John Pomeroy (abt. 1696 - 1736)

Born about 1 Apr 1696 in Northampton, Hampshire, Province of Massachusetts Bay

Ancestors

Husband of Rachel (Sheldon) Pomeroy — married 19 May 1718 in Northampton, Massachusetts

Descendants

Died 4 Jun 1736 at about age 40 in Northampton, Hampshier, Province of Massachusetts Bay

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Biography

John Pomery was born on 1 Apr 1696 in Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay. He was a son of Ebenezer Pomeroy and Sarah King.^[1]

He is called John (not Quartus) in an 1878 Newell Genealogy.^[2]

NOTE: There is a much later Quartus Pomeroy marrying in 1776 a Rachel in Northampton, Massachusetts.^[3] But this is almost two generations later.

Another argument for this Rachel's husband (and this Rachel's father) being John, not Quartus is the 1723 Northampton birth of Rachel daughter of John and Rachel.^[4]

Further supporting the John-not-Quartus Pomeroy as husband of Rachel and father of Rachel Pomeroy who married Isaac Newell is "The Pomeroys of Northampton, Mass.," in NEHGR, 43, pp 41-42:

"Lieut. John4 Pomery (Ebenezer3, Medad2, Eltwed1) died June 4, 1736; married Rachel Sheldon, May 29, 1718. Children: ... [several including:] Rachel, b. April 14, 1723; m. Isaac Newell of Farmington, Conn."

This same article identifies his parents as Ebenezer Pomeroy and Sarah King, and that he was born 1 April 1695/6.

Sources

1. ↑ Entered by Joann H..
2. ↑ Newell Hall, Thomas Newell and His Descendants, Cochrane Bros., 1878, pp 32
3. ↑ "Massachusetts Marriages, 1695-1910," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FC35-28G : 4 December 2014), Quartus Pomeroy and Rachel, 10 Oct 1776; citing reference 2:3HKT80P; FHL microfilm 186,161.
4. ↑ "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FHFY-W87 : 4 December 2014), John Pomeroy in entry for Rachel Pomeroy, 14 Apr 1723; citing North Hampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts, ; FHL microfilm 14,766.

• AMERICAN POMEROY HISTORIC GENEALOGICAL ASSOCIATION Eltweed Pomeroy Tree

• Cutter, William Richard. New England Families, Genealogical and Memorial (Lewis Historical Publishing Co., New York, 1913)