SLIG 2016 Report: MacCallum and Very [Part I]

Here is the first installment of my findings at the Family History Library in Salt Lake:

MacCallum:

Records & Files of the Quarterly Court of Essex Co., MA

‘Micham Macculan’ listed among 35 Scots on the inventory of such goods as belonged to the Undertakers of the Iron Works appraised on November 4, 1653 by William Wood. [p. 200]

Very:

The Peabody Story: Events in Peabody’s History 1626-1972;                          John A. Wells; Essex Institute, Salem, MA, 1972

In 1637, Philip Verrin was granted a 160-acre farm in South Peabody next to William Clark’s grant. The land extended from present-day Lynnfield St. to Forest St. The Benjamin Very and Elizabeth Nurse property were below the Verrin grant in 1700.  Samuel Very purchased the tract in 1656 from Richard Way. Very sold part of the property to Joshua Buffum and Joseph Gould [1681]. After Samuel’s death, the land was divided among his heirs. Son Benjamin received a tract valued at £70. Daughter Elizabeth and her husband, John Nurse, received a tract worth £40 in 1686. [p. 82]

Richard Way sold to Samuel Very “all that farm or farme house” situated “neere unto the frame house that is or late was Mr.  Edmond Batters” in 1656. The Very house was on Fox Hill in the current Emerson Park area.

Samuel Very was a mariner, who arrived in the area in 1634 with his mother, Bridget Very Giles [wife of Edward Giles]. Samuel married Alice Woodis and they had 12 children. Very died in 1683. Many of his descendants were mariners or mechanics.

Edward Giles owned 50 acres adjoining Samuel Very’s. Giles had the property from about 1634 until his death in 1649. It went to son, Eleazer after his death. [p. 98]