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Author: Judith_Schreiber
Surnames: Kerly/Kerley/Carly/Carley/Kearley etc
Classification: queries
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The first William Kerly, born abt 1602 at Ashmore, Dorset, England, married an Ann White
in England in 1625. They had 3 recorded and surviving children, Mary b. 1627, married
Richard Smith, Sr; Henry b. 1632; and William, Jr b. 1633, all at Ashmore. He is noted in
the History of Sudbury as having been there by 1637 and is known to have married two more
times after the death of Ann White Kerly in 1658 at Lancaster, Britchet Bradstreet
Rowlandson and Rebecca Jude Josselyn, Rebecca having survived as his widow when he died in
1670 at Lancaster.
A second William Kerley, Capt., b. 1621 according to "Ages from Court Records 1636
to 1700, Vol.I: Essex, Middlesex, and Suffolk Counties,Massachusetts"; Melinde Lutz
Sanborn, Gen.Pub.Co., 2003
-William Kerly....age 45 in 1666....MCC folio 40
-William Kerly.....46 in 1667....MCC folio 44
is the William I believe to be the William who came to America aboard "The
Confidence" in 1638 with whom is commonly believed to be his brother Edmond, b. 1616
according to the listing of passengers for that ship. He was most likely a nephew of the
William, Sr, b. 1602. He (William) is thought to have gone directly to Sudbury but I
have found this listing in a posting on the internet which has since been removed,
probably because of it's inflammatory content -
http://members.aol.com/wdwylie6/1600-1649.htm
1641 - On December 7, "William Kersley shall personally appeare at the next General
Court of our said soueraigne lord the King, to be holden for this gouernment, to answere
to all such matters as shalbe (on his said master's behalf) objected against him for
vncleane carriages towards men that he hath lyen withall, and abide the further order of
the Court, and not depart the same without lycence; that then, et cetera." 241
http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?rank=1&gsfn=william&gs...
&db=greatmigrationindex&ti=0&ti.si=0&gl=&gss=rfs&gst=&so=3
With ANTHONY ANNABLE, Henry Rowley was bondsman for William Kersley of Barnstable on 7
December 1641 [PCR 2:28].
(The name Kersley is also noted as a spelling for Kerley.)
We know this second William appears in Sudbury around 1645/6 as that is when he married
Anna King, daughter of Thomas King, another of the first settlers of Sudbury. This
William is noted in Marlborough in 1669 where he died in 1684, his widow Anna surviving
him there, and I believe this couple to be the parents of Bartholomew, b. according to:
"American Genealogical-Biographical Index (AGBI) about Bartholomew Carley
Name: Bartholomew Carley
Birth Date: 1650
Birthplace: Massachusetts
Volume: 25
Page Number: 70
Reference: Gen. Column of the " Boston Transcript". 1906-1941.( The greatest
single source of material for gen. Data for the N.E. area and for the period 1600-1800.
Completely indexed in the Index.): 22 Mar 1933, 6185 " -- (This Bartholomew is
commonly attributed to be a son of Capt. Henry Kerley and his first wife, Elizabeth White
Kerley, who was killed during the Massacre at Lancaster in 1676, but there is no mention
of any other survivors of the Kerley family, other than known children of that couple.
[Henry married the following year, Elizabeth Ward Howe, daughter of William and Elizabeth
Ward of Sudbury and Marlborough, widow of John Howe, Jr., and they had at least 4
children, two daughters named and noted in his Will and at least two sons, unnamed, but
noted by one of Henry's biographer's, as being the Mariner, William Carley, who
was married to Mary Bowden in Boston in 1703 by Cotton Mather, and whose son, William, Jr
was the founder with wife Martha Patty Carter Ke!
rly, of the Kearley family later of VA and NC.] Bartholomew appears to be the only
child of William and Anna.)
The third William, b. 1633 in England, son of the first William, married a Jane Unknown at
Sudbury in 1666 and was buried in the Robbins Cemetery, East Village of Lexington in 1719
along with his wife Jane, who also died there in 1721. This William left Sudbury and
appears to have lived from 1670 to 1675 at Lancaster, but not at Marlborough at all.
Their children were all females and are noted in his Will of 1719 along with his widow,
Jane. Carly is the spelling on the grave marker.
Almost all of the written history of this family is centered around this second William, b
1621, although it is noted in the Sudbury history that there was a William, Sr, (b 1602),
who most attribute to be the second William and claim that he, the first William, is the
one who came to America on the Confidence -- an impossibility when one stops to thoroughly
read this above information. This William, Sr was the person responsible for the laying
out of roads and designing of bridges in the Sudbury/Lancaster area and was generally
associated with other settlers of the same age group, whereas the second William was tied
to the Colony Artillery and involved in the defense of these townships during the King
Phillip Wars.
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