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Patty -
The information on the Kerleys from 1645 to mid 1700's has gotten so garbled that even
NEHGS could not unravel it. I have been having a running battle with someone who is
copying her family to the Digests and Lists of
rootsweb.com and who has put a lot of
seriously wrong information into those publications -- I have finally gotten her to
recently update her information but she had been insisting that since her incorrect
information had been in print for over 100 years, that she would never acknowledge any of
the new stuff that I was sending her, despite the fact that I had citings to back up my
new info. It has been extremely frustrating!!!
For example - in one part of the book on Marlborough, William Kerley Jr son of William
and Ann White Kerly and brother of Capt. Henry - is listed as having been married to a
Jane (Unknown) who is supposed to have died and that William then remarried Hannah King.
William Jr is buried in Lexington with his wife Jane. Their markers state that he was
born in 1633 and died in 1719 and that she was born in 1649 and died in 1721. Their years
of birth are arrived at by the ages at the time of their death as stated on their markers.
So, William could not have been married to Hannah King - ever!!!.
Another section of the book noting Capt. Henry, has used the date of birth of his son
Henry, Jr. who was supposedly killed during the massacre of 1676 and then goes on to marry
him to his step-mother, Elizabeth Ward Howe who was several years older than Henry, Jr.
It seems that no one else has been paying attention and charting all the old information.
I have the Rowlandson account of the massacre at Lancaster in 1676 - the only son she
verifies as having died with her sister Elizabeth Kerley is William, who fell by his
mother's side inside the garrison house. - I would like to see the Cutter information
and if it is on line, could you please send me the citation address? But, I have a lot of
doubt as to the accuracy sight unseen because of so much garbage that has been accepted as
gospel over so many years.
Also , another interesting note is that neither Henry, b 1632, William Jr. b 1633, or the
William, b 1619/20, who married Hannah King (and who I suspect was a nephew of William Sr.
and who was the one who arrived on the Confidence with the Edmond who disappeared)
mentioned ANY sons in their Wills. William Jr. mentions a grandson - but, he does not
mention even one of the children of the line I believe follows Capt Henry and his second
wife Elizabeth Ward Howe, although their ages would have been fairly concurrent with those
of the William, b 1680-4 that I believe to have been one of their sons, and from whom my
line springs. (ie Albert and Johnathan, etc. born in Wilton, Fairfield, CT in 1749
through 1750's, just two of the children of Abraham and Susannah Unknown [possibly
Jackson or Blackman]) who married Thaddeus Gray, a cousin of Abraham's, after
Abraham's death in 1758.) Henry does mention daughters and sons-in-law and in later
court documents, his son-in-law challen!
ge Henry's mental competence, but that carries no direct bearing on the lines of
inheiritance outlined in his Will.
I know you really need to have a huge wall chart in order to even begin to understand all
of this - I am trying to get as much of this info out to the Kerly/Kerley/Carley/Kearley,
etc families as possible, but it is like bouncing off the brick walls, so to speak.
Thanks for hanging in there with me through all of this - hope you can make some sense out
of it.
Judy