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Author: Judith_Schreiber
Surnames: Carley, Bowden, Bully
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You have forgotten to mention the William Carley who married Mary Bowden on May 3, 1703 at
Boston by Cotton Mather - see Bowden - Marriages in Boston -
http://www.rays-place.com/town/ma/boston/bos-mar-03.htm
Bowden
Mary & William Carley, May 7, 1703 by Mr. Cotton Mather
as the more probable parents of these children and you have omitted the births of William
Carley,Jr who married Martha Patty Carter, bapt. Abt. September 18, 1717, on the same date
as a Job Carley, and a Mary Carley, with a date of birth or bapt of September 17, 1719.
It is interesting to note that most of the children of the children mentioned carried the
name of William throughout their families, most of them for almost every generation
following and not the name of Bartholomew except for the eldest - Joseph, b. @ 1704 to
whom the senior Bartholomew would have been a father figure while his own father, William,
was at sea.
William the Mariner is noted as a member of the crew of the Provence Galley -
THE PROVINCE GALLEY OF MASSACHUSETTS BAY, 1694-1716
by Harriet Silvester Tapley
Syn: Dec. 11, 1693/4, by order of the General Court, the building and fitting of a
small vessel mounted with 10 funs and a suitable number of oars, to cruise on this coast
for the better securing of trade and navigation, a sum of L500 was appropriated.
Named the Province Galley, she patroled for 20 years, protecting the fishermen of Essex
Co and acted as convoy in many navla actions, transported Governors from one part of the
Province to another, carried stores and ammunition to Nova Scotia, transported troops,
brought home exchanged prisoners, captured French privateers and hunted pirates. She was
commanded during part of that time by Salem shipmaster, Capt. William Pickering, who was
awarded distinguished honors due to his courage on the sea. Her first commander was
Captain Thomas Dobbins, Commander and Capt.John Alden, who were charged to inquire into
Indian murders in the Penobscot area. Dobbins was succeeded by Capt. Samuel Mould,
probably of Charlestown.
Under Capt. Pickering in 1711, 22 men from Boston served in the crew, among which was a
Boswain, William Kerly, who enlisted March 21st of that year, a freeman, and served 4
months and 21 days, earining L-14.3.6.
http://books.google.com/books?id=5MNYAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&...
Galley"&source=bl&ots=Ye6sZModH0&sig=SvamKDyZ_6OhbSIpOBfdiyJ4rp0&hl=en&ei=B06GTPapLYaKlwfcsZ37Dw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&sqi=2&ved=0CB8Q6AEwAw#v=onepage&q&f=false
and he served Capt Pickering in other capacities on other ships acting as a broker for him
and other owners as advertised in The Boston News -Letter Nov 23 to Nov 29, 1733 says
"The Schooner Speedwell with all Appurtenances. lying a Gallops Wharf to be sold by
William Carley, inquire at said Carley living near the Red Lyon."
The Boston News- Letter Oct 31 - Nov 8, 1734 says " A scooner burden
about forty tons, with all her Appurtenances, lying at Gallopps' Wharf; to be sold on
very reasonable terms, by William Carley, living near the Red Lyon, at the North End,
Boston."
William the Mariner is thought to have died at sea prior to the filing of a Probate Order
dated at Boston the twenty seventh Day of May anno Dom. 1739, Administration Letter -#
7317 - 1739 Bond/ Adm/ Letter 34 331 which called for an inventory of property.
Those of us descended from William the Mariner and Mary Bowden Carley believe that when
Mary's mother - Grace Bully Carley, died at Boston in 1710, that Mary brought her
existing children to Marlborough and lived there with Bartholomew and Hannah, thus
confusing her existing and future children with theirs, and as Hannah would not have been
at an age to still be bearing children in 1719, (her date of birth is estimated as being
1664) it seems apparent that someone else was supplying children for that marriage.
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