on the town records.) and had Abigail 1711, David 1713.—Andrew, Hannah and David, no account of, perhaps they went to the Cape.—Abigail m. Nathaniel Carver 1736.—Perhaps there was another D. Mercy, who m. Moses Orcutt 1739.

   4.   Ebenezer (s. of Samuel 1.) m. Rebeckah Scate 1698, and had Sarah 1699, Rebeckah 1701, Jacob 1702, Joanna 1704, Abigail 1706, John 1708, Ebenezer 1709*, Ephraim 1711, Isaac 1719, Joshua*, James, Jemima*, Deborah*.—The father d. 1730.—Sarah m. Jon'a Crooker.—Joanna m. David Pratt 1722.— Abigail m. Samuel Smith.—Ephraim d. 1734, and Jacob settled his estate.—Rebecca was baptized 1725, and died single.

   5.   Josiah (s. of Samuel 1.) m. Mary Read 1707, perhaps D. of Micah Read; had Micah 1708, Josiah, Mary, Esther, Sarah, Nathan 1722, Betty 1724, William 1726.   Her will 1751, proved 1759.—Mary m. Benjamin Vickery 1737.—Esther m. James Edson 1749.—Sarah m. Japhet Byram 1742.   The father was dead in 1736.—Micah, Nathan, and Betty sold to Benjamin Whitman 1761.

   6.   Elisha (s. of Samuel 1.) m. Mehitabel, D. of Nicholas Byram 1701, and had Elisha 1704, Japhet 1705, Matthew 1708, Samuel 1710, Mehitabel, Susanna, Mary, Silence.—Mehitabel m. Jonathan Alden, of Duxbury, 1731.—Susanna m. John Cary 1733.—Silence m. Edmund Jackson 1741.—(Quere if it was not Elisha's D. Mary that m. Benjamin Vickery 1737, and not Josiah's above.)—Samuel probably m. Susanna, D. of David Perkins, 1733, and died 1737.

   7.   Nehemiah (s. of Samuel 1.) m. Sarah Wormel 1707, and had Alice 1707, Sarah 1710, Martha 1713, Nehemiah 1715*, Bethiah, Lydia.—Alice m. Arthur Latham 1733, and then Jonathan Allen, of Braintree, 1739.—Sarah m. Nath'l Pratt, of Bridgewater, 1734.—Martha m. Dea. Jacob Hayward 1736.— Bethiah m. Micah Turner of Weymouth.—Lydia m. Richard Vining of Weymouth.—Jonathan Allen, of Braintree, m. Mary, D. of Capt. Chilton Latham, 1742, and had several Ds. m. here; 2 m. Ramsdells, and one m. Seth Hobart.

   8.   Benjamin (s. of Samuel 2.) m. Mehitabel, D. of Ephraim Cary, 1730, and had Benjamin, Ephraim, Hannah, Mehitabel 1737.—The father died, and his estate was settled among the children 1754.—Hannah m. John Edson 1751.—Mehitabel, the daughter, m. Benanuel Leach.—Mehitabel Allen, the widow, m. Caleb Washburn 1756.—Benjamin went to Kingston and m. a Delano, and was a Sergeant with Gen. Winslow, 1755, in seizing the neutral French at Nova Scotia, where he died; he enlisted from Plymouth, where he was a tanner.—This family lived where Dexter Pratt now lives.

   9.   Capt. Matthew (s. of Samuel 2.) m. Sarah, D. of Seth Brett, 1735, and had Nehemiah 1736*, Ezra 1739, Nehemiah