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John Ayer
1595 - 1657 (62 years)-
Name John Ayer [1, 2] Born 1595 Bromham, Wiltshire, England 
Gender Male Baptism 28 Mar 1596 Bromham, Wiltshire, England Immigration Abt 1638 Massachusetts Will 12 Mar 1656 Died 31 Mar 1657 Haverhill, Massachusetts Probate 6 Oct 1657 [3] - John Ayer's Inventory at his Time of Death
Item
fower cows, two steers, and a calf
20.00.00
twenty swine and fower pigs
18.00.00
fower oxen
25.00.00
one plough, two pair plough irons, one harrow, one yolke and chayne, and a rope cart
4.00.00
two howes, two axes, two shovels, one spade, two wedges, two betell rings, two sickels and a reap hook hangers in the chimneys, tongs and pot hooks
13.00.00
two pots, three kettles, one skillet, and frying pan
3.03.00
in pewter
1.00.00
three flocks, beds, and bed clothes
18.00.00
12 yards of cotton cloth and cotton wool and hemp and flax
4.00.00
two wheels, three chests, and a cupbboard
1.03.00
wooden stuff belonging to the house
1.16.00
two muskets and all that belong to y'
2.10.00
in books
0.15.00
in flesh meat
0.15.00
about forie bushells of corne
7.00.00
his waring apparill
8.00.00
about six or seven acres of graine in and uppon the ground
9.00.00
the dwelling house and barne and land broken and unbroken with all appurtaneences
120.00.00
forks, rakes, and other small implements about the house and barne
1.00.00
in debt owing to him
1.00.00
between two or three bushels of sale and so mayle
0.10.00
TOTAL
248.05.00 pounds
Biography - There are many theories of where John Ayer is from but I believe the best is the one documented in Bailey.
From Bailey:
. [BOLD:]JOHN AYER (1595?? - 1657) [:BOLD]
John Ayer, a Wiltshire man, emigrated to America with his wife and half-grown family about 1638 or 1639. Neither his ship nor the data is known (though often printed erroneously). Already in his forties, he was rather old to start life anew, but he intensely desired the security that comes from owning farm, meadows and home. He may already have turned Puritan in England.
Ever since the great Winthrop fleet of 1630, Englishmen in large numbers had been willing to become "voluntary exiles" in New England, often sailing secretly because of the permit restrictions on the ecclesiastical courts. Since Puritans followed the Lord's dictates, the King viewed them in his orders of April 30, 1637 as among the "many whose end was to live without the reach of authority." Rushforth, an observer of the scene, also records that the "severe Censures in the Starchamber, the rigorous imposing of [church] ceremonies, and the silencing of multitudes of Ministers for not reading the Book of Sports on the Lord's Day [a royal proclamation encouraging sports after church], caus'd both Ministers and People to sell their Estates, and set sail for New England."
To stop the migration, the King commanded his port officers to prevent "any Subsidy-men or of their value" [those wealthy enough to be taxed] from leaving without a special license and to require from any lesser men not only a certificate from local justices that they had taken the oaths of allegiance and supremacy but also a testimonial of conformity to the Church of England signed by the parish minister. In addition his Majesty "taking notice of . . . the factious Disposition of the People of that Plantation [New England] and how unworthy they were of any Support or Countenance from hence," prohibited merchants, masters and shipowners "to set forth any Ship with Passengers for New England" without a special license. Nevertheless the exodus of colonists continued and among them was John Ayer.
As "John Eyres," he is on the undated list of those granted land in the first division of Colchester, Massachusetts between September 4, 1639 and October 7, 1640, when the town was renamed Salisbury. The subsequent town record of this division called him "John Ayres, Sen." He may well have followed friends or relatives here, for about half of the twelve men who in 1638 obtained permission to "plant" this settlement were of Wiltshire origin. Within a few years he made his permanent home in nearby Haverhill, like Salisbury on the north side of the Merrimack River. In John's time, both towns were in [BOLD:] old [:BOLD] Norfolk County in Massachusetts, which had colonized this region to hold it, despite prior English grants to the New Hampshire proprietors, partly because the latter in Puritan eyes were religious enemies. He was living in Salisbury, MA as early as 1640 where his daughter Hannah was born in 1644. He received land in the first division in 1640 and 1643. He moved to Haverhill about 1647 when he sold his land to John Stevens.
Person ID I379 Our Family Last Modified 27 Sep 2016
Father Robert Eyre, b. 1565, Bromham, Wiltshire, England , d. Aug 1603, England (Age 38 years) Mother Cicely Crosse, b. England , d. Oct 1619, England Married 30 Nov 1586 Bromham Church, Bromham, Wiltshire, England Family ID F143 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Hannah, d. 8 Oct 1688, Haverhill, Massachusetts Married 1622 England Children 1. John Ayer, II, b. 1623, England , d. Aft 1694 (Age > 72 years)2. Rebecca Ayer, b. Aft 1623, d. Aft 1671 (Age > 48 years) 3. Robert Ayer, b. Abt 1625, England , d. Aft 1713 (Age ~ 89 years)4. Thomas Ayer, b. Aft 1625, d. 9 Nov 1686, Haverhill, Massachusetts (Age < 59 years)5. Peter Ayer, b. 1632, England , d. 2 Jan 1699, Boston, Massachusetts (Age 67 years)6. Mary Ayer, b. Abt 1634, England , d. Aft 1668 (Age ~ 35 years)7. Obadiah Ayer, b. Aft 1634, d. 14 Nov 1694, Woodbridge (?), New Jersey (Age < 58 years)8. Nathaniel Ayer, b. Aft 1635, d. 17 Nov 1717 (Age < 80 years) 9. Hannah Ayer, b. 21 Dec 1644, Salisbury, Massachusetts Last Modified 18 Dec 2016 Family ID F144 Group Sheet | Family Chart
- John Ayer's Inventory at his Time of Death
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Event Map 
Born - 1595 - Bromham, Wiltshire, England 
Baptism - 28 Mar 1596 - Bromham, Wiltshire, England 
Married - 1622 - England 
Immigration - Abt 1638 - Massachusetts 
Died - 31 Mar 1657 - Haverhill, Massachusetts = Link to Google Earth Pin Legend 
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