Surname Saturday ~ ALLEN of Salisbury, Massachusetts

There are a lot of ALLENs in my family tree!  I have posted two other ALLEN lines from my family tree.  William Allen (1602 – 1678) of Manchester, Massachusetts (three lineages, two on my maternal side, and one on my paternal side), and also a post about Samuel Allen (1598 – 1669) of Braintree, Massachusetts.  My mother’s maiden name is ALLEN.  I recently discovered a link to William Allen (1611 – 1686) of Salisbury, the subject of this post.  I had already researched quite a bit about this particular William Allen because he is often confused with William Allen of Manchester.  They have the same names, lived during the same time periods, lived in contiguous towns, and name their children the same names.  Phew!

William Allen was granted 4 acres of land on Deer Island on 19 June 1638.  This island is in the Merrimack River near Newbury.  He then settled in that part of Salisbury, Massachusetts that is now the town of Amesbury as early as 1639.  He was a housewright.  

William Allen married first to Ann Goodale, mother of eleven children, and then married second to Alice, the widow of both John Roper and John Dickinson.  William Allen died in 1686 and left a lengthy will that showed he was a very wealthy man.  The inventory of his estate was worth more than 280 pounds.

I descend from his fourth child, and third daughter, Martha Allen (1646 – 1718) who married Richard Hubbard.  Both Richard and Martha signed the Bradbury Petition on 22 July 1692, in support of Marry Bradbury of Salisbury and professing her innocence in the midst of the Salem witch trials.  Because of this and other ongoing petitions and protests her execution was delayed until after the hysteria had passed.  Mary Bradbury was never hanged, and she died of natural causes in 1700.  They had ten children and I descend from their daughter Comfort Hubbard who married Joshua Weeks. 

Some ALLEN resources:

The History of Gloucester by John James Babson, 1860 (some of his sketch on William Allen of Salisbury is mixed up with the William Allen of Manchester, particularly the bit about the early Dorchester Company)

Massachusetts and Maine Families in the Ancestry of Walter Goodwin Davis, by Walter Goodwin Davis, 1996, Volume I, pages 6 – 12.

Essex Antiquarian, Volume II, pages 17 - 25 for the article "Descendants of William Allen of Salisbury" [note that descendant #107 Jeremiah Allen married Abigail Allen of Manchester, intermarriage between the two Cape Ann Allen families!]

Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury, by David W. Hoyt, 1897, page 31

My Hubbard Surname Saturday post:
https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2018/11/surname-saturday-hubbard-of-salisbury.html   

My ALLEN genealogy:

Generation 1:   William Allen, born 1611 probably in England, died 18 June 1686 on Deer Island, Newbury, Massachusetts; married first to Ann Goodale, daughter of Richard Goodale and Dorothy Whiterent.  She was born about 1622 in England and died 31 May 1678 in Salisbury, Massachusetts (eleven children); married second to Alice Unknown, the widow of John Roper and John Dickinson.

Generation 2:  Martha Allen, born about 1646 in Salisbury, died 4 October 1718 in Salisbury, married about 1666 to Richard Hubbard, the son of Richard Hubbard and Hannah Parker.  He was born about 1645 in Salisbury, and died 26 June 1719 in Salisbury.  Ten children.

Generation 3: Comfort Hubbard m. Joshua Weeks

Generation 4: Mary Weeks m. Jonathan Chesley

Generation 5: Comfort Chesley m. Stephen Perkins

Generation 6:  Mary Perkins m. Nathaniel Batchelder

Generation 7: Jonathan Batchelder m. Nancy Thompson

Generation 8: George E. Batchelder m. Abigail M. Locke

Generation 9: George E. Batchelder m. Mary Katharine Emerson

Generation 10: Carrie Maude Batchelder m. Joseph Elmer Allen

Generation 11: Stanley Elmer Allen m. Gertrude Matilda Batchelder

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, “Surname Saturday ~ ALLEN of Salisbury, Massachusetts”, Nutfield Genealogy, posted December 22, 2018, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2018/12/surname-saturday-allen-of-salisbury.html: accessed [access date]). 

Surname Saturday ~ HUBBARD of Salisbury, Massachusetts

HUBBARD / HOBART / HUBBURD

I have already blogged about another HUBBARD ancestral family – the descendants of Hugh Hubbard (about 1640 – 1685) of New London, Connecticut at this link:  https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2013/10/surname-saturday-hubbard-of-new-london.html  

This second HUBBARD lineage descends from Richard Hubbard (1645 – 1719) of Salisbury, Massachusetts.  He doesn’t seem to be related to any of the Ipswich or Boston Hubbard families, even though James Savage (Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England) implies he might be the son of Richard Hubbard of Ipswich. 

Richard Hubbard, my 9^th great grandfather, was a blacksmith in Salisbury.  He was known as “Cornet Richard Hubbard”, which is an archaic term referring to the lowest ranked officer in a British troop, lower than captain or lieutenant (now equivalent to a second lieutenant).  In 1692 both Richard and his wife Martha (Allen) signed the Bradbury Petition.  On 22 July 1692 over 100 friends and neighbors of Mary (Perkins) Bradbury in Salisbury signed a petition protesting her innocence when she was arrested during the Salem witch trials.  She was found guilty and sentenced to be hanged, but the ongoing petitions and protests caused her execution to be delayed until after the hysteria had passed. 

In 1700 Richard and Martha Hubbard also bought land in Boston on Fort Hill, in the district of Roxbury.  The deeds name him as Richard Hubbard the blacksmith.  He deeded this land and the dwelling to his son Joseph Hubbard, who was also a blacksmith, and to Abigail Wheeler, the widow of Henry Wheeler. Although he briefly owned this land in Boston, he stayed as a resident of Salisbury.

Richard’s epitaph at the Colonial Burying Ground in Salisbury reads “Cornet Richard Hubburd / Died June ye 16 1719 / aged 88 years / Faith and Love Are laid in ye dust / waiting for ye resorrection in ye just.”

Richard Hubbard and Martha Allen are the ancestors of Governor John Langdon of New Hampshire, signer of the U.S. Constitution.

Some HUBBARD resources:

Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury, Massachusetts, by David W. Hoyt, 1919 (See Volume 1, pages 31 and 210).

The Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire, by Noyes, Libby, and Davis, 1928, page 354

The Suffolk County Deeds

My HUBBARD genealogy:

Generation 1:  Richard Hubbard, born about 1645, and died 26 June 1719 in Salisbury, Massachusetts; married about 1666 in Salisbury to Martha Allen, daughter of William Allen and Ann Goodale.  She was born about 1646 in Salisbury and died 4 October 1718 in Salisbury.  Ten children.

Generation 2:  Comfort Hubbard, born 17 January 1682 in Salisbury, and died 20 March 1756; married on 7 November 1699 in Boston to Joshua Weeks.  He was a son of Leonard Weeks and Mary Redman.  Nine children.

Generation 3:  Mary Weeks m. Jonathan Chesley

Generation 4: Comfort Chesley m. Stephen Perkins

Generation 5:  Mary Perkins m. Nathaniel Batchelder

Generation 6:  Jonathan Batchelder m. Nancy Thompson

Generation 7:  George E. Batchelder m. Abigail M. Locke

Generation 8:  George E. Batchelder m. Mary Katharine Emerson

Generation 9:  Carrie Maude Batchelder m. Joseph Elmer Allen

Generation 10:  Stanley Elmer Allen m. Gertrude Matilda Hitchings (my grandparents)

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, “Surname Saturday ~  HUBBARD of Salisbury, Massachusetts”, Nutfield Genealogy, posted November 24, 2018, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2018/11/surname-saturday-hubbard-of-salisbury.html: accessed [access date]). 

The Shapley Line - One of the old borders between New Hampshire and Massachusetts

Based on the 1640 southern boundary of

Bachiler’s farm, it was surveyed by Capt.

Nicholas Shapley in 1657, dividing the Province

Of New Hampshire from the Massachusetts Bay

Colony 1689 – 1741.  In 1662 three Quaker women,

Being banished from the territory, were freed

South of here by Constable Walter Barefoot.

Edward Gove, imprisoned in the Tower of

London for leading the rebellion against

Lt. Gov. Cranfield in 1683, lived nearby.

This roadside marker on the corner of Rt. 1 and Rocks Road in Seabrook, New Hampshire has always intrigued me because it mentions the BATCHELDER and GOVE families.  I’ve blogged about both families.  I’m a descendant of the founder of Hampton, New Hampshire Reverend Stephen Batchelder, and my god-father is a descendant of Edward Gove. You can read about the BATCHELDER family HERE (and HERE for all my BATCHELDER stories) , and you can read about Edward Gove HERE.

In The History of the Town of Hampton, New Hampshire, Volume 1, by Joseph Dow, on pages 135 – 136, is the story of the Shapley line.  This excerpt is from the New Hampshire Provincial Papers, Volume 1, page 231:

“The bounds between the two Townes menconed toward the sea is [are] to be upon a straight line beginning at the middle of the Hampton Rivers mouth and Runing upwards to a marked tree being and standing at the uppermost corner of the farm commonly called Mr. Bachiler’s farme – the sayd line to Runne upon a west north west point of the compasse nearest, and the said lyne being so Runne by both Townes & marked out according as Capt. Shapleigh hath now draune the plat, wee Agree upon consideration of all pleas, that the Towne of Salisbury shall have and enjoy thirty acres of marsh on the north side of the said line towards Hampton at the lower end of the said line to be layd out by both Townes and Adjoyning to the line; Also for the upper line into the woods, wee determine that the line shall runne from the marked tree before mentioned upon a west and by North line nearest according as Captaine Shapleigh hath given in the line of the treading of Meremack River, the which wee conclude to be the bounds between the said Townes unto their utmost extent towards Haverill; wee doe further declare that what marsh the Towne of Salisbury hath laid out to any of theire Inhabitants, that shall fall within the lyne above menconed towards Hampton, they shall enjoy and so much more shall make up the whole thirty acres, to be laid out belowe proprieties, if there to be found, or els above, Joyning to the line, and this wee give as our determination in the busines to us committed concerning the prmises.

Witnes our hands this 3d day of the five mo: 1657

John Appleton

Joseph Medcalf

Wm Bartholemew

Dan. Pearse”

At the time Joseph Dow published The History of The Town of Hampton in 1892, the bound rock [marking the middle of the Hampton River] and the Bachiler tree were still standing “all points are clearly identified to this day.”  [page 137].  Today these markers are both gone or moved.

I’m not sure which member of the Rev. Stephen Batchelder’s family is the “Mr. Bachiler” in the sign.  It could be the good Reverend himself.  I’m also not sure why they through in the story of the Quaker women and Edward Gove on this road sign, either, other than the fact that these incidents related to people who lived nearby.

Nicholas Shapley is often confused with Nicholas Shapleigh, Merchant and Magistrate of Maine.  Nicholas Shapley of Charlestown, Massachusetts was a surveyor.  There is no evidence he was related to the Shapleigh family of the Piscataqua Region.  He lived from 1605 to his death in Charlestown on 15 February 1663.  He left four children – Benjamin, Joseph, Nicholas and Ann AKA Sarah wife of John Fosdick.

On the other hand, Nicholas Shapleigh the magistrate was born in 1617 in Devonshire, England.  He was one of the wealthiest merchants in New England.  He was killed in 1682 when a mast fell off a vessel at the shipyard of John Diamond in Kittery.  The inventory of his estate includes two Irish indentured servants, and “4 Neagers 3 men one woman & one little Neager valued at 90 pound” [York Deeds Vol. V, Fol. 15 – 16].  You can read his will at this link (he had no children, he left his estate to the children of his sister Katherine and brother Alexander): https://www.mainegenealogy.net/maine_wills.asp?source=probatecourtvol8&testator=NicholasShapleigh   

My ancestor, Nathan Longfellow (1690 - 1731), who was the constable and tax collector for Hampton, New Hampshire.  He was arrested by the town of Salisbury, Massachusetts for attempting to collect tax money for Hampton from residents of Massachusetts (on the "other" side of the Shapley line). See this blog post for the Surname Saturday LONGFELLOW sketch which mentions this incident about the Shapley Line:  https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2018/11/surname-saturday-longfellow-of-newbury.html  

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "The Shapley Line - One of the old borders between New Hampshire and Massachusetts", Nutfield Genealogy, posted October 29, 2018, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2018/10/the-shapley-line-one-of-old-borders.html: accessed [access date]). 

Surname Saturday ~ CLEMENTS of Haverhill, Massachusetts

CLEMONS /  CLEMMINS / CLEMONTS / CLEMONS

The first of the Clements family to come to America was Job Clements, son of Robert Clements, who came to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1639.  Soon after his wife, Lydia died in 1642 in England, Robert Clements came to New England permanently with his sons Job and John, and his daughters Sarah and Lydia.  He left behind two older sons, and a five year old Mary who eventually came to Massachusetts and married John Osgood. Her brother, John Clements, married Sarah Osgood, John’s sister. In 1692 Mary (Clements) Osgood was accused of witchcraft and confessed.  Several months later she recanted, saying she was forced to confess. She remained in prison until early 1693 when she was ordered to be released. 

Robert first lived at Salisbury, and then removed further inland and up the Merrimack River to Haverhill.  The Deed for Haverhill was signed in 1642 by six men, including Robert Clements and Reverend John Ward.  Clements is listed with he first 32 grantees in 1645, the same year he built the first grist mill.  He served as a representative to the General Court and as a Judge for Norfolk County. 

One of Robert Clements’ descendants was Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835 – 1910), also known as the famous author Mark Twain.  You can read about this connection in the article by Frank Emerson, “Mark Twain and his Connection to the Clemens and Emersons of Haverhill” The Essex Genealogist, August 199, pages 139 – 142.  I descend from both the Clements and Emerson families, too!

I descend from Robert Clements’ daughter Sarah (1626 – 1694) who married Abraham Morrill of Salisbury, Massachusetts.  You can read more about the MORRILL family at this link:

https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2018/06/surname-saturday-morrill-of-cambridge.html

  

Some CLEMENTS family resources:

Ancestors and Descendants of Robert Clements, by P.W. Clement, 1927, pages 13-30

Dawes-Gates Ancestral Lines, by Mary Walton Ferris, vol. 1 (1943) and vol. 2 (1931)

Jeanie Thornton Roberts, “Robert Clement of Haverhill”, The Family Connection blog, posted January 2012, accessed 23 May 2018

Essex Antiquarian, Volume 7 (1903), page 158 for the will of Robert Clements of Haverhill.

My CLEMENTS genealogy:

Generation 1:  Robert Clements, son of Richard Clements and Agnes Unknown,  was baptized on 14 December 1595 in Cosby, Leicestershire, England, died 29 September 1658 in Haverhill, Massachusetts; married first  to Lydia Unknown.  She died 12 March 1642 in Ansley, Warwickshire, England; married second to Judith Unknown.   Judith remarried to John Whitney in 1659.  Eight Clements children with Lydia.

Generation 2:  Sarah Clements, born about 1626 in Ansley, died August 1694 in Salem, Massachusetts; married on 10 June 1645 in Salisbury, Massachusetts to Abraham Morrill.  He was born about 1615 in England and died 20 June 1662 in Roxbury, Massachusetts. Sarah married second to Thomas Mudgett on 8 October 1665 in Salisbury.  Nine Morrill children.

Generation 3:  Isaac Morrill m. Phebe Gill

Generation 4:  Mary Morrell m. George Tuck

Generation 5:  Lydia Tuck m. Jeremiah Allen

Generation 6:  Jeremiah Allen m. Eunice Gardner

Generation 7:  Abigail Allen m. Comfort Haley

Generation 8:  Comfort Haley m. Rebecca Crosby

Generation 9:  Joseph Edwin Healy m. Matilda Weston

Generation 10:  Mary Etta Healey m. Peter Hoogerzeil

Generation 11:  Florence Etta Hoogerzeil m. Arthur Treadwell Hitchings

Generation 12:  Gertrude Matilda Hitchings m. Stanley Elmer Allen (my grandparents)

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, “Surname Saturday ~ CLEMENTS of Haverhill, Massachusetts”, Nutfield Genealogy, posted June 9, 2018, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2018/06/surname-saturday-clements-of-haverhill.html: accessed [access date]). 

Surname Saturday ~ Morrill of Cambridge and Salisbury, Massachusetts

MORRILL /  MORRELL /  MORELL

My 10^th great grandfather, Abraham Morrill (about 1615 – 1662) may have come to New England from England with his older brother Isaac Morrill aboard the ship Lyon in 1632, but we have no record.  He was probably underage because only adult men signed the Oath of Allegiance.  By 1634 he was paying taxes in Cambridge, Massachusetts.  His first grant of land in Cambridge was on 20 August 1635. 

By 1640 Abraham Morrill was granted land in Salisbury, Massachusetts.  In 1645 he married Sarah Clement of Salisbury, the daughter of Robert Clement of Haverhill.  They had nine children all born in Salisbury.  The last child, a daughter named Hepzibah, was born several months after Abraham’s early death. He was buried in Roxbury, where his brother Isaac’s family lived, and the record states “Abraham Morrell of Salisbury fell sick in this town & died & was buried upon the 20^th of the 4^th [1662]” [Roxbury Church Records 177].

Abraham’s wife, Sarah Clement, was the sister to Mary (Clement) Osgood, who was accused of witchcraft in 1692 and spent three months in jail.  Sarah married second to Thomas Mudgett in 1665. Sarah died two years after the witch trials, and thirty two years after her first husband, Abraham Morrill. 

I descend from Abraham and Sarah’s oldest son Isaac Morrill (1646 – 1713).  He was a resident of Salisbury, married Phebe Gill and had three children.  My 8^th great grandmother was Mary Morrell, wife of George Tuck of Beverly, Massachusetts.

Some MORRILL resources:

Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634 -1635, by Robert Charles Anderson, Volume 5, pages 153 – 156 – a lengthy sketch on Abraham Morrill.

Ancestors and Descendants of Robert Clements, by Mary Lovering Holman and Caroline Clement Brown, pages 25 -30. 

My MORRILL genealogy:

Generation 1:   Abraham Morrill, born about 1615 in England, died 20 June 1662 in Roxbury, Massachusetts; married on 10 June 1645 in Salisbury, Massachusetts to Sarah Clements, daughter of Robert Clement and Lydia Drummer.  She was born about 1626 in Ansley, Warwick, England, and died August 1694 in Salisbury.  Nine MORRILL children.  She married second on 8 October 1665 in Salisbury to Thomas Mudgett.

Generation 2:  Isaac Morrill, born 10 July 1646 in Salisbury, died 17 October 1713; married on 14 November 1670 in Salisbury to Phebe Gill, daughter of John Gill and Phebe Buswell.  Three children.

Generation 3: Mary Morrell, born 10 September 1689 in Salisbury, died December 1750 in Beverly, Massachusetts; married about 1701 in Beverly to George Tuck, son of John Tuck and Rachel Unknown.  He was born 11 October 1678 in Beverly, and died 8 May 1751 in Beverly. Nine children.

Generation 4: Lydia Tuck m. Jeremiah Allen

Generation 5:  Jeremiah Allen m. Eunice Gardner

Generation 6: Abigail Allen m. Comfort Haley

Generation 7:  Comfort Haley m. Rebecca Crosby

Generation 8: Joseph Edwin Healy m. Matilda Weston

Generation 9: Mary Etta Healey m. Peter Hoogerzeil

Generation 10:  Florence Etta Hoogerzeil m. Arthur Treadwell Hitchings

Generation 11:  Gertrude Matilda Hitchings m. Stanley Elmer Allen (my grandparents)

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, “Surname Saturday ~ Morrill of Cambridge and Salisbury, Massachusetts”, Nutfield Genealogy, posted June 2, 2018, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2018/06/surname-saturday-morrill-of-cambridge.html: accessed [access date]). 

Weathervane Wednesday ~ Above a Library

Weathervane Wednesday is an on-going series of photographs I post every week.  I started out by publishing only weather vanes from the Londonderry area, but now I've been finding interesting weather vanes from all over New England.  Sometimes these weather vanes are whimsical, or historical, but all are very unique.  Often, my readers tip me off to some very special and unusual weather vanes.

Today's weather vane is from somewhere in Massachusetts.

Do you know the location of weather vane #280?  Scroll down to see the answer...

This charming weathervane was photographed above the cupola on the Salisbury Public Library in Salisbury, Massachusetts.  This is a brand new library building, opened in September 2015.  There has been a public library in Salisbury since 1885.  It's a beautiful new building in the center of town on the green.

The weathervane above the library is just as beautiful.  There is a link to the video of the weathervane installation below.  It was made by New England Weathervanes in Seabrook, New Hampshire.  The librarians in the video explain their rationale behind the design of two young adults reading under a shining star.

Salisbury Public Library-  http://www.salisburylibrary.org/  

Salisbury Library Weathervane Installation  http://trms.sctvmc.org/VOD/4153-Salisbury-Library-Weathervane-Install-SD-High-v1.mp4

The New England Weathervane Shop, Seabrook, New Hampshire http://www.newenglandweathervaneshop.com/  


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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Weathervane Wednesday ~ Above a Library", Nutfield Genealogy, posted October 12, 2016,  (  http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2016/10/weathervane-wednesday-above-library.html:  accessed [access date]).

Weathervane Wednesday ~ Do you Recognize this Clock?

Weathervane Wednesday is an on-going series of photographs I post weekly.  I started out by publishing only weather vanes from the Londonderry area, but now I've been finding interesting weather vanes from all over New England.  Sometimes these weather vanes are whimsical, or historical, but all are very unique.  Often, my readers tip me off to some very special and unusual weather vanes.

Today's weather vane is from somewhere in Massachusetts.

Do you know the location of weather vane #279?  Scroll down to see the answer...

This beautiful weathervane was photographed at the top of the steeple over the East Parish Meetinghouse in Salisbury, Massachusetts.   The original meeting house was built of logs in 1640, and according to the church website, it was the 18th church built in Massachusetts.  This building you see now was built in 1834 as a Methodist congregation.  The clock tower was built in 1897, and it was a gift from John T. Brown in memory of his wife.  Instead of numerals on the clock face there are the twelve letters MEMORIAL GIFT.

The weathervane is a fancy, gilded arrow in the banner style typical of so many New England meetinghouses and churches.  It is visible from quite a distance as you travel up Lafayette Road (Route 1A) along the seacoast.


The East Parish United Methodist Church, Salisbury, Massachusetts
http://www.eastparishumc.org/  

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Weathervane Wednesday ~ Do you Recognize this Clock?", Nutfield Genealogy, posted October 5, 2016,  ( http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2016/10/weathervane-wednesday-do-you-recognize.html:  accessed [access date]).

Surname Saturday ~ AYER of Salisbury and Haverhill, Massachusetts

AYER, EYRE, AYRES, and other variations (The Essex Antiquarian article listed below* has 29 spelling variations found in New England records).

My 10^th great grandfather was John Ayer, whose arrival in New England is unknown despite the fact that several online and print sources claim he arrived on the Mary Anne in 1637 or the James in 1635.  He is not listed on the passenger lists of either ship.  John married a Hannah, maiden name unknown, around 1620 somewhere in England and they removed to Salisbury, Massachusetts about 1637.   He is on a list (undated) of men who were granted land in the first division of Colchester (renamed Salisbury).  His youngest child, Hannah (my 9^th great grandmother) is the only Ayer child of John’s listed in the Salisbury vital records.  She was born 21 December 1644.

In 1645 John and his son, John Jr., owned land in Haverhill, Massachusetts in an area now known as Ayers Village.  They were both made Freemen at Ipswich on “4^th day 9^th month 1645” ( 4 October 1645). 

Some people claim that John’s wife Hannah was a Webb or an Everard.  There is no proof that she is a sister of John Everard alias Webb.  She is not listed in his will even though she was alive when the will was proved.  Her children were listed as cousins and as the children of John Ayer, so there is a possible kinship somewhere.   The Ayer family is not listed on the James, which brought John and Stephen Everard from England.  You can read more about John Everard alias Webb at the website http://www.webbdeiss.org/webb/johnwebb_aliasevered.html by Jonathan Webb Deiss.  This website has a great list of sources.

John and Hannah Ayer’s daughter married Nathan Parker and was living in Ipswich.  She was hanged for witch craft on 22 September 1692 during the Salem witch hysteria. 

There are several famous AYER descendants including Laura Ingalls Wilder and President Gerald R. Ford.  A locally famous descendant, James Cook Ayer (1818 – 1878) was the namesake of the town of Ayer, Massachusetts.  He was the brother of the wealthy industrialist Frederick Ayer (1822 – 1918) and grandfather of Beatrice Banning Ayer, wife of General George S. Patton. 

Some AYER resources:

Ayer is not listed in the Great Migration series, so we know that Anderson did not consider John Ayer as a passenger on the James.  Besides the vital records, court records, and the usual Genealogical Dictionary of New England by Savage or Pioneers of Massachusetts by Pope there are two other good sources for more information on the Ayer family.

* “The Ayer Genealogy”, in The Essex Antiquarian, October 1900, Volume IV, No. 10, pages 145 – 150 (available online at www.americanancestors.org for members of NEHGS).

The Ayer Genealogy “Descendants of the Immigrant John Ayer of Haverhill, Massachusetts” compiled by Janson Ayer  http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ayergenealogy/index.html

My AYER Genealogy:

Generation 1:  John Ayer, born about 1582 and died 31 March 1657 in Haverhill, Massachusetts; married about 1620 in England to Hannah Unknown. She was born about 1598 and died 8 October 1688 in Haverhill.  Nine children.

Generation 2: Hannah Ayer, born 21 December 1644 in Haverhill; married on 24 March 1662/3 in Haverhill to Stephen Webster as his first wife.  Six children.  He remarried to Judith, widow of William Broad. 

Generation 3: Abigail Webster m. Samuel Berry

Generation 4: Jotham Berry m. Mary Bates

Generation 5: Rachel Berry m. Ithamar Mace

Generation 6: Abigail Mace m. Simon Locke

Generation 7: Richard Locke m. Margaret Welch

Generation 8: Abigail M. Locke m. George E. Batchelder

Generation 9: George E. Batchelder m. Mary Katharine Emerson

Generation 10: Carrie Maude Batchelder m. Joseph Elmer Allen

Generation 11: Stanley Elmer Allen m. Gertrude Matilda Hitchings (my grandparents)

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Surname Saturday ~ AYER of Salisbury and Haverhill, Massachusetts", Nutfield Genealogy, posted July 16, 2016,  (  http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2016/07/surname-saturday-ayer-of-salisbury-and.html:  accessed [access date]).

Weathervane Wednesday ~ A Lobster above a Tavern

I post a series of weather vane photographs every Wednesday.  This started with images of weathervanes from the Londonderry area, but now I've found interesting weather vanes all across New England.  Sometimes my weather vanes are whimsical, or historical, but all are interesting.  Often my readers tip me off to some very unique or unusual weathervanes, too!

Today's weather vane is from a very travelled highway in Massachusetts.

Do you know the location of weather vane #229?  Scroll down to see the answer...

Today's weathervane was photographed above the All American Tavern in Salisbury, Massachusetts.  We were driving by after attending a lecture at the Newburyport Historical Society, and it was late, and we were hungry.  This weathervane caught my eye, and I knew we had found someplace to grab a late supper.  Vincent and I shared a plate of fried clams here, and enjoyed them very much!

The weathervane is a two dimensional lobster.  It was a great piece of advertising art.  It worked on us, because it made us want to drop in as we were driving along the coast on Route 1!  I'm sure it has lured in many more travelers.

The All American Tavern website   http://www.allamericantavern.com/

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Weathervane Wednesday ~ A Lobster above a Tavern", Nutfield Genealogy, posted October 7, 2015 ( http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2015/10/weathervane-wednesday-lobster-above.html : accessed [access date]). 

Surname Saturday - Worcester

WORCESTER

William Worcester's signature
in the 1635 Olney Parish Register

The Reverend William Worcester attended St. John’s College at Cambridge University in England in 1620.  He was ordained as a deacon on 21 December 1622 at Peterborough Cathedral, and was vicar of Olney from 1624 to 1636 until he was suspended for refusing to read an edict from the King which allowed sports and games on the Sabbath.  His beliefs had begun to mirror the Puritans.  He came to America after this and was settled as the pastor of the first church gathered at Salisbury, Massachusetts about 1638.

The place in Salisbury's Colonial Burial Ground, believed to be his burial spot, was marked with a bronze tablet which reads “Here lies buried the body of Rev. William Worcester, the first minister of Salisbury, who came from England about 1639 and died 1662. This stone was laid on his grave to prevent disinterment by wolves. This tablet is affixed by his descendants, 1913." 

As I mentioned in my sketch of Reverend Joseph Hull http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2011/12/surname-saturday-hull.html, it is a blessing to have a minister as an ancestor because they left so many  interesting records.

The Worcester Genealogy:

Generation 1:  William Worcester, probably the son of Joseph Worcester of Rugby, Warwickshire, England, married first Sarah Unknown.  She died in Salisbury, Massachusetts 23 April 1650, married second on 23 July 1650, Rebecca Swaine, who died in Ipswich, Massachusetts on 21 February 1695.  She had been previously married first to Henry Bylie, second to John Hall.  Her fourth husband was Samuel Symonds.  Thirteen children:

1. Mary, buried about 1630 in Olney

2. Patience, buried 19 November 1630

3. Samuel, born in England, died 1681 Lynn, Massachusetts, married Elizabeth Parrott

4. Susannah (see below)

5. John, baptized at Olney on 26 March 1636 and buried at Olney on 26 March 1637

6. William, baptized at Olney 15 January 1638, died at Boston 1683; married Constant Unknown

7. Sarah, died at Salisbury 1 April 1641

8. Sarah, born at Salisbury 4 April 1641

9. Timothy, born at Salisbury, 14 May 1642, died 1672, married Susannah Unknown

10. Moses, born at Salisbury 10 November 1643; married first Elizabeth Stuart, second Sarah Remick Soper

11. Sarah, born at Salisbury 22 April 1646, died 9 January 1649/50

12. Elizabeth, born at Salisbury 9 April 1648, died 1649

13. Elizabeth, born at Salisbury 9 November 1649, died before 1662

Generation 2:   Susannah Worcester, baptized at Olney on 5 May 1634; married on 4 October 1653 to Thomas Stacy.  He was born about 1620 in England and died 23 July 1690 in Ipswich. Five children:

Generation 3:  William Stacy married Mehitable Weymouth

Generation 4: Mary Stacy married John Thompson

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)

William Worcester’s will was proved in the Norfolk county court, Massachusetts.  A copy made from the original is on file in the probate office at Salem, and can be read in The Essex Antiquarian, Volume XI, #2, pages 60 -61.  There is a book The Worcester Family in America by John P. Worcester, 2005, available to view online at familysearch.org.  An article in The American Genealogist Volume 71, pages 50- 51 discusses his possible English origins.

There is also a good website http://www.worcesterfamily.com/first.htm

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To cite/link to this blog post: Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Surname Saturday - Worcester", Nutfield Genealogy, posted January 7, 2012, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2012/01/surname-saturday-worcester.html: accessed [access date]).