{"id":26719,"date":"2017-11-10T10:19:27","date_gmt":"2017-11-10T15:19:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.genealogybank.com\/?p=26719"},"modified":"2021-04-22T13:40:05","modified_gmt":"2021-04-22T17:40:05","slug":"discovering-300-years-of-emery-family-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/discovering-300-years-of-emery-family-history.html","title":{"rendered":"Discovering 300 Years of Emery Family History"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sarah Emery<\/span> (1782-1855) is my 4th great-grandmother. She was born in Sanbornton, Belknap County, New Hampshire, in 1782 and married my 4th great-grandfather Joseph Huse<\/a> (1783-1856) around 1803 in Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. In fact, though Sarah lived most of her life in New Hampshire and Vermont, she came from a long line of Emery\u2019s that had been living in the Newbury, Massachusetts, area since the early 17th century.<\/p>\n

I was researching Sarah\u2019s grandfather Moses Emery<\/span> (1715-1789) in GenealogyBank\u2019s Historical Newspaper Archives<\/a> when I came across a fascinating article about the publication of the Emery family history.<\/p>\n

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Source: GenealogyBank, Boston Herald (Boston, Massachusetts), 6 September 1891, page 24<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

According to this article:<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2018The Genealogical Records of Descendants of John and Anthony Emery of Newbury, Mass.\u2019 recently issued from the Salem Press by Emery Cleaves, is one of the most complete genealogies ever published. It comprises over 600 pages\u2026\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Referencing Sarah\u2019s family tree, I noticed that John Emery<\/span> (1599-1683) was Sarah\u2019s 4th great-grandfather. According to his FamilySearch page<\/span>, John was born in Romsey, Hampshire, England, in 1599 and immigrated to America on the James<\/em> in 1635. By 1641 he was living in Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts, where he worked as a carpenter, tavern keeper, and clerk of the market.<\/p>\n

John died in Newbury in 1688 and is interred in the Burying Ground of the First Settlers.<\/p>\n

\"Photo:<\/a>
Photo: gravestone of John Emery in the Burying Ground of the First Settlers, Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. Source: Find a Grave.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Interested in finding this book on John and Anthony Emery\u2019s family line, I found that it is available on the Internet Archive<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"Photo:<\/a>
Source: Internet Archive. Rufus Emery. Genealogical Records of Descendants of John and Anthony Emery of Newbury, Mass., 1590-1890. Salem, Massachusetts: Salem Press, 1891, page 67.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I easily found them listed on page 67 of this family history. I like using the old published family histories as a road map for our online family tree \u2013 verifying all of the facts in GenealogyBank and other online sources.<\/p>\n

Genealogy Tip:<\/em><\/strong> Newspapers have the clues and details of our family history. Find your ancestors and their stories at GenealogyBank.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In this article, Thomas Jay Kemp searches old newspapers to learn more about his Emery ancestors, and discovers a published family history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26741,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12557],"tags":[2084,12,2020],"class_list":["post-26719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-genealogy-stories","tag-family-trees","tag-genealogy","tag-newspaper-archives"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/photo-1110-2017-featured-graphic-emery-genealogy.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26719"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77615,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26719\/revisions\/77615"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}