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John Read (1644), who was born in 1598, and is supposed to have been the son of Willianı and Lucy Henage Reade, residing at the hamlet of Rangle, near Boston, Lincoln- shire, England, came to America with the great fleet in 1630. He lived for a time in Dorchester, Braintree (now Quincy), and Weymouth. He was admitted a freeman May 13, 1640. He finally settled in Rehoboth, in the Plymouth Colony, where he spent a long life of usefulness. He went there in company with the Rev. Samuel Newman, pastor of the church in Weymouth, and others. His name appears as third on the orig- inal list of proprietors of the town. He resided in that part of the town called the " Ring," or the "Ring of the Town," - a semicircle, open to the west, which was after-
William Phillips (1644). AUTHORITIES: Bos- ton Records; Savage's Gen. Dict.
John Read ( 1644). AUTHORITY : MS. of Mr. George B. Reed, Boston, 1894.
1 " Richard Vines and John Oldham received from the Plymouth Company in England, 1630, a patent for land on the west side of Saco River, four miles by the sea, and eight miles up country by the river. This is now called Biddeford. Vines sold the patent, in 1645, to Dr. Robert Child [1639], who, being an Episcopalian, did not find a residence on it comfortable, and, in 1648, he sold it to John Box & Co., of London. They resold it to William Phillips [1644], of Boston, vintner, March II, 1658-9. To end a controversy with the settlers, Mr. Phillips [1644] retained the upper part of the
patent, and gave the inhabitants the lower part. Major Phillips [1644] strengthened his title hy an Indian deed, May 31, 1664. About this time, he was appointed as major over the forces of the Province. In 1661, he bought of the Indians an- other tract, eight miles square, which now comprises nearly the towns of Sanford, Alfred, and Waterboro'. One half of this tract, called the " nineteen thousand acres," he divided, in 1676, among nineteen persons, among whom were, besides seven of his children, three sons-in-law, and four children of his wife's hy a former marriage, John Jolliffe, John Woodman, Elisha Hutchinson [1670], Theodore Atkinson [1644], and William Hudson [1640], all of Boston - to each, one thousand acres." - MIS. of Mr. Edward P. Burnham, Saco, Me.
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wards included in the town of Seekonk, and in our day is a part of East Providence, R. I. His grave is near the centre of the old Seekonk burying-ground, the gravestone being marked, " I. R. A G 87. D. S 1685" (John Read, aged eighty-seven ; died September, 1658).
His second son, John, Jr., was killed March 26, 1676, by the Indians, in " Pierce's Fight," King Philip's War, near Valley Falls, now in Rhode Island, an engagement in which all the English, fifty in number, were killed.
John Richards (1644), of Dorchester, was a son of Thomas, who came to America in 1630. John came, Randolph says, " as a servant," but he became a rich and success- ful merchant. He settled, in 1649, at Arrowsic Island, Me., for the purpose of trading with the Indians, but in 1653 removed to Boston. In 1654, he married the widow of Adam Winthrop (1642) and daughter of Capt. Thomas Hawkins (1638), who died Nov. 1, 1691. His second wife was Ann, a daughter of Gov. John Winthrop, of Connecticut. He had no children.
He was a lieutenant and captain in the militia, and succeeded Thomas Clarke (1638) as sergeant-major of the Suffolk Regiment in 1683, which office he retained through Andros's administration until 1689. He was treasurer of Harvard College from 1672 to 1685, and judge of the Superior Court in 1692. He was elected second sergeant of the Artillery Company in 1658, -first, in 1663 ; was ensign in 1665, and lieutenant in 1667 and 1670.
He was admitted to the Second Church in Boston in 1664 ; held many important positions in town matters, being selectman of Boston six years, 1668 to 1673 ; was repre- sentative in the General Court for Newbury in 1671, 1672, and 1673 ; for Hadley in 1675, and for Boston in 1679 and 1680, being elected speaker the last-named year. From 1680 to 1686, he was elected an assistant, and was appointed one of the first new council under the charter of William and Mary, in 1692. He continued in that office until his death, which occurred at Boston, April 2, 1694. He was a commissioner with Mr. Dudley (1677) to the King, in 1681, and in 1692 was appointed one of the judges of the Superior Court for the trial at Salem of persons suspected of witchcraft.
He gave, by will, one hundred pounds to Harvard College, one hundred pounds to the town of Boston, and one hundred pounds to the Second Church, beside numerous other legacies. He left a large estate. Mr. John Foster (1679) was one of the executors.
John Richards (1644). AUTHORITIES: Sav- age's Gen. Dict .; Boston Records.
"Thorsday, Sept. I. 1692. Major John Rich- ards marries Mistress Anne Winthrop before Wm Stoughton Esq the Licut Governonr, at the House of Madam Usher." - Sewall Papers, Vol. I., p. 364. " April 2, 1694, Monday. Artillery Training. . In the afternoon, all the town is filled with the discourse of Major Richards death, which was very extraordinarily suddain : was abroad on the sabbath, din'd very well on Monday, and after falling into an angry passion with his Servant Richard Frame, pre- sently after, fell probably into a Fit of Apoplexy and died. On Tuesday night was opened and no cause
found of his death; noble Parts being fair and sound. " Friday April 6. Major Richards is buried in his Tomb in the North Burying Place : Companyes in arms attending the Funeral. Bearers Stoughton, Danforth, Russell, Brown, Sewall, Addington; Major General and Mr. Foster led the widow. Mr. Torrey was not there because it was Friday. Coffin was covered with Cloth. In the Tomb were fain to nail a Board across the coffins and then a hoard standing right up from that, bearing against the top of the Tomb, to prevent their floating up & down; saw- ing and fitting this board made some inconvenient Tarriance." - Sewall Papers, Vol. I., tt. 389, 390.
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Thomas Roberts (1644), son of John, came with his parents from Wales in 1636. Ile settled with them in Roxbury, and became a member of the Roxbury church. He moved to Boston, and was admitted to be a freeman in 1645. He was chosen “ clerk of the market," " Ist mo. 12th," 1654, and died probably in July, 1654. His widow, Eunice, married Moses Maverick, of Boston, Oct. 22, 1656.
Richard Russell (1644), of Charlestown, son of Paul, came in 1640 from Here- ford, England, where he was born in 1611. He became an inhabitant of Charlestown in 1640, a member of the church, May 22, 1641, and a freeman on the 2d of June follow- ing. " He began early to be much esteemed," and was selectman in 1642, representa- tive in 1646, and for twelve years afterward ; speaker in 1648, 1650, 1654, 1655, and 1658 ; treasurer of the colony for twenty years, and assistant in 1659, and was repeatedly re-elected until his decease. His gravestone, in the old burial-ground in Charlestown, says, " Who served his country as Treasurer more than treble apprenticeship." He was, therefore, in public life more than thirty years. He died May 14, 1676. Among other bequests, he gave one hundred pounds to Harvard College, one hundred pounds to the church, fifty pounds for a minister's home, two hundred pounds for the poor, etc. He married (1) Maud -, who died in 1652, and (2) in 1655, widow Mary Chester, of Weathersfield, Conn.
Peter Saltonstall (1644). Mr. Whitman (1810), in his History of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company, says, " Peter Saltonstall [1644] [was the] youngest son of Sir Richard, of Watertown. It is from this son that the Saltonstalls of Haverhill are descended. Col. Richard [1733] [was] a grandson of Peter."
Mr. Savage, in his Genealogical Dictionary, and Mr. Bond, in his History of Water- town, find no trace of any Peter Saltoustall in America. The late Leverett Saltonstall, of Boston, wrote that " the name of Peter Saltonstall has been discovered in no records except those of the Artillery Company. It is not improbable that he was a son of Sir Peter Saltonstall of Berkway, Co. Herts, K't, first cousin of Sir Richard. Sir Peter had a son Peter, who died unmarried." Later he wrote again, “ Upon making further investi- gation, I find the evidence conflicting as to whether Peter was a son of Richard or not. Winthrop speaks of Sir Richard staying at his house on the evening of his return with two of his sons. Now, as Richard, Robert, and Samuel, I know, remained, Winthrop's statement can only be accounted for by the fact that Peter and Henry were those who returned with him."
The names of several members of the Artillery Company are not found in any town records, but the presence of some of them in Boston has been proved beyond doubt.
On the oldest roll of the Artillery Company (1680) the name is written plainly, " Mr. Peter Saltonstall," and his sureties were Capt. Hawkins (1638) and Mr. Clarke (1638).
John Smith (1644). Savage, in his Genealogical Dictionary, mentions as belonging to this period more than sixty John Smiths. He says, "John Smith, Boston, a tailor,
Thomas Roberts (1644). AUTHORITIES : New Eng. Hist. and Gen. Reg., 1858, p. 220; Rox- bury Records; Savage's Gen. Dict. Inventory of his estate is given in New Eng. Ilist. and Gen. Reg., 1854, p. 277. The five persons who signed the inven- tory were all members of the Artillery Company.
Richard Russell (1644). AUTHORITIES : Sav- age's Gen. Dict .; Ilurd's Hist. of Middlesex Co., Vol. I., p. 27; Frothingham's Hist. of Charlestown; Charlestown Records.
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admitted to the church Feb. 6, 1639, was admitted a freeman May 22, 1639. He died in 1674 ; his will, dated Sept. 23, 1673, was proved on the 13th of June following." The Report of Boston Record Commissioners, Vol. II., locates John Smith's house and garden west of Hanover Street and north of Portland Street, adjoining the lot where the Green Dragon Tavern stood.
Joshua Tedd (1644), of Charlestown. This name is spelled on the oldest roll of the Artillery Company, "Ted." Savage spells it "Tead, Teed, and Ted "; Frothingham, "Tedd "; Wyman, "Tidd," and Charlestown Records, "Tedd."
He was admitted an inhabitant of Charlestown in 1637, was admitted to the church there March 10, 1639, and became a freeman May 22 next following. He was a shop- keeper. His possessions of real estate in Charlestown consisted of six separate pieces. His homestead was "west of Mill hill." He was a selectman in 1660 and 1668, is called ensign on the church records in 1669, and was lieutenant of the Charlestown company in 1678. He died Sept. 15, 1678, aged seventy-one years.
John Tuttle (1644), of Ipswich in 1635,' came over that year in the " Planter," from St. Albans, England. He was admitted to be a freeman March 13, 1639, and represented Ipswich, in 1644, in the General Assembly. After a few years, he returned home and became advantageously established in Ireland, whither his wife followed him in 1654. He died Dec. 30, 1656, aged sixty years, at Carrickfergus, Ireland.
Isaac Walker (1644), a merchant of Boston in 1644-5, probably came hither from Salem, Mass., as he was recommended to the First Church in Boston by the church in Salem. He joined the former May 2, 1646, and a few days after was admitted to be a freeman. In 1674, he transferred his membership to the Third Church. He was an active proprietor of Lancaster, though he did not move there. In 1662, he and his wife deeded to " their daughter, Susannah, .. . that little shop which now she keeps." This daughter married a Thomas Stanbury, who built the building pulled down in 1860, called the "Old Feather Store." His son, Lieut. Isaac, joined the Artillery Company in 1676. Isaac, Sr., died Oct. 19, 1688. Judge Sewall, in his Diary, writes of Mr. Walker's (1644) burial, on Monday, Oct. 22, 1688. Mr. Walker's (1644) third or fourth wife was Hannah, daughter of Deacon Theophilus Frary (1666).
Robert Ware (1644), a husbandman, of Dedham, of that part now Wrentham, in 1643, was admitted to be a freeman in 1647, and was received into the church at Dedham, " 2ª 8m, 1646." He was highway surveyor in 1656 and 1658. He married, (1) " IIth of the Ist mo. 1645," Margaret Hunting, of Dedham, and (2) "3, 3, 1676," Hannah Jones. In his will, dated Feb 25, 1698-9, his great age is spoken of. He died in 1699, his will being proved May II of that year. In his will he mentions his wife, Hannah. She died April 20, 1721, aged eighty-four years.
His son, Robert, served in December, 1675, under Capt. Moseley (1672), in King Philip's War.
Joshua Tedd (1644). AUTHORITIES: Froth- ingham's Hist. of Charlestown; Wyman's Charles- town Genealogies and Estates; Savage's Gen. Dict .; Report of Boston Rec. Com., Vol. III.
Robert Ware (1644). AUTHORITIES: New Eng. Hist. and Gen. Reg., 1852; Dedham Records. ' Hurd's Hist. of Essex Co., Vol. I., p. 570.
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Thomas Wells (1644), of Ipswich, perhaps a physician, came in the "Susan and Ellen " from London, with young Richard Saltonstall. The town of Wells, Me., received its name from this family. Mr. Wells (1644) was made a freeman May 17, 1637. He left a good estate, including lands in Wells, (now) Me. He was a deacon of the Ipswich church, made his will July 3, 1666, and died on the 26th of October of that year, aged sixty-six years. He was ensign of the Artillery Company in 1644.
Hugh Williams (1644), a hatter, of Boston, was called "a single man" when he joined the First Church, Jan. 1, 1642. He became a freeman May 18 of the same year. Mr. Savage, in his Genealogical Dictionary, says, " Probably never married, at least his will of Oct. 21, 1674, mentions no wife or children." He was clerk of the market, 1655.
Mr. Williams (1644) was the employer of Nathaniel Newgate (1646) when the latter was engaged to drum for the Military Company and the town. Arthur Perry (1638) was Mr. Newgate's (1646) instructor. Mr. Williams (1644) probably moved to Block Island, as his executors, Nov. 12, 1674, call him " late of Block Island."
Nathaniel Williams (1644), called " a laborer," was a glover, of Boston. He was admitted to the First Church May 26, 1639, and became a freeman May 13 following. He was held in good esteem, had a fair estate, and died April 23, 1661.1 He was second sergeant of the Artillery Company in 1654, and held the position of lientenant in the militia. His son, Capt. Nathaniel Williams, joined the Artillery Company in 1667, and held the office of commissary during King Philip's War. Nathaniel, Sr. (1644), was clerk of the market in 1651, constable, 1656-7, and selectman from 1659 to his decease. His daughter, Ruth, married Joseph Belknap (1658). The Records of Boston's Selectmen state, " 29, 2, 1661, . . . Peter Oliver [1643] is chosen sealer of weights and measures in ye place of Nat. Williams [1644] deceased."
Robert Williams (1644), a husbandman, of Roxbury in 1637, became a freeman May 2, 1638. He came from Norwich, England, "and is the common ancestor of the divines, civilians, and warriors of this name, who have honored the country of their birth." Among his distinguished descendants are Col. Ephraim Williams, founder of Williams College ; Rev. Elisha, president of Yale College ; William, Governor of Connecticut, and a signer of the Declaration of Independence ; Col. Joseph, of Roxbury, and Rev. Eleazer, he "lost Bourbon."
Thomas Wells (1644). AUTHORITIES: Sav- age's Gen. Dict .; New Eng. Hist. and Gen. Reg., 1848, p. 175; 1850, p. 11.
Hugh Williams (1644). AUTHORITIES: Sav- age's Gen. Dict .; Caulkins's Hist. of New London. Nathaniel Williams (1644). AUTHORITIES: Savage's Gen. Dict ..; Boston Records.
Robert Williams (1644). AUTHORITIES : Sav- age's Gen. Dict .; Drake's Hist. of Roxbury, pp. 115, 116; New Eng. Hist. and Gen. Reg., 1880, p. 69.
"Robert Williams, of Roxbury, eldest son of Stephen and Margaret (Cooke) Williams, of St. Nicholas Parish, Great Yarmouth, England, baptized there Dec. 11, 1608. In 1623, he left his father's house and went to Norwich, where, as a 'forrener,' he was apprenticed to John Garrett, 'cordynar,' for seven years. On the expiration of his apprentice- ship, he was admitted freeman of the city of Nor- wich, and, five years later, was elected warden of
his guild, and was also searcher and sealer of leather for the city.
"Two years later (April 8, 1637), he was ex- amined, according to royal act, and received per- mission to emigrate, and, on April 15, 1637, he embarked with wife, Elizabeth Stalham, four chil- dren, and two 'servants,' on the 'Rose,' of Var- mouth, and reached Boston June 20, 1637. Ife settled at Roxbury, Mass., and, after holding many town offices, died there Sept. 1, 1693, aged eighty-five. " During the fifty years from 1680 to 1730, the descendants of Robert Williams are among the fore- most in the ministry, and the Primate of the Protes- tant Episcopal Church of this country, the venerable Rt. Rev. John Williams, of Connecticut, is in the seventh generation from Robert Williams [1644]." - MS. of E. H. Williams, Jr., Bethlehem, Pa.
' " [IIe] Died 23d of 2 mo., 1661." - Diary of John Hull,
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The homestead of Robert Williams (1644), in which five generations of the family lived and died, remained standing until 1794, upon the site now occupied by the large brick dwelling-house on Dearborn Street, near the school-house. This mansion, built by Dr. Thomas Williams, a descendant of Robert, was the family residence until the death of his son, " Lawyer Tom," in 1823. This old family seat formed a part of quite a large estate, extending easterly from what is now Albany Street, on both sides of Eustis Street, as far as Magazine Street.
Mr. Williams (1644) was for some time clerk of the town of Roxbury, and received two acres of land near Dorchester Brook for his services. Mr. Drake says that Robert (1644) subsequently petitioned the town to take it back, as it occasioned him "too much worldly care."
Robert Williams (1644) married (2), Nov. 3, 1675, Margaret Fearing, widow, of Hingham. He died Sept. 1, 1693, aged eighty-five years.
Deane Winthrop (1644), of Boston, was the sixth son of Gov. John Winthrop, of Massachusetts. He was born at Groton Manor, England, March 16, 1623, and was left there at school by his father, but came over in the " Abigail " in 1635, at the age of twelve years, with his brother, John. His name was derived from Sir John Deane, half-brother of his mother. He was early engaged with his uncle Downing in projecting a new settlement on the Nashua River below Lancaster, and lying on the Merrimack. It was created a new town in 1655, and was named Groton in honor of the town of his birth, Groton, England. He was appointed the first selectman of the new town. In 1656, he was granted a thousand acres of land by the General Court. In 1653, Mr. Winthrop (1644) petitioned the General Court to be "freed from trayning." The request was "left to the descretion of his captayne." His residence, however, was always at Pulling Point, in the harbor of Boston, and the place has recently been erected into a corporate town by the name of Winthrop. He was admitted to be a freeman in 1665, and died March 16, 1704. He married Sarah, daughter of Rev. José Glover, and sister of the wife of his brother, Adam (1642). His daughter, Mercy, married Atherton Hough (1643).
Several of his letters may be read in the Winthrop Papers, and a picture of his house at Pulling Point may be seen in Memorial History of Boston, Vol. I., p. 447.
John Woodbridge (1644), of Newbury, was a son of Rev. John Woodbridge, of Stanton, England. He was born in 1613, had been bred at Oxford, Mather says, but on the requirement of the oath of uniformity he left the university, and was brought by his uncle, Rev. Thomas Parker, of Newbury, in the "Mary and John," in 1634, to America. John (1644) was one of the first planters of Newbury, Mass. He seems to
Deane Winthrop (1644). AUTHORITIES : Sav- age's Gen. Dict .; New Eng. Hist. and Gen. Reg., 1882, p. 26.
"March 16, 1703-4. Mr. Dean Winthrop, of Pulling Point, dies upon his birthday, just about the Breaking of it. He was Taken at eight a'clock the evening before, as he sat in his chair, sunk first, being set up, he vomited, complain'd of his head, which were almost his last words. Hardly spake anything after his being in bed. 81 years old. Ile is the last of Gov. Winthrops children, - statione novissimus exit. March 20, is buried at Pulling
Point by his son and three daughters. Bearers : Russell, Cooke: IHutchinson, Sewall: Townsend, Paige. From the House of Hasey : Scutcheons on the Pall. I help'd to lower the Corps into the Grave. Madam Paige went in her Coach. Maj. Gen. and Capt Adam Winthrop had scarvs and led the widow. Very pleasant day; Went by Winisemet." - Sewall Papers, Vol. II., p. 96.
John Woodbridge (1644). AUTHORITIES: Coffin's Hist. of Newbury; Whitman's Ilist. A. and HI. A. Company; Savage's Gen. Dict.
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have had little tendency to preach, for in 1637, when his father died in England, a successor was immediately appointed to the vacancy, and he was made "surveyor of the arms," and representative to the General Court. He was living in Newbury in November, 1642, when his father-in-law stirred him up to seek advancement as a minister.
In 1644, he taught school in Boston, and married Mercy, daughter of Gov. Thomas Dudley. Oct. 24, 1645, he was ordained at Andover the first pastor of the church there, but went to England in 1647. He remained there sixteen years, being engaged in important matters of the state, preaching at Andover and teaching at Newbury, whence, Mather says, the Bartholomew Act excluded him. On the 27th of July, 1663, he arrived at Boston in the ship "Society," and for two years assisted in the minis- trations of his uncle, Parker. After two or three years, a controversy occurred in the church and he was dismissed, when practically he retired from the ministry. In 1683, he was chosen an assistant, and he acted as a magistrate until his death, March 17, 1695. · To a person of his surname is to be attributed the origin of paper money, - Hutch- inson says his name was Woodbridge, a New England man, and calls him " the pro- jector," - about 1690.
Rev. John Norton, of Boston, delivered the Artillery sermon in June, 1644. The Records of the Colony of Massachusetts Bay in New England (1644), Vol. II., p. 71, say, " It is ordered the printer shall have leave to print the election sermon, with Mr. Mather's consent, and the artillery sermon, with Mr. Norton's consent."
Rev. John Norton was born at Starford, England, May 6, 1606, educated at the University of Cambridge, England, and came to America with Gov. Winslow, in 1635. He was ordained at Ipswich in 1636, and settled with the church there. July 23, 1656, he succeeded Rev. John Cotton, deceased, as pastor of the First Church in Boston. He died April 5, 1663.
1645-6. The officers elected were: Robert Sedgwick (1637), captain ; Thomas Savage (1637), lieutenant, and Humfrey Atherton (1638), ensign. Francis Norton (1643) was first sergeant; Eleazer Lusher (1638), second sergeant; Thomas Clarke (1644); third sergeant; William Davis (1643), fourth sergeant ; Robert Scott (1638), clerk; John Audlin (1638), armorer, and Arthur Perry (1638), drummer.
The Company again honored two of its founders by the re-election of Robert Sedgwick (1637) as captain and Thomas Savage (1637) as lieutenant. Sergt. Humfrey Atherton (1638) was promoted to the rank of ensign.
The theocratic form of government established in Massachusetts was not universally popular, and a desire was manifested to have churches established in accordance with the Presbyterian creed, which had then been adopted by the British Parliament as the established church of England. Those who entertained this view refused to acknowl- edge the supremacy of the independent church established in Massachusetts, and were therefore " excluded from civil and military employments and from the franchise."
Rev. John Norton. AUTHORITIES : Mather's Magnalia, Vol. I., p. 286; Eliot's Biographical Dict .;
New Eng. Hist. and Gen. Reg., ISSo, p. S9.
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The new members recruited in 1645-6 were : John Bowles, Daniel Gookin, Robert Hinsdale, John Hutchinson, Isaac Johnson, Daniel Kilhen, Clement Koldom, Thomas Lothrop, William Lyon, Henry Parkes, Thomas Rashley, Joshua Scottow, Elias Stilemar., Israel Stoughton, Thomas Venner, William Wale.
John Bowles (1645), of Roxbury in 1639, became a freeman May 13, 1640. He was a member of the church at Roxbury, of which Rev. John Eliot was pastor, and " 4 mo. 6. d. 1675" he was elected a ruling elder of the church. He was the founder. of a grammar school, a member of the General Court in 1645, and died in Roxbury Sept. 21, 1680.1
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