Rea, Jr.; John Rea; John Flint, Sr.”  Lawrence Leach received a grant of one hundred acres; and others of the same name and family had similar evidence that they were regarded as valuable accessions to the population.  William Dodge and Richard Raymond had grants of sixty acres each; Humphrey and William Woodbury had forty each.  The families of Leach, Raymond, Dodge, and Woodbury, still remain in the community of which their ancestors were the founders.  John Sibley had a grant of fifty acres.  Robert Goodell was a grantee, and became a large landholder.

The descendants of the two last-named persons are very numerous, and have maintained the respectability of their family names.  They are each, at this day, represented by gentlemen whose enthusiastic interest in our antiquities is proved by their invaluable labors and acquisitions in the interesting departments of genealogy and local history,—­John L. Sibley, Librarian of Harvard University; and Abner C. Goodell, Register of Probate for the County of Essex.

Besides Townsend Bishop, there were two other persons of that name among the original inhabitants of Salem.  They do not appear to have been related to him or to each other.  Richard Bishop, whose wife Dulcibell had died Aug. 6, 1658, married the widow Galt, July 22, 1660.  He died Dec. 30, 1674.

Edward Bishop was in Salem in 1639, and became a member of the church in 1645.  In 1660 he was one of the constables of Salem, an original member of the Beverly Church in 1667, and died in January, 1695.  He was an early settler on the Farms; his lands were on both sides of Bass River, the parcels on the west side being above and below the Ipswich road.  His own residence was on the Beverly side; and he was not usually connected with the concerns of the village.  His name appears but once in the witchcraft proceedings, and then in favor of an accused person.

Edward Bishop, commonly called “the sawyer,” from the tenor of conveyances of land, dates, and other evidences, appears to have been a son of the preceding.  In his earlier life, he was somewhat notable for irregularities and aberrations of conduct.  With his wife Hannah, he was fined by the local court, in 1653, for depredating upon the premises of his neighbors.  During the subsequent period of his history, he bore the character of an industrious and reputable person.  At some time previous to 1680, he married Bridget, widow of Thomas Oliver.  On the 9th of March, 1693, he married Elizabeth Cash.  He lived originally in Beverly; afterwards, at different times, on the land belonging to his father in Salem Village,—­the estate he occupied being on both sides of the Ipswich road.  His last years were passed in the town of Salem.  He died in 1705.  His daughter Hannah, born in 1646, became the wife of Captain William Raymond, one of the founders of the numerous family of that name.

Edward Bishop, son of the preceding, called, for distinction, “husbandman,” was born in 1648.  He married Sarah, daughter of William Wilds, of Ipswich.  He was a respectable person, and lived in the village on an estate also occupied by “the sawyer.”  His house was west of the avenue leading to Cherry Hill.  In 1703 he removed to Rehoboth.