The DRESSER Family of Rowley, Essex, MA

 

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JOHN DRESSER (about 1607 - 1672) of Rowley m. Mary Unknown
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LIEUT. JOHN DRESSER (abt 1639 - 1724) of Rowley m. Martha Thorley
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MARY DRESSER (1667 - 1735) m. Daniel Thurston


JOHN DRESSER (abt 1607 - 1672) of Rowley

Parents: Unknown

John Dresser was born about 1607. [Ref] He was buried on 29 Apr 1672 in Rowley. [Ref] He married Mary Unknown. [Ref]

John was a shoemaker. [Ref] He had an acre and a half house lot in Rowley in 1643. [Ref] He is on a 1660/4 tax list in Rowley. [Ref]

John's will is dated 5 Mar 1671/2. He names his eldest son John, his son Samuel, his daughter Elizabeth, his son John's eldest son John and his daughters Mary and Martha. [Ref]

Children of John Dresser and Mary Unknown:

  1. Lieut. John Dresser was born about 1639. He died on 14 Mar 1724. He married first Martha Thorley. He married second the widow Rebecca Dickenson.
  2. Mary Dresser was born on 23 Apr 1642 in Rowley. [Ref][Ref] She was buried on 27 Nov 1659 in Rowley. [Ref]
  3. Samuel Dresser was born on 10 Feb 1643 in Rowley. [Ref][Ref] He died on 28 Dec 1704 in Rowley. [Ref] He married Mary Leaver on 9 Dec 1668 [Ref] in Rowley. [Ref] Mary, the daughter of Thomas [Ref] and Mary (Bradley) Leaver, was born on 5 Sep 1649 in Rowley and died on 21 Aug 1714 in Rowley. [Ref]
    some descendants of Samuel Dresser
  4. Jonathan Dresser was born on 8 Jan 1646 in Rowley. [Ref][Ref] He was buried on 10 Dec 1659 [Ref] in Rowley. [Ref]
  5. Elizabeth Dresser was born on 10 Mar 1649/50 in Rowley. [Ref][Ref] She married Jonathan Hopkinson, on 10 Jun 1680 [Ref] in Rowley. [Ref] Jonathan, the son of Michael and Ann Hopkinson, was born on 9 Apr 1643 in Rowley and died on 11 Feb 1718/9 in Rowley. [Ref]

Generation 2

LIEUT. JOHN DRESSER (abt 1639 - 1724) of Rowley

Parents: John Dresser and Mary Unknown

Lieut. John Dresser was born about 1639. He died on 14 Mar 1724. [Ref] His grandson Richard Thurston wrote, "March 14, 1724, my venerable grandfather Dresser d. in his 85th year." [Ref] John married first Martha Thorley on 27 Nov 1662 in Rowley. [Ref][Ref] She died on 29 Jun 1700 in Rowley. [Ref] John married second Rebecca, the widow of James Dickenson, on 7 Jan 1701/2. [Ref] She died on 2 Apr 1718 in Rowley. [Ref]

John Dresser of Rowley was a freeman on 7 May 1684. [Ref] John was Representative to the General Court in 1691, 1692, 1700, 1704 and 1706. [Ref]

Children of John Dresser and Martha Thorley:

  1. John Dresser was born on 4 Dec 1663 in Rowley. [Ref][Ref] He died on 17 Nov 1736 in Rowley. [Ref] He married Mercy, the daughter of James and Rebecca Dickenson, on 7 Jun 1688. [Ref] She died on 12 Apr 1751, age 82, in Rowley. [Ref]
  2. Mary Dresser was born on 24 Dec 1667 in Rowley. She married Daniel Thurston.
  3. Martha Dresser was born on 1 Aug 1671 in Rowley. [Ref] She died on 5 Sep 1728 in Rowley. [Ref] She married Anthony Potter of Ipswich. [Ref]
  4. Jonathan Dresser was born on 27 Jun 1674 in Rowley. [Ref][Ref] He married Sarah Leaver on 31 Oct 1699 in Rowley. [Ref][Ref] Sarah was the daughter of Thomas Leaver, Jr. [Ref] They lived for some time in Rowley. [Ref] They moved to Pomfret. [Ref]
  5. Jane Dresser was baptised on 4 Jun 1676 in Rowley. [Ref][Ref] She married John Perley on 13 Jul 1698 [Ref] in Rowley. [Ref]
  6. Sarah Dresser was born on 4 Apr 1678 in Rowley. [Ref 4 or 7 Apr][Ref] She married Richard Boynton. [Ref]
  7. Richard Dresser was born on 24 Jun 1679 in Rowley. [Ref][Ref] He married Mercy Peabody on 29 Jun 1708 in Topsfield. [Ref] They lived in Woodstock and Killingly, CT. [Ref]
  8. Nathaniel Dresser was born on 24 Jun 1681 in Rowley. [Ref] He died in 1748 in Portsmouth, NH. [Ref] He married Elizabeth, the daughter of Sylvanus Wentworth, on 13 Nov 1707. [Ref] She died in 1772. [Ref]
  9. Lydia Dresser was born on 14 Jul 1684 in Rowley. [Ref][Ref] She died in 1689 [Ref] in Rowley. [Ref]
  10. Elizabeth Dresser was born on 16 Feb 1685/6 in Rowley. [Ref][Ref] She married Robert Day on 4 Apr 1706. [Ref] They lived in Killingly. [Ref]

Generation 3

MARY DRESSER (1667 - 1735)

Parents: Lieut. John Dresser and Martha Thorley [Ref, p. 122]

Mary Dresser was born on 14 Jul 1667 in Rowley. [Ref][Ref, p. 122, says 24 Dec] She died on 7 Dec 1735 in Newbury. [Ref, p. 122] She married Daniel Thurston. [Ref, p. 122]

Mary's son Richard wrote, "Dec. 7, 1735, my honored mother Thurston d. in her 70th year. My mother's death was very sudden, for, standing up, she dropped down and was not perceived to breath after." [Ref]

Mary's grandfather John Dresser left her a calf in his will. [Ref]

References

Editors, "Richard Thurston's Memorandum, Kept at Rowley of the Deaths of his Near Relations," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 16, 1862, 170.

Paige, Lucius, R., "List of Freemen, " New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 3, 1849, 89-96, 187-194, 239-246, 345-352.

Snow, Nora Emma, The Snow-Estes Ancestry, Hillburn, NY, Snow, 1939.

Stickney, Matthew A., "Ancient Tax List of the Town of Rowley," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 15, 1861, 253.