EMERY
Anthony Emery arrived in Boston aboard the
ship “James” on 3 April 1635 with his wife, children and his brother John. They all settled in Newbury, Massachusetts
until about 1640, when Anthony removed his family to Dover, New Hampshire. He was one of the signers of the “Dover
Combination” on 22 October 1640. He ran
a tavern, which burned down in 1643, and this petition allowed him to stay in
business:
"Right worp com of the
Massachusetts
The humble peticon of Anthony Emry
of Dover
Humbly showeth
Unto your good worp that your
poore peticonr was licenced by the towne abousd to keept an ordinary wh shd
give Dyet & to sell beere & wine as was accustomed & sithence there
was an order that none but one should sell wine upon which there hath beene
complaint made to your worp as Mr. Smyths saith & hee hath in a manner
discharged your petr weh wilbe to your petr great damage haueing a wife & 3
children to maintain & not a house fitted for present to liue in haueing
had his house & goods burnt downe to the ground "Humbly beseeching yor
worp to bee pleased to grant to your petr that he may sell wine & that Mr.
Smyth may be certified thereof hee keeping good order in his house & he
shall as hee is in Duty bound pray for your worps health & happyness."
On 7 March 1643/4, "Anthony
Emery of Dover, his petition is refered to the next Cort at Dover, & hee is
alowed liberty to draw out his wine in the meane time."
By 1649 he had removed again, this time to Kittery,
Maine near Sturgeon’s Creek, where he was fined in October 1650 for selling
alcohol without a license, but at the same time granted an order to keep an “ordinary”
(tavern) and also a ferry. Later, there
were several people from Kittery and Dover rounded up for entertaining Quakers,
including Anthony Emery. He was fined
the heaviest, ten pounds and ten shillings for lying to the court. He tried to deed his land to his son, James,
so he could leave Kittery for Rhode Island, but his wife changed her mind and
sued him for her portion and returned to Kittery. Apparently they never lived together
again. He was a freeman and shoemaker in
Portsmouth, Rhode Island by 1660 and apparently died there sometime before 8
June 1681 when his will leaves his land to his daughter, Rebecca.
The Emery Genealogy:
Generation 1. Anthony Emery, baptized on 29 August 1601 in Romsey,
Hampshire, England as the son of John Emery and Agnes Northend, and died
perhaps on 30 March 1680 in Portsmouth, Rhode Island; married Frances Unknown.
Three children.
1. Rebecca Emery, married first Robert Weymouth, second Thomas
Sadler, third to Daniel Eaton of Little Compton, Rhode Island.
2. Unknown Emery
3. James Emery (see below)
Generation 2:
James Emery, baptized at Romsey, Hampshire, England on 18 September 1631,
married first to Elizabeth Unknown mother of his children, married second to
Elizabeth (Newcomb) Pidge, widow of John Pidge.
Seven children:
1. Elizabeth Emery, born about 1657, married Sylvanus Nock
2. James Emery, born about 1658, married Margaret Hitchcock
3. Sarah Emery (see below)
4. Zachariah Emery, born
about 1662, married Elizabeth Goodwin
5. Noah Emery, born about 1663, married Elizabeth Unknown
6. Daniel Emery, born 13
September 1667 married Margaret Gowen
7. Job Emery, born 1670 married Charity Nason
Generation 3. Sarah Emery married John Thompson
Generation 4. John Thompson married Mary Stacy
Generation 5. Mary Thompson married Richard Nason
Generation 6. Mercy Nason
married William Wilkinson
Generation 7. Aaron Wilkinson married Mercy F. Wilson
Generation 8. Robert Wilson Wilkinson married Phebe Cross Munroe
Generation 9. Albert Munroe Wilkinson married Isabella Lyons Bill
Generation 10. Donald Munroe Wilkinson married Bertha Louise
Roberts (my grandparents)
There is a sketch of Anthony Emery in The
Great Migration: Immigrants to America, by Robert Charles Anderson,
George F. Sanborn and Melinde Lutz Sanborn, Volume II, pages 441 – 446. There is a book Genealogical Records of
Descendants of John and Anthony Emery of Newbury, Mass., 1590 – 1890,
by Reverend Rufus Emery, 1890.
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To cite/link to this blog post: Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Surname Saturday - Emery", Nutfield Genealogy, posted 24 December 2011, (
Thanks, Heather-- the Emerys seem to have been a pretty interesting family. We think of the Puritans as being stodgy, but they couldn't have been too bad if they taverns!
ReplyDeleteOh, and we're cousins here too... I'm decended from Anthony's brother John. :-)
Merry Christmas to you and yours!
Hi Heather - I am a little late but... Anthony Emery is my one of my primary grandfathers on my mother's side as well as my paternal side! I descend from James to his son James born 1667 who married Margaret Gowen and his son Job who married Charity Nason. Both material lines. Sarah married John Thompson but her daughter Elizabeth is the line carrier to my paternal side. Small world!!
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