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1643-In the Second Division, of woodland plaine, at Seekonk, Richard Wright draws 9472 acres. This division was made on the basis of about 1132 acres to each £100 estate [Rehoboth Town Meeting Records].
1643-In the Third Division, of fresh meadow, at Seekonk, Richard Wright draws 8 acres and 20 rods in the "horse meade" [Rehoboth Town Meeting Records].
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1643-In the Fourth Division, of Salt Marsh, at Seekonk, Richard Wright draws 203/4 acres in the "100 acres" (now in Barrington) [Reho- both Town Meeting Records].
28 Apr. 1643-Richard Wright, for £2, gives a release to John Humphrey Esquire, "from the beginning of the world to the 28th of the 2d mo. 1643" [Printed Suffolk County Deeds, vol. I, p. 41].
24 July 1643-Jonathan Weymouth is to receive from Richard Wright of Boston £10 5s. after he has received it from Edward Heath [N. E. Hist. & Gen. Register, vol. II, p. 261].
10 Dec. 1643-It was agreed by the town that Richard Wright should have a hundred pound estate besides his portion; to have [ ] acres on Wachamocet side conveniently to the mill; that Richard Wright build a cornmill, and that no other be built in the country; that he promptly begin the mill and to grind by the last of the 8th month following [Reho- both Town Meetings, Book I, p. 29].
This was perhaps an extra grant made Richard Wright in recogni- tion of his services in organizing and settling the town of Seekonk. Seven months later, 12 July 1644, William Cheeseborough, another Braintree man, "is to have division in all lands of Seekunk for a hundred and fifty-three pounds besides what he is to have for his own proportion, and that in way of consideration for the pains and charges he hath been att for settling off this plantation" [Rehoboth Town Meetings, Book I].
12 Jan. 1644-In a list headed, "Due to these persons underwritten from the town", is "bro Wright 1 [probably shilling]" [Rehoboth Town Meetings, Book I, p. 17].
26 Feb. 1644-At a town meeting Richard Wright is one of a committee of four to take possession of and bound the new medow [Rehoboth Town Meetings, Book I, p. 40].
10 Mar. 1644-In the first Division of the Neck, Richard Wright draws lot No. 1, 73 1/2 acres [Rehoboth Town Meetings, Book I, p. 6].
21 Apr. 1644-Admitted to the Roxbury Church, about this time, -"Eliza- beth Clark, wife of James Clarke she is bro. Wrights daughter" [Roxbury Church Records, p. 86].
5 June 1644-At the General Court held at Plymouth, before Governor Edward Winslow, Richard Wright was propounded to take up his free- dom at the next court [Plymouth Colony Records, vol. II, p. 71].
3 July 1644-The name of "Richard Wright" is eleventh in a list of thirty who signed the Seekonk compact [Rehoboth Town Meetings, Book I, p. 3]. 9 Dec. 1644-At a general meeting of the "towne of Seacunk", Richard Wright is chosen the second of nine townsmen [Rehoboth Town Meetings, Book I, p. 35].
1645-About this time lands in Rehoboth were ordered recorded : 'The land of Richard Wright.
"Imps his home lot twelve acres lying on the north east side the towne. nintie fouer acres and halfe in the woodland plaine
eight acres, 20 Rod of fresh meade lying in horse meade
twenty acres, three quarters of Salt marsh lying in the 100 acres his home lot bounded on the East with Robert Sharpes lot, on the west with Will Sabines; the ox pasture on the north; the towne greene south.
" . his horse meadow the rose meadow on the East Side comon on the west Mr. Newman's medow on the north end of Alexander Winchester on the South.
seventy three acres upon the north being the first lot, the towne on the East pautucket river on the west, the mill river north, the land of Will Cheesbrough on the east.
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his 942 in the woodland plaine, the land of James Clark on the east, high waie on the west; and north the land of Edward Smith and Will Smith on the South.
Seventy on acres in the great plaine, 33 12 acres of it on the west side, the high waie East, and north the land of Stephen Payne north and south and 3712 acres on the east side being the 6th lot [?] towards the mill river on the east the high waie; west the land of Abraham Martin of James Redwaie south.
20 acres and three quarters of salt marsh lying upon the tonge at the 100 acres; two acres on the east and west Mr. Newman's and on the north Alexander Winchester meade on the south". [Rehoboth Town Meetings, Book I, p. 68].
4 Jan. 1645-A list of men due to be paid by the town rate is headed by "bro Wright £2 1s" [Rehoboth Town Meetings, Book I, p. 19].
[ ]5 Jan. 1645-"Accounted with brother Wright and the towne is in- debted to him [ ] all the hoes and knife the Indyns left are accounted t[ ] pd by Thomas Morris 13s-O" [Rehoboth Town Meetings, Book I, p. 17].
3 June 1645-At a town meeting "Richard Right is one of six men permitted to exchange their salt marsh lots for land in the new medow" [Rehoboth Town Meetings, Book I, p. 39].
4 June 1645-At the General Court held at Plymouth, before Gov. William Bradford, Richard Wright is in the list of those propounded to take up their freedom the next court, which probably means that he was ad- mitted a freeman, as his name was propounded the year before [Plym- outh Colony Records, vol. II, p. 84].
9 June 1645-At a meeting of the townsmen, Richard Wright was chosen the second of seven men "to order the prudentiall affaires of the town for halfe a yeare". The same day lots were drawn for the great plaine, Richard Wright drawing lot No. 6 [Rehoboth Town Meetings, Book I, p. 4].
28 Oct 1645-At the General Court held at Plymouth "Mr Richard Wright of Rehoboth, for refusing to come to the court as a comittee for theire town, being by them chosen for that end, is fined XXs" [Plymouth Colony Records, vol. II, p. 89].
Richard Wright was the first "committee", later called deputy, to be elected to represent Seekonk, or Rehoboth as it was newly named, to the Court at Plymouth. There is no Rehoboth record of this elec- tion. He wasa staunch Massachusetts Bay man and bitterly disap- pointed at the final decision that Seekonk was in Plymouth Colony, and refused to go to the Plymouth Court. Admitted a freeman on 28 Oct. 1645, Walter Palmer was immediately sworn in as a deputy in Wright's place. In 1646 there was no deputy, but in 1647 there were two, Walter Palmer and Stephen Paine.
26 Dec. 1645-Richard Wright was one of the seven townsmen who declared that the house lot and land layed out to John Sutton was forfeited to the town. The property was divided between Robert Fuller and William Devell [Rehoboth Town Meetings, Book I, p. 34].
16 Mar. 1645/6-At a meeting of the townsmen it was agreed that all the general fields should be fenced by the 23rd of the present month. The following men were'' made choice of to men the fence and to Judge of the Sufichency of them: Richard Bowen, Robert Tytyts, William Smith, Captaine Wright, Alexander Winchester, Thomas Blise, Stephen Paine, and Thomas Coop [Cooper]" [Rehoboth Town Meetings, Book I, p. 79].
This is the only mention in the Rehoboth records of a Captain
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Wright. Besides Richard Wright, there was also a George Wright in Rehoboth, who had been a lieutenant in Braintree in 1642. He was undoubtedly the man referred to by Roger Williams when on 29 Jan. 1648/9 * he wrote his friend John Winthrop, Jr., at Nameug, saying "that George Wright alias Captain Wright stabt with a pike Walter Lettice at Newport, and is in prison the other if not dead not like to live" [Narragansett Club Publications, vol. VI, p. 169].
On 2 Mar. 1646/7, a year after he had been elected a member of the Rehoboth committee, George Wright was before the Plymouth Court for "attempting the chastity of divs women [at Rehoboth] by lacivious words & carriages". Forty-nine days later he sold his Rehoboth property and fled the jurisdiction of Plymouth Colony by simply crossing the Seekonk River and taking up his abode in the town of Providence.
It appears that between 26 Dec. 1645 and March 1645/6 Richard Wright had left Rehoboth. This committee appointed at the town meeting on 16 Mar. 1645/6 was an important one, and, with the exception of George Wright, was composed of the large property owners and leaders in the town. If Richard Wright had been in Rehoboth he would naturally have been a member of this committee, just as he had been a member of all previous important committees.
10 Mar. 1646/7-"M' Thomas Alcocke [Dedham] ... Loueing and kind brother . . . the cause of my writing you is this, I heard not from you a greate while until Mr. Richard Wright brought me news that you were well, but he could tell me nothing concerning my children . . . But since Mr Wright came over & can tell me no newes from them, etc.
"And so I rest yor loueing sister Elizabeth Whitehead of Lemintun priors.t Anno Dmi 1647
"Dated the 10 day of March."
[Aspinwall's Notarial Records, pp. 101, 3.]
7 Oct. 1647-Thomas Blise of Rehoboth made his will; proved at Plymouth, 8 June 1649, by the witnesses Steven Paine and Edward Smith. Rich- ard Wright and Stephen Payne named overseers. Inventory of £117 16s. 4d. taken by Steven Payne and Richard Bowen on 21 Oct. 1647 [Plymouth Colony Wills, vol. I, pp. 67, 8].
There is no record of Richard Wright having served as overseer of this estate. He was probably in England about, or shortly after, the time the will was made, and in Boston at the time Thomas Bliss' will was probated.
- - 1648-At Rehoboth, about this time, Rev. Samuel Newman, engaged
in a church controversy with Obadiah Holmes, states that "one of the bretheren is in Old England" [The Civil Magistrates Power, by Thomas Cobbet (Teacher of the Church at Lynne), London, 1653, postscript, p. 49].
This church "bretheren" would appear to have been Richard Wright, who was a staunch church member and a devout follower of Mr. Newman.
* This important Roger Williams letter is single dated 1648. From this case we are able to assign it the correct double dating of 1648/9.
t Lemington Priors is three miles east of the market town of Warwick, Warwickshire, England, and ninety miles northwest of London. William Aspinwall, in the regular course of business, handled this letter on 25 Oct. 1647, so that the double date is clearly 1646/7.
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6 Mar. 1648/9-At a court held at Plymouth,-"We present William Sabin, the Miller of Rehoboth for not returning mens corn unto them by 2 quarts in a bushell, allowing their toule" [Plymouth Colony Records, vol. II, p. 138].
This is the first mention in the records of William Sabin's operation of Richard Wright's cornmill, although he had probably operated it for some years, finally purchasing the property.
6 June 1649-At the General Court held at Plymouth, "William Sabin, the Miller of Rehoboth, was presented on the sixt of March for not returning mens corn vnto them by two quarts in a bushell, allowing thaire toule. At this Court, William Sabin did trause this psentment & by verdict of the jury was cleared" [Plymouth Colony Records, vol II, p. 140].
6 Aug. 1649-"'I attested [2 Jan. 1649/50] a Bill of Richard Wright to Edw. Bendall for paymt of £50 to Mr. Henry Hoop: or if himself or Shipp miscarry to pay it wth 8 p cent & if himself or greatest pt of Tobacco safely arrive & it be not pd, then to pay according to bills of Exchang. Dat. (6) 1649" [Aspinwall's Notarial Records, p. 247].
3 Nov. 1649-"Know all men by these presents that I Ri: Wright of Boston do acknowledge myself . . . indebted to Mr. Edw. Bendall, the sum of £50 sterling and is for 2,000 waight of tobacco ... which I Rich: Wright do bind myself to pay to Mr. Henry Hooper upholsterer at the Sunne & Globe [an Inn] in Cornwell London, for use of Edw. Bendall 20 days after the first shipps arrival from Boston in N. E. to London after the date herof .
"Richard Wright" & a seal
"Witness John ffirneside" * [Aspinwall's Notarial Records, p. 232.]
5 Feb. 1650/1-"Peter Talman of Newport on Roade Iland Apothecary" appointed his well beloved friend Mr. John Elton his attorney to collect from "Mr. Samuel Maverick of Noddles Island in the Massachusets gent all that my due from him which he by his bond is bound to pay unto me", etc. Signed Peter Talman & a seal, 18 Nov. 1650. Sealed and delivered in the presence of Rich Wright, Thom Gould [Aspinwall's Notarial Records, pp. 370, 1].
It may be that the Richard Wright who witnessed the above docu- ment is the Plymouth Colony man of the same name.
29 June 1653-At the Quarterly Court held at Salem,-case of "Joseph Juett, attorney to Write vs. Richard Betts" [Essex County Quarterly Court Files (1636-1656), vol. I, p. 285].
21 Sept. 1653-At the Quarterly Court held at Salem,-writ: Joseph Jewett, attorney to Richard Wright vs. Richard Bets and Robert Beacham. For damages sustained by Thomas Scott, Sr., of Ipswich, taking away his corn, said Bets and Beacham being sureties. Bond dated 21:7:1652 Thomas Scott, Robert Beacham, (X) mark of Richard Beates, "to secure Richard Wright from all damages from his father Thomas Scott, Sr.", t of Ipswich [ Essex County Quarterly Court Files (1636-1656), vol. I. pp. 295, 296].
* Firneside was of Duxbury 1643; had children recorded at Boston. Of his children only three were alive in 1659 when his wife Elizabeth Starr's father made his will [Savage, Gen. Dict., vol. II, p. 154].
t Thomas Scott, age 40, with wife Elizabeth, age 40, and children, Elizabeth, age 9; Abigail, age 7; and Thomas, age 6, took passage on 30 Apr. 1634, in the Elizabeth, William Andrews, master, from the port of Ipswich, England, and settled in Ipswich, New England. He was freeman 4 Mar. 1635. Will dated 8 Mar. 1653/4; probated 28 Mar. 1654. Bequests to son Thomas, daus. Elizabeth, Abigail, Hannah, Sarah, and Mary [Savage, Gen. Dict., vol. IV, p. 39].
Thomas Scott was the son of Henry and Martha (Whotlock) Skott, of Rattlesden, co. Suffolk, yeoman [N. E. Hist. & Gen. Register, vol. LII, p. 248].
Elizabeth Scott m. John Spofford of Rowley and had children born from 1646 to 1665. John Spofford died in 1678 [Pope, Pioneers of Mass., p. 428].
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In 1653 there were only two known men in New England named Richard Wright. One was in Plymouth, and in November 1644 he married Hester Cooke, daughter of Francis Cooke who came in the Mayflower in 1620. They had children from 1649 to 1662. The other Richard Wright was the Massachusetts man, formerly of Rehoboth.
29 Nov. 1653-At the Quarterly Court held at Salem,-case of Thomas Scott vs. Richard Wright. Suit for money due him for seed, wheat, and for hay, for six oxen, for the use of a horse and for not plowing fourteen acres of land according to promise [Essex County Quarterly Court Files (1636-1656), vol. I, p. 319].
18 Sept. 1654-William Sabin of Rehoboth, husbandman, sold land to An- thony Perrey, of Rehoboth, which land he "had bought, with other lands, of my father-in-law Richard Wright". This statement is con- tained in a deed from William Sabin to Anthony Perrey dated 2 Dec. 1672 [Plymouth Colony Deeds, vol. III; Pt. II, p. 262].
The family name of William Sabin's first wife has heretofore been unknown, and the fact that she was a daughter of Richard Wright is here published for the first time. She died after the birth of her last child, 27 Sept. 1660, and before 22 Dec. 1663, when William Sabin married his second wife, Martha Allen.
William Sabin's first child, Samuel, was born about 1640 and married 23 Nov. 1663. His second child, Elizabeth, was born in 1642 (gravestone) and married 24 Nov. 1663. It would seem from this that William Sabin was born about 1617, and was about 70 years old when he died. His will is dated 4 June 1685 and proved at Boston 17 July 1687. He was buried at Rehoboth 9 Feb. 1686/7. William Sabin was married twice and had twenty children by his two wives.
Of course, the term "father-in-law" might mean "step father", for Richard Wright, who was about nineteen years older than Wil- liam Sabin, might have married the mother of Sabin. This doesn't seem very probable, but, of course, is possible. Thomas Blise died at Rehoboth in 1647 and in his will called his stepson, Nicholas Ide, his "son-in-law", and also referred to his daughters' husbands as "sons-in-law".
- Feb. 1656/7-Marshal Waite, Sheriff of Massachusetts Bay, accompanied by Richard Wright, went to Pawtuxet with a warrant for the arrest of Richard Chasmore,* who had been charged by Roger Williams with the crime of "buggerie". The arrest was made and the marshal, deputy, and prisoner, on the return trip to Boston, stopped at the house of Richard Pray at Providence, the night of 23 Feb. 1656/7.
About eight or nine o'clock "Sam. Bennet and Benjamin Hernden" appeared with a warrant from Arthur Fenner directing the marshal to show his warrant. About two hours later, Thomas Angell, the Con-
Abigail Scott, born in 1627, was the wife of Haniel Bosworth, of Ipswich, in 1683. She may have been a second wife. He came to New England in 1638 from Boston, Lincolnshire, in the service of John Whittingham. Juryman in 1648; deposed in 1681, age 66 years. His will, not dated, was probated 25 Sept. 1683; bequests to wife and daughters Abigail and Elizabeth [Ibid., p. 59].
Hannah Scott was the wife of Edmund Lockwood, Stamford, in 1667 [Ibid., p. 404].
* For an assemblage of some of the known original documents in this famous case, see The Case of Richard Chasmore, alias Long Dick, by Bradford Fuller Swan, published by the Rhode Island Society of Colonial Wars, 1944.
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stable of Providence, with a sergeant and four men, appeared and took the Massachusetts officers and their prisoner to the house of Roger Morie, to appear before the townsmen.
Arthur Fenner, as head of the townsmen, ordered the prisoner Richard Chasmore taken from the Massachusetts officers and sent to the New- port jail.
- Feb. 1656/7-Marshal Waite * and Richard Wright returned to Boston without their prisoner. The marshal made his report to the Court of Assistants, indorsed :
"Marshal Wait's retour, and Rich. Wrights Depos™, 1656-57 Court of Assistants, -March, 1656"
[N. E. Hist. & Gen. Register, vol. VIII, p. 293.]
This was probably the Rehoboth Richard Wright, t who was then about 58 years of age. He was a dependable Massachusetts man. Having lived in Rehoboth, he knew the Rhode Island country and people, and was the logical man for the court to select to go as the marshal's deputy on this important mission. We know that he went to Pawtuxet and helped make the arrest, for Roger Williams, in a letter dated 24 Feb. 1656/7, written to Arthur Fenner, complains that "you rescued a prisoner from ye officers of ye hon'd Gou'nmt of ye Massachusetts as they quietly passed through this towne" [R. I. Hist. Soc. Coll. Proceedings (1883-1884), p. 79].
13 Apr. 1660-A Dorchester land record mentions Henry Wright and Richard Wright as two of the original purchasers [about 1637] of certain lands on the south side of the Neponset River [Suffolk Court, 355].
The following set of papers, the earliest of them brought from Boston, were presented for record in February 1666 by the late husband of Mrs. Sarah (Tilly) Lynn-Gunnison-Mitchell-Morgan and are found in the Province and Court Records of Maine, published in 1928 by the Maine Historical Society, vol. I, p. 251, et sequi.
. . I, Francis Knight of Pemaquid in New England, Gentleman, do confess myselfe . . . Indebted unto Hugh Gunnison of Boston, vintiner, the full and just sum of Twenty three pounds . . . to be payd unto the said Hugh Gunnison ... In good merchantable dry Codd fish at price current at Boston at or before the last day of May next . . .
"Witness my hand and seal this 3d. day of February, 1648/9 "Francis Knight
"Witnessed: Nathaniel Draper George Numan
"The above was indorsed: More after the sealing of this bill as appeares by the debt booke, one pound, three shillings & 11d-01: 03: 11. "Per mee, Roger Williams
"This bill or writeing with the indorsement hereupon is recorded at Boston the 14th of February, 1654/5 page 275 Quod attestor rogatus et cognitus. "Nathaniel Sowther, Notary Public 1654"
* Richard Waite, Boston, tailor, had been marshal, or sheriff, of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1653, and the following year carried the Court's message to the Indians.
t There was a Thomas Wright at Portsmouth, Rhode Island, in 1644, and a Henry Wright in Providence in 1646. In the 27 June 1636 "Neck Division" of land at Dorchester, Mass., Richard Wright had an allotment of 334 acres and 18 rods, and Henry Wright had 234 acres and 4 rods. In 1643 Richard Wright was in Seekonk, Plymouth Colony, and shortly after Henry Wright was in Providence, Rhode Island, where he purchased the home lot of John Throckmorton who removed in 1643 to his Dutch grant of land at "Throgg's Neck", New Netherland. Throckmorton's home lot adjoined Roger Williams on the south, located at what is now the corner of North Main and Bowen streets.
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"William Tilly aged about fivety [altered to fifty three] years deposed that this bill of £23 dated Feb. 3, 1648/9 with another bill of £18 of the same date was showed to Francis Knight by one Roger Spencer at Pemaquid about five years since in the presence of said deponent and that Knight acknowledged it to be his and the bill to be satisfied.
"Sworn before mee the 13th of April, 1660 John Endecott, Governor"
"Richard Wright aged about [blank space] years testifyeth & sayth that about two yeares past & upwards hee the sayd Deponent did arrest the sayd Francis Knight at the suite of Capt. Richard Davenport, assigne to the above named Hugh Gunnison, which debt or debts the said Knight did then own" [no dates or acknowledgment].
"Hugh Gunnison assigned this bond above to Richard Davenport the 22 of 1st. mo. [March] 1650 Signed : Hugh Gunnison. Witnessed : Evan Tommass".
"Richard Davenport reassigned the bill to Sarah Gunnison, administratrix to the estat of Hugh Gunnison on April 12, 1660. Signed: Ric: Davenport. Witnessed : William Tilly and Robert Howard".
"Ric: Davenport testified that he had the said Francis Knight under arrest and that Knight acknowledged the debt to be due but had not stated that he would satisfy same. Sworn to on April 12, 1660 before John Endecott, Governor".
21 Dec. 1660-Edward Rawson, of Gillingham, Dorset, Old England, now of Boston, deeded to Thomas Danforth of Cambridge, a two-acre garden plot of land in Boston, bounded . .. the lands of Ephraim Pope & Anthoney Stoddard, south; the land of Xtopher Bott, John Blower, Richard Wright, Richard Cooke, Thomas Clarke, and William Pollard, north [Printed Suffolk County Deeds, vol. III, p. 414].
21 Dec. 1661-Richard Wright owned land in Boston [Suffolk County Deeds, vol. III, p. 414].
25 Oct. 1670-Edward Rawson of Boston and Rachel his wife deeded to John Pynchon of Springfield "a dwelling house in Boston with outhousing gardens fenced in before house being near one acre bounded by the street going to Roxbury on the east, the lane on the south the comon on the west, the lands of William Pollard, Thomas Clarke, Richard Cooke, Richard Wright, John Blower & Ann & Thomas Batt on the north", etc. [Printed Suffolk Deeds, vol. VI, p. 258].
17 Dec. 1678-"Old Mother Wright dyed of old age, being neere an hundred years old " [Roxbury Church Records].
This "Old Mother Wright" would have been born probably about 1580. If this was the Margaret Wright who was recorded as number 99 in the list of Boston Church members, 27 Aug. 1630, she would have been the right age to have been the mother of Richard Wright who was recorded at the same time as member number 89, for he was probably born about 1598.
29 Dec. 1701-"ELENT. CLARKE * aged fourescore yeares or thereabouts testifyeth & saith that to her best remembrance she was about nine or ten yeares of age when she came first into this country, and that she came ouer with her father Richard Wright, who came over in the first fleet yt came hither and in Col : Humphryes * Imploy -- when he came hither he took up Lands yt were sd. to be granted to him sd. Colon11 Humphryes, and built upon that part of ye sd. Land calld by ye Indian name Saugus or Sangus according to ye best remembrance of this de- ponent near to a place called the great plaine or plaine farme, wch also this deponent remembers was reputed ye land of ye sd. Col: Humphryes,
* These documents relating to Col. John Humphrey's farm at Lynn were copied in 1877 from the Essex County Court Files by Henry F. Waters, A.B., of Salem, and by him contributed to the N. E. Hist. & Gen. Register, vol. XXXI, pp. 307, 8.
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and his cattle used to feed & range thereon: & further this deponent testifyeth that some few yeares after, ye sd. Col: Humphryes came over into New England, & after his arrivall this deponent lived wth ye sd. Col. Humphryes upon ye farme aforesd calld Saugus or Sangus. And she remembers very well that ye sd Col: Humphryes brought with him a young gentlewomen whose name was Ann Humphryes: who was after- wards married to one mr Palmes in Ireland or England as this deponent hath been informed, and after ye sd mr Palmes dyed, was aga married to one mr Miles a minister who sometimes lived in Swanzy in New England & farther this deponent testifyeth that ye aforesd mr Ann was ye reputed daughter of ye sd Col: John Humphryes, & that she brought over wth her when she came last into this country one son & three daughters & farther saith not.
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