The WOLFE Family of Beverly, Essex, MA | Send comments and corrections to anneb0704@yahoo.co.uk |
PETER WOLFE (d. bef. 1675)
in Beverly m. Martha Unknown
| |
|
PETER WOLFE (d. bef. 1675) of Beverly
Parents:
Peter Wolfe died before 6 Dec 1675 when inventory was taken on his estate in Beverly. [Ref] He married Martha Unknown; it is not known if she is the mother of his two daughters. [Ref]
He was a freeman on 14 May 1634. [Ref]
He was on the jury of the 25 (1) 1639 Court at Salem. [Ref]
Peter ... was retiring to the point of invisibility, and aside from collecting his land grants, his activities were carried out in obscurity. [Ref]
On 1 (5) 1657 Martha and Elizabeth Woodberry were presented to the court at
Salem for fighting with each other. [Ref]
In the testimony there is a reference to Goody Wolfe's husband and son. [Ref]
Children of Peter Wolfe:
FREEBORN WOLFE
Parents: Peter Wolfe
Freeborn Wolfe married first Robert Sallows. [Ref] She married second John Black on 29 July1664 in Beverly. [Ref]
References
Court Records
Dow, George Francis, Records and Files of the Quarterly Courts of Essex County, Essex Institute, 1911.
Encyclopedias
Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633, Vol. 1-3, Boston, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995, entry for Peter Wolfe.
Public Records
Paige, Lucius, R., "List of Freemen, " New England Historical and Genealogical Register 3, 1849, 89-96, 187-194, 239-246, 345-352.