Genealogical and family history of the state of New Hampshire : a record of the achievements of her people in the making of a commonwealth and the founding of a nation, Vol. III, Part 132

Author: Stearns, Ezra S; Whitcher, William F. (William Frederick), 1845-1918; Parker, Edward E. (Edward Everett), 1842-1923
Publication date: 1908
Publisher: New York : Lewis Publishing Co.
Number of Pages: 876

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ton. He married, May 28, 1803, Dorothy Bachelder, of Sutton. born 1780, died March 19, 1874, aged nine- ty-four, daughter of Phinehas and Sally (Clough) Bachelder. She was a descendant of Stephen Bach- elor, the immigrant, and her father, Phinehas, was a noted man in his time. The children of the mar- riage born in Newbury were: William, Hannah W., Phinehas B., Sally H., James Madison, Betsy B., and Joseph.

(VI) Phinehas Bachelder, third child and sec- ond son of Sammel (2) and Dorothy (Bachelder) Bean, was born in Sutton. April 7, 1810, and died December II, 1880, aged seventy. He was educated in the schools of Newbury. He was engaged in mercantile pursuits in Manchester and Nashua, and spent his declining years in Sutton. He was a Democrat of the stalwart type, and held some local offices. He married, (first) January 20 1834, Re- becca Houghton Worster, who was born in Wendell (now Sunapee), died July 29, 1853. She was the daughter of Jonathan Worcester. He married (sec- ond) January 16, 1855, Dolly A. Angier, born in Southboro. Massachusetts. She died September 2, 1885. in Sutton. The children of the first marriage were James William. Sarah Jane. Elizabeth Ann, and Lucy Emeline, whose sketch folows.

(VII) Lucy Emeline, youngest child of Phinehas B. and Rebecca H. (Worcester) Bean, was horn in Crown Point, New York, December 1I, 1843, and married in Hyde Park, Massachusetts, December 17. 1863, Eugene S. Barnes, of Claremont, New Hamp- shire. (See Barnes VII.) The Worcester fam- ily of which Lucy E. Bean's mother was a member descended from (1) Rev. Daniel Worcester, who came from Worcestershire, England, and settled in Salisbury, Massachusetts, in 1635, (see Worcester.) The other members of the line were : (2) Samuel, born in England: (3) Ebenezer, born in Salem Massa- chusetts ; (4) Jonathan of Harvard; (5) Moses, of Harvard: (6) Jonathan. of Harvard, who was the father of Rebecca. Mrs. Barnes has been for twenty-five years interested in the work of the Wo- man's Christian Temperance Union, having had especially active association with the Claremont Union. She has served for many years as record- ing secretary and present corresponding secretary. She is also a state superintendent of the Department of Temperance literature.

EMERY This ancient personal name long ago became a surname. Some of the orig- inal spellings in England were Americ. Almeric, Almaric, Emeric, and Eimeric; and it is the same to which, in the Italian form of Amerigo, we now owe the title of our own country. It is a name which has been honorably borne by many citizens of the United States, one which was very early in New England and has been from that cradle of American citizenship distributed over a wide area. It was early identified with New Hampshire, and has been born by pioneers of numerous towns in this state

(I) The first of whom positive record is now obtained was John Emery, who with his wife Agnes resided in Romsey. Ilants, England, and probably died there. (Mention of his son Anthony and de- scendants forms part of this article. )

(II) Jobn (2). second child of John (1) and Agnes Emery, was born September 29, 1598. in Rom- sey. ITe sailed from Southampton, April 3, 1635. in company with his brother Anthony, in the ship "James." of London, William Cooper, master. Each was accompanied by his wife and one or two chil- dren. They landed in Boston, on June 3, 1635, and

soon settled in Newbury, Massachusetts, where John had a town grant of one-half acre for a house lot. He was fined twenty shillings December 22, 1637, for enclosing a grant not laid out by the town but owned by it, and on February 1, 1638, the town granted him that part of ground which was all in- closed. He was made freeman June 2. 1641, and was recorded December 2, 16.42, as one of the ninety-one freeholders of the town. In the same year he was one of a committee of four to make a valuation of all the property in the town for the purpose of pro- portioning each man's share in the new division. On March 16, 1663, John Emery was presented to the court of Ipswich for entertaining travelers and Quakers. On May 5 of the same year this present- ment for entertaining Quakers was referred to the next court. When the case came up he was fined four pounds, costs and fees, for entertaining strang- ers. The evidence given in the case was "Wy two men Quaker ur, entertained very kindly to bed and table & John Emmerie shok ym by ye hand and bid ym welcome." Also that "the witness heard John Emmerie and his wife say that he had entertained Quakers and the he would not put them from his house, and used argument for the lawfulness of it." In May, 1663, he petitoned the general court for the remission of his fine, and the petition was signed by the selectmen and fifty citi- zens of the town, but the fine was not remitted. He was also prominent in the case of Lieutenant Rob- ert Pike, who refused to recognize the authority of the court to deprive him and his neighbors of the right of petition. He was a member of the Woodman party in the famous ecclesiastical diffi- culties of that time. From this it would seem that the spirit of the American labor question put in an appearance at a very early period in the colony. and the wonder is that the American Revolution did not take place at an earlier period. John Emery had a grant on April 10, 1644, covering over twenty- two acres. He was selectman in 1661. fence viewer and grand juryman in 1666, and trial juror in 1672. He was appointed to carry funds to Salem in 1676. His first wife Mary, whom he married in England, died in Newbury, April, 1640. He married ( second) October 20, Mary ( Shatswell), widow of John Weh- ster. He died in Newbury, November 3. 1683, and was survived more than ten years by his wife. who passed away April 28, 1604. In his will, made. in 1680, he mentions his age as eighty-three years. The inventory of his estate amounted to £263, 11 shillings. His children were: John, Ann, Ebenezer. Jonathan, Stephen and others. (Jonathan and Stephen and descendants receive mention in this article. )

(ITT) John (3), eldest child of John (2) and Mary (Shatswell) Emery, was born May 13, 1652, in Newbury, and was made freeman there April 19. 1601. IIe was a soldier in King Philip's war, and was wounded in the shoulder at the great Narra- gansett fight, December 19. 1675. His will was made February 6, 1723. and was preven October 7. following. He died September 20, 1723, in New- bury. He was married November 20. 1676. to Mary Woodman, daughter of Edward and Mary ( Goodrich) Woodman of Newbury. She died Sop- tember 13, 1723. Their children were: Mary, John. Jonathan. David, Anthony, Stephen (died young), Sarah, Stephen, Edward and James.

(TV) John, eldest son and second child of Jon- athan and Mary (Woodman) Emery, was born in 1678, and lived in Newbury. He was married March 1. 1705, to Hannah Morse, daughter of Johanna and Joshua Morse, of Newbury. `She died October 4.

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1732, and John Emery married (second) November 8, 1738, Rebecca Walker, who died October 19, 1753. Her husband survived her nearly six years, dying August 24, 1759. Their children, all born of the first wife, were: Hannah, Joshua. David, Sarah, Anthony, John, Mehitable, Judith and Mary. (V) Anthony, third son and fifth child of John (3) and Hannah (Morse) Emery, was born Septem- ber 5, 1713. in Newbury, and graduated from Har- vard College in 1736. He was the first physician in Chelmsford, Massachusetts, and removed probably about 1750 to Hampton, New Hampshire. He had an extensive medical practice and a fine farm. and carried on a considerable trade in West India goods. He was auditor of selectman's accounts of Hampton in 1753 and 1762. He was selectman in 1757. and moderator in 1766. He served as a surgeon during the siege of Louisburg. having been commissioned February 10, 1745, by Sir William Pepperell. He enlisted in the expedition against Crown Point un- der Sir William Johnson. as surgeon in Colonel Joseph Blanchard's regiment, and was commissioned first lieutenant in Captain John Moore's company, and was discharged December 5. 1755. In this ex- pedition he was detailed to serve as an associate of John Hale. He was one of the grantees of the town of Andover, New Hampshire, which was early known as Emery Town, and built the first saw mill there. He died at Hampton, August 19, 1781. He was married May 10, 1738, to Abigail Leavitt, daugh- ter of Thomas and Elizabeth ( Atkinson) Leavitt, of Hampton. She was born September 13, 1715. and died November 23. 1790. Their children were : John, Sarah. William, Joseph, Thomas ( died young), Clement. Thomas, Nathaniel, Willard (died in in- fancy) and Willard.

(VI) Thomas, sixth son and seventh child of Dr. Anthony and Abigail (Leavitt) Emery, was born January 5. 1750. probably in Hampton, was baptized November to, of the following year, and died Au- gust To. 1834, in Loudon, New Hampshire. He mar- ried Dolly Sargent, who was born March 22, 1754, in Candia. New Hampshire, and died March 15. 1838, in Loudon. She was a daughter of John and Susanna Sargent (see Sargent. IV). Their children were : Susannah, Sally, John, Hannah, Joshua and Anthony.

(VII) Joshua, second son and fifth child of Thomas and Dolly ( Sargent) Emery, was born May 16, 1788, in Loudon, and was a cabinet maker in that town. He married ( first) October 3, 1815. Betsey Chamberlain. Mr. Emery was married (sec- ond) December 25. 1826, to Eliza Eastinan, daugh- ter of Charles Eastman, of Concord. She was born April 21, 1801, and died March 18, 1855. Mr. Em- ery subsequently married Lydia Towle. Ile died January 21. 1870. His children were: John C., William, Elizabeth, Thomas S., Charles E., Robert A., and Ellen M.

(VIII) John Chamberlain. eldest child of Joshua and Betsey ( Chamberlain) Emery, was born August 25, 1816, in Loudon, and died in Montpelier. Ver- mont. December 26. 1888. He was a merchant and prominent man in Montpelier. In the latter years of his life he was a leading and influential worker in the Congregational Church. A man of fine personal appearance, of sterling principles, he was much re- spected wherever known. In 1847. he was married to Mary Morse Brown, of Loudon, New Hampshire, who in 1007. on April 27. celebrated her ninetieth birthday. in Montpelier, Vermont. They were the parents of four children: Mary Elizabeth. the eldest, is a practicing physician in New York City, and is unmarried. John William resides in

Montpelier, Vermont. Frank Brown is further men- tioned below. Gertrude C. is the wife of William C. Evans, and resided in St. Paul, Minnesota.

(IX) Frank Brown, second son and third child of John C. and Mary (Brown) Emery, was born March 4, 1851, in Montpelier, Vermont, and has been most of his life identified with the mercantile busi- ness. For the last ten years he has resided in Phil- adelphia, Pennsylvania, where he is employed by the J. B. Wanamaker Company, and has charge of the carpet department. He was married in Montpelier, in 1873 to Fanny H. Dudley, who was born Decem- ber 22, 1854, daughter of D. Willard and Helen Frances (Hammond) Dudley, of East Montpelier (see Dudley). Mr. Dudley has been deputy sheriff and jailer of Washington county, Vermont, for nearly thirty years. Mr. and Mrs. Eemery have had three children: Willard D., Robert and Frank B. The last named died young. The second resides in Los Angeles, California. A sketch of the first fol- lows.

(X) Willard D., eldest son of Frank Brown and Fanny H. (Dudley) Emery, was born in Mont- pelier, Vermont, October 7. 1875. He was edu- cated in the common and high schools of his native place and Norwich University, Northfield, Vermont. He studied pharmacy in the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy, Boston, Massachusetts, and practiced as a registered pharmacist in Rutland, Newport and St. Johnsbury, Vermont. In the year 1900. he grad- uated in osteopathy at the Pacific College of Osteop- athy, Los Angeles, California, and after practicing in that city for two years removed to Manchester, New Hampshire, and has since engaged there in the practice of his profession. He is serving in the capacity of first vice-president of the New England Osteopathic Association, secretary of the New Hampshire Osteopathic Association, and member of the Calumet Club, Manchester. He is a Republican in politics, but casts his vote for the man who in his opinion is best qualified for office, irrespective of party affiliations. He married, July 18, 1896. Marie I. De Lasabloniere, of Rutland, Vermont, two children : Helen F., born in Newport, Vermont. March 14, 1897, and Doris, horn in Manchester, New Hampshire, June 7. 1904. Mrs. Emery died March 26, 1906.

(III) Johnathan, son of John (2) Emery, and his second wife, Mary (Shatswell) Emery, was born May 13, 1652. in Newbury, and lived in that town. He was made a freeman April 19. 1691. An inven- tory of his estate mentioned two hundred and two pounds, two shillings, ten pence. He died Septem- ber 20, 1723 having survived his wife sixteen days. He was a soldier in King Philip's war, having been pressed into the service December 3. 1675. and was at the great Narragansett fight on the nineteenth of that month, receiving a wound in the shoulder. He was married November 20, 1676, to Mary Woodman, daughter of Edward (2) and Mary (Goodridge) Woodman, a granddaughter of Edward Woodman. the pioreer of Woodbury. (See Woodman.) She was born September 20. 1654, and died September 13. 1723. Their children were : Mary. John, Johnathan, David, Anthony, Stephen (died young) Sarah. Stephen, Edward and James.

(1\) Johnathan (2), second son and third child of Johnathan (1) and Mary (Woodman) Emery. was born February 2. 16So. in Newbury, and lived in his native town. He married Mary Richardson, who was born September 4, 1083. daughter of Caleb and Mary (Ladd) Richardson. She died September 18. 1749, in Plaistow, New Hampshire. Their chil- dren recorded in Newbury, were: Caleb, Ruth, Ann,

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Johnathan, Humphrey and Sylvanus. It is reason- bly certain that there were others, perhaps born elsewhere. (Mention of one of these, Thomas and descendants follows in this article.)

(V) Caleb. eldest child of Johnathan (2) and Ruth (Richardson) Emery, was born 1706. in New- bury. He was married July 23, 1730, to Abigail Simons, and lived in Amesbury, Massachusetts ; Plaistow, New Hampshire ; and perhaps other towns. Their children were: Abigail, Prudence, Caleb, Sylvanus, Amos, Joel, Eunice and Lois.

(VI) Caleb (2), eldest son and third child of Caleb ( I) and Abigail (Simons) Emery, was born May 13, 1736. in Amesbury, Massachusetts, and re- sided most of his life in New Hampshire. He was an early resident of Dunbarton, and served as se- lectman of that town in 1769. He served in the French and Indian wars, and was also a soldier un- der General Sullivan in the Revolutionary army. His wife was Susanna Worthey. Their children were: Jesse. Ann, Mary. Daniel. Mehitable, Abi- gail, Caleb, Johnathan. John and David.

(VII) Ann, eldest daughter and second child of Caleb (2) and Susanna ( Worthley) Emery, was born July 2. 1761. and was married December 28, 1779, 10 James Brown. ( See Brown, V.)

(IV) Thomas, (supposed to be). the son of Jonathan and Mary (Richardson) Emery, was bap- tized in Newbury, Massachusetts, January 6, 1722. He was of Plaistow, and afterwards of Hampstead, and died at Bradford, New Hampshire. He married January 7, 1716. Mary Greenhough, of Haverhill district. Their children were: Eliphalet, a daughter (married Burroughs), Thomas, Jonathan and Moses. In 1755. Richard Emery, a brother of Thomas, was of Exeter. In 1757 Richard Emery commanded a company in the Crown Point expedition. He was styled "Major" in 1767, in Chester records, but nothing further is known of him.

(V) Jonathan, son of Thomas and Mary ( Green- ough) Emery, born after 1750, learned the trade of carpenter of Captain Edward Preston. In 1774 he bought part of No. 74. second division, and settled on it, near school house No. 5, in Auburn. He mar- ried Elizabeth Glidden, and they had: Dolly. John, David, Betsey. Thomas, Moses. Richard, Jonathan, Samuel and James.

(VI) Richard, seventh child and fifth son of Jonathan and Elizabeth ( Glidden) Emery, was born December 17. 1786, in Chester (now Auburn), and died there May 28. 1837. He lived on the Deacon Leach place, near the pond. He married. November 18, 1813, Polly Palmer, who was born December 6, I791, and died April 7. 1854, daughter of Stephen and Abigail (Brown) Palmer, of Chester. Their children were: Richard, Jonathan, Stephen, Am- herst. Maria, William, and Alvah.

(VII) Stephen, third son and child of Richard and Polly ( Palmer) Emery. was born March 5. 1818, and died April 24, 1805. In 1839 he went to Charlestown. Massachusetts, and worked at the car- penter's trade three years; then to North Malden. where he was a carpenter, contractor and builder until 1860, when he returned to the homestead farm in Auburn, which he carried on to the end of his life, doing something at carpenter work as oppor- tunity offered. He also dealt in lumber, and did some real estate business He was selectman in the time of the Civil war, and politically a Democrat. Tle was an attendant of the Methodist Church and for a time a superintendent of its Sunday school. He married first, in Malden, Massachusetts. Mary Ann Holt, who was born November 5. 1830. and died August 18, 1858, daughter of Enoch and Sarah

(Davidson) Holt, of Andover, Massachusetts ; sec- ond. April 13. 1859. Sarah Robinson, who was born August 25, 1824, and died August 22, 1894, aged sixty-nine years, daughter of Reuben T. and Eliza Harrod Robinson, of Boston. She received a high school education, and taught school. She was a member of the Baptist Church. One child, Alfred D., was born of the first marriage.

(VIII) Alfred D., only child of Stephen and Mary Ann ( Holt) Emery, was born March 2, 1845, in Malden, Massachusetts, and attended the primary, grammar and high schools of Melrose, Massachu- setts. In 1860 he returned with his father to the old homestead. Afterward he took up the study of law as a private student. He has been a farmer a part of his life. He enlisted in Company K. Eighteenth New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry, in the Civil war. He was town treasurer for a long time, select- man eleven years, ten years in succession ; trustee of the Public Library; member of the school board; has held other town offices-moderator eighteen successive years; member of the constitu- tional convention, 1889: a justice of the peace thirty vears; justice of the police court eleven years and is a general business agent, having settled numerous estates. He is a member of Bell Post, No. 74. Grand Army of the Republic. of Chester: Massa- besic Grange, No. 127, Patrons of Husbandry, of Auburn, and Rockingham Lodge. No. 76, Free and Accepted Masons, of Candia. He married. April 17, 1864. in Auburn, Caroline P. Wood, who was born September 16, 1844, daughter of Alfred T. and Caroline (Perry) Wood, of Beverly, Massachusetts. They have six children: Sarah F .. married Elmer E. French and lives at Manchester. New Hampshire ; children: Stephen D., born September 18. 1886; Grace E., December 10, 1888: Caroline E .. January 2, 1890; Ellison B., April 2, 1891: Worthy D., August 30, 1893; Aletta M., January 24. 1806; Ver- non C., May 25. 1808: Howard C., October 29, 1809: Benjamin R., April 29, 1001 ; Clyde M., De- cember 13, 1906. Mary C., is a graduate of the State Normal School and a teacher. Thomas S., a rural free delivery United States mail carrier, lives at Auburn, New Hampshire, married Cora C. Crosby: children: Henry A., born June 21, 1898; Leola G., June 5, 1899. Elvira R. Dana A., a corporation clerk, lives at Manchester, New Hamp- shire, married Edith O Simmons. Walter P., a graduate of Dartmouth College, class of 1005, man- ager of telephone exchange with Bell Telephone Company at Pittsburg, Pennsylvania.

(III) Ensign Stephen, third son and seventh child of John (2) and Mary (Shatswell) Emery, was born September 6, 1666, and died February I. 1747, aged eighty-one. He was a millwright and planter. November 29, 1692, he married Ruth Jaques, who was born April 14, 1672, daughter of Henry and Anna ( Knight) Jaques. She died January 0, 1764. Their eleven children, born in New- bury, were: Anna. Sarah, Ruth, Mary. Judith, Abigail, Elizabeth. Stephen, Hannah, Miriam, and Lydia.

(IV) Colonel Stephen (2), eighth child and only son of Ensign Stephen (1) and Ruth (Jaques) Emery, was born in Newbury, July 16, 1710, and died in West Newbury, September 16. 1705, aged eighty-five. He was a military man of prominence, and served in the militia between thirty and forty years. He was commissioned ensign of a company of foot by William Shirley, May 21, 1746: colonel of the Seventh Regiment of Militia by Francis Ber- nard, Esq., March 23, 176;, and by Thomas Hutchin- son, Esq., colonel of the second division of the

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Second Regiment in the towns of Newbury and Rowley in 1771. He married, May 5. 1732, Han- nah Rolfe, daughter of Henry and Hannah (Tap- pan) Rolfe. She died in West Newbury, January 10, 1,79, aged seventy-one. They had eleven chil- dren: Stephen, Benjamin (died young), Hannah, Benjamin, Joseph, Nathaniel, Hannah, Mary, Eli- phalet, Elizabeth, and Enoch. (Benjamin and de- scendants are noticed in this article.)

(V) Stephen (3), first child of Stephen (2) and Hannah (Rolie) Emery, was born in Newbury, January IS, 1733, where he died April 16, 1799, having spent his whole life in that place. He mar- ried (first), November 6. 1760. Sarah Moody, who died November 6, 1777, aged thirty-six. He married (second) Sarah Bartlett, who died July 23, 1791. His children, all born in Newbury, were: Stephen, Enoch, Elizabeth, Hannah, Moody and Nathaniel. (VI) Enoch, second son and child of Stephen and Sarah (Moody) Emery, was born in Newbury, March 16, 1763, and died there, May 20, 1846, aged eighty-three. He was married to Sarah 'Sargent, who was born June, 1766, and died November, 1848, aged eighty-two. Their children, all born in New- bury, were : Elizabeth, Sarah, Edmund Sawyer, Moody (died young), Mary, Enoch, Nathaniel, Su- san, Stephen (died young), Moody (died young) and Stephen Moody.

(VII) Enoch (2), second son and sixth child of Enoch (I) and Sarah (Sargent) Emery, was born in Newbury, June 26, 1797, and spent his life there, dying October 1, 1879. He was married October I. 1818, to Abigail Prichard, who was born January 7. 1791, and died September 21, 1879. Their children were: Eliza Ann, Moses Moody, Apphia Maria, Mary, Charles Sargent and Daniel.

(VIII) Moses Moody, first son and second child of Enoch and Abigail ( Prichard) Emery, was born December 9, 1821. He married Judith G. Moore. Their children were: Charles Moody, Abbie and Millard Filmore.

(IX) Abbie, only daughter and second child of Moses Moody and Judith G. (Moore) Emery, was born March 4, 1846. She married, January 7, 1869, George P. Morrill. (See Morrill, VIII.)

(V) Captain Benjamin, fourth child and third son of Stephen (2) and Hannah (Rolfe) Emery, was born in Newbury, December 10, 1738, and died May 13, 1736. He removed to Rumford, now Concord, New Hampshire. before 1766, and on January 21, of that year, was elected constable at the first legal meeting of the freeholders and inhabitants of the parish of Concord. In 1775 he was captain of mi- litia, and in the Revolutionary war commanded a company at the battle of White Plains, New York; in 1776 he signed the "Association Test"; in 1777 was one of the committee of safety ; was a delegate in 1778 to the convention which ratified the consti- tution ; and was selectman in 1770-71-75-82-91-93. He married (first), March 12. 1761, Sarah Bailey, who died November 2, 1819, after a period of wed- ded life of fifty-eight years. He married (second) Sarah -, who died in 1827. The children of Ben- jamin and Sarah (Bailey) Emery, eleven in num- ber, and born in Concord, were: Susan, Benjamin (died young), Sarah, Isaac, Elizabeth, Ruth, Eli- phalet, Enoch, Charles, John and Benjamin.

(VI) Susan, eldest child of Captain Benjamin and Sarah (Bailey) Emery, was born in Concord, April 15, 1762. She married Jonathan Bradley, son of Lieutenant Timothy Bradley, and died July 27, 1793, leaving three children: Ruth, Clarissa, and Isaac.

(VII) Ruth Bradley, eldest child of Jonathan

and Susan (Emery) Bradley, married John George and had three children: Paul Rolfe, Susan, and Clarissa B .. next mentioned.

(VIII) Clarissa Bartlett George, youngest child of John and Ruth (Bradley) George, was born September 3, ISIT, and married, May 14, 1833, Ham- ilton E. Perkins (see Perkins, VIII).

(II) Anthony, brother of John (2) Emery, and second son of John (1) and Agnes Emery, was born in Ramsey, Hants, England, and sailed for America with his elder brother John, fromn Southampton, April 3. 1635, in the ship "James," of London, Wil- liam Cooper, master, their wives and one or two children each probably accompanying them. They landed in Boston, Massachusetts, June 3, 1635. An- thony, it seems, was in Ipswich, in August following, and not long after settled in Newbury, where he lived until about 1640. In the latter year he removed to Dover, New Hampshire, and on October 22 of that year signed the "Dover Combination." For the nine years following he was identified with the in- terests of the town. His house was at Dover Neck, about a mile from the present railroad station at Dover Point, and three or four miles from Major Richard Waldern's (Waldron's) settlement on the Cocheco river. There he kept an ordinary or inn, which was destroyed by fire. In 1644 and 1648 he was one of the townsmen (selectmen) for the "pru- dential affairs" of Dover. He bought of John White, November 15, 1648, a house, a field, and a great barren marsh on Sturgeon creek, in Pisehata- qua, afterward Kittery, now Eliot, Maine, and two other marshes. He served on the grand jury in 1649, and in the same year removed to Kittery, where he resided until 1660. He was juryman sev- eral times, selectman in 1652 and 1659. and constable. He was one of the forty-one inhabitants of Kit- tery who acknowledged themselves subject to the government of Massachusetts Bay, November 16. 1652. He received at four different times grants of land from the town. He also bought of Joseph Austin, of Pischataqua, July 15, 1650, "a little Marsh soe Commonly called ahoue sturgeon Cricke, with a little house and vpland yrunto belonging, as also one thousand five hundred foote of boards, for & in Consideration of Two stears Called by ye name of draggon and Benbow, with a weeks worke of himselfe & other two oxen wch is to be done in Cutchecha." In 1656 he was fined five pounds for mutinous courage in questioning the authority of the court of Kittery, and in 1660 he was fined a sec- ond time for entertaining Quakers, and deprived of the rights and privileges of a freeman in Kit- tery. On May 12, of this year he sold to his son James all his property in Kittery, and sought a resi- dence where he could enjoy more liberty. He re- moved to Portsmouth, Rhode Island, and was there received as a free inhabitant, September 29, 1660. He served as a juryman from Portsmouth on sev- eral occasions, was chosen constable June 4, 1666. and deputy to the general court, April 25, 1672. The last evidence of his residence at Portsmouth is that of a deed of land in Portsmouth to Rebecca Sadler, his daughter, dated March 9. 1680. An Anthony Fmory was representative from Kittery at York, Maine, March 30, 1680, but it does not seem prob- able after what had happened to that time that An- thony Emery the immigrant is the person referred to. He was a man of good business qualifications. energetic, independent, resolute in purpose, bold in action, severe in speech, jealous of his own right-, and willing to suffer for conscience sake. He was one of those men who did their own thinking and would rather be right than be president. Ilis wife's

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Genealogical and family history of the state of New Hampshire : a record of the achievements of her people in the making of a commonwealth and the founding of a nation, Vol. III, Part 132

Author: Stearns, Ezra S; Whitcher, William F. (William Frederick), 1845-1918; Parker, Edward E. (Edward Everett), 1842-1923 Publication date: 1908 Publisher: New York : Lewis Publishing Co. Number of Pages: 876

Author: Stearns, Ezra S; Whitcher, William F. (William Frederick), 1845-1918; Parker, Edward E. (Edward Everett), 1842-1923
Publication date: 1908
Publisher: New York : Lewis Publishing Co.
Number of Pages: 876