the Indians sachem.

WILLIAM BEAMSLEY, Boston 1632, freeman 25 May 1636, Artillery Company 1656, by wife Ann, had Ann, born 13 February 1633; Grace, 10, baptized 20 September 1635; Mercy, 9, baptized 10 December 1637; Samuel and Habakuk, twins 24 January baptized 7 February 1641, both died April following; Hannah, baptized 17 December 1643, "about 4 days old;" besides Elizabeth, and Mary, both, perhaps, born before coming from England; and by wife Martha, who had been, I presume, widow Bushnell, had Abigail, born 8 February 1646, who probably died young. In his will, made 14 September, probated 28 October 1658, provision is made for widow and for Ann, wife of Ezekiel Woodward; Grace, wife of Samuel Graves of Ipswich; Mercy, who married 17 October 1656, Michael Wilborne, and next Andrew Peters, of lpswich; Hannah, wife of Bushnell, who after married 16 October 1661, Abraham Perkins; Elizabeth, wife of Edward Page; Mary wife of Robison, who after married Thomas Dennis; and for Edward Bushnell, perhaps son of his wife by her former husband. The children made sale of the estate in November 1668, when perhaps his widow was deceased.

JOHN BEAN, JOHN BEANE, or JOHN BEANES, Exeter, had John, born 15 August 1661, died under 5 years; Daniel; Samuel; John, again, 13 October 1668; Margaret; James; Jeremy, 20 April 1675; and Elizabeth.

WILLIAM BEAN, WILLIAM BEANE, or WILLIAM BEANES, Salem 1668; but in Ed. 2 of his Annals Mr. Felt makes the name Beere; and it has been read Beebe. But, as Beanes, he claimed as an heir of Robert Buffum, perhaps by marriage of his daughter.

JAMES BEARD, Milford 1642, came with his mother Martha, twin brothers and three sisters, his father dying on the voyage, as the family tradition tells, which adds, that he was eldest child, and that it adds no more should not discourage large inquiry. His inventory was taken 27 October 1681. One of his sisters was wife of Nicholas Camp; another Martha, married 20 December 1649, John Streame.

JEREMY BEARD, Milford, brother of the preceding, is altogether barren of any information in family tradition. JAMES BEARD, Milford, the other brother of the preceding, that source of intelligence is more bountiful. He was a man of importance, Representative 1677 and often after, had two wives but which as first may need investigation. One, perhaps the earlier, had been by name of Hannah Hawley, married to John Ufford, or Offit, and at her desire divorced. By her he had several children, and by Abigail Hollingworth, daughter of Richard Hollingworth, perhaps the second, had probably no children, was Captain in one of the expeditions against the Indians 1675. His estate was distributed 18 November 1690, to wife Ann, children John, James, Joseph, Samuel, Mary, wife of Timothy Baldwin, and Ann; and the widow died 1698. The list of proprietors 1713 at Milford has several of this name, who were descendants of him or his brothers.

JOSEPH BEARD, Dover, son of William Beard, suffered loss of his garrison house 1694, and left a widow Esther before 1705.

THOMAS BEARD, Salem 1629, shoemaker, came that year in the Mayflower, was freeman 10 May 1643, bought next year the house and land of Nicholas Shapleigh at Portsmouth, then called Strawberry Bank, perhaps was father of that.

THOMAS BEARD of Scarborough, perhaps of Dover, who died 1679, that by wife Mary, had William, born 12 May 1664, died at 2 weeks; and Hannah, 24 October 1666. Yet it may be that this Thomas was son of William Beard.

WILLIAM BEARD, Dover 1640, had Joseph, born 1655, was "the good old man" killed by the Indians at Durham 1675. See Hubbard's Indians Wars, and Young's Chronicles 186.

AUSTIN BEARSE, AUSTIN BEARCE, or AUSTIN BIERCE, or AUGUSTINE BEARSE, AUGUSTINE BEARCE, or AUGUSTINE BIERCE, Barnstable, came in the Confidence 1638, aged 20, from Southampton, and joined Lothrop's church in April 1643, had Mary, born 1640; Martha, 1642; both baptized 7 May 1643; Pricilla, 10 March 1644; Sarah, 29 March 1646; Abigail, 19 December 1647; Hannah, 18 November 1649; Joseph, 20 January 1652; Esther, 2 October 1653; Lydia, late in September 1655; Rebecca, 26 September 1657; and James, late in July 1660. Of this second son as no more is heard, it is supposed that he died young; but for the nine daughters we know only three that married, Sarah, in August 1667 to John Hamlin; Abigail, 12 April 1670 to Allen Nichols; and Rebecca, 17 February 1671 to William Hunter.

JOSEPH BEARSE, JOSEPH BEARCE, or JOSEPH BIERCE, Barnstable, son of the preceding, married 3 December 1675, Martha Taylor, daughter of Richard Taylor, who died 27 January 1728, aged 76, had Mary, born 16 August 1677; Joseph, 21 February 1680; Benjamin, 21 June 1682; Priscilla, 31 December 1683, died at 3 months; Ebenezer 20 January 1685; John, 8 May 1687; these four sons were baptized 16 December 1688; Josiah, 10 March 1690, baptized 10 April 1691; and James, born 3 October 1692.

DANIEL BEARSLEY, DANIEL BEARDSLEY, DANIEL BERDSLEY, or DANIEL BERSLEY (sound DANIEL BARESLEY), Stratford 1675, son of William Bears;eu of the same, died 1730, aged 85.

JOHN BEARSLEY, JOHN BEARDSLEY, JOHN BERDSLEY, or JOHN BERSLEY (sound JOHN BARESLEY) Stratford 1668, brother of the preceding.

JOSEPH BEARSLEY, JOSEPH BEARDSLEY, JOSEPH BERDSLEY, or JOSEPH BERSLEY (sound JOSEPH BARESLEY), Stratford, brother of the preceding, freeman 1669, had Joseph, born 1666; John, 1 November 1668; Hannah, 1671; and perhaps others.

SAMUEL BEARSLEY, SAMUEL BEARDSLEY, SAMUEL BERDSLEY, or SAMUEL BERSLEY (sound SAMUEL BARESLEY), Stratford, brother of the preceding, freeman 1669, had Abigail, born August 1664; Samuel, 1 September 1666; William, 2 March 1669; Daniel, 3 April 1671; John, 1673; Benjamin, December 1677; and Mary, 1680.

THOMAS BEARSLEY, THOMAS BEARDSLEY, THOMAS BERDSLEY, or THOMAS BERSLEY (sound THOMAS BARESLEY), Milford 1647, had Thomas.

THOMAS BEARSLEY, THOMAS BEARDSLEY, THOMAS BERDSLEY, or THOMAS BERSLEY (sound THOMAS BARESLEY), Fairfield, perhaps brother of William Bearsley, died 1656.

THOMAS BEARSLEY, BEARDSLEY, BERDSLEY, or BERSLEY (sound BARESLEY), Stratford, son of Thomas Bearsley of Milford, died 1668.

WILLIAM BEARSLEY, WILLIAM BEARDSLEY, WILLIAM BERDSLEY, or WILLIAM BERSLEY (sound WILLIAM BARESLEY), Stratford, a mason, came 1635, in the Planter from London, aged 30, with wife Mary, 26, and children Mary 4; John, 2; and Joseph, 6 months. He was freeman in Massachusetts 7 December 1636, but dwelled in which town is unknown, was one of the original proprietors of Stratford 1640, and there had Daniel, born 1644; besides Samuel, who died 1706; probably Sarah, who married 1668, Obadiah Dickinson of Hatfield, and one or more other daughters, was Representative 1645, and often after, and died 1661. His will of 28 September 1660, names wife and four sons, Daniel, John, Joseph, and Samuel; gives to daughters married £10 each, and a large sum to be distributed by the wife to other children probably younger, and unmarried, of who were certainly William, and Thomas. Of the graduates at Yale, in 1828, were seven Beardsleys.

EDWARD BEAUCHAMP, or EDWARD BEACHUM, Salem 1637, joined with the church 29 December 1639, and his wife Mary joined the following year, was freeman 28 February 1643, had Samuel, baptized 31 October 1641, who died 20 November 1662; Mary, 10 September 1643, died young; Mary, again, 27 June 1647, died March 1668; and Elizabeth, 23 July 1648. His wife had died March 1668, in the same week with her daughter Mary; and he married 8 November 1670, widow Elizabeth Metcalf. His daughter Elizabeth, married 30 June 1666, Zechariah Coodale.

JOHN BEAUCHAMP, or JOHN BEACHUM, Boston, leather-dresser, a Huguenot, brought probably most of his children to New England, but it is not known when or where he landed first. By wife Marguerite, we see in record of Boston, that he had here Catharine, born 10 June 1687; and Peter, 17 April 1702, perhaps youngest of the stock, if not even the sole of New England births. Had the record of that French church been preserved, we should less often be driven to conjecture in the printed list of taxable inhabitans of Boston 1695, published by Dearborn in his Boston Notions, the French names are frequently spelled strangely; yet among them may our Huguenot leather-dresser be misrepresented as John Bashoon. He bought of Daille, their first minister, his house in what is now Washington street, and left by his will £10 to the children. He removed after 1711 to Hartford, there died at the age of 88, 14 November 1740, leaving large estate. Two sons John, and Adam had died before him in South Carolina; and daughters named in the will, were Mary, Catharine, Mary Ann, Margaret, and Susanna. Mary was wife of Rauchon, and had daughter Mary Sigourney; Catharine had married Latoille, and had son Isaac; Mary Ann married a Lawrence, and her son John Lawrence became Treasurer of Connecticut, Margaret married a Chenevard, and her descendants were long at Hartford, and at the time of the death of her father, Susanna was unmarried.

ROBERT BEAUCHAMP, or ROBERT BEACHUM, Ipswich, written Beacham, as always pronounced in England in 1651, had wife Isabel, removed 1654, probably to Norwalk, and 1664 to Fairfield, there was living 1670, with wife Elizabeth, who had perhaps got back to Ipswich, where widow Elizabeth Beauchamp was buried 18 January 1687.

THOMAS BEAUMONT, or THOMAS BEMENT, New Haven 1639, married the widow of Eleazer Stent, mother of Eleazer, and Elizabeth Stent, but had no children by her, and died 1686.

ALEXANDER BECK, Boston, freeman 3 September 1634, by wife Mary, who died 2 May 1639, had probably no children, but he soon married Elizabeth Hinds of Roxbury, had Ephraim and Deliverance, twins born 1, baptized 7 June 1640; Strange, baptized 5 June 1642, about 5 days old; though the unworthy copy of town record of births has the monstrous assertion of these three, as born at once; and Manasseh, born 8, baptized 12 October 1645.

HENRY BECK, Dover, came in the Blessing, 1635, aged 18, embarked at London late in July, as I saw in the record of London custom house for that year, so far more probably than the tradition given by Coffin in Genealogical Registrar XI. 256, of his coming the same year in the Angel Gabriel, wrecked at Pemaquid the middle of August. The Blessing did not reach Boston before October. Part of the same story is, that he was from Hertfordshire which is so near to London, whence sixteen ships brought passengers to Boston, that we can never believe he would have gone to the other side of the kingdom, for the voyage of the Angel Gabriel, beginning at Bristol, 22 June. He married Ann Frost, had Joshua; Thomas, born about 1657; Caleb; and Henry; besides daughter Mary, who married a White. Coffin adds, that he lived to be 110; and how great this would appear to be exaggerated. We may better judge, when the time of his death is ascertain.

MANASSEH BECK, Boston, son of Alexander Beck, was freeman 1672, and this is all I know of him.

THOMAS BECK, Dover, probably son of Henry Beck, in Coffin's Representative, married Mary Frost, had eight children of who he names Thomas, Joshua, Abigail, Henry, Mary, Samuel, and Hannah; and he died 7 November 1734, aged 77. His widow Mary died 25 February 1753, aged 94.

JOHN BECKET, Salem, shipwright, mentioned first in 1655, died 26 November 1683, aged about 57, leaving widow Margaret, then 56 years old, children William, Mary, Sarah, John, and Hannah the youngest. His widow married Philip Cromwell, and died at ninety years. Mary married 20 July 1675, Daniel Webb.

JOHN BECKET, Salem, son of the preceding, married 26 September 1711, Susanna Mason, had Mary, born 25 July 1712.

STEPHEN BECKET, Roxbury, came from Ipswich in the Francis, 1634, aged 11 years only, and under the charge of Richard Pepper, who after a few years at Roxbury, removed to Connecticut probably, for that Colony was resident of his apprentice in 1649. See Beckwith.

WILLIAM BECKET, Salem, son of John Becket the first, by wife Hannah, had John, born 10 August 1684; Hannah, 17 July 1685; and Margaret, 14 May 1688.

GEORGE BECKFORD, or GEORGE BICKFORD (more common in early days), had, in 1666, wife Christian, and servant Hugh Hancock, as Coffin tells in Genealogical Registrar VI. 243; but of what settlement he was, we must trust to conjecture for Dover. His widow took administration at Marblehead in June 1678.

JOHN BECKFORD, or JOHN BICKFORD (more common in early days), Dover 1647, in 1669 was of that part called Oyster river, now Durham, freeman of Massachusetts 1671, had sons John, and Joseph.

JOHN BECKFORD, or JOHN BICKFORD (more common in early days), Dover, son of the preceding, by wife Temperance Furber, daughter of William Furber of the same, had Thomas, born 1660; Hannah, 5 November 1665; and Benjamin, 20 October 1672. He or son John married Elizabeth Tibbets, daughter of Jeremy Tibbets of the same, but confusion easily arises between family connection of second and third John.

SAMUEL BECKFORD, or SAMUEL BICKFORD (more common in early days), Salisbury, married a daughter of Edward Cottle, and removed to Nantucket, where he purchased 12 November 1678, a half share, had Elizabeth, born 16 February 1672; and Deborah, 5 February 1674.

THOMAS BECKFORD, or THOMAS BICKFORD (more common in early days), Dover, or Durham, brother of the second John Beckford, married Bridget Furber, daughter of William Furber. He was in great danger at the assault by the Indians 18 July 1694, saved by skill and courage, as may be read in the Magnalia VII. appx. art. 20; or Farmer's Belknap I. 140.

JOHN BECKLEY, Hartford, probably son of Richard Beckley, had Hannah, who married 10 September 1689, Robert Webster.

RICHARD BECKLEY, New Haven 1639, removed to Wethersfield before 1668, had probably two wives, of whom the latter was a daughter of John Deming, children Sarah, perhaps born in England married 21 October 1657, John Church of Hartford; John, born 6 March 1642; Mary, baptized 12 September 1647; Benjamin, 27 January baptized 10 March 1650; Nathaniel, born 13 October 1652, baptized 15 October 1653; and Hannah, 14 October 1656; and died 5 August 1690 at Wethersfield.

JOSEPH BECKWITH, Lyme, son of Matthew Beckwith, by wife Susanna, had Sarah, 14 April 1677; and Joseph, 15 April 1679.

MATTHEW BECKWITH, New London 1652, Hartford 1658, then a freeman, and had first lived there 1639, removed to Branford, there in 1668 was one of the founders of church, thence to Lyme, there died 21 October 1680, aged about 70, by fall in a dark night down a ledge of rocks. See Reverend Mr. Bradstreet's journal in Genealogical Registrar IX. 50. He had two daughters, besides sons Matthew, John, and Joseph. His widow married Samuel Buckland; and of the daughters, one married Benjamin Grant; the other, Robert Gerard; but the name of either is not seen.

MATTHEW BECKWITH, Lyme, son of the preceding, by wife Elizabeth, had Matthew, John, and James, the last born 1 June 1671, and all were baptized 10 September following; Jonah, born 27 December 1673; Prudence, 22 August 1676; Elizabeth, 4 February 1679; Ruth, 14 March 1681; and Sarah December 1684. A second wife Elizabeth Griswold, widow of Peter Pratt, who she married after divorce from John Rogers, was daughter of Matthew Griswold. Her he married 1691, had a daughter Griswold; and he died 4 June 1727, in his will named all the children except Sarah, perhaps deceased, and his widow died next month.

NATHANIEL BECKWITH, Lyme, son perhaps of Matthew Beckwith the first, there in 1675, had Nathaniel, born 28 May 1679 and was living 1690. Of descendants some are still at New London, Miss Caulkins says, and often called Becket; while at Branford it appears Bickatt.

STEPHEN BECKWITH, Norwalk 1654, removed soon, but came back after 1655. Perhaps he was that passenger in the Francis, mentioned under Becket.

THOMAS BECKWITH, Roxbury 1650, removed perhaps to Fairfield, and left his wife, who obtained divorce 1655.

ROBERT BEDELL, ROBERT BEDLE, or ROBERT BEEDLE, New London 1648, had, perhaps, been at Wethersfield, where Hinman, 164, ranks him among first settlers there, probably had Robert, born 1642; and he removed 1650, to Newbury, I presume.

ROBERT BEDELL, ROBERT BEDLE, or ROBERT BEEDLE, Salisbury, son probably of the preceding, by wife Martha, had Mary, born 31 July 1666; removed to Newbury, and had Thomas, 30 April 1668; Elizabeth, 22 November 1669; Judith, 29 March 1671, died at 2 years; Robert, January 1675; Judith again, 8 March 1676, died next year; and John, 23 April 1678. Coffin, in his History says Hannah, perhaps his wife, died 15 November 1678.

NATHAN BEDFORD, Scarborough, was constable 1665, kept the inn, and died 1681 by drowning. In Southgate's History the strange wildness of a story, how he was murdered by the venerable Joshua Scottow, may be read. He left widow Ann.

MORGAN BEDIENT, Hadley, came with his mother Mary from Staines, near London, to record the estate devised by her brother John Barnard, and died before reaching his majority.

THOMAS BEDIENT, Hadley, younger brother of the preceding, born 1654, a co-devisee, came with his mother, removed to Fairfield, and died about 1698.

JOHN BEDURTHA, JOHN BEDORTHA, or JOHN BODURTHA, Springfield, son of Rice Bedurtha, as drowned 18 March 1683, with his father and Lydia, wife of his brother Joseph, and Mercy Samuel, daughter of his brother Samuel.

JOSEPH BEDURTHA, JOSEPH BEDORTHA, or JOSEPH BODURTHA, Springfield, brother of the preceding, had three wives and eleven children, but details are not known to me, though in Genealogical Registrar XII. 176, we almost discovered one of the wives Rice, Reice, Reise, or Roise (as if the surname were not sufficiently various in spelling), Springfield, married 1646, Blanch Lewis, had Joseph, born 1649; Samuel, 1651; John, 1654; besides two younger children, and he was drowned with son John.

SAMUEL BEDURTHA, SAMUEL BEDORTHA, or SAMUEL BODURTHA, Springfield, son of the preceding, had two wives of which one was Mary, widow of Able Leonard, who he married July 1691, and he had fourteen children, but I know nothing of them, only that he died 1728.

SAMUEL BEDWELL, Boston, married 2 February 1654, Mary Hodgkinson, perhaps had that

JAMES BEEBE, or JAMES BEEBY, Hadley, married 24 October 1667, Mary Boltwood, daughter of Robert Boltwood, had Mary, born 18 August 1668, died young; James, 9 December 1669, died young; Rebecca, 8 December 1670; Samuel, 26 June 1672; and Mary, again, 1675. Perhaps, as this family soon removed, it may, in some branches, be found Bibby.

JAMES BEEBE, or JAMES BEEBY, Stratford, married 19 December 1679, Sarah Benedict, daughter of the first Thomas Benedict, had Sarah, born 13 November 1680; and James; removed to Norwalk, thence to Danbury, and may be the same as the foregoing.

JOHN BEEBE, or JOHN BEEBY, New London 1651, married Abigail York, daughter of James York of Stonington, had John, Benjamin, and Rebecca; was twenty years Sergeant, and in 1690 Lieutenant, lived to great age, died about 1708. His widow died 9 March 1725, aged 86. Rebecca married Richard Shaw of Easthampton, Long Island,

NATHANIEL BEEBE, or NATHANIEL BEEBY, New London, youngest brother of the preceding, removed 1670, or earlier, to Stonington, had probably no children, and died 17 December 1724, aged 93.

SAMUEL BEEBE, or SAMUEL BEEBY, New London, brother of the preceding, married Agnes Keeny, daughter of William Keeny, had also second wife Mary. His children were Samuel, William, Nathaniel, Thomas, Jonathan, Agnes, Ann, Susanna, and Mary; but I am unable to divide them between the wives, yet doubt not, that nearly all were by the first. He owned the chief part of Plumb Island and removed to it, died 1712, aged 91, leaving widow. Of the daughters, Agnes married John Daniels; Ann married Thomas Crocker; Susanna married Aaron Fountain; and Mary married Richard Tozer.

THOMAS BEEBE, or THOMAS BEEBY, New London 1651, brother of the preceding, married Milicent Addis, widow first of William Southmayd, and next of William Ash, daughter of William Addis, had only son Thomas, and daughters Hannah, who married 1697, John Hawke; Milicent, who married Nicholas Darrow; and Rebecca, who married Nathaniel Holt; and he died 1699. His son, who never married, died 1727.

ISAAC BEECHER, or ISAAC BEACHER, New Haven, had Isaac, born 18 August 1650; Samuel, 17 October 1652; and Eleazer, 8 April 1655. Perhaps he had other children John and Joseph. His mother Hannah, a widow in her will, 1657, mentioned two children, this Isaac Beecher, and William Potter, son of her former husband in England. In 1685 Isaac senior, Isaac junior, and Eleazer were proprietors. His will was of 26 September 1689; and inventory of 28 August following.

ISAAC BEECHER, or ISAAC BEACHER, New Haven, son perhaps eldest of the preceding, by wife Joanna, had Isaac, born 20 October 1680; Ebenezer, 24 February 1683; Joanna and Hannah, probably twins baptized 1685; John, 1689; Abigail and Abiah, twins born 25 September 1693; and Jemima, 12 December 1696; and he died 1708.

JOHN BEECHER, or JOHN BEACHER, New Haven, brother of the preceding, by wife Elizabeth, had John, born 9 October 1671; Mary, 23 February 1673; Elizabeth; Joanna, 21 July 1677; Sarah; Jemima, 11 February 1681; Joseph, 13 February 1684; and Ebenezer, 12 April 1686; and died 1712.

THOMAS BEECHER, or THOMAS BEACHER, Charlestown 1630, freeman 6 November 1632, had been engaged as Captain of the Talbot, 1629, in bringing passengers to our country, and next year with Winthrop's fleet, when his wife Christian, who had been wife of Thomas Copper of Wapping, near London (who left her a freehold estate at Harwich), came with him, and was of the first ten members of the church. He was one of the earliest selectmen of the town, and at the first General Court 14 May 1634, when representatives came, he was one (all former General Court being inclusive of every freeman of the Colony), and served several following sessions, made Captain of the castle 1635, and died 1637. His inventory 29 July of this year, made by Ralph Sprague, Abram Palmer, and Thomas Ewer, shows £405.16s. His widow became second wife of Nicholas Easton, and died 20 February 1665. No children of Beecher is seen on any record, though Frothingham, 80, thinks Dr. Lyman Beecher, Yale College 1797, a descendant probably on recent suggestion. But the progenitor of this distinguised family was Isaac Beecher.

RICHARD BEEFORD, Gloucester 1643, by wife Mary, had John, born 26 October Mary, 26 June, Hannah, 25 January, but in either case the record gives not year yet allows us to assume that they were all baptized 1647, and the roll goes on, Ruth, born 23 March 1648; Nathaniel, 30 April 1650; and Richard, the last week of April 1653.

ANTHONY BEERS, or ANTHONY BEERE, Watertown 1646, by wife Elizabeth, had Samuel, born 9 May 1647, died soon; Ephraim, 5 July 1648; John, 20 January 1652; Esther, 16 October 1654; and Samuel, 2 May 1657, died at four months, besides three earlier daughters as Bond thinks, Elizabeth, who married 7 April 1663, Henry Gooddin; Bethia, who married 25 or 27 March 1664, David, or Daniel Mettup, Medup, Medap, or Meddup, dates as well as names various in Bond; and Mary, who married 1, or 19 April 1665, John Smith; and was freeman 1657; removed to Roxbury, and had Barnabas, 6 September baptized 17 October 1658; removed again to Fairfield, there was drowned before 1676.

BARNABAS BEERS, or BARNABAS BEERE, Stratford, son of Anthony Beers, married April 1688, Elizabeth Wilcockson, daughter of John Wilcockson, had Mary, born 5 December 1689; Nathan, 1691; Josiah, August 1693; and his wife died October 1694.

ELIEZUR BEERS, or ELIEZUR BEERE, Watertown, son (Bond thinks eldest) of Captain Richard Beers, married late in life, 21 April 1690, Susanna Harrington, daughter of Robert Harrington, widow of John Cutting, and died without issue, 5 December 1701. His widow married 2, or 21 January 1705 (Bond gives both dates), Peter Cloyes.

ELNATHAN BEERS, or ELNATHAN BEERE, Watertown, brother of the preceding, married about 1681, Sarah Tainter, daughter of Joseph Tainter, had Mary, born March 1682, died soon; Richard, February 1683, died soon; Simon, 19 July 1684; Mary, again, 11 February 1688; and Richard, again, 17 February 1631.

HENRY BEERS, or HENRY BEERE, Newport, perhaps brother of John Beers of the same, married 20 September 1668, Patience Scott, daughter of Richard Scott, had Henry, born 7 September 1673; Catharine, 22 October 1675; John, 29 December 1678; Catharine, again, 25 February 1681; Charles, 4 September 1683; and Mary, 15 September 1684.

JAMES BEERS, or JAMES BEERE, Fairfield 1639, was not, in my opinion son of Captain Richard Beers, as Cothren thinks (though he may have been brother), had good estate, and died November 1694, leaving by his will, wife Martha; daughters Martha, wife of Joseph Bulkley; Deborah, wife of Samuel Hull; Elizabeth, wife of John Darling; son Joseph; and children of son James, then deceased, and his widow Martha died February 1698.

JAMES BEERS, or JAMES BEERE, Fairfield, son of the preceding, died 1691, leaving children James, David, Sarah, and Mary.

JOHN BEERS, or JOHN BEERE, Newport, was son of Edward Beers in County Dorset, married 4 September 1664, Patience Clifton, daughter of Thomas Clifton, had Mary, born 6 August 1666; Edward, 1 August 1669; and Patience, 6 September 1671; and he died that year at sea.

JOHN BEERS, or JOHN BEERE, Gloucester, married 20 January 1673 Mary Fowler, had Joseph, born 7 December 1675.

JOHN BEERS, or JOHN BEERE, Stratford, son of Anthony Beers, a soldier, severely wounded at the great Battle of Narragansett, 19 December 1675, for which in 1677 he had grant of relief; recovered so far as to have wife Mary, by her Samuel, born 9 November 1679, made his will 9 February 1683, died soon after. By that his property was given to wife and children, but if Samuel died young, part of it should go to brother Barnabas, he to pay portion to sister Elizabeth Peck, and to sister Johnson of Salem.

JOSEPH BEERS, or JOSEPH BEERE, Fairfield, son of the elder James Beers, by wife Abigail, had Joseph, born 13 March 1688; and died early in 1697, leaving good estate and other children Abigail and James.

RICHARD BEERS, or RICHARD BEERE, Marshfield 1636, bore arms 1643, was living in 1661, witness of will of John Rogers.

RICHARD BEERS, or RICHARD BEERE, Watertown, freeman 9 March 1637, service in the Pequot war, was Representative 1663-75, had Sarah, buried 10 October 1639; Sarah, again, who married 24 June 1660, Isaac Stearns, and next, 23 July 1677, Thomas Wheeler; Mary, born 10 March 1643, who married Joseph Rice of Sudbury, as Bond thinks; Eliezur, who was made administrator jointly with his mother of the will of father Judith, born 26 March 1646, who married an Allen; Elnathan, before mentioned; Jabez, 4 August 1661; Elizabeth, who married 25 May 1710, Samuel Ward, as his second wife; Richard, 22 October 1659; and Abigail, April 1662, died very soon. He was Captain and killed in Philip's war at Squakeag, now Northfield, 4 September 1675, probably having time only to make nuncupative will, after being wounded.

ROBERT BEERS, or ROBERT BEERE, Rehoboth, married 25 June 1673, Elizabeth Bullock, perhaps daughter of Richard Bullock, had Benjamin, born 6 June following, and was killed by the Indians 29 March 1676. See Bliss in his valuable History of Rehoboth, 96.

THOMAS BEERS, or THOMAS BEERE, New Haven 1654. Sometimes the name is Beares.

SAMUEL BEETFIELD, or SAMUEL BITFIELD, Boston, constable 1652, died 1 September 1660, left widow Elizabeth.

PETER BEHONEY, Watertown, by wife Sarah, had Sarah, born 12 August 1688; and Peter, 13 March 1690. Sarah, married 4 August 1703 (before 15 years old) George Robinson.

PETER BEHONEY, Framingham, son of the preceding, married 26 January 1713, Bridget Beal, was living there 1747.

SAMUEL BEIGHTON, Boston, cooper, by wife Ann, had John, born 19 September 1684; Samuel, 6 April 1686; Ann, 29 January 1688; James, 28 March 1690; and Ebenezer, 30 September 1692, perhaps posthumous, for administration on estate of his father was given to his mother 21 October following.

ANDREW BELCHER, Sudbury 1639, Artillery Company 1642, married 1 October 1639, Elizabeth Danforth, daughter of Nicholas Danforth of Cambridge, and Belcher removed thither, was a taverner, had Elizabeth, born 17 August 1640; Jemima, 5 April 1642; Martha, 26 July 1644; Andrew, 1 January 1647; and Ann, 1 January 1649; and he died 26 June 1680, his wife survived. Elizabeth married 31 March 1668, Pyam Blowers; Jemima married 5 December 1660, Captain Joseph Sill; and Martha married 13 July 1664, Jonathan Remington, and died 16 July 1711. But the marriage of Samuel Ballard, 1 May 1678, with Hannah Belcher, as his second wife is found on record, and who she was, unless the youngest daughter is difficult to find. Ann and Hannah are often, confounded.

ANDREW BELCHER, Cambridge, son of the preceding, had traffic at Hartford, there married 1 July 1670, Sarah Gilbert, daughter of Jonathan Gilbert, had Andrew, born 12 March 1672, at Hartford, but most of his other children as Deborah, who died young shortly before her mother and another, Deborah who died few weeks after her mother, who died 26 January 1689, Mary, born 7 March 1680; Ann, 30 March 1684; and Martha, 29 March 1686, were all born at Charlestown; but Elizabeth, 12 January 1678; and Jonathan Belcher, 8 January 1682, at Cambridge, Harvard College 1699. He was freeman 1677, one of the important Commmittee of Safety at the insurrection against Andross, removed to Boston about 1702, when he was chosen a Counsellor to his death 31 October 1717. Another daughter was Sarah Foye at Charlestown, and she outlived her father. Mary married George Vaughn of Portsmouth, and died 3 February 1700. He was a prosperous merchant, and the daughters married other great connections. Elizabeth to Daniel Oliver; Martha to Stoddard; and Ann to Oliver Noyes. Jonathan Belcher, his son was made the Royal Governor of his native province 1730 to 41, and died in the chair of Governor of New Jersey 31 August 1757, his widow long survived, and his sons Andrew Belcher, Harvard College 1724, and Jonathan Belcher, Harvard College 1728, enjoyed reputation old age. See Eliot's Biog. Dict.

EDWARD BELCHER, Boston 1630, came, probably in the fleet with Winthrop, was made freeman with prefix of respect, 18 May 1631, and in his latter days probably, for second wife married widow Wormwood. His number on the list of church members is 60, but there his name is in the old copy Edmund Belcher.

EDWARD BELCHER, Boston, son of the preceding, married 8 January 1656, Mary Wormwood, daughter-in-law (says the record) of Mr. Edward Belcher senior, had Satisfaction, born 23 February 1657; and John, 1658; and Mary, 4 April 1659.

GREGORY BELCHER, Braintree, came to Boston 1634, was freeman 13 May 1640, before which he had assisted in founding of the church at Boston, had Samuel, born 24 August 1637; Mary, 8 July 1639; Joseph, 25 December 1641; Gregory, and two other sons earlier or later, and died 21 June 1659. His widow Catharine, in her will of 1680, names three sons Josiah, Moses, John, and daughter Elizabeth Gilbert, whose husband I cannot guess, if she were married nor her father, if not; besides Mary Marsh, probably wife of Alexander Marsh, married 19 December 1655.

JEREMY BELCHER, Ipswich, came in the Susan and Ellen, 1635, aged 22, freeman 13 March 1639, by first wife, had Samuel Belcher, Harvard College 1659; Jeremy; Mary; and John; perhaps more, if she lived to 1652. But on 30 September of this year he made contract of marriage with Mary Lockwood, who perhaps was daughter of Edmund Lockwood, by her had Judith, born 19 August 1658; Mary, 12 July 1660; David, 1662; and Richard, 10 September 1665; and died March 1693. A widow probably his, died October 1700. Mary, daughter of the first wife, married 23 June 1662, Joseph Russell.

JEREMY BELCHER, Boston, 1672, perhaps son of the preceding, died 6 January or February 1722, aged 81 and 1/2 years.

JOHN BELCHER, Braintree, by wife Sarah, had Sarah, born 27 June 1656; John, who died 9 February 1659; and John, again, 11 March 1659. Perhaps he was son of Gregory Belcher the first.

JOSEPH BELCHER, Milton, probably son of the first Gregory Belcher, by wife Rebecca, had (besides Ann and Patience) John, born 1 April 1667; Joseph Belcher, 14 May 1668, Harvard College 1690, minister of Dedham, who died 27 April 1723; Rebecca, 12 November 1671; Gill, 22 September 1678; and perhaps eldest son, Deacon Gregory Belcher, who died at Braintree 4 November 1727, aged 63.

JOSIAH BELCHER, Boston, son of Gregory Belcher the first, married 3 March 1655, Ranis Rainsford, daughter of Edward Rainsford, had Josiah, born 23 December 1665; John, 9 October 1657, died soon; John, again, 23 December 1659, died soon; John, again, 1 September 1661; Elizabeth, 10 July 1663; Joseph, 14 October 1665; Rebecca, 21 December 1667; Edward 14 February 1670; Dorothy, 28 October 1673; Abigail, 10 March 1675; Ruth, 21 December 1678; and Benjamin, 20 March 1681. He was one of the founders of third, or Old South Church, and died 3 April 1683, aged 52.

MOSES BELCHER, Braintree, freeman 1671, was probably brother of the preceding.

RICHARD BELCHER, Ipswich, youngest son of the first Jeremy Belcher, married 20 March 1689, Mary Simpson, probably daughter of Thomas Simpson of Salisbury, had Jane, born 26 March 1690; David, 19 December 1691; Ruth, 22 December 1693; and Thomas, 29 May 1696. Two other children by that wife he had, and five more by second wife, married 11 October 1705, by name of Ruth Knight.

SAMUEL BELCHER, Braintree, eldest son of Gregory Belcher the first, married at Dorchester, 15 December 1663, Mary Billings, daughter of Roger Billings, had Moses.

SAMUEL BELCHER, Newbury, son of the first Jeremy Belcher, as is thought preached some years at Isle of Shoals, was ordained 10 November 1698 at Newbury, but went to his native Ipswich, there died 10 March 1715 in 76th year, and his widow died 14 November 1723. Readily is it confessed that of the two Samuels much doubt has existed who married the daughter of Billings, or who was the minister. Of this name seven had been graduates at Harvard in its first ninety years, and only one in its last hundred and thirty.

JOHN BELCONGER, Newbury, married 12 April 1666, Sarah Kelly, daughter of John Kelly, had Mary, born 7 December 1666.

DANIEL BELDEN, or DANIEL BELDING, Hatfield, son of William Belden, married 10 November 1670, Elizabeth Foote, daughter of the second Nathaniel Foote, had William, born 1671; Richard, 1672; Elizabeth, 8 October 1673; Nathaniel, 26 June 1675; Mary, 17 November 1677; Daniel, 1 September 1680; Sarah, 15 March 1682; Esther, 29 September 1683; Abigail, 1686, died soon; Samuel, 10 April 1687; removed to Deerfield, and had John, 24 June 1689, died soon; Abigail, again, 18 August 1690; John, again, 28 February 1693; and Thankful, 21 December 1695. His wife with son Daniel and the youngest two children, were killed by the Indians 16 September 1696, when Samuel and Abigail, two others of the children were wounded, and himself with two more, Elizabeth and Esther, were taken off to Canada, whence he came back 1698, and married 17 February 1699, Hepzibah Welles, widow of Thomas Welles, of Hatfield, whose three daughters had been, 6 June 1693, knocked on the head by the Indians of which one recovered. This wife daughter of William Buell, at the onslaught upon Deerfield, 29 February 1704, was taken by the Indians and carried a short distance on the way to Canada, when her strength failed and she was killed. For third wife he took Sarah Hawkes, widow of Philip Mattoon, daughter of John Hawkes of Hadley, and died 14 August 1732. His widow died 17 December 1751, near 75 years from her first marriage and in her 95 year.

JOHN BELDEN, or JOHN BELDING, Wethersfield 1657, son of Richard Belden, by wife Lydia, married 24 April 1657, had John, born 12 June 1658; Jonathan, 21 June 1660; Joseph, 23 April 1663; Samuel, 3 January 1666; Sarah, 31 March 1668; Daniel, 12 October 1670; removed 1672 to Norwalk, there had Ebenezer 8 January 1673; Lydia, 1675; and Margaret, 29 March 1677; and he died that year aged 46.

RICHARD BELDEN, or RICHARD BELDING, Wethersfield 1640, had Samuel and probably John, both born in England.

SAMUEL BELDEN, or SAMUEL BELDING, Wethersfield, son of the preceding, born in England, by wife Mary, had Mary, born 10 July 1655; Samuel, 6 April 1657; Stephen, 28 December 1658; administered freeman of Connecticut 1657, removed to Hatfield, and had Sarah, 1661; Ann, 1665; Ebenezer, 1667; and John, 1669. Perhaps he was of Norwalk 1672. His wife was killed with one of the children by the Indians 19 September 1677; and he married 25 June 1678, Mary, widow of Thomas Wells of Hadley, who died 1690. Next he married 1691, Mary, widow of John Allis; and for fourth wife in 1705, had Sarah, widow of John Wells, and died 1713.

SAMUEL BELDEN, or SAMUEL BELDING, Hatfield, son of the preceding, married Mary, widow of Dr. Thomas Hastings, for second or third wife.

WILLIAM BELDEN, or WILLIAM BELDING, Wethersfield 1646, by wife Thomasine, had Samuel, born 20 July 1647; Daniel, 20 November 1648; John, 9 January 1650; Susanna, 5 November 1651; Mary, 2 February 1653; and Nathaniel, 13 November 1654. Graduates of this name were not seen by Farmer at any New England colleges in 1828, except Yale, where they counted sixteen.

ABRAHAM BELKNAP, Lynn 1637, removed to Salem, where Mr. Felt notes his death 1643. It was early in September of that year is inventory was taken 16 February following, signed by Mary, probably his widow. Lewis, 89, gives him sons Abraham, and Jeremy. But good reason may easily be found for giving him other children, certainly Joseph, and Samuel, besides, probably Hannah, who married 6 December 1663, the second Christopher Osgood.

ABRAHAM BELKNAP, Haverhill, son of the preceding, took oath of allegiance 28 November 1677; but no more is heard of him; nor any thing of his supposed brother Jeremy.

JOSEPH BELKNAP, Salem, a youth, son of Abraham Belknap the first, born probably in England, removed to Boston, Artillery Company 1658, freeman 1665, was one of the founders of the third or Old South Church 1668, whence he took dismissal to Hatfield, there lived in good esteem from 1682 to 96, then came back to Boston, and died 14 November 1712, aged 82. By wife Ruth, he had Joseph, born 26 January 1659; Mary, 25 September 1660; Nathaniel, 13 August 1663; Elizabeth, 1 July 1665; and by second wife had a daughter Ruth, 27 November 1668; who died soon; and by third wife Hannah Meakins, daughter of Thomas Meakins, of Hatfield, who died 26 December 1688, had Thomas, 29 June 1670; John, 1 June 1672; Hannah 8 June 1673; Ruth, 17 March 1677; Abigail, 27 June 1679; and Abraham, 26 April 1682; besides Samuel, who with the eldest son Joseph was made executors by the will of 29 November 1710, probated 5 December 1712. Of these dates of birth three or four are taken from a careful paper in Genealogical Registrar XIII. 15, though the writer inadvertantly refers for record of the will the wrong department of our Country offices, and most curiously fails to discover the earliest ancestor on our side of the ocean. Mary married a Grafton; Elizabeth married a Patterson, and lived in England; and Ruth married her cousin John Meakins.

JOSEPH BELKNAP, Boston, eldest son of the preceding, leather breeches maker, married Deborah Fitch, daughter of Jeremiah Fitch of the same, who died 20 April 1687, had Mary, born 24 November 1684, died soon; Joseph, 18 November 1685; and Jeremy, 1 January 1687. He next married 1 April 1690, Abigail Buttolph, daughter of Thomas Buttolph the second, and had Thomas, 24 January 1691, died young; Abigail, 29 February 1692; Mary, 15 October 1694; Nicholas, 15 October 1695; Buttolph, 29 December 1697; Nathaniel, 18 December 1699; Ruth, 2 March 1702, died soon; Elizabeth, 13 April 1708; Lydia, 17 January 1710; and Abraham; and died 30 March 1716. His widow died 9 June 1734. Jeremy Belknap, who following the trade of his father, had Joseph Belknap, whose son Jeremy Belknap, born 4 June 1744, Harvard College 1762, was the amiable and learned historian of New Hampshire, author of the Foresters, and of the highly valuable volumes of American Biographies.

SAMUEL BELKNAP, Salem, joiner, son of Abraham Belknap the first, born in England, by wife Sarah, had Mary, born 17 August 1653, died young; Mary, again, 14 October 1656; Abraham, 4 June 1660; and Samuel, 1 May 1662; was of Malden 1671, but removed to Haverhill, there took oath of fidelity 28 November 1677, had Joseph, 25 March 1672; and Patience, 17 September 1675; and perhaps Ebenezer. His wife died 18 April 1689.

THOMAS BELKNAP, Woburn, glover, son of Joseph Belknap the first, married 6 March 1694, Jane Cheney, perhaps daughter of Thomas Cheney of Roxbury, had Thomas; Jane, born 4 November 1639; Benjamin, 3 May 1702; Hannah, 18 May 1704; another daughter 1709; and perhaps Joseph, besides Samuel, born 24 May 1707; but dates of births are not known for all. He died 15 October 1755. Perhaps Abraham Belknap, Esquire, of Johnston, Rhode Island, who died 1520, in his 92d year, was a descendant of the first of the name here.

ABRAHAM BELL, New Haven 1639, removed about 1647 to Charlestown, died early in 1663. It was on 31 December 1662, that he, with another man, was wrecked near home, and both drowned. Very often this surname is confused with Beal, but, perhaps, only for Abraham Bell. See Beal. Administration of his estate £154.1.1 was given to his wife Catharine, who died 29 August 1692, aged 68. I see no children but Isaac, baptized at Charlestown 12 October 1662.

FRANCIS BELL, Stamford, then called Rippowams, 1641, had been early at Wethersfield, was a Lieutenant 1666, but not freeman of Connecticut Colony before 1676, though he was administered of that of New Hampshire 1641. His wife Rebecca died 1684, and he died 8 January 1690. From his will of 24 May preceding, we gain something as to his family, Jonathan is the only son named, daughter Mary Hoyt, and four sons of his daughter Rebecca, wife of Jonathan Tuttle, the mother having died 2 May 1676.

JAMES BELL, New Haven, took oath of fidelity 1644; perhaps was brother of Abraham, and may have removed to Taunton, where one of this name had Jane, born 4 April 1658; John, 15 August 1660; James, 10 July 1663; Nathaniel, 7 January 1665; Sarah, 15 September 1666; Elizabeth, 15 November 1668; Mary, 7 July 1669, if the record be trustworthy; Joseph, 27 June 1670; and Esther, 15 August 1672.

JOHN BELL, Sandwich 1643, Yarmouth 1657, died probably before 1676, though his estate was not settled until 27 September 1700. He left Elizabeth, who married Samuel Berry; and Mary, who married a Nickerson.

JONATHAN BELL, Stamford, only son of Francis Bell, married Mary Crane, perhaps daughter of Jasper Crane, had Jonathan, born 1663; Hannah, 1665; Rebecca, 1667; and his wife died 26 October 1671. Next year he married Susanna Pierson, daughter of Reverend Abraham Pierson of Newark, New Jersey, and had Abigail, 1673, died young; Abraham, 1675; Mercy, 1678; John, 1681; a died 1683, whose name is hard to be deciphered; James, 1684; Susanna, 1686; and Mary, 1689. He was a Representative 1670, and died 11 March 1699, in his will of 21 November preceding, named the wife Susanna, and seven of his children, omitting Rebecca, Abigail, the illegitimate daughter, and James, probably all deceased.

ROBERT BELL, Hartford, a tailor, had John, 6 years old; Robert, 4; and Mary, 1 and ¾; at his death 29 July 1684.

SHADRACH BELL, Portsmouth, probably or other New Hampshire settlement, by wife Rachel, had Shadrach, born 3 July 1685; Elizabeth, 19 March 1687; Mesheck, 29 January 1690 ; Benjamin, 5 August 1695; and Thomas, 12 May 1699.

THOMAS BELL, Roxbury, freeman 23 May 1636, had Sarah, born 4 October 1640; John, baptized 9 April 1643, died in few weeks; and Mary, 28 September 1645; went home before 1654 with his family and died 1672. By his will of 29 January in that year he gave good estate to the grade school at Roxbury, and his name is held in high esteem for his benevolents.

THOMAS BELL, Boston 1637, was of Artillery Company 1643, by wife Ann, had John, born 24 August 1638, died soon; John, again, 4 March 1640, died soon; Tabitha, 21 March baptized 4 April 1641, died at 13 years; Thomas, 3, baptized 7 August 1642; Hopestill, baptized 21 July, but the careless copy of town record says born 2 August 1644; Moremercy, 14, baptized 17 January 1647; Deborah, 29 November baptized 1 December 1650; and Joseph, baptized 9 October which town record says born 1 November 1653, died soon; but the last two were in right of his wife Deborah. He was the public executioner in 1649, and died 7 June 1655. His widow married 7 May following William Mullins.

THOMAS BELL of Salem, in the 50th year of his age gave testimony about the Lynn iron works, in 1681. He married 10 December 1680, Rebecca Ebborne, daughter of Samuel Ebborne, had Thomas, born 26 August 1681; and George, 10 June 1684. Of this name Dartmouth counts eight as her graduates of which the first, Samuel Bell, of Chester, the Governor, was grandson of John Bell, early an inhabitant of Londonderry, and so may well be thought of that noble Colony of Scotch-Irish, which hardly more than half so many as the sad gleanings of the fields of Dunbar and Worcester, transplanted hither seventy years earlier, probably outnumber by fifty-fold, if not a hundred, the political exiles' progeny.

JOHN BELLAMY, New Haven 1614, merchant from London, had wife but no children here before his embarkment January 1646, with Captain Lamberton, on that sad voyage to London, from New Hampshire, wherein so many of the flowesr of the Colony were lost. Against that tradition nothing can be alleged unless it be discredited so far as Bellamy is implicated in it, by non-appearance of his name on any record at New Hampshire.

MATTHEW BELLAMY, New Haven, was school master at Stamford 1658, but Cothren thinks he was first at Fairfield, bought and sold land at Stamford up to 1670, but married at New Haven 1671, Bethia Ford, daughter of Timothy Ford, had Matthew, born about 1672; Bethia, 3 Aug,. 1673, died soon; Elizabeth, November 1674, died soon; and Mary, 1675, who married 28 January 1703, Elijah How; exercised his skill at Guilford and Killingworth, and in 1675 had grant of land at Saybrook, bought house there, next year which he sold in 1677. His wife died in 1687, and perhaps he, too, was dead or absent in parts unknown, for he had not been mentioned several years before 1689 when his children were put under gaurdianship.

MATTHEW BELLAMY, Wallingford, son probably of the preceding, though by tradition declared to be son and posthumous of a supposition John, and had two wives, and ten or eleven children. Part of this may be true, as that his first wife was Sarah Wood, sister of Richard Wood of Wallingford, and her fifth child was Joseph Bellamy, born 20 February 1719, of Yale College 1735, a very distinguished theologian among the systematic rulers of opinion.

BENJAMIN BELLFLOWER, Reading, a quaker, who after sentence of banishment for his opinion renounced it, as in Hutchinson I. 201, 2, is told. He had married 3 February 1659, wife Abigail, and died 24 February 1661, and next month inventory of small amount was rendered at Salem.

HENRY BELLFLOWER, Reading, 1656, had Hannah, born 17 January 1657; and Deliverance, 2 May 1662.

RICHARD BELLAMONT, Governor of Massachusetts appointed by the crown, as successor to Sir William Phips, was the only peer ever thus deputized, came to Massachusetts from New York, 26 May 1699, and went back next year.

RICHARD BELLINGHAM, Boston, had been recorder of old Boston from 1625 to 1633, when he partook largely of the desire to migrate and with wife and son Samuel came, though in what ship is not found, in 1634, and was chosen a selectman in August, after joining the church with his wife on 3rd of that month, and before long a Representative made in 1635, Deputy Governor and twelve times after, some years was Treasurer of the Colony, and Governor in 1641, and several times after, in all ten years of which from 1665 to 72 inclusive, besides being always an Assistant, Major General in 1664, and died 7 December 1672, the last survivor of the patentees in the Charter, aged about 80 years, says the Cambridge Almanac of next year. He removed to Ipswich, and after to Rowley, having estate and near friends at each place; but lived not long at either. For second wife he married 1641, Penelope Pelham, the young sister of Herbert Pelham, Esq. who had embarked 15 May 1635, aged 16, in the Susan and Ellen. Besides the impropriety of this match, in point of age, it was unduly solemnized as in Winthrop History is told. By her he had Hannah, baptized 14 August 1642; John Bellingham, Harvard College 1661, who next year was agent for his father at Rowley in care of land that had been his uncle William's; James, born 3, baptized 10 May 1646; and Grace, who died 3 September 1654; and these are all of whom we find notice. His widow lived near 30 years, died 28 May 1702. For her and son Samuel he provided in his will, that was however so perversely drawn, as to be set aside by the General Court. Of his weakness as church magistrate, other strange instances are related by the early History of New England, but the most to be regretted was his enmity, at a later day, to the foundation of the Old South or 3rd church of Boston, that ceased only with his life. Governor Coddington of Rhode Island, who had been in their day of small things, much associated with Bellingham in both Bostons, almost exults at his completion of the measure of his iniquity in distraction, closing his "Demonstration of True Love "in this emphatic style: "The hand of the Lord cuts him off, not giving him repentance to life, that other sons of Belial of his persecuting, spirit might be warned, not to put the evil day far from them." Without sympathy in the triumph of Governor Coddington, it is grateful to me to remark, that the unbroken reign of dismal bigotry from 1649 to 1672 inclusive, under Dudley, Endicot, and Bellingham, hard, harder, hardest, between the mild wisdom of Winthrop and the tolerant dignity of Leverett, came to its end with that last of the triumvirs of Massachusetts.

SAMUEL BELLINGHAM, Boston, son of the preceding, was of the earliest class of Harvard College 1642, and at Rowley next year, but soon went to Europe, studied at Leyden, and there took his degree of M.D., lived most of his days in or near London; had only child Elizabeth, and her by first wife. In April 1695 he married at London widow Elizabeth Savage, who is unknown to me; and he sent her over to manage his affairs in this country. In Boston she made her will, November 1697 in which she bestowed munificently to the college, to ministers, and friends here, but gave back chief estate to her husband. She sailed for England 8 November and was lost by shipwreck on the coast of Ireland 3 February following. The original indentures to convey estate that he had settled on his wife made at London September 1698, and others of July 1700, in which he and his daughter unite to convey to Chief Justice Sewall, as purchaser, the beautiful Boston estate, were long in my possession and were given to a better custodian.

WILLIAM BELLINGHAM, Rowley, brother of Richard Bellingham, freeman 12 October 1640, died 1650, left probably no family for his will, probated 24 September in that year, gave his estate to nephew Samuel.

BENJAMIN BELLOWS, Lancaster, youngest child of John Bellows, born probably 1678 or 9 at Marlborough, after the returned of the exiles from a safer residence at Concord, married 1704, Dorcas, widow of Henry Willard of Lancaster, had Mary, born 1707; Judith, 1708; Joanna, 1710; and Benjamin, 26 May 1712. The name of his youngest son is perpetuated in the Bellows Falls of Connecticut river where he found the beautiful town of Walpole.

JOHN BELLOWS, Concord 1645, had come in the Hopewell, Captain Bundock, from London, April 1635, aged 12, married 9 May 1655, Mary Wood of Marlborough, perhaps daughter of his fellow-passenger John Wood, had Mary, born 22 April 1656; Samuel, 22 January 1658, died young; Abigail, 6 May 1661; Daniel; and Benjamin. He removed to Marlborough. Such was the statement in Farmer, as original printed with slight addition from record by me; and in father’s interleaved copy no correction or enlargement is found. Yet the variance of account in Ward and Barry is so material, that though the two may be only one authority, it must be given. They say the children were Isaac, born 13 September 1663, who died about 1746; John, 13 May 1666; Thomas, 7 September 1668; Eliezur, 13 April 1671; Daniel, 15 March 1673, died young; and Nathaniel, 3 April 1676, born at Concord, no doubt caused by the exposure of Marlborough in Philip's war. The father died 10 January 1684, as erronous is said, for his will was probated before that date, and Ward tells, that his widow Mary died 1707. Barry adds, that Eliezur, by wife Esther, had Thomas, born 30 September 1693; and that the descendants of John have been numerous in Malborough and Southborough. John's will, made 19 June 1683, probated 2 October following, names wife, five sons, and two daughters, omitted the son Benjamin, who had been adopted by a rich man; so that we may be sure the enumeration of Farmer was defective. Abigail married 19 April 1682, Isaac Lawrence.

CHRISTIAN BELVILLE, Charlestown, a Frenchman, married 9 June 1656, by Governor Endicott, "to the Lady Frances Hopkins." Who this lady was, I would gladly know but the record tells no more. The husband in 1658 was taxable for small estate.

EPHRAIM BEMIS, Watertown, son of Joseph Bemis, by wife Elizabeth, had Elizabeth, and Sarah, by church record shown to be baptized 1687; by town record Rebecca, born 16 January 1685; and Abigail, 10 January 1687; but Bond thinks he may have had others, and possibly removed to Windham; but was living November 1712 to take share of estate of his father.

JAMES BEMIS, New London 1647, had grant of land 1649, was constable 1664, and died next year leaving widow Sarah and daughter Rebecca. The widow married 1673, Edward Griswold of Killingworth. Rebecca married 1 April 1672, Tobias Minter of Newfoundland; and 17 June 1674 married John Dymond of Fairfield; and 2 August 1682 married Benedict Satterlee of Killingworth.

JOHN BEMIS, Watertown, brother of Ephraim Bemis, married Mary Harrington, daughter of Robert Harrington, had Beriah, born 23 June 1681; Susanna, 24 December 1682; Joseph, 17 November 1684; John, 6 October 1686; Mary, 24 September 1688; Samuel, 1690; Lydia; Hannah, 9 October 1694; Isaac, 1696; Jonathan, 30 April 1699, probably died soon; Jonathan, again, 17 November 1701; Abraham, 26 November 1703; Susanna and Hannah, twins 3 December 1705; and his wife died 8 September 1716. He married 1 January following, as Bond says in two places, though in later passages he twice says 27 February, Sarah Holland, widow of Jonathan Phillips, daughter of Nathaniel Holland; and next married 30 May. 1726, Judith Jennison, widow of James Barnard, eldest daughter of Samuel Jennison, as the same indefatigible author instructs us; but by neither had children. His residence was in that part, which became Waltham.

JOSEPH BEMIS, Watertown 1640, by wife Sarah, had Sarah, born 15 January 1643; Mary, 16 September 1644; Joseph; Ephraim, 1647, both died young; Martha, 24 March 1649; Joseph, again, 12 December 1651; Rebecca, 17 April 1654; Ephraim, again, 25 August 1656; and John, August 1659. He was often selectman, and died 7 August 1684, which is the date of his will. His widow lived probably to 1712. Sarah married 2 October 1694, John Bigelow, as his second wife, but died probably before division of her father’s estate in 1712; Mary married 16 February 1684, Samuel Whitney; and Rebecca married 11 April 1684, John White, who was killed in few weeks by a bull, and she next married 1 April 1686, Thomas Harrington. Of this name six had in 1835 been graduates at Harvard and one at Dartmouth. Reverend Stephen Bemis, who died November 1828 at Harvard, Massachusetts

EDWARD BENDALL, Boston 1630, came probably in the fleet with Winthrop, freeman 14 May 1634, Artillery Company 1638, by wife Ann, who died 25 December 1637, had Freegrace, baptized 5 July 1635; and by wife Mary, from Roxbury, had Reform, born 18 October baptized 24 November 1639; Hopedfor, 29, baptized 31 October 1641; Moremercy, baptized 25 September 1642, about two days old; Mary, born May 1644, probably died soon; and Restore, 13, baptized 30 December 1649. He was one of uncommon enterprise, projecting and using a diving bell to remove from the channel the wreck of a ship before the dock, called Bendall's, being the chief place of trade. He died 1682.

FREEGRACE BENDALL, Boston, eldest son of the preceding, Artillery Company 1667, was clerk of the Supreme Court 1670, married Mary Lyell, daughter of Francis Lyell, and with her was drowned, 6 June 1676, returning from Noddle's Island to town, by the oversetting of his boat in a sudden squall. I have not learned the names of any of the eight children that he left, of which the town record says five were "too small to shift for themselves."

THOMAS BENDISH, Massachusetts perhaps only transient visitor, yet of Artillery Company 1671.

DANIEL BENEDICT, Norwalk, son perhaps youngest of Thomas Benedict, was a soldier in Philip's war, married Mary Marvin, perhaps daughter of Matthew Marvin of the same, had Mary, Daniel, Mercy, and Hannah; and he removed about 1690, to Danbury.

JAMES BENEDICT, Norwalk, brother of the preceding, married 10 May 1676, Sarah Gregory, daughter of the first John Gregory, had Sarah, born 16 June 1677; Rebecca; Phebe; James; John; Thomas; and Elizabeth. He probably removed to Danbury.

JOHN BENEDICT, Norwalk, brother of the preceding, married 11 November 1670, Phebe Gregory, daughter of the first John Gregory, had Sarah; Phebe, born 21 September 1673; John, 3 March 1676; Jonathan; Benjamin; Joseph; James, 15 January 1686; Mary, or Mercy; and Thomas. He succeeded his father as Deacon.

SAMUEL BENEDICT, Norwalk, brother of the preceding, married 7 July 1678, Rebecca Andrews, probably daughter of Francis Andrews of Fairfield, had Thomas, born 27 March 1679; and Abraham, 21 June 1681; but by former wife whose name is not seen, had Joanna, born 22 October 1673; and Samuel, 5 March 1675; besides Rebecca, Esther, and Nathaniel, probably all by the second wife. With others he purchased about 1685, that plantation which became Danbury.

THOMAS BENEDICT, Southold, Long Island, before 1650, had come about 1639 to Massachusetts at the age of 22, and soon after married Mary Bridgham, a fellow-passenger. He was the only son it is said, of William Benedict of Nottinghamshire, had Thomas, John, Samuel, James, Daniel, Betty, Mary, Sarah, and Rebecca, all born at Southold, and after lived short time at Huntington and Jamaica, he removed about 1665 to Norwalk, there was Deacon, selectman, town clerk, and Representative in 1670. Date of his death is not seen in Hall. Betty married John Slawson of Stamford; Mary married 11 November 1670, John Olmstead of Norwalk; Sarah married 19 December 1679, James Beebe of Stratford; and Rebecca married Dr. Samuel Wood.

THOMAS BENEDICT, Norwalk, eldest son of the preceding, married at Jamaica, Long Island, Mary Messenger, had Mary, born 4 December 1666; Thomas, 5 December 1670; Hannah, 8 January 1676; Esther, 5 October 1679; Abigail, 1682; and Elizabeth, whose date Hall does not tell. He was Deacon and died 1690. See Hazard, History Collections II. 151. Very extended lines of descendants have spread from Connecticut. Of this name the graduates at Yale in 1849 were fourteen.

JOHN BENGILLEY, Ipswich, freeman 1678, if the spelling in Colony record V. 539, as printed by the careful reading of Mr. Pulsifer, be not a mistake, as I think it is, for Pengilley, who we see, as given by Paige, in Genealogical Registrar III. 245.

JOHN BENHAM, Dorchester, probably came in the Mary and John, 1630, freeman 18 May 1631, had requested that privilege 19 October before, by first wife, had Joseph and John; removed 1640 to New Haven, and married at Boston, as second wife 16 November 1659, or, as the record says, 1660 (perhaps erronous), Margery, widow of Thomas Alcock of Dedham, who died in few weeks after reaching New Haven, and he died 1661.

JOHN BENHAM, New Haven, son probably elder of the preceding, born perhaps in England, as he was administered to take the oath of fidelity 1654, married 8 March 1669, Mercy Smith, daughter of George Smith of the same, had John, perhaps, as both John, and John junior were proprietors at New Haven 1685, yet the latter (unless son of the second John by an earlier wife) may have been son of his brother Joseph Benham. His first wife was widow Sarah Wilson, married 8 February 1655, who died 30 May 1667, by whom he had John, born 4 November 1655, died in few days; Sarah, 15 September following; Mary, 10 April 1660; Hannah, 8 January 1662; and John, again, 15 September 1664. By second wife he had Joseph, 9 June 1670.

JOSEPH BENHAM, New Haven, probably son of the first John Benham, swore fidelity 1654, married at Boston, 15 January 1657, Winifred King, whose father is not known, was one of the first settlers at Wallingford 1670. He had Mary, born 18 September 1657; Joseph, 25 May 1659; Joanna, 25 July 1662; and five more who died young.

ABEL BENJAMIN, Charlestown, youngest child of the first John Benjamin, married 6 November 1671, Amity Myrick, perhaps daughter of John Myrick, had John, Mary, and Abigail, this last born 26 August 1680. All these are mentioned in his will of 5 July 1710, and grandson John Benjamin; besides his brother Joshua Benjamin.

ABEL BENJAMIN, Watertown, son of the second John Benhamin of the same, by wife Abigail, had Abel, born 1695, died young; Jonathan, 18 February 1697; Abigail, 7 September 1699; Caleb, 28 January 1702; Ann, 21 January 1704; Abel, again, 31 March 1706; Rebecca, 11 January 1708; Elizabeth, January 1711, died soon; Elizabeth, again, 3 July 1712, and Mary, 8 August 1714; and he died 4 March 1720.

CALEB BENJAMIN, Wethersfield or Hartford, brother of the first Abel Benjamin, died 8 May 1684; leaving Mary, Abraham, Sarah, John, Martha, Caleb, and another by one report, perhaps from the probate office; but from earlier records we find that his children were seven, Mary, born 15 September 1671; Abigail, 27 April 1673; Sarah, 17 February 1675; John, 5 November 1677; Samuel, 14 February 1680; Martha, 19 January 1681; and Caleb, 1683. His wife to whom administration was given 4 September 1684, was Mary Hale, daughter of Samuel Hale of Wethersfield, and she, I presume, was mother of these children.

DANIEL BENJAMIN, Watertown, son of the second John Benjamin of the same, swore fidelity December 1677, married 25 March 1687, Elizabeth Brown, daughter of Jonathan Brown of Watertown, had Daniel, born 15 January 1688, died soon; Daniel, again, 27 December following; John, baptized 23 November 1690, died young; Jonathan; Samuel, 30 January 1696; Elizabeth, 22 March 1698; Lydia, 8 September 1699; Patience, 17 October 1701; Mary, 21 September 1705; and John, again, 4 August 1709; and died 13 September 1719. His widow died 8 August 1740.

JOHN BENJAMIN, Watertown, came in the Lion, 16 September 1632, to Boston, and was made freeman 6 November following, and 20 May next year was appointed constable by the General Court, a proprietor in Cambridge, removed about 1637, to Watertown and died advanced in years (or at least old enough to be excused from military training eleven years before) 14 June 1645, leaving widow Abigail, and children, of who most were born in England, and the exact order may be uncertain, but John was eldest son born about 1620; Abigail, eldest daughter, while the next child Samuel was born 1628; Mary, the next, died 10 April 1646, had made a will, certainly after marriage of her sister Abigail, probably few days before her death, yet it was set aside, as of one under age; probably born on our side of the water were Joseph; Joshua, about 1642; Caleb; and Abel. His will is abstracted in Genealogical Registrar III. 177, and the widow died 20 May 1687, aged 87. Abigail married about 1641, Joshua Stubbs of Watertown.

JOHN BENJAMIN, Watertown, eldest son of the preceding, probably came with his father, by wife Lydia Allen, daughter of William Allen, as Bond thinks, had John, born 10 September 1651; Lydia, 3 April 1653; Abigail, 14 July 1655; Mary, 2 August 1658; Daniel, 12 September 1660; Ann, 4 August 1662; Sarah, 1663; and Abel, 20 May 1668. He was freeman 1668, and died 22 December 1706, aged 86; and his widow died 1709. Lydia married Thomas Batt of Boston; and Sarah married 30 March 1687, William Hagar.

JOHN BENJAMIN, Watertown, eldest son of the preceding, by wife Mehitable, had John, born 15 April 1699; and, perhaps before him, Lydia, for she was baptized 10 September of that same year, as Bond, page 27, tells; but I see reason to think he was of Boston and had by the same wife John, born 4 September 1679; and Sarah, 8 May 1686; and probably removed to Watertown, and he died 18 November 1708.

JOSEPH BENJAMIN, Barnstable, son of the first John Benjamin, married 10 June 1661, Jemima Lambert, daughter of Thomas Lambert, or Thomas Lombard, sold estate at Cambridge 30 October 1686, that came to him, his deed says, from father John, deceased, and by this means we know of his descent. He lived some years at Yarmouth, where from the imperfect record we find several children but not all, nor in all cases the dates of those named Abigail; Joseph; Hannah, February 1668; Mary, April 1670; Mercy, 12 March 1674; and Elizabeth, 14 January 1680. He removed to New London, died 1704, leaving widow Sarah, and children Joseph, aged 30; John, 22; "Abigail, Jemima, Sarah, Kezia, Mary, and Mercy, all about 20," says the admirable accurate and precise probate document.

JOSHUA BENJAMIN, Charlestown, brother of the preceding, died 6 May 1684, aged 42, leaving widow Thankful, but no issue.

RICHARD BENJAMIN, Watertown, perhaps brother of the first John Benjamin, as he came so early as 1632, in the same ship, by wife Ann, had Ann, born 1 September 1643, removed to Southold, Long Island, 1663, or earlier, and was administered freeman of Connecticut 1664.

SAMUEL BENJAMIN, Watertown, son of the first John Benjamin, born in England, by wife Mary, had Mary, born 12 May 1660, besides Samuel, John, and Abigail, all earlier, but next year removed to Hartford, made his will 18 September 1669, "a little before he died". Some imperfect account of Samuel and John, his sons, are furnished by Hinman.

CHARLES BENMORE, Boston, by wife Elizabeth, had Lydia, born 27 February 1677; Stephen, 25 May 1678; and Martha, 4 August 1686.

PHILIP BENMORE, Dover, married 28 September 1669, Rebecca, widow of Thomas Nock, to whom in his will of 20 May 1676, probated 27 June following, he had given all his estate.

AMBROSE BENNETT, Boston, married 15 April 1653, Mary Simons, had John, born 19 February 1654; Ambrose, 21 March 1656; and perhaps he removed.

ANTHONY BENNETT, Gloucester, removed after 1671 from Beverly, by wife Abigail, who died 26 October 1733, had Anthony, born 12 November 1679. John 1686; and Peter; and died 12 January 1691. Babson says, all the sons had families but gives no details.

ARTHUR BENNETT, Dover 1665, married a daughter of John Goddard; but no more is heard.

DAVID BENNETT, Rowley 1678, a physician, by first wife Mary, had David, and Sarah; by second wife Rebecca Spencer, who died 26 March 1712, daughter of Captain Roger Spencer, and sister of the wife of Sir William Phips, had Spencer, born 6 June, baptized 9 August 1685; and youngest son William; and died 4 February 1719, it is said, in 103rd year of his age, probably very much exaggerated. This Spencer Bennett adopted by his uncle (the famous adventurer, and wealthy Governor of Massachusetts) took the name of Phips, the uncle having no children, was graduate at Harvard 1703, raised to be of the council, Lieutenant Governor 1733, and died at Cambridge, 4 April 1757. He was father of David Phips, Harvard College 1741, who at the revolution gratefully adhered to the crown, and died in England 7 July 1811, aged 87.

EDMUND BENNETT, or EDWARD BENNETT, Weymouth, freeman 25 May 1636, removed to Rehoboth 1643, perhaps was that Edward of Providence 1676, who resided there through Philip's war.

FRANCIS BENNETT, Boston 1650, by wife Alice, had Mary, born 15 September of that year, who probably died young; James, 14 February 1652; and Elizabeth, 20 December 1654, died in few weeks; and he was drowned at Noddle's Island 4 December of next year. His widow married 8 August 1656, Ralph Hutchinson, who took James and Elizabeth with their mother to Northampton.

GEORGE BENNETT, Boston, drowned 27 March 1652, by wife Audry, had one child in his lifetime, and probably a posthumous one.

GEORGE BENNETT, Lancaster, was killed by the Indians, as Harrington tells, 22 August 1675.

HENRY BENNETT, Salem, 1630, on the Marblehead side, was of Ipswich, 1665, as in 2 Massachusetts History Collections VIII. 107, appears.

HENRY BENNETT, Lyme, married 27 January 1673, Sarah Champion, eldest daughter of Henry Champion, had Caleb, born 11 October 1675; Rose, 15 November 1677; John, 26 December 1680; Love, 19 March 1685; Dorothy, 19 May 1688; and Henry, 29 July 1691; and died 1726.

ISAAC BENNETT, perhaps of Stratford, married 1683, Elizabeth, daughter probably of Daniel of Wethersfield, or perhaps of Robert S.

JAMES BENNETT, Concord, freeman 13 March 1639, by wife Hannah Wheeler, eldest daughter of the first Thomas Wheeler of Concord, had Hannah, born 1 June 1640; Thomas, 16 October 1642; removed with his father-in-law to Fairfield, 1644, there had two more children and perhaps others, for in 1670 James Bennett of Farmington, probably his son was 18 years old, and there were three families of this name in that town.

JAMES BENNETT, Northampton, son of Francis Bennett, married 1675, Mary Broughton, daughter probably of the first John Broughton, had Mary that year, and the 19 May next he was killed by the Indians in the Falls fight. His widow married the same year Benoni Stebbins; and Mary married John Field, and died 1697.

JAMES BENNETT, Charlestown, perhaps son of John Bennett of the same, married 4 February 1681, Elizabeth Tarbell, daughter perhaps of Thomas Tarbell the first of Watertown.

JOHN BENNETT, Marblehead or Salem 1633, may have been short time at Windsor, 1647, but seems permanent residence at Salem 1648, yet in 1660 at New London. There he lived not long, for inventory of his widow was produced in June 1663.

JOHN BENNETT, Charlestown, died probably May 1674, at least his inventory is of 23d of that month. He was drowned 15 April preceding, then aged 42, had Josiah, James, and perhaps others.

JOHN BENNETT, Stonington, had John, born 24 February 1659, died in four years; William, 1660; John, again, 1666; Joseph, 1681; and others not known, and died 22 September 1691.

JOHN BENNETT, Beverly, son of Peter Bennett of Bristol, England, came hither from Virginia 1668, married 1671, Deborah Grover, daughter I think youngest of Edmund Grover, removed to Middleborough 1692, was one of the founders of the First Church there, 26 December 1694, and its Deacon. He died 21 March 1718, in his 76th year, and his wife died the next day in her 70th year. Of children no name is found, but of John, who it is said, left issue.

JOHN BENNETT, a soldier of that Company under Lothrop, called the flower of Essex, killed at Bloody Brook, 18 September 1675, by the Indians.

JOHN BENNETT, Boston, 1675, mariner, son of Samuel Bennett, but when he was born or died or where his father resided is unknown.

JOHN BENNETT, Charlestown, married 3 January 168, Ruth Bradshaw, daughter of Humphrey Bradshaw of Cambridge.

JOHN BENNETT, Stonington, son of John Bennett of the same, married 1687, Elizabeth Parke, had John, and Samuel.

JOSEPH BENNETT, Newport, by wife Margaret, had Joseph, born 1 October 1674, and no more could I learn of him at Newport. Perhaps he was son of Robert Bennett of the same.

PETER BENNETT, Boston, son of Richard Bennett of the same, had wife Mary Porter, daughter of Edward Porter, had posthumous daughter Susanna, who married John Love; but both Peter and wife were dead while his father was living.

RICHARD BENNETT, Salem 1636, probably removed soon to Boston, where in January 1642, he was recorded by wife, Sybil, who died 13 September 1653, had Peter, born 18 January 1649; Susanna, 2 February 1651, who married Jonas Clark, and Richard, 3 September 1653, who died before six months, was surveyor of roads that year, was the same constable, 1665, beaten by Sir Robert Carr, one of the royal commissioners, as pleasantly is told in Hutchinson I. 254, and Snow's History of Boston, 137, 147, with fuller details in Drake, 373-5. His will has codicil of 6 July 1677, and was probated 8 September following, so we have nearly the date of his death. His second wife Margery, married 11 July 1655, as widow Gurgefield, or Goochfield, either an unusual name.

ROBERT BENNETT, Newport, among the freeman in 1655, by wife Rebecca, had Robert, born March 1650; and perhaps others.

SAMUEL BENNETT, Lynn, a carpenter, came in the James, from London, 1635 aged 24, Artillery Company 1639, at Rumney Marsh, now Chelsea, owned large farm, had, as Lewis, 63, tells, Samuel, Elisha, and John; and I almost venture to add a daughter Lydia, who died at Lynn 2 September 1661.

SAMUEL BENNETT, Providence, before and after 1645, swore allegiance to the King May 1666.

THOMAS BENNETT, Fairfield 1664, may have been father of Isaac and Thomas, and freeman 1669.

THOMAS BENNETT, Stratford, perhaps son of the preceding, married 1692, May Booth, daughter perhaps of Ephraim Booth.

THOMAS BENNETT, Charlestown, married 9 December 1686, Elizabeth Gillingham, perhaps daughter of William Gillingham; lived not long, for his widow it is said, became fourth wife of Benjamin Lawrence.

WILLIAM BENNETT, Plymouth 1631-3, was of Salem 1637, there married March 1674, Elizabeth Smith, had Grace, born February 1677, who died soon; and died 1683 in the 80th year of his age.

WILLIAM BENNETT, Salem, married March 1675, widow Elizabeth Smith, had Grace, born February 1677, died soon.

WILLIAM BENNETT, Manchester, who died 20 November 1682, leaving wife Jane, children Moses, Aaron, Mary, besides grandchildren John, Aaron, and Abigail Croe, whose father is not of my acquaintance. See Essex Inst. III. 231.

WILLIAM BENNETT, Stonington, son of John Bennett, married 1678, Susanna Bright, had William, and Henry. Of this name, including those with single t, Farmer makes the graduates in 1834, six at Yale, and three at Harvard.

RALPH BENNING, Boston, by wife Ann, had Ralph, born 24 June 1661; died 14 November 1663, and his widow married 8 June following Henry Dering.

JOHN BENSON, Hingham, came from Southampton, 1638, in the Confidence, aged 30, with wife Mary, and children John, and Mary, under four years old, had grant of land at Hingham that year says Lincoln, 47. He was of Caversham in Oxfordshire, but both the names of place and person were strangely misspelt in Genealogical Registrar II. 109.

JOHN BENSON, Rochester, by wife Elizabeth, had Mary, born 10 March 1689; Sarah, 15 July 1690; Ebenezer, 16 March 1693; John, 10 June 1696. died soon; Joseph and Benjamin, twins 16 March 1697; Bennett, 10 September 1698; Martha, 5 March 1703; Joshua and Caleb, twins 29 January 1705; and Samuel, 22 March 1707.

JOSEPH BENSON, Hull, perhaps son of the preceding, freeman 1678, had, in December 1675, been soldier of Johnson's Company for the bloody Narragansett fight.

JOHN BENT, Sudbury, came in the Confidence, 1638, aged 35, from Southampton, a husbandman of Penton in the same company, with wife Martha, and children Robert, William, Peter, John, and Ann, all by custom house records under 12 years old; went home the same year to bring more of his family and came again next year in the Jonathan, had grant of land 1639, was freeman 13 May 1640, had Joseph, born 16 May 1641; Martha; and perhaps others. His mother Agnes, sister Agnes Blanchard, and her infant child died on the voyage in the Jonathan. He was one of the proprietors of Marlborough; but died at Sudbury 27 September 1672. His widow died 15 May 1679. His daughter Ann (I think called Agnes at a later day) married Edward Rice; and Martha married 1663, Samuel Howe. His will, made a few days before he died made wife Martha, and eldest son Peter executors, and gives to other sons Joseph, and John, daughter Agnes Rice, and her son John, daughter Martha, and her husband Samuel, his son John Howe, besides two grandchildren Peter, son of Peter Bent, and Hannah, daughter of John Bent.

JOHN BENT, Marlborough, son of the preceding, born in England, married 1 July 1658, Hannah Stone, daughter of John Stone, had Hannah, born 6 May 1661; and probably by second wife Martha Rice, daughter of Matthew Rice, had John, 29 November 1689; and David; and died September 1717. His estate was in Framingham.

JOSEPH BENT, Marlborough, youngest brother of the preceding, by wife Elizabeth, had Experience; Elizabeth, born 1673; and Joseph, 1675; and was killed that year by accidental shot of pistol in the head of Peter, son of his eldest brother Peter Bent.

JOSIAH BENT, Marshfield, married 30 June 1666, Elizabeth Bourne, perhaps daughter of John Bourne of the same.

PETER BENT, Sudbury, eldest son of the first John Bent, living at death of his father, by wife Elizabeth, had Peter, born 15 October 1603; Elizabeth, Patience; Agnes, 1661; Martha; John, 1663; Hopestill, 1672; and Zaccheus; besides John, again, 1676, born at Cambridge, whither the family probably removed for safety from the Indians. But Barry, 182, presumes this John to be son of Peter's son Peter Bent. Cambridge record shows John, son of Peter and Elizabeth, died 20 April 1676. The father died says Barry, probably in England about 1678.

JOHN BENTLEY, Charlestown, perhaps son of William Bentley, died 20 November 1690.

RICHARD BENTLEY, Charlestown, in 1690 had wife Margaret, and children Richard, born 5 January 1688, baptized 29 June 1690; John and Mary, twins 20, baptized 21 September 1690, both died soon; Sarah, baptized 27 March 1692, died soon; John, again, 9, baptized 15 September 1695; Joseph, 29 December 1696, baptized 3 January following; Anthony, baptized 5 March 1699; and Margaret, baptized 19 January 1701; but at his death 1709, only three sons and daughter Margaret partake his estate. Margaret married a Callum.

WILLIAM BENTLEY, a passenger to Boston, 1635, aged 47, in the Truelove, with John, 17, and Alice, 15, perhaps his children, but where he pitched his tent, is unknown to me, as also is any thing about Mary, a passenger the same year in the Defence, aged 20. Bentley is a parish in the deanery of Doncaster, and southern part of Yorkshire.

ANDREW BENTON, Milford, 1639, removed about 1660 to Hartford, died 1683, though Lambert says 1681, leaving by first wife these children Andrew, Samuel, Joseph, Mary, and Dorothy; and by second wife Ann Cole, daughter of John Cole of Hartford, who died 1686, these, Ebenezer, Lydia, and Hannah, who married Edward Scofield of Haddam.

DANIEL BENTON, Guilford 1669, son of Edward Benton of the same, died 1672, leaving widow.

EBENEZER BENTON, Guilford, son of Andrew Benton, married Abigail Graves, daughter of John Graves.

EDWARD BENTON, Guilford 1650, was of Hartford 1659, and again of Guilford 1669. His will of 7 March 1676, mentions children Zaccheus, a cripple, Edward, Hannah Akerly, perhaps wife of Thomas, Mary, who married 6 December 1666 Samuel Thorpe; Sarah Wright, Tabitha, who married 27 November 1684, Simon Simpson, Daniel, who was dead, and had made Andrew residing Legatee.

EDWARD BENTON, Wethersfield about 1660, perhaps son of the preceding, died 19 February 1698, aged 60, by Mary, left Samuel, Edward, Rebecca, Mary, Ellen, and Dorothy, all of full age, except Edward; but his youngest child Daniel, born March 1682, died at four months.

JOSEPH BENTON, Milford, son of Andrew Benton, married 10 February 1698, Sarah Waters, daughter of Bevil Waters of Hartford. This surname is found in New Hampshire.

HENRY BERESFORD, is the name of a soldier under Captain Turner, in Philip's war 1676, had a child at Charlestown next year.

GABRIEL BERNON, Newport, a Huguenot, son of Andre Bernon, born at Rochelle in France, 6 April 1644, escaped soon after, or, as one Representative has it, shortly before the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, though for his religion he suffered two years imprisonment, if tradition be correct, and came to Boston, residing some years here, and after 1691; but in 1718 was one of the chief supporters of the Church of England at Kingstown; and in his 92nd year at Providence, died 1 February 1736. By first wife Esther Leroy, daughter of Francois Leroy of Rochelle, had ten children (of which he brought eight), and by second wife who was Mary Harris, four more. See Knowles, 431. His only son died in early life; but the progeny of several daughters are known in our day; and one of them, Mary, married Gabriel Tourtellot, a fellow-passenger from France.

AMBROSE BERRY, Saco 1636, died and was buried 3 May 1661, leaving widow Ann; married 1653, as Ann Bully.

ANTHONY BERRY, Yarmouth 1643, was after of Gloucester, there, I think, married Elizabeth Travers, daughter probably of Henry Travers, for, in 1665, after death of Richard Window, who had married the widow of Travers, she claimed as his daughter-in-law.

EDWARD BERRY, Salem, a weaver, had Edward, born in England, and married about 1668, Elizabeth, widow of Roger Haskell, was of Marblehead 1679.

EDWARD BERRY, Salem, son of the preceding, brought by his father whose trade he followed from Devonshire.

JOHN BERRY, Ipswich, married 17 January 1671, Hannah Hodges, perhaps daughter of Andrew Hodges. She died 29 May 1676, and he married 24 January following Mary Chapman, daughter of Edward Chapman.

JOHN BERRY, Yarmouth, son of Richard Berry, had Judah, Ebenezer, Elizabeth, Experience, and Mary.

RICHARD BERRY, Barnstable, or Yarmouth, 1643, may have removed to Boston, there in 1647, lived with Thomas Hawkins, but went back to Yarmouth and had John, born 29 March 1652; one, 11 July 1654; Elizabeth, 5 March 1656; one, 12 May 1659; one, 23 August 1662; one, 16 October 1663; one, 5 October 1668; one, 1 June 1670; one, 31 October 1673; and one, 16 December 1677. Of the eight, whose names are not seen, Joseph, who died 7 September 1651, and Nathaniel, who died 7 February 1694, were two, but their dates of birth are not ascertained by the records. Elizabeth married 28 November 1677, Josiah Jones.

SAMUEL BERRY, Yarmouth, brother of John Berry of the same, married Elizabeth Bell, daughter of John Bell, had one daughter born 19 January 1683; Elizabeth, 21 December 1685, perhaps, as the last figure is lost; Patience, 22 June 1687; John, 9 July 1689; Samuel, November 1691; and Desire, 29 June 1694.

THOMAS BERRY, Boston 1668-73, a mariner, by wife Grace, who died 17 May 1695, aged about 58 years says her gravestone, had Thomas, born 1663.

THOMAS BERRY, Boston, the graduate of Harvard College 1685, who was dead before 1698, by Mather's catalogue, and in the succeeding, one hundred and sixty years remains with no nearer approximation to exact date, may have been son of the preceding. He had married 28 December 1686, Margaret Rogers, daughter of John Rogers, President of Harvard College, had removed to Ipswich, there had Elizabeth, born 20 September 1693; and Thomas Berry, 1695, Harvard College 1712. His widow married 25 November 1697, President Leverett.

WILLIAM BERRY, Portsmouth 1631, one of the people sent by Mason for his plantation. But in 1635 had removed to Newbury, there was administered freeman 18 May 1642, and died 1654. His daughter Elizabeth married about 1652, John Locke, and his widow Jane married Nathaniel Drake.

WILLIAM BERRY, Newcastle, perhaps son, perhaps grandson of the preceding, by wife Judah, had Elizabeth, born 15 October 1686; Nathaniel, 13 February 1689; Stephen, 18 January 1691; William, 18 November 1693; Jeremiah, 8 March 1695; Frederic, 15 January 1699; Abigail 15 March 1700; and Jane, 26 January 1702.

ELISHA BESBEDGE, ELISHA BESBITCH, or ELISHA BEESBEECH, Scituate, by Deane presumed to be son of Thomas Besbedge, born in England, came probably with him, had Hopestill, born 1645; John, 1647; Mary, 1648; Elisha, 1654; Hannah, 1656; all baptized at second church in Scituate, and Deane also gives him Martha, who married 1677, Jonathan Turner. He removed to Duxbury, and died 12 November 1695. Mary married 15 January 1678, Jacob Beals; and Hannah married 1687, Thomas Brooks. His son Elisha, according to Winsor, died 1715; but no more is told of him.

HOPESTILL BESBEDGE, HOPESTILL BESBITCH, or HOPESTILL BEESBEECH, Scituate, eldest son of Elisha Besbedge, had wife Sarah, who after his death, married 27 February 1696, Joseph Lincoln of Hingham; but whether he had children or no, I see not.

JOHN BESBEDGE, JOHN BESBITCH, or JOHN BEESBEECH, Duxbury, brother of Hopestill Besbedge, married 13 September 1687, Joanna Brooks, daughter of William Brooks, had Martha, born 13 October 1688; John, 15 September 1690; Elija, 29 January 1692; Mary, 28 March 1693; Moses, 20 October 1695; and Elisha.

THOMAS BESBEDGE, THOMAS BESBITCH, or THOMAS BEESBEECH, Scituate, came in the Hercules 1635, with six children and three servants, embarked at Sandwich, County Kent, was Deacon of the First Church of Scituate that he joined 30 April 1637, but removed to Duxbury, probably for the religious quarrels at Scituate, was Representative for Duxbury 1643. He was, by Deane, supposed to die early, but he had removed again, and died at Sudbury, 9 March 1674. His will, of 20 November 1672, probated 7 April 1674, is copious in genealogy, informed though beginning with order for burying his body at east end of the church, gives grandson Thomas, eldest son of daughter Mary, wife of William Brown of Sudbury, all the house and lands in the parishes of Hedcorn, and Frittenden, County Kent, in Old England, names great grandchildren Mary, Thankful, and Patience, daughters of said Thomas Brown, also other children of his daughter Mary, seven in number, viz. William, Edmund, Hopestill, Susanna, Elizabeth, Sarah, besides the eldest Mary, wife of Benjamin Rice of Scituate and her son Ebenezer, his great grandchild, also daughter Alice, wife of John Bourne of Marshfield, married 18 July 1645, and her son Thomas, the oldest child, and Sarah, the youngest, and the other sister. Without more exact designation also Experience, son of Joseph and Elizabeth Bent; made William and Edmund, son of his daughter Mary, executors, and Captain Hopestill Foster of Dorchester, overseer. His daughter Alice died May 1686. In records of Old England this name is very common. Besbeech, but in New England it becomes Bisby or Bisbee.

ANTHONY BESSEY, Lynn, came in the James 1635, from London, aged 26, removed 1637 to Sandwich, was many years active in holy service to the Indians. See 3 Massachusetts History Collections IV. 184. His will of 10 February 1657, names wife Jane, children Ann, Mary, Elizabeth, Nehemiah, and David; this last was born 23 May 1649. His daughter Ann married second Andrew Hallet as second wife. The inventory of his estate was taken 21 May 1657. His widow married next year George Barlow, and in her last will, 6 August 1693, probated 5 October following, names all the same children except Mary and David (who in that long interval may have died) called Ann Hallet, and Elizabeth Bodfish; but she adds to the list of children son John, and daughter Rebecca Hunter with daughters of said Rebecca, Alice, and Rebecca. Now this wife of Hunter was married 17 February 1671, and she was therefore born before the marriage of Barlow with her mother.

JOHN BEST, Salem, a tailor, came in the Hercules 1635, from Sandwich, was of the parish of St. George, city of Canterbury.

JOHN BEST, Salem, a currier, probably son of the preceding, married 10 October 1670, Susanna Duren, had John, born 5 September 1671 or 2; and Susanna, 28 January 1674. John senior and John junior were witnesses in the said witchcraft trial of Ann Pudeater, who was hanged.

ROBERT BEST, Sudbury, whose name is written Beast, by Barry, 184; in his will names not wife or children, but only cousin William Hunt, and his five children Samuel, Nehemiah, Isaac, Elizabeth, and Hannah.

RICHARD BETSCOMBE, or RICHARD BETSHAM, Hingham 1635, freeman 9 March 1637, had Ann, baptized August 1639. His wife died 6 June, 1644.

JOHN BETTS, Cambridge 1640, probably came 1634, aged 40, in the Francis from Ipswich, when the custom house officer spelled his name Beetes. See Boston News Letter of 1826, I. 266. In 1642 he had shares in "the farms," now Lexington, and died 21 February 1663, leaving I presume, no children. Of his estate only £67. 4. 8. by inventory, the widow Elizabeth had administration, and she died 2 January 1664, in her will of 10 December preceding, gives house to John Bridge, and legacies to more than 50. Bridge, who died about a year later, in his will speaks of his sister Betts. This man seems to me the same as he who made proposition to our Governor and Company in London, July, 1629, of divers things for the good and advancement of the plantation, and the benefit of the Company. See Colony record I. 48, or Young's Chronicles of Massachusetts 84.

JOHN BETTS, Wethersfield, before 1648 had John, who died at Huntington, Long Island, 1697, a daughter Abigail, and perhaps others, by wife Abigail, from whom he obtained a divorce in 1672. Probably he was son of a widow Mary Betts at Hartford 1640, and several years after.

JOHN BETTS, Charlestown 1678, had wife Mary, who died 5 February 1679; and second wife 17 June following, Elizabeth, had Mary, born8 March 1680; Richard, 21 October 1681; and Margaret, 5 January 1683;and he died 22 May 1684. His widow married John Fosdick and died 27 September 1717, aged 60.

RICHARD BETTS, Ipswich 1648, said to have come from Hemel Hempstead, County Herts, removed to Newtown, Long Island, 1656, there was in high esteem many years and about 18 November 1713, at the age of 100, to render which great number of years doubtful, the stupidity of tradition adds, that he dug his own grave, by wife Joanna, Riker says, he had Richard; Thomas; Joanna, who married John Scudder; Mary, who married Joseph Swazey; Martha, who married Philip Ketchum; Elizabeth, who was first wife of Joseph Sackett; and Sarah, who married Edward Hunt.

RICHARD BETTS, Newtown, Long Island, son of the preceding, died 4 November 1711, leaving Richard, Robert, Thomas, Sarah, Elizabeth, Joanna, Abigail, and Mary, besides widow Sarah, who may have been mother of all these children.

ROGER BETTS, Milford, 1658, had then grant of land but had been of New Haven 1644, where he took oath of fidelity and of Branford 1646, and died 31 August 1608. By wife Ann, he had Samuel, Peter, and Mercy all carried from Branford to New Haven for baptism 1 June 1651, of who Peter died in two years; besides Hannah, probably eldest of all; Roger, born 20 February 1602; and Mary. The widow married John Cabell of Fairfield, and died 1683, gives all her property to son Samuel, with order to pay legacies to the other children without naming them.

SAMUEL BETTS, Norwalk, son of Thomas Betts of the same, married 16 December 1692, Judith Reynolds, daughter of John Reynolds, had Mary, born 10 September 1693; Samuel, 28 October 1695; Stephen, 1 August 1698; Nathan, 5 November 1700; Hepzibah, 29 October 1703; and Judith, 25 August 1714.

THOMAS BETTS, Guilford 1650, Milford 1658, Norwalk 1664, in Hall's valuable History of Norwalk, page 62, is favored with larger number of children in 1672, than any other person, of who eight were born before he removed to Norwalk, viz. Thomas; John, born 30 June 1650; Hannah, 12 November 1652; Stephen, 10 May 1655, died young; David, 4 October 1657; these at Guildord, Samuel, 4 April 1660, at Milford; and James, Mary, and Sarah, born at Norwalk. He died 1688, aged 72, in his will of 10 May in that year named the five sons who in 1694 were all proprietors. As no mention of Hannah is seen, though she had married 13 November 1672, she may have died. Mary is called wife of John Raymond; and Sarah was unmarried.

THOMAS BETTS, Newtown, Long Island, son of Richard Betts the first, married about 1683, Mercy Whitehead, daughter of Daniel Whitehead, died 1709, and his widow married 1711 Joseph Sackett, as third wife. He left Richard; Thomas, born 14 August 1 689; Daniel; Mercy; Abigail; Joanna; Mary; Elizabeth, and Deborah.

WILLIAM BETTS, Dorchester, turner, had, I think, been at Barnstable, but first at Scituate, there had joined the church of Lothrop, 25 October 1635, and married February 1639, Alice, a maiden of the Bay, and removed with his minister to Barnstable, there had Hannah, baptized 26 January 1640; Samuel, 12 February 1643; and son Hope, 16 March 1645. In the list of those able to bear arms 1643, Genealogical Registrar IV. 258, it appears Beetes.

ARTHUR BEVANS, or ARTHUR BEVENS, Glastonbury, about 15 December 1697, leaving widow Mary, and twelve children born 1676-1696, of which no particulars are designated.

BENJAMIN BEVANS, or BENJAMIN BEVENS, Farmington, had Benjamin and John, there baptized 1 December 1689.

ROWLAND BEVANS, or ROWLAND BEVENS, Boston, before 1660, sold his estate to Daniel Stone.

HUGH BEWETT, HUGH BUET, or HUGH BUITT, banished from Massachusetts for heresy, 1640, under pain of death, and to be hanged, if he come back. See Colony record I. 312, and Winthrop II. 19. This was in December and he went forthwith to Providence, where he filled many years offices of importance, by frequent elections. Staples in his Annals of Providence, is the evidence of all his good desert; but the name disappears with him, and no wife or children is told of. See Arnold's History of R. 1. Volume 1.

GREGORY BEXTER, is the false official copy, printed in Genealogical Registrar V. 334, and truly means Baxter. I wish no worse perversions perplexed some of our records.

JOHN BIBBLE, Boston 1637, Malden 1644, died July 1653. His widow Sibell married January 1659, Miles Nutt, and next, 30 October 1674, John Doolittle. Ann, probably his daughter, was a favorer, 1651, of Matthews, and, I think, became wife of Robert Jones of Hull, where the father died. See Genealogical Registrar IX. 306.

JOHN BICKNELL, Wymouth, by wife Mary, had Naomi, born 21 June 1637; Ruth, 26 October 1660; Joanna, 2 March 1663; Experience, 20 October 1665; Zachary, 7 February 1668; Thomas, 27 August 1670; Elizabeth, 29 April 1673; and Mary, 15 March 1678; besides one, 10 April 1682, whose name appears not on the record, was Representative 1677.

JOHN BICKNELL, Weymouth, perhaps son of the preceding, by wife Sarah, had John, born 24 November 1688; Zechariah, 28 October 1691; Benjamin, 8 June 1694; Joseph, 28 February 1699; and probably other children.

RICHARD BICKNELL, Pemaquid, freeman 1674, but in the list he is called Bucknell.

ZACHARY BICKNELL, Weymouth, probably brother of the first John Bicknell, unless it be likely that he was father and died before March 1637, when William Read bought his house.

ZECHARIAH BICKNELL, Weymouth, son of John Bicknell the first, by wife Hannah, had Zechariah, born 9 January 1695.

JOHN BICKNOR, or JOHN BICKNER, Charlestown, perhaps son of William Bicknor, died 4 January 1679, aged about 30 years.

JOSEPH BICKNOR, or JOSEPH BICKNER, Charlestown, son of Thomas Bicknor, served in Captain William Turner's Company in Philip's war.

SAMUEL BICKNOR, or SAMUEL BICKNER, Charlestown 1678, perhaps brother of the preceding. He married 2 December 1669, Hannah Bell.

THOMAS BICKNOR, or THOMAS BICKNER, Charlestown, perhaps brother of William Bicknor, had Joseph, born 8 December 1655.

WILLIAM BICKNOR, or WILLIAM BICKNER, Charlestown 1658, died 16 August 1659, leaving widow Martha, by whom he had Benjamin, born 14 September 1656; and Martha, 28 December 1658. Elder children were Samuel, aged 13; John, 11; Sarah, 10; another died 8. Often this name is seen Bicknell, or Bignall, or even, I think, Buckner.

JOHN BIDDLE, Hartford 1639, died 1687, leaving John, Joseph, Samuel, and Daniel, besides daughters Sarah House, Hannah Waddams, born 2 October 1644, and Mary Meekins, probably wife of John Meekins of Hartford.

JOHN BIDDLE, Hartford, son of the preceding, married 7 November 1678, Sarah Wells, daughter of Thomas Wells, perhaps second wife died 3 July 1692, leaving John, born 1 September 1679; Hannah, 31 August 1680; Sarah, 19 August 1681; Thomas, 27 December 1682; Jonathan, 5 March 1684; David, 1687; and James, 1691.

JOSEPH BIDDLE, Marshfield, married 28 October 1636, widow Rachel Deane (who had come over the year before in the Planter, aged 31), and died 1672, leaving no children but gives estate to his wife, to her daughter Martha (who married 28 December 1674, James Clement, and next James Powell), and to his servant Jacob Bumpus, besides Reverend Mr. Arnold, as in his will of 17 April 1671.

SAMUEL BIDDLE, Hartford, son of the first John Biddle, married Elizabeth Stow, daughter of Thomas Stow, who died early, and for second wife took, I think, Sarah Harris, daughter of Daniel Harris. This name, sometimes spelled Biddell, or Beadle, may be the same as Bedell, and easily becomes Bidwell, so that Honorable Barnabas Bidwell, M.C. from Massachusetts, son of Reverend Adonijah Bidwell, was thought to be of this family.

SAMUEL BIDFIELD, SAMUEL BEDFIELD, or SAMUEL BETTFIELD, Boston, cooper, freeman 2 June 1641, and my conjecture is, since his name is not found in our list of church members that he was living then at Braintree, but was a constable of Boston 1652, had two daughters, and died 1660. By his will, of 12 May 1659, he provided for wife Elizabeth, son Samuel Plummer, who had, I suppose, married his daughter Mary, and John and Samuel Stevens, children of his daughter Elizabeth, and William son of Newbury, deceased, and at Newbury. I suppose he lived after 1652, and died. His inventory of 13 September 1660, shows good estate. See Drake's History of Boston, 250 and 331, with Genealogical Registrar X. 83.

BIDGOOD, or BETGOOD, Boston, merchant from Romsey in Hants, came in the Confidence from Southampton, 1638, was of Ipswich 1642.

DANIEL BIGELOW, DANIEL BAGULEY, or DANIEL BIGLOW, Sudbury, of that part which became Framingham, son of the first John Bigelow, married Abial Pratt, daughter of Thomas Pratt of Watertown, had Abigail, born 28 October 1689; Daniel, 24 November 1691; Abiel, 20 January 1693; Susanna, 4 May 1696; Ephraim, 12 May 1698; and Lydia, 2 January 1702.

JAMES BIGELOW, JAMES BAGULEY, or JAMES BIGLOW, Watertown, youngest brother of the preceding, married 25 March 1687, Patience Brown, daughter of Jonathan Brown, had James, baptized 6 May 1688. His wife died soon; and he married 3 July 1693, Elizabeth Child, youngest daughter of John Child of the same, had John, 15 November 1694; Patience, 30 September 1695; and Abraham, 12 November 1699. This second wife died 20 April 1697, and he married next 15 June 1708, Joanna Erickson of Boston, and died 20 January 1728. His widow married within a year Adam Smith.

JOHN BIGELOW, JOHN BAGULEY, or JOHN BIGLOW, Watertown 1636, blacksmith, found by Mr. Somerby to be son of Randle Bigelow of Wrentham in County Suffolk, and baptized 16 February 1617, of course by the hand of Reverend John Philip, the rector, who came to our country two years after Bigelow, and lived some time at Dedham, but on the overthrow of the Bishops' domination in England, went back to his old living. He married 30 October 1642, Mary Warren, daughter of John Warren, who, Bond says, was the earliest marriage on town record. Had John, born 27 October following; Jonathan, 11 December 1646; Mary, 14 or 18 March 1649; Daniel, 1 December 1650; Samuel, 28 October 1653; Joshua, 5 November 1655; Elizabeth, 15 or 18 June 1657; Sarah, 29 September 1659; James; Martha, 1 April 1662; Abigail, 4 February 1664; Hannah, March 1666, died very soon, as did, also, a son without name in December 1667. His wife died 19 October 1691, and he married 2 October 1694, Sarah Bemis, daughter of Joseph Bemis of Watertown, and died 14 July 1703. His will of 4 January of that year was probated 28 July following. His inventory shows good estate.

JOHN BIGELOW, JOHN BAGULEY, or JOHN BIGLOW, Hartford 1668, son of the preceding, married Rebecca Butler, daughter, as Bond says, of Jonathan Butler, but another friend had taught me, that it was George Butler, and died without issue, 1722; gives his estate to Jonathan, son of Samuel Butler. By one report, his wife was Mary.

JONATHAN BIGELOW, JONATHAN BAGULEY, or JONATHAN BIGLOW, Hartford, brother of the preceding, married about 1671, Rebecca Shepard, daughter of Sergeant John Shepard, by her, had Jonathan, born 1673; Rebecca; John; Mary, who by Goodwin was erronous called daughter of the second wife Sarah; and Violet; whose dates are not known, but all these living to marry. For second wife he took Mary Olcott, daughter of Samuel Olcott, and by her had Samuel, baptized 13 March 1687, died soon; Abigail, 2 November 1690; Daniel, 26 March 1693; and Samuel, again, 31 March 1695; besides an infant buried 5 March 1697, two days before its mother. He married third wife Mary Benton, but had no children by her, who after his death, married 19 March 1713, Deacon John Shepard, and died 23 December 1752.

JOSHUA BIGELOW, JOSHUA BAGULEY, or JOSHUA BIGLOW, Watertown, youngest son of John Bigelow the first, married 20 October 1676, Elizabeth Flagg, daughter of Thomas Flagg, had Joshua, born 25 November 1677; Jonathan, 22 March 1680; John, 20 December 1681; Benjamin, 20 January 1684; Mercy, 1686; Elizabeth, 3 August 1687; David, 30 April 1694; Joseph, 29 December 1695; Daniel, baptized 29 August 1697; Ebenezer, born 4 September 1698; Gershom, September 1701; and Eliezer, 14 March 1705. His wife died 1729. In Philip's war he was wounded but lived to be near 90, died 21 February 1745 at Westminster, whither, with his youngest son he removed only three years before. The late Honorable Timothy Bigelow, Harvard College 1786, was grandson of Daniel Bigelow, son of this Joshua Bigelow, so that the error of Bond, 841, is plain, though not uncommon, in suppressing a generation.

SAMUEL BIGELOW, SAMUEL BAGULEY, or SAMUEL BIGLOW, Watertown, brother of the preceding, married 3 June 1674, Mary Flagg, daughter of Thomas Flagg (of who children, two others married other children of the first John Bigelow), had John, born 9 May 1675; Mary, 12 September 1677; Samuel, 18 September 1679; Sarah, 1 October 1681; Thomas, 24 October 1683; Martha, 4 April 1686; Abigail, 7 May 1687; Isaac, 19 March 1690; and Deliverance, 22 September 1695. He was administered freeman 1690; his wife died 1720; and he died about 1731. The Reverend Jacob Bigelow, Harvard College 1766, was son of Jacob Bigelow, grandson of Thomas Bigelow, and great grandson of this Samuel Bigelow. Many variations in spelling of this family name will be found in early records but the graduates at Harvard in 1834, either with two or three syllables, amount to eighteen, two at Yale, one at Dartmouth, and five at other New England colleges.

JOHN BIGGS, or JOHN BIGG, Boston 1630, came probably with Winthrop, and is among the first hundred members of our church, freeman 4 March 1634; removed next year to Ipswich, yet came back; soon, and was one of the favorers of Wheelwright, disarmed November 1637. His first wife Mary died 10 January 1650. Probably he was some years of Dorchester, next at Exeter, but was of Artillery Company 1641, and died June 1666. For second wife he had Mary Dassett, daughter of John Dassett, who outlived him, and another husband Captain John Minot, who died August 1669, and she died about 1676. One Rachell Biggs, a widow, came in the Elizabeth, 1635, from London, lived at Dorchester, who in her will of 17 November 1646, calls her son aged, names Hopestill Foster her nephew, and he, I judge, was a fellow passenger, and to him she gives her property. In the record at the custom house a curious error may be seen, as printed by me in 3 Massachusetts History Collections VIII. 261, carefully taking at her Majesty's Remembrancer Office, formerly in Westminster Hall, since removed to Carlton Ride, gives her age 6.

THOMAS BIGGS, or THOMAS BIGG, Exeter 1652-7, may have been son of the preceding.

WILLIAM BIGGS, or WILLIAM BIGG, Middletown, died 1681, leaving six children, William, aged 15; Mary, 14; Thomas, 9; Elizabeth, 8; Sarah, 6; and John, 4. He had been, on account of his age, in October 1676, excused from poll tax.

JAMES BILL, Boston, came probably with his mother 1638, by wife Mehitable, had James, born 23 November 1651; Jonathan; Joseph; and Joshua. He was freeman 1683.

JOHN BILL, Boston, came in the Hopewell, Captain Bundocke, 1635, aged 13, embarked at London early in April, and may be the same who died December 1638. Among passengers at London, the same week, by the Planter, in the custom house record, is named Mary Bill, aged 11.

PHILIP BILL, New London, on Stonington side, came about 1665, from Ipswich in Massachusetts bringing, perhaps, Philip, Samuel, John, and Elizabeth, had there Jonathan, baptized 5 November 1671; and Joshua, 29 December 1675; and died 8 July 1689, leaving widow Hannah, who married Samuel Buckland.

PHILIP BILL, New London, son of the preceding, was constable 1689, on Groton side, had Margaret, who died the same day with her grandfather. This family is still in Connecticut.

SAMUEL BILL, New London, brother, I presume, of the preceding, married before 1670 probably Mercy Haughton, daughter of Richard Haughton, and no more is known to me.

SAMUEL BILL, Boston, son of Thomas Bill of the same, had wife Elizabeth, and children Richard, and Samuel, who was old enough to be married 1702 to Sarah Shapley; and he died 18 August 1705.

THOMAS BILL, Boston, Artillery Company 1657, married 14 January 1653, widow Elizabeth Nicholas (Elizabeth Sargent), and daughter of William Sargent, brought by him from London to Malden, had Samuel; Sargent, born 26 February 1658; and his wife died next week. By second wife Abigail Willis, daughter of Michael Willis, he had Sarah, born 18 September 1659; Mary, 15 August 1661; Thomas, 24 December 1664; Susanna, 18 March 1666; Michael, 27 December 1667; and Jacob, 31 October 1669; was freeman 1671, and died 29 October 1696. Some presumption that he was brother of James Bill is encouraged because both were members of the Second Church.

EBENEZER BILLINGS, or EBENEZER BlLLlNG, Dorchester, son of Roger Billings the first, married Hannah Wales, daughter of John Wales, had Richard Billings, born 21 September 1675, Harvard College 1698, minister of Little Compton; Ebenezer, 13 July 1677; Zipporah, 20 March 1679; Jonathan, 24 April 1681, baptized 17 July following at Roxbury; Elizabeth, 8 March 1683; Hepzibah, 11 May 1685; Mary, 22 June 1687; Benjamin, 31 May 1689; Samuel, 30 April 1691; Beriah and Bezaleel, twins 24 December 1692 ; Hannah, 3 January 1697; and Elkanah, 1698. He was freeman 1690 ; and his widow Hannah, died 19 October 1732.

EBENEZER BILLINGS, or EBENEZER BlLLlNG, Stonington, son probably of the first William Billings of the same, by wife Ann, had Ann, born 7 October 1681; Ebenezer, 1 January 1684; William, 4 April 1686; James, 4 October 1688; Zipporah, 16 May 1691; Margaret, 11 September 1693; Jemima, baptized 26 May 1695; Increase, born 15 May 1697; and Thankful, 5 July 1698.

JOHN BILLINGS, or JOHN BlLLlNG, Portsmouth 1640, was one of the children inhabitants, freeman 1660. Belknap I. 28.

JOHN BILLINGS, or JOHN BlLLlNG, Concord, son of Nathaniel Billings, married 11 November 1661, Elizabeth Hastings, and died 1704.

JOSEPH BILLINGS, or JOSEPH BlLLlNG, Braintree, grandson perhaps, of the first Roger Billings, as in his will appears, by wife Hannah, had Elizabeth, born 13 July 1691; Hannah, 23 March 1693; and Joseph, 17 May 1695.

NATHANIEL BILLINGS, or NATHANIEL BlLLlNG, Concord, freeman 2 June 1641, had Nathaniel, and John, wrote his name Billin, and died 24 August 1673.

NATHANIEL BILLINGS, or NATHANIEL BlLLlNG, Concord, the freeman of 1673, was probably son of the preceding.

RICHARD BILLINGS, or RICHARD BlLLlNG, Hartford 1650, who as Hinman, 115, says, was in the Colony before 1640, removed 1661, to Hadley, the west side of the river that became Hatfield, there died 13 March 1679; and his wife Margery, by whom he had only child Samuel, died 5 December following.

ROGER BILLINGS, or ROGER BlLLlNG, Dorchester 1640, freeman 10 May 1643, by wife Mary, had only Mary, born 10 July 1643, who died in few months, and the wife lived not long. By second wife Hannah, he had Mary, again, baptized 23 November 1645; Hannah; Joseph; Ebenezer; Samuel; both baptized 26 October 1651; Roger, born 18 November 1657; Elizabeth, 27 October 1659; and Zipporah, 21 May 1662, died at 14 years. This wife died 20 May 1662 or 3; and by third wife Elizabeth, daughter of John Pratt, who outlived him, had Jonathan, who died 14 January 1678; and the father died 15 November 1683, by his will provided for wife Joseph, son of deceased son Joseph; his own Ebenezer and Roger; son-in-law, John Penniman, who had married 24 February 1665, his daughter Hannah; and daughter Mary with her son Moses. She had married 15 December 1663, Samuel Belcher of Braintree. Seven pages in Thayer's Genealogical Registrar are filled by his descendants.

ROGER BILLINGS, or ROGER BlLLlNG, Dorchester, son of the preceding, married 22 January 1678, Sarah Paine, daughter of the first Stephen Paine of Braintree, had Hannah, born 21 January 1679; Joseph, 27 May 1681; John, 10 March 1683; Roger, 9 January 1685; William, 27 July 1686; Sarah, 27 February 1689; Stephen, 27 August 1691; Moses, 20 November 1696; Ann, 4 August 1698; Abigail, 15 February 1700; Elizabeth, 11 January 1702; and Isaac Billings, 9 July 1703, Harvard College 1724. All these children were living at the death of their mother 19 September 1742. But the newspaper that relates the death of the widow does not inform us when the father died, yet it magnifies the wonder by making as many daughters as sons, fourteen in all, and all alive.

SAMUEL BILLINGS, or SAMUEL BlLLlNG, Newport 1655, married 5 January 1658, Seaborn Tew, daughter of Richard Tew, had Amie, born 20 October following; Mary, 5 April 1662; and perhaps more on Friends' record at Rhode Island,.

SAMUEL BILLINGS, or SAMUEL BlLLlNG, Hadley, son of Richard Billings of the same, married 1661, Sarah Fellows, daughter of Richard Fellows, had Sarah, who died 15 July 1674; Samuel, born 8 January 1665; Ebenezer, 29 October 1669; Richard, 7 April 1672; John, 11 October 1671; and Sarah, again, 1676; and he died February 1678. His son John was killed by the Indians 15 July 1698. Descendants are very numerous in that region.

WILLIAM BILLINGS, or WILLIAM BlLLlNG, Dorchester, or perhaps Braintree, a proprietor 1654, of Lancaster, married at Dorchester 12 February 1658, Mary, whose surname is not seen in the records. Perhaps he removed to New London, where Miss Caulkins shows a William, in 1667, fined for neglect of training, and very soon after to Stonington, there had William, Joseph, Mary, and Lydia, baptized 1 September 1672. Of these Mary died young, and Joseph, probably before his father, another Mary he brought to baptism March 1675. He died 16 March 1713, in his will mentions his children William, Ebenezer, and six daughters, but their names are not read.

WILLlAM BILLINGS, or WILLIAM BlLLlNG, Stonington, son probably of the preceding, who by wife Hannah, had Abigail and Dorothy, perhaps not twins but baptized 1 July 1677; Elizabeth, 25 September 1679; Patience, 4 March 1683; Joseph, and Mary, 29 May 1692; and Prudence, 9 December 1694. Graduates in 1829, Farmer found eight at Yale, four at Harvard, and three at other New England colleges.

FRANCIS BILLINGTON, Plymouth, younger son of John Billington, born in England married 1634, Christian, widow of Francis Eaton, removed before 1648, to Yarmouth, and Governor Bradford in 1650, tells that he had eight children. Of them I can hardly name half, and the order is imperfectly ascertained. One was, I presume, Rebecca, born 8 June 1647; but older must have been Martha, who married 10 January 1661, Samuel Eaton; older than her, perhaps, was Isaac, one of the founders of the First Church at Middleborough, who died 11 December 1709, aged 66; another whose name appears not on the record was born 25 February 1652; and Mary, who married 27 June 1681, John Martin, perhaps as second wife.

JOHN BILLINGTON, Plymouth 1620, came in the Mayflower with wife Helen, and two sons John, who died before his father but after the division of cattle in 1627, and Francis, before mentioned. He was hanged for murder in 1630, of John Newcomen. See Bradford's History 276, and Winthrop I. 36.

ROBERT BILLS, or ROBERT BILLES, Charlestown, came 1635 in the Pied Cow, a husbandman, aged 32, and died 15 December of the same year. Administration of his estate was given 1638 to John Knowles, who had, probably in England, married his sister, widow of Ephraim Davis. See Genealogical Registrar XII. 54. But of John Knowles's residence we can be sure of no more, than that it was not Watertown.

THOMAS BILLS, or THOMAS BILLES, Barnstable, perhaps son of William Bills, married 3 October 1672, Ann Twining, probably daughter of William Twining, had Ann, born 28 June 1673; and Elizabeth, 23 August 1675. His wife died nine days after, and he married 2 May 1676, Joanna Twining, daughter of another William Twining and niece of the former wife. Had Nathaniel, 25 June 1677; Mary, 14 April 1679; Mehitable, 26 March 1681; Thomas, 22 March 1684; Gershom, 5 June 1686; and Joanna, 2 December 1688. Most of these were born at Eastham.

WILLIAM BILLS, or WILLIAM BILLES, Barnstable 1640, one of the first settlers.

NATHANIEL BlNGHAM, Windham, son of Thomas Bingham the first, married 25 July 1705, Sarah Lobdell, had Isaac, born 1 July 1709; Mehitable, 21 November 1713; and Jeremiah, 27 January 1716; was Deacon, and died 16 December 1754. His widow died 28 June 1763.

THOMAS BlNGHAM, Norwich, married 12 December 1666, Mary Rudd, had Thomas, born 11 December 1667; Abel, 25 June 1669; Mary, July 1672; Jonathan, 15 April 1674; Ann, August 1677; Abigail, 4 November 1679; Nathaniel, 3 October 1681; Deborah, 18 December 1683; Samuel, 28 March 1685; Joseph, 15 January 1688; and Stephen, April 1690; removed to Windham, there was Deacon, and died 16 January 1730, aged about 88. His wife had died 4 August 1726, about 78 years old.

THOMAS BlNGHAM, Norwich, son of the preceding, married 17 February 1692, Hannah Backus, daughter of William Backus, and died 1 April 1710. Caulkins.

THOMAS BINGLEY, Boston 1665, married 1673, Abigail, daughter of Thomas Buttolph, widow of David Saywell.

WILLIAM BINGLEY, Newbury 1659, married 27 February 1660, Elizabeth Preston, had William, born 24 February 1662; and probably Elizabeth, who married John Chase.

JOHN BINNEY, Hull 1679, may have come few years before, by wife Mercy, had John, born 31 May 1680; Samuel, 1681; Mercy, 15 December 1682; Isaac, 25 June 1685; Thomas, 3 February 1687; and Elizabeth, 3 December 1690, married 12 December 1710 George Vickers of Hull. He died 10 November 1698, and his widow Mary died 19 January 1709.

JOHN BINNEY, Hull, son of the preceding, married 3 May 1704, Hannah Paine, daughter probably of the second Thomas Paine of the same, had John, born 23 April 1705; Joshua, 26 January 1707; Mercy, 5 May 1709, died at 17 years; Amos, 5 February 1711; Elkanah, 28 December 1715; Hannah, 18 October 1717; Dorcas, 20 June 1721; Barnabas, 22 March 1723; and Phebe, 11 November 1725; was Deacon 1734, town clerk, and treasurer. Married second wife November 1757, Sarah Crosby, and died 30 June 1759. Amos Binney was progenitor of the Boston family and Barnabas Binney was grandfather of the distinguished lawyer of Philadelphia Horace, Harvard College 1797, LL.D.

SAMUEL BINNEY, Hull, brother of the preceding, married 11 November 1701, Rebecca Vickers, and died 12 February 1724, had Elizabeth, born 25 December 1702; Samuel, 4 December 1704; Isaac, 19 December 1706; Rebecca; and Caleb.

THOMAS BINNEY, Boston, brother of the preceding, by wife Margaret, who died 16 September 1743, had eleven children of who Jonathan was one, who went to Halifax, Nova Scotia 1753, and was progenitor of the families in that province of this name.

BRYAN BINKS, or BRYAN BINCKS, sometimes BRYAN BRINKS, Boston, with Peter Johnson, was agent of the husbandmen's Company of adventurers, whose little vessel, the Plough, from London, with ten passengers 1632, was disabled on the voyage from Boston to the West Indies, therefore put back, and was here broken up. From England she had come to Sagadahoc. He went to Virginia. Winth I. 58 and 60.

THOMAS BIRCH, Dorchester, who died 3 October 1657, in his will of 4 June 1654, speaks of six children, though Joseph (eldest son perhaps eldest child having double portion), Jeremiah, and Mary only are named. No dates of the births of either being known, I much incline to suppose, that some, if not all, were born in England.

JAMES BIRCHARD, JAMES BURCHARD, or JAMES BIRCHALL, Norwich, son of John Birchard of the same, married 17 March 1696, Elizabeth Beckwith, daughter probably of second Matthew Beckwith, had, besides several daughters whose names are not seen, James, born 1699; Matthew, 1702; John, 1704; and Daniel, 1718; was living 1745, then called "old James Birchard".

JOHN BIRCHARD, JOHN BURCHARD, or JOHN BIRCHALL, Boston 1655, son of Thomas Birchard, born in England, married 22 July 1653, Christian Andrews, removed to Norwich before 1660, had Thomas, born October 1654, died at four years; Catharine, 1656, died soon; John, 1657, died next year; John, again, 1659, died young; Mary 1661, died young; Samuel, 15 July 1663; James, 16 July 1665; Abigail, November 1667; Thomas, again, January 1669; John, again, February 1671; Joseph, February 1673; Benjamin, 1675, died same year; Mary, again, June 1677; and Daniel, November 1680. He was a man of note, and action clerk of the County Court in 1673, in 1692, was one of the purchasers of Lebanon, with youngest three sons removed to plant the town, and died there 17 November 1702, leaving widow Jane, who may have been mother of none of these children. See Caulkins, History of Norwich, 98.

SAMUEL BIRCHARD, SAMUEL BURCHARD, or SAMUEL BIRCHALL, New London, son of John Birchard of Norwich, married about 1695, Ann Caulkins, daughter of David Caulkins of the same, had Samuel, baptized 2 May 1697; and Ann, 26 October 1701; and probably he removed.

THOMAS BIRCHARD, THOMAS BURCHARD, or THOMAS BIRCHALL, Roxbury, came in the Truelove from London 1635, aged 40, with wife Mary, 38, and probably children Elizabeth, 13; Mary, 12; Sarah, 9; Susan, 8; John, 7; and Ann, 18 months; was administered freeman 17 May 1637; when the spelling is Bircher, yet in the custom house record at London was given Burchard, and he wrote it Birchwood; removed to Hartford, where he had been an original proprietor though not a first settler. Again removed to Saybrook, of where he was Representative 1650 and 1, and died 1684. Plausible conjecture may be raised that he went back to Roxbury, where it appears by the church record "goodwife Birchard was buried 24 March 1655," and as the town record is silent, it would be thought that she was on a visit to her old friends, and it might be suggested that they lived within the edge of Dorchester, where the record gives death of one Thomas Birchard 3 October 1637. Sarah married 1647, at Hartford, Bartholomew Barnard. See Porter, 9, 23, and 43; and Hawes, 79.

THOMAS BIRCHARD, THOMAS BURCHARD, or THOMAS BIRCHALL, Norwich, son of John Birchard of the same, married 1708, Sarah Webb, had Thomas, born next year but no more can be found of him.

JAMES BIRD, Hartford 1657, son of Thomas Bird the first, was administered freeman 21 May of that year with his brother Joseph Bird, married 31 March 1657, Lydia Steele, daughter of John Steele of Farmington, whither he removed, had James; Thomas; Hannah; Rebecca; Lydia; Mehitable, baptized 12 March 1682; and Elizabeth, 23 November 1684. He died 1708; but his widow Lydia lived to 1759, as is said; no doubt, however, without truth.

JAMES BIRD, Dorchester, son of Thomas Bird of the same, was a tanner, had wife Mary, and children James, baptized 16 February 1673; Eunice, 23 July 1682; Ebenezer, 10 February 1684; a daughter Bebee, 22 August 1686; Priscilla, 20 May 1688; and Henry, 23 March 1690; was freeman 1690, died 1 September 1733.

NATHANIEL BIRD, Ipswich, had grant of land 1641, yet probably Farmer mistook the Christian name; and there was at Ipswich that year a widow Bird.

JOHN BIRD, administered freeman of Massachusetts 1645, of who I can find no more.

JOHN BIRD, Dorchester, son of Thomas Bird of the same, married Elizabeth Williams, daughter of Richard Williams of Taunton, had John, baptized 14 April 1672; Abiel, 27 April 1673; Damaris, born 18, baptized 19 September 1675; Hannah, baptized 23 December 1677; a child whose name is not seen, 16 May 1680; Elizabeth, 7 January 1683; Deiton, a daughter 23 October 1687; and Silence, 2 February 1690; was selectman 1694, 5 and 6, and died 2 August 1732. His wife had died 20 October 1724, aged 77.

JOSEPH BIRD, Hartford, son of the first Thomas Bird, had Elizabeth, Samuel, Nathaniel, Thomas, James, Joseph, Mary, and Mindwell. In 1679 he lived at Farmington, where the last named child was baptized 27 February 1681; and died 1695.

SIMON BIRD, Boston, came 1635, aged 20, in the Susan and Ellen, from London, where he had learned bad tricks, for in October of that year he was sentenced to be whipped, though not the worst of a set of boys, that ran away from their master, stole a boat, etc. See Colony record I. 162. He lived at Winisemit, or Rumney marsh, now Chelsea, was freeman 1644, but excommunicated in July 1646, restored soon after, and sober enough to be made constable 1655, removed to Billerica, there died 7 July 1666. His will, of 4 January preceding, names several cousins, but no children and made his wife Mary executrix.

THOMAS BIRD, Hartford, died before 1653, leaving besides James and Joseph, before mentioned, two daughters who all moved to Farmington, and there all four had families.

THOMAS BIRD, Scituate 1627, or later, though in his History 221, Deane mentioned a tradition in favor of 1623, which he did not stigmatize as he should.

THOMAS BIRD, Dorchester, 1640, by wife Ann, who died 20 August 1673, had Thomas, born 4 May 1640, baptized 18 July 1641; John, 11 March 1642, baptized that year; Samuel, 1644, baptized that year; James, 1647; Sarah, baptized 12 August 1649, who died 2 April 1669; and Joseph, who died 26 September 1665. He made his will, 12 July 1666, and died 8 June following in his 64th year.

THOMAS BIRD, Dorchester, eldest son of the preceding, a tanner, married 2 April 1665, Thankful Atherton, daughter of Humphrey Atherton, had Joseph, Thankful, Sarah, Thomas, Ann, Mary, Submit, and Mercy, all baptized 24 June 1683, "the mother very lately administered to full communion"; Patience, 9 December following; and Benjamin, 6 June 1686, "then 2 or 3 months old." He was freeman 1690, and died 30 January 1710, and his widow died 11 April 1719, aged 77 years. Of this name, in 1829, Farmer found graduates, four at Yale, two at Harvard, and two at other colleges in New England.

JOHN BIRDEN, a graduate of Harvard college 1647, went to England to exercise his faculties, indicated by Italic types, and that is all that is known of him.

GILES BIRDLEY, Ipswich 1648, had wife Elizabeth, and children Andrew, born September 1657; James, 10 February 1660; Giles, 13 July 1662; and John; and died 1668. His will of 18 July was probated 20 September in that year

TYLER BIRDLEY, Ipswich 1648, brother perhaps of the preceding, if such be the true spelling. Of the surname, of which some doubt is felt, Mr. Hammatt, the judicious critic of Ipswich annals, thought it the same as Burley.

JOHN BIRDSEYE, Milford 1639, removed with wife Philippa, before 1649 to Stratford, there was eminent for service in church and town. Trumbull, I. 109. He died according to family record about 1694, aged 73. In his will of 22 August 1689 he names second wife Alice Tomlinson, widow of Henry Tomlinson, married October 1688, and confirms their contract of marriage, also mentioned son John, born March 1642; and daughter Joanna, November 1642, wife of Timothy Wilcockson, married 28 December 1664.

JOHN BIRDSEYE, Stratford 1668, was son of the preceding, married 11 December 1669, Phebe Willcockson, daughter of William Willcockson, had Hannah, born February 1671; Mary, November 1675; Sarah, Mary 1678, died next year; Abel, November 1679; Joseph, February 1682; and Dinah, 1688; and died 1697. His widow died 20 September 1743, aged 92. Died February 1698, leaving widow Phebe, and children Hannah, aged 26; Abel, 19; Joseph, 16; and Dinah, 9 years; Reverend Nathan Birdseye, Yale 1736, died 1818 at Stratford in 103d year. Variations in spelling this name shows Birdsey and Burdsie.

DANIEL BIRGE, Windsor, son of Richard Birge, married 5 November 1668, Deborah Holcomb, daughter of Thomas Holcomb, had Elizabeth, born 25 April 1670; died young; Deborah 26 November 1671; Elizabeth, again, 3 February 1675; Mary, 25 December 1677; Daniel, 16 September 1680; and Abigail, June 1685. The wife died 26 May following,and by second wife he had John, 19 September 1689; Cornelius, 30 July 1694; and Esther, 1697. He died 26 January 1698, when the eight children were living to partake estate with the widow.

JOHN BIRGE, Windsor, brother of the preceding, married 28 May 1679, Hannah Watson, youngest daughter of Robert Watson of the same, had John, born 4 February 1680; Hannah, 1681; but Stiles says, 17 June 1682;--also, for 1685, he has 22 September 1686;--also, for 1687, 9 September 1688; Jeremiah, 1685; and Mary, 1687. His wife died 24 July 1690; and he died 2 December 1697, leaving no other children.

JOSEPH BIRGE, Windsor, youngest brother of the preceding, had wife Mary, who died 11 April 1690. He died December 1705, and next month his son Joseph chose a guardian. Other children he had elder, but their names are unknown.

RICHARD BIRGE, Windsor 1636, so that we may judge he had been of Dorchester, married 5 October 1641, Elizabeth Gaylord, only daughter of William Gaylord, had Daniel, born 24 November 1644; Elizabeth, 28 July 1646, died soon; Jeremy, 6 May 1648, who was killed 22 October 1668, by fall of a tree; John, 14 January 1650; and Joseph, 2 November 1651, in which year the father died. The widow married 22 April 1653, Thomas Hoskins. But the valuable History of V. 538, strangely makes this Richard to be Daniel.

ISAAC BISCON, Boston, no doubt a Huguenot from France, came 1690 with wife, and was administered a resident 1 February 1691. I know no more.

EDWARD BISHOP, Salem 1639, had there baptized Hannah, 12 April 1646; Edward, 23 April 1648; and Mary, 12 October 1651; and was one of the founders of the church 1667, at Beverly. Those children were, probably all by wife Hannah, and her daughter Hannah married William Raymond. His second wife was Bridget Oliver. Also, after Sarah add Wild, daughter of William of Ipswich. With his wife Sarah, he was imprisoned on charge of witchcraft, April 1692, yet, happily, they were not too old to escape by breaking gaol, for which their property was seized, and by son Samuel redeemed. He went to Rehoboth, where no witchcraft was thought of. Felt calls the name Edmund once, but in three places after gives it as here. One Bridget Bishop, wife of his father no doubt, of the same town, had been charged with the same damnable offence in 1680; when the great adversary was foiled but he easily prevailed with the judges, in June 1692, when the poor woman was so much more infirm, to consent to her being hanged.

HENRY BISHOP, New Haven, took oath of fidelity 1644, and was farmer for Reverend John Davenport. His wife Patience died 24 July 1655; and his son John died 1661, unmarried.

HENRY BISHOP, Ipswich, perhaps brother of Nathaniel Bishop, married at Boston, 20 February 1657, widow Elizabeth Wilbore, and died before 1664.

JAMES BISHOP, New Haven 1648, was Secretary of the Colony 1651, Representative 1665 in the first session after the union with Connecticut, Assistant 1668, and Deputy Governor 1683 until his death 22 June 1691; but record says 24 June 1692. He had born at Branford, Hannah, 29 May, baptized at New Hampshire 1 June 1651; others born at New Hampshire, Grace, 17 January 1653, baptized probably 20 February following certainly not 30, as printed in Genealogical Registrar IX. 358; Sarah, 28, baptized 29 July 1655; Elizabeth, 3 July 1657, not seen among, the baptized; Abigail, 30 October 1659, baptized 22 January following; John, 17 May 1662, not seen among the baptized; Ruth, 22 November 1664, baptized 12 December following; the wife Mary having died 26 November. He married 12 December 1665, Elizabeth Tompkins, daughter of Micah Tompkins of Milford, and had Samuel 21, baptized probably 25 November 1666; Mary, born 14 March 1669; James, 27 July 1671; and Rebecca, 10 December 1673. His widow died 25 October 1703. All the eleven children are named in his will. Some of the days given for baptisms in Genealogical Registrar we know are wrong, because they were not Sundays, and except on this day no such ceremony could be performed, as by Davenport himself we may be taught, in 3 Massachusetts History Collections X. 61. In those cases the nearest first day of the week is substituted by me. See Trumbull, I. 336. Hannah married 12 August 1669, John Morris; Elizabeth married 12 September 1677, Eleazer Giles, as his second wife; Abigail married 18 November 1686, John Talmage; Ruth, married 21 October 1692, Nathaniel Yale; and Rebecca married 14 November 1695, Samuel Thompson.

JAMES BISHOP, Duxbury 1679, was living 1710, and Winsor, as his children counts Ebenezer, Abigail, John, and Hudson.

JAMES BISHOP, New Haven, youngest son of James Bishop the first, married 11 December 1695, Abigail Bennett, had Elizabeth, born 6 December following; Mary 1 June 1698; James, 4 October 1700; Rebecca, 29 November 1703; Abigail, 1 September 1707; Ruth, 19 May 1709; and Joy, 28 May 1711. He probably removed to Stamford.

JOB BISHOP, Ipswich 1648, son of Thomas Bishop of the same, married Elizabeth Phillips, daughter of Reverend George Phillips, one that he brought from England, had probably only Elizabeth, who died 27 February 1652; but by second wife had Dinah, born 19 June 1657; Sarah, 19 May 1659; and Hannah, 24 December 1662.

JOHN BISHOP, Newbury, a carpenter, married October 1647, Rebecca Kent, widow of Samuel Scullard, who may have died in England and daughter of Richard Kent of Newbury, had John, born 19 September 1648; Rebecca, 15 May 1650; Joanna, 24 April 1652; Hannah, 10 December 1653; Elizabeth, 31 August 1655, died next year; Jonathan, 11 January 1657; Noah, 20 June 1658; and David, 26 August 1660; removed first to Nuntucket, thence, with other neighbors 1667, to found the town of Woodbridge, New Jersey from where he was the first Representative in the Assembly 1668, under Governor Carteret a counsellor 1672, and died 1684. His son John Bishop of Rahway, was of Governor Hamilton's council 1693. See Whitehead's E. Jersey, 42, 52, 77, and 134.

JOHN BISHOP, Boston 1644, was chosen minister at Stamford, whither he went on foot, had wife Rebecca, and children Stephen, Joseph, Ebenezer, Benjamin, besides one, perhaps named Whiting, that died early, all mentioned in his will. For second wife he had Joanna Willet, daughter of Captain Thomas Willet, widow of Reverend Peter Prudden of Milford. His will, made 16 November 1694, probated 12 March following, instructs us as to these wives and his children who were all by the first. As early as 1610 he had been at Taunton. He preached near 50 years,wrote a Latin epitaph on Richard Mather (whence a presumption arises, that he was from Dorchester), which may be read in the Magnalia of the grandson cap. 20 of III. or page 131. But the dignity of the subject, the value of the poetry, or even his service in the church was less operative, I suppose, in drawing this compliment to bishop, than the pun on his name, for he is made, in that immortal work, to sign, J. Episcopius.

JOHN BISHOP, Guilford 1639, had wife Ann, sons John, and Stephen, and died before 7 January 1661, when his inventory was taken. They are named in the will of the widow, probated June 1676 at Hartford; as also her son-in-law, James Steele, who had married 18 October 1651, I suppose, her daughter Bethia; granddaughter Elizabeth Hubbard, perhaps daughter of George Hubbard.

JOHN BISHOP, Guilford 1648, son of the preceding, was born in England, married 13 December 1650, Susanna Goldham, daughter of Henry Goldham, had Mary, born 28 November 1652; John; Nathaniel; Susanna; Elizabeth; Samuel, 28 October 1670; Sarah, 22 January 1674; and Abigail, 25 June 1680; and he died October 1683. His widow died 1 November 1703, and the partition of her estate January 1704, gives another son Daniel, and shows how some of the daughters were married. Mary Field had before been wife of John Hodgkin, and of Isaac Johnson, as is said; Susanna Blatchley was wife of Moses; Elizabeth Scranton was perhaps widow of the second John of Guilford who had probably married her as widow of Thomas Clark of the same; and the other two daughters were unmarried, as presumed from no surnames being given.

JOHN BISHOP, Salem, killed by the Indians 17 April 1689. Perhaps he was son of the second Edward Bishop, or his brother.

JOHN BISHOP, New Haven 1689, eldest son of the first James Bishop, married Abigail Willet, daughter of Nathaniel Willet of Hartford, and I hear no more, except as by the diligence of Mr. White taught, that he had Nathaniel, born 15 March 1691; Abigail, 5 June 1692; John, 1 November 1693; Nathaniel, again, 5 October 1695; Willet, 17 October 1697; James, 17 February 1700; Thomas, 10 December 1701; Jeremiah, 7 November 1703; Sarah, 29 November 1705; Dinah, 1 March 1708; and Ebenezer, 29 July 1710. In this year the father died, and all the children except Nathaniel and Thomas, survived.

JOSEPH BISHOP, Stamford, assumed to be one of the early settlers with Denton; but as the name is never found, except once, and this is recent date, I doubt, that the Reverend John Bishop is meant in that place.

NATHANIEL BISHOP, Boston, currier, as early as 1634, owned a lot at Ipswich 1638, but seems to have preferred Boston, freeman 1645, by wife Alice Mattocks, daughter of James Mattocks, had Sarah, born 20 March 1635; Ruth, 14 April 1639; Joseph, 14 July 1642; Benjamin, 31 May, baptized 2 June 1644; John, 29 baptized 31 January 1647; besides Samuel, whose death by the more ancient copy of our record (for we have no original for very many years) 7 March 1647, is made the day of his birth by the absurdity of more recent copy; in his room was born another Samuel, perhaps the same year; Hannah, baptized 11 February 1649, at 7 days old; and Rebecca, born 8 April 1652. When he died is unknown but his widow married 22 November 1659, John Lewis. Sarah married 18 September 1654, Samuel Bucknell, and Ruth married 15 April 1656, John Pierce.

RICHARD BISHOP, Salem 1635, freeman 18 May 1642, died 30 December 1674. His first wife who brought him Thomas, John, Nathaniel, besides a daughter to married John Dorland, perhaps another wife of John Bly, was the widow of Richard King, (in whose right he had administration on King's estate granted 2 June 1660, and she died 24 August 1658; and he next married 12 or 22 July 1660, Mary, widow of William Gott. His sons Nathaniel and John went to Southampton on Long Island, Mr. Felt says.

RICHARD BISHOP, Plymouth, was unhappily married 5 December 1644, to Alice, widow of George Clark, and she was hanged October 1648 for murder of Martha Clark, her child.

SAMUEL BISHOP, Boston, son of Nathaniel Bishop of the same, or perhaps of Thomas Bishop, was graduate of Harvard College 1665; and marked as dying 1687 by the latest catalogue, yet in an earlier one, was said to die 1703.

SAMUEL BISHOP, Bradford, son of Thomas Bishop of Ipswich, by wife Esther, had John Bishop, who was a physician at Medford; and died March 1681.

SAMUEL BISHOP, New Haven, second son of James Bishop the first, married 14 November 1695, Hannah, widow probably of Enos Talmage, had Hannah, born 3 September 1696; Samuel, 18 July 1698; Ann, 25 June 1700; Job, 6 March 1702; and Elizabeth, 16 April 1704. His wife died 10 February 1744, and he died 12 March 1748.

STEPHEN BISHOP, Guilford 1650, son of John Bishop first of the same, born in England, married 4 May 1654, Tabitha Wilkinson, had Stephen, born 20 December 1655; Tabitha, 14 September 1657; Caleb, 24 January 1660; David, 8 December 1663, died young; Mehitable, 12 September 1668; Hannah, 27 March 1671, died young; Josiah, 20 March 1674, died young; Ebenezer, 5 Aug 1675; and James, 18 August 1678. He died 1 August 1690, and his widow died 21 December 1692, the six living children being all named in the wills of both father and mother. Tabitha married Nathaniel Foote; and Mehitable married 1704, John Whitehead.

THOMAS BISHOP, Ipswich 1636, was perhaps brother of Nathaniel Bishop, Representative 1666, died 7 February 1671, leaving widow Margaret, who removed to Boston, and children Samuel, John, Thomas, Job, and Nathaniel, with large estate.

THOMAS BISHOP, Salem, son of Richard Bishop of the same, had Richard, but Felt could give no date.

THOMAS BISHOP, Roxbury, by wife Prudence, who died 8 October 1680, by church record but 11 by town record had Thomas, born 30 September baptized 3 October preceding; and another wife Elizabeth, was buried 11 December 1681; and he married 7 June 1683, Ann Gary, or Hannah Gary, who died 16 September 1691, and he died 29 June 1727, aged 81 by the gravestone. Perhaps he was son of the first Thomas Bishop.

TOWNSEND BISHOP, Salem, freeman 2 September 1635, Representative 1636, 7 and 40, had Leah, baptized 19 June 1637; and John, 31 July 1642; but was censured in 1645 for slighting that ordinance. Of this name, in 1833, had been graduates, seven at Yale, and seven at other New England colleges.

BENJAMIN BISSELL, Windsor, son of Thomas Bissell of the same, died 5 May 1698, leaving good estate with widow Abigail Allyn, who is thought to have been daughter of Thomas Allyn, and to have married as his second wife after death of Bissell, Reverend John Williams of Deerfield.

JACOB BISSELL, Simsbury, son of Samuel Bissell of Windsor, had wife Mary, and son Jacob, born 8 June 1694, who died at 16 years. And the father died 1 August 1694. His widow married 1698, Peter Buell.

JOHN BISSELL, Windsor 1639, the progenitor of many distinguished men, is said to have come from England with Reverend Ephraim Mewett, was Representative 1648-57, and died 3 October 1677, aged 85, had John, Thomas, Samuel, Nathaniel, Mary, and Joice, of who Nathaniel, born 24, baptized 27 September 1640, was perhaps the only one born on our side of the ocean. His wife died 21 May following, and his next wife died 29 November 1665; but of both the names are unknown. Mary married 12 April 1649, Jacob Drake, and Joice married 17 November 1665, Samuel Pinney.

JOHN BISSELL, Windsor, son of the preceding, born in England, married 17 June 1658, Isabel Mason, daughter of Major John Mason, had Mary, born 22 February 1659; John, 4 May 1661; Daniel, 29 September 1663; Dorothy, 10 August 1665; Josiah, 10 October 1670; Hezekiah, 30 April 1673; Ann, 28 April 1675; and Jeremiah, 22 June 1677. He lived long, removed to Lebanon, thence to Coventry, and died 1693.

JOHN BISSELL, Windsor, son of Samuel Bissell, married 26 August 1680, Abigail Filley, daughter of William Filley, had Abigail, born 3 August 1681; and John, 1683; and died early in 1685, his inventory being of 27 January.

JOSEPH BISSELL, Windsor, son of Thomas Bissell of the same, had Joseph, born early in 1688; Benoni, 1689; and died that year at Simsbury.

NATHANIEL BISSELL, Windsor, son of John Bissell the first, married 25 September 1662 Mindwell Moore, youngest daughter of Deacon John Moore, had Mindwell, born 3 October 1663; Nathaniel, 7 January 1666; Jonathan, 3 July 1668, died young; Hannah, 12 January 1671; Abigail, 14 September 1673, died young; Jonathan, again, 14 February 1675; Abigail, again, 9, baptized 11 March 1677; Elizabeth, 15 March 1679; and 18 November David, 1682. His wife died 24 November 1682, and he married Dorothy Fitch, daughter of Reverend James Fitch, had a son who died without name, 14 August 1684; and Dorothy, 27 December 1686. This wife died 28 June 1691, but the death of husband, Stiles makes 12 March 1714.

SAMUEL BISSELL, Windsor, brother of the preceding, probably born in England, married 11 June 1658, Abigail Holcomb, daughter of Thomas Holcomb, had John, born 5 April 1659; Abigail, 6 July 1661; Jacob, 28 March 1664; Mary, 15 September 1666; Samuel, 11 January 1669, died at 29 years leaving; widow Mary, and child unborn; Mary; Benajah, 30 June 1671, who died before his father Joshua; Elizabeth, 4 January 1678; Deborah, 29 October 1679; and Hannah, 18 September 1682. His wife died 17 August 1688; and he took second wife Mary, and died 3 December 1700.

THOMAS BISSELL, Windsor, brother of the preceding, born in England, married 11 October 1655, Abigail Moore, daughter of Deacon John Moore, had Thomas, born 12 October 1656; Abigail, 23 November 1658; John, 26 January 1661; Joseph, 18 April 1663; Elizabeth, 9 June 1666; Benjamin, 3 September 1669; Sarah, 8 January 1672; Ephraim, 11 April 1676, died in few days; Esther, 2 or 22 April 1677, died at one year; Ephraim, again, 4 November 1680; Isaac, 22 September 1682; and Ebenezer, who died 22 August 1689, probably young, and the father died 31 July preceding. Abigail married 1678, Nathaniel Gaylord; Elizabeth married 1682, John Stoughton, and died 1688.

THOMAS BISSELL, Windsor, son of the preceding, married at Northampton, 15 October 1678, Esther Strong, daughter of Elder John Strong, had Esther, born 10 September baptized 5 October 1679; Abigail, born 20 October 1681; Thomas, 1683, Eunice, 1686; Nathaniel, 1690, died young; Nathaniel, again, 1694 and Jerijah, 1698. Eight of this name had, in 1834, been graduates at Yale, and one at Dartmouth. Fourteen pages of Stiles’s History are filled by this honorable family.

WILLIAM BITNER, Andover, married 1648, Sarah Ingalls, daughter of Edmund Ingalls of the same. No more of him is seen.

THOMAS BITTLESTONE, THOMAS BIDLESTON, or THOMAS BIDDLESTONE, Cambridge, had wife Elizabeth, and only daughter Elizabeth, perhaps only child, and died 23 November 1640. His will, of 30 October preceding, leaving to Reverend Robert Fordham, a fellow passenger memorndum of kindness, given in abstract Geneal. Rtg. 11. 263, leads me to feel sure, that he had not long been in the country, and probably that William Bittlestone who died 5 October 1640, was his son. More than 3/5 of his inventory of property £271. 2. 2. was in money. His widow died 1 July 1672, and his daughter had married 13 December 1650, John Briscoe of Watertown.

JAMES BITTS, Boston, "the Scotchman," to who Captain Keayne, in December 1653, by codicil to his will, gave 20s. Perhaps he was a prisoner, taken in the battle of Dunbar, 3 September 1650, sent over the year after to be sold here (of whose reception here Cotton wrote to the land General Cromwell in that curious letter, preserved in the invaluble volume called Hutchinson Collections), for of that cargo of human flesh we have no invoice; while his name is not seen in the doleful consignment of 272, others by the John and Sarah, supplied from the fatal field of Worcester, called Cromwell's crowning mercy, in the following year.

DANIEL BIXBY, Andover, married 2 December 1674, Hannah Chandler, probably daughter of Thomas Chandler of the same, had Daniel, Thomas, David, and Joseph, born respectively 18 September 1675; 18 December 1681; 15 February 1688; and 5 March 1696; besides the daughters Hannah, 13 December 1679; Sarah, 19 January 1683; Mehitable, 3 April 1690; and Mary, 10 April 1693; and died 1717.

JONATHAN BIXBY, Newton 1691, son of Joseph Bixby the second, by wife Rachel, married 1709, had Rachel, perhaps others, certainly Hannah, posthumous 30 April 1715, he having died 1714, probably under middle age. In History of Newton, Jackson could find little of him to tell.

JOSEPH BIXBY, Salisbury, an early settler, married 1617, Sarah Wyatt, widow of Luke Heard, who came from Assington, County Suffolk, and her maiden name was Wyatt, as Farmer tells; was then of Ipswich, and Rowley before 1667, but I can tell no more.

JOSEPH BIXBY, Boxford, perhaps son of the preceding, married 1682, Sarah Gould, had Sarah, Joseph, Jonathan, George, Daniel, Benjamin, Mary, and Abigail, and died about 1704.

THOMAS BIXBY, Salem 1636; and equally short is the tale for him. Very frequent is the name in our early records Bisby or Bigsbee, as it was pronounced, and not rarely is heard in our day. A widow Mary Bixby was received into Boston church 20 June 1640; but of who she had been wife is not found.

MOSES BLACHLEY and THOMAS BLACHLEY, of the same town, engaged 1667, in forming church covenant, probably were brothers.

DANIEL BLACK, Rowley 1680, in the part which became Boxford. One of the prisoners, after the sad gleanings at Worcester fight, 3 September 1651, sent over here for sale by the John and Sarah, bore this name, and may be the sufferer possibly but not probably, as near all of the poor fellows died before his date, of homesickness or the scurvy.

GEORGE BLACK, Gloucester, by wife Dorothy, had Thomas, born 9 June 1658, died soon; and Ruth, 3 September 1659.

HENRY BLACK, freeman of Massachusetts 1645, of who no more is heard by me. See Blake.

JOHN BLACK, Charlestown 1634, with wife Susanna, administrator of the church 4 January following, yet not being named by Frothingham, causes a doubt as to residence, but he was administered freeman 29 May 1644. At Salem, Felt finds a John Black, 1636, who he thinks the same, and freeman 6 March 1632, which seems inconsistent, had Lydia, baptized 25 December 1636, died soon; Lydia, again, 3 June 1638; and another died 27 November 1640, not named on the record. He died at Beverly, 16 March 1675, in 66th year, and his widow Freeborn died 1681, aged 46.

RICHARD BLACK, freeman of Massachusetts 1645. Not seldom this name is confused with Blake.

WALTER BLACKBURNE, Boston 1640, had, perhaps living at Roxbury, was of Artillery Company 1638, freeman 22 May 1639, went home 1641, leaving wife Elizabeth, but whether the husband came back, or she followed him, no means of telling are within reach.

BENJAMIN BLACKLEACH, Cambridge, married Dorcas Bonman, daughter of Nathaniel Bonman, had Nathaniel, and Benjamin, as from the will of the father of their mother is learned. The widow married a March.

JOHN BLACKLEACH, Salem 1634, freeman 6 May 1635, an active merchant, Representative 1636, by wife Elizabeth, besides John, had Exercise, baptized 24 January 1637; Joshua, 23 February 1639; Elizabeth, 12 December 1641, died soon; Benoni, May 1643; Elizabeth, again, 4 August 1614; and Solomon; removed to Boston, where his daughter Exercise married 24 August 1660, Richard Rasor; thence removed to Hartford, went home probably in 1678 (unless it were his son John, that went) but next year came again, and died at Wethersfield, 23 August 1683. His wife Elizabeth died a few weeks earlier.

JOHN BLACKLEACH, Boston, son of the preceding, by wife Elizabeth, had Elizabeth, born 25 May 1659; John, born 1660, removed next year to Hartford, there bought of his father the estate that Elder Goodwin sold him, went to England in 1678, but next year embarked for Boston, 8 March in the Mayflower, with a child, who may have been sent there for education and, after long residing at Wethersfield, died 9 September 1703, aged 77, and the record is probably aggravated by 10 years. His widow died 1708, aged 74. His daughters then were Elizabeth Harris, and Mary Olcott, wife of John, who had first been widow of Thomas Welles, and after daughter of Olcott, was wife of Joseph Wadsworth, the intrepid preserver of the Colony Charter in the famous Charter Oak of Hartford. His son John died 1700, leaving only son John.

RICHARD BLACKLEACH, Stratford 1685, then called himself 30 years old. He married December 1680 Abigail Hudson, eldest daughter of John Hudson of New Haven, who died March 1713, had Richard, Jael, and Joseph. He married 1717, a widow who had two husbands before, and he died 1731.

WILLIAM BLACKLEACH, Boston, perhaps transient residence for short period between 1641 and 9. Sometimes this name appears Blacklidge.

JOHN BLACKLEY, or JOHN BLAKESLEY, New Haven, eldest son of Samuel Blackley, married Grace Ventris, daughter of Moses Ventris, had John, born 15 July 1676; Hannah, 6 August 1681; Mary, 15 May 1683; and perhaps others.

SAMUEL BLACKLEY, or SAMUEL BLAKESLEY, New Haven, married 3 December 1650, Hannah Potter, living first at Guilford, there had John, b 22 October 1651, but at New Hampshire others; Hannah, 22 October 1657, who died young; Mary, 2 November 1659; Samuel, 8 April 1662; Ebenezer, 17 July 1664; and Hannah, 22 May 1666; these four baptized 16 September of this last year in right of their mother; Jonathan, 3 March 1669, died soon; and another son April 1672, who died soon; as had the second Hannah; and he died 17 May 1672, leaving only four children of which three sons were proprietors in 1685 at New Hampshire. His widow married 21 December 1676, Henry Brooks.

SAMUEL BLACKLEY, or SAMUEL BLAKESLEY, Woodbury, son of the preceding, married 20 November 1684, Sarah Kimberly, had Samuel, born 28 January 1686; Miriam, 2 May 1688; Jonathan, 6 January 1691; Sarah, 8 September 1692; Ann, 2 December 1694; Mary, 16 September 1696; James, 27 April 1699; Mehitable, 31 August 1702; and Tilley, 18 March 1705. Of this list the first and last were born at Roxbury, and the first six were baptized Cothren says, in August 1697.

THOMAS BLACKLEY, or THOMAS BLAKESLEY, who came in the Hopewell, Captain Babb, from London, 1635, aged 20, is by Hinman, 116, found in some part of Connecticut but, unluckily he tells not where. In many records the name is inextricably confused with Blatchley, and should be Blakesly.

BENJAMIN BLACKMAN, Dorchester, youngest son of John Blackman of the same, had Keziah, baptized 18 June 1693; Elizabeth, 16 December 1694; Susan, 28 November 1697; George, 31 March 1700; Jemima, 15 March 1702; Hepzibah, 24 June 1704; Mary, 6 July 1707; Eliphalet, and Benjamin, both 4 May 1712; but the name of his wife is unknown.

HENRY BLACKMAN, Charlestown, of who I can hear nothing, but that he died about 1674, and that leave to sell his house in favor of his children (only one) was given May 1675, to John Trumbull of Charlestown, whose daughter Mary Trumbull he married 25 August 1663. But the man’s name was Blackmore.

JOHN BLACKMAN, Dorchester 1640, perhaps earlier, by wife Mary Pond, daughter of Robert Pond, had John, born 10 August 1656; Jonathan, 1 January 1658; Sarah, baptized 17 July 1659; Joseph, born 27 June 1661; Mary, baptized 18 October 1663; and Benjamin, 31 December 1665; was freeman 1665, and died 28 April 1675, leaving widow Sarah, by who, perhaps, he had Adam, 9 December 1670; and Abraham, 8 February 1675.

JOHN BLACKMAN, Dorchester, son of the preceding, married 26 March 1685, Jane Weeks, daughter of William Weeks, had Thankful, baptized 14 February 1686; John, 14 August 1687; Elizabeth, 31 March 1689; Josiah, 8 March 1691; Mary, 1 May 1692; Jane, 18 February 1694; Joseph, 5 February 1696; Hannah, 12 March 1699; Ebenezer, 9 June 1700; and Renew, 27 August 1704.

JAMES BLACKMORE, Providence, married Mary Hawkins, daughter of William Hawkins, but no date is known to me, except that he bought land of Thomas James, January 1690, and had

JOHN BLACKMORE, who when he sold that estate 15 February 1717, called himself son and heir of James Blackmore.

JOHN BLACKMORE, Lynn, removed 1637, to Sandwich, as Lewis says, without telling his baptized name. As the surname is so very rare, it may be lawful to conjecture that he was father of Henry Blackmore of Charlestown, whose wife Mary died 26 March 1671, in her 24th year, and of that Providence John Blackmore no more is in my power to tell.

WILLIAM BLACKMORE, Scituate 1665, Deane says, came that year from England, married 1666, Elizabeth Banks, had Peter, born 1667; John, 1669; Phebe, 1672; and William, 1675; was killed by the Indians 21 April 1676, and next year his widow married Jacob Bumpus. Phebe married Ebenezer Holmes; Peter died 1692, leaving Joseph, and Jane; William died 1698, without children and John was then living.

JEREMY BLACKWELL, came in the Truelove, 1635, aged 18, and that is all I have gained about him.

JOHN BLACKWELL, Sandwich, son perhaps eldest, of Michael Blackwell of the same, by wife Sarah, had John, born 26 December 1675; Nathaniel, 16 December 1676; Desire, 20 December 1678; Alice, 8 May 1681; Jane, 3 November 1682; Lettice; and Caleb. He died 1678; and at the distribution of the estate of their grandfather who died 1709, neither Desire, nor Caleb, nor Nathaniel, is named, though both Caleb and Nathaniel are named in his will.

JOHN BLACKWELL, Boston, was one of the purchasers, 1684, of a large tract from Massachusetts for himself and others in London, and at the last election in 1686, before loss of our Charter, was candidate to be chosen an Assistant. See Hutchinson Collections 543. Douglas, I. 419. Belknap I. 116, and Colony record V. 467, 504.

JOSHUA BLACKWELL, Sandwich, brother of the preceding, had Joshua, born 12 January 1683; Mary, 5 October 1684; Samuel, 13 April 1689, besides Michael, Sarah, Jane, and four other daughters not named at the distribution of estate of the grandfather.

MICHAEL BLACKWELL, or MYLES BLACKWELL, Sandwich, had Michael, born 1 June 1648, who died at 25 years, probably unmarried; John; Joshua; and Jane. Hardly can I doubt, that this man is he designated in the Colony list of those able to bear arms 1643, as Miles Black, Genealogical Registrar IV. 257.

CHRISTOPHER BLACKWOOD, Scituate, bought 1641, the house of Reverend John Lothrop, and succeeded him as preacher, but next year sold the estate to Chauncy, who became the settled minister and Blackwood went home. See Lechford, 41; and Deane, 172, 222.

SAMUEL BLAGDEN, New Hampshire, with most others, in 1691, solicited protection of Massachusetts.

HENRY BLAGGE, Braintree, brickburner, had Philip, born 24 March 1643, removed probably to Boston 1653, died 1662, leaving widow Elizabeth, and son Nathaniel, a brickmaker, which is very near, I judge, to the same trade with his father. He left good estate of which 19 August of that year administration was given to the widow for self and seven children. Often the spelling is Blague, and, I think, sometimes Black.

JOSEPH BLAGUE, Saybrook, married 10 February 1685, Martha Kirtland, daughter probably of Nathaniel Kirtland of the same, had Elizabeth, born 26 May 1687; Joseph, 17 November 1689, died at 2 years; Mary, 27 August 1692; Joseph, again, 7 October 1694; and where he was born the spelling may have differed.

HENRY BLAISDELL, or HENRY BLASDALE, Salisbury, by wife Mary, had Ebenezer, born 17 October 1657; Mary, 29 May 1660; and Henry, 28 May 1663; removed to Amesbury, there was freeman 1690; may have been son of Ralph.

RALPH BLAISDELL, or RALPH BLASDALE, Salisbury 1640, but part of that year was living at York, by wife Elizabeth, had Mary, born 5 March 1642; Ralph, 1643; beside, perhaps, Henry, born in England 1633; and certainly Sarah, who died 17 January 1647. I think some ground for conjecture there is that the father went away and died. For in August 1667, a widow Blaisdell was there, and then died, when Mary, daughter of her husband was wife of John Stowers or Joseph Stowers, as we may prefer to award the baptized name, under the light of Genealolgical Registrar VllI. 53 and 4. The name is found in New Hampshire, and one of the M.C. of that State in 1809-10 was Daniel Blaisdell.

EDWARD BLAKE, Dorchester, son of William Blake, born in England, married Patience Pope, daughter of John Pope, had Edward, who died 30 September 1676; Jonathan; Solomon; Mary, who married a Pitcher; Sarah, who married Richard Talley; Jane married a Kilton; Susanna married Nathaniel Wales; and Abigail, who married 31 December 1695, Obadiah Swift the second, but I regret to add, that my account of this family is very indistinct. He was a cooper in Boston, and from his prosperous business enabled to remove near to his native fields 1678, then became Milton, where he died 1692. In his will of 31 August in that year named those seven children but gives little more information.

GEORGE BLAKE, Gloucester 1640, was selectman 1641, by wife Dorothy, had Rebecca, born 1641; Deborah; Prudence, 15 April 1647; Elizabeth, 31 May 1650; Mary, 14 February 1652; Thomas, 9 June 1658; and Ruth, about September 1659; removed to Andover, where Prudence married 6 July 1666, Moses Tyler. He died 17 February 1699; and his widow died 12 February 1702, at Boxford, which was formerly part of Andover.

HENRY BLAKE, Boston, by wife Elizabeth, had Elizabeth, born 28 October 1652; Martha, 2 November 1655; and Rebecca, 5 July 1657. He died 26 July 1662. Farmer supposed he might be the Henry Black who was made freeman 1645; but I see some reason for different opinion.

JAMES BLAKE, Dorchester, son of William Blake the first, born in England, freeman 1652, Representative 1677, was Deacon, and Ruling Elder, married about 1651, Elizabeth Clap, eldest of the children of Deacon Edward Clap, had James, born 15 August 1652; John, 16 March 1657; Elizabeth, 3 October 1658; Nathaniel, 4 July 1659; Jonathan, 12 July 1660; Sarah, 28 February 1665, died next year; and Joseph, 27 August 1667. His wife died 16 January 1694, and he married 17 September 1695, at Rehoboth, Elizabeth Hunt, and died 28 June 1700, aged 77. His will, made two days before, is very abundant in giving family connections.

JAMES BLAKE, Dorchester, eldest son of the preceding, was Deacon, married 6 February 1682, Hannah Macy, who died 1 June following, their only child Elizabeth, died in November preceding few days after birth. He next married 8 July 1684, Ruth Batchelder, had Hannah, born 16 September 1685, died at one year; James, 30 April 1688 (the diligent collection of the Annals of Dorchester for which we are so much indebted), who died 4 December 1750; and Increase, 8 June 1699. His will of 8 August 1721, provides for the two sons and their mother who died in her 90th year 11 January 1752; but he had died 22 October 1732.

JASPER BLAKE, Hampton, died 11 February 1673, had Dorothy, or Deborah, born 17 September 1668, who married 22 January 1689, Nathaniel Locke of the same. But in his will he names wife Deborah, and children Timothy, Israel, John, Jasper, and Deborah, and cousin Samuel Dalton.

JEREMIAH BLAKE, New London 1680, of who Miss Caulkins tells that he bought land 1681, and was there 1688.

JOHN BLAKE, Dorchester, son of William Blake the first, born in England, Artillery Company 1642, freeman 1644, married 16 August 1654, widow Mary Shaw (says the Boston record), but who had been her former husband or whose child she was I see not. Perhaps he lived some years in Boston, about 1663; and died there early in 1689, and from his will of 10 January in that year, that gives to wife and to his brothers and nephew and nieces, besides others, but no children may safely be inferred that he left none. Yet he had Hannah, born 16 January 1659, who probably died young, and the Genealogical Registrar IX. 17G, erronously makes him father of Deacon John Blake, who was his nephew.

JOHN BLAKE, Dorchester, second son of James Blake the first, had wife Mary, who may have borne to him Mary, 26 April 1687; John; and Samuel Blake, 26 September 1691; but of this last nothing is heard, but that he was graduate of Harvard 1711, and died within four years; nor of John, except that he died 19 April 1689, very young. By second wife Hannah, he had Hannah, born 8 September 1693; Elizabeth, 21 February 1696; John, again, 23 April 1698; and Josiah, 11 March 1700. No full report of the marriage of either wife is within reach, nor can dates of birth of all of the children be found. Yet he was town clerk, Deacon, and died about 2 March 1718.

JOHN BLAKE, Middletown, married 1673, Sarah Hall, daughter of Richard Hall of the same, had Mercy, born 16 November of that year; Sarah, about 1675; Mary, 29 July 1677; Elizabeth, 16 March 1679; Abigail, 25 January 1681; John, 19 March 1683; Jonathan, 27 July 1685; Stephen, 15 July 1691; and Richard, who died at 11 months.

JOHN BLAKE, Boston, joiner, had wife Sarah, and son Richard, as from his will, 8 October 1692, is learned. I presume he had not many years lived here, for he speaks of property in England as well as in New England, which he gives wholly to wife and makes her executrix, so that the son was probably young.

JOSEPH BLAKE, Dorchester, youngest son of James Blake the first, by wife Mehitable, had Hopestill, born 11 January 1691; Nathaniel, 6 September 1692, died in few weeks; Elizabeth, 5 December 1693; Mehitable, 23 March 1696; Joseph, 8 March 1699; Zipporah, 8 January 1701; Ruth, 10 December 1702; Ann, 3 March 1705; Jeremiah, 13 March 1707; Sarah, 14 July 1709, and Ebenezer, 22 October 1712; and the father died 1 February 1739.

RICHARD BLAKE, Andover 1645, one of the founders of the church, perhaps was passenger in the Confidence 1638, from Southampton, aged 16. In 1644 he was at Dorchester, but this seems slight ground for the tradition that he was brother of William Blake the second. He died 1695, therefore he was, I think, too young to be omitted in number of sons of the father, though William had brother Richard, born four years it is said, later than himself. We may well think that Richard died young.

WILLIAM BLAKE, Dorchester, who came 1630, in the Mary and John, was eldest son of Giles Blake of Little Baddow, County Essex, had brought with him William, born 1620; James, 1623; John; and Edward, before mentioned, and perhaps Ann, who married Jacob Legare; in 1636 went to Springfield with Pynchon, yet continued hardly more than a year. He was a very useful citizen, freeman 14 March 1639, Artillery Company 1646, selectman, town clerk etc., and died 25 October 1663, aged 69. His widow Agnes, probably mother of all his children, died 22 July 1678. To her his will, made 3 September 1661, probated 28 January 1664, refers, and to five children of which four were sons, but none are named.

WILLIAM BLAKE, Dorchester, eldest son of the preceding, born in England, had Samuel, born 14 May 1650; Ann, 6 March 1653; Mary, 20 March 1655; and William, 22 February probably 1657; Nathaniel, 4 July 1659; Edward, 13 April 1662; Experience, 17 June 1665; besides Susan, who died 4 May 1676; and at Milton (lately set off from Dorchester), of unknown date, Mehitable. All these, except William, who had been pressed 1675, for a soldier in Philip's war, and enrolled in Moseley's Company, and probably died of the hardships of the Narragansett service, are named in his will of 23 June 1703. bFrom this we learn all the surnames of husbands of his daughters, Ann, married 18 December 1676, Thomas Gilbert, the only one of which I learn the date or baptized name; however strange such ignorance may appear. The others are called Mary Willis, Experience Carver; and Mehitable Briggs. He was Representative for Milton several years. His widow Hannah Tolman, daughter of Thomas Tolman, who certainly was not mother of the earliest child, had been wife of George Lyon, died 4 August 1729, aged 87 years. At the New England colleges in 1830, Farmer found thirteen graduates of this name, eleven of them at Harvard.

ADAM BLAKEMAN (as I saw that he wrote at the University, as he usually did after, though some of his descendants would have it Blackman), born in Staffordshire, was bred at Christ's college Oxford, being matriculated 28 May 1617, in his 19th year preached in the Counties of Leicester and Derby before he came over, which was about 1638, and was soon after at Guilford, but in 1640 became the first minister of Stratford. His children except Benjamin, were probably all born in England, and he died 7 September 1665; and the widow Jane died 1673. Lechford, 43, miscalls him Blackwell. In the Magnalia III. 94, c. 7, Mather exults at his chance for a pun; Trumbull tells something; and the church record of Roxbury, a little; but we rejoice in his will of 16 March 1665, as copious in information. One daughter and five sons, Mary, James, Samuel, Benjamin, John, and Deliverance are mentioned in it; and from later report the last was a wild youth, who gave his mother much disquiet. His Latin books he would give to Joshua Atwater, son of his daughter Mary, if he were educated for the ministry, though first intended for son Benjamin, who first chose another way of life; yet, in the end, the grandson refused the legacy, and Benjamin took to learn.

BENJAMIN BLAKEMAN, Malden, youngest son of the preceding, after graduation at college 1663, was preacher at Malden and there ordained 1674; married 1 April 1675 (not Sarah, as strangely is seen in the record of Malden, but) Rebecca Scottow, daughter of Joshua Scottow, who died as her gravestone tells, 21 March 1715. He gave up his pulpit 1678, removed next year to Saco, there was a magistrate, but he for some short term preached at Scarborough. During the great French and Indians war being driven to Boston, he served 1683, as Representative for Scarborough, but continued to live at Boston. At 3rd church were baptized his children Benjamin, 13 September 1685; and Rebecca, 14 April 1689. See Belknap I. 125; and HutchinsonI. 364.

DELIVERANCE BLAKEMAN, Stonington, son of Reverend Adam Blakeman, born in England, died 20 April 1702, leaving Adam, born 1687; and Hannah, 1693; by wife Hannah, and he died 1702.

EBENEZER BLAKEMAN, Stratford, son of John Blakeman the first, married 4 October 1681, Patience Wilcoxson, daughter of John Wilcoxson, had Dorothy, born 18 March 1683; John, 4 April 1685; Elizabeth, 18 February 1688; and Ebenezer, 9 August 1690. By second wife married 3 November 1692, Abigail Curtis, daughter of Jonathan Curtis, had Jonathan, 24 April 1696; David, 6 January 1698, died at 5 years; Abigail, 20 November 1700, died at 3 years; Nathan, 29 September 1702; and Sarah, 3 April 1705; and he died 1715.

JAMES BLAKEMAN, Stratford, brother of Deliverance Blakeman, born in England, married 1657, Miriam Wheeler, daughter of Moses Wheeler (though it may be doubted for she was born 28 March 1647), had Sarah, born 25 April 1658; Mary, 24 April 1661; Hannah, 21 January 1665; Jane, 26 October 1668; Miriam, 8 February 1671; Zechariah, 26 May 1678; Adam, 1 January 1683; and James, 4 December 1686; and died 1689; his will being probated 7 November of that year, made 18 July before. His widow married Edward Broom, who settled Blackeman’s estate 1694; but who he was is unknown.

JOHN BLAKEMAN, Wethersfield, brother of the preceding, born in England, married about 1653, Dorothy Smith, daughter of Reverend Henry Smith, and removed to Stratford, had John, Ebenezer, and Joseph; and died 1662. His will of 19 January in that year was probated 26 November following, and his widow married 31 October 1665, Francis Hall of Stratford who died 1689. Her third husband was Mark Sension of Norwalk, who died 1693; and her fourth, about 1694, was Deacon Isaac Moore of Farmington, and she died about 1706. After the death of her first, she was sought by John Thomas, but Reverend Adam Blakeman had in his will given her £5, "if she married not John Thomas," and take her friends' advice or continue a widow.

JOHN BLAKEMAN, Fairfield, son of the preceding, married Mary Kimberly, daughter of Abraham Kimberly, whose widow married John Curtis, had Abraham, born 25 October 1694, named as only child in his will of 6 September 1706.

JOSEPH BLAKEMAN, Stratford, brother of the preceding, married 14 July 1674, Hannah Hall, daughter of Francis Hall, had Joseph, born 12 April 1675; John; Samuel; Abigail, 12 August 1680; and Rebecca. For second wife he married 29 January 1700, Esther Wheeler.

SAMUEL BLAKEMAN, Stratford, son of Reverend Adam Blakeman, born probably in England, married November 1660, Elizabeth Wheeler, eldest daughter of the first Moses Wheeler, had son born January 1662, died at two months; Abigail, 11 November 1663; Adam, 4 December 1665; and Joanna, 14 September 1667; and he died 27 November following. His widow married 1670, Jacob Walker; and Abigail married 4 December 1679, Hezekiah Dickinson, and was mother of famous Jonathan Dickinson, President of New Jersey college.

EBENEZER BLAKESLEY, New Haven, was an early settler and no more is told. Trumbull, Cent. Ser. 32. He married December 1650, Hannah Potter, daughter of John Potter.

EBENEZER BLAKESLEY of New Haven, perhaps, son of the preceding, had Ebenezer and Hannah, twins born 4 February 1685; Abigail; Susanna, 21 May 1689; Grace, 1 January 1694; Abraham, 15 December 1695; and Isaac, 31 July 1703; and died 24 September 1735.

EDWARD BLAKESLEY, Roxbury, was buried 3 November 1637, had good estate as his inventory of 25 December following proves, and his daughter Sarah, who had administration of it, died in May after. See Blackley, and Blatchley.

GEORGE BLANCHARD, Charlestown 1658, son of Thomas Blanchard, born in England, died 18 March 1700, aged 82, leaving Nathaniel; Hannah, who married 7 December 1682, Thomas Shepard of the same, but not the minister; and Sarah, married 22 August 1687, Thomas Dean of Concord. He had two wives and by the first were born Joseph, and Elizabeth, who married 15 April 1675, George Grimes; and by the second wife was George; but of the dates of any, or of the mother of the first named child I am ignorant.

JOHN BLANCHARD, Charlestown, brother of the preceding, born in England, freeman 1649, by wife Elizabeth, had Hannah, born 6 January 1659, and other children as Benjamin, James, Sarah, Mary, Nathaniel, Joseph, and Thomas, perhaps more, some of which left large posterity, but he removed to Dunstable in its early day, was there one of the founders of the church 16 December 1685, and a Deacon, yet dates and other details are not seen.

JONATHAN BLANCHARD, Dunstable, perhaps son of Thomas Blanchard, was, in 1681, one of the town officers.

JONATHAN BLANCHARD, Andover, son of Samuel Blanchard, married 26 May 1685, Ann Lovejoy, daughter probably of John Lovejoy.

JOSEPH BLANCHARD, Boston, died December 1637, but whether children or adult, is not seen.

JOSEPH BLANCHARD, Charlestown, son of George Blanchard of the same, married 13 April 1681, Hannah Shepard, daughter of Thomas Shepard of the same, had Elizabeth, born 30 September 1682, died in few months; Hannah, 14 February 1684, died in few days; Joseph, 7 March 1686; Thomas, 28 January 1688; Moses and Aaron, twins 4 March 1690, of who Moses died in few hours; and Stephen, 23 August 1694.

JOSEPH BLANCHARD, Dunstable, son of Deacon John Blanchard, married 25 May 1696, Abiah Hassell, daughter of Joseph Hassell, who died 8 December 1746, had Elizabeth, born 15 April 1697; Esther, 24 July 1699; Hannah, 28 October 1701; Joseph, 11 February 1704; Rachel, 23 March 1705, probably died soon; Susanna, 29 March 1707; Jane, 19 March 1709; Rachel, again, 23 March 1712; and Eleazer, 1 December 1715; and died 1727.

NATHANIEL BLANCHARD, Charlestown, son of Thomas Blanchard, born in England, married 16 December 1658, Susanna Bates, daughter of Edward Bates, removed to Weymouth, had John, born 27 March 1660; Mary, 1 December 1662; Nathaniel, 25 September 1665; Edward, 7 June 1668; perhaps Susanna, 12 August 1671; and Mercy, 14 April 1674. His widow married 1680, probably Thomas Bass, as his second wife and Mary married Thomas Faxon the third.

PETER BLANCHARD, New London 1662, lived probably on the Rhode Island bounds.

SAMUEL BLANCHARD, Charlestown, son of Thomas Blanchard, came in the Jonathan 1639, aged 10 years as is said, married 3 January 1655, Mary Sweetser, daughter of Seth Sweetser, removed after 1664, to Andover, and died April 1707. Some of his children were Jonathan; Joseph; Thomas, who married 22 May 1699, Rose Holmes of Marshfield, and died 1759, aged 85; John; perhaps Hannah, who married 24 May or 4 October 1699, Stephen Osgood. See Abbot, History of Andover, 39.

THOMAS BLANCHARD, Braintree 1646, soon after removing to Charlestown, came in the Jonathan from London in 1639, with several children of who Thomas was one, all probably by a first wife. His second wife who had been widow Agnes Barnes, a sister of John Bent, died with her infant, also, on the voyage, and he died 21 May 1654. In his will, of five days earlier, he mentioned wife Mary, children Nathaniel, Samuel, and George, and George's son Joseph. His widow stood up for the orthodoxy of Marmaduke Matthews at Malden, to which town Thomas Blanchard had removed.

THOMAS BLANCHARD, Charlestown, on Mistick or Malden side, son of the preceding, born in England, by wife Ann, or Hannah, had Mary, and Sarah; and he died early in February 1651. His widow married 18 October following Richard Gardner of Woburn.

THOMAS BLANCHARD, Dunstable, son of Deacon John Blanchard, by first wife Tabitha, had Tabitha, born 27 February 1689; Hannah, 29 November 1690, both at Woburn; Abigail, 5 May 1694; and John, 20 May 1696. His wife died 29 November following, and he married 4 October 1698, Ruth Adams of Chelmsford, had Thomas, 12 August 1699; William, 1701; and Ruth, 1 April 1703; and died 9 March 1727.

WILLIAM BLANCHARD, Salem 1637, freeman 2 June 1641; probably had wife Ann Everill, daughter of James Everill, removed to Boston, and here joined our church May 1647, had John, born 18 September 1652; and died 1 October of that year. His will of four days before probated 18 November following, names mother Ann (who I find, had land 1638 at Salem), wife Hannah; children John, and Henry; brother John; father-in-law Everill, whose three children he also remembered and children of sister Gorlick. His widow married 13 May 1655, George Manning. Of this name, in 1834, the graduates at Harvard were five; at Yale, and Dartmouth two each.

JOHN BLAND, Edgartown 1646, died about 1667, leaving wife Joanna, by whom he had daughters Annabel, and Isabel. The latter married Thomas Lovett of Hampton.

JOHN BLANDFORD, Sudbury 1641, an original proprietor, married widow Dorothy Wright, had Sarah, born 27 January 1643; Hannah, 7 March 1644; John, 6 March 1646; Stephen, 3 December 1649; and perhaps more. He had come in the Confidence, 1638, from Southampton, aged 27, in employment of Walter Haynes, probably bringing wife Mary, who died 4 December 1641; and I presume belonged to County Wilts. His will of 21 October 1687, probated 23 November following before Sir Edmund Andros, gave all his estate to wife Dorothy for her life, but names son Stephen, daughter Maynard; besides son-in-law Jabesh Brown, and Edward Wright; the latter son of his wife by former husband and the other, I doubt not, husband of his daughter Hannah. Sarah married 11 September 1665, Elias Keyes.

STEPHEN BLANDFORD, Sudbury, son of the preceding, married Susanna Long, daughter of Robert Long.

THOMAS BLANDFORD, Watertown, married 18 December 1673, Elizabeth Eames (perhaps daughter of Thomas Eames of Dedham), the record then spelled his name Blaynford; and no more is known of him.

JOHN BLANEY, Lynn 1659, married 11 July 1660, Hannah King, perhaps daughter of Daniel King the first, had John, born 5 May 1661; Daniel, 3 August 1664; Henry, 15 August 1666; Hannah, 11 November 1667; Joseph, 2 October 1670; and Elizabeth, 17 August 1673. For second wife he married November 1678, Elizabeth, widow of old Thomas Purchas, or Purchis. Lewis's History 134, says descendants of his son Joseph Blaney are still at Lynn.

JOHN BLANEY, Charlestown, married perhaps in 1668 or 9, Sarah, widow of John Powell of the same, had Susanna, born 13, baptized 15 June 1673; Sarah, 17, baptized 18 July 1675; Ann, 25, baptized 27 May 1677; Mary, born 29 March 1679; Rebecca, 13, baptized 20 born 1681; Catharine, 15, baptized 18 February 1683; and John, 3, baptized 4 January 1685. and the mother died 18 October 1694, aged 51. His will was probated 1706.

WILLIAM BLANTON, WILLIAM BLANTAINE, or WILLIAM BLANDING, Boston 1640, a carpenter from Upton in County Worcester, freeman 10 May 1643, by wife Phebe, had William; Phebe, baptized 21 August 1642; and Mary, 3 August 1645; and died 15 June 1662. His will of 25 April preceding names son William, for not giving to which more of his estate he mentioned one reason, "because he win not hearken to my counsel;" and the two daughters to whom he disposed all his property after death of his wife with provision should they die, "then his elder brother Ralph Blanton, and, if he have no children then second brother John Blanton, both of Upton on Severn in Worcestershire should have it." He owned Iand in that part of Boston called Muddy river, now Brookline, and was engaged in the iron works at Taunton.

WILLIAM BLANTON, WILLIAM BLANTAINE, or WILLIAM BLANDING, Rehoboth, probably son of the preceding, took wife 4 September 1674, Bethia, whose surname is not heard, had Obadiah, born 14 April 1679; and Samuel, 11 April 1680.

PETER BLATCHFORD, New London, had service 1637 (before that town was settled), in the Pequot war, when very young, for which he had grant of land, was constable, and a valuable citizen, in 1669 removed to Haddam, for where he was Representative that and the following year, and died 1671, leaving widow Hannah Willey, daughter of Isaac Willey, who had been second wife of Thomas Hungerford, and three children Joanna, 5 and 2 years old; Peter, 4; and Mary, 1 and 1/2. His widow married Samuel Spencer.

AARON BLATCHLEY, Guilford, son of Thomas Blatchley, married 1665, Mary Dodd, daughter of Daniel Dodd, had Mary; Thomas, who died 1692; Ebenezer; Hannah, born 1674, died young; Daniel, 1676; Joseph; Benjamin; Sarah; and Susanna; but the order is very uncertain and probably one or two of these may have been offspring of second wife. He removed to Newark, New Jersey, after marrying about 1686, Sarah, widow of Robert Foote of Branford.

MOSES BLATCHLEY, Guilford 1672, younger brother of the preceding, married Susanna Bishop, daughter of John Bishop of the same, had Abigail, born 10 December 1676, died young; Moses, 10 January 1679; David, 1680, died soon; Mehitable, 1681, died next year; Mehitable, again, 1683; Abraham, 1684; Abigail, again, 1686; David, again, 1689; Bashua, 1692; and Abial, posthumous 1693, or 4. He died 15 October 1693; and his widow died October 1729.

THOMAS BLATCHLEY, Hartford 1640, removed to New Haven 1643, took oath of fidelity next year, but in two years more was of Branford; encouraged the removal of others to Newark, New Jersey, but did not go; in 1667 and three years following was Representative, by wife Susanna, he had Aaron; Moses, born 25 May 1650, both baptized 1 June 1651 at New Haven; Miriam, I think, baptized 2 May 1652; and Abigail. In his latter days he was of Guilford, and died at Boston, about 1674, probably on a trading visit. His widow married Richard Bristow; daughter Miriam married 1670, Samuel Pond. Blachley and Blackley, sometimes represent this name, especially the latter.

JOHN BLAXTON, Cumberland, son of William Blaxton, sold the land derived from his father, and in 1692, removed with his wife Catharine to Providence; where probably in 1700, or shortly before was husband. His son John, perhaps, thence, the same year to Rehoboth, in that part set off as Attleborough, and from this town, as fearing he might became a pauper, was warned to depart 1713. He had acquired an unsocial temper, and living as a hermit; but that affection or affectation could be as well indulged in the new residence at Branford, which with high probability is thought to have been his resort. His son John there died as the gravestone record 3 January 1785, unless another John Blaxton of so unusual surname be assumed and that would be contrary to all reasonable inferences.

WILLIAM BLAXTON, Boston 1625, or 6, was bred at Emanuel, often called the Puritan, College Cambridge, where he had his degrese 1617, and 1621, and was probably ordained in England, but had no known cure, came in unknown ship at uncertain time, for undiscovered cause, and sat down, alone, on the peninsula, now the church part of Boston, where he continued some four or five years after the arrival of the Governor and Company, and was administered freeman 18 May 1631, having required that benefit in October preceding. He removed about 1634, or 5 (and was the earliest permanent civilized resident in the unborn Colony) to the neighbor of Providence (as it was soon after named), probably fr om dissatisfaction with the puritan rigidity of Massachusetts, built his house on meadow at Study hill, as he named the beautiful seclusion near the bank of a river, since called Blackstone, as our Secretary preferred to spell his name, which is restored now to the true form, in which I saw it written by himself on the University books. His new residence was at the place since called Cumberland; but he came to Boston once more to marry 4 July 1659, Sarah, widow of John Stephenson, had only son John, and died 26 May 1675, a few weeks only before the great Indians war, in which his plantation was destroyed. Right to administration on his estate and giving guardianship to his son was assumed by Plymouth Colony which reckoned their bounds to include that spot, and the discretion of the government of Rhode Island, prevented controversy about jurisdiction. It is presumed that the family name is not extinct, though for many years by many writers the supposition was confidently entertained. Very respectable descendants have for five or six generations enjoyed an estate at Branford, which was probably acquired by his grandson. Diligent research by L.M. Sargent, Esq. ten years since was crowned with satisfactory results, and his regard for the character of the emigrant was exhibited in copious publications of the process of inquiry. See Holmes, Annals I.; Winthrop I. 44 and 5; 2 Massachusetts History Collections X. 170; and 3 Massachusetts History Collections VIII. 247; Bliss, History of Rehoboth; Daggett's History of Attleborough, 29.

BLAYDEN WILLIAM, New Haven 1641, died late in 1661, probably unmarried. The inventory of 3 January following shows petty estate.

JOHN BLEASE, Cambridge, buried 23 April 1646, may be misspelt, or is a strange name on record.

JOHN BLETHIN, Salem, married 10 May 1674, Jane Marks, had John, born 14 March 1677.

THOMAS BLETSO, Bristol, 1688, had wife and two servants but no children. Nor is any thing more told of him.

THOMAS BLIGH, Boston 1652, sailmaker, was perhaps that man named in Hutchinson Collections 267, and Haz. History Collections II. 359, served in the expedition under Willard, 1654, for bringing Ninicraft to submit. He had Thomas, born 1656, and probably was exposed to malediction. As a Quaker 1658, married 10 September 1691, Sarah, widow of William Everton.

PETER BLIN, Wethersfield, had four children born 1675-81; but the names are not seen.

RICHARD BLINMAN, Gloucester 1641, came from Chepstow, in County Monmouth, that is separated from Gloucestershire only by the river Wye. There he had preached and with much effect, if it be true, as is said, that many who accompanied or followed him from home, and had with him first set down at Marshfield, soon after reaching Plymouth in 1640, pursued his pleasure in crossing to the opposite side of the bay coming under another jurisdiction and changed the name of their town from Cape Ann to Gloucester, the city, where several of them had been born. He had grant of land in 1641, and was made freeman 7 October of the same year, by wife Mary, he had Jeremiah, born 20 July 1642; Ezekiel, 11 November 1643; and Azrikam, 2 January 1646; removed October 1650, to New London, and drew thither many of his Gloucester friends. Fewer, perhaps, followed him to New Haven, whence after short residence and selling some of his library to the Colony in May 1659, he went home, carrying all his children except Jeremiah, who was at New London so late as 1663. His wife is thought to have been sister of Deacon William Parke of Roxbury, but with slight grounds. He died at Bristol, "in a good old age," says Calamy, II. 610.

ABRAHAM BLISH, or ABRAHAM BLUSH, Barnstable, by wife Ann, who died 26 May 1651, had Sarah, born 2, baptized 5 December 1641; Joseph, 5, baptized 9 April 1648; and by second wife Hannah, widow of John Barker of Duxbury, had Abraham, 16 October 1654. This wife died 16 March 1658, and he married 4 January following Alice Derby, and died 7 September 1683.

ABRAHAM BLISH, or ABRAHAM BLUSH, Boston, one of the founders of the church in Brattle street 1698, from the rarity of the union of such names, may well be supposed son of the preceding.

JOSEPH BLISH, or JOSEPH BLUSH, Barnstable, son of the first Abraham Blish, married 15 September 1674, Hannah Hull, had Joseph, born 13 September 1675; John, 17 February 1677, who died young; Ann, February 1679; Abraham, 27 February 1681; Reuben, 14 August 1683; Sarah, August 1685, died young; Thankful, September 1687; John, again, 1 January 1692; died under 20 years; Tristram, April 1694; Mary, April 1696; and Benjamin, April 1699.

GEORGE BLISS, Lynn, removed 1637, to Sandwich, says Lewis, to which Mr. Felt adds, that he was of Newport 1649, then aged 58, and he is seen in the list of freeman 1655.

JOHN BLISS, Newport, son of the preceding, freeman 1669, married Damaris Arnold, daughter of Benedict Arnold the first, had Freelove, born 17 November 1672.

JOHN BLISS, Northampton, son of the first Thomas Bliss, was probably born at Hartford, whence, after death of his father, of who perhaps he was youngest child, he was by his mother carried to Springfield. There he married 7 October 1667, Patience Burt, daughter of Henry Burt, had John, born 7 September 1669; Nathaniel, 26 January 1671; Thomas, 29 October 1673, who lived to 12 August 1758; Joseph, 1676, who died at great age, unmarried; Hannah, 16 November 1678; Henry, 15 August 1681, died young; and Ebenezer, 1683, who died 4 November 1761; and removed to Springfield, where most of his life passed, and he died 10 September 1702.

JONATHAN BLISS, Rehoboth 1655, son probably eldest of Thomas Bliss of the same, born in England, by wife Miriam Harmon, sister probably of Nathaniel Harmon, had Ephraim, born 1649; Rachel, 1651; Jonathan, 1653, died young; Mary, 1655; Elizabeth, 1657; Samuel, 1660; Martha, 1663; Jonathan, again, 1666; and Dorothy and Bethia, twins 1668.

JONATHAN BLISS, Rehoboth, son of the preceding, married 23 June 1691, Miriam Carpenter, daughter of the second William Carpenter, had Jonathan, born 5 June 1692; Jacob, 21 March 1694; Ephraim, 28 December 1695, died young; Elisha, 4 August 1697; Ephraim, again, 15 August 1699; Daniel, 21 January 1702; Noah, 18 May 1704; and Miriam, 19 November 1705; and his wife died 21 May following. Next he married Mary French, had Mary, 1711, who died soon; Mary, again, 25 November 1712; Hannah, 7 January 1715; and Bethia, 10 May 1716; and he died 16 October 1719.

LAWRENCE BLISS, Springfield, son of Thomas Bliss of the same, was probably born in England, married 25 October 1654, Lydia Wright, daughter of Deacon Samuel Wright, had Lydia, born 29 November 1655; died at four months; Sarah, 11 May 1657, died in one month; Sarah, again, 4 April 1658, died next year; Samuel, 7 June 1660, died in two weeks; Samuel, again, 16 August 1662; Hannah, 26 May 1665; Sarah, again, 27 November 1667; William, 28 April 1670; and Pelatiah, 19 August 1674. The last five lived beyond middle age; but the father died 1676. His widow married 1678 John Norton of Springfield.

NATHANIEL BLISS, Springfield 1645, brother of the preceding, born in England, removed from Hartford soon after death of his father, and married 20 November 1646, Catharine Chapin, daughter of Deacon Samuel Chapin, had Samuel, born 7 November 1617, who lived to 19 June 1749; Margaret, 12 November 1649, who married 2 May 1672, Nathaniel Foote, and died April 1745; Mary, 23 September 1651; and Nathaniel, 27 March 1653, who died 23 December 1736. Notwithstanding this tendency to long life in the children, the father was buried 18 November 1654. His widow married 31 July following Thomas Gilbert, by him had four children, and married 28 December 1664, Samuel Marshfield, and had four more, so as to count one dozen children. On 31 December 1678, or the next day, Samuel senior, Samuel junior and Samuel tertiously took oath of allegiance being over 16 years old, and enrolled in the military at Springfield. They were a son of Nathaniel Bliss, a son of Lawrence Bliss, and their uncle.

SAMUEL BLISS, Springfield, brother of the preceding, was perhaps born at Hartford, married 10 November 1665, Mary Leonard, daughter of John Leonard of Springfield, had Hannah, born20 December 1666; Thomas, 8 February 1668; Mary, 4 August 1670; Jonathan, 5 January 1672; Martha, 1 June 1674; Sarah, 10 September 1677; Experience, 1 April 1679, died at 18 years; Mercy, 18 July 1680; Ebenezer, 29 July 1683; Margaret, 11 September 1684; and Esther, 2 April 1688. He died 23 March 1720; and his widow died 21 March 1724.

SAMUEL BLISS, Norwich, son of Thomas Bliss of the same, married 8 December 1681, Ann Elderkin, daughter of John Elderkin, had Thomas, born September 1682; Samuel, 13 November 1684; Elizabeth, 28 February 1687; John, 23 October 1690; Pelatiah, 19 November 1697; and Thankful, 7 March 1700. He died 30 December 1729; and his widow died 17 May 1748.

SAMUEL BLISS, Springfield, son of Lawrence Bliss, married Hannah Stiles, daughter of John Stiles, the second of Windsor, had Hannah, born 1 May 1689; Sarah, 6 January 1692, who died at 15 years; Lydia, 24 November 1695; and Samuel, 29 March 1701; and his wife died December 1704.

THOMAS BLISS, Hartford, was an early, but not original settler of whose coming from England nothing is known, but his first residence was in that part of Boston called the mount, afterwards Braintree, now Quincy. In 1639 or 40 he is first mentioned in Connecticut at the same time with Thomas junior, who may be the freeman of 18 May 1642 in Massachusetts, there left by his father whose death is early heard of, though exact date is not gained. His widow Margaret was very resolute and capable, and after two or three years, removed with all her children except Thomas, and Ann, to Springfield, there died 28 August 1684. She had nine children and it has been absurdly said, that all were brought from England. Of most, this is true. Ann, who married 29 April 1642, Robert Chapman of Saybrook; Mary married 26 November 1646, Joseph Parsons; Thomas; Nathaniel; Lawrence; and perhaps Samuel; were born in England, but our side of the water may claim, probably Sarah, married 20 July 1659, John Scott; Elizabeth married 15 February 1670, as his second wife Miles Morgan; possibly Hannah, who died 25 January 1662, unmarried, and certainly John.

THOMAS BLISS, Weymouth, was possibly the freeman of 18 May 1642, but next year certainly removed to Rehoboth, there died June 1649. His will, by careless statement in Genealogical Registrar IV. 282, said to bear date of 8th of that month, but also on same day to be brought into Court, gives valuable information about his child Jonathan, to whom he devised his house, his eldest daughter whose baptized name is not told, wife of Thomas Williams; Mary, wife of Nathaniel Harmon of Braintree; son-in-law (perhaps meaning son of his wife) Nicholas Ide, and his son Nathaniel. From finding no mention of him after 1649 at Rehoboth, I suppose, confusion of him with Thomas Bliss of Norwich was easy.

THOMAS BLISS, Norwich, 1660, son of Thomas Bliss the first, had been of Hartford, and early after death of his father, removed to Saybrook, about the end of October 1644, took wife Elizabeth, had Elizabeth, born 20 November 1640; Sarah, 26 August 1647; Mary, 7 February 1649; Thomas, 3 March 1652, who died 29 January 1682, probably unmarried; Deliverance, August 1655; Samuel, 9 December 1657; all before removed from Saybrook, and at Norwich had Ann, September 1660, the second English child born in that place; Rebecca, March 1663; and he died 15 April 1688. By will, made two days before (requested by the insufferable tyranny of Sir Edmund Andros to be brought to Boston for proof and record, supported his retainers by the fees of office), provided for wife, Elizabeth, six daughters, and only son Samuel, is seen. Of this name, in 1834, four had been graduates at Harvard, four at Dartmouth,sSeventeen at Yale, besides six at other New England colleges of which most distinguished are Reverend Daniel Bliss of Concord, born at Springfield, January 1715, Yale College 1732, died 11 May 1764; his son Daniel Bliss, born 1740, Harvard College 1760, died in the Province of New Brunswick 1806; Jonathan Bliss, Harvard College 1763, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New Brunswick; and George Bliss, Yale College 1784, LL.D. who died 8 May 1830, aged 65.

DANIEL BLODGET, or DANIEL BLOGGET, sometimes DANIEL BLOGHEAD, Cambridge, son of Thomas Blodget, born in England, freeman 1652, removed to Chelmsford, married 15 September 1663, Mary Butterfield, daughter probably of Benjamin Butterfield, had Thomas, born 25 June following; Ann, 2 November 1655; and Daniel, 6 January 1657, perhaps others, and died 28 January 1672, leaving besides those three, Benjamin, aged 11.

JONATHAN BLODGET, or JONATHAN BLOGGET, sometimes JONATHAN BLOGHEAD, Salisbury, married 7 February 1689, Mary Rowlandson, daughter perhaps of Reverend Joseph Rowlandson, had Hannah, born 15 January following; Daniel, 12 September 1691, died in few days; Mary, 11 October 1692; and Joseph, 12 August 1694, who died at 2 years.

SAMUEL BLODGET, or SAMUEL BLOGGET, sometimes SAMUEL BLOGHEAD, Woburn 1654, brother of Daniel Blodget, born in England, married 13 December 1655, Ruth Iggleden, daughter probably of Stephen Iggleden of Boston, had Ruth, born 28 December 1656; Samuel, 10 December 1658; Thomas, 26 February 1661; Sarah,17 February 1668; and Martha and Mary, twins 15 September 1673; perhaps the last two or three by second wife. He was Representative 1693, and died 3 July of that year.

THOMAS BLODGET, or THOMAS BLOGGET, sometimes THOMAS BLOGHEAD, Cambridge, came in the Increase from London, 1635, aged 30, with wife Susanna, 37, if custom house record be true; children Daniel, 4; and Samuel, 1 and 1/2; was administered freeman 3 March 1636; had here Susanna, born June 1637; and Thomas, who died 7 August 1639. He made his will, as given in Genealogical Registrar II. 185, 10 August 1641, probated 8 July following, in which the wife and three children are provided for. His widow married 15 February 1644, James Thompson of Woburn; and his daughter of the same name married 28 November 1655, Jonathan Thompson.

THOMAS BLODGET, or THOMAS BLOGGET, sometimes THOMAS BLOGHEAD, Woburn, son probably of Samuel Blodget, married 11 November 1685, Rebecca Tidd, daughter probably of John Tidd, had Thomas, born 5 August 1686; another child who died 13 April 1688; Rebecca, 5 June 1689; Ruth, 14 October 1694; Joseph, 17 September 1696; Abigail, 7 November 1698; and Samuel, 17 June 1702. Three of this name, says Farmer, in MS, had been graduates at Dartmouth and three at younger New England colleges in 1834.

EDMUND BLOIS, or EDMUND BLOYS, Watertown, was freeman 22 May 1639, but Bond well presumes, that he had been here several years as his wife Mary, aged 40, with son Richard, 11, came, to join him, in the Francis, from Ipswich, 1634, and this renders it probable that he was of a Suffolk family. His wife died 29 May 1675, and he married 27 September following Ruth Parsons, daughter of Hugh Parsons, and died at great age, before April, 1681. It is said he was born 1587. The widow lived to December 1711.

FRANCIS BLOIS, or FRANCIS BLOYS, Cambridge, perhaps brother of the preceding, freeman 2 June 1641, was buried 29 September 1646.

RICHARD BLOIS, or RICHARD BLOYS, Watertown, son of Edmund Blois, born in England, married 10 February 1658, Michael Jennison, daughter of Robert Jennison, had Richard, born 7 December 1659; Mary, 11 December 1661; and son Michael, 3 April 1664. He was a Sergeant, and died 7 August 1665. His widow married 11 July 1667, John Warren. On Cambridge record the name is Blosse, and in that of the Colony, Bloyce.

RICHARD BLOIS, or RICHARD BLOYS, Watertown, son of the preceding, married 26 September 1688, Ann Cutler, daughter of James Cutler of Cambridge Farms, now Lexington, had Richard, born 25 January 1701; James, 3 November 1702; Samuel, 26 January 1705; and Ann, 10 August 1707. He was freeman 1690.

JOHN BLOMFIELD, or JOHN BLUMFIELD, Massachusetts died about 1640, leaving son John, besides Thomas, who was made administrator.

THOMAS BLOMFIELD, or THOMAS BLUMFIELD, Newbury, an early settler, died 1639, leaving a lame daughter and son Thomas; yet he may be the same as the preceding.

THOMAS BLOMFIELD, or THOMAS BLUMFIELD, Newbury, son of the preceding, had Mary, born 15 January 1642; Sarah, 30 December 1643; John, 15 March 1646; Thomas, 12 December 1648; Nathaniel, 10 April 1651; Ezekiel, 1 November 1653; Rebecca, 1656; Ruth, 4 July 1659; and Timothy, 1 April 1664. He next year removed to Woodbridge, New Jersey, where his son Thomas Blomfield was Representative in 1675.

WILLIAM BLOMFIELD, or WILLIAM BLUMFIELD, Hartford 1639, had lived in some part of Massachusetts perhaps Newbury, after arriving at Boston in the Elizabeth, 1634, from Ipswich, County Suffolk, aged 30, with wife Susan, 25, and child Sarah, 1; was administered freeman of Massachusetts 2 September 1635, probably had other children besides John, baptized 24 August 1645; and Samuel, 12 July 1647; before removing 1650 to New London; thence in 1663 to Newtown, Long Island. Sarah married Simon Sacket of Springfield, and to her only child Joseph with his mother. The grandfather Blomfield gave his New London estate after she had married Woodward. Hardly is the report of this gentleman uttered with adequate distinctness by the Connecticut historians. Porter makes his removal "perhaps to New Jersey" mistaking him probably for Thomas; and Hinman, 117, says only, that he was gone from Hartford 1663, down the Connecticut river. This name, in the third generation had became Bloomfield. A Governor of New Jersey in our day, was Joseph Bloomfield, a descendant of Thomas Bloomfield.

JAMES BLOOD, Concord 1639, freeman 2 June 1641, idly reputed by some, solely from similar surname, to be brother of that Colonel Blood known in England History for great boldness in stealing from the Tower, 1671, the crown and regalia of Charles II, and the greater impudence, by which he gained not only impunity but an estate from the jolly King. See the curious letter from the wife of the regicide Goffe to her husband in 3 Massachusetts History Collections I. 60. He had perhaps brought from England all or most of these four sons Robert, James, Richard, John, who died unmarried 30 October 1692, had here Mary, born 12 July 1640; and he died 17 November 1683.

JAMES BLOOD, Concord, son of the preceding, married 26 October 1657, Hannah Purchis, daughter of Oliver Purchis of Lynn, had only child Sarah, born 5 March 1660, who married William Wilson; was an early proprietor of Groton, Deacon, and Representative for Sudbury 1660, unless this honor belonged (as to me seems probable) rather to his father, and died 26 November 1692. Shattuck.

JAMES BLOOD, of Concord, possibly the same as preceding but more probably his nephew, and still more likely to be son of another stock, had wife Elizabeth, who died at Lynn December 1676; and he married 19 November 1679, Isabel Farmer, the young widow of David Wyman, daughter of John Farmer of Concord.

JAMES BLOOD, Groton, son of Richard Blood, married 7 September 1669, Elizabeth Longley, daughter of William Longley the first of the same, had Richard, born 29 May 1670, died soon; Mary, 1 September 1672; Hannah, who died according to Butler, 6 January 1676; and Elizabeth, 27 April 1675. By second wife Abigail, he had James, born 12 August 1687; John, 16 March 1689; and Martha, 20 October 1692. On 13 September preceding he was killed by the French and Indians.

JOSEPH BLOOD, Groton, brother of the preceding, by wife Hannah, had several children and removed to Mendon, next to Dedham.

NATHANIEL BLOOD, Groton, brother of the preceding, married 13 June 1670, Hannah Parker, daughter of James Parker (who died 14 January 1728, aged 81), had Ann, born 1 March 1671; Elizabeth, 7 October 1673; Sarah, 2 April 1675; Mary, 17 April 1678; Nathaniel, 16 January 1680; and Joseph, 3 February 1682.

RICHARD BLOOD, Lynn, had Sarah, born June 1648; Nathaniel, April 1650; and Hannah.

RICHARD BLOOD, Groton, brother of James Blood the first of Concord, by wife Isabel, had Mary, who died 19 April 1662; James; Nathaniel; Elizabeth, and Joseph; was the chief of the original proprietors, and died 7 December 1683. The date of birth of all is unknown but Butler's History has their mothers and daughters. Elizabeth married 1 December 1686, Thomas Tarbell, third of that name.

ROBERT BLOOD, Concord, brother of the preceding, married 8 April 1653, Elizabeth Willard, daughter of Major Simon Willard, had Mary, born 4 March 1655; Elizabeth, 11 June 1656; Sarah, 1 August 1658; Robert, 2 February 1660; Simon, 5 July 1662; Josiah, or Joshua, 6 April 1661; John, 29 October 1666; Ellen, 14 April 1669; Samuel, 16 October 1672; James, 1673; Ebenezer, 15 February 1676; and Jonathan, as given by Shattuck, to which credible report adds Abigail. In Company with a brother he sold, 1 May 1649, small estate at Ruddington, in Nottinghamshire. His wife died 29 August 1690; and one Sarah, perhaps his daughter died at Roxbury, 28 July 1690. He was one of the original petitioners for incorporation of Groton, and died 27 October 1692, but one account has the year 1701. Descendants are very numerous.

PETER BLOSSOM, Barnstable, perhaps son of Thomas Blossom, married 4 June 1663, Sarah Bodfish, had Mercy, born 9 April 1664, died young; Thomas, 20 December 1667; Samuel, 1669, died young; Joseph, 10 December 1673; Thankful, 1675; Mercy, again, August 1678; and Jabez, 16 February 1680.

THOMAS BLOSSOM, one of the Pilgrims who came from Leyden to Plymouth, but being on board the Speedwell, was disappointed of passage in the Mayflower from England and soon went back to encourage emigration of the residue. As who came and returned with him, died before December 1625, and two other children had been born in the interval. See a good letter from him to Governor Bradford in Young's Chronicles of the Pilgrims 480. He came again, 1629, probably in the Mayflower, if the belowed name would attract the few for Plymouth, when the larger part of the fellow-voyagers with Higginson were bound for Salem; was Deacon, and died after short possession of the land of promise, in the summer of 1633. Prince, Annals, 437, of Ed. 1826. His widow Ann married 17 October of that year Henry Rowley; and daughter Elizabeth married 10 May 1637, Edward Fitzrandle.

THOMAS BLOSSOM, Plymouth, son of the preceding, had wife Sarah Ewer, married 18 June 1645, daughter of Thomas Ewer of Charlestown, and daughter Sarah; lived at Barnstable 1643, was drowned 22 April 1650. Administration was granted to his widow 4 June of that year.

ROBERT BLOTT, Charlestown 1634, had come in 1632, probably to Roxbury, freeman 4 March 1635; was at Boston 1644; had wife Susanna, who died 20 January 1660. He died 1665, for his will of 27 May 1662, has a codicil 27 March of latter year, and was probably 2 February after, inventory being taken 22 August before. In it he names eldest daughter Mary, who (we know by Roxbury church record) came in 1632, and soon after had married Thomas Woodford of Roxbury, many years before removed to Hartford, and was probably dead, as he gives to her children; Sarah, who had married 6 October 1652; Edward Ellis of Boston; Joanna, who had married Daniel Lowell of Braintree, and was, perhaps, dead, as his gift is to her children and also to children of another daughter who had been wife of Richard Tozer of Boston, and many years deceased, and her eldest son John Green; besides one he calls son-in-law Daniel Turin, or some such name.

JOHN BLOWERS, Barnstable 1643, Boston 1654, by wife Tabitha, had Tabitha, born 12 February 1655; Mary, 25 April 1657; John, 19 October 1659; and Thomas, 1665.

PYAM BLOWERS, Cambridge, married 31 March 1668, Elizabeth Belcher, daughter of Andrew Belcher, who died 29 May 1709, aged 69, and he died three days after, aged 71. For his services in discovery on the coast of Carolina, 1663, he had grant of five hundred acres there, but probably he never claimed them. He had Thomas, born 27 July, died 14 August 1669; Samuel, 14 January died 21 Feb 1671; Jonathan, 8 February 1673; Ann, or Hannah, 4 July 1674, died 16 January 1676; Elizabeth, 19 July 1675; Ann, again, 16 July 1676; Thomas Blowers again, 1 August 1677, Harvard College 1695, not 1698, as printed in Genealogical Registrar VIII. 179; Pyam, 29 July, died 15 August 1679; John, 22 October 1680; and Andrew, 27 August died 21 October 1682.

THOMAS BLOWERS, Beverly, son of the preceding, ordained 29 October 1701, died 1729, had John, who lived at Boston, and was father of Samson Salter, born 10 March 1742, Harvard College 1763, the distinguished Lawyer and Judge, who died 25 October 1842, the oldest graduate except Holyoke, of the Institute (though since there have been two surpassing them), aged 100 years 7 months 4 days after correction of the style. Of Thomas, a passenger in the Truelove from London, aged 50, embarked September 1635, I have found nothing.

SAMUEL BLUNT, Charlestown 1681, married 9 June 1680, Ann Fosdick, daughter of John Fosdick, who died 8 August 1715, aged 62, had Samuel, born 2 June, baptized 3 July 1681, died soon; Ann, 27 May 1683, baptized the same day; Mary, 7, baptized 12 April 1685, died young; Abigail, 16, baptized 22 September 1689; Samuel, again, 14, baptized 17 January 1692; and John, 23 February baptized 1 March 1696.

WILLIAM BLUNT, Andover; about 1668, by wife Elizabeth, who died 11 July 1689, had William, who died 1738, aged 67; Samuel, who died 18 July 1684; and Hanborough.

WILLIAM BLUNT, son of the preceding, had David, born 1699; Jonathan; Ebenezer; and John Blunt, Harvard College 1727, ordained at Newcastle, New Hampshire, 20 December 1732, who was the ancestor of the families of Blunt at Newcastle and Portsmouth, and died 7 August 1748, aged 41.

JOHN BLY, Salem, brickmaker; married perhaps as second wife 11 November 1663, Rebecca Golt, or Rebecca Gott, perhaps daughter of Deacon Charles Gott, had John, born 27 January 1665; Benjamin, 8 October 1666; Mary, 25 May 1668; Rebecca, 20 July 1670; Edmund, 14 September 1672; Hannah, 8 October 1674; and William, 17 September 1676 or 1678. Rebecca married 22 May 1692, James Gillingham.

SAMUEL BLY, Lynn, married 19 December 1678, Lois Ivory, daughter of Thomas Ivory, had Theophilus, who died 12 June 1681.

AMBROSE BOADEN, or AMBROSE BODEN, Scarborough 1658, probably associate with Andrew Alger, may have come from the same part of Somersetshire. Killed by the Indians probably October 1675. His son

SAMUEL BOARDMAN, one of the first settlers at Wethersfield 1636. See Boreman.

THOMAS BOARDMAN, Yarmouth 1643, a carpenter from London, first at Plymouth, 1634, at Sandwich, 1638, had married first wife Lucy, who died 8 November 1676, had a son born in London and a daughter Elizabeth here, who died 20 December 1676. He married next, Elizabeth Rider, widow of Lieutenant John Cole, daughter of Samuel Rider. Other children probably by first wife were Thomas, Susanna, and Thankful; and he died August 1689, very aged.

EDWARD BOBBIT, Taunton 1643, married 7 September 1654, Sarah Tarne, daughter of Miles Tarne of Boston, and was living at Taunton 1675. His children were Edward, born 15 July 165; Sarah, 20 March 1658; Hannah, 9 March 1660; Damaris, 15 September 1663; Elkanah, 15 December 1665; Dorcas, 20 January 1667, died at 7 years; Esther, 15 April 1669; Ruth, 7 August 1671; Deliverance, 15 December 1673, all daughters by the record. Sarah married 25 March 1680, Samuel Pitts. Perhaps the name in recent times has became Babbit.

ELNATHAN BOCKFORD, Milford, married before 1679, a daughter of John Fletcher.

HENRY BODE, HENRY BOOD, or HENRY BOADE, Saco 1635, Wells 1641, [Willis, I. 49.] freeman of Massachusetts 1653, died 1657. Folsom, 119. His widow Ann married Samuel Wensley of Salisbury.

JOHN BODERIT, Boston, by wife Jane, had Susanna, born 27 November 1686, and no more is heard of this strange name.

JOHN BODINGHAM, a passenger for New England in the Friendship, from England 15 August 1679, but where or when he reached the land is unknown.

WILLIAM BODKIN, Boston, by wife Mary, had John, born 25 March 1680; and Elizabeth, 15 August 1682.

JOHN BODMAN, Boston, by wife Sarah, had John, born August 1645, as the town record has it; but church record says Benjamin, baptized 7 September 1645; Manoah, 6 March 1647; and Joseph, 17 October 1653. What time he died is not known but his widow was one of the first members of the third or Old South Church.

JOSEPH BODMAN, Westfield 1685; perhaps son of the preceding, after death of first wife Hepzibah, 15 January 1686, having born Lydia, 10 days before who died in two weeks. He removed to Hatfield, married 1687, Naomi Church, had Manoah, William, Sarah, Mary, Lydia, and Samuel; died 1711. Of his sons Samuel alone had children.

WILLIAM BODMAN, Watertown, by wife Frances, had Rebecca, born 1 November 1643.

HENRY BODWELL, Newbury, was in Captain Lathrop's Company called The flower of Essex, in the battle 18 September 1675, at Bloody brook, and severely wounded. See Coffin, 388. He married 4 May 1681, Bethia Emery, daughter of John Emery, had Bethia, born 2 June 1682; removed to Andover, had Henry and Josiah, twins who died 29 and 31 January 1685.

JOHN BOGGUST, Salem 1630, probably came in the fleet that year, and died within few months.

ALEXANDER BOGLE, Boston, had Mary, born 17 October 1659; was one of the soldiers in Captain Oliver's Company wounded in the great fight 19 December 1675.

JOHN BOHONION, or JOHN BOHANNON, Boston, by wife Mary, had John, born 9 May 1658; Margaret, 8 January 1660; John, again, 23 August 1661; Patrick, 14 February 1665; Abigail, 26 September 1667; and James, 20 October 1670.

ISAAC BOLLARD, Boston, married 3 January 1655, Sarah Jones, daughter of Thomas Jones of Dorchester. Of this name some natural distrust may be felt.

THOMAS BOLLES, New London 1667, his wife Zipporah, and eldest two children Mary, baptized 27 July 1673, and Joseph, 25 April 1675 were murdered 6 June 1678 by John Stodder, a young man, who on his confession was executed therefor. He died 26 May 1727, aged 84, a valuable man. His youngest child John was saved from the violence, and from him the numerous race in that vicinity descends.

FRANCIS BOLT, Milford, came to Boston in the Martin, 1638, and with the Baldwins, his fellow-passenger, soon removed thither, joined the church January 1640; perhaps had wife Sarah, son Philip, and daughter Susanna, mentioned in the records of Milford, and died 1649.

JOHN BOLTON, Bridgewater, son probably of Nicholas Bolton, though Mitchell cautionly calls him descendant of Nicholas Bolton of Dorchester, and says that, he is reported to have come from Stonington, with wife Sarah, but gives him children John, born 1686; Samuel, 1688; Sarah, 1690; Elizabeth, 1692; Nicholas, 1695; Mary, 1697; Elisha, 1700; Joseph, 1704; Nathaniel, 1706; and Abigail, 1709. It seems altogether an even chance and no more, that he was son or grandson of Nicholas Bolton.

WILLIAM BOLTON, Newbury, married 16 January 1655, Jane Bartlett, who died 6 September 1659, had Mary, born 25 September 1655; married 2nd wife 22 November 1659, Mary Dennison, had William, born 27 May 1665; Ruth, 1 August 1667; Elizabeth, 23 May 1672, died at 2 years; Elizabeth, again, 8 November 1674; Sarah, 5 April 1677; Hannah, 18 July 1679; and Joseph, 8 July 1672. William and Sarah, the children, both died 30 March 1694; and the father died 27 March 1697.

ROBERT BOLTWOOD, Hartford 1648, removed 1659 to Hadley, freeman 26 March 1661, died 6 April 1684, an enterprising and brave man; by wife Mary, who died 14 May 1687, had only son Samuel, mentioned below, and these daughters Sarah, who married 31 May 1666, Isaac Warner of Harfield, and next, in 1696, Deacon John Loomis of Windsor; Lydia, who married 2 April 1674, John Warner of Springfield, and died 26 January 1683; Martha, who married 1 April 1674, Daniel Warner of Hatfield, and died 1710; and Mary, who married 24 October 1667, James Beebee of Hadley, and died 19 August 1676.

SAMUEL BOLTWOOD, Hadley, son of the preceding, removed to Farmington, married Sarah Lewis, daughter of Captain William Lewis, had five sons and five daughters, removed to Deerfield, and was killed 29 February 1704 in the assault by French and Indians. His widow died 10 August 1722, aged 70. Of the children Samuel, born 12 October 1679, married Hannah Alexander, and died 1738; Sarah married Nathaniel Kellogg; Elizabeth married Eleazer Mattoon; Robert, born 19 April 1683, was killed at the same time with his father; Ebenezer was of Berwick; Rebecca, born 1691, became second wife of Daniel Shattuck, 7 May 1724; Solomon, born 2 July 1694, died 20 September 1762, was ancestor of Ebenezer Boltwood, Harvard College 1773, and of Lucius Boltwood, M. Will. college 1814.

GRIMSTONE BOND, Boston, by wife Elizabeth, had Elizabeth, born 22 August 1683; Joseph, 27 April 1685; and Mary, 13 August 1688; freeman 1690. I find it spelled sometimes Bonrde.

JOHN BOND, Newbury, 1642, married 5 August 1649, Esther Blakely, had John, born 10 June 1650; Thomas, 29 March 1652, died at 8 weeks; Joseph, 14 April 1653; Esther, 3 September 1655; Mary, 16 December 1657; and Abigail, 6 November 1660, removed to Rowley, thence to Haverhill, died 1675. His widow married 5 May 1675, the second John Williams of Haverhill. Esther married Aquila Chase; and Abigail married 2 March 1676, Ezra Rolfe.

JOHN BOND, Watertown, second son of William Bond first of the same, married 6 August 1679, Hannah Coolidge, daughter of John Coolidge, and had John, born 12 April 1680; William, 11 November 1681; Hannah, 1 July 1683, died young; Elizabeth, 20 March 1685; Abigail, 6 November 1686; Sarah, 25 August 1688; and Daniel, 21 June 1690; and he died of smallpox, 1 March 1691, having in his will provided for wife and the six children.

JONAS BOND, Watertown, brother of the preceding, a very active man, served under Walley, in the 1690 expedition against Quebec, and died 21 April 1727; married first, 29 January 1689, Grace Coolidge, daughter of John Coolidge, who died 11 April 1699, had Sarah, born 30 May 1690; Jonas, 10 December 1691; Henry, about 1694; and Josiah, 20 January 1696; and married second Elizabeth Jackson, widow of John Prentice, daughter of Captain Edward Jackson of Newton, without issue.

JOSEPH BOND, Haverhill, probably son of Newbury John Bond, took oath of allegiance 28 November 1677.

NATHANIEL BOND, Watertown, son of William Bond the first, married 27 February 1685, Bethia Fuller, youngest daughter of John Fuller of Cambridge, and had Nathaniel, born 3 March 1686; Bethia; and John, baptized 23 November 1690; was a Lieutenant, and died about 1 April 1700.

NICHOLAS BOND, York, freeman 1652, perhaps removed to Hampton, where Nicholas Bond was killed by the Indians 17 August 1703, but far more probably is it that this was son of John Bond of Plymouth; lived at Salisbury first, there married 5 December 1684, or 7, Sarah Rowlandson, perhaps daughter of Reverend Joseph Rowlandson, had Thomas, born 10 October 1688; William, 13 June 1696; and Joseph, 1 April 1700.

ROBERT BOND, Easthampton, Long Island, was made a magistrate 1658, and Representative 1659, 60, and 1, removed to New Jersey, and was in 1668 of the council taken by Governor Carteret. Whitehead's New Jersey 52 and 3 Massachusetts History Collections X. 84.

SAMPSON BOND, Boston, 1682, one of the ejected ministers from County Cumberland, was employed at first church as assistant to Reverend James Allen for some time, but was compelled to give up this place for preaching a sermon not composed by him, removed to Barbados, thence, perhaps, to Bermuda, and there died. Hutchinson I. 427. Emerson, History of first church 134. Calamy, II. 150.

THOMAS BOND, a passenger embarked in England 29 May 1679 for Boston in the Elizabeth; but it may be feared that he never reached his destination or else, he soon died or went home again.

THOMAS BOND, Watertown, third son of William Bond of the same, married 30 September 1680, Sarah Woolson, daughter of Thomas Woolson, and had Thomas, born 29 May 1683; Sarah, 2 December 1685; William, 1 February 1688; Mary, baptized 7 December 1690; John, born 14 July 1695; and Isaac, 22 June 1698; and died 17 December 1704.

WILLIAM BOND, Watertown 1649, third son of Thomas Bond of Bury St. Edmonds, in County Suffolk, baptized there 3 September 1625, at St. James church, brought probably 1630, in the fleet with Winthrop, by his aunt Elizabeth, wife of Ephraim Child; married 7 February 1650, Sarah Briscoe, daughter of Nathaniel Briscoe, who died 16 February 1693; bought of Reverend John Knowles, after he went home, 5 March 1655, the farm that king purchased of Captain William Jennison; was often Representative in the Colony days, in the council of safety during the insurrection against Andros, and first speaker of the house after the new Charter, a man of great energy; had 2nd wife 1695, Elizabeth, widow of John Nevinson, and died 15 December 1695. His widow survived about 25 years. His children were William, born 1 December 1650; John, 2 December 1652; Thomas, 23 December 1654; Elizabeth, 30 November 1656, who married 13 March 1679, Nathaniel Barsham, Nathaniel, 19 January 1659, died soon; Nathaniel, again, 9 January 1660, unless confusion of style in the family genealgy has made two out of one; Sarah, 27 July 1661, who married 29 January 1690, Palsgrave Wellington; Jonas, 19 July 1664; and Mary, who married 22 June 1693, Richard Coolidge. His descendant Henry Bond of Philadelphia, bestowed many years on the filial duty of publishing the Watertown genealogy to fill the admirable volume of the History of Watertown.

WILLIAM BOND, Watertown, son of the preceding, married 2 June 1680, Hepzibah Hastings, only daughter of Thomas Hastings, had Margaret, born 1 October 1680; three Williams, of which the last was born 24 May 1695; Deliverance, 2 May 1686; Elizabeth; Mary; Samuel; and others, who died young. Four of this name had been graduates at Harvard and four at the other New England colleges in 1834.

DANIEL BONDET, Oxford, minister of the Huguenots, or French Protestants, 1691. 3 Massachusetts History Collections II. 61.

GEORGE BONHAM, or GEORGE BONUM, Plymouth, married 20 December 1644, as second wife Sarah Morton, daughter of George Morton, had, probably Ruth, who married 28 November 1666, Robert Barron; Patience, who married 28 December 1670, Richard Willis; Sarah, born 4 December 1649, died early in 1650; and Sarah, again, 12 January 1651, died probably soon; Sarah, again, 10 December 1653; died 28 April 1704, aged 86.

NICHOLAS BONHAM, or NICHOLAS BONUM, Barnstable, perhaps brother of George Bonham, married 1 January 1659, Hannah Fuller, daughter of Samuel Fuller the second, had Hannah, born 8 October 1659; Mary, 4 October 1661; and Sarah, 16 February 1664.

JOHN BONNER, Boston, 1678, by wife Mary Clark, daughter of Jonas Clark of Cambridge, had Jane or John, born 10 January 1686, died in few months; Jonah, 8 July 1687, died in few days; and Mary, 28 January 1689, died at 10 years. He removed to Cambridge, there had Jane, 2 May 1691; John, 6 December 1693; and Thomas, 6 January 1696; and his wife died 20 April 1697. Soon after he went to England with his children. See Genealogical Registrar V. 174.

THOMAS BONNEY, Charlestown, shoemaker, came in the Hercules, 1635, from Sandwich, in Kent, removed early, was one of the proprietors of Bridgewater 1645, but lived at Duxbury, where he married Dorcas Sampson, daughter of Henry Sampson, had one or more sons probably, and Mary, who married 14 December 1675, John Mitchell.

JOHN BONYTHON, or JOHN BONIGHTON, Saco 1636, son of Richard Bonython, Casco 1658, had his house burned by the Indians 1675 [Willis, I. 44. 138]; and died before 1684, leaving widow, son John; and having an ill epitaph. Folsom, 116.

RICHARD BONYTHON, or RICHARD BONIGHTON, Saco 1631, was a Captain and magistrate and held court 25 March 1636, and died about 1650, paid as large a rate for support of ministry, as any one in 1636. His daughter Sarah married Richard Foxwell, and another married Richard Codman. Bonython is the name of a place in Cornwall.

MATTHEW BOOMER, Newport, a freeman there 1655, had family of which details are unknown.

JAMES BOOSY, Wethersfield 1635, by wife Alice, had Joseph, born perhaps before settling at Wethersfield; Mary, born 10 September 1635; Hannah, 10 February 1642; Sarah, 12 November 1613; and James, 1 February 1646; Representative from 1639 till his death 22 June 1649. His widow married James Wakeley, and died 1653. Of his children Mary married the first Samuel Steele; Hannah married as is believed John Pratt; Sarah married 2 June 1659, Nathaniel Stanley; and James died under age. The will, of 21 June 1649, gives good portion to each of the five children.

JOSEPH BOOSY, had wife Esther, but no children, and died at West Chester, but had lived at Fairfield 1655, and his widow married Jehu Burr.

JOSEPH BOOTFISH, or JOSEPH BODFISH, Barnstable, probably son of Robert Bootfish, married June 1674, Elizabeth Bessey, had John, born 6 December 1675; Joseph, October 1677; Mary, 1 March 1680; Hannah, May 1681; Benjamin, 20 July 1683; Nathan, 27 December 1685; Ebenezer, 10 March 1688; Elizabeth, 27 August 1690; Rebecca, 22 February 1693; Meletiah, 7 April 1695; Robert, 10 October 1698; and Sarah, 20 February baptized 6 April 1701.

ROBERT BOOTFISH, or ROBERT BODFISH, Lynn, freeman 6 May 1635, removed 1637 to Sandwich, and probably others, or at Barnstable, about 1651; having had Joseph, born 3 April 1651, and probably others earlier, one 27 March 1648, whose name is not given. Perhaps a son Robert, and one or more daughters were born in England or at Lynn. At Barnstable, Bridget, probably his widow married 15 December 1657, Samuel Hinckley, father of Governor Thomas, as his 2d wife; Elizabeth married November 1659, John Crocker, perhaps his 2nd wife; and Sarah married 4 June 1663, Peter Blossom. These three are thought to be all daughters of Robert Bootfish.

EBENEZER BOOTH, Stratford, son of Richard Booth, married Elizabeth Jones, daughter of Richard Jones of Haddam, had three sons Benjamin, Edward, and Ebenezer, besides daughters Deborah, Elizabeth, and Abigail, all living at his death, and he gave to Nathaniel, son of his son Ebenezer, and died 1732.

EPHRAIM BOOTH, Stratford, eldest son of Richard Booth, in his will of February 1683, shortly before his death names wife Mary, and minor children Richard, Mary, Joanna, Bethia, and cousin Samuel Hawley.

GEORGE BOOTH, Lynn, by wife Elizabeth, or Alice, had Elizabeth, born 15 March 1674; removed to Salem, there had Benjamin, 10 March 1676; Alice, 6 July 1678; and Susanna, 21 September 1680. His wife was often a witness, 1692, against witches. But he died (as I infer) ten years before, for on 26 June 1682, his wife brought inventory of his estate. The daughter Elizabeth married 16 December 1698, Israel Shaw.

HUMPHREY BOOTH, Charlestown, merchant, married Rebecca Symmes, daughter of Reverend Zechariah Symmes.

JOHN BOOTH, Scituate 1656, had Joseph, born 1659; John, 1661; Benjamin, 1667; Abraham, 1671; besides Elizabeth, Mary, Grace, and Judith.

JOHN BOOTH, Southold, Long Island, 1659, refused oath to Connecticut jurisdiction.

JOHN BOOTH, Scituate, son of John Booth of the same, married 1687, Mary Dodson, daughter of Anthony Dodson; and had Anthony, born 1689; and perhaps died before middle age. His widow Mary married 1697, Abraham Bardin, a Scotchman, as says Deane; but he tells no more.

JOHN BOOTH, Woodbury, son of Richard Booth, married 14 June 1678, Dorothy Hawley, daughter of Thomas Hawley of Roxbury, had Thomas, born 13 March 1679; and John; but Cothren names no more.

JOSEPH BOOTH, Stratford, youngest son of Richard Booth, in his will, of 14 August 1703, probated January following, names wife Elizabeth, daughter Hannah, sons James, Joseph, Robert, David, and Nathan, but another son Zechariah is omitted. His estate was good. By his first wife Mary Wells, the posthumous daughter of Honorable John Wells, he had no children. His second wife Hannah Wilcockson, daughter of John Wilcockson, brought him Hannah, born 1687; Robert, 1689; James, 1691; Zechariah, 1693; Joseph, 1695; David, 1697; and Nathan 1699, who died at 15 years and she died 1701. Third wife he took next year and died in year following.

MICHAEL BOOTH, Roxbury, had Martha, born 29 April 1688, by a young woman who had united with the church in 1681, owned her sin on 8 July after this child was born, and had it baptized on the Sunday following. Perhaps the father ran away, for no mention is found.

RICHARD BOOTH, Stratford 1640, married a sister of the first Joseph Hanley, had Elizabeth, born 12 September 1641; Ann, 14 February 1644; Ephraim, August 1648; Ebenezer, 19 November 1651; John, 6 November 1653 ; Joseph, February or 8 March 1656; Bethia, 18 May 1658; and Joanna, 21 March 1661; was a selectman 1669, and on freeman's list the same year and after 1673, probably lived many years. He testified that he was 80 years old in 1687. His daughter Elizabeth married 19 October 1658, John Minor.

ROBERT BOOTH, Exeter 1645, removed to Saco 1653, or earlier, of which he was Representative 1659 to 1670, died 1672, aged 68; was some years the preacher probably of his will, without date, made four days before he died, was made 10 March 1673, but the inventory was taken 26 October preceding. By the will his widow Deborah, children Simon, Robert, Mary Penewell, Elinor, Martha, and Rebecca are provided for. His children were Mary, born 30 September 1627; Ellen, February 1634; Simeon, 10 May 1641; Martha, 12 April 1645; and Robert, 24 July 1655. Martha married 2 October 1663, John Laighton; Ellen married July 1652, Nicholas Bully; and Mary married 1647, Walter Penewell.

SIMEON BOOTH or SIMON BOOTH, Fairfield, or perhaps Hartford, married 5 January 1664, Rebecca Frost, daughter of Daniel Frost, who died 25 December 1688, removed to Enfield, and early settlers with William Booth, born about 1664; Zechariah, about 1666; and daughters Elizabeth, about 1668; Mary, about 1670; all born before he went thither. Stiles, in History of Windsor, 557, makes him a Welshman, and his wife Scotch, neither of which seems probable to me. He was, perhaps, son of the preceding, had second wife married 8 September 1693, widow Elizabeth Elmore, had Sarah, 11 December 1695; and Phebe, 1697; and died at Hartford 1703. Dr. Pease, in Hinman, 168, tells us, that William married 30 August 1693 Hannah Burroughs, daughter of John Burroughs, had Caleb, born 1695; and Joshua, 1697; died 1753, aged 89; that Zechariah, married 15 July 1691, Mary Warriner, and a 2nd wife 26 May 1696, Mary Harmon; had two sons John, born 1697, and Joseph; and died 28 May 1741. Three of this name had been graduates in 1834 at Yale.

JEREMIAH BOOTMAN, Salem, married 8 October 1659, Esther Lambert, had Mary, born 4 July 1660; Jeremy, 4 November 1662; and Mather, or, perhaps Matthew or Martha, 11 September 1665.

BRYANT BORDEN, perhaps of Malden, married Elizabeth Lewis, daughter of John Lewis.

JOHN BORDEN, came from Kent, in the Elizabeth and Ann, 1635, aged 28, with wife Jane, 23; and children Matthew, 5; and Elizabeth, 3; but it is not known where he first sat down; yet in 1650 one of the name is found at Stonington, whence he perhaps removed 1660, to Lyme.

JOHN BORDEN, New London, may have been son of the preceding, married 11 February 1662, Hannah Hough, eldest daughter of William Hough, had John, Samuel, Hannah, William and Sarah, twins, and Joanna, who were all baptized at New London, the last was born 1680. He lived at Lyme, and died 1684.

JOHN BORDEN, Newport, son of Richard Borden, by wife Mary, had Richard, born 25 October 1671; Amy, 30 May 1678; Joseph, 3 December 1680; Thomas, 13 December 1682; and Hope, 3 March 1685.

JOSEPH BORDEN, Newport, brother of the preceding, by wife Hope, had Sarah, born 17 April 1664; and William, 31 December 1667; removed to Barbados.

MATTHEW BORDEN, Portsmouth, eldest son of Richard Borden of the same, married 4 March 1674, Sarah Clayton, had Mary, born 20 September 1674; Matthew, 14 August 1676; Joseph, 17 July 1678; Sarah, 29 December 1680; and Ann, 5 January 1638, "the first English child born on Rhode Island,"; John, September 1640; Joseph, 3 January 1643; Sarah, May 1644; Samuel, July 1645; Benjamin, May 1649; and Amie, February 1654. He was, perhaps, brother of first John Borden.

THOMAS BORDEN, Providence 1663, married 20 January 1664, Mary Harris, daughter of William Harris of the same, had Mary, born October 1664; Dinah, October 1665; William, 10 January 1668; Joseph, 25 November 1669; Mercy, 3 November 1672; Experience, 8 June 1675; and Meribah, 19 December 1676. This name was Burden, in early days, often.

AARON BORDMAN, Cambridge, son of William Bordman, had Mary, born 1674, died soon; Mary, again, 1679, died soon; Mary, again, 1689; and perhaps other child was college cook, or steward, after his brother.

ANDREW BORDMAN, Cambridge, brother of the preceding, freeman 1674, married 15 October 1669, Ruth Bull, had Andrew, born 22 August 1671, one of eminent public servants as selectman, representative, town treasurer 45 years and nearly as long steward of the college, besides Ruth, 28 January 1673, the widow of President Wadsworth, and two or three other children, was steward of the college, died 15 July 1687, aged 42.

DANIEL BORDMAN, Ipswich, married 12 April 1662, Hannah Hutchinson, daughter of Richard Hutchinson. He was brother of Thomas, called Boreman.

THOMAS BORDMAN, Lynn 1637, removed to Sandwich. Lewis. He became one of the first purchasers of Middleborough.

WILLIAM BORDMAN, Cambridge, son of Rebecca, wife of Stephen Day, who he accompanied from England 1638, in the John of London, may have lived two or three years at New London, but went back, 1649, to Cambridge; freeman 1652; by wife Frances, had Moses, who died 16 March 1662; having reached manhood, and owned two houses; Rebecca; Andrew; Aaron; Frances; Martha; Mary, born March 1656; William, 6 December 1657; and Elizabeth, August 1660; a Major, was college cook, says Sewall, a long time, died 25 March 1685, aged 71. Martha married 17 April 1672, Daniel Epes of Salem.

WILLIAM BORDMAN, Malden, perhaps son of the preceding, by wife Sarah, had Lydia, born 2 May 1687; was freeman 1690, died 14 March 1696. Nineteen of this name had been graduates at the New England colleges 1834. Often this is written Boardman.

SAMUEL BOREL, Boston, by wife Martha, had Deborah, baptized 1 February 1691; Samuel, 23 April 1693; Catharine, 14 September 1695; Michael, 3 October 1697; John, 22 October 1699; Isabella, 7 September 1701; Samuel, again, 23 April 1704; and Nathaniel, 7 January 1711.

DANIEL BOREMAN, or sometimes DANIEL BORDMAN, Wethersfield, son of Samuel Boreman, married 8 June 1683, Hannah Wright, had Richard, born 1 September 1684 or 5; Daniel Boreman, 12 July 1687, Yale College 1709; Mabel, 30 May 1689; John, 18 November 1691, died at 21 years; Hannah, 18 December 1693; Martha, 10 or 19 December 1695; Israel, 6 October 1697; Timothy, a July 1699, died soon; Timothy, again, 20 July 1700; Joshua, 18 November 1702; Benjamin, 10 March 1705; and Charles, 13 June 1707; and died 20 February 1724. The widow died 25 February 1746, aged 83.

ISAAC BOREMAN, or sometimes ISAAC BORDMAN, Wethersfield, eldest brother of the preceding, by wife Abiah, had Isaac, born 21 July 1666; Samuel, 7 July 1668; Thomas, 14 November 1671; and Eunice, 29 June 1682; and he died 12 May 1719. The widow died 6 January 1723.

JONATHAN BOREMAN, or sometimes JONATHAN BORDMAN, brother of the preceding, may have not lived at Wethersfield, certainly married 22 October 1685, Mercy Hubbard, daughter of John Hubbard of Hatfield, had Mercy, born 4 July 1687; Joseph, 18 April 1690, died young; Jonathan, 16 May 1697; Abigail, 20 May 1700, died at 18 years; Hepzibah, 16 February 1702; and he died 21 September 1712.

NATHANIEL BOREMAN, or sometimes NATHANIEL BORDMAN, Wethersfield, youngest brother of the preceding, married 30 April 1707, Elizabeth Strong, daughter of Return Strong, of Windsor, had only son Nathaniel, born 19 February 1711; and died 29 November 1712, aged 49.

SAMUEL BOREMAN, or sometimes SAMUEL BORDMAN, Ipswich 1639, removed probably to Wethersfield with son Isaac, born 3 February 1642; had there Mary, born 14 February 1644; Samuel, 8 October 1648; Joseph, 12 March 1651; John, January 1653; Sarah, 8 March 1656; Daniel 4 August 1658; Jonathan, 4 February 1661; Nathaniel, 12 April 1663; and Martha, 12 August 1666, probably died young; Representative 1657-67. Joseph and Joseph died without children.

SAMUEL BOREMAN, or sometimes SAMUEL BORDMAN, Wethersfield, son of the preceding, married 8 February 1682, Sarah Steele, daughter of Lieutenant James Steele of Hartford, had Mary, born 13 November 1683; Sarah, 13 March 1686, died in few days; Hannah, 27 June 1687, died next year; David, 1 June 1692; and Joseph, 6 April 1695, and died 23 December 1720. The name was turned to Boardman and other forms.

THOMAS BOREMAN, or sometimes THOMAS BORDMAN, Ipswich, freeman 4 March 1635, Representative 1636, removed probably to Barnstable, there married 3 March (other record says 10 March) 1645, Hannah Annable, daughter of Anthony Annable, had Hannah, born May 1646; Thomas, September 1648; Samuel, July 1651; Desire, May 1654, Mary, March 1656; Mehitable, September 1658; and Tristram, August 1661; and died 25 May 1679. The name is Burnam in Genealogical Registrar IX. 315; but the common spelling is Bowman. His son Samuel Boreman was killed 26 March 1676, in the hard fight under Captain Pierce, at Rehoboth.

THOMAS BOREMAN, or sometimes THOMAS BORDMAN, Ipswich, perhaps son of the preceding, freeman 1682.

WILLIAM BOREMAN, or sometimes WILLIAM BORDMAN, perhaps of Wethersfield 1645, was of Guilford; 1650.

FRANCIS BORLAND, Boston 1684, but whether this be the year of his first coming is not known. His daughter Jane married 4 September 1750, John Still. Winthrop, Yale College 1737.

ARTHUR BOSTWICK, or ARTHUR BOSTICK, came from County Chester, according to tradition, with son John, to Stratford, an early settler before 1650, had then wife Ellen, and they agreed in 1674, that the united property be divided into halves, her share to feoffes. She was second wife and died near the beginning of 1678. By former wife he had John, and other children whose names are unknown, though tradition (which has support), names them Arthur and Zechariah.

JOHN BOSTWICK, or JOHN BOSTICK, Stratford 1666 or earlier, son of Arthur Bostwick, born in England, married Mary Brimsmead, daughter of John Brimsmead, had John, born 4 May 1667; Zechariah, 24 or 28 July 1669; Joseph, 11 May 1672; Mary, 14 February 1675; Elizabeth, 1 October 1677; and Jane, 13 April 1680. He died 1689, leaving good estate.

JOHN BOSTWICK, or JOHN BOSTICK, son of the preceding, by wife Abigail, had John, born 1689; Robert; Ebenezer; Joseph; Nathaniel, 1699; Lemuel, 1704; besides two daughters as tradition tells, when he removed 1707 to the young plantation of New Milford, there had Daniel, 1708; and Mary, 8 February 1715.

JOSEPH BOSTWICK, or JOSEPH BOSTICK, Stratford, youngest brother of the preceding, married 14 June 1698, Ann Burr, had Abigail, born 24 September 1700; Abraham, 5 September 1702; and Hannah, 3 January 1705.

ZECHARIAH BOSTWICK, or ZECHARIAH BOSTICK, Stratford, brother of the preceding, had by record Mary, 1692; David, 1693; Martha, 1695; Jonathan, born 1 April 1697; Susanna, 22 November 1700; Parnel, 15 April 1702; Elizabeth, 12 May 1704; Meredith; and Martha; but who was his wife is unknown.

WILLIAM BOSWAY, is the name borne on the rolls of Turner's Company 1676, of whose residence I am less solicitous, because so many are incorrectly written that we can easily doubt the accuracy of this.

JAMES BOSWELL, Wethersfield 1658, died 24 December 1660, probably without family.

JOHN BOSWELL, Boston 1630, probably came in the fleet with Winthrop, early members of the church, died soon.

SAMUEL BOSWELL, Boston, possibly son of the preceding, by wife Mary, had Richard, born 9 June 1678. Sometimes this name is Buswell.

BENJAMIN BOSWORTH, Hingham 1635, came, perhaps, in the Elizabeth, Dorcas 1635 with Henry Sewall, and may have been son of Edward Bosworth, who probably died on the passage; at least, in the Colony record I. 123, provision for a widow Bosworth is made, and lb. 152, he with Jonathan and Nathaniel Bosworth is ordered to pay unto Sewall several sums for money disbursed by him in the transportion of Edward and his family. A widow Bosworth at Hingham 18 May 1648. But I am confused between the two Benjamins, the younger of who married 7 December 1670, Elizabeth Morton, daughter of Secretary Morton.

BENJAMIN BOSWORTH, Hull, probably son of the preceding, married 27 November 1666, Hannah Morton, daughter of Secretary Morton, had Hannah, born 9 August 1668; Hannah, again, 21 December 1669; for 2nd wife married 16 November 1671, Beatrice, widow of Abraham Josselyn, after some years removed to Marlborough and Stow, freeman 1680, and some years later to Boston under the filial care of her daughter Rebecca Stevens; died November 1700, and his widow died January 1712, aged 88. She is one of the persons who was said to have been killed by the Indians at the assault on Lancaster, 1676.

HANANIE BOSWORTH L, Ipswich 1648, removed I suppose, to Haverhill, where is found, in 1674, Hannah, probably his wife or daughter.

JOHN BOSWORTH, of Hull, was a soldier, in December 1675, of Johnson's Company.

JONATHAN BOSWORTH, Cambridge 1634, perhaps brother of Benjamin Bosworth the first, removed soon to Hingham, Elizabeth, buried 18 November 1638; Rebecca, baptized February 1642; Bethia, January 1644; Benjamin, and Mehitable, 4 April 1647; Mary, 18 April 1647; Nathaniel, and Jeremiah, 29 July 1649; Hannah, 14 July 1650; Deliverance, born 4 August 1650; Joseph, baptized June, 1652; Bellamy, 19 November 1654; Edward, 29 May 1659; and Bridget, 19 August 1660; thence, 1669, to Swanzey, though Lincoln says Rehoboth, which was probably a prior stage in 1661.

JOSEPH BOSWORTH, Hull, freeman 1680, perhaps youngest brother of first Benjamin Bosworth, removed to Rehoboth, there had Joseph, born 27 September 1679; and Elizabeth, 17 November 1681.

NATHANIEL BOSWORTH, Hull 1661, freeman 1680, probably brother of the second Benjamin Bosworth, married 7 December 1670, Elizabeth Morton, daughter of Secretary Nathaniel Morton of Plymouth, who died 6 April 1673, and was buried 8, says the record, two hours before Governor Prince. But in the Life of late John Howland, she is called his daughter. Had Nathaniel, born 22 March 1673; Elizabeth, 24 November 1676; John, 7 June 1678; Samuel, 16 February 1680; Mary, 2 June 1682; Ephraim, 24 September 1684; Lemuel, 15 October 1686; Joseph, 10 July 1689; Bridget, 2 June 1691; and Jeremiah, 21 June 1693; but of these, certainly the last nine were by second wife Mary. He is called junior so that another Nathaniel was, probably there, who may have been his father or cousin. The father had Mary, baptized 4 October 1657, and his eldest four children all died within 3 weeks August 1693. The son was Bristol 1689, a Deacon with children and grand children.

SAMUEL BOSWORTH, Boston, son of Zaccheus Bosworth, or Zechariah Bosworth, as the church record at the First Baptist names him, by wife Mercy Bumstead, daughter of Thomas Bumstead, had Samuel, Zaccheus, Joseph, and Jeremiah.

ZECHARIAH BOSWORTH, Boston 1630, probably came in the fleet with Winthrop, freeman 25 May 1636, was of importance, known to be disarmed November 1637, Artillery Company 1650, died 28 July 1655. His will, made five days before, was probated 5 October following. See Genealogical Registrar V. 443. By his wife Ann, who after his death, married 17 October 1656, Thomas Cooper of Rehoboth, he had daughter Restored, baptized 26 August 1638; Elizabeth, 26 July 1640; and Samuel, born 4, baptized 12 March 1643; besides Sarah, who died July 1645, having been baptized 27 of the same, at 3 days old; Elizabeth married John Morse.

ELNATHAN BOTSFORD, Milford, eldest child of Henry Botsford, married first, 12 December 1664, Elizabeth Fletcher, daughter of John Fletcher, had only Elizabeth, born 1665; and married second wife 12 December 1667, Hannah Baldwin, daughter of Timothy Baldwin, had Esther, born 1668; Samuel, 1670; Mary, 1672; and Joanna, 1674; besides Henry, Joseph, Timothy, John, Hannah, and Sarah, named in his will of 4 August 1691; those others being also named except Joanna.

HENRY BOTSFORD, Milford 1639, had by wife Elizabeth, who joined the church 1640, Elnathan, baptized 14 August 1641; Elizabeth and Mary, probably twins 21 May 1643; Hannah, December 1645; Esther, 1647; and Ruth, 1649. His will of 1 February 1686, is followed by the inventory of 15^th April same year, mentioned wife Elizabeth, and the daughters of who Hannah was dead, leaving, the will says, four children: Elizabeth married 27 June 1665, Daniel Baldwin; Mary married 8 January 1668, Andrew Sandford; Hannah married 12 March 1671, Nathaniel Baldwin; Esther married 27 June 1665, Nathaniel Wheeler of Newark; and Ruth married John Baldwin of Newark, both removed from Milford. He died says Lambert, in 1686. The name long continued there.

ELIZABETH, BOUGHEY, Roxbury, married 24 January 1643, Robert Harris, and to that name I refer.

ROBERT BOUGHTWHORE, or ROBERT BOUGHTWHORET, freeman of Connecticut 20 May 1658. Some reason may be found for supposing this name written for Boltwood.

NATHANIEL BOULTER, Hampton 1644, born at Exeter, 15 May 1648, brother of the preceding, by wife Grace had, perhaps, Mary; but at Hampton Temperance, 8 January 1650; certainly Nathaniel, 4 March 1653; Joshua, born 1 May 1655, died soon; Joshua, again, 23 January 1657, died at 4 years; Rebecca, 12 October 1659, died at 2 years; Grace, 27 December 1662, died next month; Hannah, 27 June 1665; Elizabeth, 23 February 1669, who married 6 May 1689, Joseph Fanning; and John, 2 December 1672. He calls himself 60 years old in 1685, died 14 March 1693. Adams, Annals, 397.

NATHANIEL BOULTER, Hampton, son of the preceding, took oath of allegiance 1678, by wife Mary, had Elizabeth, born 8 September 1688; and Mary; and died June 1689.

STEPHEN BOULTER, Newbury 1665, is not mentioned in Coffin's copious History and so may seem only transient.

THOMAS BOULTER, Weymouth 1661, by wife Experience, had Hannah, born 30 November 1662; and by wife Hannah, had Experience, 19 January 1672; and Ebenezer, 23 April 1688. He was one of the first projectors of the settlement of Mendon, 1660.

NICHOLAS BOULTON, Dorchester 1643, freeman 1644, by wife Elizabeth, had Thankful, baptized 14 October 1649; John; and Elizabeth, who married 25 October 1676, Experience Willis. He died 27 May 1683, three days after making nuncupative will, named wife Elizabeth executrix. See Bolton.

WILLIAM BOUND, Salem, freeman 17 May 1637, had by wife Ann, there baptized James, 25 August 1636; Andrew, 12 August 1638; and Philip, 7 December 1640; married 2nd wife 12 July 1669, Mary Haverlad. Felt.

JOHN BOURDEN and WILLIAM BOURDEN were of Watertown 1657, and the former swore fidelilty 1652.

WILLIAM BOURLE, Charlestown, a soldier in Moseley's Company, killed in the Narraganset fight, 19 December 1675; but my suspicion of the spelling of the name is very great, though to offer a substitute is not easy. Mr. Wyman tells me, the name was Burt.

ELISHA BOURNE, Sandwich, son of Richard Bourne, married 26 October 1675, Patience Skiff, daughter perhaps of James Skiff of the same, had Nathan, Elisha, Elizabeth, Abigail, Bathsheba, Hannah, and Mary, but as no date is given for any one, I fear we can hardly be sure of the order of success. He died 1706.

GARRETT BOURNE, or JARRARS BOURNE, or GERALD BOURNE, or GERARD BOURNE, or JARRETT BOURNE, perhaps JARED BOURNE, Boston, in the employment of Elder William Colborne in June 1634, when administered to the church, possibly came with him, 1630, freeman 6 May 1535, had John, born 30 July 1643, died next month, but the record of his baptized at Roxbury, 6 August calls him Gerard, as does the town record of birth at Roxbury, and on 30 May following, his wife Mary, not Ann, as the modern copy of record has it, died. His residence was at Muddy River now Brookline, in the early day appurtened to Boston, and there in 1654 he was appointed a constable; but in Boston he had Jarat (so written) baptized 7 March 1651, and in 1665 removed to Rhode Island.

HENRY BOURNE, Plymouth, or Scituate, perhaps both 1634, removed 1639 to Barnstable, of which he was Representative 1644, had there Dorcas, baptized 26 August 1649.

JOB BOURNE, Sandwich, son of Richard Bourne, married 1664, Ruhama Hallett, daughter of Andrew Hallett, had Timothy, born 1666; Eleazer, 1670; Hezekiah, 1675; John; and others; certainly Hannah, 1667.

JOHN BOURNE, Salem 1637, son or more probably brother of Thomas Bourne, removed 1649, to Gloucester, there by wife Mary, had Bethia, born 11 October 1651; removed next year.

JOHN BOURNE, Marshfield, son of Thomas Bourne, perhaps born in England, married 18 July 1645, Alice Besbedge, daughter of Thomas Besbedge, the second marriage on town's book, being in his will of November 1672 so described, and her children named Thomas, born 1647; and Sarah, 1663, with allusion to other sister who were Elizabeth, born 1646; Alice, 1649; Ann, 1651; Martha, 1653, and Mary, 1660; there was buried 8 December 1684; and his widow was buried 9 May 1686.

NEHEMIAH BOURNE, Charlestown 1638, shipbuilder, was also of Dorchester, though Dr. Harris has not given him a residence, removed to Boston 1640, freeman 2 June 1641, went to England in 1644, and served in the army of the Parliament as Major of Rainsborough's regiment; by wife Hannah, had Nehemiah, born 10 June 1640, and Hannah, born 10, baptized 14 November 1641; but provided at last carrying his family to England, and may be the man mentioned in a letter of the wife of Goffe, the reigicide, in 1672. See 3 Massachusetts History Collections I. 60 and IX. 268. Winthrop II. 245.

RICHARD BOURNE, Lynn 1637, removed to Sandwich, was the first instructor of the Indians at Mashpee, beginning in 1658, ordained 1670 by Eliot and Cotton; married July 1677, Ruth Sargent, widow of Jonathan Winslow, daughter of William Sargent, but it was by former wife whose name we find not, that his children were born; Job; Elisha, born 1641; and Shearjashub, 1643. He died 1682. Copious account is in Gookin's History Collections; Hubbard, 659, 60; and Davis's Ed. of Morton's Mem. 408.

SHEARJASHUB BOURNE, Sandwich, son of the preceding, married Bathshua Skiff, probably daughter of James Skiff of the same, had Melatiah; Ezra, born 1667; Mary, 1678, died young; Sarah, 1680; Mary, again, 1681; Remembrance, 1683; and Patience, 1686; was often a Representative of Plymouth Colony and the Province of Massachusetts; died 7 March 1719, aged 75. His youngest son Ezra Bourne, a man of distinction, died September 1764, aged 88, of which three grandchildren were in the Congress of United States 1794. Baylies, H. 283, 4.

THOMAS BOURNE, early at Marshfield, may probably have come from County Kent, bringing family, having been at Plymouth 1637, freeman of that Colony 2 January 1638, had wife Elizabeth, buried 18 July 1660, aged 70, was a man of substance and repute, died about 1664, aged 83, leaving widow Martha, children probably all by wife Elizabeth, John, above mentioned; Martha, who married 1st John Bradford, son of the Governor, 2nd Thomas Tracey, died at Norwich 1689; Elizabeth married 9 December 1638, Robert Waterman; Ann, married 21 June 1640, Nehemiah Smith; Margaret married Josiah Winslow, brother of Governor Edward; and Lydia married Nathaniel Tilden. His will of 2 May 1664, made son John executor, names each daughter, and Lydia, daughter of Lydia, besides John, Thomas, Joseph, and Robert Waterman, and Mr. Arnold, his minister.

THOMAS BOURNE, Marshfield, probably son of John Bourne, married 18 April 1681, Elizabeth Rouse, daughter of John Rouse, had Elizabeth, who died 14 April 1689.

WILLIAM BOURNE, Duxbury 1638, may rather, perhaps, be Burne. Eleven of this name had been graduates at Harvard College 1834, and four at Brown and Bowd.

HENRY BOUTELL, HENRY BOUTWELL, HENRY BOUTELLE, or HENRY BOWTELL, Cambridge, married 24 or 25 June 1657, Elizabeth Bowers, probably widow of George Bowers, and died soon, probably, for he made his will six days after, in which he names his "belowed wife". But gives his dwelling-house to his friend Lieutenant William Johnson of Woburn. But the same man, as it seems to me, had been residing at New Haven, witness, in August 1653, and took oath of fidelity there May following.

JAMES BOUTELL, JAMES BOUTWELL, JAMES BOUTELLE, or JAMES BOWTELL, Salem and Lynn 1635, freeman 14 March 1639, died 1651, in his will of 22 August probated 26 November of that year, names wife Alice, sons James, and John, and daughter Sarah.

JAMES BOUTELL, JAMES BOUTWELL, JAMES BOUTELLE, or JAMES BOWTELL, Reading, son of the preceding, married 1665, Rebecca Kendall, daughter of Deacon Thomas Kendall, had James, born 6 April 1666; Thomas, 23 March 1669; John, 19 October 1671; Rebecca, 25 December 1674; Sarah, 7 July 1677; Tabitha, 11 May 1679, died in few days; Tabitha, again, 22 May 1680; Kendall, 15 January 1682; Mary, 28 October 1685; and Elizabeth, 9 October 1687; his wife died 30 August 1713, aged 68; and he died 5 December 1716, aged 74. Through this branch is derived the late Timothy Boutelle, a learned lawyer.

JOHN BOUTELL, JOHN BOUTWELL, JOHN BOUTELLE, or JOHN BOWTELL, Cambridge, by wife Margaret, had Mary, born 26 October 1646; and John, who died 10 March 1674, aged 21; and the father died 30 August 1676, aged about 60.

JOHN BOUTELL, JOHN BOUTWELL, JOHN BOUTELLE, or JOHN BOWTELL, Reading, son of James Boutell the first, married 10 May 1669, Hannah Davis, probably eldest daughter of George Davis of the same, had John, born 26 February 1670; Hannah, 3 June 1672; Sarah, 3 December 1674, died under 2 years; James, 6 September 1677; Mary, 29 January 1679; Elizabeth, 2 March 1683; Sarah, 20 August 1686; Susanna, 26 February 1689; and Thomas, 6 February 1692. Of this branch is descendant George S. Boutwell, late Governor of Massachusetts.

THOMAS BOUTELL, THOMAS BOUTWELL, THOMAS BOUTELLE, or THOMAS BOWTELL, Reading, perhaps the same as Thomas Boutle, who was called on an important jury 1646, as appears in New England Jonas cast up, printed In 2 Massachusetts History Collections IV. 110. This name is spelled only to vary the accent, with final e, of which form in 1834 four had been graduates in New England colleges.

STEPHEN BOUTINEAU, Boston, a Huguenot merchant, came from Rochelle to Casco, 1686, accompanied his friend Baudouin, 1690, to Boston, and married 22 August 1708, his daughter Mary Baudouin, had six sons, four daughters it is said, of which in the record I find Anna, born 24 April 1709; James, 27 January 1711; John, 1 April 1713; Mary, 5 August 1715; Elizabeth, 11 February 1717; Mary, again, 18 January 1719, Stephen, 22 May 1721; Peter; 11 December 1722; Thomas, 11 October 1724; and Isaac, 22 June 1726. He was Elder of the French church and in 1748, united with the pastor and few remaining proprietors in alienating their estate. Willis, I. 185, Snow, 202.

JOHN BOUTON, Norwalk 1654, or earlier, married 1 June 1657, Abigail Marvin, daughter of Matthew Marvin, had John, born 30 September 1659; Matthew, 24 December 1661; Rachel, 15 December 1667; Abigail, 1 April 1670; and Mary, 26 May 1671; but this was 2nd wife, for he had family before settling at Norwalk, and his daughter Bridget married 1665, Daniel Kellogg. He was selectman, Representative 1671, and often after to 1685; and a family tradition is, that he came in the Assurance, of London, 1635, aged 20, of course to Boston, went soon to Hartford.

JOHN BOUTON, Norwalk, son of the preceding, had Jachin, Joseph, and perhaps, more. Reverend Nathaniel Bouton, of Concord, New Hampshire, is a descendant born at Norwalk, and in his Address on the two hundredth annniversay well sustained the pristine character of his native town.

RICHARD BOUTON, Fairfield, brother of first John Bouton, died 1665, leaving only child Ruth, by wife Ruth. The widow died next year.

JOSEPH BOWD, Boston, by wife Elizabeth, had Elizabeth, born 20 August 1657; and Joseph, 28 October 1659.

BENJAMIN BOWDEN, BENJAMIN BOUDEN, or BENJAMIN BOADEN, New Haven, married Mary Banister, daughter of Edward Banister, was a proprietor 1685, had Hannah, born 6 May 1677; and another daughter 1680.

RICHARD BOWDEN, RICHARD BOUDEN, or RICHARD BOADEN, Boston, by wife Martha, had Elizabeth, born 18 May 1661.

JOHN BOWDITCH, Boston, married about 1682, Temperance French, daughter of John French the first of Braintree. She died 12 August 1720. He probably had estate at that part of Boston called Braintree.

WILLIAM BOWDITCH, Salem 1639, from Devonshire no doubt, as the family name is there frequent, had grant of land 1643, by wife Sarah, had Nathaniel, baptized 12 February 1643; but left only child William, probably older, possibly born in England, an officer of the customs, under the Colony administration, whose death October 1681, was sudden, as well as untimely. See Colony record V. 324, for the prudent act of the government. His sole surviving child William Bowditch, born September 1663, was eminent at Salem, for usefulness, married 30 August 1688, Mary Gardner, daughter of Thomas Gardner, died 28 May 1728. This third William had seven children but of the sons Ebenezer; born 26 April 1703, married 15 August 1728, Mary Turner, daughter of Honorable John Turner, and died 2 February 1768, alone, left male issue. His son Habakkuk Bowditch was father of Nathaniel Bowditch, the great American astronomer, translator of La Place.

JAMES BOWDOIN (so made from the sound of the old French BAUDOUIN), Boston, son of Pierre Bowdoin, born at La Rochelle, in France, merchant brought by his father (escaped from the persecution of Louis XIV.) to Casco, now Portland, thence soon to Boston, married 18 July 1706, Sarah Campbell, perhaps daughter of John Campbell, the postmaster, had James, born 5 May following, died in few months; Mary and Elizabeth, twins 27 June 1708, of who Elizabeth, died in two weeks; John, 22 August 1709, died at two years; Peter; 19 May 1711, died next year; and William Bowdoin, 14 June 1713, Harvard College 1745. His second wife died 21 December 1713, and he married 16 September following Hannah Pordage, daughter of George Pordage, had Samuel, born 25 July following, died next year; Elizabeth, 25 April 1717; Judith, whose date of birth 1719, is derived (like that of the preceding sister) not from record of town, but family memories; and James Bowdoin, 7 August 1726, Harvard College 1745. His second wife died 2 August 1726, and he married 24 April 1735, widow Mehitable Lillie. He was one of the richest men in Boston, made one of his majesty's council under our free Charter, and died 8 September 1747, aged 71, leaving five children, above mentioned Mary, married 12 February 1729, Belthazar Bayard; Elizabeth married 26 October 1732, James Pitts; and Judith, married 12 June 1714, Thomas Flucker.

JAMES BOWDOIN (so made from the sound of the old French BAUDOUIN), Boston, youngest son of the preceding, married 15 September 1748, Elizabeth Erving, child of John Erving, had James Bowdoin, born 22 September 1752, Harvard College 1771, who was minister plenipotentiary of United States at Madrid; and Elizabeth, who married Sir John Temple, the first British Consul General to our country, one of whose daughters was wife of the late Thomas L. Winthrop, Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts and mother of Honorable Robert Charles wife. He was a distinguished patriot of the Revolution, and before had served in the council of the Province 1757-69, when the royal Governor put a negative upon him, President of that convention of 1780 for framing the Constitution of Massachusetts, and first President of the A.A.S. and Governor of the Commonwealth 1785, and 6, during the worst of the delusions that produced Shay's rebellion, and died 6 November 1790. With felicity that leaves nothing to be desired his character was portrayed by his great grandson R.C. Winthrop in an Address at Bowdoin college, which derived its name from the uncle of the orator, the most distinguished benefactor.

MICHAEL BOWDOIN (so made from the sound of the old French BAUDOUIN), Lynn 1690. Lewis MS.

PIERRE BOWDOIN (so made from the sound of the old French BAUDOUIN), was, I think, translated into English (at the same time with the family name) and became

PETER BOWDOIN (so made from the sound of the old French BAUDOUIN), Boston, had been a physician at La Rochelle before the revocation of the Edict of Nantz, on which he fled forthwith to Ireland 1685, as the most natural resort of persecuting Protestants, thence came next year to Casco with wife Elizabeth, who died 19 August 1720, aged 77, and two sons John, who went early to Virginia and settled there in Northampton County where descendants remain; and James, before mentioned, and two daughters. In little over two years with several other Huguenots, he removed to Boston, there more than sixteen years, was a prosperous merchant, died September 1706. By will of 16 June 1704, all his estate of which inventory was £1,344, a good property for that day, was given to wife for life. Of his daughters Mary married 22 August 1708, Stephen Boutineau; but the other, Elizabeth, perhaps earlier had married a Robins, as family tradition tells neither date, nor baptized name, nor residence nor issue, I suppose he may have been a Huguenot, and lived in another Colony. The widow in her will of a September 1717, gives, I believe, no light on this point, and yet mentions her son John as having died leaving children. A strange complication of errors, as to the time of his death, the condition of his worldly affairs, and the age of his eldest son, as if he were left a minor, beyond the usual blunders of happy tradition had so overgrown the family history as greatly to mislead the Reverend William Jenks, in his Eulogy, delivered 1813, after the death of the founder of Bowdoin college. Quite extensive was the spread of these misconceptions from the deserved high esteem of the writer's exact information on all subjects, his modesty suffers him to treat.

WILLIAM BOWDOIN (so made from the sound of the old French BAUDOUIN), Boston, eldest son of the first James Bowdoin, married 1739, Phebe Murdock, daughter of John Murdock of Plymouth, had three daughters of which the two elder died young, and the third, Sarah, born 17 October 1761, married her first cousin James, and he died 24 February 1773, at Roxbury.

ALEXANDER BOWE, Charlestown 1658, removed to Middletown, died 6 November 1678; by wife Sarah, who died 16 April 1665, had Samuel, born 28 January 1660; Sarah, 20 June 1662; Mary, 18 January 1665, died at 2 months; and he married 26 November 1673, Rebecca Hughes, daughter of Richard Hughes of Guilford, had Ann, 10 September Mary, again, 5 December 1676; and, posthumous Rebecca, 19 April 1679.

NICHOLAS BOWE, Cambridge, married 26 June 1684, Sarah Hubbard, who died 26 January 1689; and for 2nd wife married 6 May 1690, Dorcas Champney. The name soon became Bowes.

GRIFFITH BOWEN, Boston 1638, from Llangenydd, Glamorganshire, freeman 22 May 1639, by wife Margaret, had Esther, baptized 10 February 1639, who died 28 March 1654; Abigail, 18 April 1641; Peniel, born 10 May 1644; and Elizabeth, who married Isaac Addington. He was some years at Roxbury, but went home and lived at London 1670.

HENRY BOWEN, Roxbury, perhaps son of Griffith Bowen, married 20 December 1658, Elizabeth Johnson, had Henry, born 13 October 1659, baptized 12 February following, who was a soldier in December 1675 of Johnson's Company; Elizabeth, 26, baptized 27 January 1661; John, 1, baptized 7 September 1662; Margaret, died young; Maria, born 12 September 1666; Margaret, again, 26 January 1668; Penuel, 8 March 1671; Esther, 8 March 1675; and Isaac, 20 April 1676. His widow Elizabeth, died 20 April 1701.

OBADIAH BOWEN, Swanzey, Representative 1681, had been of Rehoboth 1657, an active member of the Baptist community, had son Obadiah, besides Isaac, born 30 September 1674.

OBADIAH BOWEN, Swanzey, son of the preceding, had Hezekiah, born 19 November 1682.

RICHARD BOWEN, Rehoboth 1643 February 1675, and his widow died the same year.

RICHARD BOWEN, Rehoboth, called junior 1658, perhaps son of the preceding, married Mary Titus.

THOMAS BOWEN, Salem 1648, was of New London 1657-60, removed to Rehoboth, died 1663. His widow Elizabeth, was, in 1669, wife of Samuel Fuller of Plymouth. His will, of 11 April 1663, made her executrix, names his son Richard, and brother Obadiah Bowen.

THOMAS BOWEN, Marblehead, 1674, may have been son of the preceding. Sixteen of this name had been graduates at New England colleges 1834.

BENANUEL BOWERS, Charlestown 1656, son of George Bowers, married 9 December 1654, Elizabeth Dunster, perhaps as a niece of President Dunster, had George, born 28 February 1654; Barbara, 4 January 1656; Elizabeth, 8 December 1657; Mary, 16 September 1660; Henry, 20 June 1665; Ann, 14 October 1668; Bathsheba, 4 June 1671; and Jonathan, 11 August 1673; and by another wife Elizabeth, had Mary, again, 20 May 1679, died in few months, suffered much abuse as a Quaker, by prison, whipped and fined, in 1677. Frothingham, 173. 4. Colony record V. 153, 68.

GEORGE BOWERS, Plymouth 1639, removed to Cambridge, where his wife Barbara died 25 March 1644; married 15 April 1649, Elizabeth Worthington, had Jerathmeel, born 2 May 1650, besides Benanuel, John, Harvard College 1649; Patience; and Silence; some if not all, by former wife and died late in 1656, his will of 8 November being probated 30 December of that year, and his widow I think, married 25 June 1657, Henry Bowtell, or Boutwell.

JOHN BOWERS, Derby, son of George Bowers, probably born in England, was a schoolmaster at Plymouth, perhaps the earliest, went in the same business 1653, to New Haven, on invitation of Governor Eaton, there taught until 1660, and after in other towns; was preacher after Pierson left Branford, in 1667, to February 1673; soon after was settled at Derby and there died 14 June 1687. His will, recorded at Derby, bears date 8 January 1685. His wife was Bridget Thompson, daughter of Anthony Thompson of New Haven, who survived him, and he had there baptized Ruth, 20 December 1657; and Samuel, 5 November 1665; besides Mary, probably born after Ruth, and before Samuel, who married 1682, Samuel Nichols; John, born at Guilford, 3 December 1667; and Ann, who married 1703, Francis French. Ruth married John Frisbie, and next, William Hoaldly.

JOHN BOWERS, son of the preceding, was not of Harvard College as Mather, mistakes him for father asserts; but of quality to be a minister is by Trumbull fixed 1688 at Rye, and in Mather's Hecatompolis, Magnalia I. c. 7, is inserted as minister of Rye, 1696. He may have gone to Derby, where his death is recorded 23 September 1708; or the Rye minister may be another man, though it is not probable.

JOHN BOWERS, Greenwich, called 43 years old in 1681, married after 1685, perhaps for second wife Hannah, widow of Joshua Knapp, died in 1694, leaving no children. His widow died January 1696.

MATTHEW BOWERS, Cambridge, probably son of George Bowers, died 30 January 1645.

SAMUEL BOWERS, Derby, son of Reverend John Bowers, married 1687, Ruth Wooster, and married 1691, Lydia French of the same, had children born 1692, 4, etc. Was living in 1717.

MORGAN BOWERS, Norwich 1660, who was there in 1700, had come in from Saybrook. Six of this name had been graduates in 1834 at New England colleges.

EDMUND BOWKER, or EDMUND BOUKER or EDWARD BOWKER, or EDWARD BOUKER, Dorchester. Artillery Company 1646, married Mary Potter, removed to Sudbury, died March 1666.

JOHN BOWKER, or JOHN BOUKER, Marlborough, married 8 February 1678, Mary Howe, was, perhaps, son of the preceding, and freeman 1685.

ELIAZABETH BOWLAND (if there be no mistake in this name), called of Boston, married 2 August 1655, Mr. Samuel Lee of Virginia.

JOHN BOWLES, Roxbury 1639, freeman 13 May 1640, Artillery Company 1645, Ruling elder, died 1680, buried 24 September. Was killed by a cartwheel running over him. On 22 August, his will is made, and probated 5 October following. By it his son John was made executor, names wife Sarah, daughter Elizabeth White, daughter Mary Gardner, and mentioned money paid to Daniel Smith by order of his wife. His first wife Dorothy, who died of smallpox, and was buried the same day, 3 November 1649, had no children it is thought. He married 2 April 1650, Elizabeth Heath, daughter of Isaac Heath, had Elizabeth, born 3, baptized 23 February 1651; Isaac, baptized 15 May, and died 1652; John Bowles, baptized 17 July 1653, Harvard College 1671; and Mary, born 20, baptized 29 April 1655. His wife died 6 July following. A third wife Sarah, who may have been widow of Francis Chickering, as before marrying him, she had been of John Sibly, survived to 2 September 1686, but her will was of 21 June 1681. In it she gives equal portions to her brother Joseph How, son Daniel Smith, Esq. Samuel Newman, Thomas Metcalf, William Symmes, double portion to son Mr. John Bowles, and equal portions to daughter Elizabeth Gardner, son Thomas Gardner, John White, and Timothy Dwight. Mary married 17 November 1673, Thomas Gardner; and Elizabeth married perhaps, John White.

JOHN BOWLES, son of the preceding, freeman 1680, married 16 November 1681, Sarah Eliot, daughter of Reverend John Eliot, junior, who died 23 May 1687, had John, who died early; John Bowles, again, born 15 March 1685, Harvard College 1702, a prominent man; and Sarah, 15 November 1686, died at six months; Representative 1689 and 90, and speaker of the house, died 30 March 1691; but in 1688 when he was chosen Ruling elder, it was hoped he would preach, and be adjunct with apostle Eliot, if his health improved.

JOSEPH BOWLES, Wells 1640, which usually is written Bolles, went home, but came again from England in the Speedwell, 1656, aged 47, of good character, living 1680, when he took oath of allegiance. His daughter Mary married about 1676, Charles Frost, but could not be first wife of first Charles.

FRANCIS BOWMAN, Watertown, eldest son of Nathaniel Bowman, swore fidelity 1652, married 26 September 1661, Martha Sherman, daughter of Captain John Sherman, had Francis, born 14 September 1662; John, 19 February 1665; Martha, 2 March 1667, died at 9 months; Nathaniel, 9 February 1669; Joseph, 18 May 1674; Ann, 19 September 1676; Samuel, 14 August 1679; Jonathan, died 1682; and Martha, again, 4 April 1685; and he died 16 December 1687. He removed to Cambridge Farms, now Lexington.

NATHANIEL BOWMAN, Watertown, came, probably in the fleet with Winthrop 1630, requested to be administered freeman 19 October of that year, by wife Ann, had besides Francis, before mentioned; Mary, who was buried March 1638; Joanna, buried 20 November 1638; Nathaniel, born 6 March 1641, perhaps other children before and after; but the record must be followed that Dorcas was born 31 January 1639, buried 6 February 1639; Joanna, again, 20 November 1642; Dorcas, again, who married Benjamin Blackleach of Cambridge, and had 2nd husband a March. He died 26 January 1682, in his will of 21 October 1679, named sons Francis, Nathaniel, daughter Dorcas March, and her children Nathaniel, and Benjamin, and granddaughter Hannah Turner, probably of 2nd Joanna.

NATHANIEL BOWMAN, Wethersfield 1668, probably son of the preceding, an important man, in 1669 married Rebecca Smith, daughter of Reverend Henry Smith, who had been divorced from her husband Lieutenant Samuel Smith of New London for desertion, died January 1707, without children. Twelve of this name are in the Catalogue of Harvard College graduates. Perhaps some Boreman has assumed it.

WILLIAM BOWSTREETE, Concord, freeman 22 May 1639, died or was buried 31 October 1642. His will, made 8 days before, names his sister Elizabeth Newman, to her and children gives all his estate. It is abstracted in Genealogical Registrar II. 385.

THOMAS BOYDEN, Watertown, came in the Francis from Ipswich, 1634, aged 21, next year was of Scituate, service of William Gilson, joined their church 17 May, freeman 1647, by wife Frances, had Thomas, born 26 September 1639; Mary, 15 October 1641; Rebecca, 1 November 1643; and Nathaniel, 1650; removed to Boston 1651, had Jonathan there, born 20 February 1652; and Sarah, 12 October 1654. His wife Frances died 17 March 1658, and he married 3 November following widow Hannah Morse, and removed in few years to Medfield.

THOMAS BOYDEN, Groton, son of the preceding, married Martha Holden, daughter of Richard Holden, had afterwards removed to Woburn; but returned to Groton and died 15 November 1719. But the record of Woburn has "by their mother's request because of their removal to and after in the Indians war," Martha, 14 June 1667; Elizabeth, 24 May 1670; John, 29 November 1672; Jonathan, 27 September 1675; and Joseph, 24 April 1678. He lived some years at Charlestown, where was buried. His son Benjamin, 29 May 1683, and his wife died 18 March 1687.

HENRY BOYEN, Boston, married 17 October 1656, Frances Gill, daughter of Arthur Gill.

ANTIPAS BOYES, ANTIPAS BOYS, ANTIPAS BOYCE, or ANTIPAS BOIES, Boston 1659, merchant engaged in 1661 on great purchase of land at Dover, with Valentine Hill, whose daughter Hannah Hill he had married 24 January 1660, had Antipas, and died July or August 1669. His will 3 July of that year was probated 18 August, and after giving estate to son, he says, if uncle Richard Rose wishes, he may bring him up and record the property. The son went, I think, to England.

JOHN BOYES, JOHN BOYS, JOHN BOYCE, or JOHN BOIES, Rowley, about 1661; was, perhaps, son of Matthew Boyes of the same.

JOSEPH BOYES, JOSEPH BOYS, JOSEPH BOYCE, or JOSEPH BOIES, Salem 1639, freeman 18 May 1642, had Esther, baptized 21 February 1641; Elizabeth, 6 March 1642; Joseph, 31 March 1644; and Benjamin, 16 May 1647.

JOSEPH BOYES, JOSEPH BOYS, JOSEPH BOYCE, or JOSEPH BOIES, Salem, probably son of the preceding, married 4 February 1668, Sarah Meacham, perhaps daughter of Jeremiah Meacham, had Sarah, born 4 December following.

MATTHEW BOYES, MATTHEW BOYS, MATTHEW BOYCE, or MATTHEW BOIES, Roxbury, freeman 22 May 1639, removed to Rowley, was Representative 1641, 3, 5 and 50. He went home, as I find, by letters from England April 1657, he was then living near Leeds, in Yorkshire, still living in February 1677, having taken second wife in his old age, only two years before. He probably had a family here, but after his return home, probably his son Joseph, a divine of some distinction, was born at Leeds. See Genealogical Registrar XII. 65.

RICHARD BOYES, RICHARD BOYS, RICHARD BOYCE, or RICHARD BOIES, New Hampshire died as early as 1677.

SAMUEL BOYES, SAMUEL BOYS, SAMUEL BOYCE, or SAMUEL BOIES, Saybrook, married 3 February 1688, Lydia Beamond, daughter of William Beamond, went to live at Barbados, there had Joseph, who he brought to Saybrook, where he died 22 March 1683; at Saybrook had Samuel, born 6 December 1673; and Michael, 26 May 1683, who died in less than a month, and father died 4 October of same year aged 49. His widow married 15 April 1684, Alexander Pygan. Four of this name had been graduates at Williams college 1834. The name is, by Mr. Patch, History Collections of Essex Inst. pp. 50 and 51, read by mistake, Boyle.

JARVIS BOYKETT, or JARVIS BOYKIM or GERVASE BOYKETT, or GERVASE BOYKIM, New Haven, a carpenter, came first to Charlestown with one servant in 1635 or 6 from Charington, in Kent. 3 Massachusetts History Collections VIII. 276. He removed 1639 to New Haven, there had Nathaniel, born September 1641, baptized 11 December 1642; Bethia, baptized 30 April 1643; and Sarah, 18 January 1646; and died 23 January 1661, leaving widow Isabel, who died 1673, and in her will mentioned children Nathaniel, Sarah, and daughter Bethia, wife of James Dennison, married 25 November 1662. Sarah married 1675, Samuel Edwards of Northampton.

NATHANIEL BOYKETT, or NATHANIEL BOYKIM, New Haven, son of the preceding, subscribed to the Colony laws 1 May 1660 his assent, and died 1705.

ALEXANDER BOYLE, Boston, one of the first of the Scot's Charitable Society, 1684.

THOMAS BOYLESTON, Watertown, son of Thomas Boyleston, perhaps of London, who was son of Henry Boyleston of Litchfield, came in the Defence from London, 1635, aged 20, by wife Sarah, had Elizabeth, born 21 September 1640; Sarah, 30 September 1642; and Thomas, 26 January 1645; died 1653; his widow Sarah married 12 May 1655, John Chenery, and died 14 September 1704. Elizabeth married April 1658, John Fisher of Medfield; and Sarah married Thomas Smith. His father was a clothworker of London, as described in the deed of house and ground to his agent, September 1639 from Gregory Stone. Often the name is given Boyson.

THOMAS BOYLESTON, Boston, son of the preceding, a farmer, lived at Muddy river whereby the best access to public worship for him and his family was Roxbury, married 13 December 1665, Mary Gardner, daughter of Thomas Gardner, had Edward; and baptized at Roxbury, Richard, 29 January 1671; Abigail, 1674; Zabdiel, 9 March 1679; Lucy, probably 1682; Rebecca, born 15, baptized 20 September 1685; Dudley, 19 August 1688; besides Peter; Sarah; Mary; Joanna; and Thomas, first town clerk of Brookline, who may have been baptized elsewhere. He served perhaps as surgeon, in Philip's war, and died 1695; his widow was Mary. A monstrous tradition in Thacher's Med. Biography of Zabdiel, that his father after receiving a degree of M.D. at Oxford, came over and settled at Brookline in 1635, shows how worthless are such foundations, even if supported by a descendant. This Zabdiel Boyleston, the successful introducer of inocullations for smallpox on our side of the ocean, was made F.R.S. and died 1 March 1766. His son Thomas Boyleston, a physician of Boston, died 13 May 1750, without children. Richard Boyleston, of Charlestown, son of second Thomas Boyleston, died 25 April 1752, and his widow Mary died 16 April 1764, aged 86.

CALEB BOYNTON, or CALEB BOYINGTON, Newbury, son of William Boynton of Rowley, married 24 June 1672, Mary Moore, had William, born 24 July 1673, lived at Rowley, freeman 1684.

JOHN BOYNTON, or JOHN BOYINGTON, Rowley 1643, married Helen Pell of Boston, and died 1670.

JOSEPH BOYNTON, or JOSEPH BOYINGTON, Rowley 1678, perhaps son of John Boynton, Representative 1693, and several years more; town clerk 1679; as was one of same name perhaps his son in 1697, who had married Sarah Swan, daughter of Richard Swan, about 1678, and died 16 December 1730.

JOSHUA BOYNTON, or JOSHUA BOYINGTON, Newbury, brother probably of Caleb Boynton, married 9 April 1678, Hannah Barnet, had William, born 26 May 1690. Coffin, whpo gives another

JOSHUA BOYNTON, or JOSHUA BOYINGTON, also married April 1678, Sarah Browne, had Joshua, born 4 May 1679, who lived 91 years 5 months 14 days; and John, 15 July 1683.

SAMUEL BOYNTON, or SAMUEL BOYINGTON, Rowley 1691, paid good tax that year, but who was his father is unknown.

THOMAS BOYNTON, or THOMAS BOYINGTON, Salem, who in the record is written Bouenton, married 30 December 1671, Sarah Southwick, had Thomas, born 1 March 1672; Benjamin, 24 July 1675; and Abigail, 25 July 1695. Felt.

WILLIAM BOYNTON, or WILLIAM BOYINGTON, Rowley, freeman 13 May 1640, said to have been born 1605, had wife Elizabeth, and son Caleb, and Joshua; bought 1657, at Newbury a farm of John Clark; and his widow died at Salisbury, about 1687.

WILLIAM BOYNTON, or WILLIAM BOYINGTON, or the same, perhaps, by wife Mary, had Mary, and lived at Salisbury, where Mary, his daughter married 5 November 1670, John Eastman. Three of this name had been, 1834, graduates of New England colleges.

JOHN BRABROOK, or JOHN BRAYBROOK, Watertown, by wife Elizabeth, had Elizabeth, born 4 November 1640; John, 12 April 1642; and Thomas, 4 May 1643; first was at Hampton 1640, removed to Newbury, where lived his uncle, Henry Short, and died 28 June 1662. Coffin has, perhaps, here made some confusion, for I find the inventory of Brabrook taken December 1651. Ann Brabrook, who died at Roxbury 20 May 1648, may have been his mother.

JOSEPH BRABROOK, or JOSEPH BRAYBROOK, perhaps of Malden, married Sarah Lewis, daughter of John Lewis, and may have lived at Concord 1672.

RICHARD BRABROOK, or RICHARD BRAYBROOK, Ipswich, was born it is said, in 1613. by wife Joanna, who was his widow living 1681, had Mehitable, who married 2 November 1669, John Downing.

SAMUEL BRABROOK, or SAMUEL BRAYBROOK, Salem, a witness in the doleful delusion of witchecraft 1692, of who no more is known.

THOMAS BRABROOK, or THOMAS BRAYBROOK, Concord, brother of John Brabrook, married 1669, Abigail Temple, and died 1692.

WILLIAM BRABROOK, or WILLIAM BRAYBROOK, Lynn, removed, says Lewis, 1637, to Sandwich.

JOHN BRACY, or JOHN BRACIE, WethersfieId, came about 1647, from New Haven (where first he, with prefix of respect, sat down in 1644, and had Susanna, and John, both baptized 5 September 1647), with his mother Phebe Martin, whose father William Bisby of London had bought all estate at Wethersfield for her, and her children, by former husband; died 1709, aged 70. Other children of Bracey, by same Phebe, were Thomas, probably a Stephen, Constant, who married John Morray, and Phebe, who married Joseph Dickinson.

STEPHEN BRACY, or STEPHEN BRACIE, Swanzey 1669, [Baylies, II. 241.] removed to Hartford, died 1692, leaving Stephen, John, Henry, besides daughters Elishaba, Phebe, Elizabeth, and Ann. He dropped the final y, yet perhaps did not change the sound, as of two syllable descendants In Connecticut have been distinguished.

THOMAS BRACY, or THOMAS BRACIE, Ipswich 1635, may have been, Felt thinks, possibly the Mr. Bracy of Branford in Mather's first class, in the carelessness of the Magnalia III. 214, called Brucy, and not favored with a Christian name.

THOMAS BRACY, or THOMAS BRACIE, Wethersfield, brother of John, before 1678 removed to Hatfield, died there 1704.

JOHN BRACKENBURY, Charlestown and Boston, married 17 July 1655, Amie Anderson or Emma Anderson, daughter of John Anderson, had

JOHN BRACKENBURY, born 9 August 1657, who lived at Charlestown, married 10 August 1681 Dorcas Green, perhaps daughter of Thomas Green, who had daughter Dorcas, died 30 June 1682, aged 25. The son had enlisted 1676 in the Company of the brave Captain Turner, but was discharged before marching far. His father’s widow married Joseph Lynde, and died 1 September 1703.

RICHARD BRACKENBURY, Salem came in the Abigail with Governor Endicott, arriving 6 September 1628, freeman 14 July 1634, had wife Ellen; a daughter Elizabeth, who married John Patch, and died 1716; and Hannah, baptized 1 June 1651; one of the founders of church at Beverly, died 1685, aged 83, leaving son Miles.

SAMUEL BRACKENBURY, Rowley, probably son of William Brackenbury, a physician, died at preaching two years but was not ordained, yet removed to Boston, and died of smallpox, says his Diary, 11, or by another record 16 January 1678.

SAMUEL BRACKENBURY, Boston 1677, had Samuel, baptized 12 May 1700, was a physician, died at Malden 26 November 1702; but one Samuel, who may have been the preceding or not, by wife Mercy, in Boston, had Mary, born 12 March 1674; and the Malden record makes Samuel to have Samuel, there, February 1673.

WILLIAM BRACKENBURY, Charlestown, a baker; came in the fleet with Winthrop, it is thought with wife Ann, requested to be freeman 19 October 1630, but not appearing to support his claim in May following, was postponed by the rule after adoption, joined the church late in 1632, freeman 4 March 1633, had Mary, baptized 29 June 1634; was a selectman four years, died at Malden, where he was of the chief inhabitants August 1668, aged 66, leaving by will of 24 July preceding, estate to wife Alice, son Samuel Brackenbury, Harvard College 1664, daughters Ann, wife of William Foster, and Mary, wife of John Ridgway. Frothingham, 79. His widow died 28 December 1670, as the gravestone says; but other authorities make it 24 January after.

ANTHONY BRACKETT, Portsmouth 1640, removed to Exeter; there lived 1657, but perhaps after at Casco. ANTHONY, Falmouth 1662, perhaps son of the preceding, married Ann Mitton, daughter of Michael Mitton, had Anthony; Seth, who was killed by the Indians May 1690; Mary, who was living 1717, unmarried; Elinor, who married Richard Pulling of Boston; and Kezia, who married Joseph Maylem; by 2nd wife Susanna Drake, daughter of Abraham Drake of Hampton, who he married September 1679, had Zechariah and others. He was taken by the Indians with his wife and all his family except her brother Nathaniel Mitton, who was killed at the house 11 August 1676; but by admirable peril escaped some days after; was Lieutenant and Captain in the war, and finally was killed at his house 21 September 1689. His son Anthony was a serviceabble man, as Lieutenant and Captain in Indians hostilities. For abundant information see Willis.

JAMES BRACKETT, Boston, a cooper, son of Richard Brackett, freeman 1673, removed to Braintree 1675, by wife Sarah, had Joseph, Nathan, and several daughters, died 8 April 1718, aged 72.

JOHN BRACKETT, Boston, son probably of Peter Brackett, merchant, freeman 1666, married 23 August 1662, Sarah Stedman, daughter of John Stedman of Cambridge, and Sarah, baptized at Cambridge 5 June 1664, died 19 September 1665; and John, posthumous baptized at Cambridge 21 April 1667. He died that year. See Newell's Church Gath. 50. His widow married 24 March 1668, Samuel Alcock. Her third husband was Thomas Graves; and fourth, John Phillips.

JOHN BRACKETT, Billerica, son of Richard Brackett, married Hannah French, daughter of William French, and had ten children. His wife died 9 May 1674, and he married 3 March 1675, Ruth Ellis, and had four children, and died 18 March 1686.

JOSIAH BRACKETT, Billerica, brother of the preceding, married 4 February 1673, Elizabeth Waldo, probably daughter of Cornelius Waldo of Chelmsford, had one daughter born 1674, removed to Braintree, and had another daughter 1678.

PETER BRACKETT, Braintree, freeman 10 May 1643, Artillery Company 1648, Representative 1644, and often after, for his own town, and for Scarborough in 1673 and 4, and he was Deacon. By first wife Priscilla, had Martha; Peter; John, born 30 November 1641; Joseph, 13 October 1612; and probably other children for the Boston grant of land to him, 1640, was for twelve heads. Another child by the same wife was Hannah, born 14 August 1656, but she died June following. His last wife was Mary, widow of Nathaniel Williams, who became one of the first of the Third Church members after death of this husband. In his latter days he lived in Boston. In 1662 he purchased of the Indians the tract on which Mendham was erected. Martha married 23 November 1655, Robert Twelves.

PETER BRACKETT, Billerica, probably son of Richard Brackett, married 7 August 1661, Elizabeth Bosworth, freeman 1680. His wife died 30 November 1686, and he married 30 March following widow Sarah Foster of Cambridge.

RICHARD BRACKETT, Boston 1632, probably brother of first Peter Brackett, freeman 25 May 1636, Artillery Company 1639, dismissed with wife Alice to Braintree church 5 December 1641, Deacon, ordained 21 July 1642, town clerk many years, third Captain of the town, died 5 March 1691, aged 80 years says the gravestone. By his wife Alice, who died 1690, aged 76, he had Hannah, baptized 4 January 1635; Peter and John, perhaps twins, both baptized 7 May 1637; Rachel, 3 November 1639; Mary, born 1 February 1642; James; Josiah, 8 July 1652; and Sarah. Of the daughters Hannah married Samuel Kingsley of Billerica; Rachel married 15 July 1659, Simon Crosby; Mary married 24 July 1662, Joseph Thompson; and Sarah married 1675, Joseph Crosby of Braintree.

THOMAS BRACKETT, Salem, punished for attending Quaker worship, 1658; had Thomas, baptized 7 December 1645, died at 22 years; Mary, 4 February 1649; and Joseph, 15 June 1651, died young, as also daughter Lydia.

THOMAS BRACKETT, Falmouth, brother of second Anthony Brackett, married Mary Mitton, daughter of Michael Mitton, and was killed by the Indians 11 August 1676, and his wife and children taken into captivity at the same time with his brother. His wife died in captivity, but three children survived and lived at Greenland. Willis.

WILLIAM BRACKETT, Portsmouth 1624, one in the employment of Mason, the patentee, spelled Bracken often. Adams, Annals. Six of this name had been, in 1834, graduates at Harvard, Dartmouth, and Williams colleges.

THOMAS BRADBURY, Salisbury, an original proprietor, but it is not known where he was settled before going to that town, yet probably at Ipswich, freeman 13 May 1640, Representative 1651 and six years more, recorder for the County of Norfolk, when New Hampshire was part of Massachusetts, was a Captain, and died 16 March 1695. His wife Mary Perkins, daughter of John Perkins, after 56 years of good cohabitation was accused of witchcraft in the dark hours of 1692, but her age was not sufficient to condemn her; she was acquitted and died 20 December 1700. The children were Wymond, born 1 April 1637; Judith, 2 October 1638; Thomas, 28 January 1640; Mary, 17 March 1642; Jane, 11 May 1645; Jacob, 17 June 1647, who died at Barbados, 1669; William, 15 September 1649; Elizabeth, 7 November 1651; John, 20 April 1654, who died 24 November 1678; Ann, 16 April 1656, died young; and Jabez, 27 June 1658, who died 28 April 1677. Mary married 17 December 1663, John Stanian; Judith married 9 October 1665, Caleb Moody, as his second wife; Jane married 15 March 1668, Henry True; and Elizabeth married 12 May 1673, John Buss.

WILLIAM BRADBURY, Salisbury, son of the preceding, had Mary as first wife and next, Rebecca Wheelwright, widow of Samuel Maverick, daughter of Reverend John Wheelwright, married 12 January or more probably March 1672; died 4 December 1678, and his wife died 20 of the same month. He left William, born 16 October 1672; Thomas, 24 December 1674; and Jacob, 1 September 1677; the last two remembered in the will of their grandfather Reverend John Wheelwright of Salisbury.

WYMOND BRADBURY, Salisbury, eldest son of Thomas Bradbury, married 7 May 1661, Sarah Pike, daughter of Robert Pike, had Sarah, born 26 February 1662; Ann, 21 November 1666; and Wymond, 13 May 1669; died that year at Nevis; and his widow married 10 May 1671, John Stockman of Salisbury.

ROBERT BRADBUTH, Beverly, freeman 1678, is all that can be learned of a name that my reverence for records is not high enough to compel the acceptance of, though I can hardly be so bold as to inquire if it may not mean Bradbury.

LESBY BRADFIELD, Wethersfield 1643, or earlier, removed to Branford. His widow married 5 September 1657, George Adams.

SAMUEL BRADFIELD, Branford, possibly son of the preceding, by his inventory of 10 April 1694 left some estate, and wife Sarah, children Samuel; and Nathaniel, aged 15 years both idiots; Mary, 8; and John, 3.

ALEXANDER BRADFORD, Dorchester 1638, in his will, of which abstract is in Genealogical Registrar III. 81, made 17 August 1644, probated 2 October 1645, names wife Sarah, brother Walter Merry, but no children.

JOHN BRADFORD, Plymouth 1643, Duxbury 1645, eldest son of Governor William Bradford, who did not come over the seas till some years after his father removed 1653 to Marshfield, was Representative of each town; thence about1660 to Norwich, there died 1678, without children. His widow Martha Bourne, daughter of Thomas Bourne of Marshfield, married before 20 February 1680, Lieutenant Thomas Tracy, and died about 1689. Caulkins, History of Norwich, 100.

JOSEPH BRADFORD, Plymouth, youngest brother of the preceding, married 25 May 1664, Jael Hobart, daughter of Reverend Peter Hobart of Hingham, had Joseph, born 18 April 1665; and Elisha; died 10 July 1715; and his widow died 1730, aged 88. His son Elisha named one of his 13 children Carpenter Bradford, in honor of the boy's great grandmother.

MOSES BRADFORD, Salisbury 1669, perhaps son of Robert Bradford, removed to Boston, Artillery Company 1677, died 23 March 1692 by drowning.

MOSES BRADFORD, Boston, by wife Elizabeth, had John, born 18 September 1693; Thomas, 24 December 1697; Robert, 30 August 1699; Elizabeth, 20 September 1701; Joseph, 14 May 1705; and James, 22 September 1707.

ROBERT BRADFORD, Boston 1640, tailor, freeman 1642, by wife Martha, had Moses, baptized 10 March but town record says, born 2 August 1644; and Martha, 9, baptized 16 November 1645. His will, 16 November 1677, names wife Margaret, who died 12 March 1697, aged 92, and the same document calls Martha wife of Peter Maverick.

WILLIAM BRADFORD, Plymouth, came in the Mayflower, 1620, with wife Dorothy May (married at Leydton, 30 November 1613), who failed to reach the land of promise, being drowned at the anchorage in Cape Cod, 7 December; was born or baptized Thursday, 19 March 1590, at Austerfield, a village taking its name, perhaps, from lying in the extreme South of Yorkshire. His father William Bradford was buried 15 July 1591, and this his youngest child having gained some instruction in letters from the noble spirits of William Brewster, and John Robinson, left his native country, at the age of 18, to seek freedom of worship in Holland. There he married the first wife presumed to have been a May, probably a fugitive from England for religion's sake, with her parents; had John, above mentioned. He was chosen Governor after death of Carver, early in 1621, aged only 31, and until his death 9 May 1657, the date of his nuncupative will, was by annual election every year continued except three, when Edward Winslow, and two, when Thomas Prence partook the burden. On 14 August 1623, he married a lady with whom he had been acquainted many years before, Alice Carpenter, widow of Edward Southworth, who came in the Ann a few days before from England whose maiden name was Carpenter, as has been inferred from the phrase in Plymouth church record under 1667, mentioned of the daughter of Mary Carpenter, who died 19 March of that year in her 91st year of course, born 1577. But she was so much older than this second wife of the Governor that possibly she may have been daughter of one, who after marrying a Reyner, and had Alice. For tradition at Plymouth made Alice Reyner, this wife of Bradford, to be sister of Reverend John Reyner. See Davis in Morton's Mem. 217, in notis, and Young's Chronicles of Pilgrims 353. in notis. Reyner was a name of distinction in the neighborhood of Bradford's youth, and Carpenter was not. She survived till 26 March 1670, aged 79, and had William, born 17 June 1624; Mercy, who married 15 June or 21 December 1648 (such is the diversity of records though the later date is more probable) Benjamin Vermayes; and Joseph, above mentioned 1630. Winsor mistakes in making this youngest child twin with Mercy, for she is named at the division of cattle, 1627. Mather, Magnalia II. c. 1; Shurtleff's Recollections of the Pilgrims in Russell's Guide to Plymouth; Davis's Morton's Memo.; Belknap Amererican Biography; Hutchinson's History of Massachusetts; Young's Chronicles of the Pilgrims; and the last acquisition to our minute details in Hunter's Founders of New Plymouth, London 1854; besides the noble confessor's own History Boston 1856, as Volume III. in 4 Massachusetts History Collections

WILLIAM BRADFORD, Plymouth, son of the preceding, Representative 1657, assistant 1658, was wounded in the great Narraganset fight, 19 December 1675, and carried the ball in his body to the end of life; was Deputy-Governor of the Colony from 1682 till arrival of new Charter, except when one of Sir E. Andros's council 1687 and 8; died 20 February 1704; by first wife Alice Richards, daughter of Thomas Richards of Weymouth, who died 12 December 1671, had John, born 20 February 1653, who married 5 February 1674, Mercy Warren, daughter of Joseph Warren, and died 8 December 1763; his wife outlived him 12 years; William, 11, baptized 25 March 1655, who married 1679, Rebecca Bartlett, daughter of Benjamin Bartlett, and died 1687; Thomas, who was of Norwich, had part of estate of his uncle John Bradford, with whom he had lived, perhaps married Hannah Fitch, daughter of Reverend James Fitch, and died 1708; Alice, who married first, 27 March 1680, Reverend William Adams of Dedham, as his second wife and next, was second wife of Honorable James Fitch of Norwich; Hannah married 28 November 1682, Joshua Ripley of Hingham, who removed to Windham, Connecticut after having two children; Mercy, baptized 2 September 1660 at Boston church, who married 16 September 1680, Samuel Steele of Hartford; Meletiah, who married John Steele of Norwich; Samuel, born 1668, married Hannah Rogers, and died 1714; Mary married William Hunt; and Sarah married Kenelm Baker. By second wife widow Wiswall, of who the former husband’s name is not seen, he had only Joseph, who died 17 January 1747, at New London. By third wife Mary Wood, widow of Reverend John Holmes of Duxbury, daughter of John Wood, or Atwood, of Plymouth, he had Israel, who married Sarah Bartlett, daughter of Benjamin Bartlett junior; Ephraim, married 13 February 1710, Elizabeth Bartlett; David, who married 1714, Elizabeth Finney, and died 1730; and Hezekiah, who married Mary Chandler; the last four lived at Kingston. Shurtleff, ut Supreme. His son Samuel Bradford, besides four daughters, had three sons Gershom Bradford of Kingston; Perez Bradford, Harvard College 1713, a counsellor of Massachusetts; and Gamaliel Bradford, also a counsellor whose son Gamaliel Bradford, a Colonel in the army of the Revolution died 1806, father of the late Alden Bradford, Harvard College 1786, Secretary of Massachusetts, who died 1843. Alden, Collections of Epit. III. 246, 7. Fourteen of this name had been, in 1834, graduates at Harvard and seventeen at other colleges of New England.

RALPH BRADHURST, Roxbury, married 13 June 1677, Hannah Gore, daughter of John Gore, had Rhoda, born 17 May 1678; Dorothy, 1 March 1680; Hannah, 14 December 1682; and Abigail, 4 July 1685. His wife died 10 July 1686, and he had second wife Martha, who died 6 August 1693. A third wife Hannah, died 16 April 1710; but no more of him appears in the record of Roxbury. Rhoda married 13 March 1704, John Colburn.

JAMES BRADING, Newbury, removed to Boston 1659, married 11 October of that year, Hannah Rock, daughter of Joseph Rock, had Elizabeth; James, born 1665; and Joseph. His daughter Elizabeth, was first wife of Edward Bromfield.

JOSEPH BRADISH, Sudbury, eldest son of Robert Bradish, by wife Mary, had Mary, born 10 April 1665; Sarah, 6 May 1667; Hannah, 14 January 1669; and Joseph, 28 November 1672.

ROBERT BRADISH, Cambridge 1635, by wife Mary, who died September 1638, had Joseph, born in May before; by wife Vashti, he had Samuel, born 13 February 1640, died 6 July 1642; John, 3 December 1640, who probably died at Boston 12 October 1696; and Samuel, again, 28 November 1648, died next month. The father died about 1659, and in his will of 12 May 1657, we learn, that he had others by the first wife as it names Mary Gibbs, probably wife of Matthew Gibbs of Sudbury, James, and Hannah as his child speaks of son-in-law Ezekiel Morrell, and brother Isaac Morrell. See Genealogical Registrar IX. 225. vI infers that Joseph Bradish, a pirate, sent to England with the notorious Captain Kidd, 1699, from Boston, and executed at London, was grandson of Robert Bradish, and probably son of Joseph Bradish. See letter of John Higginson in 3 Massachusetts History Collections VII. 210.

ABRAHAM BRADLEY, or ABRAHAM BRADLEE, New Haven, son of William Bradley of the same, married 20 December 1673, Ann Thompson, daughter of John Thompson, had John, born 12 October 1674; Hannah, 8 November 1682; and five others; Daniel, 1680; Lydia, 28 November 1685; Ebenezer, 9 November 1689; Abraham, 9 April 1693; and Esther, 14 May 1696; was Deacon, and died 19 October 1718.

BENJAMIN BRADLEY, or BENJAMIN BRADLEE, New Haven, brother of the preceding, married 29 October 1677, Elizabeth Thompson, daughter of John Thompson, had Elizabeth, born 11 September 1678; Sarah, 7 June 1680; Hannah, 18 April 1682; Susanna, 10 July 1684; and five others; Mary, 15 April 1687; Desire, 19 April 1690; Benjamin, 1 October 1692; Abner, 6 March 1696; and Caleb, 5 May 1700. He had second wife Mary Sacket, daughter I suppose, of John Sacket.

DANIEL BRADLEY, or DANIEL BRADLEE, New Haven, swore fidelity 1637, had wife but no children, died December 1608, and his estate went, after the widow's portion, to Joshua, Nathan, Stephen, and William Bradlee, and the wife of John Alling, who was Ellen Bradlee. William Bradley was called brother and such probably was the relationship of the other heirs.

DANlEL BRADLEY, or DANIEL BRADLEE, Haverhill, came in the Elizabeth, from London, 1630, aged 20, killed by the Indians 13 August 1689. He lived probably at Rowley first for several years, married 21 May 1662, probably Mary Williams, daughter of John Williams, had several children but we know not their names, births, or full particulars about his family.

DANIEL BRADLEY, or DANIEL BRADLEE, Haverhill, probably son of Daniel Bradley of the same, with wife Hannah, and children Mary and Hannah, were killed by the Indians 15 March 1697.

FRANCIS BRADLEY, or FRANCIS BRADLEE, Fairfield, the freeman of 1664, was of Branford 1660, and removed to Fairfield, married Ruth Barlow, daughter of John Barlow of the same, had children known only by his will of 4 January 1689, to be John, Francis, Daniel, Joseph, Ruth, wife of Thomas Williams, and Abigail, unmarried. His wife was living when he died late in that year.

ISAAC BRADLEY, or ISAAC BRADLEE, Branford 1667, removed to New Haven 1683, where his name was long continued by a multiple of descendants. He had Isaac; William; Samuel; Daniel, born 20 December 1696; Sarah; and Elizabeth.

JOHN BRADLEY, or JOHN BRADLEE, Salem, died June 1642, at Dorchester, by nuncupative will, probated 29 of next month, mentioned only wife and brother-in-law William Allen.

JOHN BRADLEY, or JOHN BRADLEE, Dedham, by wife Catharine, had Salathiel, born 16 March 1642, died at six weeks.

JOSEPH BRADLEY, or JOSEPH BRADLEE, Haverhill, had a garrison at his house, who was surprised 8 February 1704, when his wife for the second time was taken by the Indians and carried away, her infant child born after her capture, dying of want. Abraham, his son lived to 1754, at Concord, New Hampshire. His children Joseph, Martha, and Sarah had been killed 11 March 1697 by the Indians.

JOSEPH BRADLEY, or JOSEPH BRADLEE, New Haven, eldest son of William Bradley of the same, married 25 October 1667, Silence Brocket, daughter of John Brocket, had a daughter born and died 1669; Abigail, 9 September 1671; Mary, 6 December 1674; Joseph, 15 February 1678; Samuel, 3 January 1681; Martha, August 1683; and he died in January 1705, leaving wife and five children mentioned in his will of 4 December preceding.

JOSHUA BRADLEY, or JOSHUA BRADLEE, New Haven, brother of Daniel Bradley of the same, had only Joshua, born 31 December 1665, perhaps removed.

NATHAN BRADLEY, or NATHAN BRADLEE, Guilford, brother of Daniel Bradley, by wife Esther, had Ann, born 16 November 1669; Mary and Abigail, twins 13 March 1672; Esther, 2 November 1674, died young; Esther, again, 14 April 1677; Daniel, 9 June 1680, died young at Nathan Noah as the record has, perhaps by mistake, given the name of the church 18 September 1685; and Patience, 6 April 1688. He next married 1694, Hannah Munson, widow of Joseph Tuttle, daughter of Thomas Munson, who died next year and he married 16 May 1698, Rachel, widow of Thomas Strong; and he died 1710.

NATHANIEL BRADLEY, or NATHANIEL BRADLEE, Dorchester, married 17 July 1666, Mary Evans, daughter of Richard Evans, died 26 July 1701, aged 70.

NATHANIEL BRADLEY, or NATHANIEL BRADLEE, New Haven, youngest son of the first William Bradley, married 1688, Ruth Dickerman, daughter of Abraham Dickerman, had James, born 12 October of that year; Ruth, 23 January 1691; Miriam, 4 July 1698; and Nathaniel, 16 May 1701.

PETER BRADLEY, or PETER BRADLEE, New London, 1654, mariner, by wife Elizabeth Brewster, who is believed to have been daughter of Jonathan Brewster, had Elizabeth, born 1655; Peter, 1658; and Lucretia; and he died 1662. His widow married Christopher Christophers; and daughter Lucretia married his son Richard Christophers. Elizabeth, the daughter married 22 September 1670, Thomas Dimond.

PETER BRADLEY, or PETER BRADLEE, New London, son of the preceding, married 9 May 1678, Mary Christophers, daughter of Chritopher Christophers, had Christopher, born 11 July 1679, who went to Southold, Long Island, and the father died August 1687.

RICHARD BRADLEY, or RICHARD BRADLEE, Boston, by wife Ann, had Ann, born 16 December 1651; Deliverance, 3 April 1655, and John, who died at Liverpool, May 1676, leaving widow Mary.

STEPHEN BRADLEY, or STEPHEN BRADLEE, Guilford, brother of Daniel Bradley at New Haven, swore fidelity 1660, married 9 November 1663, Hannah Smith, daughter of George Smith of New Haven, and had Hannah, born 1 September 1661; Sarah, 14 February 1667, died young; Stephen, 1 October 1668; Daniel, 21 October 1670; Elizabeth, 31 December 1671; Abraham, 13 May 1674; and Sarah, again, 17 October 1676. He married Mary, widow of the second William Leete; and died 20 June 1702.

WILLIAM BRADLEY, or WILLIAM BRADLEE, New Haven, married 18 February 1645, Alice Prichard, perhaps daughter of Roger Prichard of Springfield, had Joseph, baptized 4 January 1646; Martha, 8 October 1648; Abraham, born 24 October 1650, Mary, 30 April baptized 1 May 1653; Benjamin, 8, baptized 12 April 1657; Esther, 29 September baptized 25 November 1659; Nathaniel, born 26 February 1661; and Sarah, 21, baptized 25 June 1665. He died 1691, made his will 22 June 1683, in which he mentioned all the sons, daughter Munson, who was Martha, wife of Samuel Munson, married 26 October 1665; Mary, wife of Samuel Todd, married 26 November 1668; and daughter Brockett; who was Sarah, married 23 May 1682; Esther died probably unmarried. Mr. Porter thinks, this William was brother of Daniel Bradley by an elder wife of their father and that he and other children were brought by their mother, a widow who was a midwife at New Hampshire in 1655.

WILLIAM BRADLEY, or WILLIAM BRADLEE, Dorchester 1664, of who no more is heard by me, than that he signed the petition that year.

WILLIAM BRADLEY, or WILLIAM BRADLEE, New Haven, son of Isaac Bradley, married 7 January 1713, Elizabeth Chedsey, had Caleb, born 17 October 1714; Ebenezer, 25 March 1716; Joseph, 13 July 1718; Elizabeth; Desire; and James, 15 June 1726. Twenty-two of this name had been graduates at the New England colleges in 1834.

HUMPHREY BRADSHAW, Cambridge, Artillery Company 1642, by wife Patience, had Sarah, born 3 May 1653; John, 24 June 1655; and Ruth, 3 November 1657. He took second wife 24 March 1665, Martha, widow of William Russell, who after his death, had third husband 24 May 1683, Thomas Hall, and she died 1694. Ruth married 3 January 1684, John Bennet of Charlestown.

JOHN BRADSHAW, Medford, son of the preceding, by wife Mary, had Mary, born 8 May 1687; Sarah, 8 September 1690, died soon; Ruth, 29 November 1692; John, 11 February 1695; Jonathan, 18 December 1696; Sarah, again, 19 March 1699; Samuel, 29 August 1700; Susanna, 23 December 1702; Abigail, 1704; Hannah, 31 January 1706; Stephen, 16 September 1707; and Simon, 3 October 1709; and died 19 March 1745. His widow died 18 April 1758, aged 90.

DUDLEY BRADSTREET, Andover, third son of Governor Simon Bradstreet, freeman 1674, Representative 1677, 90 and 1, Colonel of the militia, named by James II of the council to Governor Joseph Dudley, yet patriot, and of the council of safety 1689, married 12 November 1673, Ann Wood, widow of Theodore Price, daughter of ...... Wood, had Margaret, born 19 February 1674; Dudley Bradstreet, 27 April 1678, Harvard College 1698, who married 4 May 1704, Mary Wainwright, minister of Groton, ordained 17 November 1706, dismissed 1712, died in England 1714 of smallpox, after being ordained in Episcopal form; and Ann, 5 November 1681, died soon. In the ferocious prosecution 1692, for witchcraft, he was so lenient, or judiciously increduble of the crimes imputed to his neighbor as to be strongly suspected of the same horrid or ludicrous offence. Abbot's History 18, 19.

HUMPREY BRADSTREET, Ipswich, came in the Elizabeth, from Ipswich, England 1634, aged 40, with wife Bridget, 30; and children Hannah, 9; John, 3; Martha, 2; and Mary, 1; had born here, Moses; Sarah, 1638; and Rebecca; freeman 6 May 1635, Representative 1635, died 1655. His will, made 21 July, was probated 20 September following. Hannah married Daniel Rolfe, and next, 12 June 1658, Nicholas Holt, and died 20 June 1665; Martha married William Beale; and all the other daughters were married, one to Nicholas Wallis.

HUMPHREY BRADSTREET, Rowley, physician, son of Moses Bradstreet, removed to Newbury, there by wife Sarah, had Dorothy, born 19 December 1692; Joshua, 24 February 1695; Sarah, 14 January 1697; Humphrey, 1700, died young; Daniel, 13 February 1702; Moses, 17 February 1707; and Betty, 16 May 1713; and he died 11 May 1717. His widow married 9 June 1719, Edward Sargent.

JOHN BRADSTREET, Rowley 1651, son of Humphrey Bradstreet the first, brought by his father from England. Was never married it is thought, removed 1657, to Marblehead, died 1660. In Essex Inst. II. 29, Cheever says, he was prosecuted in 1652, for familiarity with the devil. Either the folly was not proved or it was not capital.

JOHN BRADSTREET, Salem, youngest son of Governor Simon Bradstreet, married 17 June 1679, as one report is, but by another 11 June 1677, Sarah Perkins, daughter of Reverend William Perkins of Topsfield, had Simon, born 14 April 1682; John, 30 January 1693; Margaret, 27 November 1696; and Samuel, 4 August 1699. Perhaps he had others, Mercy, and three other daughters, for the removal from one town to another sometimes caused omission in records of either. In 1681 he was of Salem, but probably lived most of his days at Topsfield, yet perhaps had some estate at Rowley, died 11 January 1719.

MOSES BRADSTREET, Ipswich, son of the first Humphrey Bradstreet of the same, had four children of which we know with certainty only Humphrey, born 6 January 1670, before mentioned.

SAMUEL BRADSTREET, Boston, eldest brother of the preceding, freeman 1656, went to England next year and spent four years as his mother tells, making verses on each event; there probably studied for a profession; was a physician, Representative for Andover 1670, married 1662, Mercy Tyng, youngest daughter of Captain William Tyng, who died 6 September 1670, had Elizabeth, born 29 January 1664, died young; Ann, 17 November 1665, died young; Mercy, 20 November 1667; Simon, 15 October 1669, died soon; and Ann, 3 September 1670; Mercy, married Dr. James Oliver of Cambridge, died a widow 29 March 1710. By second wife taken in Jamaica, he had John, 1676; Simon, again, about 1680; and Ann, again; and died probably at Jamaica, in August 1682.

SIMON BRADSTREET, Cambridge, Ipswich, Boston, was a few years at Andover, and spent his latest days at Salem, after September 1695; born in March 1603, at Horbling, in Lincolnshire, son of Simon, a minister it is said, bred at Emanuel, Cambridge University, entered there 1617, and matriculated 9 July 1618, as a sizer, had his A.B. 1620, and A.M. 1624, came in the fleet with Winthrop 1630, chosen an assistant 18 March before and so continued by annual election 48 years; Secretary 23 August 1630 to 1636; Deputy-Governor 1673-8; Governor 1679 to 1686; and again after the rising against Sir E. Andros 1689-92; died 27 March 1697. By his first wife Ann Dudley, daughter of Governor Thomas Dudley (a lady of some celebration for poetical talent, who died 16 September 1672, at Andover), married, as the family History in Genealogical Registrar IX, 113, says, about 1628, which to me seems a year or two earlier than probable, though we know it was before the April embarkment in 1630, had Samuel Bradstreet, Harvard College 1653, before mentioned; Dorothy, who married 14 June 1654, Reverend Seaborn Cotton; Sarah, who married 1st Richard Hubbard of Ipswich, and 2nd Captain Samuel Ward; Simon Bradstreet, born 28 September 1640, Harvard College 1660 Hannah, who married 3 June 1659, Andrew Wiggin of Exeter; Mercy, born 1647, who married 31 October 1672, Major Nathaniel Wade; Dudley, 1648, before mentioned; and John, 22 or 31 July 1652, before mentioned. His second wife Ann Downing, widow of Captain Joseph Gardner, daughter of Emanuel Downing, younger by more than thirty years, who he married 6 June 1676, died 19 April 1713, aged 79.

SIMON BRADSTREET, New London, second son of the preceding, ordained 5 October 1670, died 1683; married 2 October 1667, his first cousin Lucy Woodbridge, daughter of Reverend John Woodbridge, and she next married Captain Daniel Epps. He had Simon, born 2 August 1669, died soon; Simon Bradstreet, again, 7, baptized 12 March 1671, Harvard College 1693, minister of Charlestown, who was honored in office, married 7 May 1700, Mary Long, died 31 December 1741, leaving Simon Bradstreet, Harvard College 1728, minister of Marblehead; Ann, born 3 December 1672, baptized 5 January following; John, 3, baptized 5 November 1676; and Lucy, 24, baptized 31 October 1680. Ten of this name had been graduates in 1834 at Harvard, three others at Dartmouth, and Yale.

ARTHUR BRAGDON, York 1640, constable 1648, freeman 1652, was born as he tested about 1597. In 1680,

SAMUEL BRAGDON and THOMAS BRAGDON, probably his son lived there, and took oath of allegiance, and 13 October 1703, the wife and five children of Arthur, probably a grandson, were killed by the Indians in Penhallow's Indians Wars. Pike says wife and two children were killed and the eldest daughter carried away. Niles gives it Brandon.

EDMUND BRAGG or EDWARD BRAGG, Ipswich 1646, and there living in 1700. Probably his daughter Mary married 1 January 1669, Joseph Eveleth, the centenarian.

HENRY BRAGG, Salem, married 17 December 1677, Elizabeth McMullen, had Elizabeth, born 7 September 1678; Mary, 24 March 1680; Henry, 12 April 1682; William, 17 October 1684; Sarah, 26 March 1687; and Alexander, 6 March 1689.

DANIEL BRAINARD, or DANIEL BRAINERD, Hartford, removed to Haddam, as early settler there, married about 1665, Hannah Spencer, daughter of Jared Spencer, had Daniel, born 1665 or 6; Hannah, 20 November 1667; James, 1669; Joshua, 1671; William, 1673; Caleb, 1675; Hezekiah, 1682; and Elijah, 1686; was a Deacon, and died 1 April 1715 aged 74. Who was his father or where he was born is uncertain. Hannah married about 1692, Thomas Gates.

DANIEL BRAINARD, or DANIEL BRAINERD, East Haddam, son of the preceding, by wife Susanna Ventris, daughter perhaps of William Ventris, had Susanna, born 9 August 1689; Daniel, 28 September 1690; Hannah, 12 June 1694; Noadiah, 4 April 1697; Stephen, 27 February 1699; Bezaleel, 17 April 1701; Mary, 10 September 1703 ; was Deacon, and died 28 January 1743.

HEZEKIAH BRAINARD, or HEZEKIAH BRAINERD, Haddam, brother of the preceding, married 1 October 1707, Dorothy Hobart, widow of Daniel Mason of Lebanon, daughter of Reverend Jeremiah Hobart, had nine children of who David Brainard, born 20 April 1718, the distinguished missionary to the Indians was one; an Assistant of the Colony, died at Hartford, 24 May 1727, aged, by his gravestone, 45.

JOSHUA BRAINARD, or JOSHUA BRAINERD, Haddam, brother of the preceding, married Mehitable Dudley, daughter perhaps of William Dudley. The name appears Brainwood sometimes.

JOSEPH BRAMAN, or JOSEPH BRAYMAN, Rehoboth, had Experience, born 10 November 1682.

BENJAMIN BRAME, BENJAMIN BRAM, or BENJAMIN BREAM, Boston 1668, a cooper, had wife Ann, and son Benjamin, who were jointly made executors 6 October 1693 of his estate.

BENJAMIN BRAME, BENJAMIN BRAM, or BENJAMIN BREAM, Boston, son of the preceding, by Elizabeth, had Ann, born 23 July 1694, baptized 28 July 1695; Elizabeth, 11 April 1697; Sarah, 27 August 1699; and Benjamin, 26 January 1701.

GEORGE BRAMHALL, Dover 1670, Casco 1678, killed by the Indians 1689, left widow Martha, children Joseph, George, Hannah, and Joshua, who all removed to Plymouth. George was at Hingham 1733. Hannah married Jonathan Hall of Harwich; and Joshua returned to Falmouth 1729, there living some years, but went again to Plymouth. Willis.

JOSEPH BRAMHALL, wine-cooper, long residence at Falmouth, died 1716, at Boston, leaving widow Grace without children. He was son of George Bramhall the first; and his will is of 22 December 1715.

ARTHUR BRANCH, Saybrook; 1636, removed soon after 1649. 3 Massachusetts History Collections III. 143.

EXPERIENCE BRANCH, Marshfield, perhaps son of John Branch of the same, had wife Lydia, who died 5 November 1697, and he died nine days after.

JOHN BRANCH, Scituate, son of Peter Branch, born in England, married at Marshfield, 6 December 1652, Mary Speed, had John, who was killed at Rehoboth fight, under Captain Michael Pierce, 26 March 1676; Elizabeth, born 1656; Peter, 1659; Thomas, who died at Boston 1683; and Mercy, 1664; and died 17 1711. Mercy married Ebenezer Spooner.

PETER BRANCH, who would have been of Concord or Scituate, a carpenter, from Holden, near Tenterden in Kent, died on board the ship Castle, very soon after arriving, as by his will, abstract in Genealogical Registrar II. 183, is proven. It has no date of time or place, names son John Branch who he binds to Thomas Wyborne for eleven years from 16 June 1638, perhaps the day of making the will.

WILLIAM BRANCH , Springfield 1644, freeman 1648, married 11 January 1644, Joan Farnum, who died 12 October 1675; had second wife Catharine, widow of Arthur Williams, as before she was of Joshua Carter, married 12 February 1677, who died 8 August 1683, as did he on 16 September following. No children by either wife is known.

BENJAMIN BRAND, son of John Brand, Esq. of Edwardstone, next parish to Groton, and so near neighbor in his native land to Winthrop with whom he came in the Arbella, 1630, required administration as freeman 19 October at first General court, but went home, perhaps with Wilson, Governor Coddington, and Sir R. Saltonstall, April following, certainly was not made freeman. He had two sons and two daughters in later life in England. Winthrop I. 370.

GEORGE BRAND, Roxbury, baker, married 24 July 1643, Martha Heath, daughter of William Heath, had probably no children, freeman 1650, probably died away from home, but his widow Martha died at Rhode Island, August 1686.

THADDEUS BRAND, Lynn, by wife Sarah, who died 13 December 1675, had Mary, born 12 February 1671, died 19 October 1675; Elizabeth, 16 August 1673, died 26 October 1675; and Mary, again, 27 November 1675.

WILLIAM BRAND, a Quaker, came in the Speedwell, 1656, aged 40, from London. Hutchinson I. 169, calls him Brend, but it is of no consequence for he was sent away in the same ship.

JOHN BRANDISLY, Watertown at first, perhaps, freeman 4 March 1635, removed early to Wethersfield, died 1639, leaving widow Rachael, who married Anthony Wilson of Fairfield, one son and four daughters.

WILLIAM BRANDON, Weymouth, had wife Mary, and children Thomas, Sarah, Mary, and Hannah, all minors, when he made his will 31 August 1646; and he died shortly after.

JOHN BRANKER, Dorchester; freeman 6 November 1632, a school master, removed after 1635 to Windsor, died 1662. His widow Abigail, who had brought him no children, married Reverend John Warham about October in that year, and outlived him until 18 May 1684.

GEORGE BRANSON, Dover 1648, removed to York, freeman 1652, killed at the age of 47, by a bull, 25 July 1657. Coffin.

AUSTIN BRATCHER, Charlestown, at Cradock's plantation died 1630, by hand of Walter Palmer, and a jury was charged to inquire of it, on whose inquiry Palmer was discharged.

EDWARD BRATTLE, Boston, son of Thomas Brattle, by Mary, had Thomas, born 20 September 1696. He was living in the early part of 1713, when his brother Thomas Brattle made his will.

THOMAS BRATTLE, Charlestown 1656, removed next year to Boston, married Elizabeth Tyng, daughter of Captain William Tyng, had Thomas, who died 5 September 1657, a few hours old; Thomas Brattle, again, born 20 June 1658, Harvard College 1676; Elizabeth, 30 November 1660; William Brattle, 22 November 1662, Harvard College 1680; Catharine, 26 September 1664; Bethia, 13 December 1666; Mary, 10 August 1668; and Edward, 18 December 1670; Artillery Company 1672, was a Captain, one of the founders of the third or Old South Church, Representative 1671 and 2 for Lancaster, and 1678 and 9 for Concord. His wife died 9 November 1682, in a surprising sudden way, as told by Judge Sewall, who was present in her own house at a great wedding of his cousin Daniel Quincey with Ann Shepard, her niece. See the valuable History by Budington, of First Church of Charlestown, 219. He died 22 July following leaving estate by inventory £7827, 16, 10, probably the largest in New England. Of the daughters, Elizabeth married 3 January 1677, Nathaniel Oliver; Catharine married 20 May 1680, John Eyre, next married 13 November 1707, Wait Winthrop, survived him, and died 2 August 1725; Bethia married about 1684, or 5, Joseph Parsons, died 4 July 1690; and Mary married 20 August 1689, John Mico, survived him, and died 22 December 1733.

THOMAS BRATTLE, Boston, son of the preceding, one of the founders of Brattle Street Church, and twenty years Treasurer of Harvard college in its days of severest trial, died 18 May 1713. He was never married I suppose. His letter, 1692, gives account of the witchcraft infatuation printed in 1 Massachusetts History Collections V. 61, is the most judicious explanation of the processes of the judicial blindness, and must be read by whoever wishes to understand that malignant epidemic. See also, Quincy's History of Harvard college.

WILLIAM BRATTLE, Boston 1677, merchant, probably brother of first Thomas Brattle.

WILLIAM BRATTLE, Cambridge, son of first Thomas Brattle, ordained 25 November 1696, a learned man, and most valuable minister F.R.S., died 15 February 1717. He married 3 November 1697, Elizabeth Hayman, daughter of Nathaniel Hayman of Charlestown, had only child William Brattle, Harvard College 1722, the Brigadier, father of Thomas Brattle, Harvard College 1760. She died 28 July 1715. He next married Elizabeth Gerrish, widow of Reverend Joseph Green, daughter of Reverend Joseph Gerrish. Holmes, History of Cambridge. Quincy, I. 414.

GEORGE BRAWNE, Dover, perhaps son of Michael Brawne, by wife Mary, had Michael, born 1 June 1679.

MIHILL BRAWNE, or MICHAEL BRAWNE, Dover 1655, had Michael, born 1643; perhaps others; was living 1675.

JOHN BRAY, Kittery 1660, shipwright, kept an inn 1674, removed in the war to Gloucester, perhaps, there married 10 November 1679, Margaret Lambert, as second wife had Margery, who married about 1680, William Pepperell, father of Sir William Pepperell.

OSMOND BRAY, Weymouth, died February 1649, as might be judged from his inventory 23 of that month, but I testify that this name is a blunder of a booby clerk for Clement Briggs. See Briggs.

RICHARD BRAY, Dover 1657, Casco 1658, was probably at the fort in Boston, 1687, a gunner's mate. A Richard Bray of Exeter died at Lynn, 1665.

ROBERT BRAY, Salem 1668, by wife Thomasin, had Daniel, born 29 November 1673, perhaps others, and was lost at sea, about 1692.

ROBERT BRAY, Salem, perhaps son of the preceding, married 5 November 1685, but in the History Collections of Essex Inst. 1. I 114, the name of wife is omitted. Had John, born 4 September 1686; Robert, 2 December 1688; Priscilla, 11 March 1690; Benjamin, 27 September 1692; and Christian, 19 March 1694.

THOMAS BRAY, New Haven, had Hannah, who married 25 August 1659, Thomas Paine of Boston.

THOMAS BRAY, Gloucester, shipwright, married 3 May 1646, Mary Wilson, had Mary, born January 1647; Thomas, 31 March 1694, died in August 1653; another Thomas, 16 May 1653, died soon; John, 14 May 1654; Nathaniel, 21 June 1656; Sarah; Thomas, again, 19 January or February 1659; Hannah, 21 March 1662; and Esther, 13 April 1664. He died 30 November 1691, and his widow died 27 March 1707. Mary married 18 November 1664, John Ring of Ipswich; Sarah married James Sawyer; Hannah married 4 February 1678, John Roberts; and Esther married 30 October 1683, Philip Stanwood.

FRANCIS BRAYTON, Portsmouth, Rhode Island, 1643, when he was administered to dwell, by wife Mary, had Francis, Stephen, and four daughters: Martha Pierce, the eldest, Elizabeth Bouren, and Sarah, wife of Thomas Gatchell, as by his will of 17 October 1690, probated 5 September 1692, we gain their names, and that of his widow Mary; we learn, also, that he had daughter Mary, who died before 1671. In a deposition made 30 January 1674, he is said to be 62 years old.

FRANCIS BRAYTON, Portsmouth, Rhode Island, son of the preceding, administered freeman of the town, 3 December 1670, married 18 March 1671, or 2, Mary Fish, daughter of Thomas Fish of the same, had Mary, born 1 January 1676; Thomas, 14 June 1681; Francis, 17 February 1684; David, 23 October 1686; Mehitable, 12 January 1693; and Benjamin, 8 September 1695.

STEPHEN BRAYTON, Portsmouth, Rhode Island, younger brother of the preceding, married 8 March 1679, Ann Tolman, daughter of Peter Tolman of Newport, had Mary, born 12 February 1680; Elizabeth, 8 December 1681; Ann, 6 July 1683; Preserved, 8 March 1685; and Stephen, 2 August 1686.

PHILIP BRAZEEL, is the strange name, perhaps misspelt, of one in Gallop's Company of Phips's expedition against Quebec. See Genealogical Registrar IX. 354 and compare with the more correct list in XIII. 13, especially as to the coincidence of the christian names of Philip in the two.

EDWARD BRAZIER, Charlestown 1658, had wife Magdalen, probably Thomas, baptized 29 April 1660; Abigail, 18 December 1664; Rebecca, 24 November 1667; and he died 3 May 1689.

THOMAS BREAD, embarked in England 22 June 1679, in the Providence, for Boston, but no more is known.

EDWARD BRECK, Dorchester 1636, freeman 22 May 1639, came probably from Ashton, in County Devon, or Lancashire, if he came with Mather, after 1634, as Clap, in History of Dorchester 107, thinks, was an officer of the town 1642, 5, 6, and after, died 2, or 6, November 1662, leaving Robert, who he brought from England; John; Mary, born perhaps 6 not (as the History of Dorchester says) baptized 18 August 1648; Elizabeth, and Susanna. The wife died 11 November 1653. His widow Isabel, who was his second wife and had been before widow of John Rigby of Dorchester, married 14 November 1663, Anthony Fisher; Mary married 9 January 1667, Samuel Paul; Elizabeth married 11 March 1670, John Minot; and Susanna married 20 March 1674, or 5, John Harris. But he must have had another daughter for his will of 30 October 1662, only 3 days before his death, mentioned daughter Elinor.

JOHN BRECK, Medfield, who died 3 January 1660, is by Morse regarded as brother of Edward Breck, and he thinks it probable that he had John Breck, who died at Medfield 20 August 1690.

JOHN BRECK, Dorchester, son of Edward Breck, a tanner, had by wife Susanna, who died 8 February 1712, aged about 64 years, Edward, John, Nathaniel, besides five daughters and was, also, father of Reverend Robert Breck, born 7, baptized 10 December 1682, Harvard College 1700, who preached short season at Newtown, Long Island, and after was minister of Marlborough, ordained 25 October 1704, a man of learning, died 6 January 1732. The father was a Captain and often a selectman, freeman 1690, died 17 February 1691, aged 40 years says his gravestone.

ROBERT BRECK, Dorchester, elder brother of the preceding, born in England, freeman 1649, married 4 January 1654, Sarah Hawkins, daughter of Captain Thomas Hawkins, removed to Boston, was a merchant, administered inhabitant of the town 28 November following, had Mary, born 19 April 1655; and Robert, 24 June 1658. I think he had former wife Margery, and by her had Robert, who died 11 July 1655. His widow became 11 September 1673, third wife of Reverend James Allen of Boston.

THOMAS BRECK, Dorchester, married 12 February 1657, Mary Hill, daughter of John Hill, had Mary, born 17 December 1657; removed to Medfield, had there Susanna, 10 September 1663, but died August following; Susanna, again, 10 May 1667; John, 4 March 1671; Bethia, 20 December 1673; Nathaniel and Samuel, twins 1 March 1682; if Morse's Genealogical Registrar be correct. For of this name had been graduates at Harvard, and six at other New England colleges in 1834.

THOMAS BREDCAKE, meaning Cakebread, a Captain probably of Salem, had leave, 12 November 1644, to take two guns from the fort there, and the next day a commission from our General Court for a year to take any Turkish pirate. Colony record I.79 and 83.

ALLEN BREED, Lynn 1630, as Lewis says, married 28 March 1656, Elizabeth Knight, probably second wife, had children perhaps all by first wife, Allen, Timothy, Joseph, and John; freeman 1681, yet born 1601, died 17 March 1692. He is one of the grantees in the deed from the Indians of South Hampton, Long Island, 1640, but either did not remove or soon came back.

ALLEN BREED, Lynn, son of the preceding, probably born in England, had Joseph, born 12 February 1658; Allen, 30 August 1660; John, 18 January 1663; March 24 August 1665; Elizabeth, 1 November 1667; Samuel, 25 September 1669; and his wife Mary died 30 November 1671. He was freeman 1684.

JOHN BREED, Lynn, brother of the preceding, married 28 December 1663, Sarah Hathorne, had Sarah, born 28 December 1667; William, 18 May 1671; Ephraim, 16 December 1672; Ebenezer; 15 April 1676; and his wife Sarah died 22 November following. He married 4 March 1678, Sarah Hart, but, probably had no more children, and died 28 June of the same year. Descendants are very numerous.

JOHN BREED, Stonington, son of Allen Breed the second, married 8 June 1690, Mercy Palmer, daughter of Gershom Palmer, had numerous offspring, and died 1751, if we believe the gravestone, about 90 years old, which seems very probable, but the same witness testified to the married state in a most religious manner about 64 years, which is vulgar exaggeration of 3 years. His widow died the year following.

JOSEPH BREED, Lynn, probably son of first Allen Breed, had Mary, born 4 July 1684; was freeman 1691.

TIMOTHY BREED, son of first Allen Breed, I suppose, married 3 March 1680, Sarah Newhall, daughter probably of John Newhall the first, had Joseph, born 18 April 1681; was freeman 1681. Sometimes the record has Bread, even Broad, or Braid. Four of the name had been, in 1834, graduates at Yale.

JAMES BREEDEN, JAMES BRADING, JAMES BRADON, or JAMES BREDING, Boston, married 9 October 1657, Hannah Ruck, daughter of Joseph Ruck or Joseph Rock.

THOMAS BREEDEN, THOMAS BRADING, THOMAS BRADON, or THOMAS BREDING, Boston 1656, by wife Mary, had John, born 24 April 1660; was a merchant of large property, went home and came again, perhaps more than once; was made Governor of his Province of Nova Scotia by deputation from Colonel Thomas Temple, in Oliver's day, and again, after the restoration, when Temple was a baronet. He lent large sums to Sir Thomas, and had mortgage of his estates on this side of the water, 1667. 2 Massachusetts History Collections VIII. 105, and 3 married H. Collections VII. 120. HAZ. II. 462. Hutchinson Collections 339.

EBENEZER BRENTON, Swanzey, son of Governor William Brenton, by wife Priscilla, had Ebenezer Brenton, born 1687, Harvard College 1707; Martha, 1689; William, 1694; Sarah, 1697; besides Ann, who married Martin Howard, and Elizabeth, who married Edward Perkins. His wife died 1705; but he long survived till about 1766, if Potter be correct, was Representative 1693; and a Major in latter days.

JAHLEEL BRENTON, brother of the preceding, collection of the customs at Newport for the whole Colony; died 8 November 1732, without children.

WILLIAM BRENTON, Boston 1633, came, perhaps, in the Griffin with Cotton, as he joined the church a few days after the teacher; said to have been born at Hammersmith; freeman 14 May 1634, Representative 1635, selectman 1634-7; went to Rhode Island, was there in high office, 1638, and President 1659-63, but had come back to Boston between 1650 and 8; every year was a selectman in 1652-7, contributed more than any other inhabitant except Henry Webb, to subscription for erection of town house, yet though at Portsmouth, Rhode Island, part of 1655, at Boston, is recorded a son born 14 Nov, 1655; was Governor of Rhode Island, 1666,7, and 8; lived at Taunton 1670-2, and died at Newport, 1674. On Merrimeck river a large tract long called Brenton's farms, now the town of Litchfield, in New Hampshire was granted to him in 1658; and the South point of Rhode Island, by him named Hammersmith (from his birthplace near London), where great fortifications are erected for security of Newport harbor, is usually known as Brenton's. At Boston by wife Martha Burton, daughter of Thomas Burton, as is in family tradition reports, had Mehitable, born 28 November 1652, married Jospeh Brown of Charlestown, and died 14 September 1676; Jahleel, 14 November 1655, before mentioned; and born at other towns, Elizabeth, who married 28 March 1672, John Pool of Boston; William; Ebenezer, before mentioned; Sarah, married Reverend Joseph Eliot of Guilford; and Abigail, married Stephen Burton of Bristol. To these seven may be added John, if the slight tradition that he was oldest son be credited. But certainly Martha, wife of John Card, as Brenton by deed of 16 December 1667 gave him portion of estate that would have gone to his wife then deceased, and Mary, wife of Peleg Sanford, as to him, in deed of 22 December 1665, Brenton gives her portion. An absurd tradition about him in a recent English biography of his descendants the late Sir Jahleel Brenton, needs neither notice nor refute of other errors.

WILLIAM BRENTON, Bristol, son of the preceding, one of the early settlers, was a mariner, Collector of Boston 1691, and by wife Hannah, had William, his eldest child, also Samuel, and Jahleel, born 15 August 1691, who last by two wives had 22 children of which the eight, Jahleel Brenton, born 22 October 1729, died January 1802, was a Rear Admiral in the Bristol navy, and father of the late Sir Jahleel Brenton, born at Newport, 22 August 1770. Of all the descendants of first William Brenton, it is believed those who were living at the Revolution adhered to the royal Governor.

BRESSEY, ......New Haven, possibly the minister of which Mather, in Magnalia Ill. 214, written the name Brecy, says he knows nothing, but that he went home. He had, in a former page 2 of same Book, assigned him to Branford; but we presume he was never ordained. See Bracey.

ELIHU BRETT, Bridgewater, son of William Brett, by wife Ann, had Mary, Margaret, and Elihu; died 1712.

NATHANIEL BRETT, Bridgewater, brother of the preceding, married 1683, Sarah Hayward, daughter of John Hayward, had Alice, born 1686; Seth, 1688; Mehitable, 1692; Sarah, 1695; Hannah, 1699; William, 1702; and Nathaniel, 1704; was a Deacon, died 1740.

WILLIAM BRETT, Duxbury 1640, removed to Bridgewater, of which he was one of the first proprietors 1645, and Representative 1661, by wife Margaret, had William, Elihu, Nathaniel, Alice, Lydia, and Hannah; was a Ruling Elder, and often preached when the Reverend Mr. Keith was unable, died 17 December 1681, aged 63. A very large measure of elegiac verse was inflicted on him by the pastor. His daughter Alice married Joseph Hayward, and Hannah married Franklin Cary.

WILLIAM BRETT, son of the preceding, married Elizabeth Cary, daughter of John Cary, had only child Bethia, was Deacon, and died 1713. Mitchell.

PHILIP BRETTON, Falmouth, left out the French particle from his name, removed to Boston, died 1737. He was, perhaps, from Rochelle, certainly a Huguenot, a rigger; in his will, 6 August 1736, takes notice of his advanced age, and mentioned children Peter, Daniel, Mary, Elizabeth, Rachel, Sarah, Jane, and Ann, and of son-in-law Edward Dumaresque. Willis, I. 186.

CHRISTOPHER BREWER, Lynn, who may be the same as the following. Had Abigail, born 4 December 1664.

DANIEL BREWER, Roxbury, came in the Lion, with wife arriving at Boston 16 September 1632, freeman 14 May 1634, died early in 1646, names, in his will of 12 January that year, wife Joanna, who died 7 February 1689, aged 87; sons Daniel, probably born in England; Nathaniel, born 1 May 1635; and daughters Ann, Joanna, and Sarah. This last born 8 March 1638, married 19 November 1656, John May. Ann died 13 March 1659.

DANIE BREWER L, Roxbury, son of the preceding, probably born in England, Artillery Company 1666, married 5 November 1652, Hannah Morrill, daughter of Isaac Morrill, had one child born 9 March 1660, died at birth; Hannah, 5 July 1665; Daniel, 7 February 1669; died 9 January 1708, aged 84. His widow Hannah died 6 October 1717. His son

DANIEL BREWER, Harvard College 1687, was minister of Springfield, ordained 16 May 1694, married 23 August 1699, Catharine Chauncy, daughter of Reverend Nathaniel Chauncy, and Catharine, Eunice, and probably other children, and died 5 November 1733.

JOHN BREWER, Cambridge, by wife Ann, his first, had John, born 10 October 1642; and Hannah, 18 January 1645; removed probably to Sudbury, perhaps after married 23 October 1647, Mary Whitmore, daughter of the first John Whitmore, probably, and had Mary, born 23 September 1648; William, 6 October 1653; and Sarah, 27 March 1658.

JOHN BREWER, Sudbury, probably son of the preceding, died 1 January 1691; married Elizabeth Rice, daughter of Henry Rice, had John, born 1669; Elizabeth, 21 May 1671; Hannah; James, 10 September 1675; Sarah, 14 January 1678; Mary, 1680; Abigail, 5 April 1682; Martha, 5 March 1685; and Jonathan, 21 June 1689.

NATHANIEL BREWER, Roxbury, son of first Daniel Brewer, by wife Elizabeth, who died 25 June 1661, had Elizabeth, born 22 May before; married second wife Elizabeth Rand, daughter of Robert Rand of Charlestown, had Joanna, born 20 January baptized 12 April 1663; and Nathaniel, born 16 July 1667; was freeman 1674, and died 26 February 1694.

THOMAS BREWER, Ipswich 1642, freeman 1652, when the Colony record calls him of Roxbury. His daughter Mary married 21 August 1656, William Lane of Boston; and his daughter Sarah married 29 November 1657, Thomas Webster of Hampton, where the father died 23 March 1690, as a writer of much research and unusual precision in Genealogical Registrar IX. 160, conjectures.

THOMAS BREWER, Lynn, married 4 December 1682, Elizabeth Graves, had Mary, born 10 November 1684; Rebecca; Crispus; Thomas; and John. Five of this name had been graduates at Harvard in 1834, and six at Yale.

BENJAMIN BREWSTER, New London 1654, son of Jonathan Brewster, married February 1659, Ann Dart, sister perhaps of Richard Dart of the same, had Mary, born probably at New London December 1660; at Norwich, Ann, September 1662; Jonathan, November 1664; Daniel, March 1667; William, March 1669; Ruth, 16 September 1671; Benjamin, 28 November 1673; and Elizabeth, 23 June 1676. He died 10 September 1710. Caulkins, History Norwich, 115.

FRANCIS BREWSTER, New Haven 1640, was from London, probably with wife Lucy and family, in all count nine heads; and lost with Gregson, Lamberton, and others, going home in the ship built at New Haven, January 1646. He may well seem to have been father of Nathaniel Brewster, graduate in the first class at Harvard College 1642, and of Joseph. His widow married Thomas Pell, and died September 1669. About ten pages of New Hampshire Colony record are occupied with trifling, details on a trial of her for slander, but this was before her marriage to second husband and may have contributed to produce it in order to obtain manly protection. His estate was good, amount of inventory £555.

JONATHAN BREWSTER, Plymouth, eldest son of Elder William Brewster, born at Scrooby, in County Notts, on the road to Doncaster in Yorkshire, from which it is only 12 or 13 miles distance, in a manor belonging to the archbishop of York, under which his grandfather was tenant on long lease, had been instructed only by his glorious father either in his native land or the dozen years resided in Holland, where he was left by the Elder to take care of two sisters with his own family. Without the sister he came in the Fortune 1621, in June 1636, was in command of the Plymouth trading house on Connecticut river, and gave notice to John Winthrop, Governor of the fort at Saybrook, in a letter in my possesion of 18 June, of the evil designs of the Pequots; removed to Duxbury, of where he was Representative 1639, the earliest assembly of deputies in that Colony thence to New London, before 1649, there was selectman, died before September 1659, having in September 1656 projected to return to England with his family. By wife Lucretia, he had William, and Mary, both, probably, but the first, certainly born in Holland; Jonathan; Benjamin, before mentioned; also, Grace, Ruth, Hannah, and perhaps Elizabeth, some of these born probably at New London. Mary married 12 November 1645, John Turner of Scituate; Elizabeth married about 1654, Peter Bradley; Grace married 4 August 1659, Daniel Wetherill; Hannah married 23 December 1664, Samuel Starr; and Ruth married John Picket, and next, Charles Hill, and died 30 April 1677.

JONATHAN BREWSTER, Duxbury, son of the preceding, is seen among the freeman in 1643, with his brother William Brewster, but probably they both went to New London with their father.

LOVE BREWSTER, Plymouth, son of Elder William Brewster, born probably in Holland, possibly in England, came with his father in the Mayflower, removed to Duxbury, married 15 May 1634, Sarah Collier, daughter of William Collier, had Sarah, who married 1656, Benjamin Bartlett; Nathaniel; William; and Wrestling. He died not long after his will of 1 October 1600, and his widow married Richard Park of Cambridge, and after his death 1665, went back to Duxbury.

NATHANIEL BREWSTER, New Haven, one of the earliest graduates of Harvard, probably son of Francis Brewster, brought from London, went to England, settled as minister at Alby, in County Norfolk, had the degree of B.D. from Dublin University, came back after the restoration and preached some time from October 1663, at the first church in Boston; at last was settled at Brookhaven, Long Island, 1665; married Sarah Ludlow, daughter of Roger Ludlow, died 1690, leaving sons John, Timothy and Daniel, whose descendants are still found there. The extravagant tradition about his age given by a grandson as if he were 95, when only 48 years from Harvard College is in John Adams' Works, II. 441. It is not probable that Francis Brewster was nephew of the distinguished Elder, and any remote relation is uncertain. Indeed that of Francis, and of Joseph, is founded on conjecture only, but very probable.

NATHANIEL BREWSTER, Duxbury, son of Love Brewster, lived not long after reaching manhood, for I see nothing of his service except with his brother William Brewster on two coroner's inquests in December 1673, and he died before November 1676, when by Plymouth record it appears, that administration on his estate was given to Robert Vixon of Eastham; but who was Rorbert Vixon is not seen. Perhaps Vixon was a creditor, and Nathaniel may have gone to live at Eastham.

WILLIAM BREWSTER, Plymouth, the famous Elder, claimed of liberal Christians everlasting gratitude, as the earliest of distinguished Puritan laymen in England, came in the Mayflower, 1620, with his wife, two younger sons, the wife of the eldest, and her son William. He was born 1563 (probably but earlier by some computations) at Scrooby, in Nottinghampshire, at the manor hall of which village belonged to the archbishop of York, he afterwards long resided the same house at which Cardinal Wolsey had made his last stop, before reaching home in his final journey, on compulsory retirement from court, after banishment by King Henry VIII. thirty years earlier. His father probably William Brewster, was tenant under liberal lease from archbishop Sandys, and the son was educated some time at Cambridge University, and his father became as subtenant of Scrooby manor, the possessor of that very residence of the Cardinal, and the son therein worshipped God according to the simple forms of the chief protestants of Protestantism. After very honorable service with Davidson, Secretary of Queen Elizabeth, he partook in the fall of that statesman, the consequence of the Queen's heartless Decembereption and treachery; and abandoned, 1587, political life. Devoted himself for many years to religion. He was the first prominent layman who rejected conformity to the ceremonial of the church of England. He was in the employment of the crown, however, as postmaster before April 1594, at Scrooby, about a dozen years after leaving London; there he married the wife Mary. With his young friend, Bradford, after a dozen years to be made Governor of New Plymouth and others, he passed about 1607 or 8, into Holland for enjoyment of worship without the many idle forms, on which King James had set his heart, and was Ruling Elder of the church at Leyden of which John Robinson was teacher, as he had been probably at Scrooby. His daughters Patience and Fear, came in the Ann, 1623; and on 5 August of next year, Patience married Thomas Prence, afterwards the Governor and died 1634; and Fear married 1626, Isaac Allerton, as his second wife and died 1633. His wife died before 1627; and Governor Bradford says the son Wrestling died before never marrying. He had early removed to Duxbury, and there, under the same roof with Love, died 16 April 1643, after one day's illness. His inventory has proof in the titles of the books of honorable regard for letters. See Genealogical Registrar IV. 174. Bradford's Memoir of him is in Young's Chronicles of the Pilgrims 461. See, also, Davis's Morton; Hunter's First Colonists of New England, of which the best impression is in 4 Massachusetts History Collections I. 52; and Shurtlef's Recollection of the Pilgrims in Russell's Guide to Plymouth. It may be useful to mark the error of so valuable an author as Baylies, in II. 6, where he gives to our most glorious of the Mayflower's passengers. Three children Lucretia, Mary, and William, and is even so rash as to say, two of them were born in America. Yet if born on our side of the water, he ought to have presumed they could not, from his age, be children of the Elder. The first was with others, children of Jonathan.

WILLIAM BREWSTER, Duxbury, son of Jonathan Brewster, was probably born at Leyden, went in August 1645, under Sergeant Nash, as part of the forty men to be furnished by this smallest Colony to repress the peril from the Narragansets, and encourage the friendship of Uncas [see Bradford's History 431-6], and service in that expedition 17 days, was counted among the freeman in 1643, and probably went with his father to New London.

WILLIAM BREWSTER, Duxbury, son of Love Brewster, married 2 January 1673, Lydia Partridge, daughter of George Partridge, and died 3 November 1723. Whether he had children is not known, but he was in good esteem, and was Representative 1675.

WRESTLING BREWSTER, Plymouth, youngest son of the grand Elder, born probably at Leyden, in Holland, came with his father in the Mayflower, died "a young, man unmarried" before his father, says Governor Bradford, but Caulkins, in History of Norwich, 115, refers to an idle tradition that makes him ancestor of Sir Christopher Brewster of our days. Sir Christopher perhaps may descend from a grandson of the Elder and youngest son of Love, who recorded this name, probably several years after death of his uncle. In a very agreeable Memoir of the "Life and Time of Elder Brewster," by Reverend Ashbel Steele, Philadelphia 1857, the author too casually assumed that this son of the great Elder was of Portsmouth 1629, and built up his case on three piles of fictitious paper: The first, a forged deed of 6 December 1629 ( which fell on Sunday), of land in Portsmouth, that was not so called before May 1653, but always Strawberry Bank, with probable false grantor and witnesses, and written in language of one hundred and fifty years later use; next, a fabricated family record whereby it is shown, that Wrestling Brewster was married 1630 to E.S., had son John, born 20 January 1631, and daughter 3 May 1636, named Love Lucretia ! ! ! and the wife died in childbed, thirty-eight years after (perhaps the child had it lived would have seemed to require double name, and so been baptized Mephistophiles Beelzebub); that E.S. the wife is called daughter of Augustine Story, one of the illustrious grantees in the more ambitious forgery of the Wheelwright deed of all New Hampshire from the Indians made also on Sunday in an earlier month of the same year and little more than eight years after, Wrestling came over the Atlantic, with his father; and the third fountain of evidence is from many, nearly all spurious, accounts of business transactions, which by patient investigation, are found to be almost wholly fanciful. In his new Edition Mr. Steele will, no doubt, correct those childish fictions of the last century.

WRESTLING BREWSTER, Duxbury, brother of Nathaniel Brewster of the same, had, with his brother William Brewster, grant of lands (in honor of the reverend servant of their grandfather, deceased) at Swanzey, provided they went there to live; but I presume neither of them accepted the favor, as they continued at Duxbury. By wife Mary, he had several children and died 1 January 1697. He was constable in 1680, and served on jury in 1682 and 4. Ten of this name had been graduates at New England colleges in 1834.

BRIARD. See Bryer; and (such is the carelessness of subordinate officials), the man may appear as Friard.

JOHN BRIARS, Gloucester 1652, married that year Elizabeth Jackson, daughter of John Jackson, had Grace, born 1655; John, 1658; Benjamin, 1660; Mary, 1661, who died very soon; and he removed.

NATHANIEL BRICKET, Newbury, had Nathaniel, born 20 December 1673, died young; John, 3 May 1676; James and Mary, twins 11 December 1679; and Nathaniel, again, 23 September 1683, drowned at 4 years old.

EDWARD BRICKNALL, Boston 1681, by wife Mary, had Edward, born 20 December 1682; John, 11 September 1684; and Mary, 15 September 1689. Often this name is Bicknell.

EDWARD BRIDGE, Roxbury, freeman 22 May 1639, had wife Mary, and children Mary, born 18 November 1637; and Thomas, 31 March or May 1639; and, perhaps, other children; and died 20 December 1683, aged 82. Mary married I think, 23 November 1661, Samuel Gay.

JOHN BRIDGE, Cambridge 1632, perhaps brother of the preceding, freeman 4 March 1635, Representative 1637, was Deacon, and often selectman, died April 1665. He was father of Matthew and Thomas, brought from England besides a daughter Sarah, born 16 February 1649, who probably died young. His second wife Elizabeth, was widow of Martin Saunders of Boston, as she had first been of Roger Bancroft, and got a fourth husband Edward Taylor. His will mentioned wife, son Matthew, Dorcas, daughter of his son Thomas, and sister Betts.

JOHN BRIDGE, Roxbury, son probably of Edward Bridge, by wife Prudence Robinson, daughter of William Robinson of Dorchester, had Mary, born 21 April 1661, baptized 29 March 1663; Prudence, born 11 June 1664; Margaret, 18 July 1666, died at 4 years; Edward, 9 September 1668; John, 11 January 1671; and Margaret, again, 11 March 1672 or 3; and he died 20 August 1674. Mary married 23 March 1681, Joseph Lyon; Prudence married 2 June 1684, John May.

MATTHEW BRIDGE, Cambridge, son of first John Bridge, born in England, by mischance killed John Abbot in May 1637, was of Artillery Company 1613, married Ann Danforth, daughter of Nicholas Danforth, had John, born 15 June 1645; Ann; Martha, 15 or 19 January 1649, died young; Matthew, 5 May 1650; Samuel, 14 February 1653, says his gravestone, but town record has 17 February and County record 24, died 25 February 1673; Thomas, 1 June 1655, by gravestone, but 1656 by town record died 28 March 1673; and Elizabeth, baptized 18 September 1659. He died 28 April 1700; and his widow died 2 December 1704. Ann married 4 June 1668, Samuel Livermore; and next, Oliver Wellington, and died 28 August 1727, aged 81, perhaps exaggerated by ten years.

MATTHEW BRIDGE, Cambridge, son of the preceding, by wife Abigail Russell, daughter of Joseph Russell of Cambridge, who died 14 December 1727, aged 56, had nine children, and died 29 May 1738. His will, made shortly before names sons Matthew, Joseph, John, and Samuel, besides daughters Abigail Whitney, Elizabeth, and Martha, child of his daughter Ann, wife of Abraham Watson, and grandson William Russell. The children were Mary, born 19 June 1688, mother of William Russell; Ann, 12 September 1691; Matthew, 1 March 1694; Abigail, 1 April 1696; Josepb, 8 July 1698; John, 1 September 1700; Elizabeth, 30 November 1703; Samuel, 2 May 1705; and Martha, 20 September 1707.

SAMUEL BRIDGE, Boston 1671, a carpenter, freeman 1672, Artillery Company 1679.

THOMAS BRIDGE, Cambridge, son of first John Bridge, born in County Essex, England, by wife Dorcas, had Dorcas, born 16 February 1649, who married 3 January 1666, Daniel Champney, and died 7 February 1684. Both he and his wife were dead 10 March 1657, when their inventory was taken.

THOMAS BRIDGE, Boston, merchant, born at Hackney, near London, 1637, came here and was bred at Harvard where he had his A.B. 1675; after preaching in Jamaica, New Providence, Bermuda, and West Jersey, became minister of the First Church, ordained 10 May 1705, died 26 September 1715, of apoplexy. Eliot's Biographical Dictionary.

WILLIAM BRIDGE, Watertown 1636, Boston 1643, had Peter, born January 1644. He came, he says, with John Oldham, and calls him father-in-law, but perhaps that means, that John Oldham married his mother and yet he is not mentioned by Bond, except very slight page 95, but not at all 861-4.

WILLIAM BRIDGE, Charlestown, by wife Persis Pierce, daughter of Thomas Pierce of Charlestown, had Rebecca, born 2 February 1644, died soon; Samuel, 25 March 1647; was freeman 1647. He is the same as the preceding and his widow married March 1652, John Harrison. Ten of this name, of which five were clergymen including Reverend Thomas Bridge, whose degree was Honorable are on Harvard College catalogue 1818.

EDMUND BRIDGES, Lynn, came in the James from London, 1635, aged 23, freeman 7 September 1639, had by first wife Alice, Edmund, born about 1637; John; and perhaps by second wife Elizabeth, at Rowley, had Mehitable, 26 March 1641; Bethia; Obadiah, about 1646; Faith; Hackaliah, who was lost at sea, about 1671; and Josiah; his wife died December 1664, at Ipswich; and by third wife married 6 April 1665, Mary Littlehale, probably widow of Richard, may have had Mary, and he died 13 January 1685, in his will named wife Mary, and children John, Josiah, Faith Black, Bethia, and Mary. Bethia married 26 October 1669, Joseph Peabody. Perhaps the London custom house gives Bridges, though on Colony record it is only a monosyllable.

EDMUND BRIDGES, Topsfield, son of the preceding, married 11 January 1660, Sarah Towne, daughter of William Towne, had Edmund, born 4 October following; Benjamin, 2 January 1665; Mary, April 1667; removed to Salem, there had Hannah, 9 June 1669; and Caleb, 3 June 1677; and died about 24 June 1682. His widow married Peter Cloyes, and barely escaped with life in the witchcraft delusion.

JOHN BRIDGES, Andover, son of Edmund Bridges the first, married 5 December 1666, Sarah How, daughter of James How of Ipswich, if the pedigree of Bridges, in Genealogical Registrar VIII. 252, be right. By this first wife who died not at Andover, or at least is not on the record, he had James, born about 1671; and Sarah; and by a second wife married 1 March 1678, but not at Andover, Mary Post, a widow perhaps of John of Woburn, had Mary, born 27 January 1679; Samuel, 19 July 1681; Elizabeth, 5 June 1683; and Mehitable, 29 April 1688. On the sad mistake about witchcraft in 1692, his wife and children were imprisoned.

JOSIAH BRIDGES, Ipswich, brother of the preceding, married 13 November 1676, Elizabeth Norton, and a second wife married 19 September 1677, Ruth Greenslip, and left children, whose children says the pedigree, are numerous.

OBADIAH BRIDGES, Ipswich, brother of the preceding, married 25 October 1671, Mary Smith, and had second wife Elizabeth, and died about 1677, leaving three sons not named In the pedigree, which however, tells that his widow married 7 October 1680, Joseph Parker of Andover.

ROBERT BRIDGES, Lynn 1640, freeman 2 June 1641, Artillery Company 1641, went home, but came back in 1643, was a Captain, Representative 1644, speaker 1646, Assistant 1647 to 56, when he died. His house was burned April 1648. Winthrop II. 237. From Lewis, History of Lynn, we do not learn, whether he had wife or children.

WILLIAM BRIDGES, Massachusetts freeman 1647, is probably the man of Watertown 1636, without final s

HENRY BRIDGHAM, Dorchester 1641, freeman 1643, removed to Boston 1644, was a tanner, Artillery Company 1644, constable 1653, was a Captain, and died January 1671, leaving good estate. By wife Elizabeth, who survived, he had Joseph, baptized 14 December 1645; Jonathan; John, born September 1645, Harvard College 1669; Joseph, again, 17 January 1652; Benjamin, 3, or 4 May 1654, Artillery Company 1674; Hopestill, 29 July 1658, died young; Nathaniel, 8 December 1659, probably died soon; Samuel, 17 January 1661; Nathaniel, 2 April 1662, died young; and James, 12 May 1664.

JONATHAN BRIDGHAM, Boston, eldest son of Henry Bridgham, was a tanner, freeman 1675, of who I know only that he was living 1676.

JOSEPH BRIDGHAM, Boston, brother of the preceding, Artillery Company 1674, freeman 1678, Representative 1697, had been in 1690 for Northampton, Deacon, and Ruling Elder of first church, died 5 January 1709. His widow Mercy Wensley, daughter of John Wensley of Boston, married 8 December 1712, Honorable Thomas Cushing, and died 3 October 1740.

SAMUEL BRIDGHAM, Marlborough 1675. Four of this name had been graduates in 1834, at Harvard, and one at Brown University.

JAMES BRIDGEMAN, Hartford 1641, or earlier, Springfield 1645, had born at Hartford, Sarah, his eldest child who married 3 May 1659, Timothy Tileston of Dorchester; John, born 7 July 1645; Thomas, 14 January 1647, died soon; Martha, 20 November 1649, who married 1668, Samuel Dickinson of Hatfield; Mary, 5 July 1652, who married 1672, Samuel Bartlett, and died in 2 years. He removed to Northampton 1654, had there James, born 30 May 1655, died soon; Patience, June 1656, died in 7 months; and Hezekiah, June 1658, died at 9 months. His wife Martha died 31 August 1668, and he died March 1676.

JOHN BRIDGEMAN, Salem. 1637, by wife Elizabeth, had Mary, baptized 8 September 1650. Farmer says he died about 1655, and I will find, his will as probated in November.

JOHN BRIDGEMAN, Northampton, only surviving son of James Bridgeman, married 11 December 1670, Mary Sheldon, eldest daughter of Isaac Sheldon, died 7 April 1712, leaving children Mary, John, Deliverance, James, Isaac, Sarah, Ebenezer, Thomas, Martha, Hannah, and Orlando, and had three who died young. The last named was builder of Bridgeman's fort, south of fort Dummer, and father of Thomas Bridgeman, Harvard College 1762, a lawyer, who died 1771 in New Hampshire. Two more of this name had been graduates at Harvard in 1834, and three others at other New England colleges.

RICHARD BRIEN, or RICHARD BRIAN, a soldier in Moseley's Company December 1675, whose residence is unknown.

THOMAS BRIEN, or THOMAS BRIAN, Plymouth, whipped in 1633, for running from his master, Samuel Eddy.

JOHN BRIERSLEY, or JOHN BRIERS, Glouster, by wife Elizabeth, had John, born 29 May 1658; Benjamin, January 1660, died soon; and Mary, January 1661, died soon.

THOMAS BRIGDEN, or THOMAS BRIDGEN, Charlestown, was of Faversham, Kent, came in the Hercules, 1635, from Sandwich, with wife Thomasine and two children, freeman 3 March 1636, and died 20 June 1668. He had Zechary Brigden, born 2 August 1639, Harvard College 1657. His will, of 1 May 1665, makes wife executrix, names son Thomas, and his children Thomas, Zachary, and John; daughter Mary, wife of Henry Kimball, and her children Zachary, Mary, and Sarah; and daughter Sarah. In a codicil of 16 June 1668, two other grandchildren Henry Kimball and Michael Brigden are provided for. The record of the town, in some confusion, gives his administration as inhabitant 1634, but does not insure his name in the General list of 1636, while the more careful church record had administration of him and wife in December 1635.

THOMAS BRIGDEN, or THOMAS BRIDGEN, Charlestown, son of the preceding, had wife Mildred Carthrick, only daughter of Michael Carthrick of Ipswich, and by her, Sarah, born 3 January 1656; Zechariah, 8 August 1658; and Thomas, all baptized 5 August 1660; John, 29 September 1661; Michael, 5 June 1664; Nathaniel, 30 December 1666; Timothy, 18 December 1670; and Elias 26 January 1673. His wife survived him and her gravestone says died July 1726, aged 96. Next year in December, Thomas, probably grandson of first Thomas, united with the church. Michael, probably also grandson, died 12 June 1709, aged 45; and Michael, chosen a Deacon 1752, died 18 August 1767, aged 70.

ZECHARIAH BRIGDEN, or ZECHARIAH BRIDGEN, Charlestown son of the first Thomas Brigden, was a preacher at Stonington, died 1663. Trumbull, I. 287.

CLEMENT BRIGGS, Plymouth, came in the Fortune, 1621, probably young; removed to Dorchecter, there married 1630, or 1631, early, Joan Allen. For officiating at the ceremony Thomas Stoughton, the constable, was fined £5 at the March Court, 1631; thence he removed to Weymouth 1633, had son Thomas, born 14 June 1633; Jonathan, 14 June 1635; John; David, 23 August 1640; and Clement, 1 January 1643. Grievous is our feeling of regret at finding the Court, in June 1638, led to forbid the wife to come into the company of Arthur Warren, as we are compelled to fear the married was imprudent. Before he died he had another wife Elizabeth. Of his will, the abstract is given in Genealogical Registrar VII. 233; but the envelope of it is label. Mary Mouth, who the blundering clerk read for Weymouth, the residence of the testator. His inventory of 23 February 1649 not in the same Volume page 228, was labelled Osomunt Bray, full evidence of knowledge by the scrivener of the old writing. In Volume IX. 347, the correct name is given. His son Thomas was of Taunton 1668, and numerous descendants in that vicinity.

CORNELIUS BRIGGS, Scituate, son of Walter Briggs, was Ensign in Philip's war under elder brothers James, the Lieutenant, and John, Captain; married 1677, the widow of Samuel Russell, one of his fellow soldiers, who had fallen the year preceding. Had Cornelius, born 1678; Joseph, 1679; and James, 1683.

JAMES BRIGGS, Scituate, son of Walter Briggs, Lieutenant in the great war, married 1678, Rebecca Tilden, daughter of Deacon Joseph Tilden, had Joseph, born 1678; Mary, 1682; James, 1687; Benjamin, 1695; and perhaps others.

JOHN BRIGGS, Lynn, came, probably in the Blessing, 1635, aged 20, removed to Sandwich 1637, there died 1641. His wife Catharine had administration 1 June.

JOHN BRIGGS, Newport 1638, or Portsmouth 1650, was freeman there 1655, had Thomas, and an elder son viz.

JOHN BRIGGS, Warwick, born 1642, who married Frances Fisher, daughter of Edward Fisher of Portsmouth, Rhode Island, had John, born 25 January 1668; James, 12 February 1671; Frances, 26 February 1673; and Richard, 1 February 1675. He lived at Kingstown in 1678, when his wife was named Hannah.

JOHN BRIGGS, Boston 1673, son of William Briggs, removed that year to Lyme, there by wife Mary, had William, born 30 July 1672 or 3; and Peter, 5 February 1680.

JOHN BRIGGS, Scituate, son of Walter Briggs, had Hannah, born 1684; Deborah, 1685; and John, 1687. He was a Captain in the war. Deane, 225.

JONATHAN BRIGGS, Taunton, perhaps son of Clement Briggs, had Jonathan, born 15 March 1668; and David, 6 December 1669.

MATTHEW BRIGGS, Hingham, married May 1648, perhaps second wife Deborah Cushing, daughter of Matthew Cushing, who died before her father. Matthias is more common name of this man. From Hobart’s Diary we find, that Hannah and Peter Briggs were baptized 2 August 1646, and John, 20 December following, but their father is unknown.

RICHARD BRIGGS, Taunton, perhaps son of Clement Briggs, married 15 August 1662, Rebecca Hoskins, had William, born 21 November 1663; Rebecca,, 16 August 1665; Richard, 7 April 1668; John, 13 February 1673; Joseph, 15 June 1674; Benjamin, 15 September 1677.

THOMAS BRIGGS, Portsmouth, Rhode Island, younger son of the first John Briggs of the same, had in 1678 wife Mary, and no more can I learn about him.

THOMAS BRIGGS, and WILLIAM BRIGGS, named in Essex Inst. II. 70, in my opinion means Biggs.

WALTER BRIGGS, Scituate 1643, had wife Frances, and died about 1684. His will, of that year names wife, sons John, James, Cornelius, and daughter Hannah Winslow.

WILLIAM BRIGGS, Boston by wife Mary, had Hannah, born 28 August 1642, who married 10 September 1657, John Harris. Perhaps he removed to Lyme between 1670 and 1680; at least one of this name was inhabitant there at that period.

WILLIAM BRIGGS, Taunton, perhaps brother of Jonathan Briggs, married 6 November 1666, Sarah Macumber, perhaps daughter of William Macumber of Marshfield, had William, born 25 January 1668; Thomas, 9 September 1669; and Sarah, the next day; Elizabeth, 4 November 1672; Mary, 14 August 1674; Matthew, 5 February 1677; John, 19 March 1680; and his wife died next day. This name seems common through many Counties in England but chiefly Norfolkshire. Five had been graduates at Harvard, and fourteen at other New England colleges in 1834.

JOHN BRIGHAM, Sudbury, son of Thomas Brigham, removed to Marlborough, of which he was Representative 1689 and 90, had Sarah, born 27 March 1674; Mary, 6 May 1678; Jotham, 6 June 1680; Hannah, 27 March 1683; and Thomas, 6 May 1687.

SAMUEL BRIGHAM, Sudbury, son of Thomas Brigham, removed to Marlborough, freeman 1690, by wife Elizabeth Howe, daughter of Abraham Howe of Marlborough, who died 26 July 1739, aged 75, had Elizabeth, born 24 March 1685; Hepzibah 25 January 1687; Samuel, 25 January 1689; Lydia, 5 March 1691; Jedediah, 8 June 1693; Jotham, 23 December 1695; Timothy, 10 October 1698; Charles, 30 December 1700; Persis, 10 July 1703; and Antipas, 16 October 1706. He was a Captain and died 24 July 1713.

SEBASTIAN BRIGHAM, Cambridge 1636, removed to Rowley, was Captain 1644, Representative 1650. Johnson's History of New England 193, and Gage, in History of Rowley, gave this spelling of the name, which Farmer had under Bridham. The baptized name must be influential in preventing mistakes, and the local historian likely to be correct.

THOMAS BRIGHAM, Cambridge, came in the Susan and Ellen, 1635, aged 32, freeman 18 April 1636, was not of Watertown, as Bond thought, did not remove to Sudbury, as Farmer had said, but wife Mercy Hurd, married probably after coming from England, had Thomas, born about 1642; John, born 9 March 1645, above mentioned; Mary, who probably died before her father; Hannah, 9 Mar, 1650, or 1; and Samuel, 12 January 1653, above mentioned; all named in his will probated early in 1654. He made his will 7 October and died 8 December 1653. His widow married 1 March 1655, Edmund Rice; and next, 1664, William Hunt.

THOMAS BRIGHAM, Sudbury, son of the preceding, removed to Marlborough, married 27 December 1665, Mary, was freeman 1690, had Thomas, born 24 February 1667, who died before his father; Nathan, 17 June 1671; David, 11 August 1673, died young,; Jonathan, 22 February 1675; David, again, 12 April 1678; Gershom, 23 February 1681 (the last two died before their father); Elnathan, 7 March 1683; and Mary, 26 October 1687. He made his will 21 April 1716, which was probated 2 June 1717. Six of this name had been graduates at Harvard in 1834, and an equal number in aggregate at the other New England colleges.

FRANCIS BRIGHT, Charlestown, son of Edward Bright of London, bred at Oxford, matriculated of New college 18 February 1625, aged 22, and by famous John Davenport, instructed in divinity, in 1629 came from Rayleigh, in Essex, with wife and two children to Salem, in the Lion's Whelp, probably sat down at Charlestown, took some discouragement, and went home 1630 in the Lion.

HENRY BRIGHT, Charlestown 1630, probably from Ipswich, in Suffolk, son of Henry Bright of Bury St. Edmunds, came in the fleet with Winthrop, was very early, number 48, enrolled in the church, but not long after removed to Watertown, there married 1634, Ann Goldstone, daughter of Henry Goldstone, had Ann, who at her burial 28 October 1639, was called 4 years old; Abigail, born 12 October 1637, who married 15 August 1659, Elisha Odlin; Mary, 23 or 27 April 1639, who married 15 October 1657, Nathaniel Coolidge; John, 14 May 1641; Ann, again, 17 March 1644, married 26 May 1670, Samuel Ruggles of Roxbury, as his second wife I presume; Elizabeth married as second wife 23 July 1674, or 5 July 1675 (as various accounts are given) Deacon Walter Hastings of Cambridge; Nathaniel, 5 May 1647; and Beriah, 22 September 1651, married 30 November 1671, Isaac Fowel of Charlestown. He was freeman 6 May 1635, held in high esteem, Deacon, and died 9 October 1686, aged 84. He had elder brother Thomas Bright of Ipswich, England, who in his will, of unknown date, but probated 1626, mentioned this Henry, sister Elizabeth, and other sisters as minors. That Elizabeth, who was in 1657, widow Dell of Bow, near London, gave in her will to this brother £200, and to each of his 7 children £10. all which was paid here in 1658 and 9. Large pedigree from the time of Henry VII prepared by Somerby, is given by Dr. Bond. This Henry was for many years called junior.

HENRY BRIGHT, a poor man of the same name lived at Watertown, was always spoken of as senior, as he might well be, without our giving full credit to the record of his death 14 September 1674, aged one hundred years and upwards, or another record says about 109 years. But as the amount of his inventory was only £2, 9, 6, any affinity is highly improbable.

JOHN BRIGHT, Watertown, son of the wealthy Henry Bright, married 7 May 1675, Mary Barsham, daughter of William Barsham, had no children, freeman 1671, was Deacon, and died 17 August 1691. His wife married 12 December 1700, as his second wife Hannnah Parker of Reading.

NATHANIEL BRIGHT, Watertown, brother of the preceding, married 21 or 26 July 1681, Mary Coolidge, daughter of Simon Coolidge, had Mary, born 7 October 1682; Henry, 16 August 1684; Nathaniel, 18 December 1686; John, 5 April 1689; Joseph, 11 July 1692; Hannah, 7 August 1694 ; Abigail; Benjamin, 19 July 1698; and Mercy. Four daughters and first named four sons survived; but from not being in the will, 22 September 1725. Benjamin may well be presumed to have died before his father. Of these childen descends most of the name in our country.

THOMAS BRIGHT, Watertown 1640 may have been nephew of the first mentioned Henry Bright.

SAMUEL BRIGHTON, Boston, by wife Ann, had James, baptized 30 March 1690; and Ebenezer, 2 October 1692. The error of this name, which should be Samuel Beighton, was caused by false index. See Beighton.

WILLIAM BRIGNALL, Dedham, married Martha Metcalf, daughter of Michael Metcalf, had William, died soon after, and his widow married 2 August 1654, Christopher Smith. The son was living when grandfather made his will, in which he was remembered ten years later.

JOHN BRIMBLECOME, Boston 1654, woolcomber, married 14 January 1656, Barbara, widow of George Davis, lived not long there, but perhaps removed to Marblehead before 1674. His will of 11 May 1678, probated November following, mentioned wife Tabitha, son Philip, daughter Mary Tucker, and . . . Holman.

PHILIP BRIMBLECOME, Marblehead 1668, was, perhaps, brother or son of the preceding.

ROBERT BRIMSDEN, or ROBERT BRIMSDELL, Lynn, married 15 April 1667, Bathsheba Richards, was of Boston 1672, merchant, married I think, Ann Barnes, daughter of Thomas Barnes of Hingham, for second wife.

ALEXANDER BRIMSMEAD, ALEXANDER BROWNSMAYD, ALEXANDER BRINSMEID, ALEXANDER BRINSMEAD or ALEXANDER BRINSMADE, often ALEXANDER BRINSLEY, Charlestown 1650, son of William Brimsmead, of who I hear nothing after 1654.

DANIEL BRIMSMEAD, DANIEL BROWNSMAYD, DANIEL BRINSMEID, DANIEL BRINSMEAD or DANIEL BRINSMADE, often DANIEL BRINSLEY, Stratford, son of John Brimsmead, by wife Sarah Nichols, daughter of Caleb Nichols by one account (but better makes her daughter of the first Daniel Kellogg), died October 1702, without will, leaving good estate, widow who married John Betts of Norwalk, and children Mary, aged 18; Daniel, 15; Abigail, 11; Samuel, 8; and Ruth, 2.

JOHN BRIMSMEAD, JOHN BROWNSMAYD, JOHN BRINSMEID, JOHN BRINSMEAD or JOHN BRINSMADE, often JOHN BRINSLEY, Charlestown 1637, freeman 2 May 1638, by wife Mary, perhaps sister of the first Thomas, or the first John, had Mary, born 24 July, baptized 3 August 1640; and John, born 2 March 1643; Daniel; and Zechary, who was drowned August 1667; probably removed to Stratford before 1650, was Representative 1669, and 71, and died 1673, leaving good estate to widow Mary, and children John, Daniel, Paul, Samuel, Mary, wife of John Bostwick, and Elizabeth.

WILLIAM BRIMSMEAD, WILLIAM BROWNSMAYD, WILLIAM BRINSMEID, WILLIAM BRINSMEAD or WILLIAM BRINSMADE, often WILLIAM BRINSLEY, Dorchester, died early in 1648, his will, 10 December 1647, of which abstract is in Genealogical Registrar III. 266 names William and Alexander; daughters Ebbet and Mary. This last married 17 September 1667, Benjamin Leeds.

WILLIAM BRIMSMEAD, WILLIAM BROWNSMAYD, WILLIAM BRINSMEID, WILLIAM BRINSMEAD or WILLIAM BRINSMADE, often WILLIAM BRINSLEY, Marlborough, son of the preceding, born perhaps at Dorchester, was bred at Harvard College and should have been graduate 1654 or 5, when, by a change in the duration of studies for the first degree. From three years to four, he and sixteen more, if Mather may be believed. Magnalia IV. 135, felt so much aggrievance as to forego the advantage of longer residing. Something, different is the version to be seen in the delightful Annals of the Am. Pulpit, I. 256. He preached about 1660-65 at Plymouth, and went thence to the new town of Marlborough where he was ordained 3 October 1666, never married and died 3 July 1701. For the little that can be known of him, see 1 Massachusetts History Collections IV. 47, and IX. 179, and 3 m Harvard College VII. 297.

BRYAN BRINKS, Saco, Sullivan, 304, et seq. Williamson, I. 238, 240. But is it doubtful whether he ever came to our country. No time is given.

FRANCIS BRINLEY, Newport 1652, son of Thomas Brinley (an auditor of revenues of the Kings, Charles I. and II., as by the inscription on his tomb in the missle aisle of the church at Datchett, County Bucks, between Colnbrook and Windsor, is told, though it is not specified whether the revenues were from tolls, or rents, or subsidies. The same voice from the tomb informs us that he was born 1591, at the city of Exeter, married Ann Wase of Pettiworth, in County Sussex, had five sons and seven daughters and died 1661, so that he could have served his blessed Major Charles II only one year. Additional knowledge is gained from the will made 13 September 1661, as that he had estate at Newcastle and in Yorkshire, as well as at Datchett, and that his children were only left to him, two daughters Mary, then widow of Peter Sylvester, and Grizel, wife of Nathaniel Sylvester of Shelter Island on our side of the world, and three sons Francis, Thomas, and William). This eldest son was born 5 November 1632, and had probably escaped from the evils brought on the family by the loyalty of his father, but went back to England probably in 1655, came again in the Speedwell to Boston 27 July of next year, married Hannah Carr, daughter perhaps of Caleb Carr, of Newport, had Thomas and William; was an Assistant of Rhode Island, 1672, and died 1719. 1 Massachusetts History Collections V. 252. William died at Boston 1693, unmarried.

THOMAS BRINLEY, Boston, son of the preceding, Artillery Company 1681, one of the founders of King's Chapel 1686, went to England, there married Mary Apthrop, had Elizabeth; Francis, born 1690, at London, bred at Eton; and William; and died of smallpox, 1693, as did his youngest son. The widow with her two children came to reside with their grandfather; and after his death she lived at Roxbury with her son, who had five sons and two daughters as family tradition relates.

THOMAS BRINTNALL, Boston, by wife Esther, had Samuel, born 2 December 1665; Thomas, 1 November 1669; Nathaniel, 1671; John, 3 March 1673; Joseph, 3 March 1674; and Mehitable, 1685; lived at Muddy river.

THOMAS BRINTNALL, Sudbury, son of the preceding, married 23 May 1693, Hannah Willard, daughter of Major Simon Willard, had Thomas, probably before going to Sudbury, and there Parnel Brintnall, born 27 September 1696; William, Yale College 1721; Paul, 20 March 1701; Nathaniel, 1703; Jershua, 15 October 1704; Dorothy, 21 December 1706; and Susanna, April 1708 or 9; was Captain, and he died 2 August 1733.

THOMAS BRISANTON, appears on the roll of brave Captain Turner's Company in March 1676, left at Quaboag, and the true name may have been mistaken.

BENJAMIN BRISCOE, Boston, shoemaker, married 1656, Sarah Long, daughter of Philip Long, had Philip, who died very soon; Hannah, born 6 February 1658; Sarah, 18 July 1660; William, 7 April 1663; Ann, 31 January 1664; Mary, 22 December 1665; John, 20 January 1667; Rebecca, 20 February 1669; Benjamin, 2 May 1671; and Susanna, 9 February 1674. Sarah was born at Lynn.

DANIEL BRISCOE, Boston, son of William Briscoe, administered of the church 17 April and made freeman 18 May 1642, died the same month, says Boston record or 8 of the following month by drowning. See Winthrop II. 66, which erronously calls him Nathaniel.

EZEKIEL BRISCOE, Boston, brother of the preceding, mariner, by wife Rebecca, had Ezekiel, born 25 February 1670; and Mary, 17 December 1673; died next year.

JAMES BRISCOE, Milford 1670, brother of Nathanie Briscoel of the same, was freeman 1671, married 6 November 1676, Sarah Wheeler, daughter of William Wheeler, had Sarah, born 25 March 1678; James, 25 August 1679; and Hannah; and he died about 1710.

JOHN BRISCOE, Watertown, son of Nathaniel Briscoe, born in England probably 1622, married 13 December 1650, Elizabeth Bittlestone, daughter of Thomas Bittlestone of Cambridge, who died 28 August 1685, had John, born 5 October 1651, died young; Elizabeth, 18 December 1653, married 20 November 1679, Abraham Jackson; Thomas, 1 April 1655; Mary, 22 November 1658, married Edward Goffe; and Sarah, 14 March 1661, died young. He was selectman 1664, and many subsequent years, and died 18 Oct, 1690.

JOSEPH BRISCOE, Boston, perhaps son of William Briscoe, born in England, married 30 January 1652, Abigail Compton, daughter of John Compton; was drowned 1 January 1658, had only Joseph, born 21 August 1658, to who his grandmother Compton left, November 1664, all her little estate £16.16.

JOSEPH BRISCOE, Boston, son of the preceding, by wife Rebecca, born 16 September 1679; Joseph, 4 January 1681, died soon; Joseph, again, 8 January 1682; John, 30 January 1684; and Sarah, 1 August 1686.

NATHANIEL BRISCOE. Watertown, had wife Elizabeth, buried 20 November 1642, and children Nathaniel; Mary, who married Thomas Broughton, and died early, probably in 1644; John, before mentioned; and Sarah, who married 7 February 1650, William Bond. He was a rich tanner, selectman 1648, and 50, involved in controversy, by which we may presume, he was led to go home, where more freedom of opinion was allowed to be expressed. A characteristic letter of 1652 to Broughton, which is in printed, 3 Massachusetts History Collections I. 32, was made a subject of investigation. See, also, Winthrop I. 392, and II. 93.

NATHANIEL BRISCOE. Cambridge 1639, son of the preceding, born no doubt in England, usher of Eaton at Harvard, who cruelly beat him, and he probably removed to Milford, was an early settler without doubt before 1646; died 1683, Lambert says; yet he was not living in 1677 to partake a division of lands; but had sons Nathaniel, baptized1646; and James, 1649.

NATHANIEL BRISCOE., Mioford, son of the preceding, married 29 Nov, 1672, Mary Camp, perhaps daughter of Nicholas Camp, had James, b 14 Sug. 1673; Mary, 15 November 1675; Samuel, 4 April 1678; Sarah, about 1681; Abigail, 1 November 1684; John, about 1687; and Dinah, about 1690; and he died next year.

THOMAS BRISCOE, Watertown, son of John Briscoe, married 24 December 1684, Hannah Stearns, daughter of Samuel Stearns, had John, born 22 October 1685; Elizabeth, baptized 17 July 1687; and Thomas, May 1689. He died before 15 October 1690, the date of the will of his father, and his widow married 28 September 1718, Samuel Gookin.

WILLIAM BRISCOE, Boston 1640. tailor, freeman 2 June 1641, had wife Cicely, and died between 1662 and 70. By some of the name the r was dropped.

DANIEL BRISTOW, or DANIEL BRISTOL, New Haven, son of Henry Bristow, married Esther Sperry, had Esther, born 6 February 1698; Elizabeth, 13 August 1699; Ann, 12 February 1701; Daniel, 15 October 1702; Obedience, 7 October 1704; Samuel, 8 Aug 1706; and Richard, 18 October 1708.

HENRY BRISTOW, or HENRY BRISTOL, New Haven 1647, had Rebecca, born 4 February baptized 10 March 1650; Samuel, 3, baptized 7 December 1651; Mercy, born 17 November 1653; and by second wife Lydia Brown, daughter of Eleazer Brown, married 29 January 1656, Lydia, 3 January baptized 7 February 1658; John, 4 September baptized 27 November 1659; Mary, 1 September baptized 9 November 1661; Hannah, 10 December 1663, baptized 13 February following; and Abigail, 19, baptized 23 April 1666; besides Sarah, born 1668; Daniel, 4 May 1671; Elizabeth, 20 May 1674; Esther, 3 October 1676; Eliphalet, 2 October 1679; and Henry, 20 June 1683. Twelve of these 14 children survived the father. Rebecca married December 1670, Zaccheus Candee.

JOHN BRISTOW, or JOHN BRISTOL, New Haven, son of the preceding. Had John, born 4 October 1686; Mehitable, 29 June 1688; and Joseph, 9 August 1689.

RICHARD BRISTOW, or RICHARD BRISTOL, Guilford 1640-69, brother of the preceding, married perhaps as second or third wife Susanna, widow of Thomas Blatchley of the same. Having no children he made the eldest son of his brother heir to his estate. As the city of Bristol was formerly called Bristow, this family name probably has changed in conformity.

RICHARD BRITTERIDGE, Plymouth, came in the Mayflower, 1620, died ten days after landing, being the first of the sad roll.

JAMES BRITTON, or JAMES BRITTANE, Weymouth, a favorer of Lenthall, for some asperasion of the minister at other places was in March 1639, whipped; and 21 March 1644 was hanged for adultery. Winthrop I. 289, and II. 157-9. Lechford MS. as in 3 Massachusetts History Collections III. 403.

JAMES BRITTON, or JAMES BRITTANE, Woburn, died 3 May 1655. He, or the preceding, may have come from London, in the Increase, 1630, aged 27, if the custom house record of the embarkment of James Bitton lost a single letter; which is not improbable, for the official name seems very strange.

NATHANIEL BRITTON, or NATHANIEL BRITTANE, Newport, in the History of freeman 1655.

HENRY BROCK, Dedham 1642, died 1652, leaving wife Elizabeth, and children John, Elizabeth, and Ann, named in his will, made 22 April 1646, but wife died before the will was probated 19 October 1652.

JOHN BROCK, Reading, born 1620, says Mather's Magnalia IV. 141, at Stradbrook in Suffolk, came in 1637, may have been son of the preceding, and also freeman 18 May 1642, but both points are uncertain and the latter highly improbable, Harvard College 1646, soon after taught a school, preached at Isle of Shoals, Farmer thought 12 years, long enough to allow one or two marvels occurring there. As well as those at Reading about him to be related in his biography, was ordained at Reading 13 November 1662, and married the same day, Sarah Symnes, widow of Samuel Hough, his predecessor in the pulpit, daughter of Reverend Zechariah Symnes, who died 27 April 1681, and he died 18 June 1688. 3 Massachusetts History Collections II. 312.

RICHARD BROCK, Watertown, came in the Elizabeth and Ann, 1635, aged 31, from London, died 24 October 1673 or 1674.

BENJAMIN BROCKETT, New Haven, son of John Brockett of the same, married 24 March 1669, Elizabeth Barnes, daughter of Thomas Barnes, had a daughter born and died 1671; John, 3 June 1672; Mary, 6 May 1675; Hannah, 19 March 1678; and he died 22 May 1679. His wife married 21 January 1684, John Austin.

JOHN BROCKETT, New Haven 1639, a signer of the first covenent; had John, baptized 31 December 1643; Befruitful and Benjamin, twins 23 February 1645; Mary, probably 25 September 1646; Silence, 4 June 1648; Abigail, born 10, baptized 24 March 1650; Samuel, 14, baptized 18 January 1652; Jabez, born 24 February 1654; was of the earliest settlers at Wallingford 1670, as was Samuel; there the father died 12 March 1690, aged 80. He made his will nine days before naming four sons and daughters Mary Pennington, wife of Ephraim; Silence Bradley, wife of Joseph; both married at Milford, 25 October 1667; and gives legacy to John Paine, who married 22 January 1673, his daughter Abigail.

JOHN BROCKETT, New Haven, son of the preceding, had Mary, born 18 February 1675; John, 23 October 1676; Elizabeth, 26 November 1677; Moses, 23 April 1680; Abigail, 31 March 1683; John, again, 13 September 1686, died at 23 years; Samuel, 8 November 1691; and Benjamin, 28 May 1697, died young; and died 1720. In early days, as sometimes in our own, the name was Brackett.

SAMUEL BROCKLEBANK, Rowley, came says tradition but it omits, as usual, to say when, with his brother the preceding, and their mother Jane, who died 1668; was a Deacon, and Captain killed in Philip's war, Hubbard says 18, but probably 21 April 1676, in battle, at Sudbury, aged 48, leaving widow Hannah, and children Samuel, born 1653; Francis, 1655; Hannah; Mary; Elizabeth; Sarah; and Joseph, born 1674. His widow married Richard Dole of Newbury; her daughter Hannah married John Stickney, and daughters Mary, and Sarah, married William and Henry, son of Richard Dole.

SAMUEL BROCKLEBANK, Rowley, son of the preceding, married Elizabeth Platts, had John, born 1686; Francis, 1694; besides five daughters. Decendants at Rowley are numerous as well as in Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont.

WOOLSTONE BROCKWAY, Saybrook, 1664, by wife Hannah, who died 6 February 1687, had Hannah, born 14 September 1664, William, 25 July 1666; Woolstone, 7 February 1668; Mary, 16 January 1670; Bridget, 9 January 1672; Richard, 30 September 1673; Elizabeth, 24 May 1676; Sarah, 23 September 1679; and Deborah, 1 May 1682. Hannah married Thomas Champion. This name, on the Lyme side of the river after, may now be Brockwell.

JOSHUA BRODBENT, provost-marshal, and Sheriff of New Hampshire 1681, married at Woburn, 6 April 1685, Sarah Osborn, perhaps widow of Thomas Osborn of Malden.

EDWARD BROMFIELD, Boston 1675, was third son of Henry Bromfield, who was son of Arthur Bromfield, and born 10 January 1649, at Haywood house in the New Forest, Hants; merchant, Artillery Company 1679, a gentleman of high esteem, Representative 1693, one of the councillors 1708; married 1678, Elizabeth Brading, daughter of James Brading, had only Elizabeth, who died unmarried 1717. His second wife, married 4 June 1683, Mary Danforth, daughter of Reverend Samuel Danforth, had six children who died young; and she died 17 October 1734, he having died 2 June preceding, leaving two daughters Mary, born 2. June 1689; Sarah, 11 October 1692; and Edward, 5 November 1695. One daughter Frances, born 8 June 1694, had married Reverend John Webb of Boston, and died 14 September 1721.

EDWARD BROMFIELD, Boston, son of the preceding, married 21 February 1722, Abigail Coney, had Edward Bromfield, born 30 January 1723, Harvard College 1742, a man of talents, untimely cut off, 18 August 1745; Abigail, 9 January 1725, who married Honorable William Phillips; Henry, 12 November 1727, lived at Harvard until 23 February 1820; John, 25 April 1729; Mary, 15 September 1730; both died soon; Sarah, 20 April 1732, married Jeremiah Powell, Esq., who in the war of the Revolution was most of the time, head of the Government of Massachusetts; Thomas Bromfield, 30 October 1733, an eminent merchant in London; Samuel, 7 October 1736, though another record had another date; Mary, again, who married William Powell, Esq.; and John, 1743. He died 10 April 1756, after filling many important offices, Representative 4 years from 1739, but especially honored as overseer of the poor through long period.

LUKE BROMLEY, Stonington, married Hannah Stafford, daughter of Thomas Stafford, who names her in his will; and he next married Thomasin Packer, had Thomasine, born 1692; William, 1693; and Thomas, 1695; died 1697.

ROBERT BRONSDEN, Boston, merchant, freeman 1690; had Elizabeth, who married Samuel Greenwood.

JOHN BROOKHAVEN, Rhode Island 1669, a Captain, called 1671 citizen of London, perhaps Artillery Company 1681.

GODFREY BROOKING, GODFREY BRUCKEN, or GODFREY BROOKEN, drowned 20 December 1681, leaving wife and four young children of which one was William.

JOHN BROOKING, JOHN BRUCKEN, or JOHN BROOKEN, Boston 1658, by wife Elizabeth, had John, born 11 May 1659, died in three months; Elizabeth, 26 May 1660; John, again, 17 February 1662; Jane, 16 June, 1664; Christian, 22 July 1667; Mary, 20 January 1670; Abigail, 8 October 1671; Mercy, 15 December 1676; Jonathan, 18 October 1678; and William, 17 Sept, 1681. His will of 27 October 1682 was probated 25 April following.

JOHN BROOKING, JOHN BRUCKEN, or JOHN BROOKEN, Boston, probably son of the preceding, by wife Abigail, had John, born 23 September 1687.

WILLIAM BROOKING, WILLIAM BRUCKEN, or WILLIAM BROOKEN, Porstmouth 1631, sent over by Mason to his plantation, by wife Mary Walford, daughter perhaps of Thomas Walford, who removed thither from Charlestown, had Rebecca, who married before 1679, Thomas Pomeroy; Mary, who married a Lucy; Sarah, who married about 1684, Jacob Brown; Martha, who married John Lewis; and next, a Rendall; another daughter married John Rous; but the diligent collector of these details in Genealogical Registrar IX. 220, suggests that there were only five daughters and that one of the last two husbands had married Rebecca, widow of Pomeroy. His widow married William Walker.

CALEB BROOKS, or CALEB BROOKES, sometimes CALEB BROOKE, Concord, son of Captain Thomas Brooks, probably born in England, freeman 1654, removed to Medford 1672, and died 29 July 1696; married 10 April 1660, Susanna Atkinson, daughter of Thomas Atkinson, who had five daughters (Susanna, born 27 December 1661; Mary, 18 November 1663, died next year; Mary, again; Rebecca; and Sarah); and died 19 January 1669; by second wife Hannah, is of the former wife, had Ebenezer, born 24 February 1671, ancestor of John Brooks, Governor of Massachusetts; and Samuel Brooks, 1 September 1672, ancestor of the late Honorable Peter C. Brooks. Shattuck, History of Concord. He died at Medford 29 July 1696; leaving large estate. Mary married Nathaniel Ball; Sarah died unmarried or, as one story is, married 18 October 1705, Philemon Russel. Rebecca died unmarried. His widow died 10 March 1709.

DANIEL BROOKS, or DANIEL BROOKES, sometimes DANIEL BROOKE, Concord, son of Joshua Brooks of the same, married 9 August 1692, Ann Meriam, had Daniel, born 5 June 1693, died soon; Samuel, 5 May 1694; Hannah, 21 February 1696; Job, 16 April 1698; Mary, 2 March 1700; John, 1 February 1702; David, 6 May 1709; Timothy, 30 August 1711; Daniel, 19 April 1720; Josiah, 21 May 1722; and Ann, 20 March 1725, unless, as I much suspect, some of Bond's dates, page 722, are wrong. He made his will 6 January 1729, and died 18 October 1733.

EBENEZER BROOKS, or EBENEZER BROOKES, sometimes EBENEZER BROOKE, Woburn, by wife Martha, had Eunice, born 18 March 1688, died at 11 years; John, 22 March 1690; Ebenezer, 8 August 1691; Eleazer, 13 July 1694; Martha, 24 March 1697; Eunice, 14 February 1700; and Pricilla, 17 February 1702.

EBENEZER BROOKS, or EBENEZER BROOKES, sometimes EBENEZER BROOKE, Medford, son of Caleb Brooks of the same, married about 1693, Abigail Boylston, daughter of Dr. Thomas Boylston, had Caleb, born 8 July 1694; Ebenezer, 23 March 1698; Abigail; Thomas, 8 April 1705; Samuel, 1709; besides Mary, Hannah, and Rebecca, whose dates are unknown, and he died 11 February 1742; and his widow died 26 May 1756.

GERSHOM BROOKS, or GERSHOM BROOKES, sometimes GERSHOM BROOKE, Concord, brother of Caleb Brooks, freeman 1672, married 12 March 1667, Hannah Eccles, daughter of Richard Eccles, had Mary, born 6 May 1667; Hannah, 29 March 1668; Joseph, 16 September 1671; Tabitha, 31 March 1674; Daniel, 14 March 1678; and Elizabeth, 18 June 1680. He died 1686; and his wife died 2 June 1716.

GILBERT BROOKS, or GILBERT BROOKES, sometimes GILBERT BROOKE, Scituate, came in the Blessing from London, 1635, aged 14, lived with William Vassall; after at Marshfield, by wife Elizabeth Winslow, who Deane says, was daughter of Governor Edward Winslow (who by some is disputed), besides Gilbert and John, presumed by Deane to have been born at Marshfield, had Elizabeth, born 1645; Sarah, 1646; Mary, 1649; Rachel, 1650; Bathsheba, 1655; Rebecca, 1657; and Hannah, 1659; all baptized at Scituate, was at Rehoboth 1679-83, there married Sarah, widow of Samuel Carpenter.

HENRY BROOKS, or HENRY BROOKES, sometimes HENRY BROOKE, Concord, freeman 14 March 1639; had Joseph, born 12 April 1641.

HENRY BROOKS, or HENRY BROOKES, sometimes HENRY BROOKE, Wallingford, married 21 December 1676, Hannah, widow of Samuel Blackley, had Thomas, born 27 March 1679; and he continued at Wallingford to 1713. He came, says tradition from Cheshire, England, and may have been son of John of New Haven, or perhaps his brother.

HENRY BROOKS, or HENRY BROOKES, sometimes HENRY BROOKE, Woburn, perhaps the same as him of Concord, died 12 April 1683, his wife Susanna having died 15 September 1681, but I find not the marriage nor the age. He married 12 July 1682, Annis Jaquith. His will was of 18 July 1682. In it he names this wife and the children John, Timothy, who was of Billerica, Isaac, and Sarah, wife of John Mousall, who were then living.

HUGH BROOKS, or HUGH BROOKES, sometimes HUGH BROOKE, Concord, son of Joshua Brooks, married 9 April 1701, Abigail Barker, as Bond says, had Abigail, born 15 May 1703; Jonathan, 8 January 1705; Sarah, 23 July 1711, and Mary, 11 July 1714.

ISAAC BROOKS, or ISAAC BROOKES, sometimes ISAAC BROOKE, Woburn, perhaps son of the preceding, freeman 1672, married 10 January 1666, Miriam Daniels, had Sarah, born 14 May 1667, died soon; Miriam, 29 May 1668, died soon; Isaac, 13 August 1669; Henry, 4 October 1671; Miriam, again, 16 December 1673; but no more is there on record, and he died 8 September 1686.

JOHN BROOKS, or JOHN BROOKES, sometimes JOHN BROOKE, Woburn, perhaps brother of the preceding, freeman 1651, married 1 November 1649, Eunice Mousall, daughter of John Mousall, had John, born 23 November 1650, died at 3 years; Sarah, 21 November 1652; Eunice, 10 October 1655; and Joanna 22 March 1659; besides, after, John, again, 1 March 1664; Ebenezer, 9 December 1666; Deborah, 20 March 1669; and Jabez, 17 July 1673; his wife Eunice died 1 January 1684. He married 25 February 1684, Mary Richardson, and died 1691.

JOHN BROOKS, or JOHN BROOKES, sometimes JOHN BROOKE, New Haven 1649, had three children there before 1656; of which two were Mary, born5 September 1654; and Elizabeth, 29 September 1656; besides Sarah, 9 April 1661; perhaps more, and may have been, after, of Wallingford, and there had Hannah, born 9 February 1664; Ruth, 7 February 1666, who married 2 July 1688, William Baldwin; Sophia and Elizabeth, 6 December 1668; but perhaps these were twins; Mary, married at Wallingford, 12 January 1675, Matthew Ford; and Sarah married 29 August 1687, Benjamin Robbins.

JOHN BROOKS, or JOHN BROOKES, sometimes JOHN BROOKE and Mary were proprietors of New Haven 1685.

JOHN BROOKS, or JOHN BROOKES, sometimes JOHN BROOKE, Windsor, married 25 May 1652, Susanna Hanmore, had John, born 16 May 1660, died young; Samuel, 6 January 1663; Elizabeth, 27 June 1664 Mary, 21 May 1665, died young; Joanna, 2 February 1669; Mary, again, 25 November 1670; Lydia, 7 August 1672; and Susanna, 22 September 1675. His wife died 7 November 1676. He removed to Simsbury, there died 3 September 1682, leaving Samuel and five daughters.

JOHN BROOKS, or JOHN BROOKES, sometimes JOHN BROOKE, Watertown, son of Joshua Brooks, married 8 November 1682, Deborah Garfield, daughter of Samuel Garfield, and died 18 May 169. Bond names no children.

JOHN BROOKS, or JOHN BROOKES, sometimes JOHN BROOKE, Woburn, son probably of John Brooks of the same, married 30 January 1685, Mary Cranston, had Mary, born 4 December 1685; John and Ebenezer, twins 30 December 1686, both died in few days; Mary, again, 1 April 1688; Sarah, 14 August 1692; John, 28 November 1694; Abigail, 19 August 1697; Timothy, 14 February 1700; Isaac, 1703; and Nathan, 1 November 1706.

JOHN BROOKS, or JOHN BROOKES, sometimes JOHN BROOKE, Charlestown, son of Robert Brooks, died 25 December 1687, aged 31.

JOSEPH BROOKS, or JOSEPH BROOKES, sometimes JOSEPH BROOKE, Concord, youngest son of Joshua Brooks, married 26 June 1704, Rebecca Blodget, had Mary, born 1705; Abigail, 1707; Rebecca, 28 August 1708; Joseph, 16 October 1710; Nathan, 1 March 1712; Hannah, 16 April 1714; Amos, 20 December 1716; Jonas, 18 October 1718; Isaac, 17 1720. 1720; and James, 6 August 1723; all, except Abigail, who died young, lived to be named in the will of May 1746. He died 17 September 1759; and his widow died 23 January 1768.

JOSHUA BROOKS, or JOSHUA BROOKES, sometimes JOSHUA BROOKE, Concord, eldest son of Captain Thomas Brooks, born in England, freeman 1652, married 17 October 1653, Hannah Mason, daughter of Captain Hugh Mason of Watertown, had Hannah; Noah, born 1655; John, 1657; Grace, 10 March 1661; Daniel, 15 November 1663, great grandfather of late Honorable Eleazar Brooks of Lincoln; Thomas, 9 September 1666, died young; Esther, 4 July 1668; Elizabeth, 16 December 1672; Job, 26 July 1675, died young; Hugh, 1 January 1677; and Joseph, 1681. Hannah married 15 January 1678, Benjamin Peirce; Esther married 17 August 1692, Benjamin Whittemore; Grace married 1686, Judah Potter; and Elizabeth married 1705, Ebenezer Meriam. Shattuck.

NATHANIEL BROOKS, or NATHANIEL BROOKES, sometimes NATHANIEL BROOKE, Scituate, eldest son of William Brooks, married 1678, Elizabeth Curtis, daughter of Richard Curtis, had William, Gilbert, and Nathaniel, of each of which descendants are numerous at Scituate.

NOAH BROOKS, or NOAH BROOKES, sometimes NOAH BROOKE, Concord, son of Joshua Brooks, married Dorothy Wright of Sudbury, had Dorothy, born 18 October 1686; Joshua, 14 October 1688; Ebenezer, 14 February 1690; Samuel, 14 May 1694; Benjamin, 22 April 1698; Mary, 23 January 1700; Thomas, 18 May 1701; and Elizabeth, 27 February 1704. He died 1 February 1738, aged 82; and his widow died March 1750, aged 90, by gravestones.

RICHARD BROOKS, or RICHARD BROOKES, sometimes RICHARD BROOKE, Lynn, came in the Susan and Ellen, 1635, aged 24, removed to Easthampton, Long Island, where he was of the first settlers 1650.

RICHARD BROOKS, or RICHARD BROOKES, sometimes RICHARD BROOKE, Boston 1674, gunsmith.

ROBERT BROOKS, or ROBERT BROOKES, sometimes ROBERT BROOKE, New London, perhaps was the mercer of Maidstone, Kent, who came, 1635, in the Hercules, from Sandwich, with wife Ann, and seven children, for, in 1650, to one of this name, with his final land was granted in that town, and descendants of the grantee are there.

ROBERT BROOKS, or ROBERT BROOKES, sometimes ROBERT BROOKE, Plymouth, married Elizabeth Winslow, daughter of Governor Edward Winslow, had John, before mentioned, born about 1657; and died before 22 September 1669, when his widow married George Esp of Salem.

ROBERT BROOKS, or ROBERT BROOKES, sometimes ROBERT BROOKE, Assistant administrator, an inhabitant 28 November 1654, says the Boston record Volume I. 113, as plain as is printed (though with erronous date of 31 October preceding) in Drake's History page 336. Yet am I perfectly satisfied on large investigation that Breck is the true name; for Brooks is not found either in births, marriages, or deaths. See Breck.

SAMUEL BROOKS, or SAMUEL BROOKES, sometimes SAMUEL BROOKE, Medford, youngest son of Caleb Brooks, married Sarah Boylston, daughter of Dr. Thomas Boylston, had Samuel, born 3 September 1700; and Sarah, 17 April 1702. He died 3 July 1733, leaving good estate in lands.

THOMAS BROOKS, or THOMAS BROOKES, sometimes THOMAS BROOKE, Concord, freeman 7 December 1636, when he was inhabitant of Watertown, owned estate at Medford, and Watertown, perhaps as early as 1634; was Captain, and Representative 1642, and six years more, by wife Grace, had son Caleb, born 1632, probably in England; Gershom; and Joshua, before mentioned; and Mary, who married Timothy Wheeler; which four survived to make partition of his estate on month after his death, perhaps Hannah, who married Thomas Fox, 13 December 1647, and died without children, before her father. His wife died 12 May 1664; and he died 21 May 1667.

THOMAS BROOKS, or THOMAS BROOKES, sometimes THOMAS BROOKE, Haddam, among the first settlers, may have come in the Susan and Ellen, 1635, aged 18, and been brother of Richard Brooks of Lynn; he had a house at New London 1659, but had gone in 1661, with wife Lucy; had married Alice Spencer, daughter of Jared Spencer, next year and had at Haddam, Sarah, born December 1662; Thomas, June 1664; Mary, June 1666; and Alice, December 1668; and died 18 October of that year. His widow married 1673, Thomas Sahler.

THOMAS BROOKS, or THOMAS BROOKES, sometimes THOMAS BROOKE, Portsmouth, Rhode Island, a freeman 1655, by wife Hannah, had Hannah, born 6 July 1672; and Mary, 28 January 1674, as the Friends' record at Newport shows.

THOMAS BROOKS, or THOMAS BROOKES, sometimes THOMAS BROOKE, Scituate, son of William Brooks, married 1687, Hannah Bisby, had Thomas, born 1688; and Joanna, 1695. With his son the male line of this brother became extinct.

THOMAS BROOKS, or THOMAS BROOKES, sometimes THOMAS BROOKE, Wallingford, eldest son of Henry Brooks of the same, married 25 March 1702, Martha Hotchkiss, had, as in Genealogical Registrar V. 355, Stephen, born 28 May 1702; Mary, 14 May 1704; Thomas, 14 February 1706; Enos, 15 February 1708; Cornelius, 10 September 1711; Martha, 21 February 1714; Mehetable, 23 February 1716; Benjamin, 23 April 1720; Henry, 2 March 1723; and Thankful, 19 December 1725.

TIMOTHY BROOKS, or TIMOTHY BROOKES, sometimes TIMOTHY BROOKE, Woburn, probably son of Henry Brooks of the same, married 2 December 1659, Mary Russel, daughter of John Russel, had Timothy, born 10 November 1660, died soon; Timothy, again, 9 October 1661; John 16 October 1662; besides a daughter who married a Mason of Swanzey; and perhaps removed to Swanzey about 1679. Timothy, son of the preceding, married Mehetable, widow of Eldad Kingsley, but whether he lived at Rehoboth, or elsewhere, had former wife or not, or any children, is unknown to me.

TIMOTHY BROOKS, or TIMOTHY BROOKES, sometimes TIMOTHY BROOKE, was of Billerica 1679.

WILLIAM BROOKS, or WILLIAM BROOKES, sometimes WILLIAM BROOKE, Scituate, came in the Blessing, 1635, aged 20, perhaps brother of Gilbert Brooks, was of Marchfield 1643, married widow Susanna Dunham of Plymouth, had Hannah, born 1645; Nathaniel, 1646, before mentioned; Mary, 1647; Sarah, 1650, married Joseph Studley; Miriam, 1652, married John Curtis; Deborah, 1654, married Robert Stetson, junior; Thomas, 1657, before mentioned; and Joanna, 1659, who married 13 September 1687, John Bisby of Duxbury. Deane.

WILLIAM BROOKS, or WILLIAM BROOKES, sometimes WILLIAM BROOKE, Springfield, married 1654, Mary Burt, daughter of Henry Burt, had 8 sons and 8 daughters 1655-79. The sons were William, John, Ebenezer, Nathaniel, Joseph, Benjamin, Deliverance, and Jonathan, of which the two first named were killed by the Indians 27 October 1675, at Westfield. He removed to Deerfield, there died 1688, and his widow died next year.

WILLIAM BROOKS, or WILLIAM BROOKES, sometimes WILLIAM BROOKE, Milford, among early settlers, married Sarah, widow of William Wheeler, died 1684. I have included herein all whose names are given as Brook, Brooks, Brooke, or Brookes, because it is impossible to discriminate in the caprisious spelling. Thirteen in the form above used had, in 1834, at Harvard and six at the other New England colleges, been graduates.

JOSEPH BROOMAN, Rehoboth, married 29 September 1681, Sarah, widow of John Savage of Rehoboth, says Colony record.

GEORGE BROOME, Boston, died February 1662. A widow Hannah Broome married the last of January 1662, Thomas Ashley. Perhaps there is error of a year in records.

GEORGE BROUGHTON, Dover, or Kittery 1680, perhaps son of Thomas Broughton, was certainly in Massachusetts long before being of Artillery Company 1667, and ten years earlier at Berwick; married probably Abigail Reyner, daughter of Reverend John Reyner; may have been the one mentioned by Hubbard, in Indians Wars, as of Salmon Falls River 1675, but known to be, in 1682, a Captain, and killed. His widow married 30 March 1696, and died 31 December 1716.

JOHN BROUGHTON, Windsor, removed to Northampton, among the earliest settlers, married 15 November 1650, Hannah Bascom, eldest daughter of Thomas Bascom, had John, who removed to Connecticut; Hannah, born 1656; Sarah, 1658; and Thomas, 1661. He died 16 March 1662, and his widow married William Janes.

JOHN BROUGHTON, Northampton, son of the preceding, married 1678, Elizabeth Woodruff, daughter of the first Matthew Woodruff, and removed to Connecticut.

THOMAS BROUGHTON, Watertown, 1643, came from Gravesend, below London, 1635, to Virginia, in the Americas; by wife Mary Briscoe, daughter of Nathaniel Briscoe, had a child born 3 March 1644, died in a week.; Elizabeth, 15 January 1646; removed to Boston 1650, had Mary, 5 July 1651; Thomas, 26 May 1653, died young; removed to Boston 1650, had Mary, 5 July 1651; Thomas, 26 May 1653, died young; Nathaniel, 5 December 1654; Thomas, again, 23 December 1656; Hannah, 28 December 1658; Sarah, 9 June 1660; and Patience, 14 April 1663; was a merchant of great business, owned the mills at Salmon Falls perhaps, and died 12 November 1700, aged 84.

THOMAS BROUGHTON, Boston, son of the preceding, perhaps married Sarah Rawson, daughter of Edward Rawson, and died 4 December 1702.

THOMAS BROUGHTON, Northampton, son of John Broughton, settled at Deerfield, was killed by the Indians with wife and three children in June 1693.

ABRAHAM BROWN, Watertown, probably son of Thomas Brown of Hawkedon, County Suffolk, near Bury St. Edmunds, freeman 6 March 1632, by wife Lydia, had Lydia, born 22 March 1633; Jonathan, 15 October 1635; Hannah, 1 March 1639, died soon; and Abraham, 6 March 1640; besides Sarah, and Mary, perhaps brought from England; was selectman many years and surveyor. The time of his death was 1650. His widow married 27 November 1659, Andrew Hodges of Ipswich, but after his death in December 1665, she came again to Watertown, and died 27 September 1686. Sarah married 16 December 1643, George Parkhurst; Mary married 10 April 1650, John Lewis of Charlestown, as second wife and, next, a Cutler; and Lydia married William Lakin.

ABRAHAM BROWN, Boston, merchant arriving first time 20 June 1650, married 19 August 1653, Jane Skipper, had Mary, born 19 December 1654; went home 1654, next year was taken by a Barbary pirate, but soon ransomed, and the following year came again to Boston, had Jane, 9 August 1657; and Sarah, 6 June 1660.

ABRAHAM BROWN, Boston, freeman 1664, married 1 May 1660, Rebecca Usher, daughter of Hezekiah Usher, had Hezekiah, b 22 August 1661; Rebecca, 26 August 1663; and Elizabeth, 17 November 1664, who married Peter Butler junior.

ABRAHAM BROWN, Watertown, son of Abraham Brown of the same, married 5 February 1663, Mary Dix, daughter of Edward Dix, had Lydia, born 11 November 1663, who married 30 December 1688, George Woodward; and Abraham, 1665, died at 13 years. He died 1667, and his widow married next year Samuel Rice of Sudbury, and died 18 June 1678.

ABRAHAM BROWN, Salisbury, son of the first Henry Brown of the same, married 15 June 1675, Elizabeth Shepherd, had son born 10 January 1676, died in a week; Sarah, 25 January 1677; Ann, 19 November 1679; Elizabeth, 29 March 1682; Bethia, July 1684; Hannah, 7 November 1686; Abraham, 16 March 1691; and Samuel, 16 November 1694; and died 26 March 1733.

ANDREW BROWN, Scarborough 1658, was constable in 1670, and had, in 1663, five sons of which Southgate give names of four, Andrew, John, Joseph, and Charles.

BENJAMIN BROWN, Hampton, son of John Brown of the same, married Sarah Brown, daughter of William Brown of Salisbury, had William, born 5 June 1680; Sarah, 11 September 1681, died young; Benjamin, 20 December 1683; Elizabeth, 16 July 1686; John, 18 March or May 1688; Jacob, 1 March 1691; Stephen, 17 July 1693; Mary, 1696; Thomas, 21 May 1699; and Jeremiah, 20 November 1701. His wife died about 1730; he, about 1736, very old.

BENJAMIN BROWN, Salem, son of first Honorable William Brown, married it is said, Mary Hicks, daughter of Reverend John Hicks, a noncomformist minister in England, who died 26 August 1703, had only two daughters Sarah, and Mary. He was Representative of his native town 1693 and 9, of the Executive council 1702-5, a liberal benefactor of Harvard college, and died 7 December 1708.

BENONI BROWN, Hartford, youngest son of Nathaniel Brown of the same, died 1688, probably unmarried, holding some office.

BOAZ BROWN, Concord, son of Thomas Brown, married 8 November 1664, Mary Winship, had Boaz, born 31 July 1665; Thomas, 12 May 1667; Mary, 31 October 1670; Edward, 20 March 1672; removed to Stow, was freeman 1673.

CHAD BROWN, Providence, came first to Boston, in July 1638, in the Martin, as before Deputy-Governor Dudley, he swore, in support of a nuncupative will of a fellow passenger dying, on the ocean; was settled at the Baptist Church 1642 after Roger Williams. It has been thought by some, that he was earlier on our side of the water, and that imperfect record proves it, on page 14 of the Volume 1 of Colony record of Rhode Island, as to his incorporation in town fellowship with others at Providence, which bears date 20 August without a year. Now the supplying of the numerals for the year call admit those who the transcriber used, 1637, by no means; for that day was Sunday, when no civil compact could have been entered into, and before that day in the former year the place was known as Moshasuck, probably the second use of the designation of the model city being, in the following month at the baptism of the son of Roger Williams, Providence, late in September 1638. Earlier than August 1638 his name, I suppose; will not be found. He brought wife Elizabeth, and son John, aged about 8 years, probably other children, for we know not the birth of any of his five sons. The other four were James, Jeremiah, Judah, alias Chad, and Daniel. No connection is traced between Chad and Henry, of the oldest proprietors. His grandchild James Brown was minister of the same church. This is the progenitor of the family so much distinguished as the patrons of Brown University at Providence.

CHRISTOPHER BROWN, Salem, examined 1674, on charge of dealing with the devil.

CORNELIUS BROWN, Reading, son of Nicholas Brown of the same, married 6 March 1665, Sarah Lamson, had Nicholas, born 7 April 1666, died soon; Cornelius, 3 June 1667; Sarah, 23 December 1668; John, 8 August 1671; Abigail, 5 April 1674, died soon; Samuel, 13 September 1675; Mary, 1 January 1679; and Hannah, 28 August 1680.

CHRISTIAN BROWN, Salisbury, one of the first settlers 1640, a widow, brought probably three sons and died 28 December 1641. Her sons were Henry, George, and William.

CORNELIUS BROWN, Windsor, youngest son of Peter Brown of the same, married 4 December 1701, Abigail Barber, had Abigail, born 6 September 1702; Rachel and Mabel, twins 21 November 1704, of who Mabel died soon; Cornelius, 1 May 1707; Hildah, 17 November 1709; Hepzibah, 19 January 1712; Titus, 11 November 1714; Elizabeth, 1 October 1717; and Aaron, 31 May 1725; was Deacon, and died 26 January 1747.

DANIEL BROWN, Providence 1646, married 25 December 1669, Alice Herenden, probably daughter of Benjamin Herenden, had Judah; Sarah, born 10 October 1677; Jeremiah; and perhaps more; and died before 10 November 1710.

DANIEL BROWN, New Haven, son of Eleazer Brown, married about 1690, Abigail Howe, daughter of Ephraim Howe.

EBENEZER BROWN, New Haven, son of Francis Brown, married 28 March 1667, Hannah Vincent, daughter of John Vincent of the same, had Hannah, born 1 February 1668; son without name, 4 October 1669; Ebenezer, 12 November 1670; Rebecca, 20 April 1672; Mary, 6 August 1674; Elizabeth, 13 May 1679; Eunice, 26 October 1681; and James, 22 February 1685; perhaps more.

EDMUND BROWN, first minister of Sudbury, came over 1637, freeman 13 May 1640, ordained in August following, died 22 June 1677, had wife who had been widow of John Lovering, as Barry says, but no children.

EDMUND BROWN, Boston, died in the Autumn of 1665, at Surinam, leaving widow Elizabeth to have all his property.

EDMUND BROWN, Dorchester, son of Deacon William Brown of Sudbury, freeman 1650, by wife Elizabeth, widow, John, baptized 22 August 1652; Elizabeth, born 1658; and Samuel, 1661; removed to Boston, and was a shopkeeper 1694, there, when his second or third wife was Elizabeth, widow of Hopestill Foster, and died soon after. He may be the man, who married 14 February 1654, Elizabeth Okley, or Elizabeth Oakley, if we suppose the date of baptism of first child too early by 4 years, or this not to be the first wife. She had Mary, 15 December 1656; John, 9 October 1660; and, perhaps, Elisha.

EDWARD BROWN, Boston, a very early proprietor, perhaps came in the employment of William Colbron, though at his administration of the church in June 1634, it is written Edmund, freeman 6 May 1635, may have gone to Newport 1639.

EDWARD BROWN, Ipswich, freeman 2 June 1641, had wife Faith, and son Thomas, who died before his father; in his will of 9 February 1660 mentioned sons Joseph, and John, and a daughter not named.

ELEAZER BROWN, New Haven, son of Francis Brown, swore fidelity in 1657, married Sarah Bulkley, daughter of Thomas Bulkley, had Eleazer, born 6 January 1663; Gershom, 9 October 1665; and Daniel, 16 January 1668, daughters Rebecca, Hannah, Elizabeth, and another.

ELEAZER BROWN, Chelmsford, freeman 1674, was, perhaps, son of Thomas Brown of Concord.

EPHRAIM BROWN, Salisbury, son of William Brown, by wife Sarah, Ephraim, born 3 September 1680; William, 25 March 1684; Sarah, 5 March 1687; Mary, 22 January 1689; Abner, 28 February 1691; and Jacob, 2 June 1693; and the father died five days after. His widow married April 1703, Samuel Carter; and next, 5 October 1719, Benjamin Eastman.

FRANCIS BROWN, New Haven 1639, died 1668; by wife Mary, had John, baptized 7 April 1640; Eleazer, 16 October 1642, before mentioned; Samuel, 7 August 1645; Ebenezer, 21 June 1646; Ebenezer, again, 4 July 1647; and Lydia, who was the eldest, and married 29 January 1656, Henry Bristoll. He died 1668, and his will of 13 April in that year names wife Mary, four sons and daughter Lydia. His widow married November 1679, William Paine.

FRANCIS BROWN, Stamford 1660, constable 1663, Representative 1665,7, and 9. He had been a servant of Henry Wolcott of Windsor, and bought out the residue of his term in 1649, and was a small trader in 1651; in Farmington, bought and sold lands 1656; at Stamford married Martha, widow of John Chapman, had son Joseph, and nothing more is known of him, but that in 1683 he gave his son land and does not appear among proprietors of 1687.

FRANCIS BROWN, Newbury, son of Francis Brown, born in England, perhaps nephew of Thomas Brown, died 1691, aged 59, having married probably second wife 31 December 1679. Coffin, 296.

FRANCIS BROWN, Newbury, son of Thomas Brown, born in England, married 21 November 1653, Mary Johnson, had Elizabeth, born 17 October 1654; Mary, 15 April 1657, married 15 December 1675, Nathan Parker; Hannah 1659, died soon; Sarah, 10 May 1663; John, 13 May 1665; Thomas, 1 July 1667, died aged 22; Joseph, 28 September 1670; Francis, 17 March 1674; and his wife died 4 April 1679. He had by second wife Benjamin, 22 April 1681.

GEORGE BROWN, Newbury 1635, a carpenter, brother of Richard Brown, one of the first settlers. Had come in the Mary and John 1634, freeman 13 May 1640, died 1 April 1642.

GEORGE BROWN, Haverhill, probably son of Christian Brown, married 25 June 1645, Ann Eaton, daughter of John Eaton of Salisbury; Representative 1672, 5, 80, and 92. He made his will 26 June 1699. His wife died 16 December 1683, and 17 March following, he married widow Hannah Hazen; died 31 October 1699. He had no children but gave estate to Richard Hazen, son of his wife.

GEORGE BROWN, Stonington 1680, may be the same, whose will, of 14, September 1736, names wife Charity, eldest son George, other sons Peter, John, and William, besides eldest daughter Elizabeth Stanton, daughter Sarah Champlin, wife of Joseph Champlin, and daughter Ruth Brown.

GEORGE BROWN, Billerica, only son of William Brown, married 30 January 1690, Sarah Kidder, daughter of James Kidder of Billerica, had Joseph, born 3 November following; Sarah, 8 March 1692; Elizabeth, 12 January 1694; Josiah, 19 April 1695; William, 21 October 1696; Mary and James, twins 27 September 1698; John and Thomas, twins 27 November 1699; Samuel,,27 January 1701; Ephraim and Isaac, twins 23 January 1702; Dorothy, 1 January 1704; and Sarah, 21 December 1707. He was a man of great public spirit, Captain, and Representative 1716, and for six years more, died in honorable age. See William Brown.

HENRY BROWN, Boston, an early proprietor, purchased also in 1648; probably went home, was of London 1668.

HENRY BROWN Salisbury, born 1615; came with his mother; an original proprietor of course in 1639, was brother of George Brown of Haverhill, by wife Abigail, had Nathaniel, born 30 June 1642; Abigail, 23 February 1644; Jonathan, 25 November 1646, probably died young; Philip, December 1648; Abraham, 1 January 1650; Sarah, 6 December 1654; and Henry, 8 February 1659. He was a shoemaker, died 6 August 1701; and his widow died 23 August 1702. Abigail married 1 June 1691, Samuel French; and Sarah married 12 June 1673, Andrew Greeley.

HENRY BROWN, Salisbury, youngest child of the preceding, married 17 May 1682, Hannah Putnam, had John, born 15 April 1683; Rebecca, 1 October 1684; Abraham, 4 July 1686; Hannah, 20 March 1689, died young; Eliezer, 18 February 1691; Henry, 17 June 1693; Benjamin, 25 June 1695; Mehitable, 20 September 1698; Nathaniel, 21 December 1700; Joseph, baptized 18 September 1703; and Hannah, 9 June 1705; removed to Salem, where some of the children were born, and he died 25 April 1708. His widow in will of 9 May 1730, speaks of six sons then living, and daughters Rebecca and Hannah.

HENRY BROWN, Providence 1652, swore allegiance in June 1668, had Richard, Joseph, and probably Henry and other children. In his will of 27 September 1690 mentioned wife Hannah.

HENRY BROWN, Providence, called junior when he took oath of allegiance in May 1682, may have been son of the preceding.

HOPESTILL BROWN, Sudbury, son of Deacon William Brown, married 1686, Abigail Haynes, and for second wife had Dorothy, widow of Reverend and unhappy Samuel Paris, and died 1729.

HUGH BROWN, Salem 1628, coming with Endicott, in opinion of Mr. Felt, sent to relief of the Indians at Ipswich 1631, perhaps removed to Boston.

HUGH BROWN, Boston (in opinion of Farmer, the same as the preceding but, in mine, more probably was his son), by wife Sarah, had Job, born 29 March 1651; Hugh, who died 16 July 1652; and Sarah, 16 August 1653, who died 2 January following, and the improbable record in Genealogical Registrar X. 218, tells, that another Sarah died 3 April 1654.

ICHABOD BROWN, Cambridge, son of Thomas Brown of the same, by wife Martha, had John Brown, born 1 November 1696, Harvard College 1714, the minister of Haverhill; Martha, 16 June 1699; Priscilla, 14 December 1702; Sarah, 26 September 1706; and his wife died 1 September 1708. He married 13 June 1709, Margaret Odlin, perhaps youngest daughter of Elisha Odlin of Boston, had Abigail, born 8 May 1710, and died 1728, the five children and the mother of the youngest all survived.

ISAAC BROWN, Newbury, son of Thomas Brown of the same, married 22 August 1661, Rebecca Bayley, perhaps daughter of John Bayley junior, had Ruth, born 26 May, 1662; Thomas, 13 September 1664; Rebecca, 15 March 1667; and he died 13 May 1674.

JABEZ BROWN, Sudbury 1667, probably son of Thomas Brown of Concord, freeman 1680; by wife Hannah, had Mary, born 26 November 1672; and Sarah, 20 May 1680; was of Stow, Representative under the new Charter 1692.

JACOB BROWN, Billerica, one of the proprietors 1659, married 16 October 1661, Mary Tapley.

JACOB BROWN, Hampton, son of John Brown of the same, married Sarah Brookin, daughter of William Brookin of Portsmouth, had John; Samuel, born 4 November 1686; Abraham, January 1689; Joshua, 1 April 1691; Sarah, 1693, Jacob, 22 December 1695; Abigail, 3 March 1698; Jonathan, 24 February 1700; and Jeremiah, baptized with the eight preceding 28 June 1702; and he died 13 February 1740, aged, it is said, 87.

JAMES BROWN, Boston 1630, being number 61 in the church list, freeman 4 March 1634, by wife Grace, had James, born 30 August baptized 7 September 1645, Artillery Company 1643; died 1651, his will of 9 May, probated 7 August, is abstract in Genealogical Registrar VII. 335. It gave house and land to the chief, his son died before 21 years of age, and provided for wife who was executrix.

JAMES BROWN, Charlestown, 1633, administered of the church 10 March 1634, freeman 25 May 1636, had wife Elizabeth, and children John, baptized 1 March 1639; and Mary, 3 March 1640.

JAMES BROWN, Newbury, came with wife 1631 says Coffin, from Southampton, was one of the first settlers 1635; freeman 17 May 1637, a selectman 1638; preached at Portsmouth, but came back to Newbury 1656, or earlier.

JAMES BROWN, Charlestown, by wife Judith, had John, born 4 January 1638; James, 20 February 1643, who died young James, again, 19 August 1647; and Nathaniel, 21 November 1648, Artillery Company 1639, may be the dangerous man disarmed as a supporter of Wheelwright 1637. Frothingham, 82.

JAMES BROWN, Newbury, son of Joseph James, a youth of 17, came in the James 1635, from Southampton, arriving at Boston 3 June 1635. But the difficulty of discrimination between the many of this name, even by aid of wives and children is insurmountable. He, by wife Sarah Cutting, daughter of Captain John Cutting, had Samuel, born 14 January 1657; Hannah, baptized 12 September 1658; and Abraham, 14 October 1660; had, also, Mary, born 25 May 1663; Abigail, 24 October 1665; and Martha, 22 December 1667. He was a glazier, removed to Salem, there died 13 November 1676. His will of 29 January 1674, names wife Sarah, and children John, James, Samuel, Abraham, Sarah, who was married; Ann, or Hannah, Mary, Abigail, and Martha.

JAMES BROWN, Taunton 1643, son of John, the assistant, born in England, we may be sure, went with his father to Swanzey, chosen 1665 an Assistant. May well be presumed the preacher, put by Mather, in his third class at Swanzey, unless more than usual confidence is felt in his authority, which it is believed inquiry will not justify, for no duration in office is mentioned, nor is any reason known for giving him place in that rather than the second class. He married Lydia Howland, daughter of John Howland, and died 29 October 1710, aged 87, leaving James, who died 1725, at Barrington; Jabez; and daughter Dorothy Kent. Baylies, IV. 18.

JAMES BROWN, Salem, son of Elder John Brown, married 5 September 1664, Hannah Bartholomew, daughter of Henry Bartholomew, had James, born 3 February 1666, died young; Bartholomew, 31 March 1669; Elizabeth, 26 January 1671; Hannah, 9 March 1673; and James, again, 23 May 1675. On 12 November of the last year he was found dead in Cecil County Maryland, where he was on a trading voyage, killed by a negro.

JAMES BROWN, Salem 1678, son of James Brown, the glazier, following the trade of his father, married 16 January 1670, Hannah House, at Charlestown, there had James, born 3 February 1671; Samuel, 3 December 1672; and died in April 1676, a few weeks before his father.

JAMES BROWN, Salem at Ipswich, had Hannah, 13 November 1676, died young; and at Salem, Sarah, 10 August 1678; and removed to Newbury, there had Benjamin, 21 March 1681; Abraham, 17 March 1683, died in few months; Joseph, 19 May 1685; and Hannah, 16 November 1687; perhaps John, who died December 1690. He died 27 February 1708, and his widow died 18 November 1713.

JAMES BROWN, Hatfield 1678, married 7 January 1674, Remembrance Brook, had Mary, born 1677; Abigail, 8 September 1678; and Thankful, 1 June 1682; removed to Deerfield, and had Sarah, 1683; James, 1685; Mindwell, 1686 ; Hannah, 1688; Mercy, 1690; Elizabeth, 1693, died at 5 years; and John, 1695. He removed after, to Colchester; and his daughter Abigail, probably was that captive on the fatal day of 29 February 1704, carried to Canada, but returned safe.

JAMES BROWN, Branford 1679, a landholder, may have removed and been of Norwalk 1687, had Isaac, born 1 March 1690; and either before or after James, who probably is the man that married 1714 Joanna Whitehead.

JAMES BROWN, Rehoboth, son of James Brown of the same, by wife Margaret, had Margaret, born 28 June 1682; died 15 April 1718, in his 60th year. His widow died 5 May 1741, aged 84.

JOB BROWN, Boston 1672, supposed to be dead when inventory was tabled by William Brown, 2 January 1675, was, perhaps, son of Hugh Brown. He had wished to live at Charlestown, but was denied the privilege, went abroad, and not being heard of for some years, his brother inferred that he was dead.

JOHN BROWN, Salem 1629, a lawyer from London, one of the purchasers of the patent from Sir Henry Roswell, engaged (being one of the Assistants of the Massachusetts Colony, and swore a year and a half before Endicot took the requisite oath) in March of that year to embark with Samuel Brown, his brother, in the fleet with Higginson; came in May, reached Salem in June, and soon after, they wished to follow the Episcopal form of service, caused such a schism, that Endicot sent them home in the returning ship, and in September or October, they were again at London, and came not to our country any more. See the candid views of Eliot, Eccl. History of Massachusetts in 1 Massachusetts History Collections IX. 3 and 4.

JOHN BROWN, whose died 25 February 1687, is mentioned in early records of New Hampshire "aged 98 years" may possibly have gained such reputation by his father having done some brave acts against the Spanish enemy, even later than the Armada year to which wild tradition referred the birth of his son.

JOHN BROWN, Watertown 1632, arriving 16 September at Boston, from London, in the Lion; freeman 3 September 1634, by wife Dorothy, had Hannah, born 10 September 1634; and Mary, 24 March 1637; and he was buried 20 June of that year aged 36. By probable genealogy, he was son of John Brown of Hawkedon, County Suffolk, in that church baptized 11 October 1601, and so nephew of Abraham and Richard.

JOHN BROWN, Plymouth, had acquaintance with the Pilgrims at Leyden before 1620, but his year of coming is unknown, lived in 1636 at Duxbury; in 1643 at Taunton; Assistant for 17 years from 1636, and served as Commissioner of the United Colonies from 1644 for 12 years, had James, above mentioned; and Mary, who married 6 July 1636, Thomas Willet; perhaps more, certainly John, and died at Swanzey, near Rehoboth, where he had large estate 10 April 1662. His will, made three days before, provides for the five children that his son John left to his care, and names son James, and wife Dorothy executors, also names daughter Mary Willet, and granddaughter Martha, wife of John Saffin, daughter of Willet. His widow Dorothy died at Swanzey, 27 January 1674, aged 90. See Davis, in Morton's Mem. 295-7.

JOHN BROWN, Salem 1637, freeman 2 May 1638, Ruling Elder of the church, had John, baptized September 1638; and James, June 1640; died 1685.

JOHN BROWN, Hampton 1639, died 28 February 1687, about 98 years as is said. Much more probable is the age set against his name, 40, on his embarkment 17 April 1635, at the London custom house, especially if he be that baker, whose fellow-passengers were two servants James Walker, aged 15, and Sarah Walker, 17, the latter of who in 1640, became his wife, as descendants suppose. By what I think the wrong statement, he was born 1589, and this maiden was born 1618. Besides the number and dates of his children disprove or make highly improbable the great age: Sarah; John, born 1644; Elizabeth; Benjamin; Jacob, 1653; Mary, 13 September 1655; Thomas, 14 July 1657; and Stephen, 1659, who was killed by the Indians at Scarborough 29 June 1677.

JOHN BROWN, Maine 1641, son of Richard Brown of Barton Regis, County Glouster, married Margaret Hayward, daughter of Francis Hayward of the City of Bristol, as he told Robert Allen of Sheepscot, for Robert Allen so swore on 21 February 1659 at Bristol, England (as there record) that he knew for 17 years John Brown of Newharbor, a mason, and that he was in good health in New England June preceding.

JOHN BROWN, Rehoboth, or Swanzey, son of John Brown of the same, born probably in England, married a daughter of William Buckland, had John, the eldest, born 27 September 1650; Joseph, 9 April 1658; Nathaniel, 9 June 1661; Lydia, 6 August 1656; and Hannah, 29 January 1659, all of who in his will of 31 March 1662, of which he made John Brown, his father, the executor, he gave to his care, and died soon. Hannah married 7 January 1676, her cousin Hezekiah Willet.

JOHN BROWN, Ipswich 1641, may have come in the Elizabeth, 1635, aged 40, from London, or have been the tailor from Badstow, in Essex, near Chelmsford, in the Defense, from London, 1635, aged 27. But whichever ship he came in, he had wife Sarah, and by her children Sarah; John; Benjamin; and Elizabeth; probably born there; and at Hampton had Jacob, born 1653; Mary, 13 September 1655; Thomas, 14 July 1657; and Stephen, 1659, killed by the Indians 29 June 1677 at Scarborough. Sarah married 13 March 1661, John Poor; and Elizabeth married 23 December 1669, Isaac Marston.

JOHN BROWN, taunton 1643, son of Honorable John Brown, may be the John Brown of Providence 1646, and after.

JOHN BROWN, Milford 1648, had John; Mary; and Esther; all baptized 16 December 1649; Joseph, 1652; Mary, 1653; John again, born 12 July 1655; Hannah, baptized not 3, as the perpetual blunders of Davenport's church has it, but 2 May 1658 at New Haven; and Phebe, 1660. His wife was Mary, and he probably removed to Newark, New Jersey.

JOHN BROWN, New Haven, son of Francis Brown of the same, married 1 January 1661, Mary Walker, daughter of John Walker of the same, had Mary, born 2 May 1664; John, 9 January 1667; Hannah, 7 August 1669; and Grace, 9 January 1673. She petitioned for divorce, and obtained it October 1674.

JOHN BROWN, Cambridge, called a Scotchman, married 24 April 1655, Esther Makepeace, daughter of Thomas Makepeace, and in her father’s will, eleven years after, is called of Marlborough. He had Joseph, born 8 February 1656, killed casually at 15 years; Elizabeth, 26 March 1657; Sarah, 18 July 1661; Mary, 19 December 1662; all at Cambridge, and at Marlborough had John, 27 November 1664; Esther, 1667, died soon; Thomas, 1669; Daniel, 1671; Deborah, 1673; Abigail, 9 March 1675; and Joseph, 1677; next year he removed to Falmouth, and probably at the second destruction of that town was driven away, and came to Watertown, there dates his will 20 November 1697, in which wife Esther, sons John, Thomas, Daniel, and Joseph, daughter Deborah of Jeremiah Meacham, and son-in-law John Gustin, who had married 10 January 1678, Elizabeth; John Adams, Thomas Darley, or Darby, and John Hartshorn, are mentioned.

JOHN BROWN, Providence, who swore allegiance in May 1666, may be the same as before mentioned, but another John Brown of Providence swore allegiance in May 1682.

JOHN BROWN, Salem, son of Elder John Brown, married 2 June 1658, Hannah Hobart, daughter of Reverend Peter Hobart of Hingham, had John, born 4 April 1659, died next month; John, again, 21 February 1662; Samuel, 14 March 1663, died at 9 months; Peter, 1 March 1664, died soon; and Abiel, 21 March 1673.

JOHN BROWN, Reading, married 12 or 18 October 1659, Elizabeth Osgood, daughter of John Osgood of Andover, had Elizabeth, born 5 October 1660, died soon; Elizabeth, again, 22 December 1661; Sarah, 3 August 1664, died young; Sarah, again, 19 November 1667, died young; Mary, 30 May 1671, died at 2 years; and his wife died 31 July 1673. He was Captain, freeman 1679, Representative 1679, 80, 2, and 3; died 1717 aged 81.

JOHN BROWN, Newbury, married 20 February 1660 Mary Woodman, had Judith, born 5 December 1660; and Mary, 8 March 1662. He was son of James Brown of Charlestown.

JOHN BROWN, Reading, eldest son of Nicholas Brown, married Ann Fiske, daughter of Reverend John Fiske, who died 30 May 1681, had Ann, born 1678; and he married 1682, second wife Elizabeth, widow of Reverend Joseph Emerson of Mendon, and she died 4 September 1693, aged 55. He married third wife Rebecca, widow of Lieutenant Samuel Sprague of Malden, who survived him, and died 8 July 1710, aged 76. He, instead of that former John Brown of Reading, may have been the Representative or Captain, or both.

JOHN BROWN, Providence, son of Chad Brown, married Mary Holmes, daughter of Obadiah Holmes, the sufferer by the Massachusetts persecution. Had John, born 18 March 1662; James, 1666; Obadiah, Martha, and Deborah.

JOHN BROWN, Hampton, son of John Brown the first of the same, had a farm given 1666 by his father at the Falls, and so may be supposed to have married before the Indians war of Philip, in which he served longer time than any other man of his town; but no wife or children is known, and he died 29 August 1683.

JOHN BROWN, Salem, married 27 January, but by another account 30 June 1669, Hannah Collins, daughter of Francis Collins, had Priscilla, born 1 June 1669; Margaret, 23 April 1671; Joseph, 11 September 1673; William, 1 December 1677; Hannah, 22 July 1678; and Mary, 4 January 1692; but some confusing evidence appears in record of dates of one or two. He was, perhaps, Representative for Marblehead, under the new Charter 1692, and for Salem 1707, 9, and 13; may have died 14 April 1719.

JOHN BROWN, a passenger embarked in England 16 May 1679 on the Prudence for Boston, may have never arrived or soon went home, or sat down in some other town, or (which is the least likely), he might have gone home to purchase goods in England for trade here.

JOHN BROWN, Duxbury, by wife Ann, had Ann, born 19 September 1673; and John, 1675; was a Baptist.

JOHN BROWN, Swanzey or Rehoboth, a Captain, son of John Brown, and grandson of Honorable John Brown of the same, married 8 November 1672, Ann Mason, daughter of Major John Mason of Norwich, had John, born 28 April 1675; Lydia, 16 May 1679; Martha, 20 November 1681; Daniel, 29 October 1683; Ebenezer, 15 June 1685; Daniel, again, 26 September 1686; Stephen, 29 January 1688; and Joseph, 19 May.

JOHN BROWN, Newbury, son of second Newbury Francis Brown, married 20 August 1683, Ruth Huse, daughter of Abel Huse, had John, born 27 October 1683; and Isaac, 4 February 1685; and perhaps more. He was, I suppose, the man whose house was assailled by the Indians on 7 October 1695, and nine persons carried into captivity but all by fresh pursuit were retaken though some died of wounds. See Coffin, 161, 2, and strange incidents of the case in Niles, 3 Massachusetts History Collections VI. 238.

JOHN BROWN, Billerica, married 22 April 1682, Elizabeth Polley, daughter of George Polley, had John, born 27 March 1683, died next day; John, again, 22 January 1684; Elizabeth, 6 July 1685, died soon; Elizabeth, again, 10 February 1687; and Hannah, 27 April 1689.

JOHN BROWN, Middletown, probably son of Nathaniel Brown of the same, married 1 April 1685, Ann Porter, had Thomas, born 1686; Hannah, 1688; John, 1691; Mary, 1693; and Abigail, 1701.

JOHN BROWN, Roxbury, by wife Elizabeth, had Edmund, born 3 January 1686 and Edmund, again, 16 January 1687; is, perhaps, the one who died at Dorchester, 14 May 1725.

JOHN BROWN, Windsor, eldest son of Peter Brown, married 4 February 1692, Elizabeth Loomis, daughter of John Loomis, had Elizabeth, born 11 February 1693; Mary, 11 September 1694; Ann, 1 September 1696, died soon; Hannah, 24 August 1697; John, 11 March 1700; Ann, again, 11 August 1702; Sarah, 11 January 1704; Isaac, 17 March 1707; Daniel, 20 March 1709; Margaret, 11 March 1711; and Esther, 17 March 1712; and his wife died 11 December 1723. He died 4 February 1728.

JOHN BROWN, Stonington, married October 1692, Elizabeth Miner, daughter of Ephraim Miner, had John, born July 1693, died next year; Jonathan, 15 March 1695; Elizabeth, March 1697; Hepzibah, September 1699; John, again, December 1701; Ichabod, 12 March 1704; Prudence, 28 April 1707; Jedediah, 28 April 1709; Mehitable, August 1712; and Mary, August 1716.

JONATHAN BROWN, Reading, a man of substance, whose daughter Elizabeth married 30 September 1663, Hananiah Parker.

JONATHAN BROWN, Watertown, son of the first Abraham Brown, married 11 February 1662, Mary Shattuck, daughter of William Shattuck, had Mary, born 6 October following; Elizabeth, 19 September 1664; Jonathan, 25 October 1666; died young,; Patience, 6 March 1669; Abraham, 26 August 1671; Samuel, 21 October 1674; Lydia, 31 March 1677; Ebenezer, 10 September 1679; Benjamin, 27 February 1682; and William, 3 September 1684; and died 1691. His widow died 23 October 1732, not quite so old as the gravestone at Waltham says.

JONATHAN BROWN, Salem, son of Elder John Brown, married 28 June 1664, Abigail Burrill, probably died soon, for inventory of his insolvent estate was given 16 April 1667.

JONATHAN BROWN, Windsor, son of Peter Brown of the same, married 1 October 1696, Mindwell Loomis, had Mindwell, born 8 January 1669; Ruth, 11 January 1702; Martha, 7 September 1704; Jonathan, 20 June 1707; David, 8 March 1709; Ephraim, 25 August 1712; Eunice, 16 May 1715; Jonathan, again, 10 May 1718; and Benjamin, 1 July 1721.

JOSEPH BROWN, Concord, made his will 26 September 1671, which was witnessed by Reverend Edward Bulkley, but all else is unknown.

JOSEPH BROWN Charlestown, son of Honorable William Brown of Salem, freeman 1673. Was a preacher but not old, though unanimously invited to succeed Shepard 1678, a fellow of the Corporation involved in the matter of President Hoar; died 9 May of that year; his wife Mehitable Brenton, daughter of Governor William Brenton, having died 14 September 1676.

JOSEPH BROWN, Reading, son of Nicholas Brown of the same, married 26 May 1674, Elizabeth Bancroft, daughter of Thomas Bancroft of the same, had Elizabeth, born 15 January 1676; Nicholas, 22 September 1677; Joseph, 16 November 1679; Thomas, 14 April 1682; Ebenezer, 12 January 1685, died soon; Ebenezer, again, 16 June 1688, died young; Hepzibah, 23 February 1693; and a son 20 February 1695, died soon; and the father died 16 October 1723.

JOSEPH BROWN, Lynn, married 22 December 1680, Sarah Jones, had Joseph, born 12 April 1682, may have been of Ipswich, when made freeman 1683.

JOSEPH BROWN, Stamford, son of Francis Brown of the same, proprietor there in 1683-1701.

JOSEPH BROWN, Rehoboth, youngest son of second John Brown of the same, married 10 November 1680, Hannah Fitch, had Joseph, born 21 November . 1681; Hannah, 21 November 1682; Jabez, 30 December of unknown year.

JOSEPH BROWN, Watertown, son of John Brown of Marlborough, married 15 November 1699, Ruhamah Wellington, had Ruhamah, born 15 July 1701; Daniel, 21 December 1703; John, 5 May 1706; Joseph, 2 September 1708; removed 1709 to Lexington, there had James, Josiah, Benjamin, and William; was Deacon, and died 11 January 1766, and his widow died 1 July 1772, aged 92.

JOSHUA BROWN, Newbury, son of first Newbury Richard Brown, freeman 1673, married 15 January 1669, Sarah Sawyer, daughter of William Sawyer, had Joseph, born 18 October 1669; Joshua, 18 May 1671; Tristram, 21 December 1672; Sarah, 5 December 1676; Ruth, 29 October 1678; and Samuel Brown, 4 September 1687, Harvard College 1705, who was first minister of Abington.

JOSIAH BROWN, Marblehead 1668, was probably son of Nicholas Brown of Lynn, and married 1666, as is said, Mary Fellows.

NATHANIEL BROWN, Hartford 1647; married 23 December 1647, Eleanor Watts, daughter of Richard Watts, removed to Middletown, 1654, thence to Springfield, had Nathaniel, born 9 June 1649; Thomas, 31 October 1655, both died young; was mortally wounded 5 October 1675; left Hannah, the eldest, born 15 April 1651, who married 5 November 1669, Isaac Lane; Nathaniel, again, 15 July 1654; John, 15 April 1657, and Benoni, 15 March 1659.

NATHANIEL BROWN, Ipswich, married 16 December 1673, Judith Perkins, had daughters Elizabeth, Mary Hubbard, and Hannah Cogswell, besides John; Nathan; Jacob; and James, born 1 June 1685; freeman 1685; was, perhaps, of Rowley afterwards. But devised land given by his father December 1673, his will of 10 October 1716 calls him of Ipswich.

NATHANIEL BROWN, Salisbury, eldest son of Henry Brown, married 16 November 1666, Hannah Fellows, daughter of Samuel Fellows; had Hannah, born 3 April 1668; may have lived few years and perhaps had children at Hampton, but back at Salisbury had Abigail, 1 February 1676; perhaps Ephraim; daughters Abra, 20 November 1680; Ruth, 9 August 1685; besides Nathaniel, 24 July 1689. He was a Captain freeman 1690, Representative 1691, killed by the Indians at Andover, 22 February 1698.

NATHANIEL BROWN, Middletown, son of Nathaniel Brown of the same, married 2 July 1677, Martha Hughes, daughter of Richard Hughes of Guilford, had Mary, born 2 March 1678; Martha, 3 February 1680, died at 18 years; Eleanor, 30 June 1681; Nathaniel, 18 September 1683; and died 9 May 1712. The wife died 30 May 1729.

NICHOLAS BROWN, Lynn 1630, as Lewis conjectured, but I think 7 years too early, son of Edward Brown, of Inkberrow, 8 miles from Droitwich, Worcestershire; freeman 7 September 1638, Representative 1641, removed to Reading, 1644, and died 5 April 1673. His eldest son John went in 1660 to England but came back, and was executor of the will of 29 March 1673, made by his father, probated 17 June following, in which Elizabeth, other children Josiah; Edward, born 15 August 1640; Elizabeth, and Joseph, 10 December 1647; possibly another Sarah, 26 June 1650, are mentioned. This family had e final.

PETER BROWN, Plymouth, came in the May flower, 1620, married two wives, and had two children by each, says Governor Bradford, after his coming here, and both of those by the first wife, had been married and one of them had two children, when the Governor wrote in 1650. For his first wife conjecture assigns him the widow Ford who had come in the Fortune 1621; but, of course, this must have been after the land divided in 1624; and he, at the division of cattle, 1627 has association with him. Martha and Mary, perhaps wife and daughter. He is somewhere called brother of John Brown of Plymouth, and both lived on Duxbury side. He died 1633, and Standish and Brewster took his inventory 10 October of that year. Stiles, in History of Windsor, 558, confused grant of lands at Plymouth and Salem. He also adopts a tradition that I do not respect, making this Plymouth pilgrim father of Windsor Peter Brown.

PETER BROWN, New Haven 1639, had Mercy, baptized 6 April 1645; and Elizabeth, 1 August 1647; removed to Stamford, where his wife Elizabeth, died 21 September 1657; and he married 27 July 1658, Unity, widow of Clement Buxton, and died 22 of the month following. His son Ebenezer had died the day preceding, but he may have also had Thomas, and Hackaliah, by the first wife, both of whom removed to Rye. His widow married 9 March following Nicholas Knapp.

PETER BROWN, Plymouth, I suppose, son of Peter Brown of the same, born after 1627, as his name does not appear in the division of cattle that year. He was with Governor Bradford and thirty others among the first purchasers of Dartmouth in 1652.

PETER BROWN, Windsor, married 15 July 1658, Mary Gillett, daughter of Jonathan Gillett, had Mary, born 2 May 1659; Hannah, 29 September 1660; Abigail, 8 August 1662; Hepzibah, 19 November 1664; Peter, 2 March 1667; John, 8 January 1669; Jonathan, 30 March 1670; Cornelius, 30 July 1672; Esther, 22 May 1673; Elizabeth, 9 June 1676; Deborah, 2 February 1679; and Sarah, 20 August 1681; the twelve were named at his death 9 March 1692, as all living. Hannah was married to one not known; Abigail married 1683, Samuel Fowler; Esther married 1700, William Barber; and Deborah married 1696, John Hosford.

PETER BROWN, Windsor, son of the preceding, married 1696, Mary Barber, daughter probably of the second Thomas Barber of the same, had Peter, born 28 January 1700; Dinah, 4 January 1702; Samuel, 28 August 1705; Mary, 28 August 1708; Benjamin, 11 August 1711; Ebenezer, 26 August 1713; and Mindwell, next day.

PHILIP BROWN, Salisbury son of Henry Brown of the same, married 21 June 1669, Mary Buswell, daughter of the first Isaac Buswell, had Susanna, born 8 March 1670; Mary, 23 February 1672, died in few months; a son 1 April 1673, died in few days; Abigail, 4 June 1675; Mary, 1676; Sarah, 18 March 1678; George, 1 July 1680; Phebe, 2 October 1681 who died at 19 years; and Hannah, 5 February 1683. His wife died 27 November following, and he died 21 July 1729.

RICHARD BROWN, Watertown 1630, probably brother of first Abraham Brown, came in the fleet with Winthrop, freeman 18 May 1631, having requested the privilege 19 October preceding, was Ruling Elder, as he had been in a London church, Representative at the first General Court of delegates 1634, and every time to 1639, and again 1647-55, except 1653; removed to Charlestown, and died between August 1659 and March 1661, the dates of making and probably of his will. That instruction of which widow Elizabeth, was executrix named son Thomas, and grandson Richard, and George; but the estate was not adequate, it is thought to tempt either over the ocean. Winthrop I. 58. His widow married 12 May 1662, Richard Jackson of Cambridge.

RICHARD BROWN, Ipswich, before 1638 removed to Newbury, was brother of George Brown, and with him came in the Mary and John, 1634, freeman 6 May 1635, died 26 April 1661; by wife Edith, who died April 1647, had Joseph, who died young; Joshua, born 10 April 1642; Caleb, 7 May 1645; and by second wife Elizabeth, widow of Giles Badger, married 16 February 1648, had Elizabeth, 20 March 1649; Richard, 18 February 1651; Edmund, 17 July 1654; Sarah, 7 September 1657; and Mary, 10 April 1660. His will was probated 2 June next year.

RICHARD BROWN, Hingham, married November 1648, at Weymouth, Elizabeth Marsh.

RICHARD BROWN, Charlestown, called old in 1658, died October 1660. His will probably is it, that he is the same as the Ruling Elder of Watertown. His will, of 16 August 1659, names wife Elizabeth, made executrix, son Thomas; grandson Richard, and George; besides apprentice Jonathan Simpson.

RICHARD BROWN, Newbury, son of Richard Brown of the same, married 7 May 1674, Mary Jaques, had only son Richard Brown, born 12 September 1675, Harvard College 1697, minister of Reading, who married 22 April 1703, Martha Whipple, had several children (of which one was John Brown, born 2 March 1706; and another was Martha, married 12 March 1730, Reverend Samuel Wigglesworth, as his second wife), and died 20 or 29 October 1732.

RICHARD BROWN, Providence, son of Henry Brown of the same, by wife Mary, had Malachi, born 1 February 1698; Mercy, 12 December 1703; William, 3 June 1705; and Richard, 28 February 1712. This last living over one hundred years of which very many he served as proprietors clerk. Judge Staples remembers him, as seating in his doorway within two years of the latest gathering at his house on the hundredth birthday, rumor went, that his friends made him dance; but, at least, what was then done "shortened his days." I hope not much.

ROBERT BROWN, Cambridge, came in the Truelove, 1635, aged 24, married 8 May 1619, Barbara Eden, freeman 1649, died 23 November 1690, aged only 70, according to inscription on gravestone, as given in Cambridge Epit. by which his widow, who died 1 June 1693, is said to be aged 80. We may therefore doubt, that here must be error in that very correct work, as we know there is, when it marks him freeman 1639. This custom house date is inconsistent with the gravestone; and no Robert Brown is among freeman for many years before or after. Mitchell's Register in Cambridge church Gathering, gives him no children.

SAMUEL BROWN, Salem 1629, brother of first John Brown, and one of the patentees, named (though not an Assistant as his brother was), of the council to Endicott, 30 April but never qualified by taking the oath as required, and both by him sent back the same summer of their coming.

SAMUEL BROWN, Wallingford, was living at New Haven 1670, son of Francis Brown of the same, married 2 May 1667, Mercy Tuttle, daughter of William Tuttle of the same, had Abigail, born 11 March 1669; Sarah, 8 August 1672; Rachel, 14 April 1677; Francis, 7 October 1679; after which he removed to Wallingford, there had Gideon, 12 July 1685; and Samuel, who was killed by his mother 20 June 1691, with an axe, and she was convicted 1 October following of murder; but the court had sense enough to set aside the verdict, as it was clearly a case of insanity. The father died in that year but, after the trial, sent an effective petition to the Court. Only three children were then living. Sarah, wife of Joseph Doolittle, Rachel, and Francis; the widow still living in 1695.

SAMUEL BROWN, Salem, perhaps brother of Honorable William Brown, may be he, who married at Boston, 9 July 1661, Mary Mattock, daughter of James Mattock; Representative 1675.

SAMUEL BROWN, Eastham, married 19 February 1683, Martha Harding, had Bethia, born 22 January 1684, died next year; Bethia again, 9 September 1685; Martha, 21 June 1688, died young; and Samuel, 7 November 1690; died 3 December 1691, aged 31.

STEPHEN BROWN, Newbury, in his will of 3 August 1656, names wife Sarah, children Sarah, wife of Ordway; Abigail, wife of Rogers; Ann; Mary; John; and Stephen. This last named son, Stephen Brown, was killed by the Indians at Scarborough probably in the fight under Captain Swett, 28 June 1677, as administration on his estate as given to his brother-in-law 28 September following.

THOMAS BROWN, Newbury, a weaver, of Malford, in Wiltshire, came from Southampton 1635, by the James, in employment of Thomas Antram, reaching Boston 3 June, bringing wife Mary, who died 2 June 1655; freeman 22 May 1639; had Mary, born 1635, the first English child of the town; Isaac; and Francis; may have been of Ipswich 1641; died by a fall 8 January 1687, aged 80. Malford is a parish in the hundreds of North Damenham, about 6 miles from Malmsbury, and 5 from Chippenham, in County Wilts, on the map of that ship in Camden's Britannia, called Christian Malford, perhaps too long, a name for modern maps. In this geographical detail I am more full, because (though printed by me, in 1843, 3 History Coll. VIII. 319), a descendant sent lately to England to explore the seat of his ancestors, and his agents answer was "finds no such place in England as Malford." In despair, the inquiry accepted Walford, in Wales for the derivation of his ancestor, as if, in those early days, from that distant principality, a weaver would travel with his wife so far as Southampton to embark, when Bristol and other ports would have been so much nearer. Mary married 13 May 1656, Peter Godfrey, and died 16 April 1716.

THOMAS BROWN, Concord 1638, perhaps brother of Reverend Edmund Brown, being among original proprietors of Sudbury 1637, freeman 14 March 1639, by wife Bridget, had Boaz, born 14 February 1642; perhaps Jabez, 1644; Mary, 26 March 1646; Eleazer, July 1649; and Thomas, 1651. His wife died 5 January 1681, and he removed probably to Cambridge, died 3 November 1688.

THOMAS BROWN, Cambridge, married 7 October 1656, Martha, widow of Richard Oldham, had Mary, born 28 April 1658, died young; Mehitable, 13 May 1661; Mary, again, 1 November 1663, probably died young; Ebenezer, 15 June 1665; Ichabod, 5 September 1666; and Martha, 19 October 1668; and died December 1690. His will of 23 November preceding mentioned the wife and four children: Thomas, Lynn (not, probably son of Nicholas, as Lewis informed Farmer), by wife Mary Newhall, daughter of Thomas Newhall of the same, had Mary, born 10 February 1656, died young; Sarah, 20 September 1657, died young; Joseph, 16 January 1659; Sarah, again, born 13 October 1660, died young; Jonathan, who died 12 September 1666; Mary, again, born 28 August 1666; Jonathan, again, 24 January 1669; Eleazer, 4 August 1670; Ebenezer, 16 April 1672; Daniel, 29 November 1673; Ann and Grace, twins 4 January 1675, died in few days; and Daniel, again, 1 February 1677; d 28 August 1693. Mary married 24 August 1685, Thomas Norwood.

THOMAS BROWN Sudbury, son of William Brown, married 1667, Patience Foster, who died August 1706, aged 52. He married Mary Danforth of Cambridge, widow of Solomon Phips junior, daughter of Deputy-Governor Thomas Danforth, and he died 7 May 1709, was buried at Boston. He was a Major, and his daughter Mary married 8 January 1691, Jonathan Willard of Roxbury. Barry notes that he gave, by his will, property in Hedcom and Tenterden in Kent.

THOMAS BROWN, Lynn, called junior, married 8 January 1678, Hannah Collins, had Samuel, born 8 December 1678; and Hannah, 5 December 1680.

THOMAS BROWN, Stonington, by wife Hannah, had Samuel, born 8 December 1678; Hannah, 5 December 1680; Mary, 26 May 1683; Jerusha, December 1687; Sarah, 11 July 1689; Thomas, 14 February 1692; Elizabeth, 9 May 1694; Daniel, 9 October 1696; Priscilla, 28 January 1699; and Humphrey, 16 September 1701. Perhaps his daughter Hannah married William Punchard.

THOMAS BROWN, Concord, son of Thomas Brown, was town clerk, died 4 April 1718.

THOMAS BROWN, Hampton, son of John Brown of the same, married Abigail Shaw, daughter of Joseph Shaw, had Thomas, born 14 December 1686; Joseph, 30 January 1689; Sarah, 3 April 1691; Elizabeth, 21 April 1694; Ebenezer, 1696; and Josiah, 15 February 1701. His wife died 21 December 1739, aged 77; and he died 29 June 1744, almost 87 years old.

WILLIAM BROWN Boston 1633, in employment of Governor Winthrop, by wife Thomasine, had Sarah, baptized 11 May 1634. He may have had another daughter Rebecca, who married 3 February 1653, James Hudson, as second wife, and died 14 November following.

WILLIAM BROWN, Salem, son of Francis Brown of Brandon, in County Suffolk, came, perhaps, in the Love, 1635, aged 26, from London, with wife Mary Youngs, of the same age, had been, it may be probable, a member of the Fishmongers Company. His wife, it is said, was sister of Reverend John Youngs, and died the year after landing. By second wife Sarah Smith, daughter, as the family report says, of Reverend S. Smith of Great Yarmouth, England, but more probably of Samuel Smith of our Wenham, who died 10 February 1668, he had William, born 14 April 1639; John, October 1641, died 1669; Samuel, 31 July 1644, drowned at 11 years; Joseph Brown, Harvard College 1666, before mentioned; Benjamin, 1648, before mentioned; Sarah, 23 December 1649, who married 1665, Thomas Deane; Mary, 16 January 1656, married Wait Winthrop, and died 14 June 1690; and James, 28 December 1658, died soon. He was freeman 1649, Representative 1654, 9, and 66, Assistant 1680-3, and died 20 January 1688. His will, made 12 March preceding with codicil of 19, names of children only William, Benjamin, and daughter Winthrop.

WILLIAM BROWN, Sudbury, an original proprietor, married 15 November 1641, Mary Besbeech, daughter of Thomas Besbeech or Thomas Bisby, had Mary, born 18 May 1643, who married about 1662, Benjamin Rice; Thomas, 22 May 1644, before mentioned; William; Edmund, 27 November 1653, before mentioned; Hopestill, 8 July 1656, before mentioned; Susanna; and Elizabeth, 23 July 1659. He was a Deacon, perhaps brother of Reverend Edmund Brown, freeman 2 June 1641, a Captain, and Representative under the new Charter 1692.

WILLIAM BROWN, Gloucester, a selectman 1644, married 15 July 1646, Mary, widow of the first Abraham Robinson, had Mary, born 28 July 1649; and he died 3 May 1662. His will of 29 April before names wife and daughter Mary, besides son-in-law Abraham Robinson. His widow married 26 September 1662, Henry Walker as his third wife, and daughter Mary married 3 July 1667, William Haskell.

WILLIAM BROWN, Plymouth, married 16 July 1649 Mary Murcock, had Mary, born 14 May 1650; George, 16 January 1652; William, 1 April 1654; and Samuel, early in March 1656; besides John, James, and Mercy; yet some of these, perhaps most, were born at Eastham; and died about 1694.

WILLIAM BROWN, Salisbury 1641, brother of George Brown of Haverhill, married 1645 or 6, Elizabeth Munford, had Mary, born 14 June 1647; William, 24 February 1649, died young; Ephraim, 24 June 1650; Martha, 5 July 1654; Elizabeth, 6 August 1656, who married 3 August 1679, Samuel Clough; and Sarah, 12 April 1658, who married Benjamin Brown of Hampton; and he died 24 August 1706.

WILLIAM BROWN, Boston, soapboiler, lived probably some years at Salem, had James, who died 15 November 1653; but perhaps others earlier, possibly at Salem, and died 1662, leaving widow Hannah, and six children, to each of which by will of 1 July 1662, he gave one shilling.

WILLIAM BROWN, Boston, married 2 April 1655, Elizabeth Ruggles, daughter of George Ruggles of Braintree, had Mary, born 16 March following; and Sarah, 8 January 1658; besides Elizabeth, 5 May 1659; and George, 5 April 1668. But my confidence does not reach to all the statements in a genealogical table, published in 1852, by a descendant that makes this last child born "soon after his parents landed", probably the compiler paid too much regard to an untrustworthy tradition that they, “William and Elizabeth, emigrated from Scotland about that time, i. e. 1667--that he was a seafaring man, and that he died soon after landing in Massachusetts, that Elizabeth, his widow married a man by the name of Baldwin, and settled in Woburn”. The only William Brown in Boston, who had near those days wife Elizabeth, had been here, I think, at least thirteen years, and to me it seems very improbable that he came from Scotland before 1655. I may not disbelieve, that he died soon after birth of the only son, but fourth child, yet much do I doubt the story of widow's marriage to a Baldwin of Woburn, for the only man at Woburn of that surname who had wife Elizabeth, was Timothy Brown, and she bore him several children down to 1692, which is quite inconsistent with her being widow of Boston William Brown.

WILLIAM BROWN, Boston, probably brother of Job Brown, had by wife Lydia, who died 30 July 1680, aged 46, Mary, born 23 April 1657; and Susanna, 24 October 1659. Perhaps this is the man, married by Deputy-Governor Bellingham, 11 April 1656 to some family in the Genealogical Registrar XI. 201, called William Parchment. Surely we may presume this to be wanton folly, or inexcusable carelessness. Was it designed for a sneer at the Deputy-Governor?

WILLIAM BROWN, Salem, son of Honorable William Brown, married 29 December 1664, Hannah Esp, daughter of George Esp; had William, born 28 July 1666, died soon; Hannah, 16 March 1668, died soon; Samuel, 8 October 1669; William, again, 5 September 1671, died next year; John, 2 November 1672; Sarah, 10 December 1674, died at 14; and Mary, 22 August 1679. His wife died 21 November 1692; and he married 26 April 1694, Rebecca Bayley, was freeman 1668, one of Andros's council 1687-9, and of the council of safety, when the usurption was put down, not named by Increase Mather in the Charter of 1692, but chosen next year by a full vote of the representatives of the people, and died 23 February 1716. The benefactor to Harvard college of this gentleman, of his father, brother, and son are honorably commemorated by Quincy in his great work. One of his sons Samuel Brown was Representative, counsellor, and judge, and died June 1731, father of William Brown, Harvard College 1727, and of Samuel Brown, Harvard College 1727. This last was father of William Brown, Harvard College 1755, a Judge of the Supreme Court 1775 which adhered to the crown, and after some years was Governor of Bermuda.

WILLIAM BROWN, Charlestown, married 5 January 1665, Elizabeth Downs, had Elizabeth, born and died that year; James, 3 August 1666; and William, 6 August 1668.

WILLIAM BROWN, Salem, lived I presume, on Marblehead side in 1674, and earlier, by wife Sarah, had John, born 10 October 1669; Joseph, August 1672; and Benjamin, August 1674.

WILLIAM BROWN, Sudbury, son of William Brown, married 11 January 1676, Margaret Stone, daughter of Deacon John Stone of Cambridge, and died 1705.

WILLIAM BROWN, Charlestown, perhaps brother of Job Brown, married 29 February 1672, Mary Goodwin, who died 28 July 1678, aged 22; and by her had Job, baptized 3 October 1675. He had second wife Mary Lothrop, married 21 May 1679, who died 23 December 1713, aged 54. Other children he had, most, perhaps not all, by this wife, as in his will of 1721 are named William, John, Sarah, wife of Richard Randall, Mary, wife of Samuel Whitehead, Martha, wife of Elias Kingsley, and Abigail, then unmarried. He died 19 October 1724, aged. 78.

WILLIAM BROWN, Bristol, had in 1689 three children, but wife was dead. Of this name (some with final e, more without it), it seems impossibe to unravel the whole line and lines. It will be seen, that I have given at least, a fair sample. Thirty-six of the name had, in 1834, been graduates at Harvard alone, and Mr. Farmer says fifty-nine others at the various colleges of New England New Jersey and Union of New York. Of these, eleven had been clergymen from Harvard College and the same number from the others.

GEORGE BROWNELL, Portsmouth, Rhode Island, son of Thomas Brownell of the same, married 4 December 1673, Susanna Pierce, daughter of Richard Pierce, had Susanna, born 25. January 1676; Sarah, 14 June 1681; Mary, 8 December 1683; Martha, 18 February 1686; Thomas, 1 June 1688; Joseph, 5 December 1690; Wait, 3 October 1693; and Stephen, 3 December 1695.

HENRY BROWNING, New Haven 1639, had baptized in right of Mary, his wife Hannah, 5 January 1640; Zephaniah, 11 October 1640; and Ebenezer, 10 May 1646; next year sold his estate to William Judson, and probably went home, at least removed.

JOSEPH BROWNING, Boston 1683; printer and bookseller, a Dutchman, of which good character is given by John Dunton, in his Life and Errors, described his visit from England to Massachusetts 1686. but he spells the name Brunning as does, also, the probable record when administration of his estate was given 25 August 1691, to his widow Mary. He died 8 April preceding. See also Thomas, History of Print. II. 413.

MALACHI BROWNING, Boston, had small estate at Watertown, but in Boston died 27 November 1653; had not wife or children known to Bond, but he marks his death five years later.

NATHANIEL BROWNING, Portsmouth, Rhode Island, a freeman 1655, married Sarah, daughter of William Freeborn, by him brought from England, may have had Samuel.

SAMUEL BROWNING, Portsmouth, Rhode Island, perhaps son of Nathaniel Browning of the same, is by Potter thought to have married Rebecca Wilbor, youngest daughter of Captain Samuel Wilbor.

THOMAS BROWNING, Salem freeman 17 April 1637, had Mary, baptized 7 January 1638; and Deborah, 31 January 1647; was of Topsfield 1661, died February 1671, aged 83. Felt. He left no sons but four daughters, by his will are named Mary, wife of Edmund Towne; Elizabeth, wife of James Symonds; Sarah, who had married 20 November 1661, Joseph Williams; and daughter wife of Isaac Meacham; she was Deborah, that had married John Perkins.

THOMAS BROWNING, Watertown 1658, servant of John Fleming, or of Thomas Fanning, perhaps of both, at different times, when justice was invoking whipping for stealing.

ABRAHAM BROWNSON, ABRAHAM BRUNSON, or recently ABRAHAM BRONSON, Lyme, son of John Brownson, married 2 September 1674, Ann Griswold, daughter of Matthew Griswold, had Ann, born 5 October 1675; Abraham, 29 March 1677; Mary, 21 January 1679; Mercy, 21 March 1681; Elizabeth, 12 August 1682; Sarah; and Frances; at a military election 1678 had half of the votes of the Company to be Lieutenant.

CORNELIUS BROWNSON, CORNELIUS BRUNSON, or recently CORNELIUS BRONSON, Woodbury, son of Richard Brownson of Farmington; though Cothren could not tell his wife yet he names the children, there baptized Richard, in May 1692; Cornelius, December following; Elizabeth, March 1694; Abraham, May 1697; Stephen, born 12 May 1699; Timothy, 14 June 1701; John, baptized April 1704; and Amos, born October 1707, died at 3 months

ISAAC BROWNSON, ISAAC BRUNSON, or recently ISAAC BRONSON, Farmington, son of the first John Brownson, united with the church there 25 May 1684, and had Isaac, John, Samuel, Joseph, and Mary, all baptized 29 June following; Thomas, 11 April 1686; and Ebenezer, 7 April 1689.

JACOB BROWNSON, JACOB BRUNSON, or recently JACOB BRONSON, Farmington, brother of the preceding, had wife 1679, son Isaac, baptized 28 November 1686; and Hannah, 28 October 1688.

JOHN BROWNSON, JOHN BRUNSON, or recently JOHN BRONSON, Hartford 1639, removed to Farmington, there was one of the founders of the church 13 October 1652, died 1680, leaving Jacob, born 1640; John, 1643; Isaac, baptized 7 December 1645; Abraham, 28 November 1647; had daughters Mary, Dorcas, and Sarah, before Jacob, John, and Isaac; settled at Waterbury. Mary married John Wyatt; Dorcas married Stephen Hopkins; and Sarah married John Kilbourn as second wife outlived him, and died 4 December 1711.

JOHN BROWNSON, JOHN BRUNSON, or recently JOHN BRONSON, Farmington, son of the preceding, married Sarah Ventris, daughter of Moses Ventris, and took second wife 17 April 1709, Mary, widow of John Chatterton.

RICHARD BROWNSON, RICHARD BRUNSON, or recently RICHARD BRONSON, Farmington, brother of John Brownson, died 1687, had, baptized 29 May 1659, Abigail, then about 15 years old; John, 20 February 1659, about 13 years; as had been Cornelius, about 5 years; Hannah, about 3 years; and Elizabeth, about 1 year all baptized 17 July 1653, I presume, though Goodwin in Genealogical Registrar XI. 323, prints it 19, which was on Tuesday, and so not to be thought of; Eede, or Edith, 22 April 1655; and Mary, 13 February 1659; besides Samuel; all except one daughter named or described in the will. For second wife he took Elizabeth, widow of George Orvis, who had been widow of David Carpenter of Farmington.

SAMUEL BROWNSON, SAMUEL BRUNSON, or recently SAMUEL BRONSON, Waterbury, son of the preceding, married Lydia Warner, daughter of John Warner first of the same.

JOHN BRUCE, Sudbury, by wife Elizabeth, had Hannah, born 1672; Mary, 1680; Eunice, 1684; and Martha, 1685. Perhaps he had male child earlier.

ROGER BRUCE, Marlborough, by wife Elizabeth, had Samuel, born 24 March 1691; Abijah, 27 November 1693; removed to Framingham, had Elisha, 14 September 1695; Rebecca, 22 February 1698; Sarah, 2 March 1700; Daniel, 22 February 1701; Thomas, 5 January 1704; Hannah, 18 February 1706; Deliverance, 9 September 1709; and David, 9 June 1711; died 16 September 1733.

JOHN BRUEN, New London, son of Obadiah Bruen, by wife Esther, had Eleazer, Joseph, and John, but probably some, perhaps all, born after his removal to Newark; died about 1696, when the Lords proprietors made grant of land to his widow.

OBADIAH BRUEN, Gloucester, came, 1640, probably with Reverend Richard Blinman, had first set them down at Marshfield, and asked for administration as freeman of Plymouth jurisdiction March 1641, but speedily went to the opposite side of the Bay. He was freeman 19 May 1642; selectman in 1642, and several following years, and Representative 1647, 8, 9, and 51, in which last year with his spiritual guide he removed again to New London, there was town clerk 15 years. Often Representative and is named in the Royal Charter 1662; but having purchased 11 June 1667, with associates the land in New Jersey, now the city of Newark, he removed thither, where the family has always flurished. He was youngest son of John Bruen, Esq. of Bruen Stapleford, Cheshire, baptized 25 December 1606, at Tarves, near Chester, became a draper at Shrewsbury in the adjoining County Salop, had brought wife Sarah and child Mary, and here had Rebecca; Hannah, born 9 January 1644; and John, 2 June 1646. The time of his death is unknown but he was alive 1680. In spelling the name slight variety occurs. A letter of 11 October 1679 to his daughter and her husband at New London, from Newark, to tell of the death of their minister the first Pierson, is signed Obadiah Brewen, but by the wife Sarah Bruen. His daughter Mary married 1653 John Baldwin of Milford, as his second wife; Hannah married 1663, John Baldwin of Milford, son of the husband of her sister, but perhaps died soon, as he is said to have died on a voyage, unmarried but it may be that her husband was another of the frequent Johns; Rebecca married 1663, Thomas Post of Norwich, as his second wife Reverend Matthias, born at Newark, 11 April 1793, Columbia college 1812, died 11 November 1829, was a descendant of high reputation.

JOHN BRUNDISH, perhaps of Watertown at first, freeman 4 March 1635, removed early to Wethersfield, died 1639, leaving widow Rachel, who married Anthony Wilson of Fairfield, one son and four daughters.

GEORGE BRUSH, Woburn, said to be a Scotchman, married 20 December 1659, Elizabeth Clark, daughter of William Clark, had William, born 21 November 1660, died in few weeks; William, again, 20 October 1661, died in two weeks; Elizabeth, 96 January 1663, died young; Mary, 15 June 1665; William, again, 28 April 1667; John, 18 June 1670; Elizabeth, again, 24 August 1672; George, 18 January 1674, died same day; Joseph, 11 January 1675, died at one year; Joseph, again, 29 December 1676; Samuel, 28 March 1680; Margery, 24 April 1684; and Lydia, 10 April 1687; was freeman 1690, and died 13 August 1692. The name is made Bruce. His daughter Mary married 4 June 1683, Walter Cranston.

WILLIAM BRUSH, Woburn, son of George Brush, married 15 March 1693, Elizabeth Gould, had Mary, born 6 December 1693; William, 11 March 1696; John, 9 November 1698; Samuel, 11 March 1701; Abigail, 29 March 1702; Thomas, 20 March 1705; James, 16 June 1708; Rebecca, 26 September 1709; and Lydia, 24 August 1712; was a Lieutenant after serving in the Indians war 1690.

JOHN BRUSTER, Portsmouth 1665, had married Mary Knight, daughter of Roger Knight, one of Mason's men, so long before December 1656, that her father at Dover, written to his son-in-law in that month, speaks of his wife "Mary and the dear children", was freeman 1672, of grand jury 1687. Descendants are numerous, but they spell for Brewster, the name on Colony record is Breuster.

ALEXANDER BRYAN, Milford 1639, a man of influence in the Colony of New Haven, and after union with Connecticut, Assistant 1668-73. Ann, probably his wife, died there 20 February 1661, and he married the widow of Samuel Fitch, the schoolmaster of Hartford, and died between 20 July and 6 November 1679, at grand age. He had Richard, and other children we infer, for his will names, besides that son, only grandchildren and great grandchildren sprung, indeed, from him; yet he probably had daughters Susanna, who died at Middletown 1670, and Joanna, who married 9 April 1652, Owen Morgan, unless one or both were widow of other son, who had died before the testate. He names grandchildren Alexander, and his son Alexander; great grandchildren John, and Mary Maltby; grandchild Samuel Bryan; grandchild Sarah, who became wife of Samuel Fitch, son of his own wife; grandchild Hannah Harriman, and her three children; and nephew Thomas Oviatt.

ALEXANDER BRYAN, Milford, eldest son of Richard Bryan, married Sybil Whiting, daughter of Reverend John Whiting of Hartford, had Ann, born 8 September 1674; Alexander, 15 June 1677, died soon; John, 12 July 1680; Alexander, again, 24 November 1683; Ebenezer, 2 February 1690; and Augustine, 25 April 1694; and died 1701. His widow married 1705 Hugh Gray of Huntingdon, Long Island, it is said, but after his death was living at Milford in 1711. This name sometimes ends with t, and in Mather's list of the Connecticut magistrates, has a final s, but the barbarism of the London printer is probably charged with it. Often in early record here it is Bryer.

JOHN BRYAN, Taunton 1637, died 28 April 1638, as two of his friends said, proved his nuncupative will, gives all his property to son John, who was perhaps not then in the country, for he desired John Gilbert to have charge of the property for him. Elizabeth Poole, the founder of the settlement in that year preceding, and Jane, probably her younger sister or niece, having aided in making the inventory (of which the sum was £43.). I infer that he had come in her company.

JOHN BRYAN, Taunton 1639, son probably of the preceding, one of the first purchasers and long an inhabitant.

RICHARD BRYAN, Milford, son of first Alexander Bryan, born in England, by wife Mary, had Alexander, before mentioned born 1651; Mary and Hannah, twins 1654; Samuel, baptized 1659; John, 1662, died young; Abigail, 1664, died unmarried 1698; Richard, 1666; Frances, 1668; and Sarah, 1670. He married 1678, Elizabeth Powell, widow of Richard Hollingworth, daughter of Michael Powell of Boston, who died 1698, had Elizabeth, born 1679; and Joseph, 1684. He had large estate being, as had been his father the richest man in town. It was partly in England on Long Island, at New Haven, Elizabethtown, New Jersey Providence, and Milford. His widow married John Durand, and, fourth husband a Treat, and died 1706. Mary married John Maltby of New Haven, and, next, a Howell of Long Island; Hannah, married Reverend John Harriman of New Haven; Frances married Joseph Treat of Milford; Sarah married Samuel Fitch, who died early, leaving only child Sarah; and she married next, about 1696, Mungo Nisbett, and died in two years.

SAMUEL BRYAN, Milford, son of the preceding, married 20 December 1683, Martha Whiting, daughter of Reverend John Whiting, had Mary, born 1685; Martha, 1689 ; Susanna, 1691; Abigail, 1693; Sybil, 9 June 1695; and Jerusha, 4 July 1697; and died 1698, leaving widow Martha.

ABRAHAM BRYANT, Reading, freeman 1673, married Mary Kendall, daughter of Thomas Kendall, who died 8 March 1688, aged 40; and he married Ruth, widow of Samuel Frothingham, probably for second or third wife.

JOHN BRYANT, Scituate 1639, married 14 November 1643, Mary Lewis, daughter of George Lewis of Barnstable, had John, born 17 August 1644; Hannah, 25 January 1646, married 1665, John Stodder of Hingham; Joseph, 1646, died young; Sarah, 29 September 1648; Mary, 24 February 1650, died young; Martha, 26 February 1652; and Samuel, 6 February 1654. His wife died 2 July 1655, and he married 22 December 1657, Elizabeth Wetherell, daughter of Reverend William Wetherell, who died soon; and in 1664 he married Mary Hiland, daughter of Thomas Hiland, had Elizabeth, 1665; Benjamin, 1669; Joseph, again, 1671; Jabez, 1672; Ruth, 1673; Thomas, 1675; Deborah, 1677; Agatha, 1678; Ann, 1680; and Elisha, 1682. He was Representative 1677-8, and his will was dated 1684.

JOHN BRYANT, Plymouth, married 23 November 1665, Abigail Bryant, perhaps daughter of Stephen Bryant of the same.

JOHN BRYANT, Scituate, son of John Bryant of the same, had John, born 1677; Jonathan, 1679; Mary, 1682; David, 1684; Joshua, 1687; Samuel, 1689; and Martha, 1691.

RICHARD BRYANT, New Haven 1654, may have been son of Alexander Bryan, and have no right to the final letter.

ROBERT BRYANT, a soldier in Turner's Company in Philip's war, of whose residence I am ignorant.

SAMUEL BRYANT, Scituate, son of first John Bryant, died in the strange expedition of Sir William Phips against Quebec.

STEPHEN BRYANT, Duxbury 1643, removed to Plymouth 1650, married Abigail Shaw, daughter of John Shaw, had John, born 7 April 1650; Mary, 29 May 1654; Stephen, 2 February 1658; Sarah, 28 November 1659; Lydia, 23 October 1662; and Elizabeth, 17 October 1660.

THOMAS BRYANT, Scituate, son of first John Bryant, a man of distinction, Representative 1725, 30, 3, and 4, was father of Reverend Lemuel Bryant, Harvard College 1739, a distinguished man of Braintree.

WILLIAM BRYANT, Boston, taverner, by wife Hannah, who survived him, had Hannah, born 26 June 1683; Benjamin, 6 July 1686; William, 5 October 1687; John, 25 March 1689; and died before 22 November 1697 when administered was granted to his widow. Some make the name Briant.

ELISHA BRYER, or ELISHA BRYARD, New Hampshire 1689, probably lived at Portsmouth, where he married 4 October 1689, Abigail Drew, perhaps daughter of James Drew, had Margaret, born 30 November 1693; Abigail, 11 December 1695; Samuel, 18 September 1697; Sarah, 2 February 1700; and Mary, 21 August 1702.

RICHARD BRYER, or RICHARD BRYARD, Newbury, married 21 December 1665, Eleanor Wright, who died 20 August 1672, had Richard, born 19 August 1667; Elizabeth, 11 May 1669; and Ruth, 27 December 1670.

EMANUEL BUCK, or ENOCH BUCK, Wethersfield, by wife Sarah, had Ezekiel, born 1650; John, 1652; Jonathan, 1655; and by second wife Mary Kirby, daughter of John Kirby of Middletown, had David, 1667; Sarah, 1667; Hannah, 1671; Elizabeth, 1676; Thomas, 1678; and Abigail, 1682. Here is a strange confusion of names, yet the Wethersfield record mentioned the man by both prefixes, in different places; and the surname was varied into Book, or Bouk, as he wrote it.

EPHRIAM BUCK, Woburn, married 1 January 1671, Sarah Brooks, had Sarah, born 11 January 1674; Ephraim, 13 July 1676; John, 1 January 1679, died in few days; John, again, 7 February 1680; Samuel, 13 November 1682; Eunice, 7 July 1685; Ebenezer, 20 May 1689; and Mary, 28 October 1691.

HENRY BUCK, Wethersfield, married 31 October 1660, Elizabeth Churchill, daughter of Josiah Churchill, had Samuel, born 1664; Martha, 1667; Elizabeth, 1670; Mary, 1673; Sarah, 1678; Ruth, 1681; Mehitable, 1684; and Henry; he died 7 July 1712.

ISAAC BUCK, Scituate 1647, town clerk, Representative 1663, 4, and 5; bore arms 1643, and was the Lieutenant 1676, who repulsed the Indians assault on the town, died 1695, leaving widow Frances, and children Thomas, Joseph, Jonathan, Benjamin, Elizabeth, who was wife of Robert Whitcomb, Mehitable, wife of Stephen Chittenden, Ruth, married 17 January 1677, Joseph Garrett, not Gannett, as printed in Genealogical Registrar IX. 316, and Deborah, wife of Henry Merritt.

JAMES BUCK, Hingham 1638, came in the Diligent, that year with one servant John Morfield, from old Hingham, freeman 22 May 1639. He married 4 June 1639, at Dorchester, but the wife’s name is not seen, had a child that was buried 13 June 1640; Lydia, baptized 3 December 1643; Adam, who died 24 April 1646; and Abel, probably twin brothers baptized 26 April 1646; and Lydia died at 23 years.

JOHN BUCK, Hingham, brother of the preceding, came, probably in the same ship, was short time at Dorchester, removed 1650, to Scituate, married Elizabeth Holbrook, daughter of Samuel Holbrook of Weymouth, had Elizabeth, born 1653; Mary, 1655; Joseph, 1657; John, 1659; Hannah, 1661; Susanna, 1664; Benjamin, 1665; Deborah, 1670; Robert, 1672; and Rachel, 1674. He married 1693, the widow of second Edward Dotey, who was probably Sarah Faunce, sister of famous Elder Faunce, and died 1697, or, rather, his will bears that date.

ROGER BUCK, Cambridge, came in the Increase 1635, aged 18, perhaps son of William Buck, had Mary, born 1638, who died 31 August 1669; John, 3 September 1644; Ephraim, 26 July 1646; Mary, 23 June 1648; Ruth, 6 November 1653; and Elizabeth, 5 July 1657; perhaps others. His wife Susanna died 10 September 1685, probably he had other children, for Harris's Epit. mentioned death of Nathaniel, 19 July 1672; of Ann, 13 April 1675; and of Samuel, 21 September 1690.

WILLIAM BUCK, Cambridge, ploughwright, came in the Increase 1635, aged 50, died 24 January 1658. His son Roger had administration in April following. A Christian Buck came in the Blessing 1635, aged 26.

DANIEL BUCKlNGHAM, and SAMUEL BUCKlNGHAM, Milford 1669, were perhaps son of Thomas Buckingham. Of the former we learn nothing more than that he married 1661, Hannah Fowler, daughter of William Fowler the second of Milford, and of Samuel, only that he was born 1640, and married 14 December 1663, Sarah Baldwin, daughter of Timothy Baldwin, and called Anthony Hawkins his uncle. Mr. Porter adds, that his children were Sarah, Ann, Ruth, Esther, Samuel, and Thomas; that his will was of 6 October 1692, his inventory of 2 April 1700; and the inventory of his widow 12 September 1706.

THOMAS BUCKlNGHAM, Milford 1639, one of the chief men, had Hannah, who married before 1655, Thomas Welch; Thomas, baptized 8 November 1646; died 1657, on a visit at Boston. Perhaps his wife was Ann, outlived him, and in her will, of 18 March 1687, may instruct us, for she names children Daniel, Samuel, Thomas, daughter Mary Parker, grandchildren Ann, Mary Merwin, Thomas and Esther, children of her daughter Hannah Welch, and Sarah Fowler.

THOMAS BUCKlNGHAM, Saybrook, son of the preceding, was minister 1669, died 1 April 1709, aged 63, which disproves a fond tradition that he was born on the passage of his parents, who came over with Prudden, and went to Milford as one of the first settlers 28 November 1639. If he were then alive, his age should have been called 71. He had not a college education, but was ordained 1670; and enjoys the distinction of being one of the founders of Yale College. By wife Esther Hosmer, daughter of Thomas Hosmer of Hartford, married 20 September 1666, had Esther, born 10 June 1668; Thomas, 29 September 1670, who married 16 December 1691, Margaret Griswold; Daniel, 2 October 1672; Stephen, 4 September 1675; Samuel, 26 May 1678, died next month; Samuel, again, 24 July 1679, died 5 January 1685; Hezekiah, 21 June 1682; Temperance, 6 January 1685; and Ann, 2 August 1687. In Mather's Hecatompolis he and Thomas Buckingham, Harvard College 1690, minister of Hartford, who was from Milford, not son (as often said), but perhaps nephew of Reverend Thomas Buckingham of Saybrook, and Stephen Buckingham, Harvard College 1693, minister of Norwalk, son of the Saybrook minister, appear together. Stephen married Sarah Hooker, daughter of Reverend Samuel Hooker, and died 13 February 1746, aged 70, leaving no children; and his father married 10 August 1703, for second wife Mary, her mother.

THOMAS BUCKlNGHAM, Hartford, not son of the preceding, married 29 November 1699, Ann Foster, daughter of Reverend Isaac Foster, his predecessor, died 19 November 1731, aged 62, leaving only son Joseph Buckingham, born 7 August 1703, Yale College 1723. Mr. Porter assures me, that he was son of Thomas of Saybrook, and had, besides Joseph, who lived to 29 November 1760, Isaac, born 25 September 1700; and Ann, 12 April 1706; who both died young.

BENJAMIN BUCKLAND, sometimes BENJAMIN BUCKLINE, Braintree, married Rachel Wheatley, daughter of John Wheatley, had Leah, perhaps removed to Rehoboth, there had David, born 22 March 1675; and died about 1679, for his widow married 22 September of that year John Loring of Hingham. Leah married 1687, Thomas, son of said John.

JOSEPH BUCKLAND, sometimes JOSEPH BUCKLINE, Rehoboth, perhaps son of the preceding, had Matthew, born 16 September 1674; besides Nehemiah, who was buried May 1677; Nehemiah, again, 31 March 1678; and Lydia, 5 September 1680.

NICHOLAS BUCKLAND, sometimes NICHOLAS BUCKLINE, Windsor, son of first Thomas Buckland, married 21 October 1668, Martha Wakefield, daughter of John Wakefield of New Haven, had John, born 13 March 1673, died soon; Hannah, 1 September 1674; John, again, died 20 December 1675, very young; Martha, 1 March 1678; and John, again, 17 July 1681; besides Ebenezer, who died as did the preceding young. His wife died 28 October 1684; and by second Elizabeth Drake, daughter probably of the second John Drake, married 3 March 1686, he had a third John, 10 December following; Nicholas, 8 January 1688 both died soon; and Elizabeth, 19 July 1692. This wife died 20 February 1698, and he had third wife Hannah Strong, who died 27 March 1719; and he died 2 August 1728. In Stiles some confusion of this family is seen.

SAMUEL BUCKLAND, sometimes SAMUEL BUCKLINE, New London 1674, married first, the widow of the first Matthew Beckwith, and, next, about 1690, Hannah, widow of Philip Bill, and died in 1700. She died 1709.

THOMAS BUCKLAND, sometimes THOMAS BUCKLINE, freeman 6 May 1635, of Massachusetts probably of Dorchester, for he removed soon to Windsor, served in the Pequot war, 1637, married Temperance Denslow, daughter of Nicholas Denslow, had Timothy, born 10 March 1639; Elizabeth, 21 February 1641; Temperance, 27 November 1642; Mary, 2 October 1644, died young; Nicholas, 21 February 1647; Sarah 24 March 1649; Thomas, 2 February 1651, died young; and Hannah, 18 September 1654; besides John, 26 January 1661; died 28 May 1662, and his widow died 26 July 1681. Temperance married John Ponder; Sarah married John Phelps; and Hannah married 14 August 1681, Joshua Welles.

THOMAS BUCKLAND, sometimes B THOMAS UCKLINE, Windsor 1670, son of the preceding, married Hannah Cooke, daughter of Nathaniel Cooke of the same, had one child who lived not long. He died 28 May 1676, and his widow married 30 January 1677, Joseph Baker.

TIMOTHY BUCKLAND, sometimes TIMOTHY BUCKLINE, Windsor, eldest brother of the preceding, married 27 March 1662, Abigail Vore, daughter of Richard Vore, had Timothy, born 20 April 1664, died soon; Thomas, 23 June 1665; Abigail, 11 November 1667; Mary, 7 November 1670; Sarah, 10 April 1673; Hannah, 28 June 1676; and Elizabeth, 26 February 1679. He died 31 May 1689, and his widow died 20 December 1727.

WILLIAM BUCKLAND, sometimes WILLIAM BUCKLINE, Hingham 1635, removed to Rehoboth 1658, and was buried 1 September 1679. At death of his mother, John Brown junior of Rehoboth, Baruch, and Joseph, perhaps his sons were of Rehoboth 1690; and it is found on record that John Bucklin, who may be a name of the same stock capriciously varied, died 20 June 1677.

WILLIAM BUCKLAND, sometimes WILLIAM BUCKLINE, Hartford, died 13 May 1691, leaving William, and Charles. He was not relative of Thomas Buckland.

JOSEPH BUCKLEY, Boston, merchant, married Joanna Shute, daughter of Richard Shute, widow of Nathaniel Nichols, perhaps in 1688, had Joseph, baptized 5 April 1691; and Richard, born 5 October 1695, both baptized at Charlestown; and by his will of 24 November 1700, probated 19 March 1702, provides for that wife during her life to have his dwelling house which had been given him by father-in-law, but to sons Joseph, the eldest, Richard, and Thomas, £300 each as he comes to 21 years.

THOMAS BUCKLEY, a soldier of Lothrop's Company killed 18 September 1675, at Bloody brook. In this form often appears the more distinguished name of Bulkly.

NEHEMIAH BUCKLINE, 19 May preceding. Perhaps they were children of Joseph Buckland.

JOHN BUCKMAN, Boston, by wife Hannah, had Hannah, born 5 July 1653. One of this name was a soldier in Moseley's Company December 1675. See under Bucknam.

JOSEPH BUCKMINISTER, Boston, son of Thomas Buckminister, by wife Elizabeth Clark, daughter of Hugh Clark, of Watertown, had Joseph, born 31 July, baptized 23 September 1666; and the father died 20 November 1668. His posthumous daughter Elizabeth, was baptized 10 January following. In his record Eliot calls him Buckmaster; the residence being at Muddy river. Roxbury records contain no marriage, birth or death, though convenience of worship took him and his family to the church there. The widow Elizabeth, died at Framingham, where her son lived from where, by wife Martha Sharp, daughter of John Sharp, married 12 May 1686, descend the distinguished stock of this name.

THOMAS BUCKMINISTER, Scituate, perhaps grandson of that Thomas Buckminister, whose Almanac, computed for 1599, in his 67th year is now before me, removed to Boston, where on the church record of his administration 4 October 1645, "upon letter of dismissal from the church of Scituate" (his wife Joan being recorded the same day), he is called laborer; but the spelling in both cases is as in our day. Yet it is strange that Deane omits the name. He lived at what is now Brookline, probably worshipped at Roxbury, where Hannah Buckminister, baptized 28 June 1646, may have been his daughter and have died young. He was freeman 1646, and died 28 September 1656; in his will of 2 September probated 23 November in that year, mentioned wife Joanna, son Zechariah, daughters Elizabeth, wife of Thomas Spowell, Mary, wife of Henry Stevens (as Barry thinks was his name), Dorcas, of Clement Corbin, or Clement Corbett, sons Thomas, Joseph, and Jabez, daughter Spowell's two children, daughter Stevens's two children, daughter Corbin's children, Zechary's children, and, last, daughter Sarah. As Lawrence Buckminister, probably the eldest, had made his will, 27 November 1645, bound to sea, perhaps died before returning, as it was probated 4 July after. He is presumed from it to have been unmarried. See Genealogical Registrar III. 178. Dorcas had married 7 March 1655, the same day with her brother Zechariah; and Sarah married 30 September 1657, John Lawrence. Jabez was probably married and died September 1686. The widow married 1 September 1661, Edward Garfield of Watertown.

THOMAS BUCKMINISTER, Boston, a carpenter, son of the preceding, died December 1659, leaving widow Mary. Inventory of his estate amounted to £39. 16.

ZECHARIAH BUCKMINISTER, Boston, brother of the preceding, married 7 March 1655, Sarah Webb, had probably several children, removed among early settlers to Sherborn, there died after 1691. His widow Sarah died at Roxbury 27 June 1704.

JOSES BUCKMAN, Malden, son of William Buckman, by wife Judith Worth, married 1 May 1673, had Samuel, born April 1674; Judith, 7 August 1676; Sarah, 1680; Mary; Susanna, 8 August 1685; William, 22 February 1688; Edward, 22 May 1692; and Lydia, posthumous 23 March 1695; and died 24 August 1694. But by a former wife probably daughter of George Knower, he had Joses, born January 1667; Hannah, August 1669; and Elizabeth, and probably John. His widow married John Lynde.

WILLIAM BUCKMAN, Charlestown 1647, on the Mistick side, which became Malden, had by first wife only child John; and by second wife Sarah, had Joses, born 1641; Elizabeth, 1644; Mercy, 14 February 1648; Sarah, July 1650; William, August 1652; Mehitable, August 1654; Edward, September 1657; Samuel, who died 13 September 1658, probably a few hours old; and Samuel, again, February 1660; and died early in 1679. Elizabeth married Benjamin Whittemore, and died 18 July 1726; Mercy married 7 December 1669, Benjamin Webb; Mehitable married Samuel Waite; and Sarah married 24 July 1676, Samuel Shattuck.

WILLIAM BUCKMAN, Malden, son of the preceding, married 11 October 1676, Hannah Waite, had no children, and died 17 September 1693, giving all his property to wife by his will. A John Buckman, perhaps the same name, was of Boston 1673, was probably grandchild of Prudence Wilkinson, and of first William. Of him, I presume, it is, that Sewall, in his Diary, under 30 October 1696, relates, that he had been perfectly dumb for eighteen years and had his speech restored. It is almost certain that he was the first son of the first William Buckman, who in his will, explained why he gave him so small a portion was, because he had been infirm from early youth, and was taken by his grandmother.

SAMUEL BUCKNELL, Boston, married 18 September 1654, Sarah Bishop, daughter of Nathaniel Bishop, had Sarah, born 17 May 1655, who died next year; Nathaniel, 1 June 1659.

CHARLES BUCKNER, Dover, schoolmaster 1657, removed in few years to Boston, had wife Mary.

JOHN BUDD, New Haven 1639, lived some years at Southold, on Long Island, as a freeman of Connecticut, a Lieutenant 1661, and Representative for Greenwich 1664, and for the United Colonies of Connecticut 1666, and after. He was Representative for Milford in 1677, Trumbull, II. 318, then called him Bird.

JONATHAN BUDD, New Haven 1643, had family of six, and removed but to what place is unknown.

WALTER BUDDINGTON, WALTER BODINGTON or WALTER BUDINGTON, Stonington 1668, removed to New London, and died 1689, leaving no children but his nearest of kin was Walter Buddington, a nephew, constable at New London 1695, on Groton side.

ANDREW BUDLEY, Ipswich, probably son of Giles Budley of the same, married 14 March 1682, Mary Conant, whose father is not known, but no doubt she was grand daughter of Roger Conant the first, had Rebecca, born 29 March 1683; Andrew, 5 April 1686, died at 4 months; Martha, 3 March 1692, died next year; Andrew, again 15 June 1694; Martha, again, 28 April 1696; Sarah, 6 October 1698; and Elizabeth, 25 August 1700; but perhaps the mother of this last was Rebecca. He died 1 February 1718, aged 60 years. Rebecca married Robert Kinsman.

GILES BUDLEY Ipswich 1648, of who we learn from his will of 18 July 1668, probated 29 September following, most of the little we know, that he left wife Elizabeth, and children Andrew, born 5 September 1657; James, 10 February 1660; and John, perhaps youngest, for he had Giles, 13 July 1662, who probably died before his father.

JAMES BUDLEY, Ipswich, son of the preceding, married 25 May 1685, Rebecca Stacey, perhaps daughter of Thomas Stacey, and she died 21 October 1686; but by wife Elizabeth, he had William, born 27 February 1693; Joseph, 6 April 1695; and Thomas, 5 April 1697. Some confusion of this name with Burley occurs on the records where is also given in the Collections catalogue, and it is seen, also, Birdley; yet in modern times it is, I suppose, written Burleigh.

FRANCIS BUDLONG, Warwick, married 19 March 1669, Rebecca Lippit, widow of Joseph Howard, daughter probably of John Lippit, and John, and other children, before or after, or both, was killed with his wife and all the family except John, by the Indians November 1675, who carried John away, but soon restored him.

JOHN BUDLONG, Warwick, son of the preceding, had three sons John, Moses, and Daniel, who was less than 21 years old; besides daughters Rebecca Pierce, Mary Pierce, and Isabel, under 18 years, as we learn from his will of 4 October 1731. He lived to 1744.

PETER BUELL, Windsor, son of William Buell, removed 1670 to Simbury, died 8 January 1729, had Samuel, Ephraim, William, and Jonathan, besides seven daughters. He had second wife Mary, widow of Jacob Bissell, but who was the first wife is unknown, or how many of his children were by her is uncertain, yet as this wife was not married before 1698, it is highly probable that she was not mother of all his children. The daughters were Abigail, Martha, Mary, Sarah, Hannah, Miriam, and Esther. These are all named as well as wife in his will of 28 June before his death, but some were not living.

SAMUEL BUELL, Windsor, eldest brother of the preceding, married 13 November 1662, Deborah Griswold, daughter of Edward Griswold, and removed to Killingworth, had, besides Samuel, born 20 July 1663, at Windsor; and at Killingworth had Deborah, 18 October 1665; Hannah, 6 September 1667, died young; Mary, 28 November 1669; John, 17 February 1672; Hannah, again, 4 May 1674; William, 18 October 1676; David, 15 February 1679; Josiah, 16 March 1681; Mehitable, 22 August 1682; Peter, 3 December 1684; and Benjamin, 1686. His wife died 7 February 1719, and he died 11 July 1720.

WILLIAM BUELL, Windsor, one of the first settlers, by wife Mary, married 18 November 1640, had Samuel, above mentioned born 2 September 1641; Mary, 3 September 1642; Peter, 19 August 1644; Hannah, 8 January 1647; Hepzibah, 11 December 1649; Sarah, 21 March 1653 or 4; and Abigail, 12 February 1656; died 16 November 1681; and his widow died 2 September 1684. His will, of 26 July 1681, names the two sons and daughter Mary, but refers to others; and the will of the widow 29 August 1684, names daughter Mary Mills, married 23 February 1660; Sarah died unmarried; and Abigail is not named, probably died young; Hannah married 17 September 1663, Timothy Palmer; Hepzibah married 12 January 1673, Thomas Welles of Hatfield.

WILLIAM BUELL, Salisbury, but whether before or after October 1650, I know not. He and his wife were at that time indicted in Plymouth Colony as baptized. Baylies, II. 211.

BENJAMIN BUFFINGTON, Salem, son of Thomas Buffington, had Benjamin, born 4 May 1699, and two other sons.

THOMAS BUFFINGTON, Salem spelt Bovanton, married 30 December 1671, Sarah Southwick, perhaps daughter, more probably grand daughter of Lawrence Southwick of the same, had Thomas, born 1 March 1672; Benjamin, 24 July 1675; and Abigail, 25 July 1695.

THOMAS BUFFINGTON, Salem, eldest son of the preceding, married 28 February 1699, Hannah Ross, had several children whose names are not seen.

CALEB BUFFUM, Salem, son probably of the first Robert Buffum, married 26 March 1672, Hannah Pope, daughter of the first Joseph Pope, had Caleb, born 14 May 1673; and Robert, 1 December 1675.

JOSEPH BUFFUM, Salem, perhaps brother of the preceding, had Joseph. His wife was punished 1658 for attending a Quaker meeting with her son, and perhaps she was again punished 1662, with her daughter, wife of Robert Wilson, and her sister Smith, perhaps wife of James or John. Felt.

JOSHUA BUFFUM, Salem, eldest son of Robert Buffum, perhaps brother of the preceding, by wife Damaris Pope, daughter of Joseph Pope, had Joseph; was banished 1659, on pain of death, probably the sentence could not be carried into effect, but he went to England, and got security against such monstrous injustice.

ROBERT BUFFUM, Salem 1638, is said to have come from Yorkshire in 1634, but perhaps the year is too early, as Felt first saw mention of him in 1638. Perhaps he was father of all the preceding, had wife Thomasin, and daughter Mary, who married 22 September 1673, Jeremiah Neal. His will was refused probate because the witnesses would not swear, but only affirmed inventory of his estate was taken 15 November 1669.

EDWARD BUGBY, Roxbury, came in the Francis from Ipswich 1634, aged 40, with wife Rebecca, 32, and daughter Sarah, 4; had Joseph, born 6 June 1640; and a child born and died August 1642, according to town records. He joined the church August 1665, "an old man," says the record, and when he died 27 January 1669, "aged, as is said, above 80," I suppose, no discredit of the report is intended. His will, of 26 November preceding, names only son Joseph, and Sarah, wife of Richard Chamberlain, who is made executor.

EDWARD BUGBY, Roxbury, by wife Abigail Hall, daughter of Richard Hall, had Abigail, born 1 October 1694; John, 2 October 1696, died 29 January 1703; and other children in his will, 23 January 1703, probated next month, he refers to, but does not name, more than John. His father is not known.

JOHN BUGBY, Roxbury, had wife Joanna, who died 11 July 1690; and he died 16 January 1704, in his will names children John, Thomas, Mary, and Joanna. Thomas, born April 1668, had family.

JOSEPH BUGBY, Roxbury, son of the first Edward Bugby, by wife Experience Pitcher, daughter of Andrew Pitcher, had Joseph, born 17 September 1664; Rebecca, 16 September 1666; Edward, 31 January 1669; Samuel, 31 August 1673; Abigail, 16 November 1676; Mehitable, 20 August 1679; Jonathan, 23 May 1682; and Josiah, 2 November 1684.

RICHARD BUGBY, Roxbury, came in the fleet with Winthrop probably, and required administration as freeman 19 October 1630, was sworn 18 May 1631, had wife Judith, both of the very early members of the church. He died before 1641, and his widow married Robert Parker, and had John, baptized 27 March 1642, yet the town record does not mentione his time of death.

RICHARD BULGAR, Boston, came, probably in the fleet with Winthrop, freeman 18 May 1631, had John, baptized 20 April 1634; was of the party of Mrs. Hutchinson, and of so much consequence at Roxbury as to be disarmed, went first to Rhode Island, in 1638 with Coddington, but next year to Exeter. He was a bricklayer. Belknap I. 20. I believe he went back to Rhode Island, and there was 71 years old in 1679.

JOHN BULFINCH, Salem 1640, freeman 18 May 1642. Ann, administrator of the church 1641, perhaps was his wife. He removed from Salem after 1644, but whither is not known. Of this name seven had been graduates at Harvard College in 1822, but all of a later stock.

EDWARD BULKLEY, Concord, eldest son of Reverend Peter Buckley, born in England, baptized at Odell 17 June 1614, came to our country before his father, being administered of Boston church 22 March 1634, freeman 6 May following, and administered also in Plymouth jurisdiction 5 June 1644, was minister of Marshfield, ordained 1643, until 1658, and the next year succeeded his father; preaching the election sermon, 1680; died at Chelmsford 2 January 1696, but was buried at Concord. His wife is unknown but he had children Sarah, born 12 June 1640; Peter, at Concord 3 November 1641; Elizabeth, who married 7 December 1665, Reverend Joseph Emerson, next, Captain John Brown of Reading; and John, who died young at Marshfield, besides Jane, who married 20 March 1684, Ephriam Flint.

ELIEZER BULKLEY, Wethersfield, brother of the preceding, lived In 1659, when the will of his father provides well for him, died probably in no long time after, as he is never mentioned as freeman or otherwise.

GERSHOM BULKLEY, New London, brother of the preceding, married at Concord 24 or 26 October 1659, Sarah Chancy, daughter of President Chauncy, who died 3 June 1699, had Peter, born 7 November 1660; after some years preached at New London, removed to Wethersfield, there installed, and preached 1666-77, when he was dismissed at his own request for feeble health, was Representative 1679 for Wethersield, and practised as a surgeon, having in such capacity service in several expeditions during Philip's war; was a great politician in support of Andros, and died 2 December 1713; having made his will 26 May 1712. Besides daughters Catharine, who married Richard treat, and died before her father; and Dorothy, who married Thomas Treat, he had Edward Bulkley, born 1672; John, 1679, Harvard College 1699, first minister of Colchester; and Charles, who in family memorandum is called first born.

JOHN BULKLEY, brother of the preceding, born in England, baptized at Odell, 19 October 1619, came in the ship with his father, freeman 18 May 1642, went to his native land and had a living at Fordham, whence, being ejected 1662, he removed to Wapping, near London, practised physics with success, and died about 1689. Calamy's according to II. 311. He was of the first class of graduates at Harvard 1642, and ranks in the catalogue next after Sir. George Downing.

JOSEPH BULKLEY, Fairfield, brother of the preceding, married Martha Beers, daughter of the elder James Beers, had lands 1672 from his mother, and four sons Thomas; Daniel; Joseph, born 9 May 1682; and Peter, 21 May 1684; are mentioned on record.

PETER BULKLEY, Concord, the first minister there, son of Edward Bulkley, married daughter of Odell, in the hundreds of Willey, Bedfordshire, born 31 January 1583, was bred at St. John's College Cambridge, where he proceeded A.M. 1608, and was chosen a fellow; had a considerable estate from his father, a moderate non-conformist which he succeeded in his native parish, and served at that alter twenty years, through favor of Lord Keeper Williams, then Bishop of Lincoln, his diocesan. [Brook's Lives of the Puritans, III. 318.} He came in the Susan and Ellen, 1635, his age at the custom house called 50, and (for more perfect deception of the government spies), his wife Grace, 33, appears to be embarked in another ship; and son John, 15, some weeks earlier, besides Benjamin, 11, and Daniel, 9 (who two though not named of his son, yet may stand for them), all three in the same ship with himself, but set down at intervals in the records both of time and space; and, of course, his clerical character did not appear, or he would have been stopped. He was first on Cambridge, but next year went to Concord, and was installed 6 April 1637, died 9 March 1659. His widow removed to New London, and bought a house 1663, there died 21 April 1669. By first wife Jane Allen, daughter of Thomas Allen of Goldington, he had Edward, above mentioned; Mary, baptized 24 August 1615, died in few months; Thomas, born 11, baptized 18 April 1617; Nathaniel, 29 Nov1618, died at 9 years; John Bulkley, 17 February 1620, Harvard College 1642; Mary again, 1 November 1621, died at 3 years; George, 17 May 1623; Daniel, 28 August 1625; Jabez, 20 December 1626, died under 3 years; probably Joseph; and perhaps one or two more; and by second wife Grace Chitwood, daughter of Sir Richard Chitwood, or as anciently spelled Chetwode, had Gershom Bulkley, born 6 December 1636, or 2 January as family memorandum has it, of course at Concord (not, as is strangely said in Genealogical Registrar VII. 269, on the voyage), Harvard College 1655; Eliezer, probably 1638; Dorothy, 2 August 1640; and Peter, 12 June or more probably 12 August 1643. His will, given at large in General Reg. X. 167, of 14 April 1658, in his 76th year with codicil of 13 January and 26 February following, was probated 20 June next. It names seven children, takes notice that Thomas was dead, yet remembered, his widow; calls Mr. Samuel Haugh, cousin; and gives his folio bible to Oliver St. John, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas; and makes his wife executrix.

PETER BULKLEY, Concord, eldest son of the Reverend Edward Bulkley, married 16 April 1667, Rebecca Wheeler, daughter of Joseph Wheeler, had Edward, born 18 March 1669; Joseph, 7 October 1670; John, 10 July 1673; and Rebecca, 1681; was Captain and Major, Representative 1673-6, in which last year he was speaker, and sent to England as agent to defend the Colony against compliance of her is of Gorges and Mason, faithfully and prudently executed the service and returned December 1679, Assistant 1677 for 8 years, died 24 May 1688, at middle age, "and," says Danforth, in Hutchinson Collections 566, "verily his sun did set in a cloud." His widow Rebecca married Jonathan Prescott; and daughter Rebecca married Jonathan Prescott, junior.

PETER BULKLEY, Fairfield, youngest son of the Reverend Peter Bulkley, a physician, in his will of 25 March 1691, in 49th year of his age, as he calls it, of course younger than his namesake nephew, names two eldest daughters Grace and Margaret, and son Peter, seven and a quarter years old, but refers to other children without naming Gershom, and Dorothy, for which we are compelled to turn to the will of his brother Gershom Bulkley of Wethersfield, who was made executor of this will, but declined to act. His estate was small, and two nephews John Bulkley and Joseph Bulkley, who resided at Fairfield, undertook administration and soon gave it up. No small dexterity is needed to avoid confusion between the Peter of Edward, the Peter of Gershom, who I intentionally omit, and the Peter of Peter, who is entitled to a place here, as son of one who came from England.

THOMAS BULKLEY, Concord, son of the first Peter Bulkley, born in England, freeman 13 March 1639, married Sarah Jones, daughter of Reverend John Jones, had Sarah, born 12 August 1640, removed with father-in-law to Fairfield, there died about 1658. The widow married Anthony Wilson, and after his death, by her will of 26 April 1677, gave lands to two sons John and Joseph, besides books, and other property, and to daughters Sarah, wife of Eleazer Brown, Rebecca, wife of Joseph Whepley, and daughter Hannah, perhaps unmarried, Books and other property. A Thomas Bulkley was, it is said, of Rowley in 1643.

THOMAS BULKLEY, Boston, by wife Esther, had Elinor, born 16 September 1685; and Thomas, 1 November 1686. Perhaps he removed.

WILLIAM BULKLEY, Ipswich 1648, had William, who died 1660; and he removed to Salem; died 2 June 1702, aged 80. His wife Sarah, who came 1643, was, in 1692, with eight more, of which one was her daughter named Mary Withridge (see Essex Inst. II. 53), indicted for witchcraft, but acquited. Felt. Eleven of this name, often written Buckley, had been graduates at Yale in 1834, and only one at Harvard in the same years, yet four before the founders of Yale.

DAVID BULL, Saybrook, son of Thomas Bull, married 27 December 1677, Hannah Chapman, daughter of Robert Chapman, had Susanna, born 4 July 1679; Hannah, 30 April 1681; and Abigail, 16 March 1683, died at 3 months. It is believed the other children died young.

HENRY BULL, Roxbury, came in the James from London, 1635, aged 25, freeman 17 May 1637, removed to Boston, by family tradition Is derived from South Wales; and less worthy tradition makes him brother of Thomas Bull of Connecticut; the Roxbury church record says, "being weak and affectionate, was taken and transported with the opinion of familism, etc. as may be seen in that story," which the Roxbury minister Welde, himself produced. He was among the Boston majority of heretics disarmed, went to Rhode Island, with Mrs. Hutchinson, was one of the purchasers 1638, his being the 18th name of the signers of the compact or covenant for civil government in that year; Governor of the Colony 1685 and 9, died January 1694, in 95th year is the exaggeration. By ten years of survival by wife Elizabeth, who died 1665, he had Jireh, born September 1638 at Portsmouth; Henry; Esther; and Mary; of who Esther died young; and Mary, who married James Coggeshall, lived very long. For second wife he married the widow of Governor Nicholas Easton.

HENRY BULL, came in the Elizabeth, 1635, aged 19. He belonged to London, and perhaps went home.

HENRY BULL, Narraganset, son of the first Henry Bull, probably younger, married Ann Cole, daughter of John Cole of the same, had Ephriam, born 23 January 1692, who died young; Ann; and Henry, born 1687; and the father died before middle age; and his widow died 21 May 1704, aged 43.

ISAAC BULL, Boston, married 22 June 1653, Sarah Parker, daughter of John Parker.

JIRAH BULL, or JERAH BULL, son of Governor Henry Bull, probably elder, kept a garrison house at Narraganset, in Philip's war, December 1675; had by first wife Godsgift Arnold, daughter probably of the first Benedict Arnold, Jirah, born 1682; Benjamin, 1685; and Benedict; and his wife died 23 April 1691. He took second wife Sarah, who may have borne him some children as Henry, Ephriam, and Ezekiel.

JOHN BULL, Boston 1658, feltmaker, married Mary Baxter, daughter of Nicholas Baxter, who is undoubtedly a wrong name of the father of the bride, had John, born 14 July 1663, died young; James, 16 July 1665; Mary, 29 October 1667; Mehitable, 1 January 1670; John, again, 14 March 1672; Henry, 12 March 1674; Margaret, 19 May 1676; Martha, 7 August 1678; Samuel, 19 December 1680; and Jonathan, 24 February 1683. His wife Mary died 23 August 1723, aged 83.

JOHN BULL, Hingham, a soldier in Captain Johnson's Company wounded in the great Narraganset battle 19 December 1675. But he had children before and after, had married 21 November 1672, Mary Pitts, daughter of Edmund Pitts of Hingham, and had Mary, born 19 December 1673, died soon; another child 4 April 1675; John, 7 April 1677, died soon, and Deborah, who died next year. His wife died 18 September 1696; and he married 4 March following Margaret Damon, perhaps daughter of John Damon of Scituate, had Mary, born 7 December 1697; Deborah, 16 October 1699; John, 10 December 1707, who died at 3 years and Elizabeth, 8 April 1712; and he died 1 December 1720.

JONATHAN BULL, Saybrook, son of Thomas Bull, a brave soldier, Captain 1690, when Schenectady was destroyed by Indians instigated by the French, married 19 March 1685, Sarah Whiting, daughter of Reverend John Whiting, had Susanna, born 26 December following; Sarah, 25 August 1687; Sybil, 13 April 1690; Ruth, 21 April 1692; Abigail, 24 July 1694; Jonathan, 14 July 1696; Moss, 18 May 1699; and Ebenezer, 27 August 1701, and died 17 August 1702, aged 53. Perhaps Goodwin, 332, mistakes in making him grandson of the first Thomas Bull.

JOSEPH BULL, Hartford, brother of the preceding, married 11 April 1671, Sarah Manning of Cambridge, had Sarah, born 11 July 1672; Joseph, 9 August 1675; Daniel, 9 November 1677; Caleb, 1 February 1680, and may have been at Wickford, Rhode Island, 1674.

ROBERT BULL, Saybrook 1649, married December of that year Phebe, whose name on the record if correctly given by Reverend Mr. Nash, is incredible; had Mary, born 7 December 1651; John, 10 March 1653; Phebe, August 1655; and Robert, 1 March 1663. Phebe married 1676, Samuel Chalker. From a part of Saybrook record given in Genealogical Registrar V. 249, it may be inferred that his son John Bull went to England, settled in County Gloucester, there had children, and the conjecture may be indulged that from that shire the family original name.

THOMAS BULL, Hartford, came in the Hopewell, Captain Babb, embarked at London, September 1635, aged 25, was of Boston or Cambridge first, but accompanied Hooker next May, had wife Susanna, who died 1680, aged 70; served well in the Pequot war, 1637, and in 1675 was in command at Saybrook, when Andros attempted to gain the place for his master, the daughter of York, and he steadily and successfully resisted him. [See Chalmer's Polit. Annals 581, and Trumbull, History I. 346.] He died 1684, in his will named children Thomas; David of Saybrook, who was baptized 9 February 1651; Jonathan, baptized 25 March 1659; and Joseph of Hartford; Ruth, wife of Andrew Bordman of Cambridge; Abigail Buck; and a third daughter Bunce.

THOMAS BULL, Farmington, son of the preceding, married Esther Cowles, daughter of John Cowles; who died 1691, aged 42, had John, born 1671, who died before his father, but left issue; Samuel, 1676; Susanna, 1679; Jonathan, baptized 14 May 1682; Sarah, born 1684; and Daniel, 1687. Cothern says, he married second wife 1692, Hannah Lewis, who lived to 1728. Descendants have been numerous and respected.

THOMAS BULL in December 1675 was a soldier in Moseley's Company, set off for the bloody Narraganset expedition.

WILLIAM BULL, Cambridge 1644, had, by wife, whose baptized name was Blyth, Rebecca, born 27 August 1644; John, 9 March 1647; Mary, 9 March 1649; William, 10 September 1652; Samuel, 17 September 1654; and Elisha, 21 June 1657, who all lived to be mentioned in his will, made 21 May 1687, probated 12 October following, though Harris, Epti. says he died 13 September 1688, aged 72. His widow died 23 September 1690, aged 72.

WILLIAM BULL, Cambridge, son of the preceding, married 3 January 1674, Abiah Perry, daughter of William Perry, had Abiah, born 3 July 1675; William, 24 May 1678; and Andrew, 18 January 1684. He lived at Watertown, and had second wife 13 November 1693, Elizabeth Underwood, probably a widow. Nine of this name had been graduates at Yale 1834.

BENJAMIN BULLARD, Watertown, about 1642, as Bond, 147, gathers, but Morse finds him at division of lands in 1637, married a daughter of Henry Thorpe, removed to Medfield, freeman 1668, perhaps had son Benjamin by a former wife, and he may have been, though probably not, born in England. Of this son (by former or later wife) sisters are named Ann and Maudlin, yet the mother has no name; and no approach to reasonably conjecture as to the time of his death is offered by Morse, while Bond had confused father and son.

BENJAMIN BULLARD, Dedham, son of the preceding, married 1659, Martha Pidge, daughter of Thomas Pidge, had Mary, born 14 September 1663, died young; Samuel, 26 December 1667; Benjamin, 1 March 1670; Hannah, 6 August 1672; and Eleazer, 27 June 1676. His wife died 4 January following, and he married 1677, second wife Elizabeth, had John, 7 March 1678; Elizabeth, 31 January 1682; Mary, 20 February 1684; Malachi, 8 March 1686; and Isaac, 25 July 1688. He lived in that part of Dedham which was early made Medfield, and later cut into Sherborn.

GEORGE BULLARD, Watertown, freeman 2 June 1641 whose wife Margaret died February 1640; and he married Beatrice Hall of Boston, had Mary, born 12 February 1640; Jacob, 6 April 1642; and probably Sarah; Jonathan, 12 July 1647; and perhaps Joanna. He had another wife (I presume the third), 20 April 1655, Mary Marplehead, says Dr. Bond, though Morse confines him to one wife. A fourth wife he found, 2 May 1672, in Jane Else, widow of Roger.

ISAAC BULLARD, Dedham, son of the first William Bullard, born in England, married 11 April 1655 Ann, widow of John Wight, had Hannah, born 24 February 1656; Sarah, 7 January 1658; Samuel, 22 December 1659; Judith or Judah, 10 May 1662; Ephraim 20 July 1664, died in few days; Ann, 17 April 1666; John, 26 June 1668, died in few days; Mary, 29 May 1669; and William, 19 May 1673; and died 1676.

ISAAC BULLARD is sometimes supposed to have been at Watertown before 1636, one of the seven or eight mythical brothers but, if any thing more than shadow, he early died or went home.

ISAAC BULLARD, presumed son of John Bullard, the notice is too slight to found upon.

JOHN BULLARD, Dedham 1638, perhaps eldest son of the first William Bullard, but Morse thinks him brother of William Bullard, freeman 13 May 1640, by wife Magdalen, had Abigail, born 8 October 1641; Joseph, 26 April 1643; and Hannah, 1 October 1645, or, but another account 1 February 1646.

JONATHAN BULLARD, Watertown, son of Benjamin Bullard, married 9 December 1669, Esther Morse, daughter of Joseph Morse, had Esther, born 13 August 1671; Jonathan, 25 December 1672; Hannah, 3 February 1675; and perhaps Joseph.

JOSEPH BULLARD, Medfield 1678, son of John Bullard, by wife Sarah, had Joseph, born 12 September 1665, died soon; Sarah, 11 November 1667; Joseph, again, 28 March 1670; Samuel, 15 September 1672; Rachel, 15 November 1674; Solomon, 13 July 1679, died soon; Ebenezer; and Hannah.

NATHANIEL BULLARD, Dedham, son of William Bullard of the same, born perhaps in England, married 1658, Mary Richards, daughter of Edward Richards, had Mary, born 24 December 1659; Susanna, 19 August 1661; Sarah, 31 July 1665; Judith, or Judah, 5 August 1667; Martha, 6 August 1670; and Nathaniel, the 3rd week in January 1680, who died next year, and the father was freeman 1690, and died 1705.

ROBERT BULLARD, Watertown, buried 24 June 1639, was aged 40, and husband of Ann, but no more of him was discoved by Bond. But he supposed him to be brother of Benjamin Bullard, George Bullard, Maudlin Bullard, and Ann Bullard.

SAMUEL BULLARD, Dedham, eldest son of Isaac Bullard of the same, married 1683, Hannah Thorpe, perhaps daughter of James Thorpe, and removed to Dorchester.

WILLIAM BULLARD, Dedham 1636, freeman 13 May 1640, had Isaac, Nathaniel, Elizabeth, who married Moses Collier of Woodbridge, New Jersey, and Mary, who married 1650, John Farrington of Dedham. Perhaps some of these were born in England, and he may have had more. By second wife Mary, widow of Francis Griswold of Charlestown, where he resided 1658-77, he had none; and he died early in 1687, in Dedham at the house of his daughter, the widow Farrington. In his will, of 5 July 1679, importing that he was then 85 years old, he names the two daughters and two sons, though the elder son was dead. Probably he was elder brother of Benjamin Bullard or George Bullard, or Robert Bullard, perhaps of all.

WILLIAM BULLARD, Dedham, son of Isaac Bullard of the same, married 1697, Elizabeth Avery, eldest daughter of Robert Avery of the same, had William, born 1698; Elizabeth, 1699; Jemima, 1702; Ann, 1705; and Isaac, 1709; and died 1746. Of this name, that sometimes in old record appears Bulward, five had been graduates in 1834 at Harvard, two at Yale, one at Dartmouth, and five at other New England colleges.

ELISHA BULLEN, Medfield and Sherborn, son of Samuel Bullen, married 31 May 1683, Hannah Metcalf, probably daughter of John Metcalf of Medfield, had Elisha, born 14 August 1684; Samuel, 24 November 1687; Jonathan, 13 January 1695, died in few days; Hannah, 28 June 1697; and Miriam, 23 August 1702.

EPHRIAM BULLEN, Sherborn, brother of the preceding, had both been of Medfield 1678, by wife Grace, had Mary, Ephriam, John, and Grace; but Morse, in his Genealogy page 20, makes all the four born after death of his wife.

JOHN BULLEN, Medfield, son of Samue Bullenl, married 3 January 1684, Judith Fisher, had Judith, born 23 October 1689; John, 31 January 1692; David, 14 January 1694; Michael, 2 April 1696; Mary, 26 February 1699; Silence, 21 May 1701, died soon; and Samuel, 20 August 1702.

JOSEPH BULLEN, Medfield, son of Samuel Bullen, married 15 March 1675, Abigail Sabin, was freeman 1677, probably died without issue, for in his will of 28 December 1703, he names none, but left estate to several nephews and nieces, and makes wife Abigail executrix.

SAMUEL BULLEN, Dedham, freeman 2 June 1641, married 10 August 1641, Mary Morse, daughter of Samuel Morse, had Mary, born 20 July 1642; Samuel, 19 December 1644; Elizabeth, 3 February 1647; Joseph, 6 September 1651; Ephraim, 18 July 1653; Meletiah, 15 September 1655; Elisha, 26 December 1657; Eleazer, 26 April 1662, died in few days; Bethia, 1 August 1664; and John, perhaps before the last two. He was a Deacon, and died 16 January 1692; and his widow died 14 February following. In History of Framingham, Barry, gives the distribution of estate 1697, shows, that Mary married a Clark; Elizabeth married a Wheelock, but was then dead leaving children; Meletiah, married a Fisher, and was dead leaving children; and Bethia married a Colburn; that Ephriam was dead leaving children, and that Samuel, Joseph, Elisha, and John, as well as Mary and Bethia were living.

JULIAN BULLIER, Saybrook, married 15 January 1666, Elizabeth Brooks. He died 14 January 1678, and his widow married 28 April following James Fitzgerald.

PHILIP BULLIS, Boston, mariner, married 3 December 1663, Judith Hart, daughter of John Hart, widow of Robert Ratchell, had Elizabeth, born 19 November 1664; John, 8 January 1669; Thomas, 3 August 1671; and Rachel, 28 September 1673; served in Gilliam's Company 1676, on Connecticut river and next year was at Boston.

BENJAMIN BULLIVANT, Boston, 1685, a physician from London, made Attorney-General, as being of noble family according to John Dunton, who knows him in London acting under Andros, and on the outburst, April 1689, was for his offence imprisoned yet did not after remove. I suppose he had brought wife from England and known that he had daughter Hannah, baptized 3 January 1686, at Old South, but there no other mention of the name occurs, at least, neither he nor wife is in the printed list of members. Easily he assumed the Episcopal form of worship, and soon was one of the two first wardens of King's Chapter.

DAVID BULLOCK (not OVID BULLOCK, as Baylies, II. 217, in straight perversion gives it), was of Rehoboth 1668.

EDWARD BULLOCK, Dorchester, came in the Elizabeth, 1635, aged 32, went home 1649, making his will 25 July of that year, probated 29 January 1657, giving his property to wife for her life, and after to his daughter-in-law Hannah Johnson, and appointed Humphrey Atherton, Augustine Clement, and George Weeks trustees for its purposes. But who the resident legatee was, is not to be ascertained, and the testator did not return.

ERASMUS BULLOCK, Newport 1638, had grant of house lot in Boston that year but, though he had resided five years at Boston, the spirit of his party carried him to the refuge of his antinominal friends.

HENRY BULLOCK, Charlestown, came in the Abigail 1635, a husbandman from County Essex, aged 40, with wife Susan, 42, and children Henry, 8, who died 1657; Mary, 6; and Thomas, 2; removed after 1638, to Salem, there had grant of land 1643, and 2 December 1663; and died 27 of same month. His will, 6 days before, name wife Elizabeth, son Thomas, grandchild John, son of Henry, and daughter Elizabeth, who married 13 January 1675, Richard Norman.

JOHN BULLOCK, Salem 1680, perhaps son of Henry Bullock, was favored because in the preceding Indians war he had been crippled. He married 3 August 1681, Mary Maverick, had Elizabeth, born 22 June 1683; and John, 5 April 1686.

RICHARD BULLOCK, Rehoboth 1643, removed soon after 1644, and was freeman of May 1646, though it is not seen of what town he was inhabitant, again removed to Newtown, Long Island, about 1656, but went soon back to Rehoboth, and there died 1667. One Richard Bullock was of the Company of Gallup in the wild expedition of Phips, 1690.

SAMUEL BULLOCK Rehoboth, married 12 November 1673, Mary Thurber, who died 4 October following, when daughter Mary was born, and he married 26 May 1675, Thankful Ropuse, had Thankful, born 1681.

EDWARD BUMPASS, more often EDWARD BUMPAS, or EDWARD BUMPUS, Plymouth, came in the Fortune 1621, lived on Duxbury side before 1634, but most of his days at Marshfield, had Faith, born 1631; Sarah, John, 1636, Edward, 1638; Joseph, 1639; Jacob, 1644; Hannah, 1646; and perhaps, Thomas; was with the first purchasers of Dartmouth 1652. Sarah married March 1659, Thomas Durham. As the record of Marshfield tells, that "Hannah, widow of old Edward Bumpbass, died 12 February 1693," and that Edward Bumpass died nine days before, I presume that this was her son not her husband.

JACOB BUMPASS, more often JACOB BUMPAS, or JACOB BUMPUS, Scituate, son of the preceding, married 1677, Elizabeth, widow of William Blackmore, had Benjamin, born 1678; and Jacob, 1680.

JOHN BUMPASS, more often JOHN BUMPAS, or JOHN BUMPUS, Middleborough, brother probably eldest, of the preceding, had Mary, born 1671; John, 1673; Samuel, 1676; and James, 1678; may have removed, and had more children, some before these. Following born at Rochester, Sarah, 16 September 1685; Edward, 16 September 1688; and Jeremiah, 24 August 1692.

JOSEPH BUMPASS, more often JOSEPH BUMPAS, or JOSEPH BUMPUS, Middleborough, son of Edward Bumpass, was first of Plymouth, there had Lydia, born 2 August 1669; Wybra, 15 May 1672; Joseph, 25 August 1674; Rebecca, 17 December 1677; James, 25 December 1679; Penelope, 21 December 1681; Mary, 12 August 1684; and Mehitable, 21 January 1692.

THOMAS BUMPASS, more often THOMAS BUMPAS, or THOMAS BUMPUS, Barnstable, brother perhaps, of the preceding, married November 1679, Phebe Lovell, daughter of John Lovell, had Hannah, born 28 July 1680; Jane, December 1681, baptized 5 July 1696; Mary, April 1683; Samuel, January 1685; Thomas, May 1687; Sarah, January 1689; Elizabeth, January 1691; Abigail, October 1693; the last six, with another child John, all baptized 21 June 1696; and Benjamin, 27 March 1703. The name is an easy perversion from the French, Bon pas. Descendants are very numerous.

JEREMIAH BUMSTEAD, Boston, son of Thomas Bumstead, born in England, by wife Hannah, had Hannah, born 24 November 1664; Thomas, 22 February 1667; Mary, 30 May 1668; Jeremiah, 25 November 1670; and Sarah, 8 September 1674. By second wife Sarah, he had Sarah, 15 August 1676; Jermiah, 14 October 1678; Abigail, 4 November 1683; and Abigail, again, 23 February 1685, besides Thomas, 1 February 1687; died 27 February 1709, aged 72.

THOMAS BUMSTEAD, Roxbury, as says the church record, "came to this land July 1640, brought two small chiilren Thomas, and Jeremiah," and adds, "his daughter Hannah, born 25 January 1641," though, town record has it, 20 January 1639. By wife Susanna, he had Mary, baptized at Roxbury 24 April 1642, and removed to Boston, there had Joseph, baptized 24 November 1644, “about 7 days old”; Mercy, 20 January 1650; and Joseph, again, 23 October 1653; was of Artillery Company 1647, and died 22 June 1677. Winthrop in his History II. 203, mentioned remarkable preservation of the life of one of his children. His will of 25 May before his death names children Jeremy; Hannah, who married 18 April 1659, Thomas Shearer, or Sherwood; Mary, wife of Ambros Dawes; and Mercy, wife of Samuel Bosworth.

THOMAS BUNCE, Hartford 1636, served next year in the Pequot war, had married probably by a daughter of Captain Thomas Bull, under which he had acted in that war, children Thomas; John; Sarah, who married John White of Hatfield, and, next, Nicholas Worthington; Mary, born 17 September 1645, who married Thomas Meakins of Hatfield, and, next, John Downing; and Elizabeth, who married Jacob White of Hartford, brother of John, before named,

JOHN BUNDY, Plymouth 1643, removed to Boston, by wife Martha, had Martha, born 2 November 1649; and Mary, 5 October 1653. He lived after, probably at Taunton, there his daughter Patience died 27 March 1665; and he had James, 29 December 1664; and Sarah, 4 March 1669. His wife died 1 May 1674; and Mary married 5 January preceding unless the better date be 1675.

JOHN BUNDY, Taunton, son perhaps of the preceding, married 9 January 1677, Ruth Surney of Mendham (unless so strange a name be written for Turney), had John, born 6 October following; Joseph, 1 January 1680; and Edward, 13 August 1681.

SAMUEL BUNDY, Taunton, perhaps brother of the preceding, had Samuel, born 4 October 1670.

BENJAMIN BUNKER, Malden, son of George, ordained 9 December 1663, died 2 February 1670. That he well filled his post of duty, though never married (as seems to be essential to the character of a New England minister) we may be confident for the long and lamentable verses of his senior colleague Michael Wigglesworth, reveal no tendency to fiction.

GEORGE BUNKER, Charlestown 1634, freeman 4 March 1635, as a supporter of Wheelwright, he was disarmed November 1637, yet in May following the General Court made him constable of Charlestown, and by the end of a year he had grant from the same power of fifty acres, so we may not doubt, that he was convinced of the errors in doctrine that had misled him. By wife Judith (who probably he brought from England with his son John) he had Benjamin Bunker, baptized 20 September 1635, Harvard College 1658, before mentioned; Jonathan, 8 April 1638; and she died 10 October 1646. For second wife he took Margaret, widow of Deacon Edward Howe of Watertown, and he died in 1664 or 5, for 4 October of that latter year was probated his will, made 12 May preceding. In latter years he removed to Malden, but he owned before and after, the summit of that hill of glory bearing his name. His eldest son John, with the other two daughters Mary, Martha, and Elizabeth, survived. Elizabeth married Edward Burt.

GEORGE BUNKER, Ipswich, son of William Bunker, a Hugenot in England, lived at Topsfield after marriage with Jane Godfrey, and there he was drowned 26 May 1658. His widow gave inventory of £300. 20 June following. At the date of his death the children were Elizabeth, aged 12; William, 10; Mary, 6; Ann, 4; and Martha, 1 and 1/2. His widow soon married Richard Swain, went to Nantucket with those children, and she died 31 October 1662, the earliest, in records of death on that Island. Elizabeth married Thomas Look; Mary married Stephen Coffin, Ann married Joseph Coleman; and Martha married 8 October 1676, Stephen Hussey.

JAMES BUNKER, Dover 1653, had James, and perhaps Joseph, and John, and died 1698.

JOHN BUNKER, Malden, eldest son of George Bunker the first, born in England about 1632, married 16 September 1655, Hannah Miller, had Hannah, born October 1656, died young; Mary, 29 December 1658; John, January 1661, died in few days; John, again, May 1662; Edward; and Joseph, February 1666; and died 10 September 1672; in his will, made the same day, names eldest son John, eldest daughter Mary, sons Edward, and Joseph, and daughter Hannah, who married 2 May 1689, as his second wife Samuel Newman of Rehoboth.

JOHN BUNKER, Portsmouth or Dover, son of James Bunker, was one of the many who in 1690, desired Massachusetts jurisdiction to be stretched over New Hampshire.

JONATHAN BUNKER, Charlestown, son of George Bunker of the same, married 30 January 1663, Mary Gould, perhaps widow of Nathaniel Hayward or Nathaniel Howard, daughter of the Reverend Thomas Gould, and died 2 June 1678, as tells the gravestone, but town record says 1677. He probably had family yet not to be found on records.

WILLIAM BUNKER, Topsfield, son of George Bunker of the same, was named for his grandfather in England, and after death of his daughter, and marriage of his mother again, was carried by her to Nantucket in 1658, married 11 April 1669, Mary Macy, daughter of Thomas Macy, founder of that settlement, had George, born 22 April 1671; John, 23 July 1673; Jonathan, 25 February 1675; Peleg, 1 December 1676; Jabez, 7 November 1678; Thomas, 8 April 1680; and Benjamin, 28 May 1683; and died 26 June 1712.

EDWARD BUNN, or EDWARD BUNNE, Hull, had, probably by first wife, that daughter Elizabeth, who married October 1673, Joseph Howe of Boston; but for second wife married 20 August 1657, Elizabeth Mason; and died soon after making his will of 14 April 1673, in which he names only wife Elizabeth, cousins Sarah, James Mason, and Samuel Lee. He was one of the earliest settlers of Nantasket, his right being acknowledged in 1642, before it got the name of Hull.

MATTHEW BUNN, or MATTHEW BUNNE, Hull, by wife Esther, had Matthew, born 9 June 1659; Nathaniel, 23 March 1664; and Esther, 2 November 1665. It had been sometimes thought that this name was the same as Binney; but no evidence appears. The family of two syllables was early at the same town, and it may be that some ambitious possessor of the shorter name may have stretched it.

BENJAMIN BUNNILL, New Haven, took oath of fidelity 7 April 1657, was son of William Bunnill, and a proprietor 1685, had eleven children, names unknown, and died 1696. Porter writes me, that by wife Rebecca Mallory, who died 12 March 1691, he had Rebecca, born 19 January 1668, died in a week; Rebecca, again, 11 February 1669; Judith, 13 April 1672; Benjamin, 4 January 1676, died in few days; Ann, 8 January 1678, died young; Benjamin, again, 29 November 1679; Hezekiah, 23 March 1682; Rachel, 16 December 1683; Nathaniel, May 1686; Israel, 12 March 1690; and his second wife Elizabeth, widow of John Sperry, bore him Ann, 11 October 1695; and his widow married 19 September 1700, Edmund Dorman.

NATHAN BUNNILL, New Haven, brother of the preceding, married 3 January 1667, Susanna Whitehead, eldest daughter of Isaac Whitehead.

WILLIAM BUNNILL, New Haven, an early inhabitant, had Benjamin; Nathan; Lydia; Mary, born 4 May 1650; and Ebenezer, 25 August 1653, by wife Ann Wilmot, daughter of Benjamin Wilmot, who in his will of 7 August 1669, speaks of the four children of his daughter as heirs of part of his small estate, so that it may be infants that both daughter and husband with one of the children were dead.

JOHN BURBANK, Rowley, freeman 13 May 1640, in his will of 5 April 1681 (as Coffin finds, Genealogical Registrar VI. 245), names wife Jemima, children John, Caleb, and Lydia.

JOHN BURBANK, Haverhill, perhaps son of the preceding, married 15 October 1663, Susanna Merrill, daughter of Nathaniel Merrill, removed about 1680 with several children to Suffield, where his wife died 1690; and though he had second and third wife yet no more children. The name in that neighborhood is common.

JOSEPH BURBANK, came, 1635, in the Abigail from London, aged 24, when at the custom house it was written Borebancke; but where he sat down is unknown.

JOHN BURBEEN, Woburn, a tailor, came from Scotland, it is said, married 16 April 1660, Sarah Gould, had Mary, born 2 July 1661; John, 9 August 1663; James, 15 May 1668; and perhaps no more, for his wife died 14 May 1670. He died 8 January 1714. Joseph Burbeen, and Paul Burbeen, graduates at Harvard College of the years 1731 and 1743, lived to advanced age, yet probably this name is extinct in New England.

GEORGE BURCH, Salem, by wife Elizabeth, had Mary, born 30 November 1659, died young; Elizabeth, 4 June 1662; John, 28 May 1664; Mary, again, 26 September 1667; Abigail, 16 August 1669; and George, 27 April 1671; and died 1 October 1672.

NATHAN BURCHALL, New Haven 1643, servant of Robert Newman, sworn to fidelity 5 August 1644.

EDWARD BURCHAM, Lynn, 1636, freeman 14 March 1639, was clerk of the writs 1645, went home 1656, and I know not whether he came back. His daughter Frances married 8 June 1660, Isaac Willy. Twice in History Collections of the Essex Inst. I. pages 5 and 10, this name is given Burthum, and this error is more observable on account of the general accuracy of Mr. Patch. Often the letter c in the old engrossed hand resembles our modern t. Suspicion arises also, that the same man may be passing under the name of Beacham.

EDWARD BURCHARD, or EDWARD BURCHER, Plymouth, came in the Ann, 1623, perhaps had wife as two shares in division of land next spring were given, but he died or removed, for in division of cattle, 1627, he took no part.

JOHN HENRY BURCHSTED, Lynn, a German physician from Silesia, says Lewis, 134, married 24 April 1690, Mary, widow of Nathaniel Kirtland, had Henry, born 3 October following, and died 20 September 1721, aged 64. The son followed the same profession, but I know no more of him.

GEORGE BURDEN, Boston, shoemaker, came in the Abigail 1635, aged 20, was administered of the church 9 January 1637, and freeman 17 May following, next November disarmed for heresy, yet not driven away, by wife Ann, had Thomas, born 1 April 1637, died very soon; Elisha, baptized 3 February 1639; Ezekiel, born 25 March 1641; Joseph and Benjamin, twins born 21 April 1643, both died soon, but Joseph was baptized 30 of that month; Hannah, 4 May 1645, "about 20 days old;" and probably others. At Braintree he had lot, 1639, for five heads, so that he must have had two servants or apprentices. But he went home with wife and children after making his will 15 October 1652, which was probated here 30 April 1657.

ROBERT BURDEN, Lynn, married about 1650, Hannah Witter, daughter of William Witter, if we obey the authority of Coffin in Genealogical Registrar VI. 245, or History Collections of Essex Inst. I. 1659; but both names are wrong there, Witter means Winter, and Burden stands for Burditt. Greater mistakes may be seen in other copies from early records by other collectors.

BENJAMIN BURDICK, or BENJAMIN BURDICT, Westerly, son of Robert Burdick of the same, in his will of 25 April 1736, names wife Jane, and sons Peter, Benjamin, John, David, William, Elisha, daughters Mary Lewis, and Rachel Sisson.

ROBERT BURDICK, or ROBERT BURDICT, Newport, made freeman 22 May 1655; removed to Westerly before 1661, married Ruth Hubbard, daughter of Samuel Hubbard of Newport, had Robert, Hubbard, Thomas, Benjamin, and Samuel, besides Naomi, who married Jonathan Rogers; Tacy, who married Joseph Maxon; Ruth, who married John Phillips; and Deborah, who married Joseph Crandall; and died 1692.

THOMAS BURDICK, or THOMAS BURDICT, Westerly 1680, son of Robert Burdick. This name is often confounded with Burditt.

GEORGE BURDITT, or GEORGE BURDETT, Salem 1635, came from Yarmouth County Norfolk, where by popular election, he had preached two years, but leaving wife and children at home in distress, was in great esteem at Salem, freeman 2 September 1635, had grant of land and preached there near two years, and in 1637 or 8, went to Dover, there had much quarrel, and thence to York, and was forced to go home at last. Winthrop is large in reprobation of him, Hubbard is strong; and the criminal proceedings of Courts under Gorges’ government for adultery and other charges, make it plain that New England was not the right place for him.

ROBERT BURDITT, or ROBERT BURDETT, Malden, married November 1653, Hannah Winter, had Thomas, born September 1655; Hannah, November 1656; Joseph; Mary; Sarah; and Ruth, in May 1666; and he died 16 June of next year, by will of the same day mentioned the wife and children, and provided also for another unborn.

THOMAS BURDITT, or THOMAS BURDETT, Malden, eldest son of the preceding, by wife Hannah, had Thomas, born 13 January 1683; Elizabeth, 19 August 1686, died young; Elizabeth, again, 28 August 1688; and by wife Elizabeth, had Mary, 25 December 1690; and John, 8 May 1693. His wife died 26 January 1718, aged about 65, and he died 20 January 1729, in 74th year by gravestone.

HENRY BURDSALL, Salem, freeman 2 May 1638, died 1651. Perhaps the name is Burchal in the Essex Inst. History Collections I. 39; and probably he was father of that Judith Burdsall who married Henry Cooke of Salem June 1639.

BURDSIE, the same as Birdseye; and here I supply some deficiency in that article. The contract of marriage with Alice, widow of Henry Tomlinson, to who in his will.

JOHN BURDSIE refers, was of 8 October 1688. He died 4 April 1690, aged 74. By his first wife Phillis, he had John, born at Stratford, March 1641, and Joanna, November 1642. So it is clear, that he removed from Milford to Stratford earlier by some years, than Trumbull in his History supposed Joanna married 28 December 1664, Timothy Wilcockson.

JOHN BURDSIE, Stratford, son of the preceding, married 11 December 1669, daughter probably youngest of William Wilcockson, had Hannah, born February 1671; Mary, November 1675; Mary, May 1678, died next year; Abel, November 1679; Joseph, February 1682; and Dinah, 1688. He died 1697, and his widow died 20 September 1743, aged 92. Joseph was father of Reverend Nathan Burdsie, who was born 8 August 1714, so that the venerable man was a little older than was said in my account of Birdseye.

JACOB BURGES, Sandwich, son of Thomas Burges the first, married 1 June 1660, Mary Nye, daughter probably of Benjamin Nye of the same, had Samuel, born 8 March 1671; Ebenezer, 2 October 1673; and Jacob, 18 October 1676.

JOHN BURGES, Chelmsford, married 9 June 1662, Mary Stearns, widow of Isaac Larned, eldest daughter of Isaac Stearns, as Allen History of Chelmsford 169, tells; and in June 1676, married Jane, widow of John Gornell, who died 4 April 1678; and he died 22 October following.

JOHN BURGES, Yarmouth, son of the first Thomas Burges, married 8 September 1657, Mary Worden, probably daughter of Peter Worden the second of the same, had John, Thomas, Joseph, Samuel, Jacob, Martha, and four other daughters.

JOSEPH BURGES, Sandwich, brother, probably youngest of the preceding, had Rebecca, born 17 January 1667; Dorothy, 12 November 1670, who died probably at 16 years; Joseph, 18 November 1673; and Benjamin, 5 May 1681.

THOMAS BURGES, Lynn, removed 1637, to Sandwich with family, there may have added to the children, carried with him only Joseph, and perhaps Jacob. He was of the chief men, Representative 1646 and after; died 27 February 1685, presumed to be 82 years old. His daughter Elizabeth married 12 February 1652, Ezra Perry.

THOMAS BURGES, Sandwich, son, probably eldest of the preceding, perhaps born in England, married 8 November 1648, Elizabeth Basset, daughter of William Basset, one of the first comers, was divorced 10 June 1661, and removed to Rhode Island, and at Newport was residing 1671, having wife Lydia.

ABRAHAM BURGESS, or ABRAHAM BURGISS, sometimes ABRAHAM BURGES, took passage 11 April 1679 in the William and John, from London for New England, but whether he ever reached our shore, or what became of him, is unknown.

FRANCIS BURGESS, or FRANCIS BURGISS, sometimes FRANCIS BURGES, Boston, by wife Joyce, had Benjamin, born 11 October 1654.

FRANCIS BURGESS, or FRANCIS BURGISS, sometimes FRANCIS BURGES, possibly his son, was of Moselye's Company in the campaign of December 1675. James Boston, came probably in the Hopewell, Captain Bundocke, from London 1635, aged 14, married 19 October 1652, Lydia Mead, daughter of Gabriel Mead, had John, born 1654; Benjamin, 1655; John again, 21 February 1657; and died 27 November 1690.

JOHN BURGESS, or JOHN BURGISS, sometimes JOHN BURGES, Yarmouth 1678, is probably mistaken for Burge.

JOSEPH BURGESS, or JOSEPH BURGISS, sometimes JOSEPH BURGES, Rochester, possibly misspelled for Burge, was first Representative for that town, in one of the last General Courts of Plymouth, i. e. 1689.

RICHARD BURGESS, or RICHARD BURGISS, sometimes RICHARD BURGES, Sandwich 1643, as Coffin thinks, removed to York 1660.

RICHARD BURGESS, or RICHARD BURGISS, sometimes RICHARD BURGES, Stratford, married Phebe Peacock, daughter of John Peacock, before 1679.

ROBERT BURGESS, or ROBERT BURGISS, sometimes ROBERT BURGES, Lynn 1655, married 12 April 1671, Sarah Hall.

ROGER BURGESS, or ROGER BURGISS, sometimes ROGER BURGES, Boston, had wife Sarah Griggs, widow of William King, daughter of George Griggs, who died 24 November 1664; but bore him James, born 4 April 1659.

ROGER BURGESS, or ROGER BURGISS, sometimes ROGER BURGES, Haverhill, old enough 28 November 1677, to take oath of allegiance on enrolment in the military.

THOMAS BURGESS, or THOMAS BURGISS, sometimes THOMAS BURGES, Duxbury 1637, next year removed to Sandwich, was Representative 1646, and one or two years more, was father of Thomas, etc., as under Burge is told.

THOMAS BURGESS, or THOMAS BURGISS, sometimes THOMAS BURGES, Concord, 1660, had lived at Charlestown. His will, of 9 August 1662, was not brought to probate by his wife for near twenty years. Of this name, in 1834, graduates at Brown and Yale have been five, and none at Harvard or Dartmouth, yet two at Harvard and one at Dartmouth as monosyllable Burge, and no such at Yale. Honorable Tristram Burgess, Brown 1796, may descend from Joseph Burgess, at least, was born at Rochester. Very numerous are the cases of modern turning of one syllable to two.

RICHARD BURKE, Concord, had grant of land 1686, at Stow, married at Northampton, 1 September 1687, perhaps as second wife Sarah Woodford, widow of Nehemiah Allen, daughter of Thomas Woodford, had John, b 19 July 1689; but he had sons Richard and Jonathan long before.

RICHARD BURLEIGH, Ipswich, about 1690. Felt. Possibly he was son of Giles Budley.

JOHN BURLINGHAM, or JOHN BURLINGAME, Kingstown, Rhode Island, son of Roger Burlingham, married Mary Lippit, daughter of Moses Lippit, and of him no more is known.

ROGER BURLINGHAM, or ROGER BURLINGAME, Stonington 1654, Warwick 1660, by wife Mary, had John, born 1 August 1664; and Thomas, 6 February 1667, but nothing more is found of him, or wife or children except that his daughter Mary married 19 December 1689, Amos Stafford, lived 72 years with him, had thirteen children as is said, was born six days after him, and died at equal distance, aged 97, some part of which may be true, but the newspaper that mentioned his (Stafford's) death at 97, makes the widow 92. Five years discrepency in a tradition is not of high importance. See Genealogical Registrar VIII. 368.

THOMAS BURLINGHAM, or THOMAS BURLINGAME, Warwick, or Kingstown, son of Roger Burlingham, married Martha Lippit, daughter of Moses Lippit, as from wills of her father and husband is gained, but I profit no more.

EDWARD BURLISSON, Suffield 1677, had John, Fearnot, born 18 December 1679, Return, Mary, and Edward, and died 1698.

FEARNOT BURLISSON, Windsor, son of the preceding, married 8 February 1705, Elizabeth Buckland, perhaps daughter of Timothy Buckland, had Esther, born 15 February 1706; Daniel, 30 December 1707; Elizabeth, 2 July 1709; Ebenezer, 8 May 1711; Job, 7 August 1714; Daniel, again, 7 March 1718; and Mary, 3 March 1721. The name appears with varied spelling sometimes losing the last syllable.

THOMAS BURMAN, Barnstable, in his will of 9 May 1663, makes his wife Hannah executrix, names sons Thomas, Tristram, Samuel; daughters Hannah Desire, Mary and Mehitable.

ISAAC BURNAP, Reading, son of Robert Burnap, married 8 November 1658, Hannah Antram, perhaps daughter of Thomas Antram, had Isaac, who is mentioned in the will of his grandfather Antram; died 18 September 1667, in his will of two days preceding, names no wife or children, but mentioned father Robert, brothers Robert, and Thomas, sister Ann, and Sarah, and cousin Thomas Burnap.

JOSEPH BURNAP, ROBERT BURNAP, and THOMAS BURNAP, all at the same time, of the same town.

ROBERT BURNAP, Reading, had, I think, been of Roxbury, whither he brought from England Thomas, born about 1624, and Richard, 1627, both, perhaps, living 1682. But the name in records of Roxbury, when he lost an infant child 18 November 1642, is Burnet, though it appears not again. The wife was there Margaret Davis; but by wife Ann at Reading, he had Sarah, born 5 November 1653; Robert, 28 February 1658; and Mary, 17 June 1661; and this wife died eight days after, and he took another wife 28 May 1662, Sarah.

THOMAS BURNAP, Reading, married 3 December 1663, Mary Pearson, daughter of John Pearson.

SAMUEL BURNELL, Boston 1676, son of William Burnell of the same, married 9 October 1674, Ann Moore.

TOBIAS BURNELL, Portsmouth, came from Alphington, County Devon, went in September 1673, to Barbados, and died soon.

WILLIAM BURNELL, Boston, had John, Samuel, and Sarah, and the disposition of his estate at Pulling Point, appears in his will of 16 April 1660, abstract in Genealogical Registrar IX. 230, and it is curious to collate this with an earlier will of 5 March of the same year in Genealogical Registrar X. 270, brought out by the examplerary diligence of Mr. Trask. Both have refreshing evidence of his dread of Quakers. Yet a scruple is felt whether that will of March were not a later draft; if the legal reckoning of the year be followed. It must be so thought and it was incomplete for want of witnesses. Hard is it, often to distinguish this name from Burnett.

JOHN BURNETT, or JOHN BURNIT, Charlestown, married 7 April 1684, Mary Rice of Reading.

THOMAS BURNETT, or THOMAS BURNIT, Lynn, married 3 December 1663, Mary Pearson, daughter of John Pearson, as Felt gives it in Genealogical Registrar V. 94.

JEREMIAH BURNHAM, JEREMIAH BURNAM, or JEREMIAH BURNUM, Dover 1680, son of Robert Burnham, desired 1690, protection of Massachusetts jurisdiction to be extended to the Province of New Hampshire.

JOHN BURNHAM, JOHN BURNAM, or JOHN BURNUM, Ipswich, was 22 years of age there in 1638.

RICHARD BURNHAM, RICHARD BURNAM, or RICHARD BURNUM, Hartford, son of Thomas Burnham, married 11 June 1680, Sarah Humfrey, daughter of Michael Humfrey of Windsor, had Hannah, born 11 July 1683; Rebecca, 20 September 1685; Mercy, 14 April baptized 22 April 1688; Mary, 18 May 1690; Richard, born 6 July 1692; Martha, 28 October 1694; Esther, 28 March 1697; Charles, born 23, baptized 30 July 1699; Susanna, and Michael, born 30 May 1705.

ROBERT BURNHAM, ROBERT BURNAM, or ROBERT BURNUM, Boston, by wife Francis, had Robert, born 25 September 1647; Elizabeth, 27 October 1651; and he removed to Dover in 1657, or earlier, there had Robert, 21 August 1664, the former son Robert having died 25 February preceding. In 1671 he was administered freeman, and in 1690 he desired jurisdiction of Massachusetts again. His sons Samuel and Jeremiah are provided for in his will of 12 June 1691, probated 29 September following, of who wife Frances was executrix. A slight error is seen in the name of residence of this man, and another in the list of freeman 1671, Genealogical Registrar III. 241, Mr. Paige, reading the original MS as abridgment for Dorchester, which really is Dover.

SAMUEL BURNHAM, SAMUEL BURNAM, or SAMUEL BURNUM, Dover, 1686, son of the preceding.

THOMAS BURNHAM, THOMAS BURNAM, or THOMAS BURNUM, Ipswich 1647, probably brother of John Burnham, married Mary Tuttle, daughter of John Tuttle, had Ruth, born 1 July 1657, died same month; Ruth, again, 23 August 1658; Joseph, 26 September 1660; Nathaniel, 4 September 1662; Sarah, 28 June 1664; Esther, 19 March 1666; besides Thomas, John, James, Mary, Joanna, and Abigail; and he died 19 May 1694. He had service in the Pequot expedition but whether it were, 1636, under Endicot, or the more effective one, 1637, of Stoughton, is not told, though we may infer, it was the earlier. His daughter Sarah married a Clark, who died soon, and she next married 6 August 1684, Mesheck Farley.

THOMAS BURNHAM, THOMAS BURNAM, or THOMAS BURNUM, Ipswich, perhaps son of Thomas Burnham the first, married 13 February 1666, Lydia Pingree, daughter perhaps of Moses Pingree, had Thomas, born 19 January 1667; Phebe, 16 March 1668; Moses, 24 January 1670; Lydia, 6 December 1674; Aaron, 12 September 1676; Eleazer, 5 September 1678; Abigail, 2 June 1680; Daniel, 4 April 1682; and Mary, 1685. His wife died 14 March 1689, and he died 21 February 1728, aged 82.

THOMAS BURNHAM, THOMAS BURNAM, or THOMAS BURNUM, Hartford, removed to Windsor, after middle age probably, and died 1688, leaving Thomas, John, Samuel, William, and Richard (who all had families) besides four daughters. Descendants are very numerous.

THOMAS BURNHAM, THOMAS BURNAM, or THOMAS BURNUM, Windsor, son of the preceding, married 4 January 1677, Naomi Hull, daughter of Josiah Hull of the same, had Thomas, born 16 April 1678; John, 22 May 1681; and these baptized at Hartford, Sarah, 7 March 1686; Naomi, 3 June 1688; Abigail, 25 March 1694; and Josiah, 6 September 1696.

THOMAS BURNHAM, THOMAS BURNAM, or THOMAS BURNUM, Ipswich, perhaps nephew of Thomas Burnham the first, for hardly may he be thought son of Thomas Burnham the second of the same, married 16 December 1685, Esther Bishop, and by second wife Susanna (who died 27 May 1728), had Susanna, born 29 January 1693; Thomas, 12 February 1695; and Benjamin, 21 December 1696; perhaps two or three more. He died 12 May 1726.

WILLIAM BURNHAM, WILLIAM BURNAM, or WILLIAM BURNUM, Malden, had Edward, born September 1657, but no more is known. Of this name, in 1634, five had been graduates at Dartmouth, three at Harvard, and five at the other New England colleges.

THOMAS BURNYEAT, Providence 1666, may have been brother of the preceding, at least in doctrine.

STEPHEN BURPH, possibly STEPHEN BURFEE, Rehoboth, in Colony records said to have married 29 May 1674, Elizabeth Perry, by me would be regarded so strange a name as almost to invite invasion of conjecture upon those sacred premises where no error can be supposed. It may have been Purpee, though I had not before heard of the name so early in New England.

BENJAMIN BURR, Hartford, an early settler, had two sons Samuel, the elder (made freeman with his father 1658), and Thomas, born 1626, and two daughters Mary, who married 15 January 1657, Christopher Crow, and, next, Josiah Clark, and Hannah, who married Andrew Hillier, all living at the time of his death 1681, and he may have had others. His widow Ann died 31 August 1683.

DANIEL BURR, Fairfield, freeman 1668, son of Jehu Burr the first, had married 11 December 1678, Abigail Glover, daughter of Henry Glover of New Haven, and took second wife Elinor, who presented inventory of his property 1695, so that it can safely be inferred that he was then dead, but whether he had children by either is not known.

DANIEL BURR, Fairfield, son of Jehu Burr the second, left widow Elizabeth, and ten children to divide his estate (which was quite large), according to inventory of 14 July 1727. Of six sons we may judge the order of succession in age to concur with the arrangement at probat office, Jehu; Stephen; Peter; David; Moses Burr, Yale College 1734; and Aaron Burr, Yale College 1735; and more confident can we presume, that several of the daughters Hannah, Mary Wheeler, Elizabeth Hull, and Jane Sherwood were born before several of the sons. I wish the husbands of the married daughters could be respectively assigned. Moses and Aaron were minors; and their brothers Stephen and Peter were severally made guardians. Nine of these children had each £545. and double that sum was share of the eldest son. The youngest son Aaron Burr, born 4 January 1717, was the distinguished good man, President of New Jersey college, father of the more distinguished (but not as a good man), Aaron Burr of New York, the great manager of the more political change for our country in 1800, wherein he was made third Vice-President of the United States.

JEHU BURR, Roxbury 1630, came, probably in the fleet with Winthrop, required administration as freeman 19 October of that year, and was sworn 18 May following. Of his wife the baptized name is not seen, though she was, at the same time with husband, member of the church. He was a carpenter, appointed in 1633, by the Colony government to see to "the bridges between Boston and Roxbury," which suggests interested queries in our topography. In 1636 he removed with Pynchon to the foundation of Springfield, and for that town, not supposed to belong to Massachusetts in 1638, was Representative at Hartford; and soon after went to Fairfield, of which he was Representative 1641, 5, and 6, probably died soon after. Four sons Jehu, John, Daniel, and Nathaniel, are known and perhaps he had not other children. How easy mistakes occur in reading ancient MS is well exhibited in this man's case. Copy from entries In Colony records 1630 and 1631, of his name, printed in my list of freeman, as Appendix to Winthrop II. 361, gives it John; and the well-practised eyes of Pulsifer, transcribed for the Antiquarian Society of Worcester, and the more scrupulous Paige, in the Registrar of New England History Genealogical Society III. 90 and 1, were equally deceived and even Felt, who had given so many years of his life to those records, fell under the same delusion; while, to immortalize the wrong, it is asserted by Trumbull, in Connecticut record I. 12. In reading the second and fourth letters of this baptized name, not one in a thousand experts would be likely to differ from us, as John appears in the reverse proportion to Jehu. Yet from the unusual distinctness of the Roxbury church record which I have examined, and the concurring later ones at Springfield and elsewhere, all doubt is dispelled. Trumbull, in Connecticut Colony record I. 12. of his text; and the 1835 Ed. of Winthrop's History II. 441, had given the true name.

JEHU BURR, Fairfield, son probably eldest, of the preceding, perhaps born in England, married Mary Ward, daughter of Andrew Ward, had several children certainly Daniel and Esther, in the will 1665 of their grandmother Ward. But other children he had, probably some by this wife and some by another wife Esther, widow of Joseph Boosy. He was a prominent man, Representative 1659, 60, and after junction of Connecticut with New Hampshire several years. In Philip's war he was Captain trusted as one in a commission with great powers; and died probably in 1692, as the inventory of his estate was made 31 October of that year. The will of 11 January 1690 names children Daniel; Peter Burr, Harvard College 1690; Samuel; Esther; Elizabeth; Sarah; Joanna; and Abigail (of which some were minors); besides Mary, who had married Samuel Wakeman, and was dead leaving a daughter.

JOHN BURR, Fairfield, brother of the preceding, perhaps born after his father came to Roxbury, was administered freeman of Connecticut 1664, Representative 1666, and with his brother Jehu Burr, 1670, and more years was Major, and died 1694. His wife was, it is said, Sarah Fitch, but whose daughter she was is not told, and for the children in partial default of records, we must accept his will, naming John, born 2 May 1673; David; Samuel Burr, 2 April 1679, Harvard College 1697; Jonathan; Sarah, 25 July 1675; Mary, 19 August 1683; and Deborah; the last two unmarried; Joseph, b 21 June 1677, and Ebenezer, 7 February 1682, died before their father. The widow Sarah, in her will, of 8 June 1696, names only the daughters Sarah Chauncy, who married 29 June 1692, Reverend Charles of Fairfield, Mary, Deborah, and son Samuel.

JOHN BURR, Hingham, son of Simon Burr, married 24 December 1685, Mary Warren, daughter of John Warren of Boston, had, it is said, ten children, and died 8 December 1716, aged about 57, and his widow died 5 June 1742, aged 78, as the gravestones tell.

JONATHAN BURR, Dorchester, born at Redgrave in County Suffolk it is said, bred at Corpus Christi, in Cambridge University, where he took his degrees 1623, and 1627, was rector of Rickingshall, in his native land but was silenced by his primate, Laud, and came with wife Frances, and three young children to this asylum 1639. In the second following winter he was called to be colleague with Mather, but died 9 August 1641, aged 36, leaving Jonathan Burr, Harvard College 1651; John; and Simon, who were born in England, and Mary, born about 1640, at Dorchester, who married Zechariah Long of Charlestown, and died 2 August 1681. Of John, and Simon, as nothing is related, it may be inferred that both died early; but the mother married about 1643, Honorable Richard Dummer of Newbury, outlived him, and died 19 November 1682, aged 70. Winthrop II. 22, and Magnalia III. 78.

JONATHAN BURR, Hingham, son of the preceding, was a physician, of which we know only, that he accompanied the forces in the crusade of Sir William Phips against Quebec, and died of smallpox, 28 November 1690. Nothing is seen of wife or children.

NATHANIEL BURR, Fairfield, son of Jehu Burr the first, freeman 1664, had married Sarah Ward, daughter of Andrew Ward, as his widow’s will, of 1665, names this daughter and her two children Sarah, and Nathaniel. Both these children died before the father, who had second wife Ann, and died 26 February 1712. His will of four days before names seven children viz. the deceased Nathaniel, who had left four children, and John, Daniel, Esther, Ann, Allen, Rebecca Sherwood, and Mary Labarre.

PETER BURR, Fairfield, son of second Jehu Burr, after leaving college taught a school two or three years, became a Judge of the Supreme Court of Connecticut, and died 1724, or 5. Good estate is exhibited in his inventory of 18 February of the latter year.

SAMUEL BURR, Hartford, son of Benjamin Burr of the same, married Mary Baysey, daughter of John Baysey, who died before her husband, and he died 29 September 1682, leaving children Samuel, then aged 19; John, 12; Mary, 10; Elizabeth, 7; and Jonathan, 4.

SIMON BURR, Hingham, perhaps brother certainly not son of Reverend Jonathan Burr, as Reverend Dr. Harris made him (which was also mistaken in the descendants of Aaron), had children Esther, who died 20 December 1645; Henry, died 14 February 1647; Rose, died June 1647; and Hannah, born 7 August 1646; all probably by wife that died 23 July 1647; and by another wife had Simon, and Hannah, both baptized 25 February 1655; Jonathan, 3 June following and John, born 6 January 1660; and he died before March 1693, when Simon, and John, the only surviving children divided the estate making provision (according to the expressed but unwriten will of their father) for their niece, Hannah Hobart, daughter of John, who had married April 1647 their sister of the same name.

SIMON BURR, Fairfield, son probably of Jehu Burr the first, unless there be error in his evidence giving February 1682, called himself about 48 years old.

THOMAS BURR, Hartford, younger son of Benjamin Burr, by wife Sarah, had Thomas; Samuel; Benjamin; Joseph, baptized 31 July 1687; Jonathan, 19 June 1692; Ann, 11 November 1694; Isaac Burr, 4 July 1697, Yale College 1717; Daniel, 12 May 1700; Caleb, 20 February 1704, probably died young; and Sarah, 1708; besides Abigail, and Hannah; and he died 1731, in the will named seven sons and four daughters. Of this name, Farmer found, in 1829, seven graduates at Yale and four at Harvard.

JOHN BURRAGE, Charlestown 1637, freeman 18 May 1642, by wife Mary, had Mary, baptized 9 May 1641; Hannah, born 14 December 1643; Elizabeth, and Nathaniel, 28 December 1655, died next year, and his wife died before this son. By second wife Joanna, who died 25 December 1698, aged 65, he had William, born 10 June 1657, and Sarah, 24 January 1659; John, husband perhaps, was several years old, baptized 27 May 1660; Bethia, 26 May 1661; and Ruth, born 28 February baptized 5 March 1665. He died 19 October 1685, in his 68th year. Perhaps he had also, daughter Joanne, who married William Mitchell; certainly Mary married John Marshall; Hannah married 1662, John French of Billerica, as his second wife; and Elizabeth married 15 September 1668, Thomas Dean, who died in few years, and she married 12 August 1680, John Poor; Sarah married 5 April 1682, William Johnson; and Ruth married 4 June 1683, Ignatius White.

JOHN BURRAGE, Scarborough 1640, brother of Benjamin Burrage, was that year in service of John Winter, was father of William, and his widow married Thomas Hammatt.

JOHN BURRAGE, Charlestown, perhaps son of first John Burrage of the same, had Bethia, baptized 26 May 1661; Ruth, 5 March 1665; and he died 18 January 1681; married 15 June 1675, Susanna Cutler perhaps daughter of John Cutler of Woburn and died 1 January 1678. His widow married 15 January 1680, Alexander Logan.

THOMAS BURRAGE, Lynn, by wife Elizabeth, married 1687, had Elizabeth, John, Thomas, Mary, Bethia, and Ruth.

WILLIAM BURRAGE, Scarborough, son of John Burrage of the same, was town clerk, selectman, Representative 1684, and, almost by compulsion was a preacher four years succeeding.

EPHRAIM BURRILL, Weymouth, son of John Burrill, by wife Lydia, had Lydia, born 23 April 1689; Mary, 23 May 1690; Samuel, 7 October 1691; Ephraim, 14 February 1695; John, 12 January 1698; and Sarah, 28 May 1699; perhaps more.

FRANCIS BURRILL, Lynn, son of George Burrill, born probably in England, by wife Elizabeth, had (besides children born before 18 October 1653, when the will of its grandfather refers to it), Elizabeth, born 1 December 1655; James, 21 December 1657; Joseph, 18 December 1659; Mary, 16 May 1661, died young; Lydia, 13 June 1663; Hannah, 19 May 1665; Mary, again, 7 February 1668, died at 10 days; Deborah, 23 July 1669, died in few weeks; Moses, 12 April 1671; Esther, 15 January 1674; Sarah, 11 April 1676, died same year; and Samuel; and died 10 November 1704.

GEORGE BURRILL, Lynn 1630, was one of the richest plantations, brought probably from England wife Mary, sons George and Francis, here had John, born 1631; and both husband and wife died 1653. Lewis. His will of 18 October in that year probated in June following, mentioned the three sons and children of Francis.

GEORGE BURRILL, Boston, son of the preceding, a cooper, married Deborah Simpkins, daughter of Nicholas Simpkins, had George, born 13 February 1654; Samuel, 10 January 1656; Sarah, who married John Souther; who besides grandchild Abraham Gourden, are all named in his will of 4 October 1693, probated 14 July 1698, nine days after his death.

JAMES BURRILL, a soldier of Turner's Company in March 1676, I suppose, was son of Francis of Lynn. Whether he survived the campaign, or perished with his Captain is unknown. But probably he was of Bristol, with wife and one child early in 1689.

JOHN BURRILL, Roxbury 1632, or earlier, by wife Sarah, had Sarah, born July 1634, who married Richard Davis, and, next, Samuel Chandler, and died August 1665. He was a shoemaker, removed to Boston 1648, or before, and died probably in February 1657. His will of 3 August 1654 names only wife and daughter.

JOHN BURRILL, Lynn, son of George Burrill the first, married 10 May 1656, Lois Ivory, daughter of Thomas Ivory, had John, born 15 November 1658 (much distinguished as town clerk 31 years, Representative 22 years, and speaker 10 years, of which Hutchinson II. 234, says, the house "was as fond as of their eyes," and counsellor 1720, died 10 December 1721, leaving no children), was freeman 1686, unless this was the son's date (the latest in the list before the usurpation of Andros), a Captain, Representative 1691, 2, and 7, and died 24 April 1703. Other children were Sarah, 16 May 1661; Thomas, 7 January 1664; Ann, 15 September 1666; Theophilus, 15 July 1669; Lois, 27 January 1672; Samuel, 20 April 1674, died in few days; Mary, 18 February 1677; and Ebenezer, 13 July 1679, who was a valuable public servant as Representative and counsellor many years, and died 6 September 1761, having had, by wife Martha Farrington, ten children of which were Ebenezer and Samuel, often representatives of their native town, and this younger Ebenezer was grandfather of James Burrill, born 25 April 1772, at Providence, that became Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Rhode Island, one of the ablest men the State ever had, and her senator of the United States.

JOHN BURRILL, Weymouth, by wife Rebecca, had Thomas, born 2 February 1659; perhaps others before Ephraim, 19 July 1664. Of this name, whether father or son, was one served in the Company of Isaac Johnson, December 1675, probably engaged in the deadly assault, when his Captain was killed.

JOHN BURRILL, Weymouth, perhaps son of the preceding, by wife Mercy, had Elizabeth, born 25 September 1689; Thomas, 26 May 1692; John, 19 February 1695; and perhaps more.

WILLIAM BURRINGTON, Portsmouth, Rhode Island, by wife Jane, had Abigail, who died 4 December 1711; and his son Robert died 11 August 1728.

JOHN BURRITT, Stratford, son of William Burritt, was propounded for freeman 1671, and living 1698, and probably many years more, for his inventory of good estate was brought by his nephew Josiah, February 1727. He was unmarried.

STEPHEN BURRITT, Stratford 1668, brother of the preceding, married 8 January 1674, Sarah Nichols, daughter of Isaac Nichols, who outlived him, had Elizabeth, born 1675; William, 1677, died young; Peleg, 1679; Josiah, 1681; Israel, 1687; Charles, 1690; and Ephraim, 1693; died early, 1698, his inventory of good estate being of 4 March in that year, the widow and six children to enjoy it.

WILLIAM BURRITT, Stratford, and early settler, died 1651, leaving widow Elizabeth, who survived thirty years, and in her will of 2 September 1681 names sons Stephen and John, and daughter Mary Smith, as her children.

FRANCIS BURROWS, FRANCIS BOROUGHS, FRANCIS BOROWS or FRANCIS BURROUGHS, Boston 1685, Artillery Company 1686, a merchant from London, much commended by John Dutton, for his kindness, in his life and Errors. He married for second wife 29 December 1709, widow Elizabeth Heath, who had been wife of Thomas Gross; and for her and four daughters of Gross by her, he made good provision in his will shortly before his death, and by her it is probably he had no children, as in it he mentioned only child Sarah, who had married Captain John Brown of Salem.

GEORGE BURROWS, GEORGE BOROUGHS, GEORGE BOROWS or GEORGE BURROUGHS, Roxbury, bred at Harvard College where he had his A.B. 1670, the most prominent victim of the diabolical fanaticism of 1692, was thought by Farmer, at one time, son of John Burrows of Salem, though he after supposed that Jeremiah Burrows of Scitutate might be his father, I can feel no doubt, however, that he was son of that "Mrs. Rebecca Burrows, who came from Virginia, that she might enjoy God in his ordinance in New England" as apostle Eliot's record mentioned her unit, with the children 19 July 1657, when her son must have been quite young, and he was administered to the same privilege 12 April 1674. Probably his father had died in Virginia and we may hope, that the mother also had gone to another world before the sad proof of perversion of God's ordinance in her chosen refuge by the horrible proceedings against her only child, by wife whose name is not seen, he had Rebecca, baptized 12 April 1674, the same day of his joining the church, and George, I think, 21 November 1675, both at Roxbury. He preached at Falmouth as early, in opinion of Willis, as 1674, but at the latest, in the summer of 1676, who for his good service he had grant of 200 acres, and when the Indians destroyed that town, 11 August of that year, with surviving inhabitants he escaped to Bang's Island in the harbor, whence he wrote those details of the disaster sent by Major Pendleton to the Governor and council at Boston. In Salisbury he had another child Hannah, born by wife Hannah (perhaps not the first wife) 27 April 1680, and was invited November following to preach at Salem village now Danvers, and there had Elizabeth, baptized 4 June 1682; but in about two years went east to his former flock, certainly was at Falmouth 1683; and it may be feared that dissatisfaction at his leaving Danvers was a moving cause of his unhappy fate. On the second sack of Casco by the Indians 1690, he was again driven to the west and preached at Wells, until a worse enemy, the great adversary, assailed him. He was arrested in April at Wells, and brought to Salem, where the gaol was soon too full of these harmless victims; but on 8 May 1692, he was sent to Boston, charged with offence of witchery, kept nine weeks in prison, tried 3 August at Salem, and by Court unduly organized, condemned in few days, and hanged on 19 of that month. Cotton Mather published for the entertainment of the reader, as he terms it, an account of this trial and execution, at which latter he assisted. In the Annals of Salem, Felt relates, "after he was hung, Cottom Mather believed him to have been justly dealt with, and perceived the impression which his last words and appearance had made to the contrary endeavor, to convince the people that no wrong had been done." One month from that day, Giles Cory suffered punishment on the same preposterous charge as Burrows, but by the monstrous old common law requirement, was pressed to death for standing mute under the indictment. This was the last, as well as the first, instance of such barbaric infliction. Mather was not, I think, present to witness this triumph over the devil in the enforced silence of his victim by the ministers of the law. Had the sheriff invited his aid, perhaps he would have declined the advantage; and we can hardly doubt, that the fact of the other sufferers being a minister and son of the college in which the father of Mather then sat as President, excluded all undue feeling of tenderness in many of the spectators, especially in him who Calef tells us, rode on a horse to instruct the witnesses at the solemn scene. Tardy vindication in small degree of this innocence was made by the government on petitition of his elder son Charles, provision in 1711, for his heirs. That valuable paper may be read in History Collections of Essex Inst. I. 57. So late as 1774, his land at Falmouth, against which the formality of forfeiture had not been applied, was sold by George and Thomas Burrows of Newburyport, his descendants. Of the children besides the four before mentioned, we hear of Mary, who married and lived at Attleborough, and Jeremiah, who was insane, possibly in consequence of the treatmennt of his father, but whether the last wife (a daughter of Thomas Ruck), who survived him, were second or third, is not told. Rebecca lived at Boston, wife of a Tolman, it is said; George lived at Ipswich; Hannah, from tradition was wife of a Mr. Fox, who lived in Boston, near Barton's point; and Elizabeth married Peter Thomas of Boston, progenitor of the late Isaiah of Worcester, Long Island, died founder of the American Antiquarian Society. See Farmer, in Memoirs of Graduates of Harvard College. Genealogical Registrar I. 37, with copious references. Hutchinson, Upham, and Willis.

JAMES BURROWS, JAMES BOROUGHS, JAMES BOROWS or JAMES BURROUGHS, Boston 1674, a tailor, removed to Bristol, there in 1689 had wife and three children.

JEREMIAH BURROWS, JEREMIAH BOROUGHS, JEREMIAH BOROWS or JEREMIAH BURROUGHS, Scituate 1674, married May 1651, a Huet Hingham, perhaps daughter of Thomas of Hingham, had Jeremiah, born 1652; John, 1653; Elizabeth, 1655; and Mary, 1657; and died 1660.

JEREMIAH BURROWS, JEREMIAH BOROUGHS, JEREMIAH BOROWS or JEREMIAH BURROUGHS Scituate, eldest son of the preceding, had Jeremiah, but who was the wife, or dates of marriages, or births of sons or daughter of either husband or wife is not seen.

JOHN BURROWS, JOHN BOROUGHS, JOHN BOROWS or JOHN BURROUGHS, Salem 1637, was from Yarmouth, a cooper, coming that year in the Mary Ann, aged 28, with wife Ann, 40, unless the Westminster record from custom house of Yarmouth be wrong.

JOHN BURROWS, JOHN BOROUGHS, JOHN BOROWS or JOHN BURROUGHS, New Haven 1644, may be the same as him of Newtown, Long Island. 1656.

JOHN BURROWS, JOHN BOROUGHS, JOHN BOROWS or JOHN BURROUGHS, New London, son of Robert Burrows, married 14 December 1670, Mary Culver, daughter of John Culver, had John, born 2 September 1671; Mary, 14 December 1672; Hannah, 9 October 1674; Margaret, 5 October 1677; Samuel, 5 October 1679; Robert, 9 September 1681; and Abigail, 10 August 1682.

JOHN BURROWS, JOHN BOROUGHS, JOHN BOROWS or JOHN BURROUGHS, Enfield 1684, died about 1693, leaving widow and children John, Hannah, and Sarah.

ROBERT BURROWS, ROBERT BOROUGHS, ROBERT BOROWS or ROBERT BURROUGHS, Wethersfield, married 1645, Mary, widow of Samuel Ireland, removed to New London 1650, had John, and perhaps others, for descendants still living there; and his wife died December 1672, and he in August 1682. His successor spelled Burroughs, and most of the foregoing have, at times, done the same.

WILLIAM BURROWS, WILLIAM BOROUGHS, WILLIAM BOROWS or WILLIAM BURROUGHS, Providence 1641, came, perhaps, in the Susan and Ellen, 1635, aged 19, was among freeman 1655, and living 1663, but wife or children are unknown.

JAMES BURSELL, or JAMES BURSTALL, Yarmouth 1643, died October 1676, leaving three daughters.

JOHN BURSELL, or JOHN BURSTALL, Yarmouth 1643, perhaps brother of the preceding of which no more is known. It may seem a strange name, and certainly is not now found.

JOHN BURSLEY, JOHN BURSLEM, or JOHN BURSLIN, an early settler at Weymouth, reckoned some 3 or 4 years among "old planters," and was soon after at Dorchester, required administration as freeman 19 October 1630, and was sworn 18 May following. When first named he is called Mr., and was Representative 1636, married at Sandwich, 28 November 1639, Joanna Hull, daughter of Reverend Joseph Hull of Barnstable, had fixed at Barnstable, and there was his daughter Mary baptized 30 July 1643; John, 22 September 1644, died in few weeks; Joanna, 1 March 1646; Elizabeth, 25 March 1649; and John, again, 11 April 1652; besides the first child who died suddenly 25 January 1641, very young; probably Temperance, who married December 1677, Joseph Crocker of Barnstable; and Joanna, who married Shubael Dimmock, as second wife. He was at Exeter 1643 and 5, short time at Hampton, but of Kittery 1647-53, went back to the neighborhood of Barnstable, there died probably 1660. His widow became second or third wife of the first Dolor Davis. Mary married 25 April 1663, John Crocker; and Elizabeth married November 1666, Nathaniel Goodspeed, and, next, October 1675, Increase Clap.

JOHN BURSLEY, JOHN BURSLEM, or JOHN BURSLIN, Barnstable, son of the preceding, married December 1673, Elizabeth Howland, daughter of second John Howland of the same, had Elizabeth, born October 1674, who died next year; Mary, October 1675, died in few months; John, 1 March 1678; Mary, again, 23 May 1679; Jabez, 21 August 1681; Joanna, 29 November 1684; Joseph, 29 January 1687; Abigail, 27 August 1690; Elizabeth, again, 5 August 1692; and Temperance, 3 January 1695. Descendants of his youngest son enjoy to this day the estate of the first ancestor in England, a parish is named Burslem.

BENJAMIN BURT, Deerfield, son of David Burt, married 19 October 1702, Sarah Belden, daughter of Daniel Belden, had Jonathan, and perhaps other sons.

DAVID BURT, Northampton, son of Henry Burt, born in England, one of the first settlers at Northampton, married 18 November 1655, Mary Holton, daughter of Deacon William Holton, had David, born 14 July 1656, killed by a cart 30 August 1660; Jonathan, 1 May 1658, died at 4 years; Henry, 20 August 1660; Mary, 18 March 1663, died at 3 years; Sarah, 2 May 1665; Hannah, 2 September 1667, died young; David, again, 25 August 1669, a soldier, taken by the French and Indians 9 February 1690, from Schenectady to Canada, whence he never returned; Jonathan, 5 September 1671; Joseph, 26 September 1673; Mary, again, 3 May 1676; Ruth, April 1677, says the record probably 1678 was meant; Benjamin, 17 November 1680; and John, 29 April 1682, killed by the Indians up the river May 1709. He died 1690, and his widow married Joseph Root, and died 1718. Sarah married 1688, Robert Porter, and died next year; Mary married 14 February 1706, as second wife Dr. Thomas Hastings of Hadley, and, next married Samuel Belden the younger; and Ruth married 1710, Nehemiah Allen.

EDWARD BURT, Charlestown 1651, son of George Burt, by wife Elizabeth Bunker, daughter of George Bunker, had Mary, born 28 September 1657; and got a patent to make salt, granted 1652, for ten years by our General Court.

GEORGE BURT, Lynn 1635, died 2 November 1661, leaving George, who went to Sandwich; Hugh; and Edward, before mentioned. Lewis.

HENRY BURT, Roxbury, had his house burned for which loss the General Court made a grant to the town of £8 in November 1639; removed to Springfield next year, was there clerk of the writs (though record of the birth of his own child is not found), and died 30 April 1662. His widow Ulalia died 29 August 1690, and of his children, we know names for Jonathan; David; Nathaniel; Sarah, who married first, 1643, Judah Gregory, and, next, Henry Wakley; Abigail, who married first, 1644, Francis Ball; next, 1649, Benjamin Mun, and bore him five children, and next married Lieutenant Thomas Stebbins, whose son married her daughter Abigail; Mary, who married 1654, William Brooks, and bore him eight sons and eight daughters; Elizabeth, who married 24 November 1653, Samuel Wright junior; Patience, who married 7 October 1667, John Bliss; Mercy, who married 17 January 1667, Judah Wright; Hannah, who married 1659, John Bagg, and had ten children; and Dorcas, who married 28 October 1658, John Stiles. The four last named of these eight daughters of course, were born after his removal to Springfield, and in neither record of town nor chuch at Roxbury is his name to be seen. A tradition Is preserved that the mother of these children "was laid out for death in England put into the coffin, but signs of life appeared at her funeral, she recovered, came to New England, settled at Springfield, and here had nineteen children." What degree of credit may be yielded to this account quoted from Dr. Stiles, who was a very benign in hearing such chronicles, may well be asked but the answer will probably depend on the spirit, education and habits of the responder.

HENRY BURT, Northampton, son of David Burt, married 1684, Elizabeth Alvord, daughter of Alexander Alvord, had only Joseph, born 1 December 1685; and Elizabeth, 2 May 1687, both mother and child died in few days. He married 9 December following Hannah Denslow, daughter of Henry Denslow of Windsor, had Samuel, born 8 September 1688, who with the mother died next year; and by third wife Mary, had David, 17 July 1691; Ebenezer, 2 February 1693; Mary , 24 August 1694, died soon; Mary, again, 9 October 1695; Thomas, 26 December 1697; Hannah, 1 August 1700; Elizabeth, 31 March 1702, died young; and Noah, 17 August 1707, who died at 18 years; and the father died 26 September 1735.

HENRY BURT, Springfield, son of the first Jonathan, had for second wife 4 April 1716 (the first being unknown to me, as, also, is the point, whether she had issue) Deborah, widow of Benjamin Alvord, daughter of John Stebbins.

HUGH BURT, Lynn, brother of George Burt, came, probably in the Abigail 1635, aged 35, with wife Ann, 32, and Hugh, 15; and Edward, 8, perhaps his nephews. His will of December 1650, probated 21 of same, leaves some uncertain.

HUGH BURT he was, that was called 70 years old, or thereabouts, on giving evidence March 1661; for one, called of Lynn, junior, probably son of George Burt, had Mary, born 21 July 1647; and made his will 7 October 1661, died 21 of next month. But the son died before his father who mentioned children of his son Hugh deceased, as Mary and Sarah.

JAMES BURT, Taunton, probably son of Richard Burt, had wife Ann, who died 17 August 1665.

JAMES BURT of Taunton, died 10 June 1743, says the gravestone, "aged about 84 years" and the same evidence commemorated another James, perhaps his son as dying 29 March 1774, in 88th year. This name is well perpetuatecd.

JONATHAN BURT, Springfield, eldest son of Henry Burt, born in England, married at Boston, 1651, Elizabeth Lobdell, had Elizabeth, born 29 December 1652, who married 29 January 1673, Vicary Sikes; Joanthan, 12 September 1654; Sarah, 4 September 1656, who married 1675, Benjamin Dorchester, and, next, 1677, Luke Hitchcock; John, 23 August 1658; Mercy, 7 August 1661, who died at 22 years; and Henry Burt following.

HENRY BURT, 11 December 1663; was a man of note, and Deacon. His wife died 11 November 1684, and he married 14 December 1686, Deliverance, widow of Thomas Hanchet, and died 19 October 1715.

NATHANIEL BURT. Springfield, younger brother of the Jonathan Burt, above mentioned, married 15 January 1663, Rebecca Sikes, perhaps daughter of Richard Sikes, had Nathaniel, born 18 January 1664; Rebecca, 20 December 1665; David, 20 May 1668; John, 23 August 1670; Sarah, 17 July 1673, died soon; Sarah, again, April 1675; Experience, 23 January 1678, and Dorcas, 20 February 1681. His wife died 28 January 1712, and he died 29 September 1720. His residence was in that part now Longmeadow.

RICHARD BURT, Taunton, one of the purchasers 1639, was dead before 1675, had Richard and probably James. Charity, wife or widow of the younger, or elder Richard, died 3 June 1711. Baylies, I. 286, and II. 270 and 8.

THOMAS BURT, Salem, married 18 November 1672, Mary Southwick, but whose daughter or widow she was, is unknown.

WILLIAM BURT, Charlestown, one of Captain Moseley's Company killed 19 December 1675, in the great Narraganset fight. From the diverse spelling of this man's name, in Genealogical Registrar VIII. 242, and from Drake's History of Boston, 414, where it gives Bourle, some puzzle is raised, but whichever be correct, we know that Charlestown had but a single William Burt on the roster for that campaign, and either form is not great perversion. Of this name, Farmer counts at New England and Union, and New Jersey colleges, fifteen graduates in 1834.

BONIFACE BURTON, Lynn, 1630, freeman 6 May 1635, died 13 June 1669, "being a hundred and fifteen years old," says John Hull's Diary, printed in the Transaction of the American Antiquarian Society III. 229, yet liable to a false construction of the date. Of course, we doubt, some exaggeration is here; and in one of Sewall's interleaving Almanacs, that for 1673, two years are deducted as in Hutchinson I. 269. Nearer to contemporary evidence must be the Dairy, yet his son-in-law overcame his usual reverence for "father Hull," and he would not (with his habitual fondness for finding cases of longevity) have subtracted a week without apparent authority. Had he boldly struck off a dozen more years skeptics would agree or would rejoice with him. Yet Burton was the oldest man, says Lewis, fondly, who ever lived In Lynn. This kindly affected writer, in a generation nearer to his own, enjoyed the finding of a black woman of equal age in the same happy town. Well stricken in years at his coming over, must Burton seem, and probably he brought some family or at least had little progeny here; and careful scrunity proves, in many such instances, that people past middle life, after reaching our shores, grew old very fast.

BONIFACE BURTON, Boston, perhaps son, perhaps grandson of the preceding, died 1667, from whose will, named only wife Frances, we infer, that he left no children, and know that he gave nothing to the centenary, but that his largest bequest was ten shillings to Increase Mather. It is possible that the testator was that very aged Lynn man, and the only one of so uncommon name.

EDWARD BURTON, Charlestown 1633, removed probably to Hingham, there had grant of land 1647, and died before 1675, when conveyance of it was given by his children of which I see no more.

JOHN BURTON, Salem, a tanner, from 1637 to 1684, when he died having been worried for a Quaker, 1659, 60 and 1. See Felt.

RICHARD BURTON, Charlestown, was exempted in October 1675, as one of the ferrymen, from military impressment.

SOLOMON BURTON, Stratford, married August 1687, Mercy Judson, daughter of Jeremiah Judson, had children whose names and dates are unknown, but descendants continued.

STEPHEN BURTON, Swanzey 1683, married 4 September 1684, Elizabeth Winslow, only daughter of Governor Josiah Winslow, and strange is it, that we know so little of him. Probably he was son of Thomas Burton, had for first wife Abigail Brenton, daughter of Governor William Brenton of Rhode Island, and in 1680 he joined with John Walley, Nathaniel Byfield, and Nathaniel Oliver, men of large estates and distinction in purchasing the Mount Hope estate seat of the great Sachem, Philip, from the Colony of Plymouth, assumed as fruit of their conquest, and settled Bristol. Next year he was made constable at Boston with Paul Dudley, Adam Winthrop, Edward Raynsford, and Giles Dyer.

THOMAS BURTON, Hingham 1640, married Margaret Otis, daughter of John Otis, had Hannah, baptized 30 May 1641; Phebe, 12 May 1644; Ruth, August 1646, died next year and Sarah, 13 May 1649; but it is said, that his daughter Martha married William Brenton, and if so, then she was by a former wife probably born in England. He was one of the great disturbers of our political state, as in Winthrop History II. 262, 302, may be read. Very curious manifesto of our General Court contained in the glorious Collections of Hutchinson 212, alludes to him as "an old grocer of London," and his perversity is imputed to "his age and some other infirmitites." This hardly consists with the dignity of a legislature; and had the document been prepared by the Assistant they might have ascribed his heretical pravity in so facatious desire of religious liberty to long residence at Newport after 1639.

WILLIAM BURTON. Warwick, married Ann Wicks, or Hannah Wicks, daughter of John Wicks, had Susanna, who married 11 December 1684, second Samuel Gorton, Elder, and perhaps younger children he had, as Elizabeth, who married 30 October 1674, Thomas Hedger; Hannah, married a Carpenter; John, born 2 May 1667; Elkanah, of which all that is told is his marriage of a Clark; and Rose, who married a Fowler. Yet a second wife Isabel Potter (daughter of John Potter), long survived him, and may have been mother of one or more. His will was probated 25 June 1714.

JOHN BURWELL, Milford 1639, had Samuel, baptized 11 October 1640; Ephraim, 19 May 1644; Nathan, 1646; and Elizabeth, 1647; but he had, before coming to Milford, sons John, and Zechariah, perhaps both born in England, and died 17 August 1649. He was from County Herts, left widow Alice, who married next year Joseph Peck from New Haven, a single man, and she died 19 December 1666.

JOHN BURWELL, Milford, son of the preceding, had John, and two other children without names, and died 1665.

JOHN BURWELL, Branford, as Porter suggests, who died 9 August 1680, had five children by the first wife and by Benedicta, the second wife, had three more, but names are not given except of John, and Elizabeth, who married the second Eleazer Stent.

JOHN BURWELL, Branford, son of the preceding, by wife Hannah, had Hannah, called 5 and 1/2 years old, and John, 3 and 1/2, when the inventory after death of father was brought in, 20 March 1691.

NATHAN BURWELL, Milford, brother of the preceding, married 14 January 1674, Temperance Baldwin, daughter of Richard Baldwin, had Alice, born December following; and Temperance, baptized 1676.

SAMUEL BURWELL. brother of the preceding, married perhaps, Sarah Fenn, daughter of the first Benjamin Fenn, had Sarah, baptized 1663; Samuel, 1665, died soon; Samuel, again, 1667; Joseph, 1676; and John, 1678; though possibly this last may have been son of Nathan. He was among proprietors of New Haven 1685, as printed in Genealogical Registrar I. 157, but another copy of that list gives the name Bunnill, and I fear it has not seldom became Burrill in print.

SAMUEL BURWELL, New Haven 1685, was younger, and married Rebecca Bunnell, daughter of Benjamin Bunnell, had Ann, born 30 December 1685; and eleven other children, as Porter writes, without giving the names.

ZECHARIAH BURWELL, Milford, son of the first John Burwell, married 1663, Elizabeth Baldwin, but from the great host of that name, I am unable to select a father for her. He soon removed to Newark, New Jersey.

ABRAHAM BUSBY, Boston, linen-weaver, son of Nicholas Busby, freeman 1650, Artillery Company 1647, married 23 September 1659, perhaps as second wife Abigail, widow of Joseph Briscoe, and died 20 March 1687.

NICHOLAS BUSBY, Watertown, weaver, came from old Norwich to Boston 20 June 1637, then aged 50, with wife Bridget 53, and four children Nicholas, John, Abraham, and Sarah, was freeman March 1638, selectman 1640, and 41, removed to Boston 1646, constable there 1649, and died 28 August 1657. His will of 25 July preceding gives "all his books of physics" to eldest son John, adds that he was then in England, all his books of divinity to Abraham, also mentioned eldest daughter Ann, wife of William Nickerson of Boston, weaver; daughter Catharine Savory; youngest daughter of Sarah, wife of John Grout of Sudbury, who had been wife of Thomas Cakebread; and his grandson Joseph, son of Nicholas, who was dead. His wife Bridget survived him 3 or 4 years.

NICHOLAS BUSBY, Boston, son of the preceding, born in England, married 1652, Martha Cheney, daughter of John Cheney, the young widow of Anthony Sadler, had Joseph, and died before his father.

EDWARD BUSH, Salem, married 17 October 1665, Mary Hyde (spelled on the record Hidz, in most scrupulously conforming with sound), had Edward, born 2 September 1667, died in few months. Again he married 1 August 1678, young widow Elizabeth Pitman, who long survived, had Elizabeth, born 30 April following; Edward, again, 1 March 1682, died soon; Ann, 25 February 1683; Benjamin, 7 May 1685; Edward, again, 2 August 1687; Estwick, 22 March 1689, died young; and Estwick, again, 14 May 1693.

JOHN BUSH, Cambridge, took oath of fidelity 1652, by wife Elizabeth, had Joseph, born 16 August 1654; Elizabeth, 14 August 1657; Daniel, 4 April 1659; Abiah, 2 March 1661; and Mary, 17 November 1662; and died 1 January 1663.

JONATHAN BUSH, Springfield 1678, Enfield 1685, had children born in both towns.

JOSEPH BUSH, Newton, probably son of John Bush, by wife Hannah, had Lydia, born 14 September 1692; and Zechariah, 26 September 1696; perhaps Joseph; and died 1723. His widow died 1736.

RENOLD BUSH, RANDALL BUSH, or RANDOLPH BUSH, Cambridge 1641, lived on south side of the river now Brighton, may have had wife and children, but no certainty is attained.

SAMUEL BUSH, Suffield 1679, Springfield 1686, at Westfield, by wife Mary, who died 2 August 1687, had Ebenezer, born 9 days preceding; and by second wife, had Abigail, 12 June 1705; and he died 7 May 1733. Of this name, in 1834, three had been graduates at Yale, and three at Dartmouth, none at Harvard as Farmer saw.

EDWARD BUSHELL, Boston, was a merchant 1676. A Ruth Bushell who came, at the age of 23, in the Abigail 1635, married next year Edward Mitchelson of Cambridge.

FRANCIS BUSHNEALL, Guilford 1639, died 1646, had brought from England son Francis, and daughter Rebecca, who married John Lord of Hartford, and died very soon after her father.

FRANCIS BUSHNEALL, Saybrook, son of the preceding, born in England, had Samuel, and five daughters as is said; but I presume that Elizabeth, who married 2 July 1651, William Johnson, and Martha, who married 1 January 1664, Jonathan Smith of Wethersfield, are all that are known. He was Deacon and had favor of the Indians (as in the will of Joshua, son of Uncas, 1677, gives him and others large tract of land is probated) died 4 December 1681, aged 81.

FRANCIS BUSHNEALL, Salem 1639, may be that carpenter, coming in the Planter, 1635, aged 26, with wife Mary, 26, and died Martha, 1; but if he were, he removed soon to parts unknown unless he be found at Norwalk, 1672.

JOHN BUSHNEALL, Salem, a glazier, came in the Hopewell, Captain Bundocke, 1635, aged 21, had grant of land 1637, but preferred to live at Boston, where, by wife Jane, he had Dorothy, born 19 February 1652; Sarah, 24 March 1655; Elizabeth, 30 August 1657; John, 19 January 1660; and perhaps others, certainly William; and possibly at Salem, may have had Mary, who married 3 October 1657, George Robinson.

JOHN BUSHNEALL, Saybrook, son of John Bushneall (but residence of father is not told, perhaps it was England), married 15 May 1665, Sarah Scranton, daughter of John Scranton of Guilford, had John, born 5 March 1666; Sarah, 17 September 1668; Hannah, 10 November 1670; Mary, 20 February 1673; and Elizabeth, 23 December 1674. He was one of the devisees in the will of the son of Uncas.

JOSEPH BUSHNEALL, Norwich, eldest son of Richard Bushneall, married 28 November 1673, Mary Leffingwell, daughter of Thomas Leffingwell, had Mary, born 10 March 1675; Joseph, 27 June 1677; Jonathan, 7 October 1679; Daniel, 1681, died soon; Deborah, 21 September 1682; Hannah, 8 September 1684; Nathaniel, 12 February 1686; Rebecca, 7 March 1688; Abigail, 21 July 1690; Rachel, 27 October 1692; and Jerusha, 17 November 1695. He died 23 December 1746, not, as in the careful History of Norwich, by error of the press, is given 1748. His wife died 31 March 1745.

RICHARD BUSHNEALL, Saybrook, married 11 October 1648, Mary Marvyn, daughter of Matthew Marvyn, had Joseph, born May 1651; Richard, September 1652; Mary, January 1655; and Maria, March 1657. He died early, and his widow married Thomas Adgate. Mary married September 1674, Thomas Leffingwell, junior.

RICHARD BUSHNEALL, Norwich, son of the preceding, married 7 December 1672, Elizabeth Adgate, daughter of Thomas Adgate, had Ann, born 4 December 1674; Caleb, 26 May 1679, Benajah, 4 May 1681; and Elizabeth, 31 January 1685; was a Captain; and died 27 February 1727.

SAMUEL BUSHNEALL, Saybrook, son of William Bushneall the first, married 7 October 1675, Patience Rudd, daughter of Jonathan Rudd, had Abigail, born 27 July 1677; Judith, 14 September 1679; Samuel, 21 August 1682; Jonathan, 10 April 1685; Daniel, 20 February 1688; Nathaniel, 18 February 1691; Hepzibah and Ebenezer, twins 19 August 1701.

SAMUEL BUSHNEALL, Saybrook, son of Francis Bushneall, married 17 Apr1684, Ruth Sanford, daughter of Zechary Sanford.

WILLIAM BUSHNEALL, Saybrook, son of John Bushneall of Boston, or more probably his brother, if the custom house record at London be right in the age of John, had, by records of Saybrook, Joshua, born 6 May 1644; Samuel, September 1645; Rebecca, 5 October 1646; William, 15 February 1648; Francis, 6 January 1650; Stephen; and Thomas, 4 January 1654; Judith, January 1656; and Abigail, February 1660; and died 31 August 1684.

WILLIAM BUSHNEALL, Saybrook, perhaps son of the preceding or of John Bushneall of Boston, had William; Abigail, who married 25 June 1679, John Seward; Judith, 5 February 1681, who married Joseph Seward; and Lydia, who married 14 July 1686, Caleb Seward, all sons of William Seward who all had plentiful issue, and lived to good age. He was named one of the devisees in the will of the Indian Sachem. Joshua, was a Lieutenant and died 12 November 1683. One Bushnell, of whose baptized name no clue is found, died at Boston, 28 March 1636, in the employment of John Winthrop the younger. His widow Martha had, perhaps, borne him a son Edward, in England, and here, a few weeks after death of her husband, had Mary. She joined with church of Boston 3 February 1639, and on 17 of same month brought that daughter to be baptized and, I think, became wife of William Beamsley, and perhaps it was this daughter Mary who married 3 July 1657, George Robinson. Of this name, the graduates in 1829, Farmer counted two at Williams college, five at Yale, of which in 1775, was David Bushneall, an ingenious mechanic.

PETER BUSHROD, Northampton, a soldier in Captain William Turner's Company, there stated in April 1676, and 19 May was in the Falls fight. After the war, he married Elizabeth Hannum, daughter of William Hannum, had John, born and died 1680; Elizabeth, 1681; John, again, born and died 1683; Samuel, 1684; Hannah; and Abigail, 1689. His wife died 5 May 1690 and he died 21 October following. Only two of the children were then living, Abigail, alone of the six reaching mature age, and married 1716, Samuel Classon.

JAMES BUSKET, came to Boston, in the Christian, 1635, aged 28, but no more is known.

JOHN BUSS, JOHN BUSSE, JOHN BUSSEY, Durham, a physician and preacher, born about 1640, married 12 May 1673, Elizabeth Bradbury, daughter of Thomas Bradbury of Salisbury, freeman 1647, when he was of Concord, began to preach 1678, and served at Durham near forty years, but was not ordained, lost his library in destruction of his house by the Indians 1694, and died 1730, aged 96. Belknap I. 139.

JOSEPH BUSS, JOSEPH BUSSE, JOSEPH BUSSEY, Concord, son of William Buss, married 23 December 1674, Elizabeth Jones, daughter of John Jones, and died 1681. He had Ann, born 1675; William, 1677, who died at 14 years; Dorcas; and Joseph, 23 August 1680.

NATHANIEL BUSS, NATHANIEL BUSSE, NATHANIEL BUSSEY, Concord, brother of the preceding, married 1668, Mary Haven, and died 17 December 1717.

WILLIAM BUSS, WILLIAM BUSSE, WILLIAM BUSSEY, Concord, freeman 14 March 1639, was a Lieutenant and died 30 June 1698, but another account is 31 January 1698. By wife Ann, he had Richard, born 6 July 1640; Ann, 8 February 1642; Nathaniel, 15 March 1647; and Joseph, 4 May 1649; and he had second wife Dorcas, widow of John Jones, who died 22 November 1709. Joseph, and William, who were killed by the Indians 27 June 1689, at Major Waldron's garrison house, may have been son of him or of John. Ann married 20 October 1659, William Wheeler of Concord.

ISAAC BUSWELL, ISAAC BUZZELL, ISAAC BUSSELL, or ISAAC BUZWELL, Salisbury, freeman 9 October 1640, perhaps brought sons Samuel and William from England, and here married 1641, Mary Eastow, probably daughter of William Eastow, who died 29 September of the same year, and by second or third wife had Mary, born 29 August 1645; and Isaac, 29 July 1650; and daughter Mary married 24 June 1669, Philip Brown.

ISAAC BUSWELL, ISAAC BUZZELL, ISAAC BUSSELL, or ISAAC BUZWELL, Salisbury, son of the preceding, married 12 or 19 May 1673, Susanna Perkins, daughter of the first Isaac Perkins, had Sarah, born 29 November 1676; and Mary, 23 December 1678; and he probably died soon after, for his widow married 22 June 1680, William Fuller junior, of Hampton.

JOHN BUSWELL, JOHN BUZZELL, JOHN BUSSELL, or JOHN BUZWELL, Salisbury, perhaps brother of the first Isaac Buswell, had wife Margaret, who died 29 September 2642. Phebe, probably his daughter married 2 May 1645, John Gill of the same.

JOHN BUSWELL, JOHN BUZZELL, JOHN BUSSELL, or JOHN BUZWELL, Woburn, had Samuel, who died 1 December 1667.

ROBERT BUSWELL, ROBERT BUZZELL, ROBERT BUSSELL, or ROBERT BUZWELL, Andover, son of Samuel Buswell, married 9 December 1697, Hannah Tyler.

SAMUEL BUSWELL, SAMUEL BUZZELL, SAMUEL BUSSELL, or SAMUEL BUZWELL, Salisbury, perhaps son of Isaac Buswell the first, born in England, married 8 July 1656, Sarah Keyes, perhaps daughter of Robert Keyes, had Isaac, born 5 August 1657; John, 7 October 1659; Samuel, 25 May 1662; William, 5 August 1664; Robert, 8 February 1667; and James, 20 March 1669. He may have lived short time, in 1668, at Marblehead.

WILLIAM BUSWELL, WILLIAM BUZZELL, WILLIAM BUSSELL, or WILLIAM BUZWELL, Salisbury 1650, perhaps brother, perhaps son of the first Isaac Buswell, was a Captain and Representative 1679, died 21 June 1699.

WILLIAM BUSWELL, WILLIAM BUZZELL, WILLIAM BUSSELL, or WILLIAM BUZWELL, Portsmouth, married 5 September 1687, Ruth Stileman, daughter of Honorable Elias Stileman, and descendants are not few, I believe, in New Hampshire.

JOHN BUTCHER, Roxbury, by wife Sarah, had Sarah, born 10 October 1695; Elizabeth, 17 February 1699; and he died 10 November following.

ROBERT BUTCHER, Boston, Artillery Company 1676, was freeman 1677, and that is all I hear of him.

WILLIAM BUTLAND, Boston, of who I know only that, in November 1655, he demanded as administrator from Captain Clark, the wages due to his son Thomas, a mariner, lately deceased, probably on a voyage.

DANIEL BUTLER, Hartford, perhaps youngest son of Richard Butler of the same, had, by wife Mable, (who became second wife of second Michael Taintor), only daughter Elizabeth.

GILES BUTLER, who came in the James from Southampton 1635, to Boston, arriving 3 June, was called in the custom house of Marlborough, in County Wilts, but all else is unknown.

HENRY BUTLER, Dorchester, came about 1642, it is said, from some part of Kent, married Ann Holman, daughter of John Holman, by his first wife and had John, baptized 6 July 1651, in this year was administered freeman. Very curious is the coincidence that one Henry Butler took that year his A.B. at Harvard, in the calalogue being not in Italic, though he preached some years at Milton, went home, and by Calamy, Volume II. 611, is made minister at Yeovil, in Somersetshire, and to his death 24 April 1696, aged about 72. In August 1673, he, then, in England, made deed in consideration of £160 paid by Thomas Holman, the younger brother of his wife of his rights in land both in Dorchester and Milton, though perhaps the phrase is varied only by the ignorance of the grantor, whether the division of the town of Dorchester since his removal left his acres in the old, or transfered them to the new. Certainly he early taught the school at Dorchester and tradition (that sometimes delights in improble) made him to be bred at Cambridge University instead of Harvard.

JAMES BUTLER, Woburn 1676, had John, born 22 July 1677, progenitor of a very numerous line, removed, I suppose, to Billerica.

JAMES BUTLER, Boston, son of Stephen Butler, by wife Grace, had Mary, born 21 February 1684; Grace, 2 May 1685; Elizabeth, 23 December 1686; and James, 21 August 1688. See Genealogical Registrar I. 167.

JOHN BUTLER, Boston, artillery company 1644, perhaps the freeman 1649, said to have been a physician, was probably of Hartford 166, certainly freeman there 1669; removed to Branford, there died 1680; by two wives had four daughters and sons John, Richard, Jonathan, and Jonas. He may be a different man; but probably is that physician, whose creditor, John Winchcombe, of Boston, claimed 5 October 1682, administration on estate and gave inventory 5 February following of L11.3 only.

JOHN BUTLER, New Haven, married 3 January 1666, Elizabeth Morrill, had Mary, born 9 September 1667; another daughter 1669; and John and James, twins 6 September 1671.

JOHN BUTLER, New London, married probably Catharine Haughton, daughter of Richard Haughton of the same, had John, who married about 1700, besides a daughter who died 1689, perhaps young; but full details Miss Caulkins was unable to give.

JOHN BUTLER, Boston, 1676, a haberdasher, may easily be mistaken for the first John Butler. Perhaps he was his son, and about 1684 was of Stratford, with wife Mary, who had administration of the estate 1697.

JOHN BUTLER, Woburn, son of James Butler, by wife Elizabeth, had Elizabeth, born 4 September 1704; John, 22 June 1706; Samuel, 3 May 1708; Sarah, 10 January 1710; Joseph, 1 December 1713; Phebe, 25 January 1715; Mary, 27 December 1716; Jacob, 10 November 1718; Abigail, 5 November 1720; Sarah, again, 9 November 1724; and he removed to New Hampshire, and died 1759. Nine of his children lived to marry, and descendants are numerous, of which one was the diligent Historian of Groton, that amply illustrated the genealogy.

JOSEPH BUTLER, Wethersfield, son probably of Richard Butler of Hartford, married about 1667, Mary Goodrich, daughter of William Goodrich, had Richard, born 1667; Benjamin, a 1673; Joseph, about 1675; Mary, about 1677; Gershom, about 1683; and Charles, a 1686; all named in his will. He died 10 December 1732, aged 85; and his widow died 1 June 1735.

NATHANIEL BUTLER. Wethersfield, brother of Joseph Butler, of who no more is told.

NICHOLAS BUTLER, Dorchester, came from Eastwell, in County Kent, it is said, with wife Joyce, three children of which one was John (possibly baptized 22 September 1645), and five servants 1636, as by record of custom house at Sandwich, England, is probably freeman 14 March 1639; removed 1651 to Martha's Vineyard, where descendants are yet. His daughter Lydia married 19 May 1646, John Minot of Dorchester.

PETER BUTLER, Boston, married Mary Alford, daughter of William Alford, by whose will we learn, that he had Peter, Hannah, Samuel, and Mary, who was born 21 January 1655; but dates of his marriage or births of each of the other children, and of his own death are not seen. His widow married Hezekiah Usher, as third wife and brought her children Samuel, Hannah, and Mary Butler to be baptized at Old South church 14 March 1675. This renders it probable that her son Peter had been baptized in the lifetime of his father, or was too big a youth to be then offered. A third husband Samuel Nowell, she outlived and died 1693.

PETER BUTLER, Boston, son of the preceding, was a Captain, married Elizabeth Brown, daughter of Abraham Brown, freeman 1690, and died 19 August 1699, leaving Peter; John; Elizabeth; Mary, born 21 February 1694; Hezekiah, 10 June 1695; and Alford, 3 February 1699. record is found of earlier children Mary, 26 September 1686; and Samuel, 26 March 1690; but they probably died young. The widow married 8 January 1713, Ephriam Savage, as fourth wife.

RICHARD BUTLER, Cambridge 1632, freeman 14 May 1634, removed to Hartford before 1643, was Representative 1656-60, a Deacon, and died 6 August 1684. By first wife he had Thomas, Samuel, and Nathaniel; by second wife Elizabeth, had Joseph; Daniel; Mary, who married 29 September 1659, Samuel Wright; Elizabeth, who married an Olmstead; and Hannah, who married a Green. His widow died 11 September 1691.

RICHARD BUTLER, Stratford 1650, died 1676, had two daughters Mary, who married 7 June 1655, John Washburn, and next, Thomas Hicks of Hempstead, Long Island, and Phebe, who married Benjamin Peak, who sometimes wrote his name Peat.

SAMUEL BUTLER, Wethersfield, son of Richard Butler, was Deacon, had, in Haddam, Samuel, born 26 November 1665; and Elizabeth, 20 August 1667; and of him I can tell no more, but that his daughter Mary married 21 January 1692, Ebenezer Hopkins of Hartford.

STEPHEN BUTLER, Boston 1652, by wife Jane, had Benjamin, born 2 August 1653, died young; Benjamin, again, 10 February 1659; Isaac, 9 October 1661, died soon; Isaac, again, 29 May 1664, died young; James, 2 August 1665; Isaac, again, 10 August 1667; and by second wife Mary, had William, 10 October 1671.

THOMAS BUTLER, Lynn, removed 1637, to Sandwich, but had stopped some time at Duxbury, had at Sandwich, Patience, born 28 September 1648; Dorothy, 23 January 1651; perhaps more, but was, again, of Duxbury 1657.

THOMAS BUTLER, Hartford, son of Richard Butler, married Sarah Stone, daughter of Reverend Samuel Stone, had, besides eight or nine daughters, sons Thomas, Samuel, Joseph, and John.

THOMAS BUTLER, New London, died 20 December 1701, aged 59. Miss Caulkins thought him ancestor of Colonels Walter Butler and John Butler, distinguished for service on the royal side in the Mohawk campaign during our Revolution.

WILLIAM BUTLER, Cambridge 1634, brother of Richard Butler the first, freeman 6 May 1635, removed to Hartford before 1641, married Eunice Coffin, sister of Tristram Coffin, who came to New England 1642; but he died 1648, without wife or children, leaving by will of 11 May in that year good estate to brother Richard Butler, chief, as in Trumbull, Collections record I. 482.

WILLIAM BUTLER, Ipswich, married 1675, then aged 22, the wife Sarah, whose surname had not been heard, had William, born 1 June 1677; Thomas and Ralph, twins 15 September 1682, of who Ralph died May 1684; was freeman 1682, and living 1708, as was his son William.

JEREMIAH BUTMAN, Salem, may not be known except as a creditor of estate of Henry Harwood, December 1671. See Essex Inst. II. 70.

JOHN BUTMAN, Gloucester, married 30 June 1690, Sarah Robinson, daughter of Abraham Robinson the second, had Jeremiah, born early in 1691; a died 1693; Mary, 1697; Hannah, 1700; John, 1703; Jonathan, 1708; and Samuel, 1711.

NATHANIEL BUTT, or BUTTS, Dorchester, son probably eldest, of Richard Butt, married 16 September 1698, Elizabeth Breck, daughter of Captain John Breck, and died 10 December 1721, of smallpox; but, whether he had issue, is not known. His widow died 20 October 1743, aged 67.

RICHARD BUTT, or BUTTS, Dorchester, by wife Deliverance, who died 22 July 1699, aged 74, had Jerebiah, or Sherebiah, born 18 September 1675; but, as this is the first appearance of the surname in Dorchester, he may have had other children in another town before removing thither, where were baptized Barachiah and Hannah, twins 11 January 1680; Mary, 2 July 1682; and Joseph, 18 May 1684. From the gravestone of this last, we find that he died 29 March 1713. Older children than Sherebiah were Nathaniel and Samuel, yet neither is named in the will of the father made 30 July 1690, because "going forth a soldier in the present expedition against the French," i. e. the abortive crusade to Quebec. It was not probated until 8 February 1694, for it made Deliverance, the wife executrix, and gave her all his property but to the children at her discretion administration de bonis non was given 1699 to Sherebiah. His mother, I presume, had been widow Woodward (though name and residence of husband are unknown) for the record at the church is "26 May 1678, was the wife of Richard Butt, Baptist, being lately administered a member. At the same time her children baptized whose names are Smith, Woodward, Nathaniel, Samuel, Sherebiah, and Elizabeth" the last four, probably being Butts.

LEONARD BUTTELS, Boston 1643, had wife Judith. Probably the same as Buttolph.

WILLIAM BUTTER, or WILLIAM BUTTERS, Woburn, by wife Rebecca, had William, born 18 September 1689, very soon; William, again, 24 March 1691, died young; Rebecca, 10 October 1693, died young; Lydia, 11 June 1695; Rebecca, again, 30 August 1698; and perhaps he removed.

BENJAMIN BUTTERFIELD, Charlestown 1638, projected settler at Woburn 1640, with others, was freeman 1643, had Mary, probably other children (perhaps born in England) and here, Nathaniel, 14 February 1643; Samuel, 17 May 1647; Joseph, 15 August 1649; removed 1654, to Chelmsford, where his wife Ann died 19 May 1660. He married 3 June 1663, Hannah, widow of Thomas Whittemore of Malden. Probably he is ancestor of the many who bear this name in our County of Middlesex.

JONATHAN BUTTERFIELD, Chelmsford, perhaps son of the preceding, died 3 April 1673.

NATHANIEL BUTTERFIELD, Chelmsford, son, perhaps eldest, of Benjamin Butterfield, freeman 1682.

SAMUEL BUTTERFIELD, Springfield 1636, was killed at Saybrook next year probably by the Pequots, as minutely related in Winthrop I. 198. Very curious is the coincidence seen in Niles Indians but French Wars, as printed 3 Massachusetts History Collections VI. 279, that another

SAMUEL BUTTERFIELD of Groton, about seventy years later, fell in the hands of the Indians, but far more strange is the mistake, in the large History of Boston, 203, of the author's note, making Niles, with wild anachronism, give "the godly young man" killed by the Pequot, 1636, the name of him, which two or three generations later, was taken, not killed by a different tribe. Mr. Drake's devotion to Indians History might excite wonder at such an error, that can mislead no careful reader, who will instantly perceive the cause of the hallucination.

JOHN BUTTERWORTH, Rehoboth 1643, was one of the founders of first Baptist Church 1663; in Swanzey.

JOHN BUTTERWORTH, Rehoboth, son perhaps, of the preceding, married 4 September 1674, Hannah Wheaton, whose father is not told, had Mary, born 20 October 1677; John, 7 May 1679; and Elizabeth, 15 January 1683; perhaps others.

NATHANIEL BUTTERWORTH, Groton, perhaps only transient, died 1682, as Farmer tells.

SAMUEL BUTTERWORTH, perhaps of Weymouth, was administered freeman 13 May 1640, more certainly lived 1645 at Rehoboth.

SAMUEL BUTTERWORTH, Rehoboth, who may have been son of the preceding or of John Butterworth of the same, was soldier of Gallop's Company in the sad expedition of Sir William Phips against Quebec, 1690; but it is not known whether he outlived it.

JOHN BUTTOLPH, Salem, son of Thomas Buttolph, a glover, married 16 October 1663, Ann Gardner, or Hannah Gardner, daughter of George Gardner, had John, born 11 September 1664, died next spring; Jonathan, 2 November 1665, or (by any version of the numerals in record) 9 April 1666; George, 15 October 1667; removed to Boston, there was freeman 1673; removed to Wethersfield, and married after 1687, Susanna, widow of Nathaniel Sandford of Hartford (unless this was another man), and died 14 January 1693. Other children he had, by wife Sarah, at Salem, as John, again, 1 July 1688; Hannah, 9 December 1689; Abigail, James, perhaps more, and left large estate at Wethersfield and Boston.

THOMAS BUTTOLPH, Boston, leather-dresser, or glover, came in the Abigail, from London, 1635, aged 32, with wife Ann, 24, had Thomas, born 12 August 1637, baptized 29 September 1639, as he and wife had that month united with our church; John, 28, baptized 29 February 1640; Abigail, 18, baptized 19 February 1643; and Mehitable, born 26 October 1651. He was freeman 2 June 1641, constable 1647, and died 1667. His will of 25 May, probated 18 June of that year, is seen in Genealogical Register XVI. 159, and the widow lived to 10 October 1680. Abigail married 15 August 1660, David Saywell, and, next married 1673, Thomas Bingley. This name in church record is Buttall, which misled Farmer to count two for one, and is printed Buttels in 2 Massachusetts History Collections VIII. 106.

THOMAS BUTTOLPH, Boston, son of the preceding, married 5 September 1660, Mary Baxter, daughter of Nicholas Baxter, had Thomas, born 5 October 1661, died young; Thomas, again, 5 February 1663; Mary, 21 January 1665; Abigail, January 1667; and Nicholas, 3 March 1668; and died January 1669. His widow married Joseph Swett.

DANIEL BUTTON, perhaps of Haverhill, son of Matthias Button, may have had son Matthias, and was in Lothrop's Company killed at Bloody brook battle, 18 September 1675.

JOHN BUTTON, Boston 1633, a miller, freeman 14 May 1634, Artillery Company 1643, was a miller in England, born about 1594, disarmed in 1637, as a favorite of Wheelwright, yet made constable 1640, had wife Grace, who died 9 March 1639. Next year he had second wife Joan, and a third, in his will of 5 November 1681, is named Mary, to whom he gave most of his property except £20. To the first church "to buy two silver cups." Near 48 years he had been a member, and his residence was on Copp's hill, of course near his mill.

MATTHAIS BUTTON, Boston, a Dutchman, by wife Lettice, had Mary, baptized 23 February 1634; and Daniel, 22 February 1635; was of Ipswich 1639, and after at Haverhill, where at grand age, he died 1672. Reverend Thomas Cobbet says, he came in 1628, of course with Endicott to Salem. But Mr. Felt perhaps confused him with Robert. Perhaps his daughter Sarah married 6 January 1674, James Kingsbury.

MATTHIAS BUTTON, Haverhill, perhaps grandson of the preceding, took oath of allegiance 28 November 1677.

PETER BUTTON, New London, had Peter, born 1688; Mary, 1689; Matthias, 1692; and daughter Eliphal, 1694.

ROBERT BUTTON, Salem, freeman 1642, married Abigail Vermaes, daughter of widow Alice Vermaes, had Samuel, baptized 27 May of that year; Abigail, 7 January 1644; Hannah, 21 December 1645, about five days old; Sarah, 16 January 1648, about six days old; and Samuel, again, 24 February 1650, about nine days old. But the three last were born and baptized at Boston, where he was a merchant in large business, constable 1650, and died next year in early manhood. His will of 9 January was probated 3 weeks after, and his widow married in April following Edward Hutchinson, junior. Abigail married Joseph Dudson.

SAMUEL BUTTERICK, Concord, son of William Butterick, was freeman 1679, and perhaps the same who served in Appleton's Company, as from Cambridge, was wounded in the great swamp fight, 19 December 1675, and on the roll wrote his name Bouterick.

WILLIAM BUTTERICK, Concord, came, probably in the Susan and Ellen 1635, aged 18, and he may have come, as Shattuck thought with Flint, the chief planter of Concord, as we know not what ship Flint came in; yet the estate of Flint was so large, that he must have been liable as a subsidy man, so under the Privy council's order not permitted to embark without special license for the purpose, and to him, as a favorer of puritans, such license might have ben refused. Butterick married 1646, Sarah Bateman, who died 1664, perhaps mother of all his children, Mary; William; John, born 21 September 1653, who was inhabitant of Stow; Samuel, 12 January 1655; Edward, 6 January 1657, who died in few days; Joseph, 29 December 1657; and Sarah. I suppose that in Concord records when it tells the birth of Mary, 19 September 1648, and ddeath 1 November following, and calls her daughter of William and Mary, it is a blunder. He was freeman 1647, took second wife 1667, Jane Goodenow, possibly widow of Thomas, wrote his name in three syllables Butterick, and died 30 June 1698.

WILLIAM BUTTERICK, Cambridge, came in the Planter 1635, aged 20, said to be from Kingston, on Thames, called Ostler; but it may have been for purpose of deception. He married, I think, Elizabeth Hastings, daughter of John Hastings.

JOHN BUTTRY, or JOHN BUTTERY, Reading, perhaps son of Nicholas Buttry, had John, born 9 May 1660; and Elizabeth, 1 June 1662.

NICHOLAS BUTTRY, or NICHOLAS BUTTERY, Cambridge, came, probably in the James from London 1635, aged 33, with wife Martha, 28, and child Grace, 1. This surname is unusual; but when Grace married 14 October 1653, William Healey, it was spelled Butterice, or Buttress.

ANTHONY BUXTON, Salem, 1637, by wife Elizabeth, had Anthony, born 6 September 1653, who died at 22 years; Samuel, 14 August 1655, who died at 20 years; James, 8 August 1659, died young; Thomas, 24 February 1662, died in few months; Joseph, 17 July 1663; and Hannah, 27 January 1666; besides Rachel, that died on the same day with her brother Samuel; made his will 8 March 1684, and died soon, leaving widow and children, besides the two last named Elizabeth, wife of Isaac Cook; John; Lydia; Mary; and Sarah. Mary married 28 December 1672, John Cook.

CLEMENT BUXTON, Stamford 1650, died 2 August 1657, had daughters Sarah and Unity, besides son Clement. His widow Unity married 22 July 1658, Peter Brown of the same, and next, 9 March following married Nicholas Knapp.

JOHN BUXTON, Salem, son probably of Anthony Buxton, married 30 March 1668, Mary Small, had Mary, born 3 September 1669; Elizabeth, 13 August 1672; and John, 29 November 1675. His wife died 27 January following, and he died 16 May 1715, aged about 71 years. He had married second wife 7 October 1677, Elizabeth Holton, daughter perhaps of Joseph Holton of Danvers, then called Salem village, and had Joseph, 24 November 1678; Sarah, 9 February 1680; Anthony, 24 February 1682; Hannah, 20 January 1685; Rachel, 6 May 1688; Ebenezer, 20 June 1690; Lydia, 16 October 1692; Benjamin, 10 March 1695; James, 28 September 1698; Amos, 12 February 1701; and Jonathan, 25 July 1706.

JOSEPH BUXTON, Salem, son probably of Anthony Buxton, by wife Esther, had Elizabeth, born 17 November 1689; Samuel, 2 May 1691; James, 2 March 1693; John, 25 February 1696; not all at Salem, however; and at Ipswich, by wife Elizabeth, the same man, or his nephew perhaps, had Joseph, 28 May 1709; Abigail, 27 January 1712; and Rachel, 1 May 1714.

GEORGE BYAM, Salem, freeman 18 May 1642, had Abraham, baptized 14 April 1644; and Abigail, 7 January preceding, was later of Wenham, and from the church there dismissed to Chelmsford in 1655.

NATHANIEL BYFIELD, Boston 1674, it is said, was born 1653, at Long Ditton, County Surry, son of Reverend Richard Byfield (who became a member of the famous Westminister Assembly) and youngest of 21 children, married 1675, Deborah Clark, daughter of Captain Thomas Clark, who died 1717, had Nathaniel, and four more children, who all died young, except Deborah, who married 22 October 1696, Edward Lyde. He married for second wife 17 April 1718, Sarah Leverett, youngest daughter of Governor Leverett, who died 21 December 1730; was of Artillery Company 1679, a proprietor, and among first settlers of Bristol in Plymouth Colony, for which he was Representative 1691, and after Charter of 1692 for the United Provinces, speaker of the house 1693, a Colony Judge of Probate and of common pleas, for the new County of Bristol, after for Suffolk, and Judge of the Vice-Admiral, as also of his majesty's council, died 6 June 1733. See Hutchinson II. 211; Baylies, who has a valuable note in IV. 53-6; and Coffin's Newbury, 401, 2. Reverend Richard Byfield, mentioned as minister of Stratford on Avon, 2596, by honest Anthony Wood in his Athenae, was, perhaps, his grandfather, but he does not tell of his acquaintance with Shakespear.

JONATHAN BYLES, Beverly married 16 November 1674, Elizabeth Patch, daughter of John Patch of Salem, had Richard, born 3 November following, and perhaps more.

JOSIAH BYLES, Boston, a sadler, came from Winchester, County Hants, with wife Sarah, but before coming may have had children, though the date is so uncertain that, I fear, he may hardly be entitled to room here. Certainly he was in Boston 1695, yet not before 11 October 1696 did he join with that church, of whose pastor in 7 years, he married the daughter. By wife Sarah, says our record, he had Samuel, baptized 11 October 1696, who died young; James, born 7 baptized 8 October 1699; Sarah, 24, baptized 28 September 1701, and Samuel, again, 30 January baptized 7 February 1703, soon after which the mother died. For second wife he took, 6 October 1703, Elizabeth, widow of William Greenough, father of Reverend Increase Mather, had Mather Byles, 15, baptized 16 March 1707, Harvard College 1725, a minister of some note, a witness of remarkable character in Boston.

RICHARD BYLES, Gloucester, eldest child of Jonathan Byles, by wife Mary, had Charles, born 1700; Mary, 1702; John, 1704; Martha, 1706; Sarah 1710; Elizabeth, 1713; Alexander, 1716; and Jonathan, 1719; removed to Beverly 1727. His wife died January 1746; and he died at great age, 23 February 1771.

HENRY BYLEY, Salisbury, tanner, an original settler 1639, came in the Bevis from Southampton, 1638, aged 26, with sister Mary, 22. He had lived at Salisbury, Old England, where he left wife Rebecca, to whom in letter of 11 October 1638 from Newbury, before settling at Salisbury, he wrote of the death of his only brother but adds, that his sister and servant were well. He prays her to come over with Mr. Dow, and other friends, prepared to come, or with Mr. Peter Noyes, "who is now about to take ship," i. e. to go from here to England to bring his family hither; and utters his hope, that she "had been safely delivered of her children, and thus made a joyful mother of children" but he died early. His widow married 3 April 1641, Mr. John Hall; and third husband 22 July 1650, Reverend William Worcester; and for fourth husband had Deputy-Governor Samuel Symonds, outlived him, and died 221 July 1695. Coffin, in Genealogical Registrar VI. 246, and 341, has strangely confused this mother with her daughter Rebecca, who married 15 December 1664, Reverend John Hale.

JOHN BYLEY, perhaps of Salisbury, and brother of the preceding, came in the same ship from England 1638, aged 20.

NICHOLAS BYRAM, Weymouth 1638, a physician, married a daughter of Abraham Shaw of Dedham; removed about 1662 to Bridgewater, was a Captain, had second wife, a sister of Reverend James Keith, and died 1687. His daughter Abigail, who married 22 or 27 November 1656, Thomas Whitman, of Weymouth, and most of the other children Nicholas, Ebenezer, Josiah, Joseph, Mary, besides a daughter Bass, are believed to have been of first wife Another daughter Experience, who married second Deacon John Willis, was, perhaps, born by the second wife. Reverend Eliab Byram, Harvard College 1740, minister at Hopewell, New Jersey was descendant of Ebenezer Byram.

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