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prisoners were stationed apart, and volleys of mus- ketry fired over their heads as a token of victory.
He was employed in several expeditions against the Narraganset Indians ; and when they became tributary to Massachusetts, he was several times sent to collect the tribute of wampum. He and Ed- ward Tomlins were sent to treat with Miantinomo, a sachem of the Narragansets, and questioned him on the Ten Commandments.
In 1645 the commissioners of the United Colo -.. nies appointed a council of war, and placed Capt. Standish at its head. Mason, of Connecticut, Leverett and Atherton, of Massachusetts, were his colleagues.
Captain Johnson, author of the Wonder-working Providence, speaks of Atherton as a lively, coura- geous man, and says, " Altho he be slow of speech, yet is he down right for the business, one of cheerful spirit, and intire for the country."
His death occurred Sept. 16, 1661, by falling from his horse at the south part of Boston, and his character and station are commemorated in the fol- lowing poetic effusion from his grave-stone.
Here lyes ovr Captaine, & Maior of Svffolk was withall ; A Godly Majistrate was he, and Maior Generall, [crave .
Two Trovps of Hors with him heare came, svch worth his love did Ten Companyes of Foot also movrning marcht to his grave.
Let all that Read be sure to keep the Faith as he has don.
With Christ he lives now Crown'd, his name was Hvmpry Atherton.
He lived on the south side of the way to the Calf Pasture, now Pond street, near where that street intersects with the Turnpike. His children were -
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Jonathan ; Rest, born 1639, married Obadiah Swift, 15 (1) 1660-1; Increase, baptized 2 (11) 1641, died at sea ; Thankful, born 1644, married Thos. Bird of Dorchester, 2 (2) 1665 ; Hope, born 1646, was minister of Hadley ; Consider, married Ann Anibal, 19 (10) 1671; Watching, born 1651, mar- ried Elizabeth Rigbee, Jan. 23, 1678; Patience, born 1654; Mary, married Joseph Weeks, 9 (7) 1667. Charles H. says there was a Katherine, and that there were twelve children in all. Admin- istration was granted his oldest son Jonathan, and Timothy Mather, James Throwbridge and Obadiah Swift, three of his sons-in-law. His inventory was £900.
Richard Baker joined the church in 1639 ; made freeman May 18, 1642 ; was one of the early grantees of lands ; one of the raters in 1647, '50 and '60; a Selectman in 1653; constable in 1663; was once chosen a ruling elder, but it does not appear that he accepted ; was a member of the Artillery Com- pany in 1658. He married Faith, the daughter of Elder Henry Withington (probably after his arrival in this country). He died Oct. 25, 1689. His wife died Feb. 3, 1689. He lived in the part of the town now known as Savin Hill, and was owner of a large real estate in Dorchester-a piece of which is now in possession of his descendants near his homestead at the place mentioned. His son John married Pre- served Trott, 11 (5) 1667. James died a bachelor, March 30, 1721, aged 69. Mary, born 27 (2) 1643, married Samuel Robinson. Thankful married Wil- liam Griggs. Hannah, born 9 (11) 1662, married
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John Wiswell, May 6, 1685. Sarah, born 12 (5) 1668, married James White. Elizabeth married Pratt, of Weymouth.
James Bate, or Bates, having the title of Mr. prefixed to his name, sailed in the Elizabeth, Capt. Stagg, from England, in April, 1635, with his wife Alice and several children. He is styled, in the list of passengers, husbandman. He was born in 1582, joined the church in 1636, was made freeman in 1636, a selectman in 1637, '38 and '51, and repre- sented Hingham in 1641. His son Richard lived in Sid Town Kent, Old England, and was named a kind of trustee in his father's will. He had a son James, born in 1626, who lived in Dorchester, and settled his father's estate here, to account to his brother Richard in England for the same. His daughter Margaret, born 1623, married Christopher Gibson. Mary, born 1618, married Hopestill Foster. Lydia, born 1615 ; James, 1626. He left the wife of Gabriel Mead (whose name was Johanna) £20. She may have been a daughter. In his will he left Mr. Mather £20. He was probably a brother of Ed- ward Bates, who came in the same vessel and settled at Weymouth - and of Clement, who settled at Hingham.
William Blake was born in England in 1594, and came with his wife Agnes to Dorchester, about the same time with Mr. Mather, probably in the same ship. He joined the church in 1636 ; was a grantee of land in 1637, and at several other times prior to 1656 ; was admitted freeman, March 14, 1638-39, and was a selectman in 1645, '47 and '51. He was
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also " Recorder for ye Towne, Clerk of ye Writs for ye Co. of Suffolk, 1656," in which office he continued to his death, on the 25 (8) 1663. His children were -William, born 1620, died in Milton in 1703 ; James, born 1623, died June 28, 1700 ; John, died in Boston in 1688, without issue ; Edward, died in Milton, 1692; Ann, married Jacob Legar, of Boston. His wife Agnes died July 22, 1678. By his will, dated Sept. 3, 1661, he gives " Vnto ye Towne of Dorchester, £20, to be bestowed for ye repairing of ye Burying Place, so yt swine and other vermine may not Anoy ye graues of ye saints."
Nehemiah Bourne and his wife Hannah were ad- mitted to the church in 1639. He was a land- holder and a member of the Artillery Company in 1638, and removed to Boston in 1640. Having a taste for military affairs, he accompanied Col. Stoughton to England in 1644, and there became a major with Col. Stoughton in Rainsboro's regi- ment in Cromwell's army. After the death of Stoughton he returned to Boston, where his family remained during his absence. He was in England again in 1655 and 1661. He was called by Win- throp a ship carpenter. He bought his house in Boston of Thomas Savage, Jr. His son Nehemiah was born in 1641.
Edward Breck came from Ashton, Lancashire, England, probably with Mr. Mather, in 1635. He joined the church in 1636; made freeman in 1639; was a selectman in 1642, and for several years after- wards. He bought Mr. Burr's land in 1642. His wife (probably his second) was Isabell, the widow of
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John Rigby. He lived on what is now called Adams street, very near where the Hon. John Howe since lived, and built the mill on Smelt Brook Creek, now known as the tide mill, or Tileston's mill. He is styled yeoman, and appears to have been a man of distinction. He died Nov. 2, 1662. His widow Isabell married Anthony Fisher, of Roxbury, for her third husband, Nov. 14, 1663-he being, at the time of the marriage, about 72 years of age.
His children were -Robert, who was admitted freeman in 1649, settled in Boston, and lived near the new meeting-house; John, born 1651, lived in Dorchester, had the title of captain, and died Feb. 17, 1690; Mary, baptized 18 (6) 1638, married Samuel Pierce, 9 (11) 1666; Elizabeth, married John Minott ; Susannah, married - Blake, and afterwards John Harris, March 20, 1674. Isabell Fisher, as executrix, sold one half of the mill her former husband (Edward Breck) built, to Timothy Foster, in 1671, with land adjoining.
Jonathan Burr was born at Redgrave, in Suffolk, and graduated at Corpus Christi College in 1623. He preached at Horning, in Suffolk, and for a while was rector of the church at Reckingshall, where he was silenced. He then came to Dorchester with his wife and three children, and there signed the church covenant in December, 1639. He was invited to settle as colleague with Mr. Mather, but these gen- tlemen differing upon some points, a council of ten ministers and two magistrates was called in Feb- ruary, 1640, who, after a session of four days, reported that both Mr. Mather and Mr. Burr had
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cause for humility, and advised a reconciliation. He was settled as colleague with Mr. Mather in Feb- ruary, 1640, and died August 9, 1641, aged 37 yrs. He was said to have been an excellent scholar and an eloquent divine, with a character above reproach. His children who came from England with him, were - Jonathan, who graduated at Harvard ; John and Simon. His daughter Mary was born soon after their arrival in this country. He probably lived upon the margin of Jones's Hill. His widow, Frances, married the Hon. Richard Dummer, and died at Newbury, Nov. 19, 1682, aged 70 years.
Nicholas Butler came from Eastwell, in Kent, and was styled yeoman. He embarked, with his wife, three children and five servants, at Sandwich, in the Hercules, June, 1637 .* He joined the church and was made freeman March 14, 1638-9. He had a grant of land at Dorchester Neck in 1637, and was proprietor in the great lots in 1647. The brook which crosses Cottage street was called Butler's Brook, from him. His wife's name was Joyce. In 1651, he deputed his son John his attorney, and went to Martha's Vineyard, where he died, leaving children. He sold his property in Dorchester to William Ware, in 1652. He owned land on Dun- can's Hill, now Spurr's or Codman's Hill.
Thomas Bird was a member of the church in Dorchester in 1642; was bailiff in 1654. He was a tanner by occupation. His wife Ann died August
* It is probable that those persons who entered as his servants, assum- ed that title to escape the vigilance of the pursuivants .- [See Savage's Gleanings.]
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20, 1673. He died June 8, 1667. His son Thomas was born July 4, 1640; married Thankful, the daughter of Gen. Humphrey Atherton, May 2, 1665, and died January 3, 1709, aged 69. John, born April 11, 1641, married Elizabeth, and died August 7, 1632, aged 91. James, born 1647; Sarah, bap- tized 12 (6) 1649, died 24 (2) 1669; Joseph, died 26 (7) 1665.
Robert Babcock was in Dorchester as early as 1656. His son Nathaniel was born 14 (1) 1657-8; Caleb, 1660 ; Ebenezer, baptized 5 (5) 1663 ; Hopestill, 8 (9) 1663 ; Hannah, 28 (3) 1665. He was an assessor in 1656. In March, 1669, he made an acknowledgment before the church in Dorchester, for taking up and divulging reports against the Rev. Mr. Emerson. He lived in that part of Dorchester which is now Milton, and the lower part of the brook, now known as Aunt Sarah's Brook, is styled, in the old records, Robert Babcock's river. The apparently oldest record on the Milton Town Re- cords was made by him as recorder.
He had a brother George Babcock.
Roger Billings joined the church in 1640, and was admitted freeman in 1643. With John Gill he bought a hundred acres of land from the top of Mil- ton Hill, northerly to the river, of the widow of Israel Stoughton, in 1656. He afterwards removed to Mr. Glover's farm, near Squantum, where he died in 1683. His first wife was Mary, and by her he had a daughter Mary, born 10 (5) 1643, and proba- bly a son Joseph, whom he mentions in his will. By his second wife Hannah, he had-Mary, baptiz-
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ed 23 (9) 1645, who married Samuel Belcher, 15 (10) 1663 ; Hannah, married John Penniman, 24 (12) 1664 ; Ebenezer and Samuel, baptized 26 (8) 1651; Roger, born 18 (9) 1657; Elizabeth, 27 (8) 1659, probably married Nathaniel Wales ; Zipora, born 21 (3) 1662, died October 8, 1676 ; Jonathan, died January 14, 1677. His wife Hannah died 25 (3) 1663.
Edward Bullock, husbandman, born in 1603, pro- bably in the county of Kent, embarked at Sand- wich in the Elizabeth, Capt. Stagg, April, 1635. He had a share in the Neck Lands in 1637. He returned to England in 1649, leaving a document with directions about his property in case he never returned (which he probably never intended to do), in which he says, " Having by the providence of God a calling and determination to go to England with all expedicon, and not knowing how the Lord of heaven and earth may dispose of me," &c. &c. He left directions and requests for Capt. Humphrey Atherton, Augustin Clemons (Clement), and George Weeks, his neighbors and friends, overseers of his property, which his wife was to have until his de- cease, then to go to his daughter-in-law Hannah Johnson. He lived at Fox Point. Had not re- turned from England in 1656.
Nicholas Clap was a son of Richard Clap, of Dor- chester, England, and was born in 1612. He was a cousin of Roger and Edward, and a brother of Thomas and John. It appears to have been through the influence of Capt. Roger that he came to this country. He held some of the most responsible offi-
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ces in town, and was a deacon of the church. His first wife was Sarah, a sister of Roger and Edward ; his second, Abigail, widow of Robert Sharp. He died suddenly in his barn, Nov. 24, 1679. His chil- dren were - Sarah, born Dec. 31, 1637; Nathaniel, born Sept. 15, 1640, and died May 16, 1707; Ebe- nezer, born in 1643, and died in Milton, July 31, 1712; Hannah, born in 1646, and married Ebene- zer Strong, of Northampton - they were the great- grand-parents of Gov. Caleb Strong; Noah, born July 15, 1667, died at Sudbury in 1753; and Sarah, born in 1670. Nearly all of the name now living in Dorchester, are descendants of Nicholas. After he had been dead one hundred and seventy years, his descendants erected a stone to his memory, with the following inscription.
The Puritans are dead ! One venerable head Pillows below. His grave is with us seen, Neath Summer's gorgeous green And Autumn's golden sheen, And Winter's snow.
In memory of DEACON NICHOLAS CLAP,
One of the early settlers of Dorchester. He came to New England about 1633, and died Nov. 24, 1679, aged 67 years. His descendants, to whom he left the best of all patri- mony, the example of a benevolent, industrious and Christian life, erect this stone to his memo- ry 170 years after his decease.
His Piety, His constancy in virtue and in truth, These on tradition's tongue shall live ; these shall From Sire to Son be handed down To latest time.
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Edward Clap was an elder brother of Capt. Ro- ger Clap. He was a man much esteemed by the town, and served in its most responsible offices. In the Church Records is the following account of his death. "The 8th day of the 11th mo., 1664, being the Sabbath day, Deacon Edward Clap departed this life and now resteth with the Lord, there to spend. an eternal Sabbath with God and Christ in Heaven, after that he had faithfully served in the office of a Deacon for the space of about five or six and twenty years, and being the first Church officer that was taken away by death since the first joining together in covenant, which is now 28 years 4 mo. and odd days." He owned one half the mill called Clap's mill, situated in the north part of the town, a few rods north-east of the house of the late Preserved Baker, near the bend of the creek; this mill was built by Mr. Bates. Edward Clap's first wife was Prudence ; she died previous to 1656. His second was Susanna, who lived a widow about twenty-four years ; she died June 16, 1688. One of his wives is supposed to have been the sister of Nicholas, Thomas and John. His children were as follows: - Elizabeth, born in 1634, married Elder James Blake, and died Jan. 16, 1694; Prudence, born Dec. 28, 1637, and married Simon Peck, of Hingham ; Ezra, born May 22, 1640, and died Jan. 23, 1717. He was a benevolent and enterprising man. He built a corn mill in Milton about 1712, and " was very beneficent to the neibors." He was great-great grandfather to Rev. Geo. Putnam, D. D., of Roxbury. Nehemiah, born about Sept. 1646, died April 2, 10*
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1684, and left one son, Edward, a little upwards of three years old, who appears to have grown up ra- ther a shiftless man; a part of his time he was in the army in the expeditions against the Indians, and died in Sudbury, Dec. 3, 1733 .- Susanna, born No- vember, 1648; Esther, born July, 1656-she marri- ed Samuel Strong, of Northampton ;- Abigail, born April 27, 1659, and died Jan. 3, 1660; Joshua, born May 12, 1661, and died May 22, 1662; Jonathan, born March 23, 1664, died May 30, 1664. There are few, if any, of Deacon Edward's descendants of the male line now living, but many of the female.
Thomas Clark came to Dorchester in 1630. His wife's name was Mary. His children were-Mehita- ble, born 18 (2) 1640, who married - Warren, of Boston ; Elizabeth, born 22 (3) 1642, married John Freak, and afterwards Elisha Hutchinson ; Sarah, born 21 (4) 1638; Jonathan, 1 (8) 1639. The biog- raphy of Mr. Clark would seem more properly to belong to Boston than to Dorchester annals ; but he commenced his career in the latter place, and retain- ed his property and interest here until his death in 1680, and manifested his good will by bequeathing to the town of Dorchester £20 for the poor.
The farm, which he retained after his removal to Boston, was situated on the south side of Jones's Hill. No person in the Colony sustained a higher reputation for integrity and independence than Mr. Clark. He first appears on the Church Records in Dorchester in 1638, and the same year was made freeman. He was Selectman in '41 and '42. Mr. Danforth alludes to Mr. Clark's absence in England,
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when his daughter Mehitable was presented for bap- tism in 1640, by his relative, Capt. Stoughton. Mr. Clark was a successful merchant. He removed his residence and business to Boston in 1644 or '45, in company with Gibson, Houchin, Duncan, Willis, Upsall, Farnham, and other Dorchester settlers, whose names may be seen as the founders of the Old North Society, in 1650. Clark's name is per- petuated in Boston by the name of a street near his house, and a wharf, at the north part of the city. He commanded the artillery company and the Suf- folk regiment in 1651, and the same year was chosen Deputy from Boston, and continued in that office eighteen years, five of which he was Speaker of the House. He was afterwards chosen Assistant for five years in succession. It should be mentioned to his honor, that in 1658, when the sanguinary law was passed condemning Quakers to death, he and one other requested that their dissent might be record- ed. When Charles II. sent over his Commissioners in 1665, and threatened to annul the Massachusetts Charter on account of their sympathy for the revo- lution, that instrument was taken from the public archives and placed in the hands of Major Clark and three others for safe keeping. He was sent, with Mr. Pynchon, to New York, in 1664, to repre- sent the Bay Colony at the transfer of Manhadoes from the Dutch to the English authorities. He left £1,500 for a hospital in case his two daughters should die childless, which did not occur.
After Mr. Clark's removal to Boston, his wife was called before the church at Dorchester for lying
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expressions against the General Court, and her re- proachful and slanderous tongue against the Go- vernor, &c. After going before the church two or three times, and not giving satisfaction, she was ex- communicated. When he removed to Boston, he sold to William Ware land in Dorchester, which was near the easterly end of Pond street. He pro- bably owned the house that stood near where Mr. Gardner's stable now stands, in Hancock street, and which is remembered by some of the present gene- - ration. The Church Records say, Rev. " Mr. Flint bought of Mr. Clark." It was afterwards Lieut. Wiswall's.
William Clark was in Dorchester as early as 1638, and the family tradition is, that he came in the Mary and John. By his wife, Sarah, he had born in Dorchester - Sarah, 21 (4) 1638; John, 1 (8) 1639; Nathaniel, 27 (11) 1641; Experience, 30 (1) 1643; William, 3 (5) 1656; Sarah, 19 (1) 1658. Mr. Clark probably removed to Northamp- ton soon after the birth of his daughter Sarah, in 1658, and was representative from that town in 1663. Nathaniel Clark, of Boston, was a son of his. He also had a son Samuel, born at Northamp- ton. Mr. Clark died July 19, 1690, aged 91 years.
Thomas Dickerman was in Dorchester as early as 1636. He probably came with Richard Mather; was a grantee of land in 1637 and in 1656; join- ed the church in 1637, and was admitted a free- man in March, 1638-9. By his wife, Ellen, he had a son Isaac, born in Dorchester, in 1637. After Mr. Dickerman's decease, 3 (11) 1657, his
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widow married John Bullard, of Medfield, and sold the place formerly her husband's on Roxbury brook, to Jacob Hewins. His son Isaac removed to Con- necticut. Abraham Dickerman, who married Mary, the daughter of John Cook, 2 (10) 1658, was a son of Thomas.
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Thomas Davenport joined the church in 1640; was admitted freeman May 18, 1642. His children were - Thomas, who died before his father; Sarah, born 28 (10) 1643, died May 10, 1679; Charles ; Mary, baptized 21 (11) 1648, married Samuel Max- field ; Mehitable, born 14 (12) 1656; Jonathan, born 6 (1) 1658-9, married Hannah Maners, 1680 ; Ebe- nezer, born 26 (2) 1661, died Nov. 18, 1695 ; John, baptized 20 (9) 1664, and succeeded to his father's homestead, which was on what is now called Green street. His wife, Mary, died Oct. 4th, 1691. He died November, 1685. It is supposed that Thomas, senior, built the old mansion now standing on the north side of Green street.
Richard Evans. Freeman May 10, 1642. His wife was Mary -. His children, born in Dor- chester, were- Mary, born 9 (11) 1640, married Nathaniel Bradley, 17 (5) 1666; Matthias, born 11 (12) 1643, married Patience Mead, 1669; Joan- na, married Joshua Hemmenway, Jan. 16, 1667, and removed to Roxbury. Matthias was a carpenter, and sold his house and land in Dorchester to James Barbour, and removed to Medfield. Richard, who died in Dorchester March 10, 1728, aged about 86 years, was probably a son of Richard ; and Hannah, who married Samuel Hix in 1665, was probably a daughter. [Inventory, 11 (12) 1661.]
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Hopestill Foster came from London in 1635, in the ship Elizabeth, Capt. Stagg, he then being about fourteen years of age, accompanied by his mother, Patience Foster, then about forty years of age .- [See Savage's Gleanings.] The son's name appears in the Town Records in 1636. The mother had a share in the Neck Lands in 1637. The son signed the covenant in 1638, joined the Artillery Company in 1642, and was ensign in the Dorchester train band, under Humphrey Atherton, 1644 ; was a Selectman in 1646, and for thirty years after, with occasional intervals ; was a Deputy to the Court in 1652, and afterwards a justice, or commissioner of trials. His wife's name was Mary. By his will, July 19, 1676, he gave £5 towards the free schools, to be added to " Brother Gibson's legacy."
Mr. Foster lived near what is now the south-west corner of Adams and Centre streets, near where James Foster lives .- His children were-Hopestill, who married Eliza- beth Parsons, of Roxbury, and died in Dorchester in 1717; John (the schoolmaster), who died Sept. 9, 1681, aged 33; James, born 1651, married Mary Capen, Sept. 22, 1674, and died Oct. 4, 1732, aged 82 years ; Elisha married Sarah Payson, April 10, 1678, and died Oct. 16, 1682, aged 29; Thankful married John Baker, of Boston, and died Jan. 27, 1697-8, aged 58 years ; Comfort, born 28 (7) 1658, and "dyed in the King's sarvice," Jan. 5, 1688-9; Standfast, born 13 (9) 1660, died Oct. 15, 1676; had daughters Poline and Mary. He died Oct. 15, 1676; and his wife died Jan. 4, 1702-3, aged 84 years.
Patience Foster, mother of Hopestill, was proba-
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bly a sister of John Bigg and also of the husband of Rachel Bigg.
Barnabas Ffower, Farr, or by Dr. Harris, Fower, sailed from Bristol in the James, with Mr. Mather ; his name occurs twice in Mr. Mather's Journal. He was a grantee of land in 1636, owned the covenant the same year, and was assessor in 1638; removed to Boston in 1644, and was one of the founders of the Old North Church in 1650. By his wife, Di- nah, he had a child, Eliezer, 18 (7) 1642, and his wife died when the child was nine days old. He then married Grace Negoose or Negus, 10 (1) 1643. The son married Mary, daughter of Daniel Preston, May 26, 1662. Mr. Ffower died in Boston .- [See Genealogical Register, 1851, p. 399.]
John Farnham and his wife Elizabeth had the following children, born at Dorchester-Jonathan, 6 (11) 1630 ; Hannah, 9 (9) 1642 ; Joanna, 3 (1) 1644. Was freeman May 13, 1640. He removed to Boston in 1644, and was one of the original found- ers of the Second Church, in 1650. He owned land in Dorchester next to that of Nicholas Upsall.
Joseph Farnsworth, or Farnworth, probably came to Dorchester with Mr. Mather in 1635, with his wife Elizabeth and a daughter of the same name ; was grantee of Neck Lands in 1637, church member in 1638, and freeman March 14, 1638-9. By his first wife he had born in Dorchester - Mary, 30 (1) 1637, who married Abraham Ripley, and afterwards a Mr. Jenkins, of Boston ; Hannah, 14 (10) 1638, who married Simon Peck, of Hingham; Rebecca, born 2 (11) 1639 ; Ruth, 3 (4) 1642, who married
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William Puffer; Samuel, baptized 1647. Mr. Farns- worth for his second wife married the widow Mary Long, who had two children, Joseph and Thomas, by her first husband. He left at his death a daugh- ter Elizabeth, the wife of John Mansfield; Rebecca, baptized 11 (5) 1639; Joseph, and Samuel a minor. Samuel was a housewright by trade, removed to Windsor, and there married Mary, a daughter of Thomas Stoughton, June 3, 1677. He died June 12, 1659-'60.
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