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Ancestors of John Burton Kaherl

1986.William Brown, born 1615 in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England; died August 24, 1706 in Salisbury, Massachusetts.He was the son of 3972. George Brown and 3973. Christian Hibbert.He married 1987. Elizabeth Murford June 25, 1645 in Salisbury, Massachusetts.
1987.Elizabeth Murford, born ca. 1624 in England?; died Aft. 1692 in Salisbury, Massachusetts.
Notes for William Brown:
FTM CD194, Mass. & Maine Genealogies, Mass. & Maine Families Vol. I, Brown (George) of Salisbury, Ancestry of Lydia Harman of Standish, Maine by Walter Goodwin Davis, 1924, pg 218:
William Brown was baptized at St. Edmund's, Salisbury, November 23, 1615. He came to New England with his mother and brothers and settled in Salisbury, where he received land in 1642. He married Elisabeth Murford on June 25, 1645. That he did not share the place held by his two brothers in public life may perhaps be attributed to the sad fact of the insanity of his wife, who lost her reason about the year 1660. The story can best be told in the words of William Brown himself, in his deposition against Susanna Martin used in 1692 at the trial of that strong and spirited woman, to whose witchcraft his demented wife laid her affliction: (See notes under his wife Elizabeth)
William Brown was constable of Salisbury in 1675. He died August 24, 1706.
Early Settlers of Salisbury, Mass., 1853, NEHGR Vol 7, pg 313:
BROWN
William m. Elizabeth Murford (25 June 165)?[No date given, but the marriage recorded next to his brother's, and the only one without date, so that it is probable they were m. at the same time.]William d. 24 Aug. 1706, w. d. bef. 1671.Ch., Mary b. 14 June 1647; William b. 24 Feb. 1648-9, d. 11 Nov. 1669; Ephraim 24 June 1650; Martha 5 July 1654; Elizabeth 6 Aug 1656, m. Samuel Clough 3 Aug 1679; Sarah b. 12 April 1658, m ____ 1679 [perhaps at the same time with Elizabeth] Benjamin, son of John Brown of Hampton, d. ab. 1730.
FTM CD113, Savage's Geneal.Dict. of Early Settlers of New England, pg 757:
William, Salisbury 1641, brother of George of Haverhill m. 1645 or 6 Elizabeth Mumford, had Mary, b. 14 June 1647; William b.24 Feb. 1649, d. young; Ephraim, 24 June 1650; Martha, 5 July 1654; Elizabeth 6 Aug. 1656, who m. 3 Aug. 1679, Samuel Clough; and Sarah, 12 Apr. 1658, who m. Benjamin Brown of Hampton; and he d. 24 Aug 1706.
Family Tree Maker Online: GenealogyLibrary.com, Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury Mass. Vol 1, by David W. Hoyt, Call Number: R929.1H868v1, Snow & Farnham, Providence, 1897:
Page 75
WILLIAM1 BROWN [or BROWNE], of Salisbury, "planter," bro. of (2) HENRY1 and (58) GEORGE,1 b. ab. 1622; m. June 25, 1645,(+) Elizabeth Murford.?? He was an inhabitant of S. as early as 1642; taxed 1652; dism. from training April, 1666; member S. chh. 1677 and 1687; d. Aug. 24, 1706[S]. Children:
I MARY,2 b. June 17, 1647[S]; m. ab. 1667, THOMAS2 HOYT (John1)
II WILLIAM,2 b. Feb. 24, 1648-9[S]; d. Nov. 11, 1669. [A Sm.]
III EPHRAIM,2 b. June 24, 1650[S]; m. Sarah (???).
IV MARTHA,2 b. July 5, 1654[S].
V ELIZABETH,2 b. Aug. 6, 1656[S]; m. Aug. 3, 1679[S], SAMUEL2 CLOUGH
(John1)
VI SARAH,2 b. April 12, 1658[S]; m. 1679, Benjamin Brown [son of John
Brown of Hm.] She d. ab. 1730. [See D Hm.]
(*) G. R., 1853, p. 314, from which some records of the Brown family have been taken.
(+) Without date on the S. Nk. rec. at Salem, but next after the mar. of his bro. Geo., of that date, and just before one of Aug., 1646.
?? "Wm. Brown's wife" is canceled on the church list of 1687. She was insane for more than 30 years. According to the testimony of Wm. Brown at the witchcraft trial in 1692, Susanna Martin was, ab. 1660, accused of bewitching Brown's wife. "The church appointed a day of humiliation, to seek God in her behalf; and thereupon her trouble ceased . . . for which the church, instead of the day of humiliation, gave thanks for her deliverance. She came to meeting and went about her business as before." In April, ab. 1661, she and "goodwife Osgood" were summoned "to give their evidences concerning the said Martin . . . before the grand jury."
More About William Brown:
Bp/Chr: November 23, 1615, St. Edmund's, Salisbury, Wilts, England
Emigration: 1638, from Salisbury, England to Salisbury, MA
Issue: 6 children
Occupation: Planter
Source 1: FTM CD194, MA&ME Fam., V1, pg 218-219
Source 2: Old Fam of Salis.Amsbury, by Hoyt, 1897, pg 75
Source 3: Clough Geneal., FTM CD113,1952, pg 49
Source 4: FTM CD113, Savage, pg 278
Source 5: 1853, Early Setlrs,Salisbury,NEHGR 7:313

Notes for Elizabeth Murford:
FTM CD194, Mass. & Maine Genealogies, Mass. & Maine Families Vol. I, Brown (George) of Salisbury, Ancestry of Lydia Harman of Standish, Maine by Walter Goodwin Davis, 1924, pg 219 in a court deposition about his wife's affliction:
"The deposition of William Brown of Salisbury, aged seventy years, who testifying, saith: That about one or two and thirty years ago Elizabeth, his wife, being a very rational woman and sober, and one that feared God, as was well known to all that knew her, and as prudently careful in her family, which woman going upon time from her own house towards the mill in Salisbury, did there meet with Susanna Martin, the then wife of George Martin, of Amesbury. Just as they came together the said Susanna Martin vanished away out of her sight, which put the said Elizabeth into a great fright; after which time the said Martin did many times appear to her at her house, and did much trouble her in many of her occasions; and this continued until about February following, and then, when she did come, it was as birds pecking her legs or prickling her with the motion of their wings; and then it would rise up into her stomach, with pricking pain, as nails and pins; of which she did bitterly complain and cry out like a woman in travail; and after that it would rise up to her throat in a bunch like a pullet's egg, and then she would turn back her head and say "Witch, ye sha'n't choke me." In the times of this extremity the church appointed a day of humiliation, to seek God on her behalf, and thereupon her trouble ceased, and she saw goodwife Martin no more for a considerable time, for which the church, instead of a day of humiliation, gave thanks for her deliverance. She came to meeting and went about her business as before. This continued till April following, at which time the summonses were sent to the said Elizabeth Brown and goodwife Osgood by the court, to give evidences concerning said Martin*; and they did, before the grand jury, give full account. After which time the said Elizabeth told this deponent that, as she was milking her cow, the said Susanna Martin came behind her and told her that she would make her the miserablest creature for defaming her name at the court, and wept grievously as she told it to this deponent. About two months after this deponent came home from Hampton, and his said wife would not own him, but said they were divorced, and asked him whether he did not meet with one Mrs. Bent of Albury, in England, by whom he was divorced. And from that time to this very day she has been under a strange kind of distemper and frenzy, incapable of any rational action, though strong and healthy of body. He further testifyeth that when she came into that condition this deponent (got) Doctors Fuller and Crosby to come to her for her release, but they did both say that her distemper was supernatural, no sickness of body, but that some evil person had bewitched her.
Sworn the 11th of May, Anno Domini 1692, before me,
Robert Pike, Assistant
16:3:1692
Concerning the truth of what is sworn by William Brown concerning his wife, with respect to her being a rational woman before she was so handled, and of her now present condition, and her so long continuance, all that then knew her and now know her can testify to the truth of it, for she yet remains a miserable creature, of which myself is a witness.
Robert Pike."
*Susanna Martin was accused of bewitching her. Susanna was tried, convicted, and executed for witchcraft. Finally her physical and mental troubles ceased and she resumed her duties in her home and church.

More About Elizabeth Murford:
Medical Information: abt 1660, she "lost her reason" and her insanity was attributed to witchcraft of one Susanna Martin in a deposition to court in 1692.
Source 1: Old Fam of Salis.Amsbury, by Hoyt, 1897
Source 2: FTM CD194, MA&ME Fam., V1, pg 219
Source 3: Clough Geneal., FTM CD113,1952, pg 49
Source 4: 1853, Early Setlrs,Salisbury,NEHGR 7:313

Child of William Brown and Elizabeth Murford is:

993

Elizabeth Brown, born August 6, 1656 in Salisbury, Massachusetts; died Aft. 1709 in prob. Amesbury, Massachusetts; married Samuel Clough August 3, 1679 in Salisbury, Massachusetts.

     1988.Henry Blaisdell, born 1633 in England; died Bet. 1703 - 1705 in prob Amesbury, Massachusetts.He was the son of 3976. Ralph Blaisdell and 3977. Elizabeth.He married 1989. Mary Haddon ca. 1657.
     1989.Mary Haddon, born ca. 1634; died December 12, 1691 in Amesbury, Massachusetts.She was the daughter of 3978. Jarrett Haddon and 3979. Margaret.
Notes for Henry Blaisdell:
FTM CD194, Massachusetts & Maine Fam. Vol 1, Blaisdell, by Walter Goodwin Davis, pg 183-184:
Henry Blaisdell was about sixty years of age in 1692/3 and was therefore born about 1632 in England before the family's migration to New England. We have a snap-shot of him as a little boy in York, in his own words: "I Henry Blasdell many years agoe liveing at Agumenticus Now Called york at which time Mr. Wm. Hook lived at ye same place and Mr. Hook hired me to keep goats for him upon his Land Called Cape nedock Neck." He recorded this memory of his childhood---he was only eight when he was taken to Salisbury--on October 18, 1700, before Robert Pike, J.P. (York Deeds, VIII:262).
Henry Blaisdell married about the year 1656 Mary Hadden, daughter of Gerard Hadden of Salisbury, who died December 12, 1691. The surname of his second wife, Elizabeth, is not known. He was living in April, 1703, but apparently was dead in 1705.
Like his father, Blaisdell was a tailor by trade. He was an early settler in that part of Salisbury which was called Salisbury Newton and which became the town of Amesbury, of which he was an original proprietor, living on the twenty acres which his father bought of Thomas Bradbury in 1643. His house was a garrison, Amesbury being a frontier community. He had a grant of thirty acres in Salisbury Newtown in 1658, selling it to Isaac Colby on April 17, 1663 (Norfolk Deeds, I:164).
Henry Blaisdell was taxed for the Salisbury minister's rate in 1653, which is another bit of evidence that he was born at least as early as 1632. He served on two trial juries in 1664. He took the Oath of Allegiance and Fidelity on December 20, 1677. He and his sons Ebenezer and Henry signed a petition to the General Court, dated December 3, 1680, asking for a military officer to instruct the men of Amesbury, and he became cornet of this local train-band. He took the Freeman's Oath on December 24, 1690 as Henry Blazdell senr. The last record of Henry Blaisdell is a deed by which he conveyed one-half of his homestead to his son Jonathan, in April, 1703.
Family Tree Maker Online: GenealogyLibrary.com, Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury, MA,
Vol 1 by David W. Hoyt, Call Number: R929.H868v.1, Snow & Farnham, Providence, 1897, pg 63:
Henry Blaisdell, one of the first settlers of Amesbury, where he recd. various grants of land; "tailor"; b. ab. 1632, oath of al. and fid. in A. Dec., 1677; freeman, 1690; m. 1st, abt 1656, Mary Haddon (Jarrett 1); 2d, Elizabeth ???. Wife Mary d. Dec. 12, 1691 (A.) He was liv. in 1702, but dead in 1707. Adm est. March 11, 1708.
More About Henry Blaisdell:
Emigration: 1635, on the Angel Gabriel with his parents
Issue: 9 children
Military service: Cornet to a Military Train-Band
Misc: m. (2) Elizabeth ???
Occupation: tailor
Source 1: FTM CD194, MA&ME, V1,Blaisdell, pg 183-184
Source 2: Old Fam of Salis.Amsbury, by Hoyt, 1897, pg63
Source 3: 1943, Memoirs, J.W.Blaisdell, NEHGR 97:85
Source 4: Grt.Mig. (GarrettHaddon), NEHGS Vol I-III
Source 5: 1853, Early Stlrs,Salis.,MA,NEHGR 7:312
More About Mary Haddon:
Source 1: Old Fam of Salis.Amsbury, by Hoyt, 1897 pg 63
Source 2: FTM CD194, MA&ME, V1,Blaisdell, pg 184
Source 3: 1943, Memoirs, J.W.Blaisdell, NEHGR 97:85
Source 4: Grt.Mig. (GarrettHaddon), NEHGS Vol I-III

Children of Henry Blaisdell and Mary Haddon are:

Ebenezer Blaisdell, born October 17, 1657 in Salisbury, Massachusetts; died August 10, 1701; married Sarah Colby ca. 1681; born ca. 1659; died Unknown.

More About Ebenezer Blaisdell:
Occupation: cooper
Source 1: 1943, Memoirs, NEHGR 97:85
Source 2: FTM CD194,MA&ME Families, pg 184

More About Sarah Colby:
Source 1: 1943, Memoirs, NEHGR 97:85
Source 2: FTM CD194,MA&ME Families, pg 184

994

ii.

Henry Blaisdell, born May 28, 1663; died Bef. March 11, 1707/08 in Amesbury, Massachusetts; married Mary ca. 1685.

1992.Enoch Hutchins, born ca. 1645 in of Cocheco (Dover), New Hampshire; died May 9, 1698 in Oyster River Plantation (Kittery, Maine).He married 1993. Mary Stevenson April 5, 1667 in Dover or Durham, New Hampshire.