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JOHN POORE (1613/6–1684)
SARAH UNKNOWN (d. 1702)
John Poore was born about 1613/6. He died on 23 November 1684 in Newbury. [1]
Sarah, the widow of John Poore, died on 3 December 1702 in Newbury. [1]
It is not clear how John was related to the contemporaneous Samuel Poore of Newbury.
John emigrated in 1635 and settled in the part of Newbury called The Neck, on the street leading from Newbury to Rowley. Nine generations of his family lived in a house partially built by him. [2]
John deposed that he was about 46 in March 1663. [3, 3: 21]
Many of the Newbury town records from 1649 to 1663 are lost. John was a selectman there on 5 March 1665/6 and 1 March 1669/70. He was a surveyor of the highways 5 March 1676/7. [4]
John Poore of Newbury was made a freeman at the March 1648 quarterly court at Ipswich. [3, 1: 139] He was on the trial jury at the March 1654, September 1658, March 1661, September 1664, September 1670, March 1674, and March 1678 quarterly courts at Ipswich. [3, 1: 328; 2: 111, 266, 182; 3: 182; 4: 278; 5: 269; 6: 403] He was on the grand jury at the September 1665 quarterly court in Ipswich. [3, 3: 270]
John Poore, Sr., age 63, took the oath of allegiance in 1678 in Newbury. [3, 7: 156][4]
The enquest into the death of John Poore, Sr. of Newbury reported: [3, 9: 420]
we judge that being in the woods & follwing his game, he was bewildered & lost himselfe, & in his pursuit plucked off his cloathes & scattered them some good distance one part from another, till he had nothing on save his wastcoat & drawers, & breeches & hose & shoes & finding no wound or any thing of the like nature that might be the cause of his death, we judge that hee being overcome with hunger & cold, & his strength failing he layd downe to sleep, or some such occasion that his eyes were closed, & we suppose that he was rationall neere before his death, having his pipe filled by him, this is the best returne that upon informations & signt we can make, severall of the the Jury having tracked himin his walke & informing us of what is mencioned of his wandring & scattering his cloathes.
Administration of the estate of John Poore was granted to widow Sarah Poore of Newbury and his son John Poore at the March 1685 quarterly court in Ipswich. [3, 9: 451] The agreed division was allowed on 26 November 1697. The heirs were the widow Sarah, the eldest son John, sons Henry and Joseph, and daughters Hannah Ilsley, Sarah, Mary Clark, Lydia Titcomb [?], and Abigail Ilsley. [5]
Children of John and Sarah Poore:
i. John Poore was born on 21 June 1642 in Newbury. [1] He died there on 15 February 1700/1. [1] He married Mary Titcomb on 27 February 1665 in Newbury. [1][3, 3: 293]
John Poore, Jr., age 36, took the oath of allegiance in 1678 in Newbury. [4]
ii. Hannah Poore was born on 14 October 1645 in Newbury. [1] She apparently died young.
iii. Elizabeth Poore was born on 8 November 1647 in Newbury. [1] She died by April 1675. She married John Jackson on 27: 2m: 1669 in Rowley. [6] William, the son of William and Joanna (Collins) Jackson, was born in New England. [8]
The April 1675 court at Ipswich heard that Elizabeth Jackson was lost on a cold and stormy day. Mary Clark deposed that John Jackson came to her house to look for her sister, his wife Elizabeth. John said Elizabeth talked about going to the Neck [where their father lived]. Mary told him he must go look for her, but suspecting he would not, she told her husband when he came home two hours later. He left immediately.
John Clark, age about 24, deposed that his wife told him that Elizabeth had gone to her father's house at Newbury Neck. John Clark, worried about the extreme weather, went to find John Jackson who said that he had other things to do beside look after his wife. He said he didn't care what anyone thought and he "intended to go out to service." John Clark asked who would maintain his wife and child; John Jackson said to be gone. John Clark left and went to look for Elizabeth, stopping at her brother John Poore's house and her father's house. Not finding her, he and her brothers John and Henry Poore and their neighbors went with him and they found her in the Rowley marsh, fallen on her back with her arms spread out, frozen stiff. They realized she was dead and carried her back to her father's house. [3, 6: 28–29]
John's father William deposed that for 14 or 15 years, John had been mentally ill. For a summer he had been convinced he was dead. He never completely recovered and had no capacity to work at his calling. [3, 6: 28-29]
iv. Hannah Poore was born on 25 October 1649 in Newbury. [1] She married Elisha Ilsly on 14 March 1667 in Newbury. [1]
At the March 1663 quarterly court in Ipswich, Hannah deposed that she was about 14. She said that on 8 April 1661 she went to live with Thomas Hale, Jr. and stayed about a year. [3, 3: 23]
v. Henry Poore was born on 13 December 1650 in Newbury. [1] He married Abigail Hale on 12 September 1579 in Newbury. [1]
On 6 December 1675 Henry was impressed for the expedition against the Indian fort at Narragansett during King Philip's War. [4]
Edward Poore, age 26[!], took the oath of allegiance in 1678 in Newbury. [4]
vi. Mary Poore was born on 21 March 1650[/1?] in Newbury. She married John Clark.
vii. Sarah Poore died on 20 July or 8 September 1652 in Newbury. [1]
viii. Joseph Poore was born on 4 October 1653 in Newbury. [1] He married Mary Wallinton on 6 August 1680 in Newbury. [1]
ix. Sarah Poore was born on 5 June 1655 in Newbury. [1][3, 2: 4]
x. Lydia Poore was born on 5 December 1656 in Newbury. [1][3, 2: 57] She married Unknown Titcomb.
xi. Edward Poore was born on 5 April 1658 in Newbury. [1][3, 2: 120] He probably died by 26 November 1697, when he did not receive a share of his father's estate.
Edward Poore, age 23[!], took the oath of allegiance in 1678 in Newbury. [4]
xii. Sarah Poore died on 1 or 18 April 1660 in Newbury. [1]
xiii. Abigail Poore was born on 5 August 1661 in Newbury. [1] She married Unknown Ilsley.
Endnotes:
6N. Vital Records of Newbury, Massachusetts to the End of the Year 1849, vol. 1, vol. 2 (Salem: Essex Institute, 1911).
POOR 1: 424 Elizabeth, d. John, Nov. 8, 1647. 2: 700 John, Feb. 15, 1700-1701. POORE 1: 428 Abigal, d. John, Aug. 5, 1661. |
2: 409 Hannah, and Elisha Ilsly, Mar. 14, 1667. 2: 703 John [sr. CT.R.], Nov. 23, 1684. |
2. Thomas Bellows Peck, Richard Clark and His Descendants (Boston: David Clapp & Son, 1905).
3. George Francis Dow, ed., and Harriet S. Tapley, trans., Records and Files of the Quarterly Courts of Essex County, 9 vols., digitized books, Salem Witch Trials: Documentary Archive and Transcription Project (http://salem.lib.virginia.edu).
4. John J. Currier, History of Newbury, Mass., 1635–1902 (Boston : Damrell & Upham, 1902).
5. "Essex County, MA: Probate File Papers, 1638–1881," database with images, AmericanAncestors.org, case 22351.
6. Vital Records of Rowley, Massachusetts to the End of the Year 1849, vol. 1, vol. 2 (Salem: Essex Institute, 1928, 1931).
POOR 1: 381 Elizabeth (Pore), and John Jackson, 27: 2m: 1669.
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