Volume 2 page 54 Dix, Anthony, Plymouth, one of the first comers, 1623, in the Ann, took a sh. in the div. of ld. next yr. but not in the div. of cattle 1627, bec. he left the Col. and join. with Conant and other Mass. people; freem. 18 May 1631, was tak. by the irate Bull in 1632, but allow. easi. to escape, and in 1637 was of Charlestown or Salem, had w. Tabitha, wh. after his d. m. Nathaniel Pitman; and was lost by shipwr. of his 30 ton boat on Cape Cod 15 Dec. 1638, the same storm in wh. Dinely perish. at Bostn. This we learn from Danforth's Almanac. See Winth. I. 287, who spells the name Dick wh. Felt prefers to give as Dike, and both Dikes and Deekes are found in some rec. EDWARD, Watertown, came, prob. in the fleet with Winth. and was first of Boston, No. 49 among mem. of the ch. freem. 4 Mar. 1635, by w. Jane, whose fam. name was Wilkinson, had Abigail, b. 2 May 1637; Mary, 2 May 1639; John, 4 Sept. 1640; and Rebecca, 18 Feb. 1642; had sec. w. Susanna, wh. surv. him; was a selectman, and d. 9 July 1660. The s. were all m. viz. Abigail, 1 Dec. 1653, to Thomas Parks of Cambridge; Mary, 5 Feb. 1663, Abraham Brown, jr.; and Rebecca, 18 Feb. 1668, Thomas Flagg, jr. His will of 25 June 1660, makes s. John Excor. but the inv. was sworn to Dec. foll. by serg. John Wincoll, his guardn. Bond gives him ano. d. Deborah, without date of b. wh. m. Richard Barnes of Marlborough, he says, and disting. him from the Boston ch. mem. by remark. that he emb. at age of 19, on 16 Jan. 1635, and that Jane Wilkinson, aged 20 emb. at same time. So there must have been two of the name. But the mem. of Boston ch. and not the youth of 19 must have been that freem., and this Deborah must have been a wid. for she was mo. of Leonard of Wethersfield. JOHN, Taunton 1669. Baylies, II. 241. JOHN, Watertown, s. of Edward, m. 7 Jan. 1671, Eliz. d. of John Barnard, had Eliz. b. 4 Dec. 1671; John, 6 Mar. 1673; Mary, 27 Feb. 1675, d. next yr.; Abigail, 15 Mar. 1677; Rebecca, 1 Mar. 1679, d. soon; Deborah, 20 July 1680; Edward, 25 Sept. 1682; Joseph, 8 ept. 1686; and Jane, bapt. 13 Oct. 1689; and he d. 7 Nov. 1714, leav. wid. Eliz. JOHN, Hartford, perhaps br. of Leonard, was requir. by ct. to m. Mary Birdwell, but was complain. of for beating her, 1676, was still there tax. 1683; sold his ho. and ld. 1686, and one of his ch. John d. 1692. JOHN, Reading, s. of Ralph, freem. 1691. JOHN, Wethersfield, s. of Leonard of the same, had w. Rebecca, and perhaps ch. not ment. d. Nov. 1711, aged 50, and his wid. d. next mo. LEONARD, Wethersfield 1645, had w. Sarah, and d. 7 Dec. 1697, leav. John, Samuel, and three ds. He had been at Branford, and gr. of ld. there 1648; was b. prob. [p.54] 1624, and his will wh. names the ds. Mercy, Hannah, and Eliz. provid. for the wid. wh. d. 1709. RALPH, Ipswich 1647, fisherman, had w. Esther and ch. John, b. 12 Mar. 1659; Samuel, 28 Aug. 1661; rem. next yr. to Reading, had there Stephen, 18 June 1664; and Stephen, again, 14 Dec. 1672; freem. 1684, and d. 1688. Of his descend. are Rev. Samuel, H. C. 1758, and J. A. Dix, late U. S. senator from New York. RALPH, Malden, freem. 1685, had liv. at Reading yrs. bef. SAMUEL, from Norwich, Eng. had leave to emb. at Great Yarmouth 8 Apr. 1637, being aged 43 yrs. with w. Joane, 38; two ch. Priscilla, and Abigail; and two serv. William Storey, and Daniel Linsey, to come to Boston to inhabit, but I have not yet learn. where he sat down. WILLIAM, Hartford, perhaps br. of Leonard, a single man, d. Mar. 1676 or 7. Six of this name, in 1834, had been gr. at Harv.