and came to Plymouth with the forefathers in the first ship, the May Flower, in 1620, and had a s. John; his w. d. (was drowned in Plymouth harbor before they landed) Dec. 7, 1620; he afterwards, in 1623, m. the wid. Alice Southworth, whose maiden or family name was Carpenter; she was b. 1590, and there was said to have been a mutual attachment between them in youth, which, after she lost her husband and he his wife, was revived, and she arrived with her two children, Constant and Thomas Southworth, in the ship Ann in 1623; they had William 1624, Mercy, and Joseph 1630.   He d. 1657, æ. 71; she 1670, æ. 80.   Mercy m. Benjamin Vermays or Vermage 1648.

   2.   John (s. of William and Dorothy above) was in Duxbury between 1645 and 1653, was an original proprietor of Bridgewater, was Representative of Duxbury 1652, and of Marshfield 1653, at the old Colony Court at Plymouth; his father in his will 1657 speaks of him as then living, and the records mention him as living in 1662, and no further account is obtained of him; the tradition is that he was lost at sea on a voyage to or from England; he probably had no family.

   3.   William (s. of the Governor) was a Major and Deputy Governor; lived in Kingston, near Duxbury, and was one of the original proprietors of Bridgewater; m. Alice, D. of Thos. Richards of Weymouth; she was a very respectable woman, and in an eulogy after her death, on the colony records, was called "Mrs. Alice Bradford Jr."; they had John 1652, William 1655, Thomas, Samuel 1668, Hannah, and Mercy.   His w. died, and he m. a wid. Wiswall, and had a s. Joseph.   She died, and he m. Mary, wid. of Rev. John Holmes of Duxbury and D. of Dea. John Wood or Atwood of Plymouth, 1661, and had Israel, David, Ephraim, Hezekiah, Melatiah, Mary, Alice, and Sarah; some of these Ds. might have been born of the 1st or 2d wife; his last w. d. 1671, æ. 44; he d. Feb. 20, 1704, æ. 79.   Thomas and Joseph went to Conn.—Hannah m. Joshua Ripley of Hingham.—Mercy and Melatiah m. men by the name of Steel in Conn.—Israel m. Sarah, D. of Benja. Bartlett Jr., and he, Ephraim, and Hezekiah settled on the paternal estate in Kingston.   Mary m. Thomas or Samuel Hunt of Duxbury or Kingston.—Alice m. a Fitch of Norwich, Conn.—Sarah m. Kenelm Baker of Marshfield, and was mother of the late Wm. Baker, Messenger of the Governor and Council, and of a Mrs. Scollay of Boston.—Rev. Timothy Alden said that the children by the first w. were Israel, Ephraim, Samuel, and John; by the 2d Joseph; and by the 3d, William, Thomas, David, and Hezekiah, and that he had three Ds.; but query.

   4.   Joseph (s. of the Governor) m. Jael, D. of the Rev. Peter Hobart of Hingham, and had Elisha, and d. 1715, æ. 84; she d. 1730, æ. 88.   Elisha m. Hannah, D. of James Cole Jr.; it is