Anthony Emery was born in Romsey, Hants, England, second son of John and Agnes Emery. He came to New England with his wife Frances and his children and his brother, John, on the ship James which left Southhampton on 3 April 1635 and landed at Boston on June 3. Eighty-six men, women and children were aboard. At least two other ancesters of mine, Edmund Johnson and John Pike were on the same voyage. The Emerys were listed as carpenters and John did follow that trade in New England, but Anthony was not referred to as such again. It is possible that the brothers did go to Ipswich first but soon were settled in Newbury where they lived until about 1640.

On 22 December 1637, the brothers were fined twenty shillings for enclosing ground which was not theirs but was instead common land. At the Quarterly Court in Boston on 4 Dec. 1638, Anthony was fined twenty shillings for permitting his animals to escape the town pound.

By 1637, Anthony had a grant of three and a half acres in Dover, NH. He probably moved there in 1639 or 1640, as he was one of the signers on 22 October 1640 of the "Dover Combination" which was an agreement establishing the government of Dover. or Cocheco as it was then called. Anthony acquired more acerage by purchase and by grants and by 1643 was operating an ordinary (tavern) on High St. He did not fare well as his house burned down and George Smith, who was appointed commissioner by Massachusetts to the Court at Piscataqua (Portsmouth) now that NH was part of the Bay Colony, refused to allow him to stay in business as the following petition filed in 1643 attests:

"Right worp com of the Massachusetts
The humble peticon of Anthony Emry of Dover
Humbly showeth
Unto your good worp that your poore peticonr 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 none but one should sell wine upon which there hath beene complaint made to your worp as Mr. Smyths saith & hee hath in a manner discharged your petr weh wilbe to your petr great damage haueing a wife & 3 children to maintain & not a house fitted for present to liue in haueing had his house & goods burnt downe to the ground "Humbly beseeching yor worp to bee pleased to grant to your petr that he may sell wine & that Mr. Smyth may be certified thereof hee keeping good order in his house & he shall as hee is in Duty bound pray for your worps health & happyness."

On 7 March 1643/4, "Anthony Emery of Dover, his petition is refered to the next Cort at Dover, & hee is alowed liberty to draw out his wine in the meane time."

Anthony was a selectman of Dover, NH in 1647 and 1648.

The Emerys probably moved to Kittery, ME by 1649. Anthony had begun selling his land in Dover as early as 1648 and had started buying parcels of land in Eliot, then part of Kittery across the Piscataqua River from Dover as early as 15 November 1648. Another deed, dated 15 July 1650, conveys land at "Little Marsh" above Sturgeon Creek. He and Nicholas Frost (another immigrant ancestor of ours) got a 100-acre grant from the town of Kittery adjoined Emery's land along Sturgeons Creek on 3 March 1651.

In Oct. 1650, the Court at Kittery fined Anthony five shillings for selling alcoholic beverages without a license and, at the same time, the Court ordered him to keep an ordinary where he "now" lived and to keep a ferry there also. The ferry rates were fixed but he could charge his own rates for his liquor. In England, the small inns where shelter without a fire could be found were called "cold harbors." This name could have been used for the ordinary Anthony was licensed to keep. He may even have hung out his sign with that name. In any case, the name Cold Harbor soon indicated that particular region and gradually extended itself as far as Sturgeon Creek.

On 16 Oct. 1649, Anthony served for the first of six times on the grand jury at Agamenticus, later York, ME. He was a selectman of Kittery in 1652 and 1654, a member of the committees to settle land grants and town boundaries in 1654 and 1658, a commissioner for a year starting 28 June 1655 and a constable for a year from 5 July 1658. He was on Maine Governor Edward Godfrey's council on 20 October 1651 and again on 7 September 1652, just two months before Massachusetts took over administration of Maine.

The following is quoted from Line of Descendants of Anthony Emery by John A. Leppman:

"On 18 March 1652/3, Emery was fined ten shillings after being indicted 'for being overgone with drink so that he could not speake a true word.' Since he continued to hold responsible public offices for several years, we can assume that such excesses of the product he dispensed to the public were infrequent and forgiven by his fellow citizens. John Hord recovered three pounds damages from him at one time in a slander action, and Anthony had to pay the court costs.

"A more serious charge was made on 30 June 1656, when the grand jury indicted 'Anthony Emery for his mutinous carage in questioning the authority of the Court...' A fine of five pounds was imposed and twenty pounds bond was set 'that [he] shall be of good behavior towards all persons unto the next County Court.' On 30 July following, he was again presented 'for affronting the Court by questioning the authority to sitt there & chargeing them with more than he was able to make appeare' whether this referred to a second offense or was a continuation of the first trial is not clear. Just what happened to this matter we can only speculate. The Massachusetts government asserted its authority often in the early years after taking over by bringing charges of disloyalty against Maine citizens who spoke their minds. Whatever it was did not prevent Emery's being constable two years later. But it seems possible that the Puritan oligarchy of Massachusetts, of which Maine was now a sometimes unwilling part, was beginning to make Anthony Emery uncomfortable. At no time is there any reference to his being active in religious affairs and although he did hold public office we have no record ofhis being admitted to the status of freeman, reserved for church members. And he had long chosen to live in areas where many of the inhabitants had escaped from the oppressive uniformity of opinion that the Bay Colony nurtured. The events of the late 1650's would bring him into open conflict with the ecclesiastical establishment.

"In August 1657, the Massachusetts government, reacting to a strange and apparently threatening new challenge to their notion of religious orthodoxy, decreed among other things that 'every person entertaining Quakers shall pay 40 shillings for every hour's concealment and entertainment.' Two years later, in the fall of 1659, William Robinson, a London merchant, and Marmaduke Stephenson, a Yorkshire farmer, among others, were released from a Massachusetts prison on orders not to return to the colony on pain of death. Nevertheless, 'in obedience to the call of the Lord' in their judgment, they remained in Massachusetts and headed northward to the Piscataqua area. Anthony Emery probably ferried them back and forth across the river so that they could preach on the New Hampshire side and stay in Maine. (Of course, the entire area was under Massachusetts administration.) Apparently they also stayed at Emery's tavern. While he did not actively espouse their cause that we know of, Anthony must have been aware that he was placing himself in jeopardy by housing and transporting them, and his doing so has to be considered an act of conscience motivated by more than purely business considerations. Robinson and Stephenson returned to Boston and were imprisoned, tried on 18 October 1659, and hanged on 27 October. Mary Dyer, tried at the same time, was banished to Providence, Rhode Island, only to return the following year and hanged, ultimately earning herself a statue in front of the Massachusetts State House.

"On the basis of Robinson's diary, numerous people who had entertained him were identified and rounded up. Anthony Emery was one of them. He denied the charge, and on 12 November 1659, 'the Court having considered the severall offences of those persons that entertayned the Quakers with the answers given in by them, respectively doe order ... that Anthoney Emery pay a fine to the country tenn pounds and tenn shillings for making a lye in the face of the Court, and be disfranchised.' This was the heaviest fine imposed on the group, which included five people from Kittery and one from Dover, among others."

Being disfranchised must have been a terrible blow for Anthony in view of his public service throughout his life. He apparently decided to leave Kittery and on 12 May 1660 at the home of his brother, John, in Newbury, MA, he and his wife, Frances deeded all but one parcel of their land in Kittery to their son, James, along with their cattle and household furnishing. Frances must have decided that she didn't want to live in Portsmouth, RI where Anthony was headed and, at some point, returned to Kittery, from where later she sued Anthony for one third of the agreed purchase price of the property. She won her case and it appears that she lived apart from Anthony for the rest of her life. In 1663, he deeded as a gift his last piece of property in Kittery to his son, James, not to his wife, Frances. I wonder where she lived, alone or with her children or friends? We will never know what sorrow they endured or even what relief they might have felt living apart from each other. Certainly much bitterness was felt by both Frances and Anthony for a lawsuit to be the only way to settle their financial problems.

Anthony stayed clear of the law in Rhode Island where the attempted control over thought and behavior was less severe than that in the Bay Colony. He did have one indictment against him when an Indian, while intoxicated, fell into his well. The case was dismissed when Anthony filled in the well.

Anthony was received as a freeman on 29 September 1660 and was known as a cordwainer, or shoemaker. He served in several public offices and was a constable for many years. He served as a deputy from Portsmouth to the Rhode Island General Assembly on 25 April 1672 and as attorney for the town in 1675.

As far as we know, Anthony lived alone until 1671 or 1672 when his daughter, Rebecca, and her children moved in. The arrangement was of mutual benefit to both as Anthony probably was able to use someone to keep house for him and Rebecca needed a home for her family as her second husband had deserted her. That Anthony enjoyed the relationship is evidenced by the fact that he deeded his property in Rhode Island to Rebecca, in such a way that she had sole ownership to do as she pleased with no interference from "any person or persons whatsoever from by or under me" or any future husband of hers.

I was unable to find any death dates for Anthony or Frances. Anthony probably died before 8 June 1681, the date the deed giving his RI property to his daughter was recorded.

Anthony and his wife Frances Emery had three children:

• James, bpt. at England 18 Sept. 1631; m. (1) Elizabeth -----; m. (2) Elizabeth (Newcomb) Pidge.
• a son, name unknown.
• Rebecca, b. between 1631 and 1635; d. at Little Compton, RI, 18 July 1719; m. (1) Robert Weymouth; m. (2) Thomas Sadler; m. (3) Daniel Eaton.

James came to America as a young boy with his parents. For a time when he was about 15 years old, he either worked as a servant or was apprenticed for a trade. In 1652, when he was 21 years old, the town of Kittery, ME granted him fifty acres of land in what is now South Berwick. The following year he received six acres more on Eliot Neck. By 1679, a survey shows his holdings to be 315 acres acquired by grants, purchases and gifts from his father.

James was married by October of 1659 when his wife's name appears on a deed. He was in civic activities from 1652 when he signed the town's Statement of Submission to the Massachusetts Bay Colony to around 1697 or 1698 when he moved to Dedham, MA. He served on juries, as witness to various activites for or against other citizens, initiated his own suits against others, as a surveyor for the town in 1665, a constable in 1670, assessor in 1680 and 1684-5, and was eleven times selectman between the years 1674 and 1697. He represented Kittery in the Massachusetts General Court (the legislature) in 1676, 1680, 1693, and 1695.

The following is quoted from Line of Descendants of Anthony Emery by John A. Leppman:

"Kittery was beset from the 1670's through the 1690's by the ravages of Indian wars, starting with King Philip's War, but the Emery family seems to have escaped injury or serious loss of property. In the spring of 1690, hostilities known to history as King William's War devastated homes in the northern part of Berwick; the Emery family probably took refuge at Daniel Stone's garrison house on the next farm above theirs, but their neighborhood was left alone. James Emery was a member of the 1680 General Court which petitioned King Charles II to protect the Maine towns better in order to encourage the inhabitants to rebuild 'their waste and desolate towns.' He presented a petition to the General Court on 14 August 1695 stating that Kittery, York, and Wells were in a deplorable condition 'by reason of the present wasting warr' and asking for a remission of taxes, requesting at the same time assistance in settling a minister in the upper section of Kittery 'commonly called Newitchawannock,' now Berwick, 'that so they may not turn heathen but that the Poor may have the Gospel preached amony them.' The Court voted a ten pound allowance if a minister could be secured. In 1697 another abatement of taxes was requested by the selectmen, including Emery, but the Court decided that 'the small proportion levied on them they ought to pay.' In September 1697, Emery was asked to go to Boston by the northern parish--later Berwick--to plead their case to the governor and General Court and ask twenty pounds a year thereafter and ten for the preceding year to maintain a minister who was still lacking, permitting the district to have regular public worship. Another petition was sent on 20 May 1698, which finally resulted in a fifteen pound grant. Berwick did not become a separate town until 1713; later it was reduced by setting off South Berwick in 1813 and North Berwick in 1831. The First Church of Berwick was organized on 4 June 1702--although a meeting house had been built many years earlier--and the Emerys were apparently members.

"Not unlike his father, James came into some conflict with the authorities in the 1690's, notably with Major Francis Hooke, a justice of the Court of Quarterly Sessions. The records of that court, held at York on 3 July 1694, record that:

'James Emery Senr bound by recognisance to this Court is fined ... twenty shillings for his abuse of Major Hooke and stopping the highway and to give ten pounds bond for the Good behavior till the next sessions for his abuseive sarriage before the Court this Day and to stand Comitted till payd.'

"James' sons Daniel and Job were fined three shillings fourpence and twenty-five shillings plus five shillings fees, respectively, for aiding and abetting their father. James Warren, constable of Kittery, was to receive ten shillings from the collected fines as compensation for his efforts in the case. At the next session, on 2 October 1694, James failed to appear to answer his bond for good behavior, and the matter was held over to the next session. However, Major Hooke died the following January and nothing ever came of the case."

We do not know when James' first wife, Elizabeth, died. We do know James married his second wife, Elizabeth Pidge, a widow and mother of six children in 1695. After their marriage, they lived in what is now Berwick, ME for a time but between 1697 and early 1699 they moved to Dedham, MA where Elizabeth needed to be while she settled her first husband's estate. By then, James had sold most of his land in Kittery and Berwick after deeding several parcels to his sons and sons-in-law. We know that James owned a slave boy as the selectmen of Dedham ordered the boy out of town 10 November 1704. After his second wife's death, James returned to Maine, and having disposed of all his property, did not write out a will.

James and his first wife Elizabeth Emery had seven children, all born in Kittery, Maine:

• James, b. about 1660; d. Jan. 1725. Lived in Kittery and maintained some of his father's land and much of his family's standing in the community.
• Zachariah, b. about 1662; d. before 22 Dec. 1692; m. at Kittery 9 Dec. 1686 Elizabeth Goodwin.
• Noah, b. about 1663; d. 1729; lived in Kittery.
• Daniel, b. 13 Sept. 1667; d. 15 Oct. 1722; m. Margaret Gowen.
• Job, b. 1670; d. 1738; m. at Kittery 6 April 1696 Charity Nason.
• Elizabeth, b. 4 June 1704; m. Sylvanus Knock. They lived at Dover, NH.
• Sarah, d. after 28 Dec. 1738; m. (1) John Thomson, Sr.; m. (2) Gilbert Warren.