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Author: Judith_Schreiber
Surnames: Carley/Kerly/Kerley
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Kerley - History of Cambridge, Massachusetts 1630-1877
William Carley/Kerley is noted in the genealogical record of Cambridge at the back of the
above History on p. 506. He is shown in the census of Camb. Farm 1688, ae 44 - by that
info, he would have been born 1644, however the stone on his grave states that he died at
Lexington in 1719,, ae 86, which puts his dob at 1633 and wife Jane, whom he had married
at Sudbury in 1666, died 12 Jan. 1721, aged about 70, giving her a dob of 1651, clearly 10
years off of her actual age by notice of the birth of their children.
From the "History of Sudbury "
William Carley, Sgt -
by w. Jane had Mary, b. at S. 4 May 1667; Sarah, 23 Jan. 1669; and Hannah, 8 Jan.
1671;"
History Wikipedia - Lexington was first settled circa 1642[1] as part of Cambridge,
Massachusetts. What is now Lexington was first incorporated as a parish, called Cambridge
Farms, in 1691, and was incorporated as a separate town in 1713. It was then that it got
the name Lexington.
They are also cited in "Ages from Court Records 1636 to 1700, Vol.I: Essex,
Middlesex, and Suffolk Counties, Massachusetts"; Melinde Lutz Sanborn, Gen.Pub.Co.,
2003
-JANE CARLY.....age 40...in 1685...MCC folio 120
-William Carly........age 45 in 1685...MCC folio 120 ----
which puts his dob at 1640 and hers at 1645.
These later citations come closer to their actual ages.
http://216.239.57.100/search?q=cache:17-Z6t__uXAJ:www.usigs....
William Kerley, supposed son of the former (William Kerly, SR.), was in Sudbury in 1672
and in Cambridge in 1683. Probably he removed before the massacre.
(Since William, Sr. died in 1670, and this younger William left Sudbury about then, he was
probably living on his father's property by the father's consent until the
Sr.'s death. The Sr. left property at Marlborough to son Henry which Henry sold to his
brother-in-law, Abraham Williams, whose wife was a sister of Elizabeth Ward Howe Kerley,
Henry's second wife.)
http://www.rootsweb.com/~maworces/lancaster/88-89.htm
Sgt Kerley removed from Lancaster by 1670 -
in information for Wm. Kerley, Jr. From "History of Sudbury"
12 feb 1674/5 Select men of Sudbury siezed the land of Wm Kerley for his neglect to repair
and pay taxes on his alloted land on the Great Causey and puts the land at the town's
disposal until a tennant is brought in to keep up the property and taxes are paid.
And I think we must admire William Kerly, Sr - b. 1583, d 1670 ae 87, for his longevity at
a time when the average life expectancy was considerably much less, although son Henry, b
1632, d 1713, would have attained the age of 81 by the time of his death, while William of
the "Confidence" died at the age of 63 - b. 1621, d 1684.
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