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Name: James EMERSON
Sex: M
Birth: Wells, Maine ^b
Death: 1756 in Mendon, Massachusetts ^d

Parents:

Father:
Joseph EMERSON Birth: 25 Jun 1620 in Bishops Stortford, Hartfordshire, England Death: 3 Nov 1679 in Concord, Middlesex Co, Massachusetts

Mother:

Elizabeth WOODMANSEY Death: Before 1665

Family:
Marriage:

Sarah (EMERSON) on Abt 1686 .^m1
Sarah (EMERSON) Birth: 1663 Death: 13 Oct 1732 in Mendon, Massachusetts

Children:

Elizabeth EMERSON Birth: 6 Mar 1686/7 in Ipswich, Massachusetts Death: 10 Mar 1760 in Uxbridge, Massachusetts
James EMERSON Birth: 13 Mar 1692 in Ipswich, Massachusetts Death: Before 1757
John EMERSON Birth: 9 Jun 1694 in Ipswich, Massachusetts Death: 1780 in Uxbridge, Massachusetts
Joseph EMERSON Birth: 18 Dec 1696 in Ipswich, Massachusetts Death: Abt 1745 in Reading, Massachusetts
Ebenezer EMERSON Birth: 1698 Death: Before 1757
Nathaniel EMERSON Birth: 19 Aug 1701 in Mendon, Massachusetts

Bibliography

Cutter, William Richard, New England Families, New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co, 1913. M-LH 974 Cut. NYPL APR (New England) (Cutter) (NYPL has both 1913 and 1915 editions). Available at https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/272367. Two editions of this work were published in 1913, but contents and page numbering is different; the other is available at (vol 1) http://books.google.com/?id=KvUsAAAAYAAJ, (vol 2) http://books.google.com/?id=_c4UAAAAYAAJ, (vol 3) http://books.google.com/?id=7_UsAAAAYAAJ, (vol 4) http://books.google.com/?id=NegUAAAAYAAJ Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Cutter NE p[0-9]*].
Emerson, Peter Henry, The English Emersons - A Genealogical Historical Sketch of the family from the earliest times to the end of the Seventeenth Century, including various modern pedigrees, with an appendix of authorities. London: David Nutt, 1898. LDS Film#0990427#1. Available at https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/136547. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: EmersonPH EMERSON-1898 p[0-9]*].
Roberts, Gary Boyd, Ancestors of American Presidents, First Authoritative Edition. Santa Clarita, CA: Carl Boyer, 1995. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Roberts USPres [A-Zp][A-Z0-9]*].

Sources for birth and parent Information

place:: [Ref: Cutter NE p1052, Cutter NE p1679]; Ipswich or Wells [Ref: EmersonPH EMERSON-1898 p24],
parents:: [Ref: EmersonPH EMERSON-1898 p24, Roberts USPres TAFT, Roberts USPres p312],
father:: [Ref: Cutter NE p1052, Cutter NE p1679]

Sources for death Information

date:: [Ref: Cutter NE p1052, Roberts USPres TAFT],
place:: [Ref: Cutter NE p1052]; prob Mendon [Ref: Roberts USPres TAFT]

Sources with Information about marriage to Sarah (EMERSON)

date:: abt 1686 [Ref: Roberts USPres TAFT],
names:: James EMERSON & Sarah ___ [Ref: Cutter NE p1052, Cutter NE p1679, EmersonPH EMERSON-1898 p24, Roberts USPres TAFT, Roberts USPres p312],
child:: [Ref: Cutter NE p1052, Cutter NE p1679, EmersonPH EMERSON-1898 p24, Roberts USPres TAFT, Roberts USPres p312]

Research Notes:
lived at Ipswich until 1700, when moved to Mendon [Ref: EmersonPH EMERSON-1898 p24]

taxed at Mendon in 1703 for 509#, a very considerable sum of money; and he owned a great deal of landed property, including the Homestead left by his father, the Rev. Joseph Emerson of Mendon, a property that continued in the family for some generations. [Ref: EmersonPH EMERSON-1898 p24]

June 1717 gave land to son James; 1717 gave land to son John; 1718 gives to son Joseph of Reading land inherited from his father; 1733 gave land to son Ebenezer of Uxbridge; 1740 sells to son Nathaniel the Homestead in Mendon [Ref: EmersonPH EMERSON-1898 p25]

no record after 1740; deed of 1747 in which Joseph's brothers sell his land for 500# indicates that James Senior was dead [Ref: EmersonPH EMERSON-1898 p25]

Pedigree of James EMERSON
                                                                /-----John EMERYSON
                                                       /-----Robert EMERYSON
                                                      |         \-----Elizabeth BAINBRIDGE
                                              /-----Robert EMERYSON
                                             |         \-----Beatrice (EMERYSON)
                                     /-----Thomas EMERSON
                                    |         \-----Marjorie (EMERYSON)
                            /-----Thomas EMERSON
                   /-----Robert EMERSON
                  |         \-----Margery (EMERSON)
          /-----Thomas EMERSON
         |        |         /-----John CRABBE
         |         \-----Susan CRABBE
/-----Joseph EMERSON
|         \-----Elizabeth BREWSTER
James EMERSON
|         /-----Robert WOODMANSEY
\-----Elizabeth WOODMANSEY
          \-----Margaret (WOODMANSEY)

Descendants of James EMERSON

1. James EMERSON m. Sarah (EMERSON)

m. Sarah (EMERSON)

2+ Elizabeth EMERSON m. Joseph TAFT

3+ James EMERSON m1. Sarah LOCK m2. Sarah (EMERSON)

4+ John EMERSON m. Mary RICE

5 Joseph EMERSON

6 Ebenezer EMERSON m. Elizabeth WALCOTT

7 Nathaniel EMERSON m1. Joanna (EMERSON) m2. Mary BURNHAM

2nd generation

2. Elizabeth EMERSON m. Joseph TAFT

m. Joseph TAFT father: Robert TAFT mother: Sarah (TAFT)

8+ Peter TAFT m. Elizabeth CHENEY