Individual Page

Person Info

• Name: Joseph GRELE
• Sex: M
• Birth: 5 Feb 1651/2 in Salisbury, Massachusetts ^b
• Death: 7 Mar 1745 in Hudson, New Hampshire ^d


Parents:

• Father:
  
• Andrew GRELE Birth: Abt 1617 in England Death: 30 Jun 1697 in Salisbury, Massachusetts
Mother:

• Mary MOYSE Birth: Abt 1622 in England Death: 24 Dec 1703 in Salisbury, Massachusetts

Family:
Marriage:

• Martha WILFORD on 7 Feb 1694/5 at Haverhill, Massachusetts .^m1
  
• Martha WILFORD Birth: 18 Jan 1669/70 in Bradford, Massachusetts Death: 21 Feb 1757 in Hudson, New Hampshire

Children:

1. Samuel GRELE Birth: 22 Dec 1695 in Haverhill, Massachusetts Death: 25 May 1771 in Hudson, New Hampshire
2. Joseph GRELE Birth: 17 Feb 1697/8 in Haverhill, Massachusetts Death: 19 Apr 1759 in Haverhill, Massachusetts
3. Benjamin GREELE Birth: 28 Feb 1699/1700 in Haverhill, Massachusetts Death: 22 Feb 1785 in Haverhill, Massachusetts
4. Hannah GREELE Birth: 12 Jul 1702 in Haverhill, Massachusetts
5. Moses GRELE Birth: 11 Apr 1704 in Haverhill, Massachusetts
6. Miriam GRELE Birth: 11 Apr 1704 in Haverhill, Massachusetts
7. Martha GREELE Birth: Abt 1706 in Haverhill, Massachusetts
8. Ruth GREELE Birth: Abt 1708 in Haverhill, Massachusetts Death: 24 Mar 1739/40 in Haverhill, Massachusetts
9. Moses GREELE Birth: 31 Mar 1711 in Haverhill, Massachusetts Death: Phillips, Maine
10. Mary GRELE Birth: 17 Nov 1714 in Haverhill, Massachusetts

Bibliography

Sources for birth and parent Information

date:

[Ref: Cutter NE p442, GreeleyGH GREELY p1, GreeleyGH GREELY p22, Hoyt S&A p181, Sav-age GRELE Andrew]

5 Feb 1651 [Ref: Holman PILLSBURY p499]

5;12m;1651 [Ref: SalisburyMA vitals p124],

place:

[Ref: Cutter NE p442, GreeleyGH GREELY p1, GreeleyGH GREELY p22, Holman PILLSBURY p499, Hoyt S&A p181, SalisburyMA vitals p124, Sav-age GRELE Andrew],

parents:

[Ref: Cutter NE p442, GreeleyGH GREELY p1, Holman PILLSBURY p499, Hoyt S&A p181]

Andrew GRELE & Mary ___ [Ref: SalisburyMA vitals p124, Sav-age GRELE Andrew],

father:

[Ref: Sav-age GRELE Joseph]

Sources for death Information

date:

[Ref: GreeleyGH GREELY p22, Holman PILLSBURY p499],

place:

[Ref: GreeleyGH GREELY p22, Holman PILLSBURY p499]

Sources with Information about marriage to Martha WILFORD

date:

[Ref: DowRP DOW p746, GreeleyGH GREELY p22, HaverhillMA vitals p140, Holman PILLSBURY p499, Hoyt S&A p1024, Hoyt S&A p181],

place:

[Ref: DowRP DOW p746, GreeleyGH GREELY p22, HaverhillMA vitals p140, Holman PILLSBURY p499, Hoyt S&A p1024, Hoyt S&A p181],

child:

[Ref: HaverhillMA vitals p144, Holman PILLSBURY p500, Holman PILLSBURY p501]

Sources with Inaccurate marriage information

names:

Joseph GRELE & Martha CORLIS dau John CORLIS & Mary WILFORD [Ref: GreeleyGH GREELY p22, GreeleyGH GREELY p23]

Research Notes:
1677: of Haverhill [Ref: Holman PILLSBURY p499, Sav-age GRELE Joseph]

Dec 1677: took oath of allegiance in Haverhill [Ref: Holman PILLSBURY p499]

Dec 11 1677: took oath of allegiance [Ref: GreeleyGH GREELY p23]

Apr 4 1687: received via deed from father two pieces of land in Haverill, on Eastward side of East Meadow River, between the river and land of John Shaddock, containing twenty-one acres [Ref: GreeleyGH GREELY p9, Holman PILLSBURY p500]

land received from father in 1687 was valued at 378 pounds in 1735 [Ref: Holman PILLSBURY p500]

May 11 1692: sold to son Joseph all his saltmarsh in Salisbury for thirty pounds in corn [Ref: Holman PILLSBURY p500]

1694: town offered four acres of land to anyone who would erect a mill; Joseph GRELE and Joseph PEASLEY accepted the offer [Ref: GreeleyGH GREELY p23]

1696: built a mill in Haverhill with Samuel Currier [Ref: Holman PILLSBURY p499]

1703: sold his share in mill to Samuel's son, John Currier [Ref: Holman PILLSBURY p499]

Nov 28 1732: sold land in Haverhill to son Joseph [Ref: Holman PILLSBURY p500]

1733: deposed in Court, aged eighty years, in regard to the settlement of his father's estate [Ref: Holman PILLSBURY p500]

1733-39: Thomas Sever of Roxbury, MA, and Elizabeth his wife, with Thomas Webster of Kingston, NH, and Mary his wife, the only daughters and heirs-at-law of Benjamin Greely, late of Haverhill, deceased, petition for an accounting of the estate of their grandfather, Andrew Greely, late of Salisbury, deceased, who dying intestate, left behind him three sons and one daughter and the applicants, Elizabeth and Mary, the only children of one other son, the said Benjamin Greely, who died in his said father's lifetime. He left behind property, his eldest son Philip Greely, since deceased, was appointed administrator, "that ye sd Intestate in his lifetime fully advanced by way of settlement in Executing Deeds of Gift to Joseph Greely, Andrew Greely & ye sd Philip and as to what Estate ye Intestate died Seized & possessed of there was no Settlemt thereof made in ye Lifetime of ye sd Admr nor Since his Death wherefore ye sd appt" petitioned for a division. They state also in a postscript to the petition that "The Agreemt p'tendind to have ye Sacttion of ye Judge of Probate" was not legal as Elizabeth and Mary were infants and not represented. The paper was filed in Court 9 Aug 1734.
Haverhill Septr 12 1733: Joseph Greeley aged Eaighty years Testifieth and Saith That about fourty years Agoe I the deponent with my father Andrew Greeley was Bound to Somond Wainwright of Havirill for a Certain Sum of Money which my Brother Benjamin Greele owed him ye sd Wainwright which after my Brothers Decease the sd Wainwright came upon my father and myselfe for the payment of the aforsd debt and my father could not pay the debt but was forced to sell his house which was a doble house and corn mill and about four acres of land in haverill to the said wainwright for to discharge my Brothers debts. Joseph Grele.
Ephraim Roberdes of Haverhill being in his seventy fourth year of his age Deposeth that aboute forty years ago Benjamin Greeley of Haverhill was sued by Capt Simon Wainwright for a Certain Depts which he owed ye said Wainwright: & which I the Deponent understood his father Andrew Greeley With his Brother Joseph became Siretys for: and sometime after the Death of the said Benjamin Greeley: the sd Capt Wainwright Sued the Said Andrew Greeley and Joseph Greeley for the Said Debt: and the Said Andrew Greeley was forced to Sell his Dwelling House and land and Corn mill in haverhill to Capt Wainwright to Discharge the said Debt, Dated Haverhill Sep 18 1733.
Another deposition to the same effect by William White shows that the sale took place in 1690-91, while Joseph Peasley of Haverhill, aged eighty-seven years, deposed to the above facts.
On 23 Jul 1733 the Court cited Andrew Greeley and Joseph Greeley to appear in Court to answer to the complaint of the children of their brother Benjamin.
"Capt Henry True aged 86 testifyeth and Saith yt Andrew Grele after he came down from haverhill lived some considerable time at his Son Andrew Greles in Salisbery and then dyed between 30 and 40 years agoe. Robert Smith of full age testifyeth to al above" 17 Sep 1733
"The Deposition of Lt Jeremiah Allin aged 75 years and Elizabeth moodey aged 66 - Who testify & say yt about ye year 1692 Andrew Grele and his Wife Came down from haverhill to their Son philip Greles in Salisbury and lived with him Some Considerable time all wch time they were unable to do anything and were very troublesom and chargeable to their son and yt his Wife dyed there," Sworn 17 Sep 1733.
Andrew Greele filed a statement of the support of his mother and father amounting to 29 pounds 5 shillings, stating that this "maintenance in their old age was adjusted among ye brethren."
Thomas Webster filed a bond in Court to cover the cost of division, and losing the case in the lower court appealed it. The decree of the Judge of Probate was repealed in so far as to allow a division. The case had dragged for five years and evidently Thomas Sever was afraid that he would not receive all that he should for he wrote the Judge the following letter:
"Roxbury Sept the 13 1738
To the honnerabell John Appeltom Esqr and Judg of probate may it pleas your onner I have bin informed that a Considerabell part of my Grandfathers Land that was given away by deed of gift has not as yet bin meshered and I think that will not anser the Order which the Governer and Counsell gave out and I think it would be very propper that those Jentellmen who are the pryzers should see it done before there be any Settellment made. Nothing more. From your obedient frend, Thomas Sever."
In the appraisement it was found that there was real estate not given away by Andrew Greeley amounting to 487 pounds 16s 8d, while the value of the property given by the deeds of gift was, to Philip 436 pounds 10 s; to Andrew 410 pounds 13s 4d, while Joseph received the Haverhill land valued at 378 pounds.
The division finally made, 6 Feb 1739-40, gave to Philip Greeley's heirs 25 pounds 11s 8d, in real estate so they should have their father's proper double share, then a portion to the children of Benjamin Greele dec'd and to the children of Mary, a daughter of Andrew Greely, deceased, etc. [Ref: Holman PILLSBURY p499]

Apr 21 1741: sold to son Joseph, for fifty pounds, four acres of upland and meadow [Ref: Holman PILLSBURY p500]

Nov 13 1742: with wife Martha, sold Thomas Cottle land in Haverhill, still claiming Haverhill as residence. [Ref: GreeleyGH GREELY p23]

abt 1742: moved to Hudson, NH [Ref: Holman PILLSBURY p499]

before 1745: moved to Hudson, NH [Ref: GreeleyGH GREELY p23]

death recorded in Hudson, NH, as "Joseph Grele, being entered in his ninety fifth year departed this life March ye 7th Anno Domini 1745. Martha Grele wife to Joseph Grele deceased departed this life February ye 21st Anno Domini 1757 and in the eighty seventh year of her age" [Ref: Holman PILLSBURY p499]

apparently left no will, and no administration was taken on his estate [Ref: Holman PILLSBURY p500]

----- Ipswich Co Deed 5:544, partially quoted in Pillsbury Ancestry:
I Andrew Grelee of Haverhill ... in consideration of my love & affection unto my son Joseph Greele & for his accomodation in order to his settlement & future livlyhood in the world ... doe ... Give ... him ... these two pieces of land which ly in Haverhill ... on ye Eastward side of ye river called the East Meadow River ... twenty one acres ... & seven acres ... with the ... free Consent of Mary my present wife. 4 Apr 1687 [Ref: Holman PILLSBURY p500]

Ipswich Co Deed 5:547, partially quoted in Pillsbury Ancestry:
I Andrew Grele senior of ... Salisbury ... for ... thirty pound in good merchantable corne ... doe ... sell ... unto my Son Joseph Grele all my ... saltmarsh Lyine within ... Salisbury. 1 May 1692 [Ref: Holman PILLSBURY p500]

Essex Co Deed 50:49, partially quoted in Pillsbury Ancestry:
Joseph Greeley of Haverhill ... in consideration of that parentall Love & Naturall affection which I have & do bear towards my beloved son Samuel Greeley ... [exchanges land with Samuel]. 17 March 1726/7 [Ref: Holman PILLSBURY p500]

Essex Co Deed 68:7, partially quoted in Pillsbury Ancestry:
Joseph Greeley of Haverhill sells to Joseph Greeley jr of Haverhill, land there, 28 Nov 1732 [Ref: Holman PILLSBURY p500]

Essex Co Deed 82:282, partially quoted in Pillsbury Ancestry:
I Joseph Greely of Haverhill ... yeoman ... for ... fifty pounds ... paid by my son Joseph Greely of Haverhill ... convey ... unto him ... Certain tracts ... of Land ... in ... Haverhill four acres of Accomodation with all the Divisions & additions of Upland & meadow land laid out or to be laid out to the abovesaid four acres ... that were Entered to my Father Andrew Greely at a Town meeting in haverhill abovesaid in 1667/8 on the third day of March. 21 Apr 1741 [Holman: see also Ipswich Deed 5:545, 546] [Ref: Holman PILLSBURY p500]



Pedigree of Joseph GRELE
 /-----Andrew GRELE
Joseph GRELE
|         /-----Joseph MOYSE
 \-----Mary MOYSE
          \-----Hannah (MOYSE)



Descendants of Joseph GRELE

2nd generation


3rd generation


4th generation


5th generation