Jabez Emmery [Emery] 

Jabez Emmery [Emery] was a tax collector located at the corner of Eighth and Chesnut Streets (see Philadelphia Directory, p. 41).  He may have been a descendant of the many Emerys of Newburyport, or the Mr. Emery mentioned here may be one of the Newburyport Emerys visiting a relation now living in Philadelphia.  Sarah Anna Emery, writing at the age of ninety in 1879, noted that “the descendants of John jr. and Jonathan Emery [of Newburyport] have become widely scattered.  Many have been, and are still counted amongst the prominent men and women of the country.  The name has been, and still is, well represented, amongst the clergy, at the bar, in the medical profession, in the military, literary and mercantile walks of life.  Some of the family have excelled in mechanics, and in an unusual degree as a race, they posses the talent of a ‘ready writer’” (Reminiscences of a Nonagenarian  [Newburyport {MA}: William H. Huse, 1879], p. 147).  Caroline Smith, daughter of Josiah Smith of Newburyport (see The Diary of Dorothy Farnham Smith), would marry Capt. Moses Emery of Newburyport on 15 December 1814 (see Russell C. Farnham, The New England Descendants of the Immigrant Ralph Farnum of Rochester, Kent County, England and Ipswich, Massachusetts, 3 vols. [Portsouth [NH]: Peter Randall, 1999], 1.410).