Jonathan Pulcifer/Pulsifer

Jonathan Pulsifer (1687-1763)  was my 7th great grandfather on the Ada Swasey Rogers Family tree.

Here's his home where he lived with his wife, Sarah Loude Pulsifer (1688-1749) who he married in 1707.  Ancestry has had a hiccough for the last few days, in not giving me the 31 other trees about her life, and I'll have to call them to get it straightened out, and being the holidays there's a 45 minute wait to get through. For now I don't even know who her parents were.

I'm pretty sure they had 11 children, and David Pulsifer (1716-1783) would marry Hannah Brown (1718-1756), and I'll give you another post just about them!  David died in the Battle of Bunker Hill in the American Revolution,

Ipswich Historical Society says this:
"Jonathan Pulcifer (Pulsifer) built this house in 1718 on Summer Street, one of the “oldest ways” in Ipswich. He was probably the son of Benedict Pulsifer, an early settler of Ipswich who died in 1695. There was also a John Pulsifer who settled in Gloucester about the same time. The probably son of the builder of this house, Jonathan Pulcifer Jr. is listed as a sailor in the French and Indian War.
Thomas Franklin Waters mentioned this house in Ipswich in the Massachusetts Bay Colony (1915), referencing the recorded sales in the Salem book of deeds:

We observed that Jonathan Pulcifer purchased the next lot in 1718, when the Samuel Dutch property was divided into house lots, and another in 1724. He seems to have owned a continuous frontage to the corner now occupied by Miss Sarah P. Caldwell’s residence. His heirs apparently sold the house now owned by Theodore H. Howe to Richard Lakeman,
May 14, 1796 (176: 263). He sold to Daniel Lakeman (176: 263), and Daniel transferred to Jane Gould, wife of Elisha Gould, Oct. 23, 1811 (196: 44). The Goulds sold to Elizabeth Fuller, Nov. 23, 1827 (246: 194), and Reuben Daniels sold it to Chas. H. Howe, May 16, 1867 (726: 63).

"Original architectural features have been re-exposed by the owners, including beams & posts, summer beam, gunstock posts.

"I am told that few years ago as a realtor was getting ready to leave, he looked at the top of the stairs and saw the distinct ghostly form of an old woman looking back at him.

Thanks to Ipswich Historical Society for pictures and text about 15 Summer St.

And I have seen the hand written birth record for Jonathan Pulcifer so I know he was the son of immigrant Benedictus Pulsifer, (however you choose to spell it!) and Suzanna Waters Pulsifer, though the paper had been torn, leaving just "nathan" as his name as the remainder of "Jonathan."  See my blog post (HERE) about Benedictus Pulsifer.

The Pulsifer family descendents married the Grangers, who were just a couple of generations away from marrying the Swaseys of my grandmother's Ada Swasey Rogers' tree.

Don't you wonder who the ghost might have been that was checking out the realtor?