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BYFIELO, Nathaniel, jurist, born in Long Ditten, Surrey, England, in 1653; died in Boston, Massachusetts, 6 June, 1733. Richard, his father, was one of the Westminster assembly divines, his mother a sister of Bishop Juxon. He arrived in Boston in 1764, became a merchant, and soon after King Philip's war one of the four proprietors and the principal settler of the town of Bristol, Rhode Island He returned to Boston in 1724. He was at one time speaker of the house of representatives, was for thirty-eight years judge of the court of common pleas in Bristol, and for two years in Suffolk County, for many years a member of the council, and judge of the vice-admiralty in 1704-'15 and in 1729. He published an "Account of the late Revolution in New England" (1689).
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