Emery Family - Person Sheet
NameAnthony Emery 
BirthRamsey, Hants, Englsand
FatherJohn Emery (1572-1627)
MotherAgnes Northend (~1580-~1640)
Misc. Notes
Came to America in the ship “James,” landing in Boston, June 3, 1635. He was probably in Ipswich, Mass., in the following August, and soon after settled in Newbury, where he lived until about 1640.
A court record of Dec. 22, 1637, shows that he was a brother of John, and a similar record of June 10, 1638, that he was then residing in Newbury.
He removed to Dover, New Hampshire, about 1640, and Oct. 22, of that year, signed the “ Dover Combination.” From that time until 1649, when he removed to Kittery, Maine, he was identified with the interests of that town. His house was at Dover Neck, about a mile from the present railroad station at Dover Point, and three or four miles from Major Richard Waldron’s settlement on the Cocheco River. There he kept an ordinary, which was destroyed by fire, as appears from the following petition :
“Right wor’p com of the Massachusetts The humble peticon of Anthony Emiy of Dover Humbly showeth unto you’r good wor’p that you’r poore peticon’r was licenced by the towne abousd to keept an ordinary wh shd give Dyet & to sell beere & wine as was accustomed & sithence there was an order that non but one should sell wine upon which there hath beene complaint made to you’r wor’p as Mr Smyths saith & hee hath in a manner discharged you’r pet’r well wilbe to you’r pet’r great damage haueing a wife & 3 children to maintain & not a house fitted for present to liue in haueing had his house & goods lately burned downe to the ground.
Humbly beseeching yo’r wor’p to bee pleased to grant to you’r pet’r that he may sell wine & that Mr Smyth ma} 7 be certified thereof keeping good order in his house & he shall as hee is in Duty bound pray for you’r wor’p’ s health & happyness.”
This petition does not bear date, but it is known from other papers that Anthony Emery petitioned in 1643, for permission to keep an ordinary, and that March 7, 1643-4, he was “ allowed whereby to draw out his wine.” In that year and in 1648 also, he was one of the townsmen (selectmen), for the “ prudentiall affaires ” of Dover.
On November 15, 1648, he bought of John White, a house, field, and great barren marsh on Sturgeon Creek in Pischataqua, afterward Kittery, now Eliot, and two other marshes. He seems not to have taken possession, however, until the next year; for he served as grand juror in Dover, in 1649.
During his eleven years’ (1649-1660) residence in Kittery, he was juryman several times, selectman in 1652 and 1659, and constable. He was one of the forty-one inhabitants of Kittery, who acknowledged themselves subject to the government of Massachusetts Bay, Nov. 16, 1652. At four different times he received grants of land from the town. He also bought of Joseph Austin of Pischataqua, July 15, 1650, “a little marsh soe Commanly called aboue Sturgeon Cricke, with a little house & vpland y’runto belonging, as also one thousand fine hundred foote of boards, for & in Consideration of Two stears Called by y’e name of draggon and Benbow, with a weeks worke of himselfe & other two oxen well is to be done at Cutchecha.”
In 1656, he was fined £5 for mutinous courage in questioning the authority of the court at Kittery, and in 1660, again fined, for entertaining Quakers, and disfranchised.
May 12, 1660, he and Frances his wife, sold house and land at Cold Harbor to son James for £150, together with all other lands in Kittery, “with all & singular the houseing barne Garden oarchards Commons profetts priviledges fences wood Tymber appurtenances & Haeredtaments belonging, or in any wise app’rtayning thereunto.”
Deprived of the rights and privileges of a freeman in Kittery, he turned his footsteps toward a colony in which greater liberty was allowed, and was received as a free inhabitant of Portsmouth, Rhode Island, Sept. 29, 1660.
It has been conjectured that he, prior to settling in Newbury, or removing to Dover, bought land in Portsmouth, and dwelt there awhile. This conjecture lias its origin in the fact, that one “ Goodman Emeres” owned land in Portsmouth in 1643, as is known from the records of a general town meeting held in Portsmouth, March 1, 1643.
Who “Goodman Emeres” was, or whence came the Little Compton, Rhode Island, family of Emerys, has been mere conjecture. We have been unable thus far to trace their genealogy, or to cofinect them with our ancestor, except in name and locality. We accept the Portsmouth records as evidence of Anthony Emery’s first legal residence there until 1680, though he is designated “ of Kittery,” in a deed to his son James, Oct. 1, 1663.
He served as juryman from Portsmouth on several occasions, was chosen constable, June 4, 1666, and deputy to the General Court, April 25, 1672. The last record that we find of a deed of land in Portsmouth to Rebecca Sadler, his daughter, dated March 9, 1680. It is barely possible that he returned to Kittery, and that Anthony Emery who was representative from Kittery at York, March 30, 1680, was our ancestor, but it does not seem probable, that he, an old man, disfranchised, would after twenty 7 years’ absence be chosen to legislate for the “province of Mayne.”
From the petition quoted, we know that he had three children, and from another paper, that James was his surviving son. We are thus enabled to give this list of children.
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THE DEED OF ANTHONY EMERY.
To all Christian People to whom these Presents shall come & concern : Know Ye, That I, Anthony Emery of the town of Portsmouth, on Rhode Island, in the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, in New England, in America, Corwainer ffor Divers good causee and Reall considerations me hereunto moving, and also the love and affection that I have and bear unto my daughter Rebeckah Sadler now resideing in the aforesaid Towne of Portsmouth, Have and by these Presents Doe, fully, freely, clearly and absolutely Give Grant and confirm unto my said daughter Rebeckah, to come into her absolute possession, emediately after my decease, all & every part of my houseing and land lying in the aforesaid Towne of Portsmouth, with all other, the rights and priviledges appurtenances and innuneties therein being, or any wayes belonging and appurtaininge, to geether with all and Singular my other Estate, both within Doors and without Doors, reall and personall ftreely and fully, after my decease confirminge and Conferringe the same, unto my said daughter Rebeckah to be clearly and absolutely at her ffree and proper disposing and ordering, forever without lett, hindrance, molestation and the incumbrance of any person or persons, whatsoever ffrem b}' or under me or by any right or title of mine, yr shall lay aney claim or title to the premises or any part or parcel thereof: only it is hereby provided that all the just debts that is from me owing to any (and shall be unpaid at my decease) shall be truly paid by my said daughter Rebeckah : and also provided that if my said daughter should change he condition, noe husband, of hers, shall have any right or interest of this my aforesaid estate (hereby to her given) nor to any part thereof, without the free and absolute full consent of my said daughter Rebeckah, and also provided if my said Daughter, after my decease, and before her decease, shall not have absolute occasion for necessary maintenancy to make sale of, and alien the said housing and land, after her decease, shall return and belong unto her sonn, my Grqrnd Child, Anthony Sadler, as mv heir therein, only if my said daughter shall see good cause to possess my said Grand Child, in that possession sooner, it is in her power soe to doe, And in confirmation of this my full ffree and voluntary act and deed, I have hereunto set my hand & Seale, the ninth day of March, Anno Domini 1680,
Anthony X Emery
Signed and Sealed in presence of John Sanford, John X Brigs Sen.
Francis X Brayton Senr.
William X Wilbore
A court record of Dec. 22, 1637, shows that he was a brother of John, and a similar record of June 10, 1638, that he was then residing in Newbury.
He removed to Dover, New Hampshire, about 1640, and Oct. 22, of that year, signed the “ Dover Combination.” From that time until 1649, when he removed to Kittery, Maine, he was identified with the interests of that town. His house was at Dover Neck, about a mile from the present railroad station at Dover Point, and three or four miles from Major Richard Waldron’s settlement on the Cocheco River. There he kept an ordinary, which was destroyed by fire, as appears from the following petition :
“Right wor’p com of the Massachusetts The humble peticon of Anthony Emiy of Dover Humbly showeth unto you’r good wor’p that you’r poore peticon’r was licenced by the towne abousd to keept an ordinary wh shd give Dyet & to sell beere & wine as was accustomed & sithence there was an order that non but one should sell wine upon which there hath beene complaint made to you’r wor’p as Mr Smyths saith & hee hath in a manner discharged you’r pet’r well wilbe to you’r pet’r great damage haueing a wife & 3 children to maintain & not a house fitted for present to liue in haueing had his house & goods lately burned downe to the ground.
Humbly beseeching yo’r wor’p to bee pleased to grant to you’r pet’r that he may sell wine & that Mr Smyth ma} 7 be certified thereof keeping good order in his house & he shall as hee is in Duty bound pray for you’r wor’p’ s health & happyness.”
This petition does not bear date, but it is known from other papers that Anthony Emery petitioned in 1643, for permission to keep an ordinary, and that March 7, 1643-4, he was “ allowed whereby to draw out his wine.” In that year and in 1648 also, he was one of the townsmen (selectmen), for the “ prudentiall affaires ” of Dover.
On November 15, 1648, he bought of John White, a house, field, and great barren marsh on Sturgeon Creek in Pischataqua, afterward Kittery, now Eliot, and two other marshes. He seems not to have taken possession, however, until the next year; for he served as grand juror in Dover, in 1649.
During his eleven years’ (1649-1660) residence in Kittery, he was juryman several times, selectman in 1652 and 1659, and constable. He was one of the forty-one inhabitants of Kittery, who acknowledged themselves subject to the government of Massachusetts Bay, Nov. 16, 1652. At four different times he received grants of land from the town. He also bought of Joseph Austin of Pischataqua, July 15, 1650, “a little marsh soe Commanly called aboue Sturgeon Cricke, with a little house & vpland y’runto belonging, as also one thousand fine hundred foote of boards, for & in Consideration of Two stears Called by y’e name of draggon and Benbow, with a weeks worke of himselfe & other two oxen well is to be done at Cutchecha.”
In 1656, he was fined £5 for mutinous courage in questioning the authority of the court at Kittery, and in 1660, again fined, for entertaining Quakers, and disfranchised.
May 12, 1660, he and Frances his wife, sold house and land at Cold Harbor to son James for £150, together with all other lands in Kittery, “with all & singular the houseing barne Garden oarchards Commons profetts priviledges fences wood Tymber appurtenances & Haeredtaments belonging, or in any wise app’rtayning thereunto.”
Deprived of the rights and privileges of a freeman in Kittery, he turned his footsteps toward a colony in which greater liberty was allowed, and was received as a free inhabitant of Portsmouth, Rhode Island, Sept. 29, 1660.
It has been conjectured that he, prior to settling in Newbury, or removing to Dover, bought land in Portsmouth, and dwelt there awhile. This conjecture lias its origin in the fact, that one “ Goodman Emeres” owned land in Portsmouth in 1643, as is known from the records of a general town meeting held in Portsmouth, March 1, 1643.
Who “Goodman Emeres” was, or whence came the Little Compton, Rhode Island, family of Emerys, has been mere conjecture. We have been unable thus far to trace their genealogy, or to cofinect them with our ancestor, except in name and locality. We accept the Portsmouth records as evidence of Anthony Emery’s first legal residence there until 1680, though he is designated “ of Kittery,” in a deed to his son James, Oct. 1, 1663.
He served as juryman from Portsmouth on several occasions, was chosen constable, June 4, 1666, and deputy to the General Court, April 25, 1672. The last record that we find of a deed of land in Portsmouth to Rebecca Sadler, his daughter, dated March 9, 1680. It is barely possible that he returned to Kittery, and that Anthony Emery who was representative from Kittery at York, March 30, 1680, was our ancestor, but it does not seem probable, that he, an old man, disfranchised, would after twenty 7 years’ absence be chosen to legislate for the “province of Mayne.”
From the petition quoted, we know that he had three children, and from another paper, that James was his surviving son. We are thus enabled to give this list of children.
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THE DEED OF ANTHONY EMERY.
To all Christian People to whom these Presents shall come & concern : Know Ye, That I, Anthony Emery of the town of Portsmouth, on Rhode Island, in the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, in New England, in America, Corwainer ffor Divers good causee and Reall considerations me hereunto moving, and also the love and affection that I have and bear unto my daughter Rebeckah Sadler now resideing in the aforesaid Towne of Portsmouth, Have and by these Presents Doe, fully, freely, clearly and absolutely Give Grant and confirm unto my said daughter Rebeckah, to come into her absolute possession, emediately after my decease, all & every part of my houseing and land lying in the aforesaid Towne of Portsmouth, with all other, the rights and priviledges appurtenances and innuneties therein being, or any wayes belonging and appurtaininge, to geether with all and Singular my other Estate, both within Doors and without Doors, reall and personall ftreely and fully, after my decease confirminge and Conferringe the same, unto my said daughter Rebeckah to be clearly and absolutely at her ffree and proper disposing and ordering, forever without lett, hindrance, molestation and the incumbrance of any person or persons, whatsoever ffrem b}' or under me or by any right or title of mine, yr shall lay aney claim or title to the premises or any part or parcel thereof: only it is hereby provided that all the just debts that is from me owing to any (and shall be unpaid at my decease) shall be truly paid by my said daughter Rebeckah : and also provided that if my said daughter should change he condition, noe husband, of hers, shall have any right or interest of this my aforesaid estate (hereby to her given) nor to any part thereof, without the free and absolute full consent of my said daughter Rebeckah, and also provided if my said Daughter, after my decease, and before her decease, shall not have absolute occasion for necessary maintenancy to make sale of, and alien the said housing and land, after her decease, shall return and belong unto her sonn, my Grqrnd Child, Anthony Sadler, as mv heir therein, only if my said daughter shall see good cause to possess my said Grand Child, in that possession sooner, it is in her power soe to doe, And in confirmation of this my full ffree and voluntary act and deed, I have hereunto set my hand & Seale, the ninth day of March, Anno Domini 1680,
Anthony X Emery
Signed and Sealed in presence of John Sanford, John X Brigs Sen.
Francis X Brayton Senr.
William X Wilbore