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Samuel's mark on his will

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Samuel settled in Ipswich, and a search for him in the town records is needed. In 1670, his father bequeathed him the land he was already living on that had been bought from William Goodhue. The deed for that purchase evidently wasn't recorded. Samuel gave his house to his son Parker in his will. In any case, at least some of Parker's descendants lived on Highland Street in what is now Hamilton, between Wenham and Ipswich.

Children of Samuel Dodge and Mary Parker:1

i. Samuel, b. 22 January 1668
ii. Joseph, b. 14 February 1670
iii. (H)ananiah, b. 9 January 1672
iv. Anna , b. 20 December 1674
v. Antipas, b. 7 September 1677 (vrs 117)
vi. Mary, b. 6 June 1680
vii. Amy, b. 27 August 1682 (vrs 117)
viii. Deborah, b. April 1685 (vrs 117)
ix. Jabez, b. 22 March 1686(/7?)
x. Parker, b. abt 1689
xi. Samuel, b. 11 December 1692

vital records sources: Vital Records of Beverly, Massachusetts: To the End of the Year 1849, vol. 2 (Topsfield, MA:1907), 422. There is no town record of it, but refers to his gravestone in Dodge's Row Cemetery in North Beverly, which says he died "in his 61st year" (meaning he was 60) in Ipswich.

1. These birth are in the published Vital Records of Ipswich, Massachusetts, to the end of the year 1849 ( Salem, MA: The Essex institute, 1910), 117-122.