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Page 550 - Of those who soon dyed after their first arrival, not the least considerable was the Lady Arabella, who left an earthly paradise in the family of an Earldom, to encounter the sorrows of a wilderness, for the entertainments of a pure worship in the house of God ; and then immediately left that wilderness for the Heavenly paradise, whereto the compassionate Jesus, of whom she was a follower, called her.
Page 17 - Boston 1635, a joiner, ar. co. 1643. I presume this to be the same man wh. came in the Increase 1635, aged 29 ; and perhaps was the John Davie, friend of Wheelwright, in the former article. JOHN, Newbury 1641, by w.
Page 38 - Univ. of Cambridge where he had his AB 1623, being of Catherine Hall, perhaps came over in 1638, or 9 ; and we fear, that the long dissens.
Page 407 - Waterbury, there d. early in 1695, when his ch. are named, Samuel, aged 26; William, 22; Thomas, 20; Joseph, 17; Stephen, 11; Benjamin, 9; Ebenezer, 2; beside Hannah, 24; Mary, 14; Eliz.
Page 32 - Dec. 1 603 in the Walloon ch. of Leyden ; was freem. of that col. 1632. rem. soon after to Duxbury, m. 19 Dec. 1634, Esther Dewsbury, and next, 1657, Mary, wid. of James Glass, d. of William Pontus (tho. Ricketson makes her d. of James Churchill, wh. is wholly unkn. to me) ; and had ch. (of wh. we are uncert. wh. may be elder or younger, whether all, or part, by first w.) Thomas, Mary, Philip, John, Jane, Rebecca, Jonathan, Esther, and Samuel. But as a fam. geneal. in MS. has been giv. to me, tho....
Page 404 - Judith, wid. and extrix. of Stephen Winthrop, as he was purposed to come to NE HERRINGBORNE, GEORGE, Boston 1664. HERSEY, JAMES, Hingham, s. of William first of. the same, m. 15 Dec. 1665, Mary, elder d. of the first John Fearing of the same. || WILLIAM, Hingham 1635, freem. Mar. 1638, ar. co. 1652, had w. Eliz. wh. surv. him, and d. 24 Mar. 1658. His will of 9 Mar. in that yr. pro. 29 Apr.
Page 516 - XII. 73, be wrong, as it is in the date or years, of course, as contradict. by large ami. of time ascertain. by rec. WILLIAM, Newbury, was of Newbury, Wilts, came in the Confidence 1638 from Southampton, aged 26, a shoemaker, with w. Barbara, 20, and serv. Philip Davis, 12; had John, b. 11 Sept. 1641; Mary; Elisha ; William, 23 Feb. 1648; Joseph, 30 Oct. 1649; Isaac, 23 June 1652 ; and Sarah, 8 Aug. 1655 ; and he d. 22 July 1681, aged 73, says Coffin. His will of 26 Feb. 1679, ment. w. Barbara, three...
Page 269 - I presume, of the preced. by w. Bethia had John, b. 3 Oct. 1691. Perhaps he rem. to New York, or elsewhere. The name is not seen 1695. GOODENOW, GOODNOW, or GOODENOUGH, * EDMUND, Sudbury, came in the Confidence from Southampton 1638, a husbandman of Dunhead, in Wilts, aged 27, with w. Ann, and John, and Thomas, their s. and serv. Richard Sanger; had here Hannah, b. 28 Nov. 1639, if the rec. be not wrong, as prob. it is ; Mary, 25 Aug. 1640 ; Sarah, 17 Mar. 1643 ; Joseph, 10 July 1645 ; and Edmund...
Page 565 - July 1659, he, by the style of WJ of the parish of St. Martins in the Field, Co. Middlesex, had m. Hannah Eaton of the parish of St. Andrew, Holborn, London, spinster, youngest d.
Page 134 - Yorksh. as the will of his uncle George calls him of Sowerby in that part of Eng.

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