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Author: billyedclevelandjackson
Surnames: Carley
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This is from Judy Schreiber to several of us who do Carley research. She has given
permission to post this. The notes above her message are from another group researcher, I
believe.
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This is certainly the final well researched word on one major branch of Carley/Kerley
family beginnings in America. Other branches are the ones which crossed MA and went into
VT and NY and on. And the branch which went to ME then back to MA. Please spread the word
about the six Williams of the early Carleys!
Note-1: Henry and Elizabeth White also had a son William who was killed in the Lancaster
Massacre with his mother.
Note-2: William and Mary Bowden Carley had a son William Cearley who settled and started
the line of Virginia/North Carolinia Carleys. He was the brother of John Carley m Sarah
Sherwood in Conn who also had a son William.
On a final note: The Mariner William b. 1680-1684 is reported to have been ship wrecked
and drowned during an incident where one 14 year old cabin boy survived.
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Sunday, July 29, 2007 1:32 PM
Subject: Re: The three Williams
THE FOUR SURVIVING WILLIAMS
PLUS ONE HENRY
William Kerly, The Immigrant, b. 1602 Ashmore, Dorset, England, d. 14 July 1670 Lancaster,
Middlesex,
MA - Planter at Hull 1637
m. 1 Ann White @ 1625, South Petherton,
Sommerset, England
she died 12 Jan 1658 Lancaster, Middlesex,
MA
m. 2 Bridget Bradstreet, widow of Thomas
Rowlandson, May 1659,
Lancaster - she died 14 April 1662,
Lancaster
m. 3 Rebecca Jude, widow of Thomas Josselyn,
16 March 1664, Lancaster
she survived him but died before 1690
William Kerley, of the Confidence, b. 1620/21 Ashmore, Dorset, England, d. 11 Jan 1684
Marlborough,
Middlesex, MA
m. 6 Oct 1646 at Sudbury, Middlesex, MA -
Hannah (Anna) King, b 1625,
she survived him and died 18 Feb 1698 at
Marlborough
arrived on the Confidence June 1638 with brother(?) Edmund, b. 1616 -
Dorset, England
William Kerley, Jr (spelled Carly on headstone), b. 1633 - (age at death noted on
headstone) Ashmore,
Dorset, England, youngest son of William
the Immigrant and Ann White,
d. 13 May 1719 Lexington, MA
m. Jane Unknown, b. 1649 Sudbury, Middlesex,
MA - age at death noted on
headstone, d. 12 Jan 1721 at Lexington
Henry Kerley, Capt., eldest son of William the Immigrant and Ann White, b 1632, Ashmore,
Dorset,
England, d 13 Dec 1713 Marlborough,
Middlesex, MA
m. 1 Elizabeth White, b. bef 29 July 1634,
South Petherton, Sommerset,
England, d 10 Feb 1676 at Lancaster
m. 2 18 Feb 1677 at Marlborough, Elizabeth
Ward, widow of John Howe, Jr,
b 14 April 1643 Sudbury, d 21 April 1710,
Marlborough, Middlesex, MA
William Carley, Mariner, son of Capt. Henry and Elizabeth Ward Howe Kerley, b. between
1680 and 1684 at
Marlborough, Middlesex, MA, d. bef 7 May
1739 at Boston, Suffolk, MA
m. 7 May 1703 at Boston - Mary Bowden, b
1684*, she died after 7 May
1739.
It is to be noted that Mary Bowden's grandfather and father had been displaced from
Black Point/Saco, Maine by an Indian raid in 1676, at which time her grandfather, Capt.
Ambrose Bowden recieved injuries which led to his death in 1679, and her father John had
moved into Salem and then to Boston, MA, where he died in 1697. Mary's mother was
still in Boston at the time of William and Mary's marriage and she died there, 10 Jan
1710.
Capt. Henry Kerley also had a son William, b. 22 Nov 1658 who was killed in the same
Massacre as his mother, Elizabeth White Kerley, on the same date.
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