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

70 HISTORY OF DORCHESTER.
against his name as "crooked." Whether crooked
in person or character it doth not appear.
John Niles was here in 1634. He removed to
Braintree. By his wife Jane he had in Braintree
children-Hannah, John, Joseph, Nathaniel, Samuel,
Increase and Benjamin, born between 1636 and
1650.
Elias Parkman, grantee of Dorchester lands in
1633; one of the Windsor list in 1636; again at
Dorchester in 1637-8; removed afterwards to
Boston.
James Parker was here early; Dr. Harris says in
1630; was made freeman in 1634. He removed to
Weymouth. According to Farmer, he was representative from 1639 to 1643. Being a preacher, he
received a call to settle at Portsmouth, which he
declined. He left New England for Barbadoes,
whence he wrote, in 1646, a letter to Gov. Winthrop,
which is in Hutchinson's Collection, 155-158.
There was a person of that name, probably the
same, who died about 1666. He appeared to be a
trader between Barbadoes and Boston. He was a
bachelor.
William Phelps, one of the earliest settlers of
Dorchester, and among the first grantees of land;
applied for freemanship, October, 1630; one of the
first selectmen in 1633; Deputy with Stoughton
and Hull in 1634. He removed to Windsor in
1636, and was member of the first Court of Magistrates in Connecticut. Two others of the name
(George and Samuel) appear in Dorchester records
before the Connecticut emigration-supposed bro