William Pixley1

#8690, (say 1640 - 9 October 1689)

Family

Sarah Lawrence b. c 1644, d. 1713
Children 1.Sarah Pixley6 (1665 - 1683)
 2.Thomas Pixley+6 (1667 - 1731)
 3.William Pixley Jr.+6 (1669 - c 1712)
 4.Joseph Pixley+6 (1676 - )
 5.Anthony Pixley5 (1687 - 1689)
According to Judd in "History of Hadley", Sarah d. before 1681, and William m. Sarah _____ in 1681 as his 2nd wife. This second Sarah d. 25 Dec 1713.2 
Birth*say 1640He was born say 1640.1 
1663He lived in 1663 at Lot 24, Hadley, Hampshire Co., MassachusettsG.3,4 
Marriage*24 November 1663He married Sarah Lawrence, daughter of Thomas Lawrence and Elizabeth Bates, on 24 November 1663 at Hadley/Northampton/Westfield, Massachusetts.1 
1668He and Sarah Lawrence removed in 1668 Northampton.2 
Death*9 October 1689He died on 9 October 1689 at Westfield, Hampden Co., MassachusettsG.5 

Citations

  1. [S183] Clarence Almon Torrey, New England Marriages Prior to 1700 (GPC) (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 2004), p. 589, William Pixley and Sarah Lawrence, 24 Nov 1663, Hadley/Northampton/Westfield; (see also a diff. Sarah, p. 829, Joseph Winslow ( -1699) and Sarah [Lawrence], m/2 Charles LeBros. Online Ancestry.com.
  2. [S290] Sylvester Judd and Lucius Boltwood, History of Hadley, including the Early History of Hatfield, South Hadley, Amherst and Granby Masssachusetts (Springfield, Mass.: H.R. Hunting and Company, 1905), p. 111.
  3. [S290] Sylvester Judd and Lucius Boltwood, History of Hadley (rev. ed.), p. 25: "In June, 1662, three young single men applied for land, viz., John Taylor, John Ingram, and William Pixley, and in December a small houselot was granted to each at the north end of the east houselots, and 40£ allotments in the meadows."
    P. 24 is a map of the houselots, showing Pixley with two acres adjoining lots of Ingram and taylor of the same size (and Nichols).
  4. [S820] Rev. Elbert O. Taylor, History of John Taylor of Hadley (Boston: Taylor Reunion Association of Hadley, Mass., 1903), p. 19: "In June, 1662, three young single men applied for land, viz.: John Taylor, John Ingram, and William Pixley, and in December a small house-lot was granted to each at the north end of the east house-lots, and 40£ allotments in the meadows (westward in the bend in the river), yet these unmarried men, without property, received one-fifth as much land as the most wealthy head of a family (Judd, p. 33 [verbatim])."
  5. [S817] Rev. Emerson Davis, "A Record of Marriages, Births, and Deaths in Westfield, Mass., Prior to the Year 1700", New England Historical and Genealogical Register 6:3 (July 1852): p. 269: "William Pixley, wife Sarah --- had Anthony, b. July 4, 1687, d, Ap. 25, 1697. Mr. Wm. Pixley d. Oct 9, 1689. Mrs. Pixley d. Dec. 25, 1713."
  6. [S818] Edward Evans Pixley and Franklin Hanford, compilers, Edward Dinwoodie Strickland, editor, William Pixley of Hadley, Northampton, and Westfield, Mass. and Some of His Descendants (Buffalo, NY: Privately Printed, 1900).