A GENEALOGICAL DICTIONARY
of THE FIRST SETTLERS OF NEW ENGLAND,
SHOWING THREE GENERATIONS
OF THOSE WHO CAME BEFORE MAY, 1692,
ON THE BASIS OF FARMER'S REGISTER.

BY JAMES SAVAGE,
FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE MASSACHUSETTS 
HISTORICAL SOCIETY AND EDITOR
OF WINTHROP'S HISTORY OF NEW ENGLAND.

WITH TWO SUPPLEMENTS IN FOUR VOLUMES.

[[Corrected electronic version copyright Robert Kraft, July 1994]]

Baltimore GENEALOGICAL PUBLISHING CO., INC.

Originally Published Boston, 1860-1862

Reprinted with "Genealogical Notes and Errata,"
excerpted from The New England Historical and Genealogical Register,
Vol. XXVII, No. 2, April, 1873, pp. 135-139

And A Genealogical Cross Index of the Four Volumes
of the Genealogical Dictionary of James Savage, by O. P. Dexter, 1884.

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[[v]]                         PREFACE.

   SOME explanatory introduction to so copious a work, as the
following, will naturally be required; but it may be short.
In 1829 was published, by John Farmer, a Genealogical
Register of the first settlers of New England. Beside the five
classes of persons prominent, as Governors, Deputy-Governors,
Assistants, ministers in all the Colonies, and representatives in
that of Massachusetts, down to 1692, it embraced graduates of
Harvard College to 1662, members of the Ancient and Honorable 
Artillery Company, as also freemen admitted in Massachusetts, 
alone, to this latter date, with many early inhabitants
of other parts of New England and Long Island from 1620 to
1675. Extensive as was the plan of that volume., the author
had in contemplation, as explained in his preface, calling it "an
introduction to a biographical and genealogical dictionary, "a
more ambitious work, that should comprehend sketches of individuals 
known in the annals of New England, and "a continuation 
of eminent persons to the present time." Much too
vast a project that appeared to me; and the fixing of an absolute 
limit, like 1692 (the era of arrival of the new charter), for
admission of any family stocks, seemed more judicious. I suppose 
nineteen twentieths of the people of these New England
colonies in 1775 were descendants of those found here in 1692,
and probably seven eighths of them were offspring of the settlers
before 1642.
    My scope is wider than that of Farmer, of course, as it
includes every settler, without regard to his rank, or wealth,
since we often find, in the second or third generation, descendants 
of the most humble (thank God we are all equal before the
[[vi]]
law) filling honorable stations and performing important services. 
But far more narrow is my plan than his projected
dictionary, because, in a grandson of the first settler, it excludes
every other incident after his birth. Space for another than is
here given, would have demanded six volumes, while ten
volumes would have been needed for a fifth generation; and
since we now count eight, nine, or even ten generations of offspring 
from not a few of the earlier planters on our shores, fifty
volumes, each as ponderous as the present, might be filled with
details, whereof one tenth would seem ridiculous, one quarter
worthless, and one half wholly uninteresting.
  That New England was first occupied by a civilized people
in so short a period before the great civil war broke out in our
mother country, though half a century and more after its elementary 
principles began to ferment, especially in Parliament,
and almost in every parish of the kingdom, was a very fortunate
event, if it may not be thought a providential arrangement for
the happiness of mankind. Even if our views be restricted to
the lineal origin of those people here, when the long protracted
impolicy of Great Britain drove our fathers into open hostility
and forced them to become a nation in 1776, in that century
and a half from its colonization, a purer Anglo Saxon race
would be seen on this side of the ocean than on the other.
Within forty years a vast influx of Irish, with not a few thousand 
Scotch and Germans has spread over this new country,
but certainly more than four fifths of our people still count their
progenitors among the ante-revolutionary colonists. From long
and careful research I have judged the proportion of the whole
number living here in 1775, that deduce their origin from the
kingdom of England, i.e. the Southern part of Great Britain,
excluding also the principality of Wales, to exceed ninety-eight
in a hundred. Every county, from Northcumberland to Cornwall, 
Kent to Cumberland, sent its contribution of emigrants,
and the sparse population of the narrow shire of Rutland had
more than one offshoot in New England. But, during that
interval, great was the diversity of circumstances between the
old and the new country so far as the increase of their respective
numbers by incoming of strangers was affected. In 1660 the
restoration of Charles II.--in 1685 the expulsion of the two
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hundred thousand Protestants from France, the desired invasion
of William and Mary in 1689, and the settlement of the House
of Hanover in 1714, each brought from the continent an infusion 
upon the original stock, the aggregate of which may not
have been less than five or six per cent. of that into which it
was ingrafted.  Yet hardly more than three in a thousand, for
instance, of Scottish ancestry, almost wholly the migration of
the heroic defenders of Londonderry, that came, as one hundred
and twenty families, in 1718 and 19, could be found in 1775
among dwellers on our soil; a smaller number of the glorious
Huguenot exiles above thirty years longer had been resident
here, and may have been happy enough by natural increase
(though I doubt it) to equal the later band.  If these be also
counted three in a thousand, much fewer, though earlier still,
must be the Dutch that crept in from New York, chiefly to
Connecticut, so that none can believe they reach two in a thousand, 
while something less must be the ratio of Irish.  Germany, 
Italy, Sweden, Spain, Africa and all the rest of the
world, together, did not outnumber the Scotch, or the French
singly.  A more homogeneous stock cannot be seen, I think, in
any so extensive a region, at any time, since that when the ark
of Noah discharged its passengers on Mount Arafat, except in
the few centuries elapsing before the confusion of Babel.
What honorable ancestry the body of New England population
may assert, has often been proclaimed in glowing language;
but the words of William Stoughton, in his Election sermon,
1668, express the sentiment with no less happiness than brevity:
ÒGOD SIFTED A WHOLE NATION THAT HE MIGHT SEND
CHOICE GRAIN INTO THE WILDERNESS.Ó
     By an instinct of our nature, we all love to learn the places
of our birth, and the chief circumstances in the lives of our
progenitors.  More liberal than that is the sentiment by which
our curious spirit desires knowledge of the same concomitants
in the case of great benefactors of mankind; and the hope of
ascertaining to a reasonable extent the early history of John
Harvard was certainly one of the chief inducements of my visit
to England early in 1842.  I would have gladly given five
hundred dollars to get five lines about him in any relation, private 
or public.  Favored as I was, in this wish, by the countenance
[[viii]] and aid of His Excellency, E. Everett, then our minister
at London, no trace could be found, except in his signature to
the rules on taking his degrees at the University, when he is titled
of Middlesex. Perhaps out of such research sprang my resolution 
to prosecute the genealogical pursuits of John Farmer.
  In fulfillment of this great undertaking more than fifteen years
are already bestowed, and near two years longer may be necessary. 
Yet the rule imposed, of admitting upon these pages
only the dates of birth and marriage, and names of children, of
a child born on our side of the ocean to a settler whose tent
was pitched here before May 1692, is severely adhered to, with
the exception only of so distinguished a man as Cotton Mather;
and even this variety may seem forced upon me by Farmer,
who had received him to the copious honors of marriage and
family. Yet, in many cases, will be named great grandchildren
of first comers, and even in a very few, another generation,
making a fifth. Explanation of this apparent deviation from
my own law is easy. When Gov. Bradford and Gov. Winthrop
came here, each brought a son, or sons, and the same is seen of
Gov. Dudley and numberless others. Now each child must be
rated as an emigrant no less than its father, so that John Brad.
ford, John and Adam Winthrop, and Samuel Dudley are
equally entitled as their parents to have their grandchildren
entered in these pages; but William and Joseph Bradford, and
Jaseph Dudley, sons of the Govs. born on our side of the
water, shall not have grandchildren in their respective lines.
  My apparatus for this work will sometimes be found incomplete, 
yet to a great extent, the public records of Colonies,
Counties, and towns, where accessible, have been examined by
myself or friends. Of the first ten folio volumes of our Suffolk
registry of deeds I had an abstract always lying near me, and
these embraced near one third of all the names of New England 
and more than half those in Massachusetts Colony; indeed 
for very many years, after the emigration from Europe
ceased, only two other counties, Essex and Middlesex had been
constituted. lt will be recollected, that large parts of Plymouth, 
New Hampshire, and Maine were occupied by those
who removed from Massachusetts, as was almost the whole of
Rhode Island, Connecticut, and New Haven colonies. But
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modern labors of distinguished antiquaries furnish us almost in
full their early records; and more than nine tenths of the names
in these separate communities, I think, must have been acquired
for this work. But even in my native city of Boston three or
four in a thousand may have escaped me, yet probably in the
second or third ages from its foundation.
  For the time of births, marriages, or deaths in each family I
have labored assiduously to be correct, in hundreds of cases
finding wrong dates given, and commonly without hesitation
supplying the true. Where baptism is fixed, by a decent record,
weeks, and even months before the date of birth, no fear of
injuring the town clerk's credit can restrain belief in his
mistake.
But the copious source of vexation is the variety growing out of
the Old and New Styles. In many thousand instances, I have
turned to the perpetual almanac, to be sure that the day of
baptism was truly, or not, recorded for Sunday, since the rite
could, in the first century of New England, be performed only
on that day. By this many printed errors may be corrected.
As children are often seen to be baptized in January or February 
of the same year, by the ancient legal reckoning, that gives
the parents' marriage in April or May, several weeks before, in
our modern reckoning of the months, instead of so many months
after, it is easy enough to put that right by calling those winter
months not the eleventh and twelfth of the old year, as the statute 
absurdity required. Uniformly my chronology begins the
year with 1 January; but to produce harmony between dates
for the month of March is sometimes very difficult. A few
town officers began to change the numerals for the year with
the opening of the month, daring to ask, why the first month
of 1679 should allow 24 of its 31 days to be drilled under
old 1678, while the perverse will of the rulers in fatherland
postponed the new-year's day until the 25th; and some records
may be found, where the year ended in December; but this
monstrous innovation did not begin before 1700, and the startling 
truth made irregular progress up to 1752, when Lord
Macclesfield enlightened the legislature, and Chesterfield charmed
it into consistency.
   No apology would be necessary for filling room with enumeration 
of contributions from many friends other than such as are
[[x]] open to all in printed volumes; but much of what is now
within every one's reach had been furnished in MS. to me, and
still more is from the same hands, in many cases, given first to
the light on my pages. Our town histories are crowding forward, 
and sometimes in less compact space than might be
wished. Windsor, though its History is large, has not equalled
ancient Woodbury in bulk, yet seems to contain all, with three-fold 
of the interest, that might have contented us in the other.
The point of research may occupy long time, and be expressed
at last in brief phrase, so that no comparison can be made
between the result in different parts of the same field of battle
from taking only the numbers engaged in each. One initial
letter in this dictionary required a year and a quarter for its
complete preparation, more than three months were given to
each of several names, like Hall or Williams, and the progress
of a page has often demanded a week. It seemed my duty to
expose every error in our genealogy that has got imbedded in
any reputable book; and the suspicion of any such may lead
to a long train of inquiries before the refutation can be reached.
If my success has been less than my ambition, it has not been
owing to lack of industry, or to hurried operation. Printing of
the first volume began in Dec. 1858, and was prosecuted without 
interruption of a day to this time; while for the next
volume the careful amanuensis has ready for the compositor
two hundred pages, a part of which will be given to the press
to-morrow. For the access of new information that reaches us
almost every month, a constant watch is kept; and life and
health being continued, my contract with the community may
be decently discharged in the autumn of 1861.
  A very extensive catalogue of gentlemen, that might be
graced by one of more than half a dozen ladies, could here be
supplied, were it useful to mention the smaller as well as the
greater contributors to these sheets. To Goodwin, Bond, Harris,
father and son, Kingsley, Abbot, Day, Shattuck, Lunt, and
Kilbourne, of the respectable file who have passed out of
active service, it would not be easy to state the respective proportions 
of indebtedness; nor could I specify the ratio of
benefit derived in my pages from benevolence of the living
Babson, Boltwood, Brayton, Budington, Clapp, Day, Edwards,
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Felt, Field, Herrick, Hoadley, Jackson, Judd, Kelly, King, Kellogg, 
Lincoln, Locke, Otis, Paige, Patterson, Riker, Sargent,
Sewall, Shurtleff, R. D. Smith of Guilford, Staples, Vinton,
Wentworth, Whitmore, Willard, Wyman, and twice as many
more. Not one of the living or dead could complain of my declaration, 
that from the distinguished antiquary of Northampton
the acquisition exceeds that of any other ten contributors.
Early in 1846 I had solicited the benefit of uniting his name
with mine in producing these volumes; but while he shrank
from the responsibility of such unbroken labor, I can offer
several hundred pages of letters to vouch for his sympathy, and
encourage my perseverance.

19 APRIL, 1860.

[[vol. 4, iii]]    CLOSING ADDRESS.

  THE task, that, near twenty years since, was assumed by
me, is now ended; and no regret is felt for the time devoted to
it. Pleasure and duty have been equally combined. In the
result some exultation might be felt, if suceess rewarded diligence, 
and proficiency had always followed patience; but in
parts of so wide a range around genealogy, as this of New England, 
frequent failures ought to be anticipated, since the triumphs 
even within the narrow space traversed, in their long
campaigns, by Bond or Shattuck, Judd or Goodwin, proved
imperfect. Gleaners may find reward in following even their
footsteps.
    For a partial indication of the ample assistance from modern
copious correspondence, a reference to my preface in Vol. I.
may seem sufficient; yet it appears requisite, in this valedictory
obeisance to subscribers, to desire their forgiveness for the awkwardness 
they may discover, that among the ten or twelve
thousand items of improvement in or increase upon the first
text, as herein set forth, not a few hundred additions to additions
with a score or two of corrections for corrections are interspersed. 
Of such materials the History of Watertown has
subjoined 303 pages to its first 672; and parallel to such overflow 
might always be expected in a larger work, though not in
exact proportion to its size. To exhauust the vocabulary of a
civilized nation in a living tongue would appear impossible, for
we all know, that new streams are constantly flowing into it
from sources before unknown; and similar sypplies, by analogy,
in a dictionary to set forth the origin of our families subsisting
one hundred and seventy years ago, may naturally arise. 
[[vol. 4, iv]] 
Unavoidable omissions in these two thousand five hundred closely
marshalled pages ought, therefore, to be expected; but if neither
residence nor time were given, no right to a place for a new
surname on my page would be yielded, though popular opinion
traced the pretender to a Plantagenet, or his veins swelled with
all the blood of all the Howards. Half a million, I presume, of
those incidents may be found in this work. Blanks, not above
two or three in the thousand, I believe, may remain in the myriads 
of names of family or baptism, and, I hope, the erroneous
may only slightly outnumber the deficient.
   Some notes of events and of men have been lost, probably,
though only a single instance, but of half a line, occurs to my
recollection, and this is more cause of sorrow, than surprise,
when I remember how many hundred have been written twice,
thrice, and even four times over. To a few, who consult these
volumes, such vacancies may give no disquiet, as thereby room
was gained for a little general biography or historical criticism
in place of the multitudinous ocean of numerals, or names as
little discriminated as fortemque Gyan, fortemque Cloanthum.
But never was such occasion made, however easily found by
one who will feel pleasant surprise at a rare deviation from
predominant dulness.  I have dared to express, in a very few
instances, my sense of the need of correction in old contemporary 
statements of history, either public or private, and more
gladly to detect the modern adoption of idle traditions that
kept long out of sight, when their small value would not have
saved, the perpetuation of trifing fictions.
  May not some degree of favor be extended to my departure
from the narrow circle of universal genealogy to snatch a few
additional lines or some and sentences for others bearing prominent 
names like Bellingham, Burrows, Chauncey, Clark, Davenport, 
Dudley, Eaton, Endicott, Goffe, Hoar, Hopkins, Hull,
Jackson, Johnson, Leverett, Mather, Osgood, Paddy, Parker,
Phips, Pratt, Rogers, Saltonstall, Scroop, Sherman, Smith,
Temple, Welde, Whalley, Wigglesworth, Williams, Wilson,
and Winthrop.
   The prosecution of this work has continued without interruption 
in this long course of years, except twice, in both cases
from illness, first, short but severe, more than fourteen years
[[vol. 4, v]]
ago, next, lighter and longer, less than four years since; yet
from the time printing of the volumes began, Dec. 1858, no
day has passed without progress, except the legal holidays
By the majority who in careless hours may turn over these
columns, the scrupulous diligence of the printer will justly be
more observed than the research of the author, who should feel
sufficient reward, if his countrymen acknowledgd they have no
further claim to use of his pen after the owner's reaching so
near the age of fourscore.  Still my rejoicing should be rater,
that my service is finished, than that I have no more to do.
   No slight vexation arose from defeat of my utmost vigilance
in gathering the desired additions to this immense array of
names, collected while the volumes have been passing under
the press;  but it was soothed by reflecting how many would
show no regard to the defect, and better still how liberal would
be the allowance of the few that duly weighed the excuse by
making the suffering their own. I desire the reader in

[[NOTE: these have all been corrected in the electronic edition.]]

Vol. I. p. 277, I. 12, aft. 1701. add, Perhaps his d. Hannah m. William Pun-
    chard.
Vol. IV. p. 160. I. 3, at the end, add, He was s. of Thomas, and m. 28 Nov.
    1677, Priscilla Buckley, had Priscilla, b. 10 Oct. foll. and d. next yr.;
    William, 21 July 1680, d. young; Thomas, 28 Mar. 1682; Sarah, 17 Jan.
    1684; William, again, 25 Dec. 1686; Priscilla, again, 3 Aug. 1689, prob.
    d. soon; for next is Priscilla, 1 May 1690; and Simon, 1 Mar. 1695.

    MAY 17, 1862.