Anthony Emery

  Events

• He immigrated On "The James" in 1635. The James Of London, William Cooper, Master, Three Hundred Tons, Sailed From Southampton April 5 And Arrived June 3.
Anthony Emery Carpenter of Romsey

• He worked as a Carpenter in England

• First Residence: Newbury

• Removes: Dover 1640, Kittery 1649, Portsmouth, Rhode Island 1660

Innkeeper. On 7 March 1643/4, "Anthony Em[e]ry, of Dover, his petition is referred to the next court at Dover, & he is allowed liberty to draw out his wine in the meantime" [ MBCR 2:62]. 

On 26 August 1646, before Dover and Piscataqua Court, "Anthony Emry fined 10s. for selling beer at 3d. a quart being twice presented" [ NHPP 40:20, 21]. 

On 7 September 1647, "Anthoney Emerey is forbidden by the Court to keep a house of common entertainment or to use common selling of ale, beer or wine, and if it shall appear that he doth after the 15th day of the present month, he shall pay for every week which he selleth beer, ale or wine twenty shillings a week" [ NHPP 40:30]. 

On 15 October 1650, before York Court, "we present Anthony Emory for selling drink contrary to order in court" [ MPCR 1:146], and at the same court "[i]t is ordered that Anthony Emory is for to keep an ordinary or house of entertainment where he now dwelleth, and he is to keep a ferry there, and to have for one, in money 1d., in peage 3ob., in country pay 2d. and to keep meat, drink and lodging for strangers" [ MPCR 1:147]. Presented 18 March 1651[/2] for "being overgone with drink so that he could not speak a true word" [ MPCR 1:176].

Anthony married Frances.