Jonathan HYDE (1626 - 5 October 1711) In April, 1639 he embarked on the ship "Jonathan", bound from London for Boston, his elder brother Samuel crossing the Atlantic in the same ship with him, and in 1647 he settled at Cambridge Village (now Newton), Mass. The brothers purchased land in 1652, and he was admitted as a freeman on 27 May 1663. He was a soldier during the King Philip's War, with the rank of Sergeant. In 1691 he was a Selectman of Newton. He had twenty-three children; fifteen with his first wife and eight with his second. Sources: "NEHGR", Vol. LXXI, pp.257, "Four Generations of Descendants of Jonathan Hyde of Newton, Mass.", William Henry Harrison Stowell, Boston, MA. 1917. "History of the Early Settlement of Newton, County of Middlesex, Mass. from 1639 to 1800", p. 316, Francis Jackson, Stacy and Richardson, Boston, MA. 1854. "History of Newton, Massachusetts", pp.90, 140, S.F. Smith, 1880. "NEHGR", "Vital Records of Newton, Massachusetts...", pp.94-99, 106-111, 306-308, 315-316, Boston, MA. 1905. "History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877", pp.416-417, Lucius R. Paige, The Cambridge Historical Society, Cambridge, MA. 1930. "History of Newton, Massachusetts..."; S. F. Smith, The American Logotype Co., Boston, MA. 1880. Genealogical research charts and notes of Jerrie Moore, San Angelo, TX., 1995.