Rev. Joseph Emerson

Bef 1620 - 1680  (> 59 years)

• Name	Joseph Emerson  [1, 2]
  Prefix	Rev.
  Birth	Bef 25 Jun 1620  [3, 4]
  Baptism	25 Jun 1620	Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire, England   [3, 4]
  Gender	Male
  Death	3 Jan 1680	Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts   [3, 4]
  Person ID	I33408	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	29 Apr 2021

  
  

  Father	Thomas Emerson,   b. Bef 31 Jul 1584   d. 1 May 1666, Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts (Age > 81 years)
  Mother	Elizabeth Brewster   d. Aft 25 Sep 1666
  Marriage	1 Jul 1611	Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire, England   [4]
  Family ID	F19709	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Elizabeth Woodmansey,   b. Bef 28 Feb 1623   d. Bef 1665 (Age < 41 years)
  Marriage	Abt 1646  [4, 5]
  Family ID	F19713	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	4 Apr 2021

  
  

  Family 2	Elizabeth Bulkeley,   b. Abt 1638   d. 4 Sep 1693, Reading, Middlesex, Massachusetts (Age ~ 55 years)
  Marriage	7 Dec 1665	Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts   [3]
  Children	+ 1. Lucian Emerson,   b. 2 Oct 1667, Milton, Norfolk, Massachusetts d. 17 Jan 1740, Reading, Middlesex, Massachusetts (Age 72 years)
  Family ID	F19707	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	3 Apr 2021

  
  

• Notes

  From Stone-Gregg Genealogy (citation details below): Joseph Emerson was a Puritan minister. He was at Ipswich as early as 1638, and he preached at York, Maine, the same year. In 1653, Joseph was a resident of Wells, Maine, and took the freeman's oath on 4 July 1653. He was an inhabitant there when the commissioners took the submission of the people, the court being held in his house. He favored submission to Massachusetts in 1651-2, and was evidently a leading man in the Massachusetts party, signing a petition to Cromwell, asking the protector to confirm the jurisdiction of Massachusetts over the inhabitants of Wells. In this petition, which he probably wrote, the people of Wells refer Cromwell to their "pyous and reverend friend, Mr. John Wheelwright, sometime of us, now in England," for any desired information as to their conditionor character. Emerson soon lost his hold on the affections of the people of Wells and was presented several times for "telling of a ly" or "speaking falsely." He left Wells about 1664 and became the first minister in Milton. He was dismissed from this church after asking for an increase in salary because of his approaching marriage, and settled in Mendon, 1 December 1669, where he remained until the town was destroyed by the Indians in King Philip's war. He retired to Concord where he died. Joseph Emerson (1620-1680) = Elizabeth Bulkeley (1638-1693) Edward Emerson (1670-1743) = Rebecca Waldo (1662-1752) Joseph Emerson (1700-1767) = Mary Moody (1702-1799) William Emerson (1743-1776) = Phoebe Bliss (1741-1825) William Emerson (1769-1811) = Ruth Haskins (1768-1853) Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) Joseph Emerson (1620-1680) = Elizabeth Woodmansey (d. <1665) James Emerson (d. 1756) = Sarah (d. 1732) Elizabeth Emerson (1687-1760) = Joseph Taft (d. 1747) Peter Taft (d. 1783) = Elizabeth Cheney (1707-1783) Aaron Taft (1743-1808) = Rhoda Rawson (1749-1827) Peter Rawson Taft (1785-1867) = Sylvia Howard (1792-1866) Alphonso Taft (1810-1891) = Louisa Maria Torrey (1827-1907) William Howard Taft (1857-1930)

  
  

• Sources

  [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. [S5566] The Damon Family of Wayland, Massachusetts by Richard A. Damon, Jr. Penobscot Press, 1997. [S317] The Bulkeley Genealogy by Donald Lines Jacobus. New Haven, Connecticut: 1933. [S1409] Stone-Gregg Genealogy: The Ancestors and Descendants of Galen Luther Stone and His Wife Carrie Morton Gregg by Alicia Crane Williams. Baltimore: Gateway Press, 1987. [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., "by 1652".