GENERATION 11

GENERATION 10

Biography

RICHARD THORLEY was born in England, and married his wife, JANE, there. He came to America and settled in Rowley, Essex, MA. He had a two-acre house lot there in 1643. He sold his property in Rowley, in 1651, to Capt. John Johnson, and moved to Newbury, Essex, MA, with his wife.

His home in Newbury was on the north side of Parker River, near the present site of Drummer Academy. By deed, dated Dec. 1, 1651, Mathew Chaffey of Boston, shipwright, and Sarah his wife, convey to RICHARD THORLEY, for 155 Pounds, a farm in Newbury, ontaining 400 acres bounded from the mouth of Cart Creek, and extending thence easterly ten score rods and abutting on the river to the south, thence on a line north and by west sixteen score rods up into the country until two birchen trees, marked, standing upon a bank of rocks, thence on a straight line westerly ten score rods to a tree standing upon a mount or hill, thence by a straight line east by south to the mouth of said creek again (Essex Deeds, 1 Ips.: 100).

RICHARD THORLEY had a grant of land by the colony in 1653, and the next year a toll for his bridge, built over Parker River.

JANE died at Newbury, Mar. 19, 1683/84. RICHARD died there, Nov. 10, 1685. His name is now often written as "Thurlow" or "Thurlo."