Thomas (Ivy) Ives (1647 - abt. 1695)

Born 1647 in Wendron, Cornwall,, England

Descendants

Died about Jun 1695 at about age 48 in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts

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Biography

Birth

Thomas Ives, a descendant of John IVES (1611-1668), was born 1648 in Wendron, Helston, England, and died 1695 in Salem, Essex, MA. ^[1][2]

Marriages

He married (1) MARTHA WITHE 01 Apr 1671 in Salem, Essex, MA. She was born 05 Aug 1655. He married (2) ELIZABETH METCALF 1679 in Massachusetts. She was born Abt. 1654 in Ipswich, Essex, MA. ^[1][2]

Children

Children of THOMAS IVES and MARTHA WITHE are:

1. ELIZABETH IVES, b. 12 Feb 1672, Salem, Essex, MA; d. 21 Jul 1673, Salem, Essex, MA.
2. THOMAS IVES, b. 31 Mar 1674, Salem, Essex, MA. #DEBORAH IVES, b. 08 Dec 1675, Salem, Essex, MA.

Children of THOMAS IVES and ELIZABETH METCALF are:

1. JOHN IVES, b. Mar 1682.
2. JOSEPH IVES, b. Mar 1682.
3. ELIZABETH IVES, b. 04 Dec 1687; m. JOHN PHILPOT, 11 Dec 1718.
4. BENJAMIN IVES, b. Abt. 1692, Salem, Essex, MA; d. 19 Jul 1752, Salem, Essex, MA.

Estate

Estate of Thomas Ives of Salem

An inventory of the Estate of Thomas Ives, late of Salem, Dec'd as it was Aprized; by us whose names are underwriten this 26 Septr 1695.

• a house & land: mortgadged to Mr. Turner 95 0 0
• in the northern room below: a bed and furniture 2 5 0
• a presse for cloathes: a little trunk and a square table, all old 0 14 0
• payr of brass hand Irons; a warming pan; Iron dogs & candlestick 1 14 0
• ye books, most of them small, and earthenware 1 0 0
• In the chamber of the northern end: a bed & trundle bed with bedsteads 1 10 0
• a cupboard, 8s; in the southern chamber: seven chayrs, 10s 0 18 0
• a chest of drawers and linen in it; a chest and round table 6 0 0
• a bed and coverlit, boulsters & pillows 1 15 0
• his wearing aparrill 2 10 0
• in the southern lower room: old wheels; old cradle & other old things 0 10 0
• a poudering tub & other old barils & things 0 7 0
• In the kitchen chamber: Sadle & pilion, kneading tough & Iron things 1 5 0
• In the kitchen: a Jack; two spits; a pair of dogs & hand Irons & fender 1 10 0
• two Rakes, a smoothing Iron & bellows; a brass kittle 2 Iron pots 1 15 0
• peuter, 2-05-00; a mortar & pestle & some earthenware 4s 2 9 0
• Tooles: in the shop & old payls 6s; a mare, 25s 1 11 0
• three swine & five small pigs 1 15 0
• two old seives, two bushels, a pary of Cards, a Jug & earthrn pots 0 6 0
• in money 2 2 0

£ 126 16 0 Aprized by us this 26 September 1695: John Huston & Elizabeth Ives (mark) Essex County Probate Records, Docket No. 14656^[3]

Narbonne House

The Ives/White Family (c. 1675-1699)

Thomas Ives, a butcher, purchased the land from his neighbor to build a small family home. Originally, the home consisted of one room on the first floor and one room on the second floor with a steeply pitched roof. Ives’s first wife, Martha, had three children. After her death, sometime between 1675 and 1679, Ives remarried. His new wife, Elizabeth, had four children. Thomas Ives died in 1695, at which time Elizabeth married John White. The family remained in the home until 1699 when they sold the property to Simon Willard.

Thomas Ives’s probate record indicates that the Narbonne House had ”a northern and southern room as well as a kitchen” at the time of his death in 1795. It is believed that the Ives/White family was responsible for the first additions to the home. Also mentioned in the probate record is a shop, which was presumably used as a butcher shop. During the archeological investigation, no intact 17th-century features were discovered. However, there were artifacts from the 17th-century found at the site. Some of these include: domestic and imported redware, diamond-paned window glass (17th century), clay pipes, tin glazed earthenware (c. 1630-1790), Wrotham slipware (c. 1612-1700), North Devon sgraffito slipware (c. 1650-1710), and German stoneware (c. 1575-1775). These findings tell us that the Ives/Whites were a modest family that opted for utilitarian ceramic wares and used their resources for necessary improvements to the home rather than buying a larger one. ^[4]

Notes

He is *NOT* the husband of this Elizabeth Metcalf.

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Cooke, Harriet Ruth, The Driver family: a genealogical memoir of the descendants of Robert and Phebe Driver, of Lynn, Mass., published 1889. Reference pages 398-405
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} Noyes, Charles Phelps, Noyes-Gilman ancestry; being a series of sketches, with a chart of the ancestors of Charles Phelps Noyes and Emily H. (Gilman) Noyes, his wife, published 1907. Reference pages 256-7
3. ↑ Virtual Norumbega-The Northern New England Frontier, "Early Essex County Probate Inventories," [1], Accessed 4/6/2018.
4. ↑ NMSC Archeology & Museum Blog [2] accessed 9/5/2020

• http://www.ivescentral.com/genealogy/Descendants%20of%20John%20Ives.pdf
• Perley, Sidney. "The History of Salem Massachusetts" Salem, MA.

1926

• Osgood, Chas. S. & Batchelder, H.M. Historical Sketches of Salem 1629-1879. Salem: Essex Institute. 1879
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