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of children is yet found. On Boston town Records, under date of
July 31st, 16G5, "Sarg* Will: Turner was ordered to p'vide for
himselfe and family in some other place, having carried it ofencively
here." He was again admonished August 28th, and, not complying,
was, on Sept. 25th, ordered to be presented to the next county court.
Of his further persecution, account is given above. On Boston Town
Records is found, "Prudence, dau. of William and Frances Turner
born October 12th 1665." In Suffolk Registry of Deeds, vol. x. p.
318, William Turner and Mary his wife, relict and executrix to
the Will of John Pratt, her former husband, dee'd ( Vide, Historical
and Genealogical Register, vol. vii. p. 36) convey to Jacob Hewins
a dwelling-house and three-and-a-half acres of land, etc. This
lot was bounded on the south very nearly by what is now Howard
Avenue, and lay not very far to the west from the corner of what
are now Dudley St. and Howard Avenue in Ward 20. The deed
was made April 1st, 1671, and shows that the wife Frances was dead
and the second wife Mary, widow of John Pratt, had been married.
Their home was doubtless in Boston after 1665. No record is found
of the death of this second wife, but in his will above-mentioned,
dated February 16th, 1675-6, he mentions Mary his wife, formerly
wife of Key Alsop. Now Key Alsop died April 30th, 1672, and
she married Capt. Turner probably in 1673-4 as his third wife.
Frances, the first, was probably the mother of all his children, but
of the place and date of their births no record is found save of Pru-
dence, above-mentioned, and William, of his company, who is
identified as his son, by the reference to him in the petition of Mary
Turner above given. His will, however, proves that he had sons
and daughters living in 1676, and it would seem that the son William
was under twenty-one years, as his mother-in-law petitions for his
wages as appears above. Thomas and William Turner were servino-
in the garrison at Marlborough in the summer and fall of 1675,
and in the trouble which Lt. John Rudduck had with the Marlborough
towns-people, Thomas was first on the list of soldier*, who t>ave
evidence in favor of the Lieutenant, and then disappears from view,
but reappears in 1678 at Bridgewater, where, with Joseph Howard,
he is appointed surveyor. In 1680 he is at Scituate, where he
settles and has children, of whom the second son, William, born Jan.
13th, 1683-4, furnishes the clue which connects this family with
Capt. William of the Falls Fight ; for this William, son of Thomas,
was the same who in 1736 drew Capt. Turner's right in the grant
above mentioned, and is styled his "grandson " ; he died in Newport,
R. I., "Oct. 4th, 1759, in the 77th year of his age," and the correspondence
of birth, grant and death, affords the clue. Dr. T.
Larkin Turner of Boston has worked out this theory, and following
it up I find many other points. From Bristol County Registry I
find that in 1710 Josiah Turner, of Swansey, sold to his " brother
Thomas Turner, of Scituate, shipwright," a farm in Swansey,