JAMES SCALES

(ca. 1650 - 1686) - Rowley, Essex co., MA

(Third Generation - Scales Family)

FATHER
MOTHER
WILLIAM SCALES
ANN [SURNAME NOT KNOWN]


BIRTH & DEATH James was born circa 1650[3] and died in Boxford, Essex co., MA in winter of 1686; he was 36[3].
MARRIAGE On 7 November 1677 when James was 27, he married Sarah2 CURTIS, possible daughter of Richard CURTIS & Sara [surname not known], in Rowley, Essex co., MA[6,7,13,16,17] as "Scails, James (Scaels) and Sarah Curtieus".

This Sarah Curtis was born on 19d:1m:1654 in Salem, Essex co., MA as "Curtice, Sara"[18]. John Scales says she is the daughter of Zaccheus Curtis & Joanna, and was baptized on 15 February 1654. He also says that she died in the winter of 1690/1 and that on 23 April 1691, John Harris of Ipswich, Essex co., MA was appointed guardian of their children "there being no other relative living to begg ye same"[1]. Research confirmation proceeds apace.


CHILDREN 8. i. James SCALES [Twin] Please see his own page.
9. ii. Francis SCALES [Twin] Francis was born on 30 March 1679 in Rowley, Essex co., MA as "Scales (Scails, Scals), Francis"[21].
10. iii. Sarah SCALES Sarah was born on 18 January 1680 in Rowley, Essex co., MA as "Scales, Sarah (Scals)"[20]. On 27d:12m(February):1713 when Sarah was 33, she married George BURROUGHS, in Ipswich, Essex co., MA[23].
11. iv. William SCALES William was born on 1 March 1682 in Rowley, Essex co., MA as "Scales, William (Scails)" His birth date is given as March 6th on the Court Record[24]. Possibly, William was born on the 1st and either baptized or recorded on the 6th. William removed to Ipswich, Essex co., MA and married Susanna AYERS. Susanna died on 5 January 1745 in Ipswich, Essex co., MA as "Scales, __, 'Old Mrs.' "[19].

They had the following children:
20 i. Susanna - was born on 5d:6m:1708 in Ipswich, Essex co., MA[33].
21 ii. William - was born in 1711 in Ipswich, Essex co., MA and baptized in Ipswich, Essex co., MA on 13d:11m:1711[34].
22 iii. James - We know nothing more of James.
12. v. Mathew SCALES Mathew was born in 1685 in Rowley, Essex co., MA and baptized in Rowley, Essex co., MA on 29 March 1685[25]. On 31 October 1707 when Mathew was 22, he married Elizabeth JEWET, in Rowley, Essex co., MA as "Scails, Matthew (Scaels), and Elizabeth Jewet"[16].





GENERATION Great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great (G8) Grandfather
FAMILY NUMBER 2040
SOURCES 1. Scales, John, Colonial Era History of Dover, NH, [ScalesDover], 468

2. Ibid. 466-7.

3. Ibid. 470.

4. Rowley, Essex co., MA Vital Records, [RowleyVR], I:517 [CT.R.].

5. [ScalesDover], 469

6. Torrey, Charles, New England Marriages Prior to 1700., (Boston: New England Historic and Genealogical Society). [Torrey].

7. Blodgette, George Brainard, Early Settlers of Rowley, Massachusetts, (Rowley, Mass., 1933), [RowleyMAFam], 327.

8. Perley, Sidney, The History of Boxford, Essex County, Mass., from the Earliest Settlement known to the Present Time: a Period of about Two Hundred and Thirty Years, (Boxford, Mass.: privately printed, 1880), [BoxfordHist], 36.

9. Davis, Walter Goodwin, The Ancestry of Lieut. Amos Towne, 1737-1793, of Arundel (Kennebunkport), Maine, (Portland, Me.: The Southworth Press, 1927), [TowneAnc], 55.

10. New England Historic and Genealogical Register. Vols. 1+, (Boston: New England Historic and Genealogical Register, 1845+), [NEHGR], 66:42-3.

11. [RowleyMAFam], 329.

12. Holman, Mary Lovering, The Scott Genealogy, (Boston, MA: 1919), [Scott (1919)], 326.

13. [NEHGR], 66:43.

14. Ibid. 44:355.

15. The Probate Records of Essex County, [EssexProb or EPR], II:150.

16. [RowleyVR], I:392.

17. Perley, Sidney, The History of Salem, Massachusetts, 3 vols., (Salem: Sidney Perley, 1924), [Salem], 2:146.

18. Salem, Essex co., MA Vital Records. [SalemVR], I:223 [Ct. R.].

19. Ipswich, Essex co., MA Vital Records. [IpswichVR], II:671.

20. [RowleyVR], I:189.

21. Boxford, Essex co., MA Vital Records, [BoxfordVR], 129 and 197.

22. [RowleyVR], I:189 [CT.R.].

23. [IpswichVR], II:385.

24. [RowleyVR], I:190 [CT.R.].

25. Ibid. I:189 [C.R.1].

26. Boxford, Essex co., MA Vital Records, [BoxfordVR], 84.

27. Ibid. 84.

28. Topsfield, Essex co., MA Vital Records, [TopsfieldVR], 185.

29. Andover, Essex co., MA Vital Records, [AndoverVR], II:296.

30. Ibid. I:61.

31. Boxford, Essex co., MA Vital Records, [BoxfordVR], 262.

32. [AndoverVR], I:327 [C.R. 2].

33. [IpswichVR], I:329.

34. Ibid. II:329.

35. [AndoverVR], I:328 [C.R.2].

36. Ibid. I:328.

37. Newburyport, Essex co., MA Vital Records, [NewburyportVR], II:522; II:425 [C.R. 1].

38. Newbury, Essex co., MA Vital Records. [NewburyVR], I:554.

39. [NewburyportVR], II:838.

40. [AndoverVR], II:296 [C.R. 2].

41. Ibid. I:327 [C.R.2].

42. Bradford, Essex co., MA Vital Records, [BradfordVR], 270.

43. Schultz, Eric B. & Michael J. Tougias, King Philip's War: The History and Legacy of America's Forgotten Conflict. (Woodstock, VT: The Countryman Press, 1999), [Schultz], 161-163.


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