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All of the information on Jonathan Emery, who served in King Philip's War and married Mary Woodman, has been relocated to his profile, which is Emery-90. Based on the dates of birth and death on this profile, Emery-75 is actually John Emery, Jonathan's nephew and son of Jonathan's much older half-brother John Emery.
John Emery was the son of John Emery and his wife Mrs. Mary Shatswell Webster Emery. He was born in Newbury, Massachusetts 12 September 1656: "John, s. John, 12: 7m: 1656. PR18" [1]
In 1678, John and his father signed the Oath of Allegiance in Newbury, Massachusetts: "It hath pleased his Majesty to notify authorities of the colony of Massachusetts Bay...that the oath of Allegiance...be..taken by all his subjects within this colony who are of years to take an oath." Anyone refusing to take the oath was fined
John Emery married three times:
- EMERY, John and Mary Sawyer, June 13, 1683
- EMERY, John (sr. int.) and Abigail Bartlet, May 27, 1700. Abigail petitioned for divorce in 1710 for cruelty.[2]
- EMERY, John and (Mrs. int.) Mary March, Jan. 2, 1723-4. John takes her without any estate, refusing to pay debts of her former husband Capt. James March.
"John Emery, son of John, jun. and Mary (Webster) Emery; married Mary Sawyer (daughter of William and Ruth Sawyer) 13 June 1683 in Newbury, Massachusetts. Children, born in Newbury:
- Mary, b. Dec. 29, 1684
- John, b. Sept. 29, 1686
- Josiah, b. Dec. 19, 1688
- Daniel, b. June 15, 1693
- Hannah, 1695
- Lydia, b. April 29, 1698
- Samuel, b. Oct. 24, 1699
February 1688 • Newberie, in the county of Essex. "The names of Soldiars under ye command of Capt. Tho. Noyes: Sargt. Jno. Emary."
Joshua Brown, John Ordway, Samuel Bartlett and John Emery were chosen December 24 1695 to form a committee "..to finish the metting house and the ministry house according to the instructions they had last year."
Death: EMERY, John, July 14, 1730 (in his 74th y. G. R. 15.)
Buried Sawyer Hill Cemetery, Newburyport, Massachusetts.
Sources
- ↑ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850 (Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2016). https://www.americanancestors.org/DB190/i/7768/159/22282249
- ↑ v. 8 -- Depositions (from p.57), 1662-1766 ; v. 9 -- Domestic relations, 1643-1774 ; v. 10 -- Ecclesiastical (to p.23), 1637-1670., Family Search (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9Y5-NC7X : 19 April 2024), Massachusetts State Archives Collections, Film# 007702907, image 951-953.
- Vital Records of Newbury, Massachusetts to the Year 1849, page 159.
- VR of Newbury to the Year 1849, page 164.
- Newbury Marriages Massachusetts Vital Records Project: vitalrecords.org/MA/Essex/Newbury/Images/Newbury_M164.shtml
- "Emery" - Robert Adams Manuscripts, New England Historical and Genealogical Society.
*History of Newbury, Currier, page 352.
- Emery Family Research Association: genwiz.genealogenie.net/emery/emery.htm "John, and [Mrs. int.] Mary March, Jan. 2, 1723-4.."
- Genealogical Records of Descendants of John and Anthony Emery, of Newbury, MA (1890), Emery, Rufus, 1827-.
- Pillsbury Genealogy: Mary Lovering Holman, Ancestry of Charles Stinson Pillsbury and John Sargent Pillsbury: compiled for Helen Pendleton (Winston) Pillsbury (1938).
- Appleton, William. Some Descendants of William Sawyer, of Newbury, Mass. (D. Clapp & Son, Boston, 1891) Page 1