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This corresponds with the record at Hingham of his marriage in 1679 to
Mattithiah Aldridge (or Aldrich).
John Dunbar had a good estate.
It is interesting in this connection to trace the long continuation of
family-names. Robert Dunbar had a daughter Sarah. John Dunbar gave
the name to his daughter Sarah, afterwards Mrs. Diodate, who gave the
name Sarah to a child of hers who died. Her daughter Elizabeth gave
the name to her daughter Sarah who became Mrs. John Griswold ;
who in
turn gave it to her daughter Sarah, Mrs. Gardiner ; who gave it to her
daughter Sarah, Mrs. David Thompson ;
Sarah, Mrs. David Gardiner ; who
who
repeated it to her daughter
gave it to her daughter the young Sarah
Diodate Gardiner, to whom we are indebted for a copy of the Diodati
arms. Of these eight generations the last six of the name are in the direct
line of descent.
The name Ehzabeth has come down in the Whicker, Morton, Diodati,
Griswold, Lane, and Moss families for nine generations in the direct line,
with only three breaks.
Each of the two names has been borne, also, by others of the descend-
ants of Sarah Dunbar and Ehzabeth Whicker.
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