Jonathan EMERY

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: Made Freeman
• Military Service: Served in King Philip's War
• Military Service: 19 Dec 1675; Wounded at the battle of Narragansett Fort
• Residence: 1678, Oath of Allegiance

Notes:

Jonathan was pressed at Newbury, December 1675, as a soldier for King Philip's War and was in the great narragansett fight December 19, 1675, and was wounded in the shoulder. His will was made February 6, 1722-1723; proved October 7, 1723. Amount of inventory, two hundred and two pounds, two shillings, ten pence.

Jonathan married Mary WOODMAN on 29 Nov 1676 in Newbury, Essex Co., Mass.. Mary (daughter of Edward WOODMAN and Mary GOODRIDGE) was born on 29 Sep 1654 in Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts, USA; died on 13 Sep 1723. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. James EMERY was born about 10 Apr 1698; died before 04 Apr 1763 in Dracut, Mass..
2. Anthony EMERY was born on 13 Nov 1684; died on 06 Apr 1766.
3. Mary EMERY was born on 25 Sep 1677 in Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts, USA.
4. Edward EMERY was born on 10 Nov 1694 in Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts, USA.
5. Jonathan EMERY was born on 02 Feb 1680 in Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts, USA.
6. Sarah EMERY was born on 18 Dec 1688 in Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts, USA.
7. David EMERY was born on 28 Sep 1682 in Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts, USA.
8. Stephen EMERY was born on 24 Jun 1692 in Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts, USA.
9. John EMERY was born in 1678 in Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts, USA; died on 24 Aug 1759.
10. Stephen EMERY was born on 13 Jan 1687 in Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts, USA; died on 19 Dec 1688.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 1635, Removed to Newbury, Mass.
• Occupation: 1661; Selectman
• Occupation: 1666; Fence Viewer
• Residence: 1678, Oath of Allegiance
• Will: May 1680
• Will Proved: 27 Nov 1683

Notes:

John sailed from Southampton April 3, 1635,with his brother Anthony in the ship James of London, William Cooper, Captain, their wives and one or two children each probably with them; he landed in Boston June 3, 1635, and came soon after to Newbury where Jon, sen., had a town grant of half an acre for a house lot. John Emery was fined December 22, 1637, by the town, twenty shillings for inclosing ground not laid out or owned by the town, contrary to a town order, and on February 1, 1638, the town granted him that part of ground which was already inclosed. He was made freeman June 2, 1641, and recorded as one of the ninety-one freeholders of the town December 2, 1642; in the same year he was appointed with tree others to make a valuation of all the property in the town, for the purpose of proportioning each man's share in the new division. On March 16, 1663, John Emery was presented to the Court at Ipswich by Henry Jaques, Constable of Newbury, for entertain of travelers and quakers. May 5, 1663, his presentment for entertaining quakers was referred unto next Court. The next Court fined him four pounds, costs and fees for entertaining strangers. The evidence given in the case was 'yt two men quakers wr entertained very kindly to bed and table & John Emmerie shok ym by ye hand and bid ym welcome." Also "that the witness heard John Emery and his wife say that he had entertained quakers and that he would not put them from his house and used argument for the lawfulness of it.: John Emery in May, 1663, petitioned the General Court for the remission of his fine. His petition was signed by the selectment of the town and fifty of the citizens. The fine was not remitted. He was also prominent in the case of Lieut. Robert Pike, refusing to recognize the authority of the Court to deprive him and his neighbors of the right of petition. In the famous ecclesiastical difficulties John Emery was a member of the Woodman party. April 10, 1644, he had a grand from the town of twenty-two acres and five rods being his own and Henry Palmer's portion of Divident land in the great field beyond the new town. He was selectman, 1661; fence viewer, 1666; grand juryman in the same year; jury of tryals in 1672; appointed to carry votes to Salem in 1676. He made his will May 1, 1680, proved November 27, 1683, in which he mentions his age as eighty-three years. The inventory of his estate was taken the same day, amounting to 263 pounds, 11 shillings.

John married Mary SHATSWELL on 29 Oct 1650 in Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. Mary (daughter of John SHATSWELL and JUDITH) was born in 1606 in Ipswich, England; died on 28 Apr 1694 in Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]