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Josiah
Emery (William, Mary) was born about the year 1759,
and relocated from Contoocook (now called Boscawen) to Fishersfield,
Hillsborough County (now Merrimack County), New Hampshire with his family in
approximately 1775 EM1. He was called Josiah
“Emory” of Fishersfield, New Hampshire in his
marriage record, which indicated that he wed Abigail Cutter in Sutton, New
Hampshire on March 11, 1784 in a ceremony officiated by Samuel Ambrose NE10. The 1790 census for Fishersfield, New
Hampshire recorded several men who were probably his
relatives: David Amery, John Cutter, Jr., Josiah Cutter, Joel Emery, and
William Emery UN4, and in 1800, John Cutter and David Emery still resided in Fishersfield. Sometime between 1800 and 1810, Josiah,
Abigail, and their children moved to Ludlow, Vermont. He was forty-five or
older in 1810, when two Emery families resided in Ludlow, Vermont; a man named
David Emery who also was forty-five or older lived in Ludlow. He remarried after the death of Abigail, as his
probate records referred several times to his widow,
Patty Emery VE11. Josiah Emery of Ludlow, Vermont married
Patty Marsh on January 3, 1809 in Rockingham, Vermont a ceremony officiated by
Abraham Byington VE12.
Josiah died on May 18, 1813 in Ludlow, Windsor County, Vermont VE7,
EM1, leaving several minor children as orphans. Arioch Smith was appointed the
“administrator of the estate of Josiah Emery late of Ludlow… deceased” in the
Probate Court held at Cavendish for the District of Windsor in Vermont on June
17, 1813 VE11. On the same day, Austen Fenn, Elihue Ives and Asahel Smith of
Ludlow were appointed to conduct an inventory and an appraisal of Josiah’s
estate VE11. The inventory of his estate was
appraised at $334.83 and included “twenty acres of Land, it being the same Land
whereon he lived, said Land is bounded north on Land owned by John Spafford,
east by Elihue Ives, South by Levi Ives, and west, by
John Spafford”, which was located in Ludlow VE11. A list of his personal
property, without the valuation of each item, has been transcribed VE11:
1
cow… 1. 2 year old heifer… 1 calf… 2 hogs… 9 old Sheep
& 5 Lambs… 1 hoe & 1 Shovel… 2 axes & 1 Iron wedge… 2 old Forks
& 1 Scythe & tackle… 1 great wheel & 2 Spindles… 1 Linen wheel… 1
Loom & tackle… 1 peel & tongs & 1 trammel… 1 dinner pot & 1
Spider & one tea kettle… 1. 3 pail kettle & 1 dish kettle… one old tea
kettle… 1 Chest 2 draws… 1 Chest… 4 old Chairs… 1 Churn & 3 baskets… 1
table… 1 Flat Iron… 1 tapping gouge… 1 Glass Junk bottle… 10 Small glass
bottles… 1 tea Cup & 2 Saucers & 4 Iron tea Spoons… 1 pepper box &
1 earthen plate… 3 pewter plates… 1 Small old block tin tea pot… 1 tin pail
& 1 Coffee pot very old… 3 tin basons… 1 funnell…
1 knife basket & Six knives & Six forks… 1 pr. Shears… 1 Lanthorn… 1
wooden bottle… 2 earthern potts…
2 earthern milk pans… 1 Sickle… 4 old Sugar boxes… 4
Small books… Best bed & bedding… 1 bed stead & bord… 1 pr. Sheets &
1 pr. pillow Cases… 1 bedstead & Cord… trundle bed and bedding… 1 old bed
quilt & 1 old rag Coverlet… 1 Sap hogshead… 1 old Churn… 1 bread trough… 1
meal Seive… 3 meal bags… 1 pr. Old boots… 33tt. wool…
12tt. Flax… best Coat… best pantaloons… Best vest… 1 woolen vest… 1 woolen
Frock… 1 pr. woolen Shirts… 1 Silk handkerchief… 2 prs. Stockings… 1 belt… 1
felt hat… 1 Coot [coat] very old… 1 miletory Cap… 1 old great Coat… 1352 ft of Spruce boards
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1790
US Census: lived in Fishersfield, Hillsborough
County, New Hampshire with two free white boys under the age of sixteen, and
three free white females (their age range was not noted).
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1800
US Census: lived in Fishersfield, Hillsborough
County, New Hampshire with two boys and three girls under the age of ten, two
boys and one girl who were between ten and fifteen, and one woman between
twenty-six and forty-four.
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1810
US Census: lived in Ludlow, Windsor County, Vermont with one girl under ten,
one boy and two girls between ten and fifteen years of age, one young woman
between sixteen and twenty-five, and one woman between twenty-six and
forty-four years.
Abigail Cutter was the wife of Josiah Emery NE10. Her name may
have been Abigail “Cutler” EM1. Handwritten instances of her
surname, or the surname of men who were clearly her relatives, show that the
horizontal line for the first “t” of her name also crossed over the following
letter, creating ambiguity about whether her surname was Cutter or Cutler. A
comparison of different names written by two different enumerators for the 1790
and 1800 censuses indicates that these two men formed the letters “l” and “t”
in different ways; while these men had handwriting that was distinct from each
other, they each left a triangular gap below the crossing of each “t”, whereas
there was no gap when they wrote the letter “l”. One instance of a distinct
“Cutler”, with a loop in the lowercase letter “l”, was noticed on the 1800 Fishersfield census for a man named Josiah Cutler. In the
seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Richard Cutter and his sons
and daughters resided in Cambridge, Massachusetts SA8. Abigail may
have been a descendant or relative of this family, whose roots went to
Newcastle upon Tyne, England SA8. Abigail was the mother of Josiah, Ruth, Mary, Samuel,
Edward, Elizabeth, John Cutler, Abigail, Rusha, David, Lucinda, and William
Waters.
Josiah Emery was born about 1783 UN10, NE28, UN12 or 1784 NE29 in New Hampshire UN10, UN12, NE28, NE29,
or on July 1, 1784 NE11, EM1, NE8. Josiah Emery of Barre,
Vermont married Susannah Little of Lebanon on September 12, 1809 in New
Hampshire NE10. Susannah was the daughter of Moses and Mary Little EM1. He
was enumerated in Aurora, Erie County, New York in 1850, 1855, 1860, 1865, and
1870. In 1850, he and Susan lived with Josiah Jr., age thirty, Mary, age
twenty-eight, Elizabeth, age twenty-two, Ella F., age one, and George Ville
from England UN10.
At the time of the 1855 New York State Census, Josiah was seventy-one, Susan
was seventy-four, and they lived with Josiah Jr., Elizabeth, who was their
daughter-in-law, and two grandchildren, Ella and
Edward Emery NE29.
Five years later during the 1860 US Census, little had changed, other than the
addition of four-year-old Albert and two-year-old Mary to the household UN11. Susan died in 1861, and the 1865 New
York State Census and the 1870 US Census showed that Josiah was no longer the
head of the household, but he continued to live with his son and
daughter-in-law, Josiah Jr. and Elizabeth NE28, UN12. A shared headstone for Colonel Josiah Emery and his wife, Susan Emery,
located in South Wales Cemetery in South Wales, Erie County, New York states
that Josiah lived from 1733 until 1873, and Susan was alive from 1780 until
1861 (a photo can be found on the Find a
Grave website). Josiah was said to have died on August 14, 1873 EM1.
Ruth Emery was born on February 5, 1786 NE11, EM1, NE8. Ruth Emery of Ludlow, Vermont married Amos Wheeton on January 31, 1805 in Vermont VE12, EM1. Amos Wheaton was enumerated in Ludlow, Windsor
County, Vermont in the 1820 US Census; he was between twenty-six and forty-four
and lived with a woman who was between sixteen and twenty-five and two boys who
were under ten years old UN7. Further census records with Amos or Ruth, as well
as death dates or gravestone have not yet been located. Mary Emery was born in Newbury Township, Merrimack County, New
Hampshire NE8, NE11 on December 4, 1787 EM1, NE8 or December 4 in perhaps the year 1789 NE11. The birth records which were
found in the copy of the Fishersfield Town Records
indicated that Mary Emery was born “December the for…
In the Year One thousand Seven Hundred & Eighty Ni--?”, and that Samuel
Emery was born on “October thirty first Day AD 1789” NE11, but it is much more likely
that a transcription or a documentation error occurred, rather than a set of twins
who were delivered one month apart. She was probably the Mary Emery, daughter of Josiah and Abigail Emery,
who died on November 20, 1809 in Ludlow, Vermont VE12. Samuel Emery was born on October 31, 1789 NE11, EM1. Edward Emery was born in Newbury Township, Merrimack County, New Hampshire on
April 7, 1792 NE11, EM1, NE8, NE9. Elizabeth Emery was born in Newbury Township, Merrimack County,
New Hampshire on May 22, 1794 NE8, EM1 or May 22, 1791 NE11.
John Cutler (perhaps an incorrect
transcription for “Cutter”) Emery was born on July 11, 1796 in Newbury
Township, Merrimack County, New Hampshire NE11, EM1, NE8. The copy of the Fishersfield Town Record book offered a partial birth
record for “---- Cutler Emery Son of Josiah Em---”
before it stated John Cutler Emery’s birthdate NE11. He was said to have married Marinda Haines about
the year 1822 EM1. John C. Emery and Marinda (who were both age
fifty-four and born in New York) were enumerated in Novi, Oakland County,
Michigan in 1850 with Cornelia, age twenty-four, Janette, age twenty-two,
Jewel, age twenty, Helen, age nineteen, Mary, age seventeen, and Franklin, age
fourteen UN10. By 1860, John C. Emery and Miranda (note the
different spelling of her name) had relocated to Allison Township, Lapeer
County, Michigan, where they lived with Jacob and Sarah Whiting and their two
small sons UN11. This census record indicated that John was
sixty-three and was born in New Hampshire, while Miranda was sixty-four and
born in New Jersey UN11. Allison Township was later renamed to Burnside
Township RO28. A marriage record in the church register for First
Presbyterian Church in Florida, New York for John C. Emery of Lansing, Michigan
and Miss Mary Agge of Salem,
Massachusetts indicated that their wedding occurred on May 12, 1868 US23, but it is unclear why the record of this marriage
was documented in that particular register. John C. Emery and Mary Emery lived
in Lansing, Ingham County, Michigan in 1870; John was called a retired
physician who was born about 1797 in Vermont, and Mary was from Massachusetts UN12. John Emery, who was born in Vermont but had lived
in Ingham County for twelve years, died in January 1880 in Ingham County,
Michigan from typhoid and pneumonia US7. A record in the War of 1812 pension application files stated that John
C. Emery, who served as a private in Captain Burnap’s
Company in the 31st US Infantry, enlisted on May 13, 1813 and was
discharged on May 13, 1814 WA10. It also indicated that he resided in Novi, Oakland
County in 1850, in Lansing, Ingham County in 1871, and that his marriage to
Mary Agge occurred on May 12, 1868 in New Brunswick,
New Jersey WA10. He died on January 21, 1880 in Lansing, Michigan WA10 and he was
said to have been buried at Mount Hope Cemetery in Lansing, Ingham County,
Michigan.
Abigail Emery was the daughter of Josiah and
Abigail Emery VE12,
EM1, ST8. She was born
on April 16, 1798 VE12,
EM1 in Fishersfield, New Hampshire VE12 and married Michael Schmelizer
of Lodi, Seneca County, New York EM1. She second married someone with the surname
“Biggs” EM1. In 1850, Michael Smeltzer, age sixty-three from
Ireland, lived with Abagail Smeltzer, age fifty-two from New Hampshire in Lodi,
Seneca County, New York, along with Mary Smeltzer, who was seventeen and was
born in New York UN10. In 1860, Michael Biggs, age seventy from New
Jersey, lived with Abigal Biggs, age sixty-two from
New Hampshire in Covert, Seneca County, New York with Elisabeth, age
thirty-seven, Henry Bell, and Mary Donahu UN11. Abigail was said to have been buried at Grove
Cemetery in Trumansburg in Tompkins County, New York.
Rusha Emery was the daughter of Josiah and
Abigail and was born
on March 8, 1800 VE12, EM1. David Emery was the son of Josiah and
Abigail and was born
on May 3, 1802 VE12,
EM1. He married Diantha Faxon, the daughter of James and Catherine Faxon,
on April 26, 1826 FA21. David (age forty-seven and born in Vermont) and Diantha Emery (forty-six and born in New Hampshire) lived
in Newport, Sullivan County, New Hampshire in 1850 with David A. Emery, age
twelve, and Francis E. Emery, age eight UN10. After the death of Diantha, he married Lucy,
the daughter of John and Sally Howe EM1. By 1860, David lived in Carroll, Coos County, New Hampshire with Lucy
H. Emery, who was forty-six and was born in Vermont, Francis E., and Diantha M. Emery, who was five years old UN11. David, Lucy, and Diantha
(age sixteen) remained in Carroll, Coos County, where they were enumerated in
1870 UN12. The 1860 and 1870 US census records indicated that
he was born in New Hampshire UN11,
UN12.
Lucinda Emery was born to Josiah and Abigail
on December 2, 1804 VE12, EM1. She married William Kimball EM1. Lucinda was said to have died on January 13, 1844 EM1, but her gravestone, located at South Wales
Cemetery in South Wales, Erie County, New York, stated that “Lucinda Wife of
William Kimball” died at age thirty-nine years, one month, and eleven days on
June 12, 1844 (a photo can be located on the Find a Grave website).
William Waters Emery was born on
June 1, 1807 EM1; a birth
record stated that Waters Emery was born on June 1, 1807 to Josiah and Abigail
Emery VE12. In 1850,
William W. Emery (age forty-three and born in Vermont) lived in Ludlow, Windsor
County, Vermont with Diana, age forty-four, William H. (nineteen), Almira D.
(fifteen), Alonzo D. (eleven), Ann E. (eight), John C. (age six), and Myron
Emery (age two) UN10. He and
Dianna Emery lived in Windsor, Dane County, Wisconsin in 1860 and 1870 UN11,
UN12. In 1860, their household included Ann, John,
Myron, Alonzo Emery, and Frances Emery UN11, while in
1870 they lived with Myron J., age twenty-one, Eliza F., age twenty, and a farm
laborer named George Williams UN12. They had
relocated to Reading, Sioux County, Iowa by 1880; in that year, W.W. Emery and
D. Emery were enumerated in the household of M.J. and Frances E. Emery, and
they were called the father and mother of M.J. Emery UN13. The Iowa
State Census for 1885 recorded that William W. Emery, age seventy-seven, and
Dianna Emery, age seventy-eight, lived with Myron J. and Elizie
Emery in Reading, Sioux County, Iowa IO9. A Sioux County, Iowa death certificate
for his son, John C. Emery, stated that John’s parents were William Waters
Emery and Dianna Pratt, who were both born in Ludlow, Vermont IO5.
Abigail Emery died
on March 5, 1808 VE7, EM1.