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[646] 1681. The first three births are recorded at Newbury (see Coffin's Hist. Newb.), the last three at Camb., and the intermediate three are gathered from deeds. All the sons removed to Woodbridge, N. J., except John, and it is not known that he left posterity. John the f. was a millwright. In 1670 he purchased a mill and lands at Menot. and 600 acres of wild lands in the northeasterly part of what is now Lex., formerly the estate of Col. George Cooke. He was taken suddenly sick at the house of his brother Benjamin at Newbury, executed a nuncupative will 30 Sept. 1681, and died before the next morning. His w. Mary survived, and was here 2 Oct. 1683.

Roscoe, William (otherwise written Reskie, Ruscoe, and Ruskew), m. widow Hester Muzzy 1635, and sold some of her land 24 Mar. 1635-6. He was ‘appointed to make a pound,’ 23 Ap. 1636, but soon afterwards rem. to Hartford, where Hinman says he was a Juror in 1644.

Rose, John, d. 12 Dec. 1640. Richard m. Huldah Russell 5 Oct. 1722.

Ross, Thomas, m. Seeth (often written Seth), dau. of William Holman, 16 Jan. 1661-2, and had here Thomas, b. 19 Dec. 1662, d. young; Margaret, b. 22 Jan. 1663-4, m.——Levistone; Thomas, b. 20 June 1668; and in Billerica, Sarah, b. 21 June 1671; Hannah, b. 31 Mar. 1679, m.--Patten; John, b. 18 Jan. 1686-7. Thomas the f. was a Scotchman, and was a servant to Edward Winship 9 June 1656, when he had ‘liberty to mow the grass in the swamp anent the north end of Spy Pond.’ He rem. to Billerica about 1670, and d. 20 Mar. 1694-5, a. 64; his w. Seeth was slain by the Indians in one of their attacks on that settlement 5 Aug. 1695, a. 55.

Ann, m. Thomas Bumford 25 Feb. 1779.

Rugg, Thomas, m. Elizabeth, dau. of William Munroe, and had Thomas, b. 6 Dec. 1690, d. 10 Ap. 1709; William, b. 16 Nov. 1693; Elizabeth, b. 20 Jan. 1695; Hannah, b. 16 Ap. 1697; Abigail, b. 15 Mar. 1699; Sarah, b. 12 Feb. 1701-2; Mary, b. 30 May 1703; Ruth, b. 25 Sept. 1706; Tabitha, b. 10 Sept. 1708, d.—Ap. 1713; Millicent, b. 11 Nov. 1710, d. 19 Nov. 1712; Martha, b. 10 Nov. 1713. Thomas the f. resided at the Farms.

Russell, John, was here as early as 5 Oct. 1635, and resided at the N. W. corner of Holyoke and Mount Auburn streets, in a house purchased of Daniel Abbott. He was Surveyor of Arms 1638, Selectman 1642 and 1643, Constable in 1648, Clerk of the Writs 1645, and an active citizen. He was father of John, who grad. H. C. 1645, and was Minister at Weathersfield and Hadley, the trusty protector of the Regicide Judges.

2. William, by w. Martha, had Joseph, b. in England about 1636 (55 years old in 1691, Depo.), and after his arrival here, Benjamin; John, b. 11 Sept. 1645; Martha; Philip, b. about 1650; William, b. 28 Ap. 1655; Jason, b. 14 Nov. 1658; Joyce, b. 31 Mar. 1660, m. Edmund Rice of Sudbury before 1681. It is not known that this family was connected with that of John (1), or that of Richard of Chs. William the f. was a carpenter, and appears to have res. in Menot. He d. 14 Feb. 1661; his w. Martha m. Humphrey Bradshaw 24 Mar. 1665, and after his death, m. Thomas Hall 24 May 1683; she d. about 1694.

3. Joseph, s. of William (2), m. Mary Belcher, dau. of Jeremiah Belcher, Ipswich, 23 June 1662, and had Mary, bap. 8 Jan. 1664, prob. d. young; Martha, b. 1 Feb. 1666, d. unm. 26 June 1691; Abigail, b. 12 May 1668, m. Matthew Bridge; Prudence, b. 30 May 1670, m. Nathaniel Hancock; Joseph, b. 15 July 1673, prob. d. young; Walter, b. 30 Ap. 1676; Mariah, b. 28 Nov. 1678, m. Thomas Prentice 28 Dec. 1696, (2d) Nathaniel Robbins, (3d) Samuel Lyon of Roxbury 24 Nov. 1742, and d. in her third widowhood 2 Mar. 1760, ‘in the 84th year of her age’ according to her epitaph, but in the 82d, according to the Record; Jeremiah, b. 21 Jan. 1680-81; John, b. 13 July 1683; Samuel, b. 9 Aug. 1685. Joseph the f. was a carpenter, res. in Menot., and d. between 14 Nov. and 17 Dec. 1694; his w. Mary d. 24 June 1691.

4. Benjamin, s. of William (2), by w. Rebecca, had Rebecca, b.——, d. 2 Feb. 1673; Jason, b. 10 May 1674; Benjamin, b. 2 and d. 19 Ap. 1676; Joyce, b. 14 May 1677; Sarah, b. 4 July 1679.

5. John, s. of William (2), m. Elizabeth, dau. of David Fiske, and had

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