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1401 The connection between Muriel McGuckin and her father Harold requires some digging. Her Ancestry.com birth record does not list parents. Muriel went to High School in Sandusky (Ancestry.com yearbooks). When Harold filed for divorce from his wife in 1938 their unnamed daughter was living with an aunt. In 1940 a Muriel McGuckin (born about 1924 and listed as niece) was living with Myrtle Curry who would have been her aunt. Harold's obituary says he was survived by his daughter Muriel Cievro. Social Security Death Records list a Muriel V Cievro (McGuckin) who was born on the same day in Sandusky as Muriel McGuckin.
The Ohio death record on Ancestry.com lists Muriel as a Steffen, the married name of Harold's third wife. This has to be incorrect because she was a McGuckin from birth.
According to her father's obituary Muriel would have had "several" children. 		McGuckin, Muriel Vivian (I4090)
 
1402 The date of her birth and her parents marriage is fairly certain. It is not known if she is the daughter of her father from a previous marriage, her mother from a previous marriage, or the child of one or both of them while they were not married. However, the 1900 census lists her as being the daughter of the head of the household and her mother is listed as having six living children and there were six living in the house. Unangst, Ida (I130)
 
1403 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. Peabody, Lydia (I869)
 
1404 The family arrived on the Planter. Tuttle, Simon (I827)
 
1405 The family arrived on the Planter. Tuttle, John (I1029)
 
1406 The family arrived on the Planter. Antrobus, Joanna (I1030)
 
1407 The family arrived on the Planter. Arnold, Joan (I2375)
 
1408 The family changed their name to Scholtz after moving to Trinidad around 1903. Scholtz (Morton), Alberto Fernando (I4164)
 
1409 The family changed their name to Scholtz after moving to Trinidad around 1903. Scholtz (Morton), Victor Mario (I4165)
 
1410 The family changed their name to Scholtz after moving to Trinidad around 1903. Scholtz (Morton), Lilian Wilhelmina (I4166)
 
1411 The family changed their name to Scholtz after moving to Trinidad around 1903. By the time José had gotten to the United States he went by the name Joseph Conrad Scholtz. Scholtz (Morton), José Conrado Esteban (I4153)
 
1412 The family changed their name to Scholtz after moving to Trinidad around 1903. John moved back to Venezuela as an adult; lived in Cabimas or Lagunillas, Zulia State Scholtz (Morton), Juan Francisco "John" (I4163)
 
1413 The family was on the Angel Gabriel before it was sunk by a hurricane. Cogswell, John (I1014)
 
1414 The family was on the Angel Gabriel before it was sunk by a hurricane. Thompson, Elizabeth (I1015)
 
1415 The first record of Joseph after his birth is traveling to New York on 3 Mar 1876 and he was naturalized a few weeks later. When he arrived he was listed as a Master Mariner and as a Seaman when he was naturalized. Later he was known as a ship Captain. There are at least two records of him returning from Europe and several records from Bermuda where Eliza was from.
Joseph and Eliza resided in Brooklyn form 1876 until around 1883 when they lived in Montclair, NJ. By 1903, the last time Joseph shows up in a record, he was listed as residing in Bermuda.
Maritime records show him as captain of various vessels, some of which he owned, from 1872 until 1883 when he seems to have retired and moved to New Jersey and later back to Bermuda.
After Joseph and Eliza moved to New York, many of Johan's Children came to visit their aunt and uncle. Several eventually moved there. Carlos was the first. He came in 1882 and likely lived with Joseph and Eliza. After Carlos were Luis, Josephina, Eliza, Rosa Amalia, Alfredo, Isabel, and Henrique. At some point there was a falling out between Carlos and Joseph and they stopped talking to each other.
 		Scholtz, Joseph (I1577)
 
1416 The following is a translation of the Jorge's baptismal record.

Written by Senor Don Anaclato Redondo Catholic Priest of the Parish of the church of Jermino del Mansemate of Havana. I certify that in the book #13 of the baptism of white people page 26 entry 757 is found the following statement On the fifteenth of March 1873.
I father Dn Anaclato Padondo Priest of the Parish of this church of Jeranimo del Mansemate, solemnly baptize a child who was born on the second of December of the year immediate passed, legitimate son of Dn Ramon Oscar Williams[INDEX:]People;Williams;Ramon Oscar [:INDEX], native of Washington in the United States and of Dona Angela Luciana Garcia[INDEX:]People;García;Angela Luciana [:INDEX], native of the town of Regla in the state of Yela, paternal grandparents Dn Jorge[INDEX:]People;Williams;George W. [:INDEX] and Donia Juana Anna Young[INDEX:]People;Young;Janett Ann [:INDEX]: maternal grandparents Dn Vicente Benito[INDEX:]People;García;Vicente Benito [:INDEX] and Dona Anna Coleta Garcia[INDEX:]People;García;Ana Coleta [:INDEX]; on said child I perform the baptismal ceremony and I placed upon him the name of Jorge Aurelio: there were present the god parents Dn Ramon Vicente Williams and Dona Luciana Nevit de Underwood to whom I charged with the spiritual upbringing which they attested and I signed = Dn Anacleto Redondo"
This is a true copy of the original. Havana, March 17 eighteen hundred and seventy three.
signed Dn Anacleto Redondo

In 1934, while living at 1 Cambridge Place, Brooklyn, he wrote a resume. The resume is included below with inserts of information from his application for a license as a Professional Engineer made sometime after October 1934:

45 Broadway
New York City
September 28, 1934
Education and Experience
of
George A. Williams, Tag #142106
Residing at #1 Cambridge Place,
Brooklyn, N. Y. Age 61.

Mr. Roberts:

In accordance with instructions from Mr. Borough, I am submitting below an outline of my education and experience as a mechanical engineer.
I received my education in the following Brooklyn schools; Adelphi Academy and the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn.
I afterwards took a special course in sugar house work at the Audubon Sugar School, New Orleans, La.
Worked on sugar plantations in Louisiana and Cuba on designing and construction of sugar houses for about five years and for ten years I had charge of the manufacturing of sugar at various plants, employing upwards of three men.
[1890-1895 Assistant to Engineer in charge of design and construction of sugar house and design and installation of sugar machinery for Henry Heidegger & Co. located at Matanzas, Cuba, owner of sugar plantation, "Santa Catalina," located Coral Falso, Cuba. He had complete charge of sugar house and factory. 1895-1897 Superintendent of sugar house for Pascual Goicochea, the owner of the sugar plantation "Providencia" located in Guines, Cuba. He had complete charge of the sugar house and chemical laboratory. 1894-1895 Assistant to Superintendent of sugar house for Atkins & Co., the owners of the sugar plantation "Soledad" located near Cienfuegos, Cuba. 1897-1899 Due to the war, he held a clerical position with Peale, Peacock & Kerr, 1 Broadway, N. Y. owners and operators of coal mines located at Clearfield, Pa. 1899-1901 Assistant Cashier in charge of loans on sugar for North American Trust Co., Havana, Cuba. He was in charge of Appraisals of raw sugars and sugar properties. 1901 Superintendent of sugar house for Cuban American Sugar Co., owners of the sugar plantation, "Tinguaro" in Perico, Cuba. He had complete charge of sugar house and chemical laboratory. 1901-1904 Cashier of bank for Banco Nacional de Cuba, in Cienfuegos, Cuba. His duties included loans on raw sugars and sugar properties. 1904-1906 Vice President of Williams & Co., 96 Wall St., N. Y. contractors and exporters of machinery and mill supplies.]
I might mention that I can speak and write Spanish fluently.
From 1907 to 1909 I was employed by the General Fireproofing Co. in their New York office as sales engineer designing and selling special steel filing equipment and superintending the installation of same.
From 1909 to 1920 I was employed by the Berger Mfg.Co. as sales manager in their New York office selling sheet metal building material including steel filing equipment. Had charge of at least twelve salesmen and draftsmen, besides a gang of mechanics and superintended the erection and installation of material.
In 1920 I organized Williams & Record, Inc., and was its president from the start until 1929. We maintained a manufacturing and assembling plant at Long Island City.
Our business consisted in furnishing and installing, as sub-contractors, special steel equipment in over 300 hundred public schools in the various boroughs in New York City, hospitals, court houses, jails and various other buildings.
I had charge of our manufacturing plant where we employed anywhere from thirty to seventy men.
From 1929 to 1931 I was employed by the Steel Equipment Corp. as sales engineer designing and superintending installations of special steel equipment in public buildings.
From 1931 to 1932 I was employed by the Gibson Committee to make an inventory of all chemicals and chemical apparatus at the chemical laboratory of the New York University.
Since January 1934 to date I have been working as senior engineer on a survey project of piers and waterfront of the Port of New York, having had charge of as many as fifty assistant engineers during the course of this work.
[The above work ended in October of 1934. After that he was a Senior Engineer for C.W.A. Project consisting of remodeling the interior of store houses belonging to the City of New York and replacing old equipment with modern steel equipment for the storage and handling the City's supplies in a more economical and systematical way. He was in charge of an office force of about 35 men (engineers, architects and draftsmen) and a field force of about 200 labors. I do not know how long he held this position.]

The 1900 census listed his occupation as clerk and the 1910 listed it as manager in the business of steel furniture. He was educated in Havana and the U.S. When he was young he entered the sugar business and soon became a manager of the sugar house on one of the largest plantations in Cuba. During the War against the Spanish rule, some revolutionists burned the cane fields to cut the Spanish revenue. He had to go into other lines of work ending up in the shipping business the U.S., South America, and Cuba with his brothers. They shipped the first automobile to Cuba. He was very interest in photography and took many pictures during the Spanish American War. 		Williams, George Washington Aurelio (I363)
 
1417 The following is copied from a type written page of unknown source. It may be someone's attempt to copy the handwriting of August Lebergt Statius Muller, son of Christof Anton.
During the years of 1500 there lived in Oostvriesland, a noble family by the name of "von Statius" who through a very severe flood, which totally destroyed the castle of "Dorp" and resulted into many people and cattle drowning, were almost completely wiped off this earth, were it not that the Allmighty God saved the life of the smallest child which was found floating in a wooden crib by a miller who seeing that the child had lost its parents brought it up in the world as his own child. When this child grew into manhood, he in gratitude to his benefactor assumed the name of Muller.
Of his issues there were known Andrea Statius Muller of Oostvriesland, and later on a ... Statius Muller also of Oostvriesland. Of this latter one there was an issue about the year of 1640 by the name of Andreas Muller, who was Lutherean teacher in Essen. He was married to Anna Hedwig Altena, and they had 10 children of which 3 died in childhood. There others were _Elisabeth who never married but out lived all of her bother and sisters. _Christian Everhard who for many years was Doctor of medicines in Amsterdam. He died in 1757. His daughter was married to a Mr. Koning, preacher of Katwyk op Zee. Statius was an officer in Oostvriesland. Cathar Hedwig, and still another Sister who was married to minister Gossel and of whom I have known various sons. Andreas Frederik, at first doctor in medicine at Oostvreisland and later on in London. His daughter was married to Dr. Loos who already had a Son. He was a doctor of medicines in Wildervangst near Groningen. The youngest was Christoph Anton Muller. The following is copied from several handwritten pages. It is a letter from Carlos Antonio Statius Muller, son of Albert Willem Statius Muller, Sr, to Albert Willem Statius Muller, Jr. It includes a drawing of a tree that is almost illegible in the copy and does not likely have any new information. There are [] around any uncertain word. Family History
Accepted by some as authentic, where as others do not.
During the fourteenth century there lived in a town named [Eseris], located in the provence of Fressland (Netherlands) near the North Sea, a well to do family by the name of Statius. About there year 1500 this family with the exception of a baby boy, perished during a severe flood. The baby was rescued by a miller, and after having been brought up and educated by the miller, he in gratitude added to his name Muller which is the Dutch version of miller. His family from then on was known as Statius Muller, although various members retained only Muller.
Of the Statius Mullers there are no authentic records until a member of the family, namely August Lebergt, born November 14, 1743, started to keep records of his family by mentioning the above history in his notebooks and continued to state that the first member of whom he had details was a [] Statius Muller who owned considerable landed property in Freesland. This Statius Muller had a son named Andreas born about the year 1645.
The drawing shows the direct lines of two branches of Statius Mullers up to the present time.
The first branch drawn entirely in black is of Johan George, who was the first one of the family to arrive in Curacao (1757). He was a Luthern Minister.
The second branch drawn partly in green is of August Lebergt who started the family record as mentioned before. He was a medical doctor, and was the second Statius Muller to arrive in Curacao (1763). The green tracings on the drawing indicate the direct blood lines of me as well as my male issues.
Space does not permit including all names mentioned in the records, and therefore only those of importance are shown. In order to identify the others it will be necessary to refer to accompanying numbered list. There are also on the drawing certain flagging letters ABC etc. These indicate intermarriages and other [] occurrences as shown on the accompanying list. I have also drawn up a chart indicating the direct blood lines of our forefathers. This chart is perhaps more complete, as it includes in detail the names of the parents of the female members married into the family; Also for a few generations back the the details of the family on my mothers side as well as of my dear wife Maria Luisa, and those of your wife. 		Family, Statius Muller (I955)
 
1418 The following is from "Ancestors of John Lowe":
His will is dated March 14, 1745, and probated June 16, 1746. In a deed dated Oct. 5, 1736, he gives to his son, David Low, Jr., "his part of land granted to a certain number of men, which formerly went in an expedition to Canada under Sir William Phipps, of which I, David Lowe, was one." This expedition arrived before Quebec, Nov. 5, 1690, and was repulsed with heavy loss. The land thus granted was in New Hampshire. David's rank in the army was that of sergeant. His will names sons David, Jeremiah, Caleb, Stephen and Joshua, gives each five shillings old tenor, and to David his andirons names; daughters, Mary, wife of Jeremiah Lufkin, Martha, wife of Eleazer Croft or Craft, Abigail and Eunice. No inventory indicated previous division of property. 		Low, David (I1893)
 
1419 The following is from "New England Heritage of Rousmaniere, Ayer, Farwell and Bourne Families" by Rosalie F. Bailey.
There is no reason to doubt that the emigrant John Ayer of Haverhill, Massachusetts, who died in 1657, was a Wiltshire man, but did he belong to the Eyer family of Bromham in that England county? Our theory is that he did, but a conclusive answer must wait until a wider search locates the baptisms of his elder children, especially of son Peter, or other proof.
To help the reader, only the prevalent spellings of "Ayer" in the American family and of "Eyre" in the Wiltshire family are used here. Actually this surname had forty-three recognized spellings in England, starting with E, H, A or I, or even with the prefix "Le," and at least seventy-five variants in early New England records. Found as early as 1208, it has its roots in middle English [BOLD:] eyr, [:BOLD] old French [BOLD:] eir, [:BOLD] Anglo-French [BOLD:] heyr [:BOLD] and Latin [BOLD:] heres, [:BOLD] all meaning heir. When surnames were first adopted--perpetuating a characteristic of a person, his origin, parentage or other descriptive term--many individuals were locally known as "the heir," thus giving rise to unrelated families with this surname.
As a result, the John Eyres of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England were almost as common as John Smiths, and it would be hopeless tackle directly the English origin of John Ayer of Haverhill, Massachusetts. We must approach this problem, then, through his relative John Evered alias Webb, whose name is far less common and for whom there are direct clues. The term "alias" at that time was the joining symbol between two family names, similar to the hyphen today.
John Evered alias Webb registered as from Marlborough, Wiltshire, on the passenger list of the [BOLD:] James of London [:BOLD] when he and Stephen Evered alias Webb embarked at Southampton about April 5, 1635; they enrolled among "laborers and husbandmen" to conceal their means. John said he was about 46 years old when testifying in the fourth month of 1659 in the Middlesex County Court of Massachusetts. He was a Boston merchant and spent his last days with wife and servants on the province's frontier at Dracut, or "Draw-cutt upon Merrimack" as he put it in his will dated 1665. This he signed with his full double name, though he also appears on Massachusetts as Webb and as Evered. (His family in Wiltshire likewise used three forms.) In this will he named as cousins the elder children of our John Ayer.
Wiltshire origin is thus indicated for the Ayer family of Haverhill. Previous genealogists may well have gone astray in assuming that this interfamily relationship was through John Ayer's [BOLD:] wife [:BOLD] Hannah and that her maiden name was Evered alias Webb. Research has disclosed no Hannah in that family at so early a date. Our theory, a new one, is that the relationship was through John Ayer's [BOLD:] sister [:BOLD] Rebecca and that she is to be identified with John Evered Sr.'s wife Rebecca, whose maiden name is not yet known. This theory is summarized on the accompanying chart.
. [BOLD:]EYRE FAMILY IN WILTSHIRE, ENGLAND[:BOLD]
. New Theory of the Ayer-Evered Relationship
Eyre of Bromham, Eng. (?Richard, d. 1566) Robert Everett of Draycot
widow ANNE m. 2nd--Pryor & d. 1605 formerly of Ramsbury, Eng.
| d. 1581-84 wife Alice
| |
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| | ? |
JOHN AYER or EYERS
REBECCA EYER---m----JOHN EVERED SR. of Draycot bp. 1596 ad Bromham
b. c1591
b. c1587. living 1641
--probably--
inherited
m. c1608 (probably) Rebecca c1638-9 to America
a house at
He & son John sold a house nearing 60 yrs old, 1654
Devizes
at Devizes d. 1657 Haverhill, Mas
| widow Marie bur. 1673 m. 1620-1623 HANNAH---
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to America 1635
| John, Jr -|
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| Robert
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| Rebecca
| named as
JOHN EVERED alias WEBB
Stephen Webb Thomas
| cousins by:
bp. 1612 at Bromham
returned & PETER
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son of "John & Rebecca"
d. 1643-67 at Nathaniel-|
of Boston & Dracut, Mass
Draycot, Eng. etc
d. 1668 CAPITALS denote individuals discussed in the Origin.
The picturesque map reproduced here shows northern Wilthsire around 1600, the period in which we are interested. On the west border is the famous city of Bath, and inward about a score of miles is Brohman (Brumh'm on the map). The parish register of Bromham contains two baptisms that we have tentatively identified as those of the American emigrants of John Ayer of Haverhill and John Evered alias Webb the merchant.
Northwestern Wiltshire is largely watered by the Bristol Avon River, its arms and two royal forests then almost encircling Bromham and two estates of the knighted Baynton family (Spy and Bromham House visited by royalty). Robert Eyer of Bromham was a woolen manufacturer (clothier), and this industry centered around the river's pure waters and power. Four miles or so away at the woolen manufacturing town of Devizes (the Deuyses), was a wool market--as well as property owned by Robert's daughter Rebecca Eyre and by the John Evered alias Webbs of Draycot Folait. Robert's widow died near the forest at Scend (Send), and from there an Eyre (who witnessed his will) moved to Lechlade to the north, over the border from Marlborough.
To the south, off the map, is the heart of Wiltshire, the cathedral city of Salisbury, which gave its name to Salibury, Massachusetts, where our John Ayer first settled.
In northeastern Wiltshire lived the Evered alias Webb family, as well as other Eyre families, apparently unrelated (Note 80). The earlier home of the Evered alias Webbs was at Ramsbury, near the Earl of Pembroke's manor and six miles from the market town of Marlborough (Marlingesboro). The later one was seven miles north of Marlborough at Draycot Foliat (Dricote) in Chiseldon parish; this was the home of John Evered alias Webb's forebears for three generations and after it he undoubtedly named Dracut, Massachusetts.
These Evered alias Webbs enjoyed a good standing, for "Robert Everard" of Ramsbury was on the subsidy (tax) roll of 1576. Soon after this he settled at Draycot Foliat and was succeeded by his elder son Noah. In the next century some of their descendants resided at Marlborough nearby. In pursuing this double-named family, it developed that Noah's son John preferred the single surname Evered while most of those who lived as late as 1659 changed to the single surname of Webb!
Noah's family favored Puritan teachings, for his lagacy to son John included [BOLD:] The New Covenant [:BOLD] by Dr. John Preston, the Puritan divine whose Calvinistic sermons were published under that title in 1629. How logical it was that his family should be drawn to Massachusetts!
"John Evered" thus wrote his name 1640 as witness to the will of his father "Noah Evered alias Webb" of Draycot, and he was still living the next year when referred to (as son "John Webb") in Noah's inventory. This John Evered, the eldest son and born about 1587, left a widow Marie Webb (as she called herself in her will), who was buried in 1673 in Chiseldon parish. Very likely she was his second wife: her death occurred almost a century after his birth and his children were born over a twenty-four-year period. The baptisms in 1609 and 1632 of his eldest and youngest children (both girls, the mothers not named) are the only Evered entries on the scanty bishop's transcripts for this parish. Of his property there he paid the ship-money tax of 1635 for the royal navy. In family land transactions he used his double surname, and these are the documentary proof for [BOLD:] this [:BOLD] region that he had a son John: 1616, Aug. 3. Noah Evered alias Webb the elder made a settlement on his son John and half the land in Dracot he had lately bought of Edwarde Rede, Esq. To be inherited by John the son of said John and then by another son Stephen, both being grandsons of Noah. Said John to pay Noah L220 in installments.
[1635] easter, 11 Charles I. [Sale, by the customary suit,] of a dwelling, garden and 190 acres in Dracott Foliatt and Swindon by four Evered alias Webbs--Noah Sr., John Sr., John Jr. and Setphen-- for L200 sterling.
[1635] Easter, 11 Charles I. [Sale, by the customary suit,] of a dwelling, and garden in Devizes by two Evered alias Webbs--John Sr. and John Jr.--for L41 sterling. The 1616 settlement gives the relationships of the "sellers" in both 1635 sales.
The larger sale links the two younger men to the Massachusetts merchant and his brother; for that very month they emigrated to America from the Marlborough region and would have needed money to obtain a merchant's stock for the New World. (Stephen returned before 1639.) Both must have passed their twenty-first birthday to give good to land under English law, so John--the elder of the two--was born by 1613. This agrees with his Massachusetts deposition indicating birth about 1613 and with the 1612 baptism at Bromham.
The smaller 1635 sale eventually served to bring into the family circle the object of our hunt, John Eyre (discussed later). This property at Devizes sold by the Evered alias Webbs was fourteen miles west of marlborough and not in the usual orbit of their family. However, the region has two earlier "Evered" records important to us: John, Sr.'s brother Richard Evered (surnamed Webb in his 1669 will as a Marlborough linendraper, or seller of uncut cloth) was married in 1625 in St. John the Baptist parish, Devizes. And only four miles from here, in Bromham, a John Evered, son of a John Evered and his wife Rebecca, was baptized on February 9, 1611/12.
Why was this baby baptized so far from the paternal homestead? To us it seems apparent from the foregoing that the baby's father was that Evered alias Webb who preferred to use the first surname only, so this baptism is primarily important as a clue to the mother.
Who is Rebecca, wife of John Evered? Evered was not a family name in Bromham and was not common in Wiltshire; this little group does not again appear on the Bromham church records, nor does Rebecca (surname Evered, or Webb, or Eyre) again appear in records for the parishes of either region associated with these families. So it is our belief: that John Evered (alias Webb), Sr. of Draycot Foliat in Chiseldon had a first wife Rebecca, presumably was the mother of at least Frances baptized 1609 at Chiseldon and John baptized 1612 at Bromham; and that for the firth of this second child she returned to her childhood home in Bromham to have the loving care of her mother, the widow Cicely Eyre.
If so, the teen-age bride of John Evered was born Rebecca Eyre in Bromham about 1591 (the parish register has a gap, 1589-91), for in the family group she came between her sisters Anne and Bithiah, who were baptized there in August 1589 and August 1593.
Rebecca was one of the two chief heirs of her uncle, William Crosse--a clothier of St. John the Baptist parish in Devizes--whose will dated February 1604 [1605/5] reads in part: To Rebecca Aires, daughter of Cicely Aires, the fee simple of my now dwelling house in Devizes--and if she die without issue, to John Aires, her brother, or if he fails, to next of kin.
My sister Cicely Aires of Bromham and her daughter Rebecca Aires to be executors and residuary legatees.
This is the Rebecca who was most likely the first wife of John Evered (alias Webb), Sr. She probably died before April 1635 or she would have then joined her husband and eldest son in the Devizes property sale (cited early). For were they not selling her own inheritance from her uncle William Crosse?
And this brings us finally to a John Eyre closely related to the Evered alias Webbs--if our theory is correct. Rebecca Eyre and her two sisters had many brothers, most of whom died as infants. The surviving two are entered in the Bromham parish register as John Eire, baptized March 28, 1596, and Zacharias Eire, baptized August 10, 1600, both sons of Robert. These five youngsters were named in the wills of their grandmother Anne Pryor of Bromham, and their uncle William Crosse, and of their own father.
Their parents, Robert Eire and Cicely Crosse, were married in the Bromham church on November 30, 1586. He was buried August 8, 1603 as Robert Eire of Hawkstreet, in Bromham. And he had probably been born only a year or so before 1566 when the baptismal register there begins. He had both a brother Richard and a baby son Richard, so a guess--very tentative--is that his father may have been Richard Eire buried January 1, 1566 at Bromham. Robert's mother was Anne, maiden name unknown and first names of both husbands unknown. She was buried at Bromham on June 19, 1605 as Anne Pryor, a widow.
Robert's brother Richard Eyre remained in Bromham, raised a family, and died there in 1636. On the other hand, Robert's widow and youngsters do not appear again on this parish register; apparently they left town.
This family's approach to life is revealed in the wills of Robert Eyre and his mother and in his room-by-room inventory, made in 1603-5. (Documents for him giver in Note 79.) Her will is typical of a widow, for she meticulously divided her small possessions among her grandchildren and remembered those who evidently had helped her--servants, schoolteacher and parish clerk. His will is businesslike. He tried to anticipate his wife's problems and his young children's needs and he appointed four men to guide them. As was customary, he left a small legacy to the parish poor.
Robert Eyre's inventory in 1603 totaled L317 (excluding real estate, if any). This was a tidy sum for one who died before his fortieth birthday and in a century when the purchasing power of money was great.
Robert's youngsters--John Eyre, his brother and sisters--were born into easy circumstances though not with the proverbial silver spoon that Uncle Richard bequeathed to each of his children. Their grandmother Pryor's two servants and their father's pewter, table napkins, candlestick, coverlet and cushions suggest comfort and some attention to style. The books owned by their father and their Uncle Richard are an intriguing item, for neither could write his name; they were perhaps for the children, since Richard's daughter Mary could write and so could Robert's son John if we are correct in believing that he is the Massachusetts ancestor. Robert in his will left a sizable bequest for his sons' education and a small legacy to the local schoolmaster.
The house in which Robert Eyre's children were born had two stories, judging from the inventory. It stood in rural Hawkstreet, a hamlet of Bromham parish belonging to a manor of Sir Harry and Sir Edward Baynton. Hence he may have been an hereditary (copyhold) tenant.
His livestock suggest a self-supporting homestead, and his mother's stock of rye, a small farm. Horses--rather than a horse--at first seem surprising, but he undoubtedly used them as pack-horses in his business.
Sheep as the natural wealth of this woolen center figure prominently in the distribution ordered by both Robert and his mother in their wills. Each owned a loom; in their day looms were such a coveted means of livelihood that an anti-monopoly law of 1555 prevented country clothiers from owning more than one.
Robert Eyre called himself a clothier in his will and--not knowing how to write--signed it with a mark that resembled the longtoothed card (comb) used in his industry. He was a textile manufacturer, to use the modern term for clothier. In Tudor and Elizabethan England the woolen industry was the most important in the kingdom, and its industrial heart was in the west country. Here in northwest Wiltshire, clothiers specialized in making undyed broadcloth of fine quality for export. Under a statute of 1552, each broadcloth had to be at least sixty-three inches wide, twenty-six to twenty-eight yards long, and forty-four pounds in weight. These measurements emphasize the size of Robert Eyre's broad loom and of the wording space required by his "organization."
Even in that century, a textile manufacturer had to have a talent for organizing, credit proficiency, and capital. In scope, his business could be that of a major industrial capitalist or of a petty capitalist. Robert Eyre's textile business was probably average in size, or somewhat smaller.
A sixteenth-century clothier bought his wool, cleansed it, and "put it out" to be carded, spun and woven by craftsmen, usually in their own cottages. If he had sufficient capital and organization, he might buy fine wool from growers in other counties or from leading merchants. Otherwise he himself raised sheep and bought more coarse Wiltshire wool from the small broker (brogger) at a local wool market.
Robert Eyre was one of the small-business group, probably buying at Wool Hall in Davizes, but his establishment was large enough to include a separate weaving shed. And his mother may have shared in his business.
A clothier had under his direct control the scouring, fulling and stretching of cloth. Wiltshire clothiers usually omitted the final process of dressing their broadcloth. They transported it in heavy ten-piece packs along the Marlborough road to London and sold it for credit at the cloth market in Blackwell Hall to merchant adventurers who had developed a Central European market for undyed undressed broadcloth.
Robert Eyre would have fulled his cloth in a local water mill. His inventory shows he had one wool loft for supplies and stretching and another for weighing. Apparently he himself took his broadcloth on packhorses to London to negotiate credit sales, often complicated. This aspect of the business he feared, in his will, might be too difficult for his wife and result in unsold stock that would deteriorate. His fear concerned the handicap of a woman in business.
He could have had no premonition, since he died in 1603, that James I would bring disaster on this important industry in 1614 by indulging in one of his caprices. The Continental market thus lost was not regained because of the Thirty Years War. Clothiers were unable to sell their manufactures at the very time that their raw material--wool--rose in price, and their workmen were further exploited, if employed at all, when wages were fixed and food prices were rising. The acute depressions in 1614-17 and 1620-23 are highlighted by the petition of Bromham weavers in 1622 stating that with forty-four looms idle, over 800 persons were close to starvation in the parish.
How difficult these times must have been for little John Eyre, orphaned in 1603 at the age of seven, and for his younger brother Zacharias and his three sisters. Their widowed mother could scarcely have kept the family business going through the first depression and by the second one she was dead, if she was the widow Cicely Eyre buried October 16, 1619 in Seend parish nearby.
Besides depression, this period brought religious adn political strife to Wiltshire. Catholic lined up against Protestant, and Anglican against Puritan, with Puritans here the stronger. Civil war was brewing between royalists and parliamentarians, and dissension within both parties created new tensions and mistrust; the rebels suspected even their own leader, Sir Edward Baynton of Bromham Hall. Caught in this upheaval, may Wiltshire citizens--John Eyre among them?--felt the New World might offer greater opportunity and security.
And how does John Ayer of Haverhill, Massachusetts fit into this picture? Very Well. He repeated the names John Robert and Rebecca for his first three children; even if these names are too common to be significant, there was also a grandson by the rare name Zachariah Ayer. Probably Cicely, his mother's name, was too favored by Cavalier families to be retained by him, a Puritan. His son Thomas may have been named for Thomas Eyre, gentleman, of Bromham who was contingent guardian of the orphaned John and Zacharias Eyre under their father's will.
John Ayer of Haverhill was born shortly after 1594 and had received some education. The English John Eyre was baptized at Bromham in March 1596 and his education was provided for by his father. A boy brought up in a period of depression and unrest would naturally develop the caution and tenacity which John Ayer the man displayed in a less competitive occupation in Massachusetts. His daring was in pulling up stakes and going to the New World, though over forty and encumbered with a family. Here he gradually accumulated farming lands and then painstakingly distributed them by will.
Not far from John Ayer geographically, but further from him economically and socially, was "Mr. John Evered alias Webb" of Boston, Chelmsford, and Dracut, Massachusetts; the then rarely used "Mr." in itself indicates a respected position. In his will he named as chief heirs and "cozens" (cousins) five Ayer men of Haverhill and their sister (children of the deceased John Ayer) and added that "if there be any more Brothers or Sisters of that ffamily of the Eayres," they were to share equally. Obviously he did not know the Ayers intimately. This might be expected of a member of a landed family in another part of Wiltshire who in America had six servants and several thousand acres. Apparently blood was thicker than water with him, for he omitted from his will his wife's son by her former marriage and remembered his own cousins--the nephews and nieces of his mother Rebecca.
By way of summary, let's look again at the chart. Of the two Massachusetts settlers, John Evered alias Webb's origin and his father's family are fully proved and we have build up a good case both for his mother's identity as Rebecca Eyre and--through her--for the origin of John Ayer of Haverhill. To confirm this circumstantial evidence, it is hoped that baptisms of John Ayer's children will be found and that John Evered, Sr.'s wife Rebecca will be located in Draycot or her maiden name determined by some record. Meanwhile, the existence of so many contemporary John Eyres prompts the query again: Did the Haverhill settler come from Bromham in Wiltshire? 		Family, Ayer (I844)
 
1420 The following is from a book called "Marital Deeds of Pennsylvania" written by Samuel P. Bates. It was published in 1874 by T. H. Davis & Co in 1875. The book contains biographies of many of the more prominent people that fought in the Civil War from Pennsylvania.
Ira Ayer, Jr., Colonel of the Tenth Reserve regiment, was born in Erie county, New York, on the 14th of July, 1836. He was son of Ira and Julia M. (Wadsworth) Ayer. At the opening of the Rebellion he was a student of Allegheny College. Without waiting for authority he called together his fellow-students, and having had some training in the Sixty-seventh militia, of which his father was Colonel, commenced drilling them. Though earnest in his appeals his company failed of acceptance, until the Reserve corps was authorized, when it was mustered as Company I of the Tenth. He was first in action at Dranesville. He seems to have had a poetic appreciation of valor; for when General Ord, who commanded in the battle, came galloping forward, leading Easton's battery into action, he thus records his impressions: "Just then Ord came dashing up. `Make way for my artillery,' he shouted, and without slackening his speed dashed by, while his `war-dogs' followed close behind. The General was an old artillerist, and knew well how to value this arm of the service. The scene was, I think. the most animated that I witnessed during the war. He was mounted on a beautiful bay, and as he rode up, his eyes flashing fire and every lineament of his countenance betokening courage, his presence inspired all with confidence."
In the battle of Beaver Dam Creek he was sent forward with his company to occupy the skirmish line, and remained in this advanced position during the entire engagement, the regiment ??quitting itself in the most gallant manner. "About ten o'clock," he says, "the roar of artillery had ceased. In our advanced position we could hear distinctly the movements of the enemy, and the cries and shrieks of the wounded and dying, as lay where they had fallen or were being moved from the field." In the battle of the following day, at Gaines' Mill, he received a gunshot wound in the right side and a severe contusion of the right arm. "Colonel Warner," he says, "mustered the regiment on the 30th, and I shall never forget the glow of soldierly pride with which he commended the company's bravery, and viewed its thinned but still compact ranks." And now came the change of base, with infinite discomfort to the wounded and worn-out soldiers. But a place of rest had not been gained before the enemy attacked, now at Charles City Cross Roads. The Reserves felt the first shock and were terribly scourged, but suffered no diminution of gallantry. In the Seven Days of this contest Captain Ayer's company lost more heavily in killed and wounded than any in the division. As it was the representative of one of the prominent colleges in the State, the fact may be regarded as significant.
At Bull Run, Captain Ayer received a severe wound. Passing over this field nearly a year afterwards the recollection of the battle were brought vividly to his mind and he thus wrote to a friend: "A little farther on we came to the scene of our last year's operations. There is the very field where we lay, Thursday night, August 28th, all day under a hot sun, covered a little from the enemy. This was near Groveton. Yonder is the wood where our regiment made a charge to take a rebel battery, but without success, and there is the field where they shelled us after dark, throwing their missiles very accurately, but, as it happened, without effect. That was Friday evening, the 29th; and there is the field where our regiment stood picket the same night. Passing on a little farther we come to the house hear which we lay Saturday, before we were ordered into the engagement. But here to the right is the very spot where the regiment fought. There fell Captain Hinchman, of Company A, and it is said that he is buried in that little rail enclosure. Here, too, fell Tryon and Pearl; and Phelps, out Lieutenant, a bold and dashing officer, was shot through the breast. No better men graced the ranks of the Union army. On this same ridge the rebel bullet struck my arm, and another went through my hat. The former made a sad hole in my canteen, causing all my cold coffee to run out. The boys in going over the field to-day found what they asserted to be the self-same canteen; but they were mistaken, for I carried it off with me." His wound was a severe one, fracturing the left forearm. At Gettysburg, while reconnoitering, he was fired at by two sharpshooters from an unexpected quarter, but was not hit. Turning suddenly back, a third shot was fired, which just grazed his side, making a deep abrasion, and would have done certain execution had it not been fired at the instant of his turning away, carrying him out of aim after the missile had actually left the piece.
He had been promoted to the rank of Major on the 18th of October, 1862, and on the 18th of December, 1863, was advanced to Lieutenant-Colonel and placed in command of the regiment. When it entered the Wilderness campaign it went with the free step and resolute mien of the best trained and organized soldiers. It had not penetrated far before the old foe was met. In a letter dated May 6th, the second day of the battle, he says: "Our division had been rapidly ordered forward, preparatory as was supposed to a charge upon the enemy's works. I was leading my regiment my regiment into line when hit by a bullet from the one of the enemy's sharpshooters, which passed through the large bone of my leg, causing a very painful though I hope not dangerous wound. I was compelled to leave the field at once, which I did after exhorting my men to do their duty."
For more than a year after the Reserve corps had completed its period of service and been mustered out he was disabled. He was brevetted Colonel for this action, and was warmly complimented by Generals Crawford and Fisher. Only by wounds, however, was he kept from the field, possessing a good constitution and actuated by real patriotism. In person he is six feet in height, well formed, and of fair complexion. At college he manifested a strong liking for mathematics and natural science, and later in his course for lingual studies. Strictly temperate--of tobacco and spirituous liquors abstemious--he was little affected by temptation, as the habits of youth are strengthened and firmed by time.
Colonel Ayer was married on the 21st of December, 1863, to Miss Jennie James, whose mother had, during the war, ministered at the bedside of many sick and dying soldiers, evincing a patriotism as sincere and fervid as the man who bore the musket and met face to face the foe. She watched at the side of one of the brave men of Ayer's company, Edwin B. Pier, a scholar of promise, and after his death wrote a most touching letter, descriptive of the Christian fortitude of the departed young soldier. When Ayer next visited Washington, he called upon the family to tender his acknowledgments for the kindness shown his beloved companion-in-arms, and then for the first time met the daughter. The acquaintance ripened into esteem, and finally resulted in their marriage. At the close of the war, Colonel Ayer settled in Virginia, and now resides at Norfolk, where he holds a responsible position in the civil service of the General Government.
The following is the Civil War record of Ira Ayer, Jr. rebuilt from his military records and other sources.
June 14, 1861 - Ira Ayer, Jr. enlisted as Capt. "to fill an original vacancy" in Co I, 10th Reg't Pennsylvania Reserve Corps for a period of three years.
July 21, 1861 Harrisburg, PA - reported for duty.
Sept. & Oct., 1861 - Muster roll - present.
Nov. & Dec., 1861 - Muster roll - present.
Jan. & Feb., 1862 - Muster roll - present.
Mar. & Apr., 1862 - Muster roll - present.
May. & June., 1862 - Muster roll - present.
Aug. 29&30, 1862 - Wounded at Bull Run.
July. & Aug., 1862 - Muster roll - absent - wounded.
Sept. & Oct., 1862 - Muster roll - absent - wounded in hospital.
Oct. 27, 1862 Buffalo - Letter from Doctor "To whom it may concern...the arm of Capt Ayer...tho doing well, it would be injurious if not dangerous to attempt to use it for at least twenty days yet."
Nov. & Dec., 1862 - Muster roll - present.
Jan. & Feb., 1863 - Muster roll - present commanding Regiment.
Apr. 10, 1863 - Special Muster roll - present.
Apr. 22, 1863 - Promoted to Major.
Mar. & Apr., 1863 - Muster roll - present.
May 1, 1863 Washington, DC - Individual Muster-out roll - age 25.
May 13, 1863 Washington, DC - Individual Muster-in roll - age 25.
May. & June., 1863 - Muster roll - present.
Jul. & Aug., 1863 - Muster roll - present.
Sept. & Oct., 1863 - Muster roll - present.
Nov. & Dec., 1863 - Muster roll - absent on leave.
Dec. 13, 1863 - From [Manenton] Junction applied for a pass to Alexandria for three days to transact private business.
Dec. 15, 1863 - Went on leave.
Dec. 18, 1863 - Printed Special Order 560. War Department Adjutant General's Office, Washington,
December 18th, 1863. (Extract)
27. The leave of absence granted Major Ira Ayer, 10th Pennsylvania Reserves, in Special Orders, No. 551, December 12th, 1863, from this Office, is hereby extended fifteen days.
By order of the Secretary of War:
Signed by E. D. Townsend, Assistant Adjutant General. Dec. 21, 1863 Washington - Ira and Jennie got married.
Jan. 15, 1864 - Returned from leave.
Feb. 27, 1864 - Promoted to Lieut. Colonel to replace retiring Lt. Col. J. B. Knox. Took Oath of Office as Lieut. Colonel in Bristow Va.
Jan. & Feb., 1864 - Muster roll - present.
Mar. & Apr., 1864 - Muster roll - present.
May 6, 1864 - Wounded by "minie ball" in right leg at Wilderness.
May 12, 1864 - Admitted to a hospital (stamp says 3rd Div G. Alexandria, Va). Record says age: 28, Nativity: New York, Married, Residence: Washington, DC, wife: Jennie Ayer of 13th St. Washington, DC, Rank: Lt. Col. from Army of the Potomac. Back says Patient was received at 12ock at Night and transferred the Next Morning 7ock. no description of wound taken.
May 13, 1864, Transferred to Washington, DC [Seminary] Hospital. No date - Treated at Vol. Officers Hospital for G. S. W. (gun shot wound) Leg.
June 11, 1864 - Discharged. "this records that the above named officer was discharged the service June 11, 1864, by reason of the muster out of the field and staff on that date, he being at the time absent wounded." He was in Gent. Hospital in Washington, DC.
June 22, 1867 - Appointed Colonel by Brevet for "gallant conduct at the battle of the Wilderness, Virginia. To date from March 13, 1865."
According to tradition, he had a stillborn twin brother. According to himself, he was 5'11", had a light complexion, light hair, and blue eyes. He was a student at Allegheny College at the start of the Civil War studying to become a minister. He enlisted with 100 other students and was unanimously elected the captain of the Company. After training them very quickly they fought throughout the war during which time he was seriously wounded several times. After he was wounded in the leg he was treated at Seminary General Hospital in Georgetown, DC. He got married during the last year of the war. After the war he again served in the army from 1865 through 1867 and was stationed in the West. Part of that time he served on the Bureau of Refugees, Freed men, and Abandoned Lands. In 1869 he was appointed to the Treasury Department. According to an obituary (source unknown), he was always given the most important and delicate investigations. He was stationed in Norfolk, VA around 1871-5 (listed in city directories from 1872-1875/6). His daughter Alice said that she was born there and some pictures of the family were printed there. However, his family spent much of the time living in Richmond and Ashland with his in-laws. Between 1886 and 1888 he was special agent in charge of San Francisco. After that he was made statistician for the Treasury Department for the tin-plate industry, under the operation of the McKinley law. Then he worked to establish the rate of "drawback" on merchandise exported from this country. From about 1888 until the time of his death he was stationed at the port of New York. In 1892 in President Benjamin Harrison's fourth annual message to Congress he mentioned Ira by name while referring to a report done by Ira on the tin industry. He said "The report of Ira Ayer, special agent of the Treasury Department, shows that..." In 1900 he was renting a house at 37 Cambridge Pl., Brooklyn, NY. His wife and all his children were living there except Ira, III and Alice. They were both married at the time. He had a servant living there name Lena Curtis. Because of his war injuries he received a pension from 1875 until his death. For more information on his accomplishments during the Civil War see the section on him. 		Ayer, Ira II (I442)
 
1421 The following is from Family Memorials of Watertown:
ABRAHAM BROWNE, a younger brother, or & nephew of the Elder, Richard Browne. [See note 7.] He was a very early settler_ perhaps one of the first of Watertown, and was admitted freeman. March 6th, 1631-2. He was a land surveyor, and, a» in manifest from the records, in the early municipal transactions of the town, he received important appointment, and trusts more numerous than were conferred upon any other person. No two men were more respected and confided in, than he and his relative, Richard Browne. The records of the town do not embrace the transactions of the first four years after the settlement. They commence in 1634, extend to Nov. 28, 1643, when there occurs a hiatus of four years, and recommence Nov. 8, 1647. He was selectman from 1636 to 1643, inclusive. In 1634, he was appointed, in conjunction with Robert Seeley, to survey all the lots that are granted; and they were also appointed conservators of timber trees—none to be cut down without their assent. In 1635, he was one of the seven freemen appointed to divide every man "his propriety" of meadow and upland, that is ploughable, and the rest to lie common. In the same year, he was appointed, with John Warren, to lay out all highways, and to see that they are repaired. Also, to survey the lots granted by the selectmen. In 1638, ordered that all lots, both of freemen and foreigners, shall be measured and bounded by Abraham Browne, who shall give & note of each survey to be enrolled in the town books. In the same year, he and Thomas Bartlett were appointed to measure and lay out the remote meadows, according to their best judgment. He was also appointed, with four others, to lay out the farms as they are ordered, and they were authorized to include any rock or swamp in any survey, not counting it in the number of acres. In 1639, the highway from Dorchester Field to the Flats, as Abraham Browne laid it out was confirmed forever. Also, the highway leading from Robert Jennison's to the river, betwixt the lands of John Barnard and Jeremiah Nororoes, together with about half an acre of land on the river, for the landing of goods, was ordered to remain forever, as laid out by Abraham Browne, Ap. 30, 1839. Also, that when Ab. Brown shall lay out any whole squadron of the great lots, they to whom the Land belongs shall make him present pay. In 1640, Abraham Browne, “ Surveyor of the Town,” was directed to survey the subdivisions of the Hither and Farther Plains; and the next year (1641), ho was directed to do the same. Also, it was ordered that he have 4d, the acre for surveying the two plains and the remote meadows. Also, he was empowered, 1643, to warn trespassers on public timber, and to have one-fourth of the fines. Oct. 7, 1641, the General Court appointed him one of the committee for laying out the 1000 acres of land granted to the Artillery Company at its first organization.
The Court Records of Middlesex County, show that Oct. 1, 1850, his Will and Inventory were "accepted at court." And an order of court, made Oct. 6, 1691, respecting the final settlement of his estate, recites of him as “ deceased in the year 1650." These dates indicate, it is thought, satisfactorily, the year of his decease ; though there are some circumstances that favor the belief that ne died between the close of 1643 and 1648. The latest mention of his name in the Town Records, is Nov. 28, 1643, which is the latest date previous to the before-mentioned hiatus of four years. It is, therefore, unknown when his public services terminated. And his name does not occur in the Records between Nov. 8, 1647, when they recommence, and 1650, the supposed date of his decease, it is that ill health or body infirmity had compelled him to withdraw from his very large participation in public business.
No original Will of Abraham Browne has been discovered, but in the files of the County Court for 1670, is found the following, which, by the concluding certificate, purports to be a copy of it. "The last Will and Testament of Abraham Browne, of Watertowne, dec’d being of good and perfect memory but Weake, as is witnessed by us whose names are here under written. Impr. : after the decease of his wife, he gave and bequeathed onto his two sones, Jonathan and Abraham Browne, his house and lands ; but giving liberty to his wife, that if shee had need shee might sell some parcels of it. Also, he gave and bequeathed onto his two daughters, Sarah Browne and Mary Browne, each of them one ewe sheep, having each of them one before, as was testified. The rest of his goods and estate he gave onto Lydea, his wife, making her his sole executrix to perform this, his Will and Teatament. Witnesses Richard Browne, John Whitney. Entered out of the original on file with the Register, at Cambridge, in the County of Midd., in New England, and is a true coppie, being compared and examined by Tbomas Danforth, Recorder,"
This instrument resembles a synopsis, more than a literal copy of an original Will. It is not improbable that it was a nuncupative Will, and the above a copy of the declaration by the witnesses of its provisions.
There was mcch delay and probably some difficulty in settling his estate, and the settlement seems to have been made finally in entire disregard of the provisions of the Will. On the 6th Oct., 1691, the Court ordered the parties concerned in the estate of Abraham Browne, of Watertown, deceased in the year 1650, be sent for, to attend the adjournment of the Court, in order to a settlement of said estate ; and they appointed a committee, consisting of John Ward, Jonathan Remington, and Thomas Greenwood, to make proposals for said settlment. The claimants were, 1. The heirs of Jonathan Browne, deceased. the eldest son. 2. George Woodward, in right of his wife, only dr. of Abraham Browne, Jr., deceased. 3. John Parkharet, son of one of the daughters of said Abraham Browne, Senr. 4. The heirs of (T) Isaac Lewis, deceased, who were children of another dr. of said Abraham Browne. 5. William Lakin, in right of his wife, youngest daughter of said Abraham Browne.
Owing, as they said, to a change in the government of the Colony, by the coming over of a new Charter, the committee did not report until Jan. 22, 1693-4. They assigned 2/6 (a double portion) of the estate to the heirs of Jonathan, and the other 4/6 to the other four claimants. At the same time they recommended that these four claimants should sell their shares to Abraham Browne, eldest son of Jonathan, deceased, who was then ready to purchase ; and in that manner the estate was settled.
It appears from the schedules of possessions, that, besides a pond of one acre, 11 lots of Land were granted to Abraham Browne, the town surveyor, and that previous to 1642, he bad purchased 4 other lots, amounting to 39 A , one of which, a 30 A. lot in the Great Dividends, had been granted to his kinsman, John Browne. Two of the lots granted to him were homestalls. The first, upon which he probably settled at first, contained 10 A., and was at the east of Mount Auburn. His second homestall of 28 A., to which he is supposed to have removed very early, was bounded on the E. by the way to the Little Plain (now Howard Street) ; N. by Sudbury Road (now Main Street) ; S. by the way to Beaver Plains, sometimes called the way betwixt lots (now Pleasant Street) ; W. by his own land. Two other lots granted to him, one of 10 A. and the other of 6 A., were contiguous to the homestall on the West, and in the schedule of 1642, they were deemed parts of the homestall, which was then enrolled as 40 A. He must have purchased other adjoining lands not long afterwards, as in the final settlement of his estate in 1694, his homestall contained 60 acres. The Committee, appointed by the Court to settle the estate, made an Inventory, in 1694 (of lands only), amounting to £187; viz.: homestall 60 A. £100; remote meadow,10 A., £12; salt marsh, 4 A., £20; farm land, 107 A., £15; lot on Charles River, 10 A. £10.
This is probably the only instance (unless the grant to Deacon Simon Stone be an exception), where an original grant has remained in the possession of the direct descendants of a grantee to the present time. As above stated, this property passed by inheritance and purchase, to his grandson, Capt. Abraham Browne. Although it is stated, in the report of the committee for settling the estate, that Abraham " was ready to purchase” the shires of the other claimants, subsequent transactions render it probable that he acted in behalf of the widow and other heirs of his father, and that he never became the proprietor of the whole homestall of 60 acres. From Capt Abraham B., a part of the land belonging to him passed by Will to his son Samuel, who occupied a part of his house. After his death his son Samuel, about 1739, moved to Leicester, and not long after this, the property was mortgaged to Capt John Homans, who probably occupied it only a few years, when tho mortgage was cancelled by Jonathan eldest son of Capt Abraham. From Jonathan it passed to his son Jonathan, Jr.. Esq. From him it passed to his son Major Adam Brown, and it is now, at least a part of it, in the occupancy of his heirs. (This was written in 1855.)
The dwelling-house, now standing, on this ancient homestall, is probably, with the exception of the ancient " Nathaniel Bright house,1' considerably older than any other in the town. The "new part,” next the road, was built and occupied by Capt. Abraham B., when be relinquished the old or south part to the use of his son Samuel. The accompanying out is a view of this house, as at present seen from the northeast. (The book includes a drawing of the house.)
His wid., Lydia, m., Nov. 27, 1659, Andrew Hodges, of Ipswich (proprietor of Ipswich in 1639, where his wife, Ann, d. Nov. 15, 1658). He died Dec. 1665, and his wid. Returned to Wal., where she d. Sept. 27, 1686. By wife LYDIA, he (A. B.) had 6 chil., of whom, at least one, and probably tow were b. in England. The earliest record of a birth in Wal. Was that of his dr. Lydia.
 		Browne, Abraham (I2151)
 
1422 The following is from Ware Genealogy:
One of the settlers, 1671, of Wollonionopoag, incorporated as Wrentham 1673. In March, 1675-6, the town was deserted by the settlers, who took refuge from the Indians in Dedham and elsewhere, and did not return till 1680. " 1676—March Ye 30th Ye lnhabitance ware drawn of by rason of ye Endien Worre." " 1680—August Ye 21st. The Revd Mr Man returned to Wrentham again and divers Inhabnts (John, Nathaniel and Robert Ware among the number.) He is said to have built upon the "Bean Place " as early as 1668. He was one of the first selectmen of Wrentham, 1686. Lieutenant and captain of the first military company.
John Ware's commission as Lieut, of the Foot Company of Militia in the town of Wrentham, signed by Gov. Stoughton, Aug. 5, 1606, is still extant. He seems to have served as lieutenant from 1689 to 1704, and as captain till 1715. The journal of the company was kept in a small book, six by four inches, written in a crabbed, almost indecipherable hand, and was filled with notices of musters, with the names and amount of fines of the absent and "defective " ; the names of those " presst for Canada " or elsewhere, including those who '"' ran away," and the precautions taken against the Indians. At the end of the book are the following: lines :—
[CENTER:]" He that is wise will Learn to prise
an art that is most skillfull
but as for fools theyel Spoyl all Town
and Live not wise but willfull.”[:CENTER]
John Ware headed a band of men in an attack against the Indians at Indian Rock during King Philip's war.—History of Norfolk County, p. 632. Indian Rock is near Jordan St. in the eastern part of Franklin. 		Ware, John (I2096)
 
1423 The following is from Ware Genealogy:
[CENTER:]Abstract of Will of Hester Hunting.[:CENTER]
Will of Hester Hunting wife of John Hunting of Dedham dated January 4, 1675 proved Feb. 12, 1684-5.
After payment of debts, " unto my well beloved son John Hunting the whole & full sume of twenty pounds as his part of that Estate, Legacie or portion that was given to me by my loveing Brother Francis Seaborne in Old England, which Legacy is yet due to me to be paid as by my loving Brother Francis Seaborn's will appeares in Old England amounting to the sume of fourty and five pounds," --- " to my beloved son Samuel Hunting liveing in Charlstowne, the whole & full sume of ten pounds as his part & portion of the aforesd fourty & five pounds " - - " to Hannah wife of my son Samuel aforesd one pair of new sheets & ray best table cloth & to my grandchild Samuel Hunting (oldest son of my son Samuel aforesd) six napkins." The fifteen pounds of the said forty-five yet remaining to be disposed of as follows. " one fourth of s'd fifteen pounds remaining to my loving daughter Mary Buckner of Boston and also my best tamy coat " --- " unto the children of my daughter Ware deceased one fourth of s'd fifteen pounds to be equally divided between them all." --- "to my loving daughter Hester Fisher of Dedham one fourth part of s'd fifteen pounds & my best goune." --- "to Hester Pecke the daughter of my Son in law John Peck of Rehoboth one fourth part of s'd fifteen pounds & also my hat & my Stuff coat." --- "to Mary Wood my maid servant my old red undercoate & my searge under coate & my cloth wescoat. And what remains undisposed of all my wearing apparel Linning & wooling I give to Elizabeth Hunting wife of my oldest son John Hunting of Dedham."
" Furthermore my mind & will is that my dear & wel beloved husband aforesd should have the fall use and improvement of all the premises as long as he doth live excepting what things of my wearing Apparell he do see causs to give away to bee sooner disposed of to the person aforesd. Legacies in money to be paid within six months after the Decease of my dear husband if it be sent hither from Old England before, otherwise to be delivered presantly after it be sent over whenever it do come after my said Husbands decease, and if the whole sume aforesd of fourty & five pounds cannot be attained then so much thereof as can be attained shall be divided to the persons aforesd according to their severall proportions aforesd by abateing in each pound what the aforesd Sume shall fall short of fourty & five pounds."
The sons John Hunting and Samuel Hunting appointed Executors.
Husband gives his consent to the will and signs.
Witnesses.
Thomas Battle.
Thomas Fisher. 		Seaborn, Esther (Hester) (I2094)
 
1424 The following is taken from Peters: _______________________________ORIGIN OF THE FAMILY
In Rowley, Massachusetts, is found the first progenitor of the Bradleys of Essex County: [BOLD:] Daniel Bradley. 1 [:BOLD]
Who were his parents, or whence he came, is not known, neither is his age or his relationship to any of teh other Daniels who appear in New England prior to 1662, and one of whom is first mentioned in Rowley itself in 1654, and int the Ipswich town records in 1645.
Rowley was settled in 1639 by the Rev. Ezekiel Rogers and his parishioners. According to Cotton Mather the town was named for Rowley in the East Riding of Yorkshire, where Rogers had been pastor and which he left in 1638 for New England.
Rowley, in England, is an extensive parish composed of several hamlets; there is one church and a rectory; the manor belongs to the Harrison-Bradley family. 2 Here we have a clue to a possible ancestry for the Bradleys who were first mentioned in Rowley and the neighboring town of Ipswich, though there seems to be no record of them until some years after the advent of the Rev. Ezekiel and his flock, 3 the earliest mention being that of Mary, who was married to Thomas Leaver in Rowley, Sept. 1, 1643.
There are Bradleys, however, who appear in another part of Essex County earlier than this, and who may, or may not, be the same family.
There can be little doubt--though the compiler has no positive proof--that the Bradleys of New Haven were of the same family and near relations to those of Essex County, coming there and thence emigrating to New Haven; the extraordinary similarity of the names of the children of the first William of New Haven to those of Daniel of Rowley and Haverhill being most significant. Joshua, who is "barely fifteen in 1653," marries in Rowley, Mass., May 26 1663, Judith Lume (or Lumbe) and has a first child Martha born Feb., 1663/4; his second child, Joshua, born 1665, in recorded both in Rowley and in New Haven and seems to form the connecting link.
The compiler has failed to find any record or proof of the statement that Benjamin Bradley, and apothecary, of London, came from Leicestershire, in 1600, and lived in the market town of Bingley, in the West Riding of Yorkshire; died abt. 1638; md. twice; the eldes son, William, came to America and joined the New Haven colony, July 16, 1645; he had five children by his second wife; Ellen, Daniel, Joseph, Nathaniel, Stephen.
This statement will be found in the [BOLD:] History of Cantebury, New Hampshire, [:BOLD] by Colonel Lyford, who gives no authority for it.
1 Who married Mary Williams in 1662.
2 [BOLD:] Essex Antiquarian, [:BOLD] vol. xi, p. 36, January, 1907.
3 This would easily be accounted for if, as probably was the case, no births, marriages, or deaths occurred during the interval.
The following is from the Haverhill Library and was probably written about 1890:
In the West Parish a little off from the main road to Lawrence stands a very old house known as the Low Bradley place. It was built by one Lufkin, probably about 1730. There was at this time a lock in the river about opposite the house which was no longer used, and Lufkin took the stones of wich it was constructed to build his celler. Having one more than he needed, he left it in the river, and it is now called "Lufkin's Rock". When the house was finished Lufkin thought it was too expensive a place for him to live in, and accordingly he sold it to Capt. Daniel Bradley [Joseph (2), Daniel (1)]. Capt. Bradley died in 1785 leaving this house to widowed daughter, Mrs. Ruth Pecker. Here she lived for some years with her son Daniel and finally sold it to her cousin Enoch Bradley in 1799. He gave it to his son Enoch,Jr. in or about 1834. This Enoch Jr. fitted it for a tavern, and there was a large dance hall which was frequently the place of gathering for the young people of the neighborhood. Near the house there was a landing place on the river bank known as Bradley Landing. The tavern sign is still in the dance hall. It is four feet square,and on one side is painted the figure of an Indian. On the other side is the sun with the moon and stars. Enoch Bradley,Jr. left the place to his son Enoch Low Bradley, who still owns and occupies it at 83 years of age. There used to be another house near it built by one of the Bradley's for his sons, and so much superior to the old house that it was called the "Bradley Mansion", but it was destroyed by fire some years since.
If you desire to find this old house, which will well repay a visit, take the main road to Lawrence, called Lowell Avenue. A little past the brick school-house the road descends, and crosses "Creek Brook". At the foot of the hill on the right is a very old mill always called "Bradley's Mill". Just opposite is the road leading to the Bradley homestead. It can be distinguished by a great number of willow trees. The house has quite recently been repaired. [UND:] Addenda - 1930. [:UND] The Low Bradley house was torn down in 1919.
According to Alice and Clementine Ayer, the Bradley Mill is on land deeded in 1748, in the 22nd year of his Majesty's Reign. It was a saw mill and was moved from Crystal Lake and converted into a grist mill. It was purchased from Amini Hayes, who ran the mill the first year. In 1825 more land was purchased nearby. 		Family, Bradley (I972)
 
1425 The following was included in "New York State's Prominent and Progressive Men," Compiled by Mitchell C. Harrison in 1900 and published by the New York Tribune.
The chapter entitled Ramon O. Williams is from Volume II, pages 377-380.

RAMON O. WILLIAMS
Ramon O. Williams was born in Washington, D. C. about seventy years ago. His father was George Williams and his mother Jeanette Anne Young, natives of Washington, and of Colonial and English ancestry.
When a mere child, he was sent to Cuba with his father, who was to leave him with an aunt born in Maryland, and married to a Spanish merchant established at Havana. She, having no children, wished to adopt her little nephew, who at her request had been named after her husband as her son. He went to school in Havana. His mother, not wishing to part forever with her son, after a time requested his return to her, which was done. Then he went to school in Alexandria, Virginia, and in Washington. His father having died early, he was taken from school at the age of 12 years and placed to work in the office of Blair and Rives, editors and proprietors of "The Globe." Some time after, he went to the office of the "Madisonian." This paper was the organ of the John Tyler Administration. At the age of eighteen Mr. Williams returned to Havana, where he completed his education under private instruction, since which time he has been continually connected with the commerce of that island with the United States.
In the year 1856 he was sought by some of his fellow-countrymen, residents of New London and Mystic, Connecticut, to represent them in defense of a proposition they wished to present to the Captain-General of Cuba for the free introduction of live fish from the west coast of Florida into Havana. Prior to the transfer of Florida in 1821, under the treaty of 1819, the West coast of Florida had served as the fishing grounds for the market of Havana. By reason of this treaty, these Florida fishing-grounds and the market of Havana had become foreign to each other; and the legislation of Spain reserved the catching and supplying of fresh fish to the retired sailors of the King's Navy; therefore, the Spanish law prohibited the trade. But the law was evaded, and the trade carried on in American smacks, that fished on the West coast of Florida under the American flag, and brought their catches into the port of Havana under the Spanish flag. That is, each of those smacks carried both flags. The famous Don Francisco Marti had the monopoly of supplying fresh fish to Havana. He made an immense fortune out of this business, while the American fishermen scarcely made a living. It was because of this inequality of conditions that Mr. Williams was sought by the fishermen to represent them before General Concha, then Captain-General of the Island. After several months Mr. Williams succeeded against the millionaire Mr. Marti, and fresh fish was supplied to the people of Havana, under the American flag, at from eight to ten cents per pound, whereas under the monopoly of Mr. Marti they had to pay twenty-five cents and upwards per pound. The result was, the people of Havana got cheaper fish and the American fishermen got better returns for their labor. In this contest against Mr. Marti, Mr. Williams gained his first insight into the economics of Cuba, which subject became a favorite study with him ever afterward.
In 1868, on learning of the tender of the annexation of the Republic of Santo Domingo to the United States, by General Baez, he instantly saw, being then engaged in sugar-planting, the disintegrating effect on monarchy and African slavery in Cuba if that proposition was carried out, would have on the Cuban problem, because of the economic dependence of the island on the sugar market of the United States, which dependence had been recently wrought by the cyclic events of the destruction of the Louisiana sugar crop, during our Civil War. At the request of the late John E. Develin of New York, he made a sketch of his views, which was read and approved by several Americans of high intellectual standing.
Mr. Williams withdrew from business in 1874, and took up his residence in New York.
In the same year of 1874, at the solicitation of the late Thurlow Weed of New York, he showed, for Frederick W. Seward, how the negotiation of reciprocity treaties with other sugar countries than Cuba would effectively solve the Cuban problem without war, and by the mere effect of economic force. A copy of this sketch later fell into the hands of the late Charles A. Dana, who headed it with the title of "Some Considerations on the Absurd Commercial Relations between Spain and the United States," and published it in a daily issue of the "Sun," in January, 1876.
Shortly after his return to the United States in 1874, he was requested to go back to Havana to take charge of the United States consulate-general, during General Grant's administration, for three or four months, which he accepted. He soon afterwards received the honorary appointment of vice-consul-general. At the end of ten years he resigned this position. In 1884 he was appointed by President Arthur to be United States consul-general at Havana, and was continued during the successive administrations of Presidents Cleveland and Harrison.
In 1890 he was called to Washington by order of Secretary Blaine to assist in supporting the proposed amendment of the McKinley Tariff Bill of that year. To this end he went before Senators Allison, Aldrich, Hiscoch, and Jones, the majority members of the Senate committee then having the subject under consideration, and before Representatives Burroughs, Gear, and Hitt of the corresponding House committee, to whom he expressed his view in favor of the proposition which afterward took form under the Aldrich Amendment.
On the breaking out of the Cuban insurrection in 1895, Mr. Williams had to defend, under the treaties between the two governments, many Cubans who had obtained naturalization papers in the United States and had taken part in the insurrection, and having, in consequence, been considered persona non grata by the Captain-General of Cuba (Callejas), and the Madrid government, and also for reasons of self-respect he obtained leave of absence to go to Washington, where he signified his intention to President Cleveland to resign at once. But he returned to Havana, at the request of the President, for a short time, intending to forward his resignation from there. However, with the precedents in his memory of the fate of the Critteden men in Havana in 1851, and the public execution of their leader, General Narciso Lopez, of which act Mr. Williams had been a near-by witness, and of the Virginius men at Santiago in 1873, and from his desire to serve the cause of international peace, knowing that the foundation of Spanish power in Cuba was essentially economic, and fast exhausting itself from the violation of the natural economic law, as defined by Isaiah, in arithmetical ratio, the key to all the physical sciences, in his warning to the merchant princess of Tyre (chapter xxiv., verses 1, 2, 3), he remained in Havana a year longer, attending to the many cases of the Cubans with United States naturalization papers. As soon as, in his judgment, a sufficient number of these cases had been settled for the formation of an adequate jurisprudence under the treaties, he then sent his formal and irrevocable resignation to the President. In the full faith of the sufficiency of article 7 of the treaty of 1795, between the United States and Spain, and the protocol of January 12, 1877, negotiated at Madrid by the late Caleb Cushing, Mr. Williams rejected the pressure brought upon him to ask the government at Washington to station a vessel of war in the harbor of Havana, fully believing in his ability to defend and to obtain all the stipulated rights of American citizens without any such aid, having, besides, reasons to suspect that the calling of a man-of-war might become a doubtful expedient.
His last important official act was the defense of the men of the Competitor expedition, which vessel had been captured with officers and crew while landing arms and recruits for the insurgents in the province of Pinar del Rio on the north coast of Cuba. For his action in this matter he was highly complemented by the Department of State.
Reasoning from the fundamental principles of economics, Mr. Williams frequently pointed out in his consular reports, yet unpublished, the disasters that awaited Spanish power in Cuba.

He lived for a few years with his aunt in Cuba as a child after which he returned home. He worked for newspaper editors at the age of 12 to help support his family after his father died. In 1847 at the age of 19 he returned to Cuba and finished his education. He was very fond of both Spaniards and Cubans. In Cuba he was successful in many business ventures from import/export to sugar planter. He was in the shipping business between Baltimore and Havana. He retired from business in 1874 and moved to 35 Cambridge Place in Brooklyn, NY (although he was not listed in the annual Brooklyn City Dir until the 1879/80 edition). In 1871, he was appointed Vice Consul to Cuba by President Ulysses S Grant, a personal friend. He resigned after 10 years. In 1884 he was appointed Consul General by President Warren G Harding receiving a salary of $6,000 per year, the largest of salary of any consul general (according to a newspaper, probably the Brooklyn Daily Eagle). He resigned in 1896 after serving under three administrations. The 1880, 1900, and 1910 censuses listed him as a sugar merchant, a banker, and own income respectively. All three censuses list his home as 35 Cambridge Pl, Brooklyn and the last listed it as being owned with no mortgage. The house was an old brownstone. In 1880 his son Ramon was at college and all other children were at school. The other residents in 1900 were Angela G Williams (wife), M Angelina Disbrow (daughter), William J Disbrow (son in-law), George A Williams (son), Alice A Williams (daughter in-law), Ramon O Williams (grandson), Robert A Williams (son), Annie J Welsh (servant), and Marie McMaster (servant). In 1910 they were the same people except William Disbrow was not there and Jane A and Angela L Williams (granddaughters) were there. There was one servant and his name was Ernist Miller. On his fiftieth wedding anniversary he received the following letter from the manager of the Spanish department of a New York mercantile house: "When I consider all the good you did for the Cubans during the Revolution and when you were acting as consul-general or minister of your country, I feel very proud of your friendship and grateful in every respect for the victims you saved from the ferocity of Spaniards and their government. I do sincerely hope that all your Cuban friends think as I do toward you, and also that they will appreciate your best and glorious deeds."

On 5 January, 1866, Ramon left Charleston, South Carolina for Havana on the steamship Isabella along with Mrs. Underwood (likely his godmother) according to a notice in the Charleston Courier.
As of 1871, the Book "Cuba With Pen and Pencil", Samuel Hazard, said that R. O. Williams line of 26 Mercaderas St., Havana ran fairs from Baltimore for $50.
According to the "Brooklyn Daily Eagle Almanac", 1891, Ramon along with the Consul Generals of London, Paris and Rio de Janero were the highest paid Consul Generals at $6,000 per year.
According to Willis Johnson in "The History of Cuba, Volume 4", 1920, Ramon strongly recommended against sending a ship to Havana prior to the Spanish American War:
It is to be recalled that Ramon O. Williams, who had only a little while before retired from the office of American Consul-General at Havana, and was particularly well informed and judicious, earnestly warned the United States government against sending a ship to Havana, because the harbor was very elaborately mined, and there was a bitter and truculent feeling among the Spaniards against the United States; wherefore the danger of some untoward occurrence was too great to be incurred without a more pressing necessity than was apparent. But despite his warning the Maine was sent. She was conducted by a Spanish official pilot to her anchorage .at a buoy between RegIa and the old custom house. Whether a mine was attached to that buoy or not is unknown, though Mr. Williams was confident that one was. His theory was that some malignant Spanish officer, who had access to the keyboard of the mines, perhaps through connivance with some other fanatic, watched to see the tide swing the ship directly over the mine and then touched the key and caused the explosion. That would account for the enormous hole which was blown in the side of the ship, and which could not have been caused by any little mine or torpedo which might have been floated to the side of the ship, but must have been produced by a very large mine planted deep beneath the hull. 		Williams, Ramon Oscar (I357)
 
1426 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 		Perley, Allan (I856)
 
1427 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 		Peabody, Lt. Francis (I872)
 
1428 The inventory, taken May 3, was £250, 2, 10. Ware, Robert (I2091)
 
1429 The last record of Glenn is the 1940 census. Since he was only 30 at the time it is possible that he did have a family. Pierce, Glenn R (I4035)
 
1430 The Last Will and Testament of mr John howland of Plymouth late Deceased, exhibited to the Court held att Plymouth the fift Day of March Anno Dom 1672 on the oathes of mr Samuell ffuller and mr William Crow as followeth

Know all men to whom these prsents shall Come That I John howland senir of the Towne of New Plymouth in the Collonie of New Plymouth in New England in America, this twenty ninth Day of May one thousand six hundred seaventy and two being of whole mind, and in Good and prfect memory and Remembrance praised be God; being now Grown aged; haveing many Infeirmities of body upon mee; and not Knowing how soon God will call mee out of this world, Doe make and ordaine these prsents to be my Testament Containing herein my last Will in manor and forme following;

Imp I Will and bequeath my body to the Dust and my soule to God that Gave it in hopes of a Joyfull Resurrection unto Glory; and as Concerning my temporall estate, I Dispose thereof as followeth;

Item I Doe give and bequeath unto John howland my eldest sonne besides what lands I have alreddy given him, all my Right and Interest To that one hundred acres of land graunted mee by the Court lying on the eastern side of Tauton River; between Teticutt and Taunton bounds and all the appurtenances and privilidges Therunto belonging, T belonge to him and his heirs and assignes for ever; and if that Tract should faile, then to have all my Right title and Interest by and in that Last Court graunt to mee in any other place, To belonge to him his heires and assignes for ever;

Item I give and bequeath unto my son Jabez howland all those my upland and Meadow That I now posesse at Satuckett and Pamet, and places adjacent, with all the appurtenances and privilidges, belonging therunto, and all my right title and Interest therin, To belonge to him his heires and assignes for ever,

Item I Give and bequeath unto my son Jabez howland all that my one peece of land that I have lying on the southsyde of the Mill brooke, in the Towne of Plymouth aforsaid; be it more or lesse; and is on the Northsyde of a feild that is now Gyles Rickards senir To belonge to the said Jabez his heirs and assignes for ever;

Item I give and bequeath unto Isacke howland my youngest sonne all those my uplands and meddows Devided and undivided with all the appurtenances and priviliges unto them belonging, lying and being in the Towne of Middlebery, and in a tract of Land Called the Majors Purchase near Namassakett Ponds; which I have bought and purchased of William White of Marshfeild in the Collonie of New Plymouth; which may or shall appeer by any Deed or writinges Together with the aformentioned prticulares To belonge to the said Isacke his heirs and assignes for ever;

Item I give and bequeath unto my said son Isacke howland the one halfe of my twelve acree lott of Meddow That I now have att Winnatucsett River within the Towne of Plymouth aforsaid To belonge to him and said Isacke howland his heires and assignes for ever;

Item I Will and bequeath unto my Deare and loveing wife Elizabeth howland the use and benifitt of my now Dwelling house in Rockey nooke in the Township of Plymouth aforsaid, with the outhousing lands, That is uplands uplands [sic] and meddow lands and all appurtenances and privilidges therunto belonging in the Towne of Plymouth and all other Lands housing and meddowes that I have in the said Towne of Plymouth excepting what meddow and upland I have before given To my sonnes Jabez and Isacke howland During her naturall life to Injoy make use of and Improve for her benifitt and Comfort;

Item I give and bequeath unto my son Joseph howland after the Decease of my loveing wife Elizabeth howland my aforsaid Dwelling house att Rockey nooke together with all the outhousing uplands and Medowes appurtenances and privilidges belonging therunto; and all other housing uplands and meddowes appurtenances and privilidges That I have within the aforsaid Towne of New Plymouth excepting what lands and meadowes I have before Given To my two sonnes Jabez and Isacke; To belong to him the said Joseph howland To him and his heires and assignes for ever;

Item I give and bequeath unto my Daughter Desire Gorum twenty shillings

Item I give and bequeath To my Daughter hope Chipman twenty shillings

Item I give and bequeath unto my Daughter Elizabeth Dickenson twenty shillings

Item I give and bequeath unto my Daughter Lydia Browne twenty shillings

Item I give & bequeath to my Daughter hannah Bosworth twenty shillings

Item I give and bequeath unto my Daughter Ruth Cushman twenty shillings

Item I give to my Grandchild Elizabeth howland The Daughter of my son John howland twenty shillings

Item my will is That these legacyes Given to my Daughters, be payed by my exequitrix in such species as shee thinketh meet;

Item I will and bequeath unto my loveing wife Elizabeth howland, my Debts and legacyes being first payed my whole estate: vis: lands houses goods Chattles; or any thing else that belongeth or appertaineth unto mee, undisposed of be it either in Plymouth Duxburrow or Middlbery or any other place whatsoever; I Doe freely and absolutly give and bequeath it all to my Deare and loveing wife Elizabeth howland whom I Doe by these prsents, make ordaine and Constitute to be the sole exequitrix of this my Last will and Testament to see the same truely and faithfully prformed according to the tenour therof; In witness whereof I the said John howland senir have heerunto sett my hand and seale the aforsaid twenty ninth Day of May, one thousand six hundred seaventy and two 1672

Signed and sealed in the
prsence of Samuel ffuller John Howland
William Crow And a seale 		Howland, John (I3884)
 
1431 The marriage banns and marriage record are extremely hard to read but according to the translator it says that Johan is from Elssloth in the Duchy of Limburg. The Duchy of Limburg is in what is now Belgium.
The only problem is that the only Elssloth I can find was in the Duchy of Oldenburg in Germany a couple hundred miles away.
There were several small villages in the Duchy of Limburg whose names look similar to a hand written Elssloth such as Elendorff. 		Scholtsz, Johan Christoffel (I1563)
 
1432 The name Wadsworth is believed to be Saxon. It is the combination of two words. The first is Wade, meaning a meadow or ford. The second is Worth and it could mean a possession, a farm, a court, a place, a fort, or an island. The combined meaning is thought to be the farm or place in the woods. This implies that the first people with that name were woodsmen. It is therefore possible that not all Wadsworths are not of the same descent. However, there is one line that has been traced back as far as 1379. There are two known Wadsworths that moved to New England in the 1630s; William and Christopher (the progenitor of our line). It is not known if they were related. Family, Wadsworth (I826)
 
1433 The notes contain information on the births, deaths, and marriages of Ira Ayer I's children and the children of three of his daughters (Lavinia, Julia Maria, and Sarah Cecilia). All the dates and names independently verified proved to be correct. Repository (R5)
 
1434 The only evidence that he is the father of John is the similarities in their records. According to the 1880 census John Jr is listed as a laborer, just as in the 1850 census. The 1880 census has John Jr born about 1835 and the 1850 census has him about 1833. Both live in Easton. The only other Johns in the county that were children were not nearly such a good match. Unangst, John H Sr (I978)
 
1435 The only record of her is from her baptism so she may have died very young. Lamb, Susan (I2566)
 
1436 The only thing known about her is that she published a song called "My Saviour Draw Me Near to Thee" in 1858 that was "Written and Composed for the Piano and Affectionately Dedicated to Her Brother Ramon O. Williams of Havana by J. R. Williams". Williams, J R (I4131)
 
1437 The port of departure was Naples and the ship was Prinz Adalbert and the destination was the home of Ottavio Bevilacqua on 10th St. in Patton, PA. Bevilacqua, Amelia (I2789)
 
1438 The port of departure was Naples and the ship was Prinz Adalbert and the destination was the home of Ottavio Bevilacqua on 10th St. in Patton, PA. Bevilacqua, Beatris (I2794)
 
1439 The port of departure was Naples and the ship was Prinz Adalbert and the destination was the home of Ottavio Bevilacqua on 10th St. in Patton, PA. Bevilacqua, Anthony (I2795)
 
1440 The records show that she had 7 children but family records indicate there were four more. At least one we are sure of, the second Joseph, Jr. He spent time living with his great nieces and nephews (children of Ira Ayer, Sr.) and his great, great nieces, Alice and Clementine Ayer, have quotes from him and his birth date.
From the 1810 census, there are two boys and one girl under the age of 10 in the home, supporting the idea of the extra children. There is also a girl between 10 and 15. That could account for all four extra children. There is one between the ages of 26 and 44 (could be one of the older daughters). There is no one the age of Mercy, so she may have died by then. 		Crocker, Mercy (I535)
 
1441 The were 1st cousins. Family F253
 
1442 The whole family except Thomas, Jr. are listed here even though Thomas, Sr. and his sons Thomas and Richard were in Fremont, California. Hyde, Isabella (I3299)
 
1443 The whole family except Thomas, Jr. are listed here even though Thomas, Sr. and his sons Thomas and Richard were in Fremont, California. Shore, Richard Elijah (I3300)
 
1444 The whole family except Thomas, Jr. are listed here even though Thomas, Sr. and his sons Thomas and Richard were in Fremont, California. He was listed as a farmer worth $100. Shore, Thomas Pate (I3298)
 
1445 THE WILL OF EDWARD COGSWELL, CLOTHIER.

Dated, June 23, 1615. Proved, Jan. 12, 1615/6.

"In the name of God, Amen. The 23d of June, 1615, I, Edward Cogswell, clothier, of Westburie Leighe in the countie of Wilts ... do bequeath, My soul to God and my bodie to be buried in the Church or Churchyard of Wesburie. To Margaret Marchante, the wife of Thomas Marchante, £20. To Elizabeth Ernly, the wife of Richard Ernie, £30. To Margery Wilkins, the wife of John Wilkins, £10. To Elizabeth Marchante, the dau. Of Thomas Marchante 20 marks at her marriage. To the other children of my three who shall be born and living at the time of my decease, £4 each. To Elinor Smythe, the wife of Stephen Smythe, 40 shillings. To Joane Freestone, widow, to Margaret Francklene, widow, to Margery Whatley, the wife of John Whatley, to Edith Stevens, the wife of Thomas Stevens, to every of these four my sisters, £2. To Henry Freestone, 10 shillings. To Edward Franklene, 10 shillings. To Robert Cogswell, the son of Stephen Cogswell, ten shillings. To Margery Stevens, the dau. of Thomas Stevens, ten shillings. To Edward Cogswell, the son of Robert Cogswell, deceased, ten shillings. To George Cogswell, his brother, twenty shillings. To every of my godchildren besides these aforesaid, 12 pence. To John Cogswell, my son, £240, bed, bedding, and other household stuff, &c. To my son Anthony, the whole estate, right and interest and term of years which I have in and to Ludborne, with the appurtenances, together with the Lease of the same for the term of his life to be delivered to him at the age of 23. After his death my son John Cogswell to have and enjoy the said Ludborne, &c., for his life only: remainder to Jeffrey, my son. To Anthony, the sum of £8o, and four of my best kyne at 23. To my son Jeffrey Cogswell, all my estate, right and term of years wch I have in little Horningsham, &c., with the Lease of the same for his life only. After his death the said little Horningsham to the party next mentioned in the said Lease to him and his assigns. To my son Jeffrey, £8o and four oxen, now in the hands of Robert Northen of little Horningsham, all to be delivered to him at the age of 23. To my son, John Cogswell, all the right and term of years which I have to the Mylls called Ripond, place situate within the parish of Froome, Selwood for his life. After his death, to the party next mentioned in the Lease thereof to enjoy the remainder of the term. I owe John Boutchcr, my servant, £6o l0s. to be paid at any time on his demand. To Alice, my wife, my dwelling house, &c., so long as she keepeth herself widow and in my name. After her death, to my son John and his heirs forever. To Alice my wife, yearly out of Ludborne, £8, after the delivering up of the same; and from Horningsham £12 yearly, after the delivery of the Lease thereof to Jeffrey; so long as she keepeth herself widow and no longer. The residue of goods and chattels unbequeathed, to Alice my wife, my sole Executrix.
My well beloved Jeffrey Whitaker and Anthonye Selfe, overseers."

(Signed) EDWARD COGSWELL.
WITNESSES.
Robert Foster, Clerk,
Richard Painter^ 		Cogswell, Edward (I1119)
 
1446 THE WILL OF ROBERT COGSWELL.
Dated, June i, 1581.
Probate Court, London.
Proved, July 14, 1581.
"Ln the name of God, Amen. I, Robert Cogswell bequeath my soul to God & my bodye to be buried in the Churche or in the Churchyarde of Westburye. To St. Mary's Church, Saram, sixpence. To Westbury Church, twelvepence. To the Church in Dilton, twelvepence. Item: I give to the poore people of Leigh & Dilton a sack of wheate to be broken and given unto them. Unto my sonne Robarte Cogswell, the house of Hancock, &c. To Rychard Cogswell, my sonne, 3£ 6s. 8d. To Stephen Cogswell, my sonne, 6£. Item. I give unto Rychard & Stephen, my sonnes, all my sheares with the rest of my workinge tooles, that pertavneth to my occupation, after their mother doe give up the use of them, Stephen to have his portion at the age of 24. To Margaret Cogswell, my daughter, 6£ 13s. 4d. To Margery, my daughter, and to Edith, my daughter, 6£ 13s. 4d. each. To Roger & George Cogswell, the sonnes of Robert Cogswell, one ewe each. To Margaret Cogswell, the daughter of Edward Cogswell, one ewe." Several gifts of live stock to persons by the name of Smith & Freestone. "To my son Edward Cogeswell, my best weather sheepe. To Roger, son of Robert Cogswell, certain vessels of brass after the death of Alice my wife."
He appoints his wife Alice sole Executrix.
(Signed) ROBERT COGSWELL.
Geo. Oldlaiiibe,
Witnesses:
John Whatley,
Wm. Frariklyn,
Nicholas Beaser 		Cogswell, Robert (I1110)
 
1447 The will of William Shattuck, executed while he was on a sick bed, is dated August 3d, eleven days before his death, and was proved in court August 29th, fifteen days afterwards. This will and the inventory of his estate were deposited in the office of the Middlesex Probate Court. These documents will undoubtedley interest the family, and faithful copies of the original are given below.

The Last Will and Testament of William Shathock, aged 50 years
Watertown Aug: 3d :1672

I, William Shathock, being under the afflicting hand of God, sick and weak but in perfect memory, not knowing how soone I may end the days of my weary pilgrimage, do constitute this my last will and testament, for ye disposal of what I shall leave behind me, as followeth:

Item. I give my ten younger children thirty pound in money to be equally divided amongst them ; to them that are married, I will their parts should be payd a month after my disease ; that which belongs to the unmarried my will is it shall be in their mothers hand to be kept for them till they come to age capable.

Item. I give to my son Sam: Church six pound in money, to be payd a month after my disease.

Item. I give to my son, Philip Shathock, the one half of my farm and two acres of meadow in pond meadow, to him and his heyers forever.

Item. I give to my sonne, William Shathock, the other half of the sd farm and two acres of meadow in pond meadow, to him & his heyers for ever ; as also a young horse with all his trooping furniture ; also the loom and its appertinances.

Item. I give to my four small children my mare with all her increase. All the rest of my moveable goods I give to my dear wife, Susanna, for her owne maintenance & bringing up my younger children ; and also the use of my hous and land which I now dwell upon with that I bought of Edward Sanderson, til my two younger sons , Benniman & Samuel, arrive to twenty on years of age . If my sd wife marry, my will is that she receive four pound per year out of my said house & lands ; if she marry not, I give them to her during her life.

Item. I give to my sd Benniman & Sanuel my house and land I now dwell upon, with that I bought of Ed Sanderson, and my half dividend, to them and their heyers forever.

Item. I give to my grand children living at my disease forty pound, to be equally divided and payd after ye death of my wife by my sd sons, Benniman & Samuel, within the space of ten years, four pound per year, beginning with the children of my eldest children ; always provided, that if any my legitees dy before marriage my will is that what I have given divided amongst ye rest. I do father constitute my deare wife, Susanna Shathock, sole exectutor of this my will ; requesting my loving friends, John Coolidge, ioner, and Sam Livermore, assistant my said wife, and to be payd for their pains.

Signed, sealed & delivered Witness my hand,
In presence of us, William Shattuck
John Coolidge
John Livermore
 		Shattuck, William (I2209)
 
1448 Their gravestone still exists and reads:
Goreham P. Ayer
Consort of
Frances Abell Ayer,
Died Oct. 4th, 1870
Aged 69 Y'rs., & 10 Mo's.
Frances A. Ayer,
Born
Sept. 29th 1812.
Died
Sept. 20th 1875. 		Ayer, Gorham Parsons (I430)
 
1449 Their marriage was not canonically sectioned for several years. Family F1131
 
1450 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. 		Ayer, John (I379)
 

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