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William Neff

Male 1642 - 1689  (~ 50 years)


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  • Name William Neff  [1, 2
    Birth Between 1639 and 1642  [3, 4
    Gender Male 
    Death 7 Feb 1689  Pemaquid, Maine Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 3, 5, 6
    Person ID I17416  Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
    Last Modified 22 Nov 2018 

    Family Mary Corliss,   b. 8 Sep 1646, Haverhill, Essex, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 22 Oct 1722, Haverhill, Essex, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 76 years) 
    Marriage 23 Jan 1665  Haverhill, Essex, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location  [3, 4
    Children 
     1. Mary Neff,   b. 9 Nov 1668, Haverhill, Essex, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Aft 1725, Plainfield, Windham, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location (Age > 58 years)
    Family ID F10696  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 4 Oct 2017 

  • Notes 
    • First appears in Essex (Massachusetts) county court records in Newbury, later in Haverhill. On 14 May 1663 he was made town herdsman of Haverhill. In 1689 he was drafted into the army of the short-lived Dominion of New England and sent to Maine, where he died at Pemaquid (which is now Bristol, in Lincoln County).

  • Sources 
    1. [S2268] Button Families of America by R. Glen Nye; edited by Katherine Watson Nye. 1971.

    2. [S1912] Vital Records of Haverhill, Massachusetts to the End of the Year 1849. Topsfield, Massachusetts: Topsfield Historical Society, 1910.

    3. [S2270] The Descendants of William Neff Who Married Mary Corliss, January 23, 1665, Haverhill, Massachusetts by Dorothy Neff Curry. 1958.

    4. [S2318] The Ancestry of Samuel Blanchard Ordway by Dean Crawford Smith; edited by Melinde Lutz Sanborn. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1990.

    5. [S2318] The Ancestry of Samuel Blanchard Ordway by Dean Crawford Smith; edited by Melinde Lutz Sanborn. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1990., month, year, and place only.

    6. [S660] Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire by Sybil Noyes, Charles Thornton Libby, and Walter Goodwin Davis. Portland, Maine: Southworth Press, 1928-1939., year only.