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

88 HISTORY OF DORCHESTER.
born 1639; Naomi; Ruth; Bathsheba, born 1649.
Elizabeth died unmarried; Naomi probably died
young; Ruth married, when she was quite young,
Richard Denton. He lived but a short time; then
she married Timothy Foster, who came from Scituate. Bathsheba married John Payson, of Roxbury.
Timothy owned one half of the tide mill, in Mill
street, in 1697. It has been in the family to this
day. It was built by Edward Breck, who sold it to
William Robinson, and Robinson to Tileston. Onisephorus succeeded to his father's estate.
Thomas Thornton was among the earliest settlers,
probably as early as 1630. He, with Thomas Sanford, kept the cows for the town in 1635. He removed to Windsor. This was not the Thomas
Thornton who was one of the ejected clergy, and
was minister at Yarmouth about 1663 to 1673.
Francis Tuthill, or Tuchell, was in Dorchester in
1634. It is supposed the name is now Twitchell.
Nicolas,Upsall. A freeman May 15, 1631; grantee of land 1633; bailiff and rater 1634; licensed
inn-keeper 1636, 1637 and 1638; selectman in 1638
and'42; an original member of the Ancient and
Honorable Artillery Company in 1637. He moved
to Boston (see Hutchinson, vol. i., p. 199) and joined
the church there 28 (5) 1644. His wife was Dorothy. His children were-Anna, born February,
1635; Elizabeth, February, 1637, married William
Greenough, July 4, 1652; Susanna, born 7 (12) 1639,
married Joseph Cock Nov. 10, 1659; Experience,
born 19 (1) 1640, died Aug. 2, 1659. The town records say —"June 27, 1636," "It is ordered that