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Mr. Newgate's farme, and by him and his heirs and assigns possessed and occupied
about fifty years past.' " "
Mr. John Newdigate had three wives : first, Lidia , who
died in
1620; secondly, Thomasine Hayes, whom he married November i, 1620,
in All Hallows Church, London Wall, and who died in 1625 ;
and, thirdly,
Anne, then a widow Draper, who had been first married to Hunt
and who survived her third husband, dying in 1679. By his first marriage,
beside two sons and one daughter who died in infancy, he had a
daughter Elizabeth? baptized January 1, 161 7-18; who married: first,
Rev. John Oliver, first Minister of Rumney Marsh (Chelsea, Mass.);
and, secondly, in 1648, Edward Jackson, a merchant of Boston. Her
first husband was a son of Thomas Oliver, who came to New England
in 163 1 (or 1632), and was Ruling Elder of the First Church of
Boston. He was a graduate of Harvard in 1645, and is called by
Winthrop " a gracious young man, an expert soldier, an excellent surveyor
of land, and one who, for the sweetness of his disposition, and usefulness
through a public spirit, was generally beloved and greatly lamented. For
some few years past he had given up himself to the ministry of the gospel,
and was become very hopeful that way . . ."" who was "swept away"
by fever in 1646, when not thirty years of age. In his Will he names his
"deare and revered ffathers Mr. Tho. Oliver and Mr. John Newgate."
Savage, while expressing himself doubtful as to the children of John
Newdigate, says that his eldest child "was probably Joshua who died
12 Nov. 1658, in Boston," and whose wife Elizabeth is referred to in her
admission to the church as " daughter-in-law to our sister Ann Newdigate."
But there is no evidence that our Mr. John Newdigate ever had a son
named Joshua, though there may have been a Joshua Newdigate of some
13 The Memorial History of Boston. . . . Ed. by Justin Winsor. . . . Boston, 1882, ii. 375 ;
comp. History of the United States. ... By George Bancroft. . . . Last Revision. New York,
1883, i. 592.
14 Biogr. Sketches of Graduates of Harvard . . . By
1873, i. 102-06.
John Langdon Sibley . . . Cambridge,
;