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William WATSON's Ancestry
WATSON Family

Up Dated 22 December 2007

William WATSON
and
Sarah PERLEY

William was born about 1645 in Essex County Massachusetts and married 6 December 1670 in Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts, Sarah PERLEY the daughter of Allan PERLEY and Susannah BOKENSON. She was born about 1649, in Topsfield, Essex, Massachusetts, and died before 5 February 1694 in Ipswich, Essex, Massaxhusetts.

William Married second 5 February 1694 in Topsfield, Essex, Massachusetts, Mary HUTCHINSON the widow of Thomas HALE and daughter of Richard HUTCHINSON and Alice BOSWORTH. She was born baptized 28 December 1630 in North Muskham, Nottinghamshire, England and died 8 December 1713, in Boxford, Essex, Massachusetts. He died 17 June 1710 in Boxford, Essex Massachusetts.

Note in Alan Smith's Gedcom file on this family awsm123@optonline.net

He was a selectman in 1687, a surveyor of highways 1691, and a constable in 1698, when he was so infirm he could not collect the taxes, a duty which in those days devolved upon that officer. His health failed gradually till his death. An inventory of his property in 1687 exhibited: 1 house, 12 acres land, 2 pr. oxen, 1 horse, 5 cows, 10 sheep, 7 swine, 6 young cattle. His tax for that year, seventh in the list beginning with the largest, was 8s 9d, and included two heads, which could hardly be, unless he had a servant. The Boxford records furnish the births of two children.

[Mr. Watson married 15 Feb., 1694-5, for his second wife, his son-in-law's mother, Mrs. Mary-Hutchinson Hale, daughter of Richard and Alice-Bosworth Hale, of North Muskham, Notts Co., England, where she was baptised 28 Dec., 1630, and widow of Thomas Hale, son of Thomas Hale, a glover, the immigrant ancestor of the Hales. She and her son Joseph settled in Boxford in 1692, having removed from Newbury after the death of her husband. She died 8 Dec., 1715. The long-continued friendship existing between these families is more fully shown below.]

1 Watson children: Mary2, and Sarah, who was born 2 Nov., 1672.

2 Mary1 was born about 1671, in Ipswich, and died 1 Feb., 1707-8. She married 15 Dec., 1693, Joseph Hale-18, who afterwards became her step-brother, and who was born in Newbury, 20 Feb., 1670-1 and died 13 Feb., 1761, wanting only seven days of completing his ninetieth year.

Mary's marriage is a novelty: Mr. Watson, 26 April, 1692, covenanted with Mary to give her half his property, if she would marry Joseph Hale; Joseph's mother covenanted with him to give him half her property if he would marry Mary Watson. Probably both covenants were made--certainly Mr. Watson's was--about the time Mrs. Hale and her son removed to Boxford; perhaps just prior, and their removal was designed to bring the children more into one another's society, in the hope of hastening their marital accord. However it was, after a courtship of more than a year their marriage was consummated. Mr. Hale had a second wife, the widow Joanna Dodge of Ipswich, published 19 Sept., 1708.

CHILDREN of William WATSON and Sarah PERLEY:

   1. JOHN    b:        1671; Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts.
   2. SARAH   b:  2 Nov 1672; Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts.
             md: 30 Dec 1690; , , Massachusetts.
                              Samuel WALLIS
              d:  1 Feb 1705; Boxford, Exssex, Massachusetts.
 + 2. MARY    b:    Abt 1673; Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts.
             md: 15 Nov 1693; Boxford, Essex, Massachusetts.
                              Joseph HALE.
   3. JOSEPH  b:        1674; Ipseich, Exxex, Massachusetts.
   4. AMBROSE b:        1676; Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts.

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