James Ordway, Sr.

James Ordway

• Baptized 5 Aug 1621 in Bengeworth, Worcestershire, England
• Died after 1704 in Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony
• Son of Edward Ordway and Jane Webb
• Brother of Sarah Ordway, Abner Ordway, John Ordway, Jane Ordway, Hester Ordway, Anna Ordway and Patience Ordway
• Husband of Ann (Emery) Ordway — married about 25 Nov 1648 in Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts. (Daughter of John Emery & Alse Grantham.)
• Husband of Joanna (Davis) Ordway — married 4 Oct 1687 in Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony. (Daughter of Thomas Davis & Christian Bellsire; widow of George Corliss.)
• Father of Ephraim Ordway, James Ordway, Edward Ordway, Sarah Ordway, John Ordway, Isaac Ordway, Jane (Ordway) Richardson, Hananiah Ordway, Unnamed Ordway, Anne (Ordway) Buswell and Mary (Ordway) Goodridge

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Notes

James Ordway first appeared in over, NH about 1640, where he was granted land and paid taxes as late as 1649, although he had moved to Newbury, MA a year or two before.

In Newbury, his house was near the Merrimac River, at the foot of Ordway's Lane, now Market Street, Newburyport, on a small plot of land of five acres.

He appears to have owned a number of canoes and it was believed he was engaged in lighterage. In his diary, Judge Sewall, speaks of having been taken ashore by "the aged Ordway in his canoe."

He was admitted a freeman of the colony (e.g. had the right to vote for governor and representative) on April 19, 1668.

He took an active part in the controversy between the church and its pastor, siding with the church, for which offense he was fined.

He frequently served as juryman and also held minor town offices.

He married Ann Emory on November 25, 1648. They had eleven children.

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Ordway-78

Death

There, evidently, has not been found a firm date for the death of James, which probably occured in Newbury where he resided. After 1702 was listed by Rufus Emery[1] but gave no reason for this and unsourced dates "between Jan 1713 and Sep 1714", can be found. This sounds as though there is a will and probate records somewhere.

• James Ordway
• Birth: 1618
• Death: 1702 Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA
• Birth generally given Aug 5, 1621. This memorial headstone gives as 1618
• Family links:
• Spouses:
  • Ann Emery Ordway (1631 - 1687)*
  • Ann Emery Ordway (1631 - 1687)*
• Children:
  • John Ordway (1658 - 1718)*
• Inscription:
  • In Memory of/
  • James Ordway/
  • Born 1618/
  • And His Wife/
  • Ann Emery
• Note: wife Anne Emery
• Burial: First Burying Ground Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA
• From: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=6879076
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• ORDWAY, James
• b. 1620 Bengeworth, England
• d. JAN 1712/3 Newbury, Essex, Mass.
• Family:
• Marriage: 25 NOV 1648 Newbury, Essex, Mass.
• Spouse: EMERY, Ann
• b. 18 MAR 1631/2 Romsey, Hampshire, England
• d. 31 MAR 1684 Newbury, Essex, Mass.
• Parents:
• Father: EMERY, John
• Mother: Mary,
• Children:
  • ORDWAY, Ephraim b. 25 APR 1650 Newbury, Essex, Mass. d. 18 JUN 1650 Newbury, Essex, Mass.
  • ORDWAY, James
  • ORDWAY, Edward
  • ORDWAY, Sarah
  • ORDWAY, John
  • ORDWAY, Isaac b. 4 DEC 1660 Newbury, Essex, Mass. d. 1668
  • ORDWAY, Jane
  • ORDWAY, Hananiah
  • ORDWAY, Ann
  • ORDWAY, Mary
• Family:
• Marriage: 4 OCT 1687 Haverhill, Essex, Mass.
• Spouse:DAVIS, Joanna
• From: http://www.genealogyofnewengland.com/f_4.htm#158
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• James Ordway
• M, #67932, b. before 5 August 1621, d. circa 1714
• James Ordway was born before 5 August 1621 at Bengeworth, Worcestershire, England. He married Anne Emery, daughter of John Emery and Alice Grantham, on 25 November 1648 at Newbury, Essex Co., MA. James Ordway married Joanna Davis, daughter of Thomas Davis and Christian Bellsire, on 4 October 1687 at Newbury, Essex Co., MA. James Ordway died circa 1714 at Newbury, Essex Co., MA.
• From: http://www.newenglandballproject.com/g2/p2718.htm#i67932
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• James Ordway, born in 1618 and died after 1708. He was baptized St. Peter, Bengeworth, Worchestershire, England 5 August 1621, and arrived in Dover, Massachusetts in 1641 at about 12 years of age. He married first at Newbury, Massachusetts, November 25, 1648 to Ann Emery.
• From: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ky/caldwell/bios/o630-001.txt
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• Certain comeoverers (1912)
• https://archive.org/details/certaincomeovere01crap
• https://archive.org/stream/certaincomeovere01crap#page/501/mode/1up
• Pg.501
• James Ordway was of Welsh extraction. In what year he came over I have been unable to discover. He was born about 1620. He was in Newbury at an early date, having become well established there before November 23, 1648, when he married Ann Emery, a daughter of John Emery, the first. He took no part in civic affairs, and his name seldom appears in the town records save as attending town meeting occasionally. He was, perhaps, of a quiet peaceable disposition, disinclined for controversy of any kind. This is indicated by the fact that he was among the first to obey the royal mandate to take the oath of allegiance in 1668, which was so stubbornly con- tested by many of your Newbury ancestors, and then, again, to be doubly sure that he was in the royal grace he took the oath again in 1678, on which later occasion he gave his age as "about sixty." ..... etc.
• https://archive.org/stream/certaincomeovere01crap#page/504/mode/1up
• Pg.504
• James Ordway was still alive in 1704, an old man over eighty years old. His wife, Ann, had died in 1687. Their son, John Ordway, your ancestor, who was born in 1658, was just twenty when, under his father's advice, doubtless, he took the oath of allegiance. He did not, however, inherit the non-combative qualities of his father, and yet, save that he is sometimes designated as "Sergeant" Ordway, which indicates military service, the scope of his activities so far as the .... etc.

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Notes

Possible dates as per duplicate merged:

1628 - 1700

References

1. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Ordway-78
2. Smith, Dean Crawford. The Ancestry of Samuel Blanchard Ordway (1844-1916) (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, MA, 1990)
3. Emery, Rufus, Rev. Genealogical Records of Descendants of John & Anthony Emery, of Newbury, Mass. (Salem, Mass.: Emery Cleaves, 1890) Note: Accessible online in Google Books, and Archive.org
4. Stearns, Ezra S. Genealogical and Family History of the State of New Hampshire (Lewis Publishing Company, 1908) Vol. 2, Page 832
5. Torrey, Clarence Almon. Torrey’s New England Marriages Prior to 1700 (Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. Baltimore, 1985)
6. "The Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury, Massachusetts: with some related families of Newbury, Haverhill, Ipswich and Hampton," by David Webster Hoyt, publ, 1897, vol 2, p 583-4 https://archive.org/details/oldfamiliesofsal02hoyt
7. Ancestry of Charles Stinson Pillsbury and John Sargent Pillsbury- Mary Holman, The Rumford Press, Concord, 1938- Vol. II, pp. 731-3, 742
8. The Ancestry of Phoebe Tilton- Water Goodwin Davis- Anthoensen Press, Portland, 1947- p. 189
9. Life with Roots by Barbara Poole (blog) https://lifefromtheroots.blogspot.com/2013/08/first-settlers-of-new...
10. The Sons and Daughters of The First Settlers of Newbury Massachusetts (Website) List of First Settlers - https://www.sonsanddaughtersofnewbury.org/heads-of-families
11. http://www.rocksvillage.org/families/ordway-family/