WIFE

1st unknown

2. Mary Shatswell

CHILDREN with first wife

1. Eleanor Emery baptized 07 Nov 1624

2. Alice Emery

3. John Emery baptized 03 Feb 1628-29

4. Anne Emery baptized 18 Mar 1632-33

CHILDREN with Mary Shatswell

1. Ebenezer Emery b. 16 Sep 1648

2. Jonathan Emery b. 13 May 1652

Massachusetts and Maine Families by Walter Goodwin Davis
"John Emery was baptized at Romsey March 29, 1599.  He sailed from Southampton for New England on the ship 'James' on April 5, 1635, with his brother Anthony and their families, and landed at Boston on June 3.  He settled in New bury where he combined his trade as a carpenter with innkeeping.  He had an early town grant of half an acres for a house lot, added to it by his own initiative in 1637 (the addition was regularly granted to him in 1638), and was given twenty-two acres in the 'great field beyond the new town' as a 'divident' in 1644.
He was made a freeman June 2, 1641.  Thereafter, he served Newbury in numberous capacities, being one of a committee of three to value town lands in 1644 and serving on the county trial jury (1648, 1659, 1660, 1672, 1673, 1675, 1678), the grand jury (1651, 1662, 1667), as constable (1665) clerk of the market (1656), and selectman (1661).  He took the oath of allegiance in 1677.  In various depositions and records his age was set down as seventy in 1670, seventy-three in 1671, eighty-one in 1679 and eighty-two in 1681.  Too old for active service, he supplied a new saddle and bridle, a sword and belt, powder and bullets for use in King Philip's war, and in addition received 2s. 6d. for 'Cureing a soldier.'
Emery was a courageous man who did not hesitate to back his opinions with action.  When Lieut. Robert Pike was in difficulty with the colonial government in 1654, John Emery and his son John signed a petition in Pike's favor which so irritated the authorities that they appointed a commission to examine (and seemingly to intimidate) the signers.  'John Emery demanded (to see) their commission and a sight of the petition before he would answer.  he then said that the commissioners had no power to demand who brought the petition to him'  In 1657 he signed a certification of William Titcomb's good character.  he dissented from vote in favor of a school and schoolmaster in 1658, and also headed an agitation and petition about the local military company so vigorously that the court found that he and his sons John Emery and John Webster had been busy and forward to disturb the peace and place and had occasioned much trouble to the court, and therefore admonished them.
In 1663 he was in court for entertaining Quakers.  Evidence was given that two men and two women Quakers held a meeting in his house, after which the two men 'were entertained very kindly to bed and table & John Emmerie shook them by the hand and bid them welcome.'  Both he and his wife said that they would not put Quakers out of their house and used argument for the lawfulness of it.  For this offense he was fined 4 pounds, costs and fees, and although the selectmen and fifty of his fellow citizens joined in his petition to the General Court that the fine be remitted, it met with denial.  Also in 1663 he was fined for entertaining Dr. Henry Greenland at his house for four months.  Greenland seems to have been a travelling doctor with a keen eye for women.  In Newbury he became involved with Mary, wife of John Rolfe, and they were charged with adultery.  Elizabeth Webster, step-daughter of John emery, was living with Mary Rolfe during Rolfe's absence, and the Emery household contributed much testimony on both sides of the case.
In the Parker-Woodman church controversy at Newbury in 1671, Emery was an active partisan of Mr. Woodman, and was fined 13s. 4d.
the name of John Emery's first wife, married in England, is not known.  An interesting possibility is the marriage of John Emorye and Alice Grantam on June 26, 1620, at Whiteparish, Witlshire, about eight miles from Romsey.  In this connection it should be noted that one Andrew Grantham, servant of Francis Plummer, died in Newbury in 1668.  The Emery Genealogy supplies what appears to be a synthetic name, Mary, and a date for her death, April, 1649, which does not appear in the printed vital records of Newbury.  If we give him the benefit of the doubt, we may say that his first wife died before September, 1649, when he was fined for his attentions to Bridget, wife of Henry Travers, and bound not to frequent her company.  His second wife was widow Mary (Shatswell) Webster and the probably date of their marriage 1647, a year after her first husband's death and when his bond in the Travers case was discharged.  Anne Emery, the last of the children by his Romsey wife, was born in 1632, and there is no record or evidence of any kind that John Emery had later children until we come to the girl with the strange name of Ebenezer, born in Newbury in 1648, nearly sixteen years after the birth of Anne Emery.  We know that emery and the widow Webster were married before the birth of the last child, Jonathan, in 1652, and, if she was not also the mother of Ebenezer (and her will would seem to indicate that she was0, we must provide an intermediate and short-lived wife to be her mother.  It is my belief that the original Newbury record, which now read 'John Emery and Mary Webster, Oct.,' was legible when Henry Short made the 'town copy' in 1690, that he correctly copied the date Oct. 29, 1650, but, having in mind the bride's mother's wedding, mistakenly added "wid. John of Ipswich' to the record of the marriage of John Emery, jr., and his step-sister, Mary Webster, the names of the bridge and groom of the 1647(?) ceremony being identical with those of their children who were united in the 1650 ceremony
Emery was very active in caring for the property of John Webster, his last wife's first husband, and as guardian of the younger Webster children.  It seems probably, from his will, that he made provision for his children by his first marriage before or at the time of his marriage to the widow Webster.  In 1675 he deeded one-half of his Newbury house and land to his son Jonathan.  He died November 3, 1683..

The will of John Emery, sr., was made May 11, 1680, and proved November 27, 1683.  to his daughter Ebenezer Hoag he gave an acres and a half at the west end of his home-lot.  to his son Jonathan, all his land and housing in Newbury, on condition that he do certain work on the farm for the benefit of his father and mother during their lives and that, after their deaths, he pay to the estate 50 pounds in five annual installments.  From this 50 pounds, with his chattels and movables, his widow was to have 10 pounds to dispose of as she pleased at her death, 10 pounds was to go to 'my grandchild Mary Emerson,' and, after the payment of debts, the residue was to be divided between his six children and Mary Emerson.  Overseers: sons John Emery and Abram Merrill ( his wife's son-in-law), with Joseph Bailey )his grandson) as substitute in case of vacancy.  Witnesses: Joseph Pike James Ordway.  His son John was granted administration cum testamento annexo and filed an inventory of 263 pounds, included in which was a set of surgeon's tools, valued at 2 pounds: 10:0, possibly held in payment of the gallant Dr. Greenland's board-bill.  Among the debts listed was 6 pounds 10: 0 due to the widow as a remainder of what was promised her at marriage, further evidence of a pre-marital family settlement.   After his brother's death, Jonathan Emery was appointed administrator d.b.n.  June 8, 1696, but declined to serve and John Emery, a grandson, was named in his stead.
The will of widow Mary Emery, do died April 28, 1694, its preamble in an easily deciphered hand, was written in it more important parts by an inexperience penman who succeeded in making much of it illegible.  It was dated April 1, 1693, and proved November 1, 1696.  To her son Jonathan Emery she gave 10 pounds 'that my Husband gave me in his last will.' and forgave him 30s. which he had borrowed of her.  To daughter Ebenezer 'the rest of my wearinge cloths.'  Witnesses: James Gulmar, Elizabeth Bricket."