Lydia Perley

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• Name: Lydia Ayer

Notes:

Biography:
Her last name is often given as Peaslee.

Died:
Her gravestone reads:
Here lies buried the body of
Mrs. Lydia the wife of Deacon Peter Ayer,
Died Sept. 29, 1750,
In the 53 (rd) Year of Her Age

Lydia married Peter Ayer on 17 Jan 1720/21. Peter (son of Samuel Ayer and Elizabeth Tuttle) was born on 1 Oct 1696 in Haverhill, Massachusetts; died in 1774. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Jacob Ayer was born on 26 Oct 1721 in Haverhill, Massachusetts; died in 1790.
2. Peter Ayer, Jr. was born on 9 Oct 1724 in Haverhill, Massachusetts; died on 3 Mar 1799 in Haverhill, Massachusetts; was buried in Ancient West Parish Cemetery, Haverhill, Massachusetts.
3. Richard Ayer was born on 23 Jan 1727 in Haverhill, Massachusetts; died in 1781.
4. Perley Ayer was born on 30 Sep 1732 in Haverhill, Massachusetts; died in 1781.
5. John Ayer was born on 27 Feb 1735 in Haverhill, Massachusetts; died on 3 Jan 1737 in Haverhill, Massachusetts.
6. Joseph Ayer was born on 9 Sep 1736 in Haverhill, Massachusetts.
7. Lydia Ayer was born on 26 Dec 1737 in Haverhill, Massachusetts; died after 1799.

Notes:

Biography:
From M. V. B. Perley:
JACOB PERLEY was born in Rowley about 1670, and died in Bradford in April, 1751, at the age of eighty years. He married, first, 6 Dec, 1696, Lydia Peabody, who was born 9 March, 1673, and died about 1707 or 8. She was daughter of Capt. John, one of the most prominent of the early settlers in the town, and Hannah-Andrew Peabody, both of Boxford. She and her husband were admitted, 25 April, 1703, to the church that had been organized there the year before. He married, second, 9 May, 1709, Lydia Peabody, cousin to his first wife and daughter of Joseph and Bethiah-Bridges Peabody of Boxford, where she was born 4 Feb., 1683, died 30 April, 1732, and was interred in Harmony Cemetery, where upon a slate slab is this inscription :
[CENTER:]HERE LYES BURIED
ye BODY OF
LEDYA PEARLEY
ye WIFE OF mr
IAcOB PEARLEY
WHO DIED APREL
ye 30th 1732
& in ye 59th
YEAR OF HER AGE[:CENTER]
His third wife, (published 24 June, 1733), was Mrs. Mehitable Brown, widow of Ebenezer Brown of Rowley, who was published with her, 24 March, 1721-2, she being then the widow of John Hovey, who married her 25 May, 1702, when she was Mehitable Safford. He died 17 Aug., 1720. She died in Bradford, intestate, and "her son," Samuel Hovey of Rowley, was her administrator, appointed 23 March, 1754. In Rowley she had a wood lot and other land, and her estate was valued at £111 2s. 8d.
Mr. Perley removed to Boxford with his father's family, wherein he remained till 1696, or perchance a while longer. He owned the estate on the north side of Baldpate pond in Boxford, in after years owned and occupied by Mr. Augustus M. Perley. He built a dwelling a few rods north of the present barn, and lived there. The house was taken down about 1817, and the present residence was built. A peculiarity of the old house was the construction of its chimney upon the outside, with an oven opening outward, from which on baking-days, or rather the nights following, it is said, the contents were sometimes purloined, so that occasionally the family must attend the church without the usual inspiration of a baked-bean and suet-pudding breakfast.
He lived there till 1786, when he removed to Bradford, where he built a house. Meanwhile he retained an interest in his old residence in Boxford. He also owned an extensive tract of land west of Baldpate pond, and an interest in the Hazzeltine meadows in the northern part of the town. A road was laid, '25 Nov., 1702, from his house by Thomas Hazen;s house, etc. In 1710 he sold five acres of land to the town for the minister's use. The town 14 March, 1710, passed the following vote: "The Town have voted and given liberty to Ensien Thomas hazen, Jacob perley and david wood to seat up a Saw mill upon the parsioneg fearm, whear they shall see meet and to have a Convenient yard Rouem with a way to the mill and to have all the towens wright and Interest in sd Convenient sies for thorty years after this tiem without enny lawful molestation from the towen the sd hazzen Pearly and david wood alowing for the damieg that may bee don by Reason of sd Saw mill as Rasionel men shal Judg." After a few years the mill came into the possession of Dr. Wood, one of the proprietors. It was located on the "old Dresser road,” in the East Parish, on the site of the mill whose ruins are still observable near the residence of the late John Q. Batchelder’s family.
He had a long and varied experience in town affairs; was selectman in 1705, 1712, 1729 and 1732; a constable in 1705; a surveyor of highways in 1706; a juror in 1703 and 1711; a moderator of town meetings in 1729 and 1731; served on various committees and was town treasurer from 1718 to 1720, and in 1781 and 1782. He commenced his official military career as sergeant in 1705, was promoted to cornet in 1717, and to lieutenant in 1724, wherein he served till his feeble health forbade further duty. With his cousin jeremiah—which see—he served his people faithfully, efficiently and bravely in the famous expeditions of Capt. Lovewell against the Indians.
He joined the church when his first wife died, as above. His will is dated 18 Feb., 1750-1, and says he was in health. The probate of his will was taken 29 April, 1751, which argues a short sickness, if indeed he had any. In it he is called housewright, and he bequeathed to his wife Mehitable "all the household goods shee Brought and whatever else shee brought with her Into my estate at our marriage"; also the use of half his house in Bradford, or "if she chouse Instead of it, she shall have all my Interest in the house I formerly Dwelt in at Boxford." He also devised land in Boxford to his sons. Daniel Black, Paul Pritchard and Solomon Wood witnessed his will and were all present when it was proved. The probate value of his estate was £654 7s. 3d. The inventory valued "Half ye old house & half ye bam in Boxford £6 18s. 4d."; "the house and six acres of land in Bradford £133 6s. 8d.," and "about six acres of pasture land in Bradford £20." His son Francis was his executor.

Jacob married Lydia Peabody on 6 Dec 1696. Lydia (daughter of Capt. John Peabody and Hannah Andrews) was born on 9 Mar 1673; died in 1708. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Name: Lydia Perley

Notes:

Biography:
From M. V. B. Perley:
THOMAS PERLEY was born in Ipswich in 1641, and died in Boxford 24 Sept., 1709, aged sixty-eight years. He married 8 July, 1667, Lydia Peabody, who was born in 1644 and died 30 April, 1716. She was a daughter of Lt. Francis and Mary-Foster Peabody, of Topsfield. Mary was a daughter of Reginald Foster, or Forster, whose family is honorably mentioned in "Lay of the Last Minstrel,” and in "Marmion." Her father came over from St. St. (great St.) Albans, in England, in the same vessel and at the same time, 2d Aprilis, 1635, that Allan Perley did. Lydia was a member of the church at Rowley, and by a letter of dismission was admitted to the Boxford church 21 Feb., 1702-3. By her father's will she received five pounds besides what she had already had.
Mr. Perley settled in Rowley. In 1676, Dec. 12, Richard Dole of Newbury, for £75 sold him 170 acres, "one half of that parcel of land which he bought of Mr. Anthony Crosbie, lying in Rowley.” The 8th of January, 1677, he and his wife confirmed to her brother William Peabody, then of Topsfield, later of Boxford, for £82, land lying on the south side of the Andover road in Boxford. Before his removal to Boxford with his brother John, in 1684, he deeded, 31 March of that year,. for £20, eighteen acres of upland lying in Boxford, which they bought of Zaccheus Gould. In 1687, he was assessed on the following property, besides three "heads" or polls: 1 house, 25 a. land, 4 oxen, 2 horses, 10 cows, 7 young cattle, 22 sheep, 8 swine. This year he paid the largest tax of any in the town except his brother-in-law, John Peabody, who paid four pence more.
His residence was on the site of the residence of the late Isaac Hale, marked of late years by the umbrageous elm pictured in family-70, and earlier by its proximity to the apple tree and stone bound which then marked the bound between Ipswich, Topsfield and Boxford, but now, by a change in the line, the salient angle of Topsfield.
He was one of the most prominent and influential citizens of the town, and in an enlarged sense was one of "the fathers of the town." He was made freeman 28 May, 1677. He and John Peabody were chosen, 8 June, 1689, representative to the General Court, "teell government shall be seated, only they bee to sarve but one at a time." They were again chosen 11 March, 1689-90, but Peabody "sarved" both times. They served together at the quarterly session beginning 8 June, 1692. He was chosen a representative 31 Oct., 1698, and 8 May, 1700, he and John Peabody were chosen, only one to serve at a time. He was again chosen for 1702. He was a selectman, 1690, 1694, 1699, 1701, 1704, 1709; a constable 1688; a grand juror 1695; trial juror 1692, 1698, 1707; moderator of town meetings 1698, 1701, 1704, 1706, 1707 and 1709; he was made quarter master of the Boxford militia company about 1688, and lieutenant in 1691. He served in the committees on settling the boundary between Topsfield and Boxford, on erecting the first church, on organizing the first religious Society, on assigning pews and building galleries. In January, 1701, he was one of the committee to receive the deed of the town of Boxford from the Indians, Samuel and Joseph English and John Umpee, grandsons of the old Sagamore Masconnomet. They all assembled at his house to make the transfer and seal it. His name is found on numerous committees, all of peculiar importance. He was extensively interested in promoting iron-smelting, which was begun in the town in 1669. He sold to Mr. John Ruck of Salem, one-sixteenth of the works, 7: 10, 1671, for £60 sterling. He was one of those who composed the jury that condemned Elizabeth Howe of Linebrook Parish, et al., of witchcraft, and who afterwards signed a recantation. He was deacon in the First Church till his death. His will is dated 9 May, 1704, and, without the usual verbiage, says: "I bequeath my soul to God and my body to a decent interment in the earth." He devised to his son Thomas all his land not already disposed of by deed to his son Jacob, and to his beloved wife Lydia all the personal estate during her life-time, and after her death in equal portions to his two sons Jacob and Thomas, requiring his ''son Thomas to furnish his mother a horse to ride upon and a suitable person to ride before her as often as she wishes to go abroad”—which manner of riding is illustrated on the opposite page. He mentions in his will his daughter Mary Hazen and granddaughter Alice Cummings.

Thomas married Lydia Peabody on 8 Jul 1667. Lydia (daughter of Lt. Francis Peabody and Lydia) was born about 1640 in Hampton or Ipswich, Massachusetts; died on 30 Apr 1715. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Name: Lydia Perley
• Baptism: 30 Aug 1640

Notes:

Biography:
The exact date of her birth is not known. According to Peabody there was a historian of Hampton who saw a record of her baptism for Aug. 30, 1640 but this date has not been independently verified. Savage says that she was born in 1654 but this not likely because she would have only been 13 at the time of her marriage to Thomas Perley. A 1640 birth would have her one year older than her husband which was common but married at the age of 27 which was not common. She probably was one of the first children because she is named after her father's first wife.

Other Events:

• Probate: Aug 1720

Notes:

Biography:
He was of Boxford. He was a freeman in 1674 and a representative to the General Court in 1689-91.

Buried:
[CENTER:]CAPT JOHN
PABODY DIED
JULY Ye
5th 1720
& IN Ye 78 YEAR
OF HIS AGE
Ye ACTS & DEEDS
WHICH HE HATH DON
DESARVES TO BE
INGRAVED IN STON
AS YOU ARE
SO WARE WE
AS WE ARE
YOU SHALL BE[:CENTER]

John married Hannah Andrews on 23 Nov 1665. Hannah (daughter of Robert Andrews and Grace) died on 25 Dec 1700. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Name: Hannah Peabody

Other Events:

• Immigration: Abt 1630, Massachusetts
• Will: 23 Jun 1670, Ipswich, Massachusetts
• Probate: 19 Jan 1675/76

Notes:

Biography:
From M. V. B. Perley:
ALLAN PERLEY, the emigrant ancestor of the Perley Family in America, was born in Wales, England, in the first quarter of the year 1608, and died in Ipswich, Massachusetts, 28 Dec, 1675. He married, in the year 1635, Susanna Bokesen, or Bokenson, who died in Ipswich, 11 Feb., 1692, after a widowhood of sixteen years.
Mr. Perley came to this country, at the age of twenty-two years, in the fleet with Governor Winthrop, and located in "Charlestowne Village," on land which is now included in the city of Woburn and called "Button-end," near a tract of meadow, marked in the cut A A A, which has been known for two and a half centuries as "Parly meddowe," through which meanders a brook spanned by a plank bridge, marked B, six and a half feet wide, and known as "Parly brook." The name is found in probate records, and in the colonial records, 2:75, as it is spelled above; and it is pronounced by the citizens of Woburn today as it is here spelled. Why he relinquished his settlement is a matter of conjecture. The rigors of his first winter were extreme; the sufferings of the settlers were intense. "The weather," reads Lendrum's History of the American Revolution, "held tolerable until the 24th December, but the cold then came on with violence. Such a Christmas eve they had never seen before. From that time to the 10th of February their chief care was to keep themselves warm, and as comfortable in other respects as their scant provisions would permit. They were so short of provisions that many were obliged to live upon clams, mussels, and other shell-fish, with ground-nuts and acorns, instead of bread. One that came to the Governor's house to complain of his sufferings, was prevented, being informed that even there the last batch was in the oven. The poorer sort were much exposed, lying in tents and miserable hovels, and many died of scurvy and other distempers." Such an experience would dishearten the most resolute; in fact, "some of the Board of Assistants," according to Bancroft's History of the United States, "men who had been trusted as the inseparable companions of the common misery or common success, disheartened by the scenes of woe, sailed for England." Many others also went home for the same cause.
The statement in Lambert's History of the New Haven Colony, that in 1684 "the colonies at Watertown, Dorchester and Newtown [Cambridge] had become so crowded by the accessions of new-planters, that many left," affords another suggestion. He may have sold his grant and improvements, all his local rights and interests, feeling assured of finding another location as good or better. The great attraction to Boston and vicinity was the learned, wealthy, and noble Governor Winthrop, but our ancestor seems to have found more attraction in the younger Winthrop at Ipswich. However it may have been with our ancestor—whatever his reason or motive for leaving, he remained long enough to stamp his name indelibly upon the territory and to record the unquestioned fact of his possession. According to the manuscript chart of the family, "From thence he moved to Ipswich in 1634." By the town records, he was in Ipswich in 1635.
But before identifying himself with Ipswich history, he visited England; for he was there "2nd Aprilis, 1635," according to a record in the Augmentation office, London, and set sail that month for New England. He located in Ipswich, on High street, a short distance from Governor Bradstreet and the Waldo family. The place was and is the second houselot northwest of the High-street cemetery, and it is remarkable that it has the same shape and area now that it had then—two and a half centuries ago. Alexander Knight's homestead was on the northwest, George Smith's on the southeast, "a drift way" on the northeast, and High street on the southwest. At present the new part of the cemetery is on the northeast. It was a picturesque spot. Located on the western slope of Town hill and agreeably elevated from the street, it commanded a fine view of the verdant slopes of Turkey and Timber hills and the ridge-range of houses along Scott's lane, the present Washington street. The deep frontage of his lot afforded ample opportunity to arrange a spacious avenue from the street to his dwelling, with flowering plants and shrubbery on either side, after the fashion of the average gentleman of the old country. Whatever he did in the matter, his selection of grounds of such possible improvements, attest his good taste and judgment, educated, no doubt, by the experiences of his early life. There he brought his young wife and began the business of life anew; there most of his children were born; thence have radiated the family name and influence.
He resided there about seventeen years, selling, 3 Sept., 1652, for £21, his "dwelling house and homestead" to Walter Roper, carpenter, of Topsfield.
……
Mr. Perley was a large land-holder, and besides possessions in Essex, Rowley, and Boxford, he had in Ipswich, in 1635, land at Heartbreak hill; in 1640, 1 : 3 mo., a road from Rowley to Salem was laid out "over the falls at Mile river and by marked trees over Mr. Appleton's meadowe, called Parlye meadowe"; he was a commoner in 1641; he owned a houselot on Mill street in 1642, the street being now called Washington, and the lot being traversed by Mt. Pleasant street; he had a planting lot on Town hill in 1645; "att a meeting of the seven men the 8th (5) 1651" there was "granted to Alen Perlye (in exchange for Thirty acres more or less at Chebacco lyeing on the west syde of his meddowe) the sume of forty-five acres of upland lyeing beyond Mr. VVinthropes farme Joyneing up to some of the ppriatyes thereabouts"; he was granted 10 acres by the town in 1660; he owned one and a half shares in Plum Island in 1664, and, at some time, five acres of upland and marsh called Reedy marsh. In 1670, he had liberty of the town to cut timber for a "barne."
He was admitted to the privileges of freemen, 18 May, 1642; was a grand juror 25 Sept., 1660, and at various times was" witness to legal documents, and served on important committees; he was upon the coroner's jury in the case of his neighbor, Alexander Knight's child Nathaniel, who, while alone, was so burned that he died m a few hours. He was excused from training in 1656 and again in 1664. A court record reads: 1669, Sept. 28, Tobiah Colman vs. Allen Perley, for taking up and detaining his horse. Verdict for pi. 50s, no costs—a case probably wherein the law regarding field-drivers was not rigidly followed. In November, 1662, there was Allen Perley vs. Henry Batchelder, "for not giving him lawful assurance" of land” located near a pond, and Batchelder lost.
Mr. Perley was a man of considerable importance, and was held in good esteem. The location of his home, as referred to above, and his clear-penned signature to his will, though he was then nearly seventy years of age, witness a gentle birth, experience and character. The presence of pewter upon his table was a mark of more than ordinary social rank, and the probate inventory of his estate shows his business connections to have been with the honored and best citizens. Coming to America with the Puritans in 1630, he must have been a cordial sympathizer with them in their persecutions and their faith, although it was not till late in life that he was received into full church-fellowship. He and his wife joined the church 12 Aug., 1674.
Mrs. Perley's history is quite unknown to us. Marriageable maidens of gentle social rank were titled Mrs., and Mrs. Susanna Bokesen was doubtless one of that class. We have diligently sought the name Bokesen, in books and by correspondence with Old and New England, without satisfactory results. We have, however, met the name Boksen, which is, no doubt, the same as hers. The name is of Danish origin, and she was probably descended from those Danes who early in English history crossed the North Sea, and settled along the east coast of England.
Doubtless Mr. Perley had a home prepared on the grant of 1651 beyond Mr. Winthrop's farm, when he sold his town estate to Mr. Roper. The site of the later residence is still pointed out in Ipswich, south of the residence of Charles M. Perley. There they lived and labored and loved for a quarter of a century; there they saw their children grow up about them respected and useful citizens; there they were honored; there they practised sobriety and earned their wealth; and when the sun of their life glowed m the western horizon,
“Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch
About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams,”
they rested in the hope of a blessed immortality. The place of their interment is probably near their first home.

Will:
HIS WILL.
In the name of God, Amen! I, Allen Perley, of Ipswich, in the County of Essex, in New England, being by the good blessing of God in good health and enjoying my understanding and memory, yet sensible of my mortal and changeable condition here, and desirous to set my house in order, do therefore make my last will and testament:
First. I commit my soul into the hands of Jesus Christ, my blessed Savior and Redeemer; my body to be decently buried in what place the Lord shall allot for me to depart this life, in assured hope of a joyful resurrection at the last day.
And for my outward estate that God has graciously given me I thus dispose: My three elder sons, viz: John Perlye, Thomas Perley and Samuel Perlye, taking their liberty at the age of twenty-one to leave me at, yet I have given unto them three parts of the land beyond Hachelours brook (each of them a part which they are possessed of and do enjoy) excepting the great meadow, which I do reserve. And all that part of land which was Nathaniel's, my son who is departed this life, which I do give and bequeath unto my two daughters Sarah and Martha Perley.
And my house and the use of my land and the great meadow I give and bequeath unto my son Timothy, when he shall attain to the age of twenty-three years, provided still my beloved wife Susanna shall have one room to her own use during her natural life.
Item. I give unto my beloved wife all my cattle and movable goods and one-third part of the land bequeathed to my son Timothy during her natural life for her comfortable maintenance.
And after her decease my will is, the house and land be unto my son Timothy, and the cattle and movable goods be equally divided among all my children then living.
And my will and mind is, that if my said wife shall marry, that then the land and room in the house be unto my son Timothv and he to pay unto his mother seaven pounds a year during her life.
And I do make my beloved wife sole executrix of this my last will.
My will further is, that my son Timothy at the age of 23 years shall have the use of part of the stock to the value of thirty pounds during the life of my wife and then to be returned to be divided as is above expressed.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal the 23 of June Anno Domini, 1670.
Signed and sealed and Published as his last will in presence of us: ALLAN PERLEY. [L.S.]
Robert Lord.
Mary Lord.
CODICIL.
The 16th day of November, 1671, I, Allen Perley, as an explanation of that clause in my will within mentioned, concerning my wife, having given unto her my cattle and movables during her natural life, besides the thirds of land a room in the house and in case of her marriage to leave the room in the house and land and tp have seven pounds a year paid her by my son Timothy but nothing spoken about the cattle and movable goods,—my will is that she return also the cattle and movables to be divided among my children, as is expressed in said will.
Witness my hand the day and year above written.
Signed and Sealed and Published in presence of us: ALLAN PERLEY. [L.S.]
Robert Lord.
Mary Lord.
February the 3d, 1675.
Before our Honored Majesurates, Mr. Samuel Symond, Dep. Gov. and Major-Gen. Denison, the Clerke being present, this will and addition was proved to be the last will and testament of Allen Perley, by the oaths of Robert Lord, Senior, and Mary Lord.
As Attest, Robert Lord, Clerk.
The signature above was photographed from his will, which is in the Essex County Court Files, Vol. 24 : 121, and the Registry of Deeds, Vol. 4; and in the latter Registry and the Probate, is

Probate:
THE INVENTORY
of the estate of Allan Perley, deceased, the 28th of December last past taken and appraised by us whose names are underwritten, the 19th of January, 1675.
£201 0 0 – In primis. The house, barn and orchard with the homestead, great meadow and meadow about home with some little upland belonging to the meadow
16 0 0 – The half part of that land as was Nathaniel Perley's
20 0 0 – The meadow that was Nathaniel's
10 0 0 – 2 Oxen
10 10 0 – 3 Cows
6 0 0 – 2 Cows
1 16 0 – 1 Heifer
1 0 0 – 1 Calf
5 0 0 – 1 Horse, Mare and Colt
8 0 0 – 20 Sheep
4 0 0 – 9 Swine
4 0 0 – His wearing clothes
7 0 0 – 3 Beds with what do belong to them
1 0 0 – 2 pairs Sheets
1 2 0 – 1 Table-cloth, Napkins
0 10 0 – 4 Pillow-cases
0 8 0 – 6 Trays
1 0 0 – Pewter
0 10 0 – 20 pounds Butter
0 5 0 – Cheese
0 16 0 – 20 pounds Cotton Wool
1 0 0 – 20 " Sheep's Wool
1 10 0 – 12 " Woolen Yam
1 10 0 – Linen Yarn
2 10 0 – 3 Guns
1 10 0 – 5 bushels Wheat
0 16 0 – 4 " Rye
3 0 0 – 18 " Indian Com
1 10 0 – Beef
1 0 0 – 2 Iron pots and a mortar
0 15 0 – Brass
0 10 0 – Pans, dishes and spoons and some small things
0 4 0 – Pail, Half-bushel, Half-peck
0 10 0 – A churn, a barrel, a meat-tub and some old tubs and a barrel
0 15 0 – 2 Trammels, Frying-pan, Pot-hooks and a gridiron, Fire-pan and Tongs
0 10 0 – 3 axes and a hoe
1 10 0 – An old Cart, Tumbrel, Wheels, Plow, Yoke and irons, belonging to them
0 4 0 – An Auger, a Chisel, 2 pair Fork-tines
0 2 0 – A Rope
0 2 0 – A pair of Bellows
0 3 0 – Chairs and Cushion
0 5 0 – A Table, Cotton wheel and form
0 2 0 – A smoothing Iron
0 2 0 – Sieves
0 6 0 – A Bible and a Psalm book
0 2 0 – Sacks
3 5 0 – Hay and Flax
0 4 6 – A Chest
0 4 0 – Cards
1 0 0 – 5 Bushels of Barley
3 10 0 – A Boar
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320 2 6 – Total [according to the record]
John Kimball
Nehemiah Abbott.
DEBTS or THE DECEASED.
6 3 0 – Mr. Winthrop,
2 14 0 – To the Constable
0 18 0 – '' Dea. Goodhue
0 10 0 – " Capt. Currier
0 11 0 – Mr. Cobbett,
3 12 0 – Thos. Perley
0 6 0 – Job French
0 4 6 – Dea. Knowlton
0 3 6 – James Howe, senior.
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15 2 0

Allan married Susanna Bokesen in 1635. Susanna was born in in England; died on 11 Feb 1692 in Ipswich, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Immigration: Massachusetts
• Name: Susanna Perley

Other Events:

• Immigration: 1635, Massachusetts
• Will: 20 Jan 1690
• Probate: 7 Aug 1698

Notes:

Biography:
He came in the Planter in 1635 when his approximate age was listed as age 21. Where and when the Planter arrived is not know but 1636 he was living in Ipswich. He may have been the son of John who came to Plymouth in or before 1636. John's will names a son ("Item I give and bequeath unto ffrancis Paybody my second son one shilling"). There is no record of any other Francis Peabody living at the time in New England. In 1640 he was listed as a proprietor of Hampton (I do not know where Hampton was but it was near Ipswich and may be what is now Hamilton). In 1642 he became a freeman there and received a share of common lands in 1645. Not much is known of his first wife except that her name was Lydia. This comes from a court record dated Nov. 4, 1645 that says "Eunice Cole is to sit in the stocks in Hampton and to make acknowledgement of her slanderous speeches concerning Susan Parkings & lidia pebodye and to pay the witnes Isaac Perkings 7d and the feas of the court." Francis was a known to be a widower and at some time married Mary Foster. Savage lists his marriage to her as being 18 May 1642. This is not possible because he was still married to Lydia at the time. In Mary Foster's will she lists Mary Peabody as being her daughter so Mary Foster must have married Francis before 1656. The first three children were Lydia's, the last seven were Mary's and the four in between can not be positively identified as children of one or the other. The marriage to Francis was probably Mary's second. There is evidence that she was married to a Daniel Wood before she married Francis. In 1649 he became one of the commissioners to try cases involving small amounts of money. In 1650 he moved back to the part of Ipswich that he had originally lived in and now was part of the town of Toppesfield. There he remained until he died in 1698. Offices he held there included select man, lieutenant of the local military company, and an honored member of the church and community.

Immigration:
He traveled by himself on the Planter and was listed as Husbandman 21 years old.

Will:
Francis' will:
The Last Will & Testament of Lieut: Francis Pebody of Topsfield in y* county of Es[sex] [in] Newe England: I Francis Pebody taking into consideration the uncertainty of my life and certainty of my death being of perfect understanding & memory have seen good to m[ake] such a disposall of the temporall estate which God of his grace hath given me in this w[orld] as followeth, —
Impr. I committ my immortall soul into the hands of God & my body to a decent buriall [when] God shall take me out of this world
Secundo I give to my son John Pebody & Joseph Pebody all that tract of Land which I bought of marchant Joseph Juett of Rowly which Land lyeth in Boxford, I give to my son J. . . . two thirds of y* aforesaid tract of Land & to my son Joseph y* other third which I give to them & to their Heirs for ever & moreover I do give to them both in c[ountrey] pay (not mony) five pounds to each of them, y* is five pounds apiece, besides what I have already given them
Item, I do give to my son William Pebody all that Land which I bought of John Tod Sen"" [of] Rowly & of John Perley (excepting one hundred acres) which land I do give to him & his Heirs for ever, more.over I do give to him five pounds besides what he hath [. . .] me aheady, which I do the rather on consideration of his being (by y' providence of God) deprived of y^ use of one of his arms, w*^ five pounds is to be paid as is above specified
Item I do give to my son in Law Daniell Wood That hundred acres of Land which is above excepted to my son WiUiam & is aheady in part possessed by my son in [law] Daniel Wood which said Land I do give to him & to his Heirs for ever it be[ing] in consideration of what I was oblidged to do for him when come to age & pro[vided] y' he shall be satisfyed therewith on y' account & give a discharge thereof to such [. . .] shall concern Which Land I have already promised & do purpose forthwith to [give] him a deed of in a way of firm conveyance in which deed I shall bound. . . . Limit y' aforesaid hundred acres accordingly
Item I do give to my son Isaac Pebody all the land y' I do now hve upon which I bou[ght] of Mr. Simons & my will is y* my son Isaac shall have all y* said Land which lyeth on [ye] south side of y' brook running through the said farm both upland & meadow so bo[unded] I give to my son Isaac Pebody together w* my dwelling house & housing, orchard, mill millyard w' all y* I bought of William Evans & moreover I give to my son Isaac from [the] bridge all y* meadow downward on y* north east side of y* brook w" runneth through . . . Tho: Dormans meadow: as also I do give to my son Isaac a Rod & half of upland ... to y* aforesaid meadow all along for y* bringing of his hay from time to time w*^*" afore [named] Land I do give to my son Isaac & to his Heirs forever, together w' seventy acres of Land . . . y* south side if y* River, neer to y' dwelling of Joseph Town Jun, Also I give to my son [Isaac] that bed with the furniture thereunto belonging which he now hath y" improvement [of] & this I would have noted, That I have given y* more to my son Isaac on consideration [of] y* providence of God disinabling him by y* loss of one of his Leggs
Item I do give to my Grand child Jacob Pebody (y* son of my son Jacob Pebody deceased) y* h[ouse] which his father dwelt in together with all y'' upland on y' side of y* brook y' is on . . . North side of y* aforesaid brook, as also all y* meadow on y' same side of y' brook . . . y* bridge & so upward, my will is y' in case my said Grandchild Jacob Pebody do [live] to y* age of twenty one years y* then he shall have as is above said to injoy himselfe . . . his Heirs for ever, But in Case y* said Jacob live not to y* age y* then any of my other [. . .] shall have liberty to have y* land & house abovesaid provided y' he or they shall [. . .] to my grandchildren Kezia & Mercy Pebody y* children of my son Jacob Pebody deceased an hundred and twenty pounds in common currant pay (not silver) notwithstanding ... is abovesaid in case y* said Jacob should have issue before he should arrive at y* aforesaid age y* y* said Land shall be at y* disposall of y* abovesaid Jacob Pebody together [. . .] aforesaid. Also I do give to my grandchildren Kezia & Mercy Pebody y* children of [my] son Jacob deceased I do give to each of them Thirty acres of Land apiece, provided th[at] [they] shall live to y' age of eighteen years, which Threescore acres of Land Lyeth on y' south s[ide] of y* River in y* south-west Division beyond m' Endicotts farm in y' place called y* stick[y] meadow which Land abovesaid I bought part of Deacon Tho Perkins about thirty [acres] & about thirty more which I bought of Daniell Dorman, but in Case of neither of y* chi[ldren] Kezia or Mercy shall live to y* age of eighteen y* then y* abovesaid Thirty acres apiece shall return to my next & immediate children to be equally divided amongst them [but] in Case one of y* said grandchildren live to y* age & not y'
other that then y^ whole Threescore acres shall fall to y' surviver of them
Item I give to my son Nathaniell Pebody together with my Grandchild Samson How a[ll] that four hundred acres which I bought of m' Stephen Sewall Lying in Rowly village called Boxford which land lyeth near Bradford & was formerly m' Nelsons of Rowly. My will is y' my son Nathaniell shall have three hundred & Samson How ye other hundred acres which for quantity and quahty y* aforesaid Samson How shall have y' said Hundred acres provided y* y* said Samson How shall be at my despose till y'^ age of twenty[one] years But in Case my son Nathaniell shall dye without LawfuU Issue that then y* above said three hundred acres shall fall to my other children by equall devision, his widdow notwithstanding injoying y* benefit thereof during hfe & as to his moveable estate which he is already in possession of I leave it all to be at his y' is my son Nathaniells despose here is to be understood y* what shall be left undesposed of by my son Nathaniell at his death of his three hundred acres shall be for y* use of his widdow during her life as abovesaid y* is y* life of her widdowhood.
I do reserve for Mary my wife y* South End of my house for her Use to live in as also y* New Cellar as also y^ Use of two milch Cows which she shall choose out of my milch kine, Also my will is y* my son Isaac shall pay to my wife Mary yearly twenty bushells of Indian Come, four bushells of wheat, four of rye & six of malt, also y' my wife have liberty to keep two or three swine, as also yearly haU a dozen pounds of wool, also my will is y* my wife shal have pasture for her cowes with my son Isaacs as also y' my son Isaac shall provide fodder for them in y* winter. As also my wife shall have Liberty for an horse to ride on as she shall have occasion. Also my will is y* in Case my wife shall marry again y* then all y* priviledges abovesaid shall cease, but during her widowhood she shal also have (as benefit by my orchard) yearly a barrell of Cidar as also som apples as her occasions either in the summer or winter shall require, Moreover my wife shall have y* use & despose of two beds together with needful firewood provided for her for which end she shall have y* use of such of my oxen as shall be needfull. Also I do order y' Samson How shall five with my wife till he shall come to y* age of twenty one years & be at her Command to be helpful to her on all accounts as she shall have occasion & in case Samson How shall be taken away by his father before he shall have served as abovesaid y' then my wife shall have that hundred acres of land abovesaid (given Conditionally to y* said Samson) to provide for herself such help as shall be necessary. & in Case my wife shall dy before y* said Samson How shall arrive at y' aforesaid term of years y' then he shall be at my wives despose to whom she shall see good & in case y' said Samson will not comply with such despose y' then y* said hundred acres of land intended for him shall be at my wives despose
Item I give to my daughter Lydia Perley five pounds besides what she hath already had of me
I do give to my daughter Mary Death five pounds besides what she hath had already
I do give to my daughter Sarah How five pounds besides what she hath had already
I do give to my daughter Hephzibah Ray five pounds besides what she hath had already all which Legacies ordered to my Children I do appoint to be paid in common currant pay as is before specified to others of my children
Note y* what Legacies I do here give in my will shall be paid by my executors out of my estate which I do leave in my son Isaac hands & to my wives, as corn or Cattell &c my debts & funeral expences being discharged.
And finaly. I do appoint, Constitute & ordain my wife Mary to be an executrix together with my son John Pebody & Isaac Pebody as executors of this my last will & testament & in Case after Legacies paid there be any estate left to be devided y' it shall be desposed of in a way of devision as my executrix together w' executors shall see good.
That what is here above written is y* last will & Testament of y* abovesaid Francis Pebody appears by his own hand & seal y' day & Date here mentioned as also by y* testimony of y^ witnesses hereunto subscribed
The above said premises were signed & sealed & declared to be y* last will & Testament of y^ said Francis Pebody y" twentieth day of January in y' year o f our Lord one thousand six hundred Ninety & five or six, in presence of
Joseph Capen
Thomas Baker
Ephraim Dorman Senr

It is to be noted y' notwithstanding what is abovesaid concerning my son Nathaniells three hundred acres re- turning to his brethren in Case of his dying w'out lawfuU Issue, It is to be understood by y^ three hundred acres what he shall not see Cause to despose of before his death I hereby notwithstanding what hath been said us giving him full power in Case he see good to despose of it either in part or whole not knowing but divine providence may necessitate him thereunto, otherwise what is above written to be of full force as is expressed,
ffrancis Pabody


Probate:
The Inventory of y* estate of flfrancis Pebody
made this 20th May — 1698 —
£ s d
023 00 00 two oxen; at: 7/ three Cowes. at: 9/-155-00: three young cattell at: 6/
005 10 00 sheep. 4/ — one mare and Colt — il-io — . . .
002 04 00 chaines axes wegges —and chisells: and other iron tooles — .
002 04 00 wearing cloaths, — . . . ...
017 09 00 Beds and beding, 12I—napkins table cloths and other linnen at 5l-9s
005 15 06 chests, tables, chaiers, and other lumber —. . .
005 12 00 peuter, and brass ware —
002 05 00 Iron ware, as pots, kettles, tramells: &c. — . .
002 11 00 New cloth home made
004 00 00 ten bus: of malt, 1/-155 Indian Corne: eight bus: 1I-4s. six bushells barley — 1/ 1s . . . .
002 00 00 ffour Swine —
200 00 00 Land given to his son John Pebody — ...
100 00 00 Land to Joseph Pebody —
100 00 00 Land to William Pebody —
150 00 00 Land to Nathaniel Pebody —
050 00 00 Land to Samson Howe —
050 00 00 Land to Keziah & Marcie Pebody — . . . .
160 00 00 Land and house to Jacob Pebody — . . . .
400 00 00 the homestead to Isaac Pebody. as upland, meddow dwelling house and one barne, and mil
044 15 00 Sillver mony
1327 05 06 totall summ:

William Howlett
Daniel Redington
Ephraim: Willds
[On the reverse of the foregoing]
Topsfeild y* 30* of September 1698
An Edition to the inventory of the estate of flfrancis Pebody as doth apear on the other side of this paper
£ s d
09 00 00 tow oxen att —
00 13 00 nine books —
05 00 00 two Cowes —
08 00 00 two oxen
00 06 00 two lining spining wheels —
00 06 00 two wolen spining wheels —
19 00 00 given to y' widow two beds with the furniture — .
01 12 00 eight yards of woll Cloath —
00 06 00 six cushens —
03 10 00 bed and beding given to Isaac

Daniel Redington
Ephraim Willdes
Joseph Byxbe

Francis married Lydia before 1640. Lydia was born in in England; died in in Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Immigration: Massachusetts
• Name: Lydia Peabody

Other Events:

• Probate: 1 Jul 1668

Notes:

Biography:
He was of Topsfield.

Robert married Grace. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Name: Grace Andrews

Notes:

Biography:
It is not know if she was the wife of all Robert's children but according to Peabody she was the mother of Hannah.