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cease entirely until 1637. Many persons who had determined to go, were detained a year or two in dis- posing of their property.
CHAPTER VII.
List of the First Settlers of the Town.
THE following is an alphabetical list of all the Grantees of Dorchester lands, whose names appear in the Town Records previous to January, 1636, and comprises all the first settlers, excepting such as may have appeared on the missing pages (probably very few) and whose names were not repeated.
John Allen
Bigot Eggleston
Thomas Andrews
Robert Elwell
Jno. Benham
Richard Fay
John Bursley
Thomas Ford
Thomas Bascomb
Walter Filer
John Brancker
Henry Feakes
Roger Clap
Joseph Flood
Bernard Capen
Stephen French
John Capen
Humphrey Gallop
Joshua Carter
William Gaylord
Bray Clarke
Christopher Gibson
Joseph Clarke
Giles Gibbs
Augustin Clement
Ralph Glover
Richard Collicot
Jonathan Gillet
John Cogan Aaron Cook
John Gilbert
Nicolas Denslowe
John Goite, or Goyt
Thomas Dewey
John Grenoway
Thomas Deeble
Matthew Grant
Robert Deeble
Edmund Hart
Thomas Dimocke
John Hayden
Nathaniel Duncan
Thomas Hatch
William Hathorne
Nathaniel Hall
George Dyer John Eeles
John Glover
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William Hannum
Goodman Jno. Pope
Mr. Pincheon
John Hoskins Simon Hoyt William Hosford
William Preston
David Price
Joseph Holley
George Procter
Thomas Holcomb
Widow Purchase
John Holland
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John Holman
George Phelps
Mr. Jno. Hill
Edward Raymond
John Hull
Philip Randall
George Hull
Thomas Rawlins
William Hulbert
Thomas Richards
Thomas Jeffrey
William Rockwell
Thomas Jones
Bray Rosseter
Mr. Johnson
Hugh Rosseter
Richard Jones
Richard Rocket
John Knight
Thomas Sandford
Thos. Kinnersly, or Kimberly
Matthew Sension
Thomas Lambert
John Smith
John Leavitt
Henry Smith
Capt. William Lovell Roger Ludlow
George Strange
John Maverick
Th. or Ancient Stoughton
Capt. John Mason
Mr. Israel Stoughton
Thomas Marshall
William Sumner
John Miller
Thomas Swift
Alexander Miller
Joshua Talbot
George Minot
Stephen Terry
Thomas Makepeace
John Tilley
Thomas Marshfield
Thomas Tileston
John Moore
Thomas Thornton
Edmund Munnings
Francis Tuthill
Mr. Newberry
Joshua Tuthill
John Newton
Nicolas Upsall
John Niles
John Warham
Elias Parkman
Henry Way
James Parker
Bray Wilkins
William Phelps John Phillips
David Wilton
George Phillips
Henry Wolcott
John Pierce
Henry Wright
Andrew Pitcher
John Whitfield
Eltweed Pomeroy
John Woolridge
Roger Williams
Many of these persons dissolved their connec- tion with the Dorchester plantation at this early
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period ; we have therefore collected such facts re- garding them as have come to our knowledge, and place them before our readers now, in the hope that some of their numerous descendants, better versed in their history, may aid our future numbers by im- parting to the committee such additional information as they possess.
John Allen's name appears on the Town Records in 1634. He was probably here in 1632, and kept an ordinary (tavern). The Massachusetts Colony Re- cords no doubt refer to him in the following order.
" A Court holden at Boston, August 7, 1632. It is ordered that ye remainder of Mr. Allen's strong water, being estimated aboute two gallandes, shall be delivered into ye hands of the Deacons of Dor- chester for the benefitt of the poore there, for his selling of it dyvrs tymes to such as were drunke by it, he knowing thereof."
Thomas Andrews was here as early as 1634; his wife was Ann; he had three acres of land granted him next his house, December 17, of that year. He died May 20, 1673. He had a son Thomas baptized June 23, 1639 ; he married Phebe Gourd; he also had a daughter Susanna, who married W. Hopkins and removed to Roxbury. There was a person of the same name in Hingham, but much older.
Thomas Bascomb probably came in the Mary and John with the first settlers. He removed to Windsor. His children born there were-Abigail, June 27, 1640 ; Thomas, February 20, 1641-2; Hepzibah, April 14, 1644.
John Benham was probably one of the passen-
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gers in the Mary and John; was made freeman in 1631; had land granted him in 1632, and was here as late as 1638.
John Bursley was among the first settlers ; Dr. Harris says, 1630. He was in the country two years before, and also in 1634, but was one of the early settlers of Weymouth, and representative in 1636. Farmer says one of that name was of Exeter in 1643 and 1645.
John Brancker appears with Mr. attached to his name. He was one of the early settlers, and made freeman in 1632. He removed to Windsor, was a school-master there, and a man of some distinction. He lived not far from the burying-ground in Dor- chester, probably near the corner of Stoughton and Pleasant streets.
April 1, 1635, "It is ordered that there shall be a way paled out from the burying-place to Mr. Branker's, by the 16th day of May next, to be paled out by the several men that own the lots."
September 10, 1637, " It is agreed by general vote of the plantation that there shall be a meeting-house built between Mr. Branker's and £160 raised for the purpose."
He sold his house and land in Dorchester to Am- brose Martin, September 2, 1637.
Roger Clap. His autobiography is contained in his oft-published memoirs. Born at Salcom, Devon, in 1609; passenger in the Mary and John, 1630 ; grantee of lands, 1633 ; filled most of the impor- tant offices of the town at various times from 1637 to 1665, when he was appointed commander of the 5*
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Castle. He was of the ultra puritan school, and by no means tolerant of the innovations attempted by the Antinomians and Quakers. He resigned his post at the Castle upon the dissolution of the First Charter in 1686, unwilling to lend his co-operation to the tyrannical schemes of Governor Andros. On his resignation he removed to Boston, where he died in 1691, aged 82 years. His wife was daughter of Thomas Ford, who removed to Windsor. He left four sons and two daughters. Few of his descend- ants (in the male line) are now living in Dorches- ter ; but most of that name in Northampton and .. vicinity are his descendants through his son Preserved.
Bernard Capen, grantee of land, August, 1633, an old man on his arrival, died November 8, 1638, aged 76 years. His wife Joan, said to be the daughter of Oliver Purchase, survived him fifteen years .* His grave-stone is supposed to have been the oldest in New England. The present one has been placed at the head of his grave, in place of the original, which was either broken or illegible. A flat stone covers the grave. His children were-Ruth, born August 7, 1600; Susanna, born April 11, 1602, and died November 13, 1666 ; John, born January 26, 1612.
John Capen, son of the foregoing, grantee of land and freeman 1634, born 1612. Married Redegon Clap in 1637. Married a second wife, Mary Bass, daughter of Deacon Samuel Bass, of Braintree, in 1647. Had one son (John) by his first marriage, and eight children by the second. Blake says Capt.
* See New England Historial and Genealogical Register, vol. 2, p. 80.
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Capen was deacon of the church in 1658, Selectman sixteen years, repeatedly deputy to the Court, and thirteen years Town Recorder, and wrote more in the records than any other man. He died in 1692, aged 80 years. By his first wife he had-Joanna, born October 8, 1638; and John, born October 21, 1639. By his second wife he had-Samuel, Mary, Bernard; Preserved, born March 4, 1657; Joseph, born De- cember 10, 1658; Hannah, born October, 1662; and Elizabeth, born December 29, 1666. Mr. Capen was by trade a shoemaker. His house is supposed to have stood at the corner of Pleasant and Pond Streets.
The following are copies of letters sent by him to Deacon Bass, of Braintree, and his daughter Mary, a short time preceding his marriage to the latter.
To his Loueing and kind ffreind Goodman Bass, Deacon of the church at Brantrey, giue this I pray you. SIR,
My kind love and respect to you wth yor wife remembered, wth thanks for all yor kindness showed vnto me, hoping for yor health and prosperity as my one. The Cause of my writtinge to you at this time, is only this, to make bold wth you to be as a Cloake to cover this my inclosed letter directed to yor daughter, because as yet I know not who may be the bearer heerof, I would intreate you to delieur it vnto her. Ye Contents of it I know she will not hide it from you. Therefore I doe forbeare it my selfe, because I chouse rather breauely, but I would intreat her to keep it as private as she can from others. Thus in hast I rest, desiring yor earnest prayers to god for vs for direction in this greate vndertakeing.
Yors to vse in any thing I may. ffrom Dor : this 15th of ye 2d mº. 1647. JOHN CAPEN.
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To his Deare and Loueing and much respected ffreind Mary Bass, at her father house in Brantrey, giue this I pray you.
SWEETE-HARTE,
My kind loue and affection to you remembred ; haueinge not as convenient opertunety to see and speake wth you soe oft as I could desier, I therfore make bold to take opertunety as occasione offers it selfe to visset you wth my letter, desiering yt it may find acceptance wth you, as a token of my loue to you ; as I can assuer you yt yours haue found from me ; for as I came home from you ye other day, by ye way I reseaued your letter from your faithfull messenger, wch was welcom vnto me, and for wch I kindly thank you, and do desier yt as it is ye .. first : so yt it may not be ye last, but yt it may be as a seed wch will bring forth more frute: and for your good counsell and aduise in your letter specefied, I doe accept, and do desier yt we may still commend ye casse to god, for direction and cleering vp of our way as I hope wee haue hethertoo done ; and yt our long considerations may at ye next time bring forth firme con- clussions, I meane verbally though not formally. Sweetharte I haue given you a large ensample of patience, I hope you will learne this instruction from ye same, namely, to show ye like toward me if euer occassion be offered for futuer time, and for ye present, condesendency vnto my request ; thus wth my kind loue remembred to yor father and mother and Brothers and sisters wth thanks for all ther kindnes wch haue been vndeserueing in me I rest, leaueing both them and vs vnto ye protection and wise direction of ye almighty.
My mother remembers her loue vnto yor father and mother ; as also vnto your selfe though as it vnknown.
Yors to command in any thing I pleas.
ffrom Dor. ye 5th of ye 3 mo. 1647. JOHN CAPEN.
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To his Deare and Loueing and Much respected freind Mary Bass, at hir fathers house in Brantrey, giue this I pray speed.
SWEET-HART,
My kind loue and intiere affections to you remembred wth my respect vnto yor father and mother and loue to yor Brothers and sisters, hopeing of yor health as I am at this time blessed be god. Ye cause of my writting to you at this time is to give you to vnderstand yt Sister Weld sent me word ye last night yt she had some stufs come to her hand, and this day I went thether of purpose to see them, yt soe I may send you word; now she have 3 peeces of stuf, but I think yt ther is but one of them yt you would like for yo self. It is a pretty sad stuf, but it have a thred of whit in it : it is 3 quarters broad and ye priz is 58 6ª ye yard. I was hopeing to speake wth father hear to day, but he was gon a little before I came home : alsoe whill I was wth you at Brantrey Sister Swift being at Boston wth Sister Vpsall they boath being at ye hatters shop did thinke vppon you for a hat and chose out ye comlyest fashon hatt yt they could find: (avoiding fantastick fashons) and caused ye man to set it by vntell this first day thinking we should speake wth some of you this day. Ye hat was a demecaster, the priz was 248; ye shop was ye corner shop over against Mr Coggings on ye right hand as on goe up to Mr Cottens house. It was set by wth my name vpon it written on a paper : these things I thought good to aquaint you wth. You may consider of it and doe as you shall thinke good. I cannot be long, because I would faine send this letter to you this night if ther come by any messenger. I am now in good health againe, thanks be to god, and able if opertunety did serue to ride or goe wth you either to Waymouth or Boston to yor wedding. Thus in hast I rest, leaueing you to ye protection of ye almighty. I could be glad to hear a few lines from you if opertunety of a messenger did serue.
Yor Loueing husband till death.
Dor. this 1 of ye 5 mo. 1647. JOHN CAPEN.
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Joshua Carter removed to Windsor. Several of his descendants were killed by the Indians. Isaac, son of Richard Carter, was baptized in Dorchester, June 20, 1658.
Bray Clarke appears on the Records in 1634.
Joseph Clarke was here early. Dr. Harris says in 1630; also that Thomas and Bray were here at that time, and that a grave-stone was erected to their memory with the following epitaph.
" Here lie three Clarkes, their accounts are even, Entered on earth, carried up to Heaven."
Augustin Clement, passenger with Capt. Cooper, in the James from Hampton, April, 1635 ; * called in the list a painter, sometime of Steading. He and his wife Elizabeth signed Dorchester Church Cove- nant, 1636; grantee of lands, February, 1636. Their children were-Samuel, born September 29, 1635 ; John, born October 21, 1639 ; Elizabeth, who mar- ried William Sumner, Jr. ; and Joanna, who died young. Mr. Clement died about 1674. He owned two houses in Boston, and house and land in Dor- chester. After the decease of her husband, Mrs. Clement went to live with her daughter Mrs. Sumner.
Richard Collicott. There is no evidence of the precise time of the arrival in New England of this active and enterprising settler of Dorchester, or the place of his birth in England. He is mentioned in Pyncheon's papers as a collector of furs in 1633. He may have been one of the old planters-was doubtless a member of Mr. Warham's church before
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March, 1633, when he was admitted a freeman. In 1634, he obtained leave to erect two houses, one in June, at a place called the burying-ground (Indian), and in September, leave to set a house without the pale. In December, 1634, an order passed regulating a passage-way to Collicott's house in the Great Lots. In October, 1636, acting as a Trustee for the town, he receives the grant from Cutshumaquin of the whole territory of Unquety (Milton), including forty acres of land for himself, conferred by the town,* adjoining lands he already held on that side of the river. +
In July, 1636, the town grants to Collicott six acres of the Unquety lands in Narraganset Way, on Mount Wollaston line. In 1638, Dorchester has leave to use Collicott's house as a watch-house (doubtless at Unquety). Collicott was Selectman in 1636-7 and 1641; was deputy to the Court 1637; charter member of the Artillery Company, of which he was 1st Sergeant, which gave him a military title which he retained all his life. He represented the Dorchester Church at the Cambridge Synod, held in 1637, for the trial of Mrs. Ann Hutchinson. As early as 1635, the Court Records mention Collicott and Mr. Hathorne as appointed referees in a very important suit between Messrs. Cogan, Wolcott, Tilley, and Pinney. His fur trade probably brought him into much intercourse with the Indians, with whom he had great influence, which was called into use by Eliot in his endeavors to christianize them, ±
* See Town Records, p. 62.
+ See Town Records, p. 219. # See Eliot's biography in Sparks.
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and his services were put in requisition by the New England Confederation in 1645, when he accompanied Atherton's expedition to Narraganset .* It was doubt- less on a fur trading expedition to Maine, in 1648, that occurred to Collicott the remarkable providence mentioned by Winthrop.+ He had much commerce with Maine during his whole life, and was elected to represent Saco in 1672, and as late as 1676 Haz- ard states that Collicott was present when Capt. Thomas Lake, of Boston, was killed by the Indians at Arrowsick Island. ¿ Collicott moved to Boston in 1659, and was dismissed to the new church (Old. North) there in 1660; and Sewell in his diary mentions that his mother lodged at Collicott's house in Boston, 1651. Soon after, he went to reside at his Milton farm, the same deeded by the Indians thirty years before. He appears as Trustee of Milton Church property in 1664, and an inhabitant of that town some years after. He finally moved to Boston a few years before his death, in 1686. He left a fam- ily, but the name is extinct in this vicinity. By his wife, Thomasin, he had three children-Experience (daughter), born 1641; Dependance (son), born July 5, 1643 ; Preserved, baptized January 28, 1648. It is supposed that Richard Hall lived in his house after his removal to Boston. His residence in Dor- chester appears to have been near the corner of Cottage and Pleasant streets.
John Cogan was a very enterprising man ; he removed to Boston. Snow, in his history of Boston, says he was the first who set up a shop there.
* See Hazard, vol. 2, p. 39. + Vol. 2, p. 336. # See Hutchinson, vol. 1, p. 346.
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Aaron Cooke was probably in Dorchester in 1630. He removed to Windsor. From Windsor he re- moved to Northampton, and was a representative from that town; and from thence to Hadley, which town he also represented. From the following vote on the Town Records, it appears that he did not remove with the company of 1635.
July 5, 1636, "It is ordered that Aaron Cook shall have half an acre of ground over against his lot, by the brook near the dead swamp, to build his house upon."
Mr. Cooke was a man of great energy, and a devoted friend to the regicide Judges Goffe and Whalley. While they were in this country, they resided in his neighborhood. His first wife was daughter of Thom- as Ford. He had three children by his second wife, Joan, daughter of Nicholas Denslow. He had a third and fourth wife, and died in the year 1690.
Nicholas Denslow was one of the early comers. Dr. Harris says he was here in 1630, made freeman in 1633. He removed to Windsor. He lived near Roxbury brook.
Thomas Dewey. On the Town Records spelled Duee. Dr. Harris calls this name Duce. He remov- ed to Windsor, and was the ancestor of Rev. Orville and Judge Dewey. On his removal to Windsor, he sold his house and land to Richard Jones. His wife was Frances Clark, whom he married March 22, 1638. Their children were-Thomas, born February 16, 1639; Josia, baptized October 10, 1641; Anna, baptized October 15, 1643; Isrell, born September 25, 1645; Jededia, born December 15, 1647. Thomas 5
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Dewey died April 27, 1648, and his widow married George Phelps, November 2, 1648.
Thomas Deeble was one of the early settlers, and removed to Windsor.
Robert Deeble probably went to Windsor. He and his sons had thirty acres of land granted them in Dorchester, January 4, 1635.
Mr. Thomas Dimocke was one of the Selectmen in 1635. He removed to Cape Cod soon after 1638. He appears to have been a man of some distinction.
Nathaniel Duncan. Mr. Blake places Mr. Dun- can's name among the first comers-he appears in the Town Records as grantee of land in 1633 and '37; Selectman of the town from 1635 to '45; one of the six who first signed the Church Covenant with Mr. Mather ; charter member of Artillery Company in 1637; freeman 1635; was a successful merchant, and the superior advantages which the town of Boston offered, induced him to remove thither with many other persons in 1645. His name is on the records of the Old North Church in 1655. He was Vote Commissioner in Boston in 1646, and several times Deputy to the Court from Boston. Capt. Johnson describes him as learned in the Latin and French languages, also an accomplished accountant.
George Dyer, there is every reason to believe, was one of the West Country settlers who came here in the Mary and John, in May, 1630. Farmer says he was on a Jury as early as September, 1630; became freeman in May, 1631; grantee Dorchester lands, April, 1633, being a saltmarsh proprietor of the third class in quantity ; doubtless a Church
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member at his coming, being then fifty-one years old. He and his wife Abigail signed the Church Covenant anew, 1636. He died in 1672, aged 93 years. His daughter Elizabeth married William Trescott, and Mary married William Pond.
John Eeles " dwelt at Foxpoint." It appears that he removed to Hingham. He may have been John the bee-hive maker, who finally settled in Newbury. He had a son Samuel baptized in Dorchester, May 3, 1640. The latter lived in Hingham, and was a Justice of the Peace ; he was the father of Rev. Nathaniel, who was born 1678. A large number of Samuel's descendants have been clergymen.
Mr. Bagot or Bigod Egglestone was probably here in 1630 ; made a freeman in 1631. He removed to Windsor, and had many descendants, according to Windsor records. He died September 1, 1674, " nere 100 yer ould."
Robert Elwell was in Dorchester as early as 1634. Probably he remained here four or five years, then removed to Salem ; from the latter place, according to Farmer, he went to Gloucester.
Richard Fay was here in 1634, but it is not known what became of him.
Thomas Ford came in the Mary and John in 1630. He was made freeman in 1631, and removed to Windsor. One of his daughters, Joan, married Roger Clap; another, Aaron Cooke. Abigail, the eldest, married, in 1630, John Strong, and Hepzibah married Richard Lyman.
Walter Filer probably came in 1630 ; he was dig- nified by the title of Lieutenant. He removed to
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Windsor. His children, born in Windsor, were --- John, September 12, 1642; Zurobabel, December 23, 1644. John married Elizabeth Dolman, October 17, 1672; Zurobabel married Experience Strong, May 27, 1669.
Henry Feakes, Fowkes, or Fookes, is undoubtedly the person whom Dr. Harris calls Stokes. He re- moved to Windsor.
Joseph Flood appears on the Town Records in 1635. He had a son Eleazer, baptized in Dorches- ter in 1638. He removed to Lynn.
Stephen French was here, according to Dr. Har- ris, in 1630; made freeman in 1634. He removed to Weymouth.
Mr. Humphrey Gallop was among the earliest settlers, and dignified with the title of Mr. His wife was Anne, and they had a son Joseph born here in 1633.
William Gaylord, doubtless a fellow passenger with the clergymen, one of the first deacons. He and his colleague, William Rockwell, signed the first land grants of Dorchester; grantee of land in 1633; Deputy and Selectman 1635-6; removed to Windsor, and died December 14, 1656.
Christopher Gibson applied for freemanship in October, 1630. He appears on the Town. Records as fence viewer in 1634-5; member of Dorchester Church in 1636; inhabitant of Dorchester as late as 1646. He removed to Boston before 1650, when he assisted in forming the Old North Society. He is described in a lease as a soap boiler, of Boston. He left by will to the town of Dorchester, about
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1674, the sum of £104, to be invested in land for school purposes. This sum, laid out in twenty-six acres of land at Smelt Brook, has proved of great value to the town, and a part of it is still held .* On his removal to Boston he sold his house and land to Thomas Trott, bounded on the north side by Mr. Heywood, the west by John Pierce and Henry Kib- by, the south by the highway, and the east by Thomas Makepeace and Thomas Birch. This deed is dated September 15, 1648.
Giles Gibbs, a first comer, supposed from Devon- shire, where the name is common.t Freeman in 1633, and grantee of Dorchester lands the same year. Selectman in 1634. He removed to Windsor.
Ralph Glover, of Dorchester, applied for freeman- ship in 1630. He died in 1633, and his estate was administered upon in August, 1633 .¿
John Glover. His name appears upon the list of the first adventurers to Massachusetts in May, 1628, and he attended a General Court of the Patentees held in London, May 13, 1629.§ He is supposed to have lived in Dorsetshire, but it is not probable that he accompanied the West Country settlers in the Mary and John. His name does not appear in Dorchester Records until 1636. Charlestown Re- cords include Mr. Glover among the residents of that town, after the removal to Boston of Governor Winthrop in 1630. He is named as grantee at
* From the proceeds of the land which has been sold, there has accrued a fund of upwards of $11,000. One of the schools of the town bears the name of this their earliest benefactor.
+ See Savage's Gleanings.
# See Court Records.
§ See Company's Records.
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Dorchester in 1636, and also Selectman and Deputy the same year, and he was constantly chosen to fill these places until 1651, when he was elected Assistant. He was member of Dorchester Church in 1636, and appears to have been a large purchaser of the im- provements of the Windsor emigrants. Mr. New- berry's lands and others at Squantum came into his possession, and he also laid out a large farm at Un- quety. He was engaged in the business of tanning. Capt. Johnson describes him as " a plain, sincere, godly man, strong for the truth." Mr. Glover died in 1654, leaving four sons.
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