William Gary and Elizabeth Parker

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Husband William Gary

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           Born: Abt 1628 1
     Christened: 22 Aug 1628 - Hertfordshire, England
           Died: 4 Sep 1712 - Roxbury, Massachusetts 2 3
         Buried: 

       Marriage: Abt 1677 - (Roxbury, Massachusetts)

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   Other Spouse: Hannah Curtis (Abt 1633-Bef 1677) - 25 Aug 1651 - Roxbury, Massachusetts

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Wife Elizabeth Parker

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           Born: 12 Mar 1645 - Woburn, Middlesex Co., Ma 4
     Christened: 1 Feb 1657 - Chelmsford, Middlesex Co., Ma 5
           Died: 
         Buried: 

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         Father: James Parker (Abt 1617-Bef 1700)
         Mother: Elizabeth Long (1621-      )

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Children

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General Notes: Husband - William Gary

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The following is on pages 33-34 of The Gary Genealogy by Lawrence Brainerd (1874-1925) published in Boston in 1918. It can be read at

https://archive.org/details/garygenealogydes00brai/page/32/mode/2up

Additionally on page 34 is a description of William Gary's realty holdings.

Deacon William² Gary (Arthur¹) was baptized in Little Hadham, Hertfordshire, Eng., Aug. 22, 1628. He accompanied his parents to America and settled in Roxbury, Mass. He was admitted a Freeman of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, May 26, 1652. He married first, in Roxbury, Aug. 25, 1651, Hannah Curtis, born in Roxbury about 1633, daughter of William and Sarah (Eliot) Curtis and niece of the Rev. John Eliot. She died before 1677 and he married second, Elizabeth Parker, born in Woburn, Mass., March 12, 1645, daughter of Captain James and Elizabeth (Long) Parker of Woburn. She was confirmed as a member of the Roxbury Church, June 26, 1677, and received into full communion in the same, July 29, 1677. She died after 1712.
William Gary was confirmed as a member of the "Apostle Eliot's" Church, Nov. 23, 1651 and became a leading member of that ecclesiastical body, being ordained Deacon of the same in January 1686/7. He was much employed as the overseer of estates and is named as the executor of many wills of the more prominent Roxbury inhabitants. The files of the Superior Court (Suffolk County, Mass.) show that he was a Grand Juror to the Court of Assistants in March 1676/7 and in November 1689. In 1675 he was elected Deputy (or Representative) from Roxbury to the Great and General Court of Massachusetts Bay. He died in Roxbury, Sept. 4, 1712, "aged 83."
No issue.

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General Notes: Wife - Elizabeth Parker

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BIRTH DATE:

According to the account of W. H. M. A. in the Boston Transcript, which can be found in Parker in America, Elizabeth was born 12 Mar 1645. Her birth date can be found in "Massachusetts, Town Clerk...d Town Records, 1626-2001", Film # 007011120, Middlesex, Woburn, Births, marriages, deaths 1641-1843, pg 1, image 8/272. This is a very neat, easily readable, handwritten copy of the original records. Elizabeth's entry is

Parker -- Elizabeth daughter of James Parker born 12th. of 1st. mos: 1645.

In the case of the 11th and 12th months a clarification in square brackets has routinely been added. Thus "4th. of 12th. mo: 1644 [4 Feb. 1644-5]". We might reasonably expect that the 12th day of the first month in 1645 would be 12 Mar 1646 in New Style. However, no clarification in brackets appears beside Elizabeth's birth date, and generally there is no such clarification for days in the first month prior to the 25th day (March 25 = Lady Day). So it appears that W. H. M. A. is right and Elizabeth was born in 1645.

Elizabeth and 5 of her siblings were baptized in Chelmsford 1 Feb 1657. The baptismal record says that she will be 12 years old on 4 Mar 1657 (4: 1m: 1657). Thus she was born 4 Mar 1645, which is a confirmation of W. H. M. A. See notes under her father.

So January 1645 (N.S.) is the 11th month of 1644 (O.S) and February 1645 (N.S) is the 12th month of 1644 (O.S.), but March 1645 (N.S.) is the 1st month of 1645 (O.S.). On March 4, 1645 (N.S.) a person in England would have said that we are still in the year 1644 but that we are in the first month of 1645. March 4, 1645 (N.S.) can be specified two ways in Old Style. March 4, 1645 (N.S.) is March 4, 1644 (O.S.) but the 4th day of the first month of 1645 (O.S.)

MARRIAGE:

The article in the Boston Transcript says the following about Elizabeth, the eldest daughter of James Parker:

Elizabeth, b. Mch. 12, 1645; m. Samuel Geary of Roxbury

An Elizabeth Parker did marry Samuel Gary in Roxbury 6 Dec 1669, but that Elizabeth Parker is a different person. She is described as follows on page 36 of The Gary Genealogy:

He [Samuel Gary] married first, Dec. 6, 1669, Elizabeth Parker, born April 29, 1649 in Roxbury, daughter of Edmund and Elizabeth (Howe) Parker of Roxbury and Lancaster, Mass. She died Nov. 20, 1676. He married second, June 19, 1677, Martha Clark, . . .

1 William Minet, "Registers of the Parish of Little Hadham in Hertfordshire 1559 to 1812 Transcribed and Edited by William Minet M.A F.S.A M.CM.VII" (1907), pg 67, image 80/244. Repository: http://www.familysearch.org.

2 Massachusetts, U.S., Compiled Birth, Marriage, and Death Records, Roxbury. Repository: http://www.ancestry.com.

3 Massachusetts, U.S., Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988, Roxbury > Births, Marriages, Deaths, 1630-1785. Repository: http://www.ancestry.com.

4 Edward F. Johnson, "Vital Records of Woburn, Massachusetts," 1890, Repository: http://ma-vitalrecords.org/.

5 "Vital Records of Chelmsford, Massachusetts," The Essex Institute, 1914, Repository: http://ma-vitalrecords.org/.