1152. Danyell Broadley de West Morton
Bingley, July 23 1634
A Register shewinge in what Pewes or Stalls every Househoulder inhabitinge wthin the p'ishe of Bingley hath his seat or seats for his house or houses in the Church of Bingley aforesaid as well for auncient seats as alsoe for the new erected and encreased Stalls and seats in the said Church.
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The names of all such persons which haue auncient seats in the longe Stalls standinge in the Sune side of the Church of Bingley.Inpt.
...................................2. In the second Stall, John Dobson de Marley, Jane Wright, widdow, late wife of Steuen Wright, Alexander Wood de East Morton, Daniell Broadley de West Morton for Butlers farme, Richard Sugden de Heynewoorth, Christofer Waineman de Preesthorppe, haue auncient seats.
...................................8. In the eigth Stall, John Dobsone de Marley, Edward Brooksbanke for his ho: in Hardinge, Alexander Wood de East Morton, Richard Sugden de Heynewoorth, Nicholas Hudsone for Harding grainge, Christofer Waineman de Preesthorpe, Daniell Broadley de West Morton, haue auncient seats, and John Dobsone, Junior, de Marley, & Thomas Milner de Hardinge, haue the odde seat att the other side of the Pillar, and paid for it viij.
[Bingley Parish Register, op. cit. p. 153]
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BRADLEY The first mention of the name in England was in 1183, at the feast of St. Cuthbert in Lent, when Lord Hugh, Bishop of Durham, caused all the revenues of his district to be described. The Survey of Bolton (Burke) mentions in Washington Roger de Bradley as holding forty acres at Bradley and rendering half marc besides forest service. The Heralds visitation for the county of York, 1563-64, in the Normanton pedigree, mentions the marriage of Arthur Normanton to Isabel, daughter of Sir Francis Bradley. This would be in the early part of the fourteenth century. Burke gives fifteen coats-of-arms to the Bradleys, many of them being variations of the same coat, having a boar's head, etc. Probably all were derived from the same family.
The first Bradleys in the United States are said to have come from the market town of Bingley, in the West Riding of Yorkshire, about twelve miles northeast of Leeds on the river Aire. The town of Bradley (or Broadlea) was about seven miles to the north of Bingley. The name Bradley is Anglo-Saxon, meaning a broad field or pasture. The father of the American pioneer of the family is not known, nor is the name of his first wife. Their son, William Bradley, according to tradition handed down in different branches of the family, was a friend of Cromwell, and the "History of Bingley, England," states that he was a major in the parliamentary army, and removed to New Haven, United States of America. He was the first of the family to come to Connecticut and sojourned for a time in Branford and Guilford, later removing to New Haven, where he took the oath of fidelity in August, 1644. He later lived in North Haven and had large landed interests there. He located on the west side of East (Quinnipiac) river, about nine miles north of New Haven, and soon gained possession of the cotters one hundred and eighty-nine acres in addition to his other lands. Thorpe's "History of North Haven" states that he was the first landowner in the village.
His stepmother, Elizabeth Bradley, with her four sons and one daughter, is said to have followed him to America in 1648. These children were: Daniel; Joshua, of New Haven; Ellen, married John Allin; Nathan, born 1638; Stephen, born 1642. She married (second) in this country, John Parmalee, who died November 8, 1659; married (third) May 27, 1663, John Evarts, who died May 10, 1669. She died in January, 1683. Both her American husbands were of Guilford.
[New England Families Genealogical and Memorial: Third Series, Volume IV, 2207]
1161. Elizabeth Brewster
Thomas Emerson, son of the preceding Robert Emerson (2), was baptized at Bishop's Stortford, July 26, 1584. In the church warden's book of St. Michael's he is recorded as a collector for the poor in 1636. He married Elizabeth Brewster, July 1, 1611, at Bishop's Stortford, and the genealogist of the English Emersons suggests that she was the daughter of the postmaster of Scrooby and the elder of the colony at Plymouth. The children of Thomas Emerson, as recorded in the baptismal registry of St. Michael's church at Bishop's Stortford, Herts., were: Robert, baptized May 24, 1612; Benjamin, baptized October 2, 1614; Ralfe, baptized October 19, 1615, killed by falling tree June, 1626; James, baptized February 16, 1617; Joseph, baptized June 25, 1620, settled in Mendon, Massachusetts; Elizabeth, baptized June 14, 1623; John, baptized February 26, 1625, settled in Gloucester, Massachusetts; Thomas, see forward; Nathaniel, baptized July 18, 1630, settled Ipswich, Massachusetts; Susan, baptized March 17, 1632, may have died on the voyage.
[Genealogical and Personal Memoirs of Worchester County vol, 194]
1166. Deacon Moses Pengry
Owned salt-works in Ipswich, Massachusetts, USA
1169. Mary Clement
The legal examination of the Andover victims lasted for several weeks; that of Mary (Clements) Osgood's taking place on 8 Sept. 1692. With but one exception, the frenzied and agonized women, Mrs. Osgood among them, confessed that they had been "dipt" by Satan. About the only way to escape conviction and execution was to confess guilt and beg for mercy, so it is not surprising that Captain Osgood urged his wife to confess, in the hope of saving her life. However, in the end, the awfulness of a confession that one had given body and soul to Satan, outweighed in Mrs. Osgood's mind the desire for life and she recanted, and with others signed the following petition:
"Our nearest and dearest relations seeing us in that dreadful condition, and knowing our great danger, apprehended there was no other way to save our lives.... Indeed, that confession that it is said we made was no other than what was suggested to us by some gentlemen, they telling us that we were witches, and they knew it and we knew it, which made us think that it was so, and our understanding, our reason, our faculties almost gone we were not capable of judgeing our condition. As also the hard measures they used with us rendered us incapable of making our defence, but said any thing and everything which they desired and with most of us, what we said was but in effect a consenting to what they said. Sometime after, when we were better composed, they telling us what we had confessed, we did profess that we were innocent and ignorant of such things: and we hearing that Samuel Wardwell had renounced his confession and quickly after condemned and executed, some of us were told that we were going after Wardwell. Mary Osgood, Deliverance Dane, Sarah Wilson, Mary Tyler, Abigail Barker, Hannah Tyler."
[Upham's Salem Witchcraft, 2:403]Increase Mather visited the prisoners and remarks that they "bewailed and lamented what they had confessed and proved the sincerity of their repentance by denouncing their confession, thus offering their lives, there seeming no escape from the awful fate of all who did not confess." At this time Mary Osgood, being questioned by him in Oct. 1692, replied that "Being asked why she prefixed a time, and spake of her being baptized, etc., about twelve years since, she replied and said, that, when she owned the thing, they asked the time, to which she answered that she knew not the time. But, being told that she did know the time and the like she considered that about twelve years before (when she had her last child) she had a fit of sickness; and was melancholy; and so thought that that time might be as proper a time to mention as any and accordingly did prefix the said time. Being asked about the cat, in the shape of which she had confessed that the Devil had appeared to her, &c., she replied, that, being told that the Devil had appeared to her and must needs appear to her, &c. (she being a witch) she at length did own that the Devil had appeared to her; and being pressed to say in what creature's shape he appeared, she at length did say that it was in the shape of a cat. Remembering that some time before her being apprehended, as she went out at her door, She saw a cat, &c.; not as though she any whit suspected the said cat to be the Devil, in the day of it, but because some creature she must mention & this came into her mind at that time."
[Ibid. 2:406]"To the Honored Generall Court now sitting in Boston, This 12 of october 1692.
Right honored Gentlemen and fathers we your humble petitioners whose names are underwritten petition as followeth: viz. we would not Trouble your honours with a Tedious diversion: but briefly spread open our distressed Condition and beg your honours favour and pitty, in affording what Relieff may be thought Convenient, as for the matter of our Trouble: it is The distressed Condition of our wives and Relations in prison at Salem who are a company of poore distressed creatures as full of inwarde griefe and Trouble as they are able to bear up in life withall: and besides That, ye agrivations of outward Troubles and hardships thay undergo: wants of food Convenient: and the coldess of the winter season yt is coming may soon dispatch such out of the way That have not been used to such hardships: and besides this The exceeding great Charges and expences yt we are at. upon many accounts which will be two tedious to give a pertickuler account of. which will fall heavy upon us especially in a time of so great and expence upon a generall account in the Country which is expected of us to bear a part as well as others which if put all together our familys and Estates will be brought to Ruin: if it Cannot in time be prevented: having spread open our Condition: we humbly make our adres. To your honors To Grant yt our wives and Relations being of Such That have been aproved as penitent Confessors, might be Returned home to us upon what bond your honors shall See good we do not petition to take them out of the hands of Justice but to Remain as prisoners under bond in their own familys where thay may be more Tenderly Cared for and may be be redy to apear To Answer farther when the honored Court shall call for them: we humbly Crave your honors favour and pitty for us and ours hearin, having lett Down our Troubled Estate before you, we heartyly pray for your honors. Petitioners:
John osgood in behalfe of his wife.
John ffry. in behalf of his wife.
John Marston. in behalf of his wife: mary marston.
Christopher osgood in behalf of his daughter mary marten.
Joseph Willson: in behalf of his wife.
John Bridges: in behalf of his wife and children.
hope Tiler: in behalf of his wife and daughter.
Ebenezer Barker: for his wife.
Nathaniel Dane for his Wife.""To his Excellency the Governor and Council now sitting, at Boston, The humble Petition, of severall of the Inhabitants of Andover, sheweth
That whereas our Wives and severall of our neighbors, sometime Since, were committed to Salem Prison, (for what cause your Honors have been informed) and during their imprisonment have been exposed to great Sufferings which daily encrease by reason of the winter comeing on; we had hoped that before this day they would have had a Gaol delivery, but Since that hath been so long deferred, and we are very Sensible of the extream danger the Prisoners are in of perishing if they are not Speedily released: have made bold to make our humble Petition to yor Honors, to consider the present distressed and suffering condition of our friends in Prison, and grant them liberty to come home, upon such terms as yor Honors shall Judge most meet. If we might be allowed to plead their Innocency, we think we have Sufficient grounds to make such a plea for them and hope their Innocency will in time appear to the satisfaction of others, however they are at present under uncomfortable circumstances. So craveing pardon for the trouble we have now given your Honors, and humbly requesting that something may be speedily done for the relief of our friends. And yor Petitionrs as in duty bound Shall ever pray. &c.
Andover 6th Decembr 1692.
JOHN OSGOOD
CHRISTOPHER OSGOOD
JOHN FFRIE
NATHANIEL DANE
JOSEPH WILLSON
HOPESTIL TILER
JOHN BRIDGES
EBENEZER BARKER"That this petition had more effect than the former one is evidenced by a bond filed in Court, 20 Dec. 1692, by "John Osgood Yeoman and Deacon John ffry both of Andover" for two hundred pounds. The bond recites that:--
"Whereas Mary Osgood wife of the abovesd John Osgood of Andover aforesd; is suspected & Accused of Committing Divers Acts of Witchcrafts shall and Do make her Personall appearance ... at ye next Court ... then ye above Recognizance to be void."
She was discharged the January following with others of the accused.
1695:
"The Deposition of Mrs Mary Osgood (alias) Clemance now of Andover in ye Countey of Essex in New England formerly of ye City of Coventry in Warwick Shire in old England aged 58 yeares Who Testiefieth & saith that before ye yeare Anno Doml 1652 I lived in ye City of Coventry abovesd & boarded in ye house of Mrs. Biddle in Hay lane & was then well acquainted with Mrs Ann Potter grandaughter to Thomas Potter Esq who had been Mayor of ye City ye said mrs Ann Potter her fathers Name was as I have been Informed Humphery Potter ye Only Son of sd Thomas Potter Esq ye abovesd Ann Potter (whose parents as I have heard were murdured in Ireland) is now living in Salem in New England & Wife to mr. Anthony Neadham & also sd Mary Osgood does further Testifie that Mrs Rebecca Bacon Aunt to Abovesd Ann Potter sent to England for her which Invitation she accepted Mrs Mary Osgood made Oath to what is abovewritten this 19th of July 1695."
1184. Richard Sutton of Roxbury
(Suff. Deed I: 127) Wm Lyon & Rich: Sutton both of Roxbury . . . did grant vnto Tho: Dudley Governor six Acres of land in Roxbury (other lands also mentioned). Mortgage deed dated 7 Aug. 1650 and ack. 19 Aug. 1650.
1633, Proprietor of Lancaster
[Farmer, John, Genealogical Register of the First Settlers of New England, 279]10 May 1658, bought land in Andover from Simon Bradstreet
Mar 1665/1666, "Bound to good behaviour" at Court held at Salem
Sep 1698, Field driver
[Hammat, Abraham, The Hammat Papers, Early Inhabitants of Ipswich, Massachussets, 1633-1700, Higginson Book Company, Salem, Massachussets, 354]4 Mar 1675/1676, King Philip's War: William Turner's Co., left at Quabaug
[New England Historic Genealogical Register, Vol. 41, January 1887, p.79]10 Dec 1675, Corporal under Capt. Samuel Appleton
[New England Historic Genealogical Register, Vol. 38, October 1884, p. 440-441]Possible 3rd wife:
"Sarah, w. Rich[ar]d, bur. 12 : 9m : 1672"
[Vital Records of Roxbury, Massachusetts to the End of the Year 1850, Vol. II, The Essex Institute. Salem. 1926, 696]
1186. Benedict Pulsipher
Named by Mather, ii. Magnalia, 509
[Genealogical Register of the First Settlers of New England, 237]Benedict was born in England about 1635. We know he was in America by 1659 though the record of his arrival has been lost. Around the year 1661, he married his first wife; unfortunately her name, too, has been lost to history.
In 1663 we have a record of Benedict buying a home and a son born to him. He bought a residence with outhouse, orchards, etc. from Moses Pengry of Ipswich, one of the town deacons and the father of Sarah Pengry; who had obtained the land in 1652 from Richard Schofield, leather dresser, for 17 pounds. The home was on the intersection of East Street and Hovey Lane. Across from this lot lay what had been the home of John Winthrop Jr.; son of the founder of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Ownership of this property entitled Benedict to the right of pasturage in the domain beyond the "common fence", but the felling of timber or cultivation of the common land was prohibited. By 1664, the idea of permanent individual ownership had gained enough acceptance that the town voted that Plum Island, Hogg Island and Castle Neck be divided amoung those who had rights of commonage, based upon the amount of personal and property tax paid by each individual determined by lot. This right belonged to 203 individuals including Benedict.
Benedict's first wife died at Ipswich, Jul. 16, 1673. It was a common English practice to name the first born daughter after the wife. If this is the case here, then it is likely that his first wife's name was Elizabeth, although by no means certain.
He married 2nd to Susanna Waters 1674. His children gave him a good deal of frustration and embarassment. He had to defend them in court and, on at least one occation, took one son to court himself.
In 1700 Benedict was assigned a place on "one of ye short seats" among the elderly in the Ipswich Meeting House and referred to as "Goodman". On Aug. 1, 1709, Benedict conveyed his property to his son, Capt. Joseph Pulcifer, of Boston, one year before his death.
1187. Susanna Waters
A Bay Colony law punished "commoners" for overstepping the bounds of propriety by daring to wear fine garments which were beyond their proper rank in life. As early as 1651, the General court of Ipswich had expressed its "griefe...that intollerable excesse and bravery hath crept in upon us and especially amongst people of mean condition, to the dishonor of God, the scandal of its professors, the consumption of estates and altogether unsuitable to our povery." It was later ordered that no person whose visible estate did not exceed £200, should wear gold or silver lace, or any bone lace above 2s. per yard, or silk hoods or scarfs. Penalty for each such offense was 10 shillings.
In the year 1675, Ipswich was in a general state of terror over the string of Indian atacks that became known as King Phillips' War. The Ipswich General Court saw in such attacks evidence of rebukes from God Almighty himself, and proptly issued fresh edicts some of the more flagrant abuses of wearing "finery" and displaying the sin of pride.
Susanna, the newly wed wife of Benedict, appeared one Sabbath morning in 1675 meeting house proudly displaying such a silk scarf and hood, along with a number of other wives of the town. Benedict was duly fined for the violation of social decorum. This incident implies that Benedict's estate must have been valued at less than £200.
1192. Deacon Jacob Foster
Gravestone: "Here lies Dec'n Jacob Foster, who died July ye 9th 1710, in ye 75 yr of His Age."
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