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a planter, was an early settler of Wat., his name bing on the earliest list of proprietors extant. He was adm. freeman, Ap 18, 1690. Th e following persons are mention in his Will, viz.: sons John (x.r), Joseph, Benjamin, Oliver, and Palgrave (ex'r); gr. son John Maddock, Gr., son Roger Wellington, and gr. dr. Mary Livermore. Th births of only four of his children are found i the records. His homestall lot of 16 acres, in 1642-4, was bounded EE. by Edward Goffe; NE by John Warrn, and the Pond; NW by William Guttering, Edmund White and Simon Stone; SE and N by his own land, Abraham Browne, William Bridges and Simon Stone. Besides this, he then owned 7 othr lots amounting to 145 acres. Apr. 4, 1659 he bought of Abraham Williams, and wife Joanna, of Camb. Village (Newton), for 100 pounds, a dwelling-house, and 12 acres of land, in Wat. Nov 29, 1660, he bought of William Hamlett, a carpenter, then of Billerica, for 50 pounds, a house, barn and about 10 acres of land, in Camb., Probably for the settlement of his son John; bounded NE by Mr. Danforth's farm, Wat., lin s., and Camb. line E.
Came to US After a duel killing someone; came aboard eith Arbella or Lyon: early settler of Watertown (1630)
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