Jonathan Piper

• Background Information. ⁵²⁴
Jonathan Piper, son of Nathaniel Piper was born in Ipswich, Massachusetts, about 1671-1672. He was a farmer and lived there until 1731. In 1723, he and Samuel Smith, and John Darby, leased the New Marsh farm of twelve hundred acres in Ipswich, then owned by the heirs of Nathaniel Saltonstall, of Haverhill. In 1731, he removed to Concord, Massachusetts, buying March 6, of that year, of Thomas Wheeler, Sr. and Thomas Jr., their farm in the southwesterly part of Concord "for 1,200 pounds passable money: and on the same day he bought land of Robert Cummings. 6 Oct 1731, he bought eighty acres of Rebecca Prescott, widow of Jonathan Prescott, for a hundred pounds. He bought other land later. He died in Concord on 11 May 1752, leaving a will dated 15 Feb 1749. His son Joseph was the executor.

He married, first, on 7 May 1695, Sarah Leech of Boxford who died in Ipswich on 6 May 1700. His second wife was Alice Darby, of Beverly who died 23 Apr 1758. Their children were:
• Jonathan, born 1702
• Nathaniel, baptized 17 Mar 1706 in Wenham
• Josiah, baptized 17 Oct 1708, at Wenham, settled in Acton and married Sarah, first, and Mehitable Conant, second
• John, born in Ipswich, residing in Bolton, 1758
• Alice, married in 1726, Archelaus Adams of Newsbury
• Sarah, born in Ipswich, married 9 May 1734 to David Page of Lexington
• Mary, married Joseph Gould, of Nottingham West, now Hudson, New Hampshire, on 19 Jun 1746
• Joseph who was born in Ipswich in 1718.

~Historic Homes and Institutions and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs of Worcester County, p. 49

Jonathan married Alice Darby, daughter of John Darby and Alice, was published 21 Sep 1700 in Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts. (Alice Darby was born in 1675 in Marblehead, Massachusetts ⁵²³ and died on 23 Apr 1758 in Concord, Massachusettes ^91,523,623.)