My seventh great-grandfather.
Born: c.1649 in Ipswich, Essex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony, Colonial America
Died: After 1694 in Ipswich
Father: ?
Mother: ?
Siblings: ?
Married: Martha Cooley, probably before 1670
Children:
Peter Emmons, 1672
Martha Emmons, 1673
Cooley Emmons, 1675
Meriah Emmons, ?
Prudence Emmons, 1687
Elizabeth Emmons, 1688
According to Ipswich records, four daughters of Peter and Martha married four men named Smith. Were they brothers or were they lots of Smiths in town?
Elizabeth married a Thomas Smith in 1704.
Martha married a (different?) Thomas Smith in 1705.
Prudence married a Stephen Smith in 1712.
Meriah married a John Smith in 1716.
Peter was a soldier in King Phillip's War in 1675. His name appears on the roll of Major Appleton's company in the Narragansett campaign in 1675 and in Captain Gardiner's company in 1675-6.
He gave a deposition in the Essex court in 1694: "I was employed by Stephen Cross about the later end of July 1694." So we know he was still alive at that point.
In 1896, 200 years later, Peter Emmons' lot in Narragansett township (now Buxton, Maine) was claimed by Stephen Smith, the grandson of Peter Emmons and son of Prudence and Stephen Smith. Prudence died in 1727 at the age of 34. (*** I'm sharing what I found here but the dates don't work. I doubt very much that Prudence and Stephen's son was alive in 1896. Also, Prudence would have been 40 years old in 1727.)
Martha Cooley
I have no dates on Martha. One source even questions whether that was her name. Another source, however, says it was and her parents were John and Elizabeth Cooley.
This is everything I found on this couple, except that John Cooley was probably an immigrant from England.
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