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The 9th of ye first Moneth [1634]: --
Robert Houlton, a Slater Robert Parker, servant to our brother Willm. Aspinall
The 16th. of ye same Moneth : --
Stephen Winthrop, of ye sonnes of our brother John Winthrop, Governor
The 23th of ye same Moneth: - Willm. Dennyn, servant to our brother Willm. Brenton
The 30th. of ye same Moneth :
225 Elizabeth Newgate, daughter-in-law to our sister Anne Newgate Thomas Mekins, ye younger, servant to our brother Edmund Quinsey
The 13th. of ye second Moneth [1634]: -
Richard Bulgar, Bricklayer Anne Nidds, maid-servant to our brother Willm. Brenton Mathewe Innes, servant to our brother Willm. Coulborne 230 John Coggeshall, Mercer, and Marie his wife and
Anne Shelley, his maid-servant, were this day received members upon letters of dismission from our sister Church of Rocksburie, and upon their owne open confessions and p'fession of faith in ye Lord Jesus Christ
569
BOSTON FAMILIES PRIOR TO A.D. 1700.
The 22th. of ye fourth Moneth [1634]: -
Christovell Gallopp, ye wife of our brother John Gallopp Edmund Browne and
235 Jerrard Bourne, servants to our brother Willm. Coulborne Alexander Becke, a Laborer
The 13th. of ye fift. Moneth [1634]: -
John Handsett, servant to our Pastor John Wilson
The 20th. of ye same Moneth : -
James Everill and Elizabeth his wife
240 Ollyver Mellowes and Elizabeth his wife Martha Blackett, maid-servant to our Teacher John Cotton
The 27th. of ye same Moneth : - Nicholas Willys, a Mercer Jonathan Negoose and 245 Grace Negoose his sister Richard Trewsdale and Margarett Burnes, servants to our Teacher John Cotton Anne Cogan, ye wife of John Cogan
The 3d. of the sixt Moneth [1634]: - Richard Bellingham and
250 Elizabeth his wife · John Newgate, Hatter
Anne Willys, ye wife of our brother Nicholis Willys and Willm. Townsend, his servant Joan Drake, widdowe
265 John Gayle, servant to our brother John Button, d. Marie Bonner, maidservant t our Teacher John Cotton Elizabeth Chalmers, maidservant to our brother Willm. Baulston Edward Hitchen, a single man
The Ioth of ye same Moneth : - Robert Reynoldes, Shoomaker 260 Edward Hutchinson, ye- younger, a single man Dorcas French, maid-servant to our brother John Winthrop, ye Elder VOL. I. - 72.
The 28th. of ye sixt Moneth [1634]: -
Philemon Pormont and Susann his wife Richard Scott, a Shoomaker
Richard Cooke, a Taylor Christofer Marshall, a single man Anne Ormesbie, widdow Marie Hudd, maid-servant to our brother John Winthrop, ye Eldr.
The last of ye same Moneth : - Edmund Jacklyn, Glasyer 270 Thomas Marshall, a widdower
The 7th of ye seaventh Moneth [1634] : -
Willm. Pell. Tallowchandlo James Davisse, a Marryno Judeth Garnett, our brother John Cogges- hall's maid-servant
The 21th of ye same Moneth : - Thomasyn Scottoe, widdow
The 2ª of eight Monethi [1634]: -
Richard Magson, servant to our brother James Everill
Nathaniell Chappell, servant to our brother Atherton Haulgh
Rebekah Dixon, our brother Richard Bellingham's maidservant Judye Smyth, our brother Edward Hutch- inson's maid-servant
The 5th of ye eight Moneth [1634]: - Zacharie Simmes and
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Sarah his wife
The 26th of ye same Moneth : -- Willm. Hutchinson Beniamin Gillam, Shipcarpenter
The 2d of ye gth Moneth [1634] :-
Anne Hutchinson, ye wife of our brother Willm. Hutchinson Allen Willey, a husbandman 285 Anne Dorryfall, our brother Willm. Cod- ington's maidservant Nathaniell Heaton, Mercer, and Elizabeth his wife
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THE MEMORIAL HISTORY OF BOSTON.
The gth of ye same nyneth Moneth [1634]: - ; The 6t. of ye seaventh Moneth [1635]: -
Thomas Wardall, Shoomaker Richard Hutchinson and
Mw Francis Hutchinson. ye sonnes of our brother Willm. Hutchinson Faith Hutchinson, one of his daughters Anne Freiston, one of his kinswomen Henry Elkin, a Taylor
Alice Willey, wife of our brother Allen Willey
295 Marie Gibson, our brother Ollyver Mel- lowe's maid-servant
The 28th. of ye Tenth Moneth [1634] :-
Frances Freiston, one of our brother Willm. Hutchinson's kinswomen
Bridgett Hutchinson, one of his daugh- ters Elizabeth Woolstone, our brother Nicho- lis Willis maid-servant
The 11th of ye eleaventh Moneth [1634]: -
Theodorus Atkinson, servant to our brother John Newgate
The 15th of ye first Moneth [1635]: -
300 Hanna Penn, our brother James Everill's maid-servant
The 22th of ye same Moneth. -
Edward Buckley, a single man Hugh Gunnyson, servant to our brother Richard Bellingham Dorothie Brenton, ye wife of our brother William Brenton
The 5th of ye second Moneth [1635]: - Willm. Beamsley, Labourer
The 2ª. of ye sixt Moneth [1635] :-
305 Elizabeth Boanes, one of our brother Richard Bellingham's maid-servants
The 9th of ye same Moneth: - Willm. Leveridge, of Puscattna
The 16 of ye same Moneth : - Grace Holbech, one of our brother John Samford's family Susan Pease, our brother Henry Pease daughter
Willm. Wilson, Joyner, and 310 Patience his wife
The 20th. of ye same Moneth: -
Willm. Salter, a Shoomaker
The 25th of ye eight Moneth [1635]: - Richard Mather and Katherine his wife Danyell Mawd
The Ist. of ye nyneth Moneth [1635]: - 316 Henry Vane
The St of ye same Moneth : -
Alexander Winchester, servant to our brother Henry Vane Willm. Coursar, a Coblar Rachell Saunders, y= wife of one Martin Saunders
Dennys Taylor, widdowe, one [of] our Pastor John Wilson's family Alice Brockett, ye wife of our brother Richard Brockett
320
The 15th of ye same Moneth :-
Henry Flint, a sojournor of our Elder Thomas Ollyver's Edmund Jackson, Shoomaker
The 6t. of ye Ioth. Moneth [1635]: -
Jane Scarlett, widdowe, ye mother of our brother Edward Bendall Marie Martin, our brother John Cogges- hall's maid-servant
The 13th. of y" toth. Moneth [1635] :-
325 Willm. Dyer, Myllinar, and Marie his wife
The 27th. of ye same Moneth: - James Fitch, Taylor, and Abigall his wife Richard Tuttell, husbandman, and
330 Anne his wife
The 3ª. of ye eleaventh Moneth [1635] :- John Mylam, Cooper, and Christian his wife
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BOSTON FAMILIES PRIOR TO A.D. 1700.
Members more admitted upon ye same 31 of The 12th of ye 4the Month [636] :-
ye same eleaventh Moneth [1635]: - Thomas Savidge, Taylor John Davisse, Joyner
335 Anne Gillam, ye wife of our brother Ben- iamyn Gillam Judeth Lyvars, our brother Robert Hard- ing's maid-servant
The 10th of ye same Moneth :- Willm. Dyneley, Barber Anne Houlton, ye wife of our brother Robert Houlton
The 24th. of ye same Moneth : - George Baytes, Thacker
The 28th of ye 12th or last Month [1635] :-
340 Rachaell Newcombe, ye wife of one Francis Newcombe Margarett Vernam, widdow, one of our brother Thomas Leveritt's family
The 20th of ye first Moneth [1636] :- Robert Kaine, Merchant, and Anne his wife Elizabeth Wilson, ye wife of our Pastor John Wilson
The 10th of ye 2d Moneth [1636]: - 345 James Johnson, a Glover
The 17th. of ye same Moneth : -
Raph Hudson, Woollen-draper Isaac Grosse, Husbandman
The 24th. of ye same Moneth : -
Pænelope Darloe, one of our brother Robert Keaines maidservants
The 22th. of ye 3d Moneth [1636]: - George Hunne, a Tanner 850 Thomas Hasard, Ship-carpenter
The 29th of ye same Moneth :- Robert Hull, blacksmith Edward Dennys, servant to our brother Willyam Hutchinson
John Wheelwright and Marie his wife 353 Susanne Ilutchinson, widdowe Valentyne Hill, Mercer
The 19th. of ye same 4th. Moneth : - Margarett Sheele, one of our Brother Wil- lyam Coddington's maidservants
The 17th. of ye 5th. Moneth [1636]: -
Thomas Matson, formerly received by Communion of Churches, but now as a member upon ye confession of his fayth and repentance and pfessed subiection to ye Lord Jesus Christ according to ye Covenant of the Gospell
The 24th. of ye same 5th. Moneth :- Robert Parker
The 7th. of ye 6t. Moneth [1636]: - 360 Mathew Chafey, Ship-carpenter
The 14 of ye same 6. Moneth : - Elizabeth, ye wife of one Willm. Tuttell
The 4th. of ye 7th. Moneth [1636]: -
Mabell Andrews, a single woman Alice Pyce, our sistar Judeth Quinsey's maidservant
The Irth. of ye 7th. Moneth [1636] :- Thomas Wheelar, a Taylor
The 6' of ye gth. Moneth [1636] :- 365 Anne Burdon, ye wife of George Burdon, Shoomaker
The Ttth. of ye Ioth. Moneth [1636]: -
Francis East, a Carpenter
The 8t. of ye 11th. Moneth [1636] :-
George Burdon, a Shoomaker Jane. ye wife of one John Parker. a Car- penter
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THE MEMORIAL HISTORY OF BOSTON.
The 30th. of ye roth. Moneth [1638] [Ad- mis. ]: - Henry Sandys, a Merchant, and 370 Sibill his wife Margery Shove, widdow
The 6t. of ye 11th. Moneth [1638]: -
Willyam Stickney, a husbandman, and Elizabeth his wife Margarett Crosse, a widdowe
875 Michaell Hopkinson, servant to our brother Jacob Elyott, and Richard Swanne, a husbandman
The 27th. day of ye same Inth. Moneth: - Thomas Allen, a Studyent
The 3ª of ye 12th. Moneth [1638]: -
Mary, ye wife of Raph Roote Martha Bushnall, widdow
The 6' of ye same 12th. Moneth :
380 Griffyn Bowen and his wife Margarett Henry Webbe, a mercer John Smyth, a Taylor, and Katherine, ye wife of Mr. Marmaduke Mathewes
The Ioth. of ye same 12th. Moneth : -
885 Temperance, ye wife of one John Sweete, a Ship-carpenter Katherine, ye wife of our brother Edward Hutchinson, y" younger Elizabeth, ye wife of our brother Robert Scott Dosabell, ye wife of our brother Henry Webbe, and Jane, ye wife of one John Lugge
The 24 of ye same 12th. Moneth: - 890 James Mattocke, a Cooper
The 3d of ye Ist. Moneth [1639]: - Richard Hollidge, a Labourer Willyam Ting, Marchant, and Anne, ye wife of our brother George Hunne
The Ioth Day of ye Ist. Moneth [1639] :- Anne, ye wife of our Brother Richard Hollidge
895 Elizabeth, ye wife of our brother Willyam Tinge, and Mrs Deliverance Sheffeilde
The 24th. Day of ye same Ist. Mo. [1639]: -
Mrs. Elizabeth Allen Mrs. Penelope Pelham Elizabeth Storye
The 31st. of ye same Ist. Moneth : 400 Phœbe Burley and Marie Chappell, maid-servants to our Teacher M' John Cotton
The 7th. of ye 24 Moneth [1639] : - Jane Nicholls, one of our Teacher's maid- servants
The 14th Day of ye same 24 Moneth:
John Spoure, a Husbandman, and Elizabeth his wife
405 Sarah Tarne, ye wife of one Myles Tarne, a Letherdresser, and Priscilla Dause, maid-servant to our Elder M' Thomas Oliver
The 5th. Day of ye 3d Moneth [1639] : Elizabeth Hill, widdowe
The 12th of ye same 3d Moneth : -
Sarah Knight, widdowe Joan, y^ wife of our brother Willyam Coursar, and 410 Elizabeth, ye wife of one Jacob Legar
The 19th. of ye same 3d. Moneth : -
Thomas Scottowe and Josua Scottowe, ye sonnes of our sister Thomasine Scottowe
The 26th. Day of ye same 3d Moneth : -
Nathaniell Willyams, a Laborer Jane Leveritt, one of ye daughters of our brother Thomas Leveritt
The 9th. Day of ye 4th. Moneth [1639]: -
415 Beniamin Keayne, Marchant, and Sarah his wife
573
BOSTON FAMILIES PRIOR TO A.D. 1700.
The 16th. of ye 4th. Moneth [1639]: -
Johanna King, maidservant to the Gov- ernor, Mr John Winthrop Arthur Purye. a Taylor Phœbe Wason, widdowe
The 23th of ye same 4th Moneth :
420 Elizabeth Hull, wife of our brother Robert Hull Susanna Stanley, y: wife of one Christofer Stanley, Taylor Peter Olyvar, one of ye sonnes of Thomas Olyvar
The 7th of ye 5th Moneth [1639]: - John Hurd, a Taylor, and Marye his wife
The 14th. of ye same 5th. Moneth : - 425 John Leveritt, ye Sonne of Thomas Leveritt
The 21th. of ye same 5th. Moneth : - MY Edward Norrys, a Minister
The 4th day of ye 6. Moneth [1639] :-
George Curtys, servant to our Teacher Mr. John Cotton
The 11th. day of ye same 6. Mon : - John Kenricke, a Laborer
The 18th day of ye same 6t. Mon : - Richard Hogge, a Taylor, and 430 Joan his wife
Mrs Elynor Norrys, ye wife of our brother M' Edward Norrys Elizabeth, ys wife of our brother John Hansett
The 25th. of ye same 6. Mon : - M' John Knowles, a Studyent
The 15 day of y same 7th Mon : - Elizabeth Gryme, an auncient maid 435 Henry Shrimpton, a Brasyer
The 22th day of ye same 7th Mon: - Hannah Leveritt, ye wife of our brother John Leveritt Sarah Dennys, ye wife of our brother Edward Dennys Thomas Buttall, a Glover
The 28th day of ye same 7th : -
440
Anne, ye wife of ye sd. Thomas Buttall Anthony Stoddard, a Lynning Draper Willyam Hibbon, a gentleman, and Anne his wife
The 29th. of ye same 7th. Mon: - Francis Lysle, a Barber
The 15th. of ye roth. Moneth [1639] :- Katherine Pollard, a mayd
The 19th of ye 11th. Moneth [1639]: - 445 Mrs Marye Hudson, widdowe, Admitted a Member 1
We annex the following list of the Founders of the Old South Church in 1669: -
William Davis
Benjamin Gibbs
Hezekiah Usher
Thomas Savage
John Ruck
William Salter John Morse Josiah Belcher Seth Perry
John Hull Edward Rainsford
Theodore Atkinson John Wing
James Pemberton
Peter Brackett
Richard Truesdale
William Dawes
Jacob Eliot Peter Oliver
Theophiles Frary
Joseph Davis
Thomas Brattle
Robert Walker
Edward Rawson
John Alden
Joshua Scottow
Benjamin Thurston
Thomas Thatcher Joseph Belknap
1 The admissions after 1640 are not so A copy of these records will now be found at the office of the City Registrar, City Hall,
frequent as before. The First Church records also mention quite a number of dismissions. Boston.
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THE MEMORIAL HISTORY OF BOSTON.
Many or most of them already belonged to the First Church, but none except substantial men would be named in such an enterprise. Most of them resided at what was then the South End. Our Essex and Boylston streets were the limit of the town, except such few houses as were on the high-road to Roxbury, i.c. Washington Street.
Having thus laid before our readers the main facts upon which an opinion is to be based, we will essay to point out certain persons or families as among the most noteworthy. The object has been to give an outline of the families, without specifie dates. For most of the births, deaths, and marriages, the reader is referred to Savage's Gencalogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, the scope of which includes all of this period. It must also be remembered that Boston was by no means the chief scat of our gentry. In all the counties besides Suffolk there were gentlemen of birth, education, and fortune. Even in our neighborhood, Roxbury, Charlestown, Cambridge, Medford, Dedham, and other towns were the homes of councillors, assistants, and judges. Boston had a share of the dignitaries, but not a very large one; and our list, based on this calculation, is not very large. Undoubtedly, in the next century, the tendency was more towards centralization, but the capital never had a monopoly.
1. Governor John Winthrop confessedly stands at the head of the settle- ment at Boston, - by birth, fortune, and services, the leader of the colony.1 His son John settled first at Ipswich, but in 1635 removed to Connecticut ; his sons Fitz-John and Wait-Still were often connected with our affairs. Of his daughters, Elizabeth married Antipas Newman, and secondly Zerub- babel Endecott; Martha married Richard Wharton; and Anne married John Richards.
Adamı Winthrop, son of the elder Governor John, married first Elizabeth Glover, of Cambridge, and secondly Elizabeth, daughter of Captain Thomas Hawkins. His only son, Adam, was a representative from Boston, and left a son, Adam, here (chief-justice of the Court of Common Pleas) and a daughter, Mary, who married Captain John Ballentine.
Deane Winthrop, the sixth son of Governor John, lived at Rumney Marsh, then part of Boston, since called Chelsea and Winthrop.2 His only son, Jose, died s. p., aged 36 years. His four sons-in-law were Jotham Grover, Captain Samuel Kent, Eliab Adams, and Atherton Hough.
Mary Winthrop, only daughter of Governor John, married Rev. Samuel Dudley of Exeter, son of Governor Thomas Dudley. This branch of the family seems never to have resided in Boston.
The Winthrops thus kept up a fitful connection with Boston for the first century. The descendants of Adam remained in Cambridge, and the Connecticut branch flourished at New London. About 1785 Thomas-
1 [The Governor lived on Washington Street, just east of the Old South. See the chapters in the present volume by Mr. Winthrop and by Mr. Scudder. - ED.]
2 [See Judge Chamberlain's chapter in the present volume for a view of the house which is said to have been his, and which is still standing. - ED.]
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BOSTON FAMILIES PRIOR TO A.D. 1700.
Lindall Winthrop removed to Boston, where he married, and his descend- ants have renewed the former prominence of the name here.1
2. Governor Richard Bellingham was one of the most influential men here from 1634 until his death in 1672. He married here, for a second wife, Penelope Pelham, who long survived him.2 The family, however, made little impression on our history. His oldest son, Samuel, lived at London most of his life, after graduating at Harvard.3 Another son, John, was of Harvard in 1661, but disappears so entirely that the time of his death is unrecorded in the College catalogue.
3. Governor Endicott's descendants, through his son Zerubbabel, re- mained in Essex County ; but his son John was of Boston, where he married Elizabeth, daughter of Jeremy Houchin in 1653, and died without issue in 1668. His widow married Rev. James Allen.4
4. The Leveretts spring from Thomas Leverett, an alderman in Old Boston before his removal hither, an elder here, who died in 1650.5 His daughter Jane married Isaac Addington, and his son John became governor of the Is Holdingfor colony.6 Governor John Leverett married first Hannah Hudson, and secondly Sarah Sedgwick. Of his children, Hudson was " but an indifferent character ; " but he was the father of Jolin Leverett, President of Harvard College. Of the Governor's daughters, Elizabeth married Dr. Elisha Cooke ; Anne married John Hub- Sen Townsend bard; Mary married first Paul Dudley (son of Governor Thomas Dudley), and secondly Colonel Penn Townsend ; Hannah married Thomas Davis; Rebecca married James Lloyd; and Sarah married Colonel Nathaniel Byfield.
1 [The pedigree of the Winthrops is traced by Mr. Whitmore in the IV. E. Hist. and Geneal. Register, April, 1864, based chiefly upon the Hon. R. C. Winthrop's Life of John Winthrop, to which it forms a " genealogical index." Cf. Drake's Boston, p. 72. There is an account in the Alass. Ilist. Soc. Proc., Feb. 14, 1861, of the discovery of a large number of the family papers at New London, many of which have since been printed in the Collections of that Society. - ED.]
2 [The lady, as Winthrop relates in his journal, Nov. 9, 1641, was snatched from another, and the Governor married himself, much to the scandal of the magistrates. She was the sister of Herbert Pelham, a prominent citizen of whom and his family there are accounts in the .V. E. Hist. and Geneal. Register, July, 1879, and Heraldic Journal, iii. 84. Sewall (Papers, ii. 56) records the widow's death May 28, 1702: "At 5 P. M. Madam Bellingham dies, a vertuous Gen- tlewoman, antiquis moribus, prisca fide, who has lived a widow just about thirty years." The governor's will led to some disputes, - Sewall Papers, ii. 197. In the same work, i. 58-62, it
is stated that the old house on the slope of Col. ton Ilill, which stood till 1828, described by Snow, Boston, p. 75, as "the oldest house in the city," was not, as Snow affirms, the house which Vane gave to Cotton, but the one occupied by Bellingham. The Governor also had a house and lot, according to the Book of Possessions, about where Washington Street now crosses Cornhill and Brattle Street, and he may at one time have lived there. If we may believe John- son's limping verse ( Wonder-working Provi- dence), he was "slow of speech," and had a "slern look." J. B. Moore, Governors of New Plymouth and Mass. Bay, p. 335. See the note to Mr. Deane's chapter. - ED. Į
3 [Sibley, Harvard Graduates, i. 63, gives but a brief account of him. - ED.]
4 [See note on Endicott and his descendants to Colonel Iligginson's chapter in the present volume. - ED.]
5 [ He lived on State Street, about where Congress Street enters it. - ED.]
6 [He lived at the corner of Court and Washing- ton streets, where Sears's building now is. - ED. ]
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THE MEMORIAL HISTORY OF BOSTON.
President John Leverett married Margaret Rogers, and his only child who left issue was Mary, wife of Major John Denison, of Ipswich.
Knight Leverett, son of Thomas Hudson Leverett, and nephew of President John, was a goldsmith of Boston. He married, in 1726, Abigail Buttolph, and at that date was the only male of the name here. His great- grandson, Francis P. Leverett, was the master of the Boston Latin School, - an admirable scholar, who died in 1836.1
ISAAC ADDINGTON.
5. Governor Simon Bradstreet, bred at Emanuel College, Cambridge, came here with Winthrop, was chosen an Assistant in 1630, and was annually re-chosen for forty-eight years. He married first Anne Dudley, our first poet, daughter of Governor Thomas Dudley, and had a large family. His second wife was widow Anne Gardner, daughter of Emanuel Downing, and niece of Governor John Winthrop. His children seem to have dispersed, but
1 [See note to Dr. Hale's chapter, on " Philip's War," in the present volume. - ED.]
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BOSTON FAMILIES PRIOR TO A.D. 1700.
their descendants are numerous, as are those of Humphrey Bradstreet.1 We may here note the Downing connections of the Winthrops. Emanuel Downing married Luey Winthrop, sister of Governor John. His son George went to England, and rose to great wealth and position ; his daughter Anne married first Captain Joseph Gardner, and secondly Governor Simon Brad- street ; his daughter Mary married Anthony Stoddard, of Boston.
MRS. JANE ADDINGTON.
6. Atherton Hough, or Haugh, had been an alderman in Old Boston, before coming here with Rev. John Cotton. His only son was Rev. Samuel Hough, of Reading, who married Sarah, daughter of Rev. Zechariah Symmes, and died at Boston in 1662. His son Samuel, of Boston, married Ann Rainsford about 1675, and had two sons who died before middle age.2
1 [Drake, Boston, p. 512, gives the Bradstreet pedigree. Cf. N. F .. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., IS54, 1855. - ED.]
2 [The Book of Possessions gives Hough a VOL. 1 .- 73.
lot and house on the southerly corner of School and Washington Streets, where he probably lived; and another on Milk Street, just below Sewall Place. - ED.]
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THE MEMORIAL HISTORY OF BOSTON.
7. William Hibbens, an assistant from 1643 till his death in 1654, left a widow, Ann, who was executed for witchcraft in 1656. There were no children to bear the burden of the name.1
8. Edward Gibbons was an assistant for four years, a tried soldier, major-general in 1649. This family seems to have died out soon.2
9. Humphrey Davy, or Davic, was son of Sir John Davic, Bart., of Creedy, co. Devon. He was a leading man herc, though of the later im- Humphry Darris migration, - 1662. His son by his first wife was John, - H. C. 1681, - who went to Hartford and married his step-sister, Elizabeth, daughter of James Richards. He succeeded to the estate and title of his grandfather, and returned to England. Humphrey, the father, married, here, Sarah, widow of James Richards, and had Humphrey and William, the former of whom moved to Hartford.
· 10. John Richards, major, speaker, assistant, councillor, and judge, was certainly one of the local gentry. He married first Elizabeth ( Hawkins), widow of Adam Winthrop; secondly Anne, daughter of Governor John Winthrop of Connecticut, but had no children.
James Richards, presumed to be brother of John, of Boston and Hart- ford, was very wealthy, and held high rank in Connecticut. His wife was Sarah, only child of William Gibbons of Hartford, who married secondly Humphrey Davie, and thirdly Colonel Jonathan Tyng. James Richards had an only son, Thomas, and the following daughters: Sarah, wife of Captain Benjamin Davis; Mary, married to Benjamin Alford, both of Boston ; Jerusha, wife of Rev. Gurdon Saltonstall; and Elizabeth, married first to John Davie, and secondly to Jonathan Taylor.
Benjamin Richards, of Boston, merchant, a third brother, married Hannah, daughter of William Hudson, Jr., but died s. p. His widow married Richard Crispe.
II. The founder of the Savage family was Major Thomas Savage, repre- sentative, speaker, and assistant, noted as a stanch soldier. He married first Faith, daughter of William Hutchinson, by whom he had six children ; and secondly Mary, daughter of Rev. Zechariah Symmes, by whom he had eleven. His widow married Anthony Stoddard. Of his children, Hannah married first Benjamin Gillam, and secondly Giles Sylvester; Mary married Thomas Thatcher; Dyonisia married Samuel Ravenscroft; and Sarah married John Higginson of Salem. Of his sons, Ebenezer married Martha, daughter of Bozoun Allen, and died s. p. Ephraim married first Mary, daughter of Edmund Quincy; second, Sarah, daughter of Rev. Samuel Hough ; third, Elizabeth (Norton), widow of Timothy Symmes; fourth, Elizabeth, daughter of Peter Butler, and widow of Abraham Brown.
1 [Hibbens lived on Milk Street, on the line Cornhill. He had another house and lot on the of the present Devonshire Street. IIis wife was a sister of Governor Bellingham. - ED.]
2 [Gibbons lived on the east side of Wash- ington Street, on the corner opposite the foot of
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