Will – John Colyer

F508763 p 84 John Colyer 28 Oct 1871 (date of document); date of probate 15 June 1875 Names Edney Colyer, wife, Nancy Ballance, daughter, James Colyer,  son, Weightman E. Garris, John W. H. Garris wife Edney Collyer my dau Nancy Ballance my son James Collyer land known as Phebby Collyer tract  it joins land of […]

Marblehead in the 1600s – Edmund Nicholson

http://marbleheadmuseum.org/Marblehead_in_the_1600s.pdf page 22  A Pasture Division between the 44 recorded families in the town was made for 50 cows Pasture Division Residents Timothy Allen John Deverox John Legg Peter Pittford William Barber Joseph Doliber John Lion Rowland John Bartoll Samuel Doliber Moses Maverick Chi Salmon John Bennet John Gatchell Nicholas Merrett Arthur Sanden Tho. Bowinge […]

The History and Traditions of Marblehead by Samuel Roads – Nicholson

Chapter III. The year 1648 was one of the most momentous in the entire history of Marblehead. Early in March tlie town of Salem ordered : ” That Marblehead with the allowance of the General Court shall be a town, and the bounds to be to the utmost extent of the land which was Mr. […]