John Ayers, of Newbury

Not the same as John Ayers, of Basking Ridge & not the son of Obadiah Ayers, Sr.

Family

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Brown-19962

Ruth Browne was born the daughter of Joshua Browne of Newbury, Essex Co., Massachusetts, on 29 Oct. 1678. [1] Ruth grew up in Newbury and married John Ayres there on 31 Oct 1698. [2] [3] [4] [5]

John Ayres, son of John Ayres and Abigail Hovey, was born 1674 in Ipswich, Massachusetts. John was employed as a weaver in Newbury. [8] He died in 1744, and was buried at Newbury, Massachusetts on 3 April 1744, aged 70.

Their children born at Newbury were: [3]

1. Edith [4] [5]
2. Sarah
3. Ruth [5]
4. John [5]
5. Elizabeth [5]
6. Hannah [1]
7. Mary [5] [1]

Ruth survived her husband by a little less than two years. She died and was buried in Newbury, Essex Co., Massachusetts on 27 Feb. 1746. [3] [6]

Research Notes

A child of John and Mary was born in Sept. 1677 in Ipswich, Essex Co., Massachusetts. The first name is uncertain since the page on which it was recorded was torn. [10] Some researchers identify that child as John, [11] [12] [7] but Graves [1] identifies the son, John, being born in 1674, and the child born in 1677 as Ann, who married John Lawson.

Sidney Perley, Ed., The Essex Antiquarian, Vol. 6 (1902), p. 92

John Ayers, a weaver, lived in Newbury, 1702-1744; wife Ruth; administration granted on his estate May 22, 1744. She survived him. Children, born in Newbury: Mary, married Samuel Jackman of Newbury, weaver, before 1743; Edith, born April 8, 1702, probably married Gideon Terrell of Abington (publised April 1, 1719); Ruth, born Sept. 3, 1705, unmarried, spinster, or Newbury, 1746; John, born Jan. 12, 1706; Elizabeth, born Sept 11, 1708, married Thomas Safford, jr., of Ipswich, cooper (published June 4, 1737); and was his wife in 1741. [1]

References

1. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Ayers-1530
2. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Ayers-1529
3. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Brown-19962
4. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Ayers-1120
5. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Brown-19962 Cites
   1. Massachusetts Vital Records to 1850 - Newbury, Essex Co., Massachusetts, Birth Records
   2. Massachusetts Vital Records to 1850 - Newbury, Massachusetts, Marriage Records
   3. Graves, John Kimball. Some Seventeenth-century New England Settlers: Ayer, Aires, etc. (Published by Author, 1963, 52 pages.)
   4. Hoyt, David W. The Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury Massachusetts (Providence, Rhode Island, 1897) - Person No. 99 on Page 41, 42, 155 and notes on page 43
   5. Perley, Sidney (editor), The Essex Antiquarian (Salem, Essex Co., Massachusetts, 1897-) ," Volume 6 (1902) - Volume 6, page 92
   6. Massachusetts Vital Records to 1850 - Newbury, Massachusetts, Death Records
6. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Ayers-1120 cites
   1. Graves, John Kimball. Some Seventeenth-century New England Settlers: Ayer, Aires, etc. (Published by Author, 1963, 52 pages.)
   2. Graves thinks that John's mother was Mary because he was unaware of his father's first wife, Abigail, who he married in 1672 and then died in 1677. His father married his second wife, Mary after that - too late to be this John's mother.
   3. Birth year is calculated from death record in Newbury that shows he was buried in April 1744 at age 70, making his birth year about 1674.
   4. Massachusetts Vital Records to 1850 - Newbury, Massachusetts, Death Records
   5. See biography on profile of father, John Ayres
   6. Massachusetts Vital Records to 1850 - Newbury, Massachusetts, Marriage Records
   7. Hoyt, David W. The Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury Massachusetts (Providence, Rhode Island, 1897) - Person No. 99 on Page 41, 42, 155
   8. 6 Perley, Sidney (editor), The Essex Antiquarian (Salem, Essex Co., Massachusetts, 1897-) ," Volume 6 (1902) - Volume 6, page 92
   9. Massachusetts Vital Records to 1850 - Newbury, Essex Co., Massachusetts, Birth Records
   10. Vital Records of Ipswich, Essex Co., Massachusetts
   11. Whitmore, William Henry. Descendants of John Ayres of Brookfield Mass (T. R. Marvin, Boston, Massachusetts, 1870) - Third Generation, pages 11, 16; Person No. 9
   12. Treman, Ebenezer Mack. The History of the Treman, Tremaine, Truman Family in America (Press of the Ithaca Democrat, 1901) Person No. 360021; Page 1233. Person No. 400021 Page 1368