Family
He married, first, on 24 April 1655, at Denton, Elizabeth (d 26 May 1661, aged 27), daughter of John Angier, by whom he had three sons: John, born 18 April 1656, minister at Rotherham and Pontefract, died 6 September 1704; Eliezer, born 18 April 1657, minister at Wallingwells, Nottinghamshire, and Dronfield, Derbyshire, died 20 May 1730; Nathaniel, born 7 August and died 24 August 1659. He married, secondly, on 27 June 1667, at Salford, Abigail, daughter of James Crompton of Breightmet in the parish of Bolton, Lancashire; she died without issue in 1707.
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