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#9538. 6. AYRES. G. N. L., May 21, 1923. In the work published in 1870 by W. H. Whitmore, in chart on page 3 he left blank No. 16. as not known to him, in list of children of Samuel (2) Ayres, son of Captain John (1). Two dates have been printed for marriage of Samuel to his own cousin, Abigail Fellows; one is March 21, 1677, the other April 16, 1677. Then on page 13 he gives No. 16, as his son Joseph, no date of birth, but leaves blank No. 16 on chart. On page 18, when No. 16 is reached, he says, “Joseph Ayres of Ipswich”; on page 22 another chart and blank No. 16, but adds he is father of No. 36. Sameul and others named there are 16, but adds he is father of No. 36. Samuel and others named there are given to other brothers, but he gives this Samuel several sons: John, Aaron, Eleazer, Amos, Daniel, Asa, who is the one we are interested in getting fuller data on, and his descendants.

I would like to know the name of wife of Joseph No. 16. His son Samuel, No. 36, married Martha Bell, Jan. 21, 1742, and had six children, the youngest listed is Asa, born June 5, 1761, married Mary Wait, whose ancestry we seek. I should have said there were ten children, but only six traced later. Samuel drowned Nov. 15, 1768, aged fifty-two; his wife died Oct. 25, 1765. This Samuel was proved to be the son of No. 16, Joseph, by will of widow of John Ayres of Brookfield, and by John in 1739.

Asa was not traced by Whitmore, but family records give us aid here. He had the usual number for his family of ten children; presume he lived at Granby, as his father had before him (and his father was a weaver). Asa married Mary Wait, but know nothing of her ancestry, nor of Martha Bell’s but hope someone will publish these lines and get the Ayres family straightened up. Asa had a son Buenos, born Jan. 17, 1810, who married, Sept. 1, 1833, Sarah Osborne, daughter of Ransome Osborne and Sarah Hurd, whose lines we have been seeking through the Transcript columns and have had great help from “Nyumps.”

I see that Martha [Bell] and Samuel [Ayres] named children Joh, Aaron, Eleazer, Amos, Daniel, Sarah, Lydia, Susannah, Asa, and Martha. As the names of the males are new ones in Ayres line except John, they perhaps may lead ot Bells that bore some of these names.