The history of the town of Dorchester, Massachusetts, By a committee of the Dorchester antiquarian and historical society ...

138 HISTORY OF DORCHESTER.
to Boston in 1659-60, and was chosen Elder of the
first church there, July 20, 1664. The latter part
of the time that he was in Dorchester, he lived in
that part of it now called Canton, "beyond ye
Blue Hills," near Dedham. He died August 17,
1687, aged 86 years. His wife was Margaret. His
son John lived in his father's house in Dorchester
in 1660. His daughter Ruth married Henry Mountford; Hannah married - Overman; Mary married
- Edmands; Lydia married - Ballard; Deborah married -- Cutter; Esther married Daniel
Fisher; and Rebecca married Matthew Johnson. By
a letter dated in 1660, signed by Thomas and Ann
Smith, and published in the Genealogical Register
of July, 1853, it appears that John Wiswall's wife
was their daughter. Mahaleel Munnings is also
called John Wiswall's son, and therefore must have
married one of his daughters. Brothers Abiel, Adam
and Jonathan, in England, and Smith's "brother
Withington," are also named in Smith's letter.
Thomas Wiswall, brother of John, came to Dorchester about 1635. He joined the church in 1636,
was grantee of land in 1637, Selectman in 1644,
removed to Newton about 1656, and was ordained
Ruling Elder of the church there, July 20, 1664.
He died Dec. 6, 1683. He had a son Enoch, born
in 1633, who married Elizabeth, daughter of John
Oliver 25 (9) 1657, and died Nov. 28, 1706, aged
73 years. He inherited his father's house, and lived
in it at the time of his death. Ebenezer, born at
Dorchester, 1646, died at Newton, June 21, 1691.
Noah, born in 1640, married Theodosia Jackson, of