John Emery

Bef 1599 - 1683  (> 84 years)

• Name	John Emery
  Birth	Bef 29 Mar 1599  [1, 2, 3, 4]
  Baptism	29 Mar 1599	Romsey, Hampshire, England   [1, 2, 3, 4]
  Gender	Male
  Death	3 Nov 1683	Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts   [3, 5]
  Person ID	I5990	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	14 Nov 2021

  
  

  Father	John Emery   d. 25 Jun 1627, Romsey, Hampshire, England
  Marriage	1597	Romsey, Hampshire, England
  Family ID	F3476	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Alice Grantham   d. Bef Sep 1646
  Marriage	26 Jun 1620	Whiteparish, Wiltshire, England   [3, 6]
  Children	+ 1. Eleanor Emery,   b. Bef 7 Nov 1624, Romsey, Hampshire, England d. 1700 (Age > 75 years) + 2. Sgt. John Emery,   b. Bef 3 Feb 1629, Romsey, Hampshire, England d. Between 3 Aug 1693 and 26 Sep 1693, Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts (Age > 64 years)
  Family ID	F3406	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	14 Sep 2018

  
  

  Family 2	Mary Shatswell,   b. Abt 1605   d. 28 Apr 1694, Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts (Age ~ 89 years)
  Marriage	29 Oct 1647	Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts   [3]
  Children	+ 1. Jonathan Emery,   b. 13 May 1652, Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts d. 29 Sep 1723, Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts (Age 71 years)
  Family ID	F3164	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	7 May 2020

  
  

• Notes

  Emigrated from Southampton, 5 Apr 1635, on the James; arrived in Boston 3 Jun 1635. He was a carpenter and innkeeper in Newbury. In Sep 1646 he was fined for "showing attentions" to Bridget Travers, wife of Henry Travers, and was "bound not to frequent her company." He was constable of Newbury in 1655, clerk of the Newbury market in 1656, and a Newbury selectman in 1661. In 1663 he was fined for entertaining Quakers in his house; in the legal proceeding, a witness testified that "two men quakers wr entertained very kindly to bed and table & John Emmerie shok ym by ye hand and bid ym welcome," and that "the witness heard John Emery and his wife say that he had entertained quakers and that he would not put them from his house and used argument for the lawfulness of it." He was also prominent in the case of Lt. Robert Pike, refusing to recognize the General Court's authority to deprive the men of the town of the right of petition. Walter Goodwin Davis describes John Emery as "a courageous man who did not hesitate to back his opinions with action." Emigrated with his brother Anthony of the James, 3 Apr 1635. Settled at Newbury where he was a selectman, fence viewer, and frequent juror. Carpenter by trade.

  
  

• Sources

  [S537] Ancestry of Robert Roy and Related Families, by Robert Roy. [S2204] Massachusetts and Maine Families in the Ancestry of Walter Goodwin Davis (1885-1966) by Walter Goodwin Davis. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1996. [S101] The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633, Volumes 1-3 and The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volumes 1-7, by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1996-2011. [S1427] The Ancestry of Phoebe Tilton, 1775-1847, Wife of Capt. Abel Lunt of Newburyport, Massachuetts by Walter Goodwin Davis. Portland, Maine: The Anthoensen Press, 1947. [S630] Ancestry of Charles Stinson Pillsbury and John Sargent Pillsbury by Mary Lovering Holman. Concord, New Hampshire: The Rumford Press, 1938. [S223] Frederick J. Nicholson, "Alice Grant(h)am, Probable Wife of John Emery of Newbury, Massachusetts." The American Genealogist 65:211, 1990.