John Emery Jr.1

b. 3 February 1628/29
John Emery Jr.|b. 3 Feb 1628/29|p8407.htm|John Emery Sr.|b. 29 Mar 1599\nd. 3 Nov 1683|p8398.htm|Alice Grantham||p8399.htm|John Emery||p8394.htm||||Walter Grantham||p8400.htm|Eleanor (—?—) (Grantham)||p8401.htm|

6th great-grandfather of Ruth Minerva Fairfield.
8th great-grandfather of Laura Jane Munson.
Family Background:
Fairfield and Allied Families
Appears on charts:
Pedigree for Ruth Minerva Fairfield
     John Emery Jr. was baptized on 3 February 1628/29 in Romsey, Hampshire, England.1,2,3 He was the son of John Emery Sr. and Alice Grantham.1 He married Mary by 1650 ("John Emery, jr., and his wife" were witnesses on 10 October 1650).4 His will was proved on 26 September 1693.2
     
     John Emery Jr. came to New England with his parents in 1635. The family settled in Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts, where he was Selectman, 1670-1673, served on the trial jury, 1675-1676, and was chosen to carry votes to Salem, 1675-1676. He was chosen to serve on the trial jury at Ipswich, and was a tythingman and way-warden in 1679.

     In 1642 he had laid out to him fourscore acres over the Artichoke or Raspberry River. Forty acres of this land was a grant of the town of Newbury to John Emery, Sr., and by him given to his son in consideration of love and affection. The remaining forty acres were bought from Archelaus Woodman for thirty pounds, being a town grant to him. On 3 March 1679/80 "the town of (Newbury) granted John Emery, junior, twelve acres of land on the west side of Artichoke River, provided he build and maintain a corn mill to grind the town's corn from time to time and to build it within one year and a half after the date hereof." The mill, later called Curzons Mills, was located in the part of Newbury that was later set off as Newburyport.

     John Emery, Jr. was a signer of the petition in the case of Lieut. Robert Pike, and a member of the Woodman party in the church difficulties. He is styled Sergeant on the records. He was made freeman 30 May 1660.5

     John's wife Mary was not his stepsister Mary Webster, as has been frequently claimed.6

Additional Data
John Emery, jr. witnessed John Bailey's will dated 28 October 1651.7 Click to view image

When King Philip's War broke out John Miller, sr. sent his family to his wife's relations in Newbury and had some difficulty when he wished to regain the custody of two of his boys. In March 1677/78 before Ipswich Quarterly Court,
John Miller, sr. complained against John Emry and John Bayly for keeping his children from him. It was agreed after debate that John Miller, the younger, should be bound apprentice to Joseph Bayley until twenty-one years of age, and Andrew Miller, the younger, should be bound to John Emry, jr., until twenty-one years of age, and said Emry agreed to teach him to read and write.8
He deposed on 26 March 1678 "aged about 50 years."9

John Emry was named as one of the overseers in his father John Emry, Sr.'s will dated 1 May 1680 in Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts.10

John Emery Jr. made his will 3 August 1693.2

Children of John Emery Jr. and Mary (—?—) (Emery)

Citations

  1. [S761] The New England Historical and Genealogical Register; (Online database: NewEnglandAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001), (Orig. Pub. New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, MA. The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 148 vols., 1847-1994) 89:376.
  2. [S843] Walter Goodwin Davis, "Emery of Newbury," Massachusetts and Maine Families in the Ancestry of Walter Goodwin Davis (1885-1966): A Reprinting in Alphabetical Order by Surname, of the Sixteen Multi-Ancestor Compendia, (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1996), Vol. 1, 531, originally published in The Ancestry of Phoebe Tilton (1947).
  3. [S757] "John Emery", The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633, online <http://www.newenglandancestors.org/>, printout dated 2002. Previously published in hard copy (Boston: NEHGS, 1995).
  4. [S757] TGMB John Emery, online, citing Records and Files of the Quarterly Courts of Essex County, Massachusetts, 1636-1686, 9 volumes (Salem 1911-1975) 1:220.
  5. [S870] Rev. Rufus Emery, Genealogical Records of Descendants of John and Anthony Emery of Newbury, Mass., 1590-1890, 2 vols. (Salem, Massachusetts: The Salem Press, 1891; reprint Rutland, Vermont: Inc. Tuttle Antiquarian Books, 1998), 2.
  6. [S757] TGMB John Emery, online, citing The American Genealogist (TAG), Volume 9 to present (1932+) 17:96-99.
  7. [S863] Walter Goodwin Davis, "Massachusetts and Maine Families," Massachusetts and Maine Families in the Ancestry of Walter Goodwin Davis (1885-1966): A Reprinting in Alphabetical Order by Surname, of the Sixteen Multi-Ancestor Compendia, (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1996), Vol. 1, 65, 66, originally published in The Ancestry of Phoebe Tilton (1947).
  8. [S855] George Francis Dow, ed., Records and Files of the Quarterly Courts of Essex County, 9 vols. (Salem: Essex Institute, 1911-1973). Transcribed and Abstracted from the Original Manuscript by Harriet S. Tapley, VI: 426.
  9. [S757] TGMB John Emery, online, citing Ipswich Land Records, manuscript, Essex County Courthouse, Salem, Massachusetts 4:150.
  10. [S757] TGMB John Emery, online, citing The Probate Records of Essex County, Massachusetts, 1635-1681, 3 volumes (Salem 1916-1920; rpt. Newburyport, Massachusetts, 1988). Citations to the unpublished probate records are to case numbers, or to register volumes (which begin with volume 301) 302:100-1.
  11. [S864] Essex Institute, Vital Records of Newbury, Massachusetts to the End of the Year 1849 (Salem: Newcomb & Gauss, Printers, 1911), 2 vols., 1: 160.
  12. [S864] Newbury VR (published), 1: 159.
  13. [S864] Newbury VR (published), 1: 158.
  14. [S864] Newbury VR (published), 1: 161.
  15. [S864] Newbury VR (published), 1: 161, citing Ancient book of accounts and records kept by Stephen Emery now in possession of Rev. Rufus Emery, D.D., of West Newbury.
  16. [S870] Rev. Rufus Emery, Descendants of John and Anthony Emery, 1: 6.