William Kerley

The Confidence left Southampton April 11, 1638 or April 24, with Master John Gibson, and 84 passengers Other sources say the master was John Jobson, arriving in Boston from Southampton April 24, 1638.

Passengers included:

• Edmund Kerley, 22, of Ashmore, [Dorset], husbandman, Settled Sudbury
• Accompanied by:
• ? relationship: William Kerley, of Ashmore [Dorset], husbandman [probably younger brother]
• ? relationship: Edmund Morres, of Kington Magna, Dorset, carpenter

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A second William Kerley, Capt., b. 1621 according to "Ages from Court Records 1636 to 1700, Vol.I: Essex, Middlesex, and Suffolk Counties,Massachusetts"; Melinde Lutz Sanborn, Gen.Pub.Co., 2003 -William Kerly....age 45 in 1666....MCC folio 40 -William Kerly.....46 in 1667....MCC folio 44 is the William I believe to be the William who came to America aboard "The Confidence" in 1638 with whom is commonly believed to be his brother Edmond, b. 1616 according to the listing of passengers for that ship. He was most likely a nephew of the William, Sr, b. 1602. He (William) is thought to have gone directly to Sudbury....

We know this second William appears in Sudbury around 1645/6 as that is when he married Anna King, daughter of Thomas King, another of the first settlers of Sudbury. This William is noted in Marlborough in 1669 where he died in 1684, his widow Anna surviving him there, and I believe this couple to be the parents of Bartholomew, b. according to: "American Genealogical-Biographical Index (AGBI) about Bartholomew Carley Name: Bartholomew Carley Birth Date: 1650 Birthplace: Massachusetts Volume: 25 Page Number: 70 Reference: Gen. Column of the " Boston Transcript". 1906-1941.( The greatest single source of material for gen. Data for the N.E. area and for the period 1600-1800. Completely indexed in the Index.): 22 Mar 1933, 6185 " -- (This Bartholomew is commonly attributed to be a son of Capt. Henry Kerley and his first wife, Elizabeth White Kerley, who was killed during the Massacre at Lancaster in 1676, but there is no mention of any other survivors of the Kerley family, other than known children of that couple. [Henry married the following year, Elizabeth Ward Howe, daughter of William and Elizabeth Ward of Sudbury and Marlborough, widow of John Howe, Jr., and they had at least 4 children, two daughters named and noted in his Will and at least two sons, unnamed, but noted by one of Henry's biographer's, as being the Mariner, William Carley, who was married to Mary Bowden in Boston in 1703 by Cotton Mather, and whose son, William, Jr was the founder with wife Martha Patty Carter Kerly, of the Kearley family later of VA and NC.] Bartholomew appears to be the only child of William and Anna.)

The William referred to in the Marlborough web site is probably the William who came to America in 1638 along with an Edmond who subsequently disappears. This William is the man who married Anna (Hannah) King and who died in 1684 in Sudbury/Marlborough, but this is not the William, husband of Jane, who was in Sudbury, Lancaster, Marlborough and Lexington. The William who married Anna King is noted in court records - "Ages from Court Records 1636 to 1700, Vol.I: Essex, Middlesex, and Suffolk Counties,Massachusetts"; Melinde Lutz Sanborn, Gen.Pub.Co., 2003

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