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Author: Judith_Schreiber
Surnames: Carley, Kerly, White
Classification: queries
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Janice,
Thank you for taking the time to download all of that Kerly information, unfortunately
modern investigation has shown that much of what was reported and published many years
ago, now shows a lot of strange holes -- for instance -
in the listing for Planters at Hull in 1637 there is noted a William Kerly, who we now
take to be the first and eldest of the Kerlys to be in America -- this would be William
the Immigrant, b. @ 1598, his wife Ann White, b @ 1600, daughter Mary, b. 1627; son
Henry, b. 1632, and son William, b. 1633.
Daughter Mary is known to have married Richard Smith, Sr, and to have died in 1654 -
Henry married (1) - Elizabeth White, who was killed in the Massacre at Lancaster in 1676
while Henry was in Boston seeking more help to ward off an imminent Indian attack which
came sooner than thought - their son William was also killed in that attack but son
Henry, Jr, b. 1657 survived along with son Bartholomew and other daughters and possibly
son Joseph. Capt. Henry m. (2) - Elizabeth Ward, widow of John Howe, Jr. in 1677. They
had 2 known daughters and it is noted that there were probably at least 2 sons - a
William, b. before 1684 and now perhaps this Joseph mentioned in the births at Boston in
1680.
The William, Jr. b. 1633, m. Jane Unknown in 1666 at Sudbury but left by before 1692 for
Lexington, where he, Jane and a daughter Elizabeth were buried between 1719 - 1721. This
William's Will filed in 1719 listed seven
daughters, one son-in-law and one grandson, not a Kerley/Carley.
As you have stated, William the Immigrant took for his third wife, Rebecca Jude Josselyn,
widow of the Thomas mentioned in your listings of early arrivals at Hull and Sudbury and
she survived him. (His second wife was Bridget
Bradstreet, widow of Thomas Rowlandson)
The William and the Edmond Kerley who arrived in America in 1638 aboard the Confidence are
now noted as such - William, b. 1621 as determined by court testimony he gives about his
age in Middlesex County records about 1666/7, is the William who married Hannah (Anna)
King. He appears to have died without issue as his wife is the only person - other than
Henry, whom he calls brother - named in his Will. Whether he was indeed a son of William
the Immigrant
by a wife other than, and prior to, Ann White, or a nephew who grew close enough to Henry
to call him brother, is a matter of some question.
Of the Edmond, who also arrived in 1638, b. in 1616 as he is noted as being age 22 at the
time of the ship's sailing, it is generally thought that he died in passage or soon
after arrival as he in not noted in any other records.
It is a surprise to see him listed as being at Sudbury - there is no further record of him
or of a Kerley male other than those already mentioned. The ages of these last two men
preclude either of them being the parent of either
Mary, Henry or the true William, Jr. - they would have been much to young to have
fathered offspring.
Capt. Henry, b. 1632, m.( 2) - Elizabeth Ward Howe. She was the widow of John Howe, Jr,
who was killed in the Massacre at Marlborough in 1677. She and Henry married that same
year at Charlestown and later resided in Marlborough, where they had their 2 daughters,
Hannah and Mercy, and at least 1 son, William. (Both Capt. Henry and Elizabeth Ward were
children of fathers named William.)
Of the Kerly/Kerley/Carley descendants, only the two Henry's, Capt. and Jr., were
only Henrys married to an Elizabeth having children in the 1680's, Henry, Jr b. 1657
having married an Elizabeth Unknown, also had a son John, b
about the same time as this Joseph born in Boston. So the question still hangs - was
Joseph a son of the Captain or the Jr.?
I hope this makes sense and thanks for your thoughts and interest -
Janice's reply --
Good research and saving yours to be sure, and thanks very much
Janice
I hope this makes sense and thanks for your thoughts and interest -
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