Surnames Starting With (  Z )

Complete Revision of:

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

Volume 1 originally published Boston 1860-62

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

Edited for easier and friendly internet-search of names, by
Donald F. Day, Ottawa, ON, Canada
February 2014

PREFACE

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.

 Z

LEWIS ZECHARIAH, Ipswich 1675, is all that Mr. Felt can tell about this person, whose surname may have changed places with the baptism as Farmer found Merry Waters.  Yet I have no acquaintance with Zechariah Lewis, not even so much as with Lewis Zechariah.  The name of Daniel Zechary in Boston, turns up in 1706.

DAVID ZULLESH, a freeman of Massachusetts 18 May 1642, is the last name on the long list of that day's administration, as well as the latest in the labor of this dictionary, who closes with regret that no further report of him can be afford, nor can any conjecture be hazard, even for his residence.  It hardly seems like an English name, and father, mother, brother, sister, wife or children are unknown.  As approximate to so unusual a surname, I have seen nothing but Mr. Zellick, a merchant at New Haven, 1647, only as a transient visitor, if even he were not far remote, whose goods of £200 value were attached there by Mr. Pell, no doubt Thomas, one of the chief men there.  I suppose he was a Dutchman from Manhattan; and that his name was by Boston folks turned into Sellock.