Wenham, Essex County, Massachusetts was settled in 1636. The first settlers called it Enon or Salem Village. It was officially set off from the Town of Salem on May 10, 1643.
He married Mary Quarles, of Ipswich on December 31, 1698. Mary was born in 1677 in Ipswich. Her parents were William Quarles and Martha Dickinson.
They resided in Wenham, where he frequently held town offices. He was a man of property and a liberal patron of the Wenham church. He left the church 5 pounds when he died.
Essex County, Massachusetts was created on May 10, 1643 by the General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, when it ordered "that the whole plantation within this jurisdiction be divided into four sheires."
