Person:Anne Emery (1)

Anne Emery
chr.18 Mar 1631/32 Romsey, Hampshire, England
m. 26 Jun 1620
  1. Alice EmeryAbt 1622 -
  2. Eleanor Emery1624 - 1700
  3. John Emery1628/29 - 1693
  4. Anne Emery1631/32 - 1687
  • HJames OrdwayAbt 1616 - 1708
  • WAnne Emery1631/32 - 1687
m. 25 Nov 1648
  1. Ephraim Ordway1650 - 1650
  2. James Ordway1651 - Bef 1722
  3. Edward Ordway1653 - 1714
  4. Sarah Ordway1655/56 - 1715
  5. John Ordway1658 - 1717/18
  6. Isaac Ordway1660 - 1668/69
  7. Jane Ordway1663 - 1705
  8. Hananiah Ordway1665 -
  9. Boy Ordway1668 - 1668
  10. Anna Ordway1669/70 - 1742
  11. Mary Ordway1673 - 1754
Facts and Events
Name[1][2] Anne Emery
Gender Female
Christening[1] 18 Mar 1631/32 Romsey, Hampshire, England
Marriage 25 Nov 1648 Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts, United Statesto James Ordway
Death[2][4] 31 Mar 1687 Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts, United States
Burial[2][4][5] First Parish Burying Ground, Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts, United States

Anne (Emery) Ordway and the Witch Trials

"Very little is seen of Ann (Emery) Ordway, but she does make one memorable appearance. During the witch-trial of poor Elizabeth Morse, Ann came forward to testify against her neighbor.

Ann Ordway Aged about 50
This Deponent saith, I had a childe aged about 7 or 8 years taken suddenly sick: So continued about three weeks and then I perceiving amendment in ye child because hee could turn himself in ye bedd after this time, goody Morss came to visit him. She stroak't upp his head, presently after I did apprehend ye Childe grew worse and could not turn him in ye Bedd and in a Sore and solemn condition continued untill he dyed and this this thing have laid heavy upon mee ever sinse
Taken on oath Jan. 7th 1679
(Suffolk Files #1870)

Elizabeth Morse was reprieved by the governor, but again brought before the general court two years later. William Morse, her husband, petitioned the court, answering all the sundry charges against his wife and responding to Ann Ordway thus:

… To goodwife Ordway. Hir child being long ill, my wife coming in and looking on it, pitting of it, did feare it would dy, and when it dyed Israell Webster our next neighbour heard not a word of it, nor spoken of by others, nor any of ye family, but hir conceite, and now brought in … (dated 14 May 1681, History of Newbury, p. 128)

Coffin comments that, 'It was owing, we believe, to the firmness of governor Bradstreet that the life of Elizabeth Morse was saved, and the town of Newbury thus prevented from offering the first victim, in Essex county, to that lamentable spirit of delusion, which twelve years after left so dark a stain on its annals' 9ibid. pp. 133-4)."[3]

References
  1. 1.0 1.1 John Emery, in Anderson, Robert Charles; George F. Sanborn; and Melinde Lutz Sanborn. The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635. (Boston, Massachusetts: NEHGS, 1999-2011)
    2:449.

    "Children … iv ANNE, bp. Romsey 18 March 1632/3 [NEHGR 89:376]; m. Newbury 25 November 1648 James Ordway."

  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 James1 Ordway, in Smith, Dean Crawford; Melinde Lutz Sanborn; and Massachusetts) New England Historic Genealogical Society (Boston. The ancestry of Samuel Blanchard Ordway, 1844-1916: with lines from: Annis, Chase & Ordway of Newbury, MA; Bennett & Crowell of Manchester, MA; Challis of Salisbury, MA; Corlis, George & Heath of Haverhill, MA; Cross of Ipswich, MA; Forrest of Canterbury, NH; Hardy of Bradford, MA; Hill of Beverly, MA; Holmes of Marshfield ... (Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society, c1990)
    77.

    "… Ann2 Emery, baptized 18 March 1632/3 at Romsey, Hampshire, England (The Ancestry of Phoebe Tilton, p. 189), died at Newbury 31 March 1686/7 [sic] (Newbury VRs 1:51), daughter of John and (possibly) Alice (Grantham) Emery of Newbury.

  3. James1 Ordway, in Smith, Dean Crawford; Melinde Lutz Sanborn; and Massachusetts) New England Historic Genealogical Society (Boston. The ancestry of Samuel Blanchard Ordway, 1844-1916: with lines from: Annis, Chase & Ordway of Newbury, MA; Bennett & Crowell of Manchester, MA; Challis of Salisbury, MA; Corlis, George & Heath of Haverhill, MA; Cross of Ipswich, MA; Forrest of Canterbury, NH; Hardy of Bradford, MA; Hill of Beverly, MA; Holmes of Marshfield ... (Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society, c1990)
    85.
  4. 4.0 4.1 Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts, United States. Vital Records of Newbury, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849. (Salem, Mass.: The Essex Institute, 1911)
    2:680.

    "Ordway, Ann, w. James, [died] Mar. 31, 1687. [a. 56 y. (gravestone record, Oldtown Cemetery.)]"

  5. Ann Emery Ordway, in Find A Grave.