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'Thomas Davenish was living in Salem in 1643. He had baptized in Salem daughters Mary, July 13, 1641, and Bethiah, Nov. 30, 1543.
"JOHN LOVETT,1 born about 1610; servant of Daniel Rea; cooper ; lived at Mackerel Cove in 1641; wife Mary; died Nov. 5, 1686; children : I. John,2 born about 1637; 2. Joseph,2 baptized Sept. 8, 1650; lived in Bev- erly; married Elizabeth Solart of Wenham; had children; 3. Mary,2 bap- tized Sept. 8, 1650; 4. Simon,2 baptized Sept. 8, 1650; 5. Bethiah,2 baptized June 13, 1652; 6. Abigail, baptized March -, 1655; died May 27, 1659.
JOHN LOVETT2; husbandman; lived in Beverly; married Bethiah Rootes; died Sept. 10, 1727, aged ninety-one; children: I. Simon,3 born about 1659; lived in Beverly; married Agnes Swetland Oct. 10, 1682; died Feb. 2, 1744; had children; 2. John,3 born about 1665; lived in Beverly ; married Mary Pride March 5, 1694-5; died April -, 1750; had children; 3. Susanna,3 baptized May 31, 1668; 4. Josiah,8 baptized April 25, 1669; 5. Thomas,3 born Sept. 25, 1671; 6. Samuel,3 baptized April 25, 1675; 7. Benjamin,3 born in 1678; 8. Bethiah,3 baptized June 4, 1682.
"Edmond Patch, brother of Nicholas Patch, lived in the Wenham part of Salem, and removed to Ipswich about 1660; husbandman; died in Ipswich Nov. 10, 1680; child: 1. Abraham, baptized in Salem Aug. 5, 1649; married Eunice Fraile March 13, 1670; died in 1674; had children.
"John White was a slaughterer ; and had a wife Elizabeth in 1696.
8NICHOLAS PATCH1, brother of Edmond Patch, lived at Mackerel Cove. in the Beverly part of Salem, at the south side of Bald Hill, in a small
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forty acres of land near Mackerel Cove and John White sixty acres near Mr. Smith's farm.
A memorandum of the general court, made Sept. 6, 1638, reads "To remember to barke the second month for the tanning of diverse hides to come." This is the earliest reference to tan- ning here; and in observance of the note, as soon as the sap began to run in April and May certain kinds of trees were felled and stripped of their bark for this purpose. Oct. 7, 1640, the general court ordered that hides and skins of animals, whether secured by casualty or slaughter, should be preserved and dried, and tanned and dressed. Thomas Eaborne1 was a tanner in 1641, and may have been the first tanner in the town. He was living in Salem, and was called an aged man in 1642. He died in the spring of 1643. Philemon Dickinson2, a tanner, appeared in Salem Feb. II, 1638-9, and requested some land. He was granted twenty acres. July 25th following, the town granted to him four pole of land near Richard Hutchinson's house, for the purpose of making tan pits therein and "to dresse goates skines & hides." He was only to use this land for his trade. The site of this tannery was probably on Beaver brook, near Whipple's bridge, on Maple Street, in Danvers, as Richard Hutchinson's house stood in the middle of Maple Street about two hundred feet westerly of the bridge, and near the junction of Vineyard and Maple streets.
Aug. 8, 1639, the town granted to William Fisk one hundred acres of upland and ten acres of meadow ; and eleven days later to Ananias Concline one acre of land near his dwelling house ;
house on the westerly side of Standley Street; died in November, 1673; children : I. John2; 2. Thomas,2 born in 1638.
JOHN PATCH2; lived in Beverly; married Elizabeth Brackenbury ; died in 1694; she died, his widow, Jan. 15, 1715-6, aged eighty-four; children : I. John,3 baptized Dec. 1, 1667; 2. Richard,3 baptized Dec. 1, 1667; yeoman; lived in Beverly; married Maria Goldsmith Feb. 8, 1672-3; had children ; 3. Elizabeth,3 baptized Dec. 1, 1667; married Jonathan Boiles Nov. 15, 1674; 4. Nicholas,3 baptized July 12, 1668; 5. Sarah,3 baptized July 12, 1668; 6. Benjamin,3 baptized Sept. 4, 1670. SERG. THOMAS PATCH ; lived in Beverly and Wenham; married Mary Lovett; died Feb. 19, 1721-2; she died Sept. 26, 1723; children: I. Sarah,3 born Dec. 8, 1666; 2. William,8 baptized July 19, 1668; 3. Thomas,3 baptized July 19, 1668; 4. Mary,3 born Feb. 3, 1669-70; 5. Thomas,3 born July 19, 1674; 6. James,3 born March 31, 1678; . 7. Stephen,3 born .April 12, 1680.
1Salem Quarterly Court Records, volume I, page 34.
2 Philemon Dickinson came with Benjamin Cooper of Brampton, Suffolk- shire, England, as a servant, having embarked May 10, 1637, in the Mary Ann of Yarmouth; married Mary Payne; removed to Southold, L. I., about 1650; died in 1672, probably in New York; children: I. Mary, bap- tized March 20, 1642-3; 2. Thomas, baptized March 10, 1644-5; 3. Elizabeth, baptized - 12, 1646; 4. Peter, baptized July 9, 1648.
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to Edmond Giles eight poles of ground, lying in the common over against his ten-acre lot, "to build him a howse there,"; and to Mr. Peters the marsh lying over against his now dwelling house, "on the other side of the water," containing an acre and a half1.
In the general court, held at Boston, Sept. 3, 1639, John Kempe, for immoral practices with three young girls, was cen- sured to be severely whipped at Roxbury and Salem and com- mitted as a slave to Lieutenant Davenport. On the ninth, the court passed an order prohibiting the drinking of healths, as it was a useless ceremony and productive of drunkenness, quarrels and bloodshed. Wearing of lace and similar superfluities having become excessive, nourishing pride and exhausting estates, was prohibited, and no person could thereafter sell or buy the same, no tailor could put them in or on garments, nor any one could engage in making them, except for transportation. Neither could garments be made with short sleeves, unless they should be worn with linen or some equivalent. to cover the arms from the sleeves to the wrists. Neither could immoderately great sleeves be made, as also great breeches, knots of ribbon, broad shoulder bands, rails, silk laces, double ruffs, cuffs, etc. The court de- clared its wish to proceed against church members for breaches of these orders until the churches had a chance to correct the abuses among themselves.
At this sitting of the court, the system of publication of the banns or notices of intended marriages was originated by an order that they should be published three times at the time of some public lecture or town meeting, in each town where the parties live : and in the towns where no lectures are, the notice of such intention was ordered to be in writing and put upon a post, set up by such town, standing in public view and used for such purposes only, and remain there, so as to be easily read, for fourteen days. So the act of "posting" notices appar- ently arose from the fact that they must be put upon a post specially erected for the purpose. It was also ordered that the evidence and decisions of the courts should be in writing "to be kept to posterity." Also, records of wills, administrations and inventories, all houses and lands, and the days of marriage, birth and death of every person within the colony. These orders of the colony were all made for the benefit of posterity; and they be- came increasingly appreciable as the generations have passed. The fathers prepared for us the great mass of documents which have accumulated under such beneficent provisions. The thou-
"A large portion of this lot of marsh is now included in Dodge Street.
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sands of ancient wills, deeds and inventories are preserved with great care. The evidence used in the courts was written, and thousands of original depositions of inestimable value, which principally show the times and environment under which the early settlers lived, are on file in the office of the clerk of courts. The ultra democratic idea is manifest in the order that the birth, marriage and death of every person within the colony shall be recorded. Rich and poor, learned and ignorant, regardless of race or quality, were made equal under such laws.
On the same day, the court granted to Emmanuel Downing six hundred acres of land; and "The house at Salem which was belonging to the country is left to Salem for £100."
On the same day, in the general court, Marmaduke Peirce was accused of suspicion of murder ; but the proof not being clear, the matter was referred to the next court of assistants, Dec. 3, 1639, when the jury, being in doubt as to the cause of the death of the deceased, found the defendant not guilty, and he was released. Winthrop called him Marmaduke Perry of Salem, and said that he was arraigned for the death of his apprentice. He said that the "boy was ill disposed, and his master gave him unreasonable correction, and used him ill in his diet." The boy received a bruise on his head, which upon dissection after his death appeared to be a fracture of the skull. The boy had said that his master had given him the wound with his meat yard and a broom staff, and to another that his hurt came with the fall of a bough from a tree.
Sept. 16, 1639, the town received as an inhabitant John Mousar, who desired the grant of some land to plant, and also received as an inhabitant Mathew Nixon1, who was a fisherman and about twenty-three years of age.
At the general court, Nov. 5, 1639, it was ordered that all persons who were disarmed, remaining amongst us, carrying themselves peacefully, shall have their arms restored to them.2
At this time, there was a scarcity of fit places of entertain- ment of people upon occasion of great assemblies and on the arrival of ships with passengers, and the general court ordered, Nov. 5, 1639, that at such times any person may entertain and lodge and board such people. It was also ordered that each
1Matthew Nixon lived in what is now Webb Street, on the north side of Allen Street; and married Elizabeth, daughter of Henry Harwood's wife Eliz- abeth, in or before 1640. She died in or Elizabeth Michzon before 1671; and he was living in 1680.
2See volume I, page 447.
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town should have liberty to choose a fit man to sell wine, subject to license from the general court; and also those persons who conduct common ordinaries or inns should provide stables and hay for horses and enclosures for pasturing.1
At this court, all main highways were ordered to be re- located forthwith by men from adjoining towns, where they may be most convenient, notwithstanding any mans propriety, or any corn ground, so as it occasion not the pulling down of any man's house, or laying open any garden, or orchard; and in common grounds, or where the soil is wet or mirey, they should lay out the ways wider, as six, eight, or ten rods, or more, in common grounds.
At the same court, it was further ordered that each town should appoint or provide a house to which lost goods, whose owner is unknown, should be brought, and the person appointed to receive them was ordered to deliver a note of them to the marshall, who should cause them to be proclaimed in Boston, that the owner may claim them. In Salem, Ralph Fogg was appointed.
Nov. 18, 1639, the town received Richard Prince2 as an in- habitant ; a grant of five acres of land to plant was requested by Rob- ert Fuller; Mr. Fiske desired an addition of fifty acres to his farm; widow King accommodation of land; and Thomas Weeks, a grant of a ten- acre lot here or twenty acres at the village; John Shipley was granted "wood for firing and fencing in the highway that shalbe layd out adjoyning to his 20 acre lott"; and Mathew Nicks, fish- erman, was granted five acres of land "by the hogstyes in the
1See page 184 for the Ship Tavern pasture.
2DEA. RICHARD PRINCE1; born about 1614; tailor; lived at 13 Daniels Street; married Mary -; died July -, 1675; children: 1. John,2 bap- tized Feb. 20, 1641-2; died, unmarried, before 1675; 2. Joseph,2 baptized Sept. 10, 1643; died Nov. - , 1677; probably unmarried; 3. Mary,2 baptized April 26, 1648; married Stephen Daniell; 4. Samuel,2 baptized May 18, 1651; 5. Richard,2 baptized March 18, 1655; 6. Jonathan,2 baptized March 15, 1657.
SAMUEL PRINCE2; tailor ; married Susanna -; both died in August, 1703; children: 1. Susanna,8 baptized June 14, 1685; 2. Mary,3 baptized Oct. 31, 1686; removed to Boston; 3. Robert,8 baptized April -, 1692; 4. William,3 baptized April -, 1692; 5. Samuel,8 baptized June -, 1694; 6. John,3 baptized Feb. 19, 1698. RICHARD PRINCE2; shoemaker ; married Sarah Rix Dec. 25, 1677; died Sept. - , 1702; children: 1. Richard,3 born Jan. 21, 1678-9; 2. Joseph,3 born Dec. 28, 1689; cooper; sailed from Boston to Surinam and died there early in 1703; 3. John,3 born Nov. 15, 1682; living in May, 1703. JONATHAN PRINCE2; married Mary -; died about Nov. - , 1685; child: 1. Jonathan,3 born in 1685; blacksmith; lived in Ipswich; married Hannah Rogers of Ipswich; had children.
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forrest next to Ezekiell Knights ten acre Lott." At this meet- ing, was the first appearance of Robert Fuller.1
Nov. 20, 1639, the town granted to Richard Bishop about an acre and a half of land by his other five acres, adjoining Austin Killam's lot; widow Moore requested the grant of a farm and Richard Moore half-an-acre on the Neck; James Standish was granted forty acres of land near Jeffry Creeke; John Pickworth was granted three or four acres of meadow to the land formerly granted to him; Charles Glover2 was granted an acre of ground for a house lot near Mr. Ruck's, provided the ways are left broad and also provided that he resign up his houselot to the town; Thomas Buxton and William Broock were admitted as inhabi- tants; John Batcheler was granted twenty acres of ground near that which was formerly granted to Mr. Bishop ("Truslar") ; and Joshua Holgrave was granted forty acres.
Thursday, Nov. 28, 1639, was observed as Thanksgiving Day, "through the churches," according to the appointment of the general court.
Dec. 3, 1639, the general court fined the town of Salem for not keeping constant watch during the preceding summer, ten shillings.
Dec. 9, 1639, the town granted to Henry Bartholmew one hundred acres of land, of which ten acres should be meadow ; to James Molton eighty acres, of which eight acres were to be meadow ; and to Lawrence Leach ten acres of meadow. William Geare3 requested to become an inhabitant and be granted accom-
DEA. RICHARD PRINCE3; mariner and cordwainer; married Mary West Nov. 12, 1702; she died about 1750; he died about 1753; children : I. Sarah, baptized Jan. 2, 1703-4; married John Mascoll; 2. Joseph,4 baptized Sept. 2, I705; married (?) Hannah Silsbee (published June 29, 1729) ; 3. Richard,4 baptized April II, 1708; joiner; married widow Sarah Glover Feb. 3, 1750-I; 4. John,4 baptized Feb. 24, 17II-2; blacksmith; lived in Marble- head (?) ; married Hannah Frost Jan. 23, 1734-5; 5. Elizabeth,4 baptized Dec. 2, 1716; unmarried in 1753.
1Robert Fuller, bricklayer, removed to Rehoboth about 1650, and re- turned about 1678; married, first, Sarah -, who was buried at Rehoboth Oct. 14, 1676; married, second, Margaret, widow of Christopher Waller about 1678; she died in January, 1700; he died May 10, 1706. Mr. Fuller had sons Jonathan and Benjamin.
2Charles Glover arrived at Boston Sept. 16, 1632; having come on the Lion; shipwright; removed to Gloucester about 1646; married, first, Elizabeth -; she died March 6, 1647-8; married, second, widow Esther Saunders Feb. 12, 1649-50; children: I. Elizabeth, baptized May 13, 1640; 2. Mary, baptized April 24, 1642.
3William Geare lived in the Wenham part of Salem; married Tryphena died Oct. 17, 1672; she lived in Wenham, his widow, in 1676; children : I. Ephraim; died Oct. 15, 1658 (?); 2. Samuel, baptized March 14, 1641; 3. Mary, baptized May 14, 1643; 4. John, baptized June 23, 1644; and probably Deborah and Tryphena.
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modation of land : and Joseph Boys1 made requests for similar accommodations.
Two days later, at a general town meeting, there was a voluntary town contribution toward the maintenance of the ministry, to be paid quarterly, of which the deacons had charge. The town also granted to John Mowser four acres of land near the old cowhouses at the head of South River.
Dec. 23. 1639, Robert Gutche was received by the town as an inhabitant, although he was granted land here Jan. 1, 1637-8.
1JOSEPH BOYCE,1 born about 1609, lived in that part of Salem which is now Peabody; tanner; Quaker; married Ellenor - -; died in the winter of 1694-5; children: I. Mary2; married Josiah Southwick; 2. Esther,2 baptized Feb. 21, 1640-I; married Daniel Southwick; 3. Elizabeth,2 bap- tized March 6, 1641-2; married - Hanson; 4. Joseph,2 baptized March 31, 1644-5; 5. Benjamin,2 baptized May 16, 1647; probably died before 1684.
JOSEPH BOYCE"; tanner ; lived on his father's homestead; married Sarah Meachum Feb. 4, 1667-8; died between 1709 and 1722; she survived him; children : 1. Sarah,3 born Dec. 4, 1668; 2. Joseph,3 born about 1672; 3. Benjamin3; 4. Jonathan3; 5. David3; 6. Esther3; married Ezekiel Gold- thwaite.
JOSEPH BOYCE3; tanner and miller; lived on his father's homestead; married Rebecca (Trask), widow of Samuel Potter about 1695; died in 1723; she married, third, Benjamin Very; children: 1. Mary,4 born Feb. 15, 1695-6; 2. Rebecca,4 born March 31, 1697; probably died young; 3. Joseph,4 born Dec. 29, 1699; tanner, sadler, mariner and innholder ; removed to Bakeman's Precinct, Dutchess County, N. Y., about 1754; married Content Lindsey ; 4. Abigail4; married John Richards; 5. John4; 6. Samuel,4 born about 17TI; lived in Danvers; laborer; married Eunice Goodale Oct. 15, 1740; 7. Nicholas,4 born about 1714; living in 1730. BENJAMIN BOYCE3; fuller and cordwainer; removed to Mendon in 1725; married, first, Mary Allen of Lynn Oct. 20, 1699; she died; married, second, Susanna - be- fore 1709; she was his wife in 1725; children: 1. Mary,4 born April 10, 1701; married Nathan Gaskill; 2. Isaac,4 born Oct. 15, 1704; 3. Sarah," born Jan. 10, 1705-6. JONATHAN BOYCE3; yeoman and stone cutter; lived in the Danvers part of Salem; married, first, Patience Gaskill May 28, 1708; second, Abigail - before 1723; she was his wife in 1758; he died in 1767; children: 1. Ebenezer *; yeoman and millstone maker; lived in Danvers; married Rebecca -; died in 1784; had children; 2. Jonathan4; husbandman; lived in Danvers; died in 1803; had children; 3. Patience *; married Samuel Osborne; 4. Lydia4; married Dwoifiell. DAVID BOYCE"; husbandman; lived in Lynn until 1735, when he removed to the Danvers part of Salem; married, first, Anna Alley (published March 29, 1712) ; second, Sarah (Lindsey), widow of - Smith (published Jan. 29, 1728-9) ; she was his wife in 1756; he lived in Danvers in 1761; child : 1. David'; husbandman; lived in Lynn and removed to Salem in 1745; married Catherine (Daland), widow of Robert Neal Sept. 20, 1744; she was his wife in 1770.
JOHN BOYCE4; tanner and mariner; married Elizabeth Osborne Jan. 18, 1727-8; children: 1. John5; cordwainer; lived in Lynn in 1754; probably married Mary Howard in Lynn Dec. 12, 1750; 2. William5; potter; lived in Dighton in 1754; 3. Elizabeth"; spinster; lived in Smithfield, R. I., unmarried, in 1754.
"Robert Gutch came from Wincanton, England, about 1637. His sister came with him aboard Mr. Stratton's ship. Hugh Jones came
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He lived on the easterly side of Central Street, near. Essex Street. The town also granted to Richard Ingersoll twenty acres in the great meadow ; to John Fairfield1 eighty acres of land for a farm, of which ten acres were meadow; to Richard Prince thirty acres of land, of which four acres were to be meadow; to Richard Leech four acres of land, lying next to John Leech's ten-acre lot; to Robert Adams three and a quarter àcres near to John Cooke; to William Barbar2 two acres to plant in, probably in Marblehead; to Abraham Whiteare two acres of land to plant in and a quarter of an acre for a houselot, probably in Marblehead; to John Fisk, as an addition to his former grant, thirty acres of ground, of which four acres were to be meadow; to Joseph Batchelor and Thomas Browning twenty acres of land near his former grant and two acres of meadow ; to John Endecott the swamp that runneth on the line of his farm, next to Goodman Chickerings and of the other side to the land that is laid out in small lots, sometime Mr. Batter's; to William Geere twenty acres of land; to Allyn Con- vers3 forty acres of land, four of which were meadow; to John Woodbury, John Balch and Mr. Conant five acres of meadow each ; to Lawrence Leech fifteen acres more of meadow ; and to William Stephens thirty acres of land on the forest side, if he stay at Marblehead, and fifty acres in Salem if he should remove thither. Mr. Stephens did not afterward live in the town of Salem, but, in 1642, removed to Gloucester, where he remained during the remainder of his life. He was a famous ship builder on both sides of the Atlantic, being widely known for his honesty, skill and faithfulness.
as his servant, removed to the East, beyond Casco, about 1657; married Lydia Holgrave (?) ; children : I. John, baptized Oct. 3, 1641 ; 2. Patience, baptized May 28, 1643; 3. Lydia, baptized April 6, 1645; 4. Magdalen, bap- tized Jan. 7, 1646-7; 5. Elizabeth, baptized Nov. 19, 1648; 6. Deborah, baptized May 16, 1652; 7. Sara, baptized June 4, 1654.
1John Fairfield was of Charlestown in 1638; married Elizabeth
died in 1647; she married, second, Peter Palfrey; had "nephew" Mathew ; Edwards; children: I. Walter, born in 1633; lived in Wenham; wife Sarah; she died Dec. 18, 1710; he died July 20, 1723, aged ninety-one ; had children; 2. John, baptized June 28, 1641; lived in Ipswich; married Sarah Geare March 26, 1666; died in 1672; she married, secondly, Daniel Killam April 13, 1673; had children; 3. Benjamin, born about 1646; died Sept. 14, 1668.
2William Barber lived in Marblehead and had a wife in 1652.
3 Allen Convers married Elizabeth ; removed to Woburn in 1643; died April 19, 1679; she died three days later; children: I. Zachary, born Oct. II, 1642; 2. Elizabeth, born March 7, 1645; 3. Sarah, born July II, 1647; 4. Joseph, born May 31, 1649; 5. Mary, born Sept. 26, 1651; 6. Theophilus, born Sept. 21, 1652; 7. Samuel, born Sept. 22, 1653; 8. Mary, born Nov. 26, 1655; 9. Hannah, born March 13, 1660.
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Charles Turner1 and John Marston2 were in Salem as early as 1639.
for Marston
At the quarterly court in Salem, Dec. 31, 1639, Abram Whiteire and John Legg (both of Marblehead) were bound for the good behavior of their wives; and Robert Scott was bound to good behavior. There were two civil cases against Micha Iver for slander, one for calling George Dill "drunken slave, and that he would mark him for an old rogue," and for saying that Thomas Tuck was drunk. Thomas Sams was sentenced to sit in the stocks one hour for speaking to the maid servant of Emmanuel Downing "without her master's or mistress' consent," for coming unseasonably on Lord's day
1Feb. 1, 1641-2, in the local court, for scurrilous speeches and tippling, Charles Turner was fined, ordered to be whipped and to stand in the meeting house with a paper on his head written "a false accuser." The town granted to him, March 27, 1643, a small piece of ground "over against Tuck's," for him to set a house on. He died before December 27th following, leaving his widow Rachel.
"JOHN MARSTON1 came from Ormsby, Norfolkshire, England, says Savage, and was born in 1615; carpenter; wife Alice, 1641-1673; he died Dec. 19, 1681; children: I. John,2 born Aug. 29, 1641; 2. Ephraim,2 born Oct. 30, 1643; living in 1677: 3. Manassch,2 baptized Sept. 7, 1645; 4. Sarah,2 baptized March 19, 1648-9; married Samuel Pickworth Nov. 3, 1667; 5. Benjamin,2 baptized March 9, 1651-2; 6. Hannah,2 baptized April 17, 1653; probably died young; 7. Thomas,2 baptized Feb. 11, 1654-5; died young; 8. Elizabeth,2 baptized Aug. 30, 1657; died young; 9. Abigail,2 born Feb. 19, 1658-9; living in 1682; 10. Mary," born March 23, 1661; died young.
DEA. JOHN MARSTON2; house carpenter ; married, first, Mary Chichester Sept. 5, 1664; she died May 25, 1686; he married, second, Mary Turner Sept. 15, 1686; they were both living in 1725; children: I. John,8 born July 26, 1666; died Aug. - , 1666; 2. John,3 born Sept. 2, 1667; 3. Mary,2 born Jan. 14, 1669-70; married Stephen Daniel Jan. 1, 1692-3; 4. James,3 born Nov. 28, 1672; 5. Sarah,3 born Oct. 8, 1675; 6. Manasseh,3 born Dec. 25, 1677; married Mary Henfield April 10, 1701; she was his wife in 1722, after he "was conveyed to Pennsylvania"; 7. Ruth,3 baptized March 14, 1697; probably married Benjamin Phippen Nov. 1, 1715. CAPT. MANASSEH MARSTON2; anchor smith and master mariner; married Mercy Pearse Aug. 23, 1667; died in the winter of 1703-4; she survived him; children: I. Mercy,3 born June 23, 1669; died Sept. 11, 1669; 2. Benjamin,3 born July 30, 1670; of Barnstable, Mass., clothier, in 1729; 3. Samuel,3 born Dec. 20, 1674; died Feb. - , 1674-5; 4. Samuel,3 born March 17, 1675; died July 21, 1676; 5. Marsy,3 born Aug. 7, 1677; 6. Mehitable,3 born May 14, 1682; 7. Lydia.3 born Jan. 7, 1684; married Christopher Babbage Dec. 6, 1705; 8. Susanna,3 born April 29, 1687. BENJAMIN MARSTON3; merchant; mar- ried, first. Abigail Veren Nov. 25, 167 -; she was his wife in 1692; married, second, Patience -; he died in Ireland in the spring of 1720; she died, his widow, May 22, 1731; children: 1. Benjamin,3 baptized May 27, 1677; died young ; 2. Abigail,3 born Aug. 28, 1679; married George Cabot of Boston; 3. Joseph,3 baptized Aug. - , 1681; 4. Benjamin,3 born Feb. 24, 1696-7; 5. John3 born Sept. 15, 1699; 6. Elizabeth,3 born June 9, 1701; unmarried in 1728.
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