Richard Cilley Family

• Husband: Richard CILLEY-Born: 04 Feb 1621, Stoke-in-Teignhead, Devon, Eng;
• Died: Aft 1678, Isle of Shoals, Rockingham, NH; Richard was the fishing master on the Isles of Shoals in 1651. He signed the petition of the inhabitants to have the Isles constituted as a township in 1653. He was named commissioner to end small cases that same year. He moved to Saco, Maine where his wife was listed in the meeting house seating-list in 1666. During King Philip's War in 1675-1676 they had to take refuge in Salem, Mass. He took the oath of alligiance to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in Boston in 1678.
• Married: Abt 1657;
• Husband's father: Andrew CILLEY
• Husband's mother: Joane

• Wife: Martha BLAISDELL
• Born: Abt 1644, Salisbury, Essex, MA
• Died: Aft 01 Apr 1707
• Other Spouse: Richard BOWDEN Married: Abt 1660
• Other Spouse: John CLOUGH Married: 15 Jan 1686/1687, Hampton, Rockingham, NH
• Wife's father: Ralph BLAISDELL
• Wife's mother: Elizabeth Parker

Children

1. Elizabeth Bowden CILLEY-Born: Abt 1658, Isle of Shoals, Rockingham, NH; Spouse: John DAVIS Jr., Married: Abt 1683, Amesbury, Essex, MA
2. Martha CILLEY- Born: Abt 1666
3. Capt. Thomas CILLEY-Born: Abt 1668, Died: 1718, Nottingham, Rockingham, NH, Spouse: Ann STANYON, Married: 02 Jul 1697, Hampton, Rockingham, NH - Thomas Seeley (or Cilley) was a sea captain. Hampton Falls, at Nottingham, at Andover with his son Thomas for a time, and died at his son Joseph's while on a visit to Nottingham from Andover. Thomas was in Hampton, NH in 1694
4. Benoni CILLEY-Born: 1680, Salisbury, Essex, MA, Died: 30 Apr 1746, South Hampton, Rockingham, NH; Spouse: Eleanor GETCHELL; Married: 28 Aug 1703, Salisbury, Essex, MA; Spouse: Rachel TAPPAN; Married: 09 Oct 1739, Salisbury, Essex, MA

Sources

• Ancestors of Jerry Allen Enfield, http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/e/n/f/Jerry-Allen-Enfield/GENE6-0063. html.
• http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/d/a/v/Stephen-G-Davis/TREE/0003tree.html, Information from Stephen G. Davis web page The Cilley Family.
• Joseph Dow - edited and published by his daughter, Lucy E. Dow, 1894, History of Hampton, NH, 1638-1892 - Vol I, Printed by the Salem Press Publishing and Printing Co. 1893, pp 983-984.
• LDS Ancestral File.
• David W. Hoyt, Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury, Mass., Providence, RI 1897 (New England History Press, Somersworth, NH 1981), pg 174.

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