Humphrey, Dorchester, first mentioned in records March 18, 1637: frm. and deputy May 2, 1638. Magistrate, deputy governor, active in the affairs of the United Colonies, Major-General. (See many notices in historical works; epitaph in Reg. II, 382.) As birth records of certain children at Winwick, Eng. correspond with known facts about some of his children, it has been inferred that he came from that parish. Nathaniel Wales, Sen. calls him brother-in-law. His will not being left in legal form, admin. was gr. 27 Sept. 1661, to his eldest son Jonathan and to his sons-in-law, Timothy Mather, James Trowbridge and Obadiah Swift. Extensive estate.
