1William Richard Cutter, Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of Boston and Eastern Massachusetts, Vol. 1 pp. 483-484 (1908).
"(IV) Joseph Emerson, son of Thomas Emerson (3), was born in England, about 1620-21, and died at Concord, Massachusetts, January 3, 1680. Through his son Joseph he was the ancestor of that most illustrious American, Ralph Waldo Emerson; Ralph Waldo (9), William (8), Joseph (7), Edward (6), Joseph (5). He married, 1646, Elizabeth Woodmansey, daughter of Robert and Margery Woodmansey, schoolmaster of Boston. They resided at Ipswich, Massachusetts, York, Maine, and Milton, Massachusetts, Joseph Emerson was a Puritan minister, said to have been educated in England. He may have studied at Harvard. He was at Ipswich as early as 1638, and was admitted a freeman there December 19, 1648. He preached at York, Maine, the same year. In 1653 he was a resident of Wells, and took the freeman's oath there July 4, 1653. He signed a petition to Cromwell, while of Wells, asking the Protector to confirm the jurisdiction of Massachusetts over the inhabitants of Wells. About 1664 he left Wells, where he seemed to have a turbulent lot of parishioners, and where the church, after he left, had to disband. About 1664 he became minister at Milton, Massachusetts, December 1, 1669, he settle in Mendon, Massachusetts, where he remained until the town was destroyed by Indians, when he retired to Concord, where he died. He married second, December 7, 1665, Elizabeth Bulkeley, born 1638, died September 4, 1693, daughter of Rev. Edward Bulkeley, of Concord, Massachusetts, and granddaughter of Rev. Peter Bulkeley, first minister of Concord. She married second, Captain John Brown of Reading, Massachusetts. Children of first wife: 1. Joseph. 2. Mary. Children of second wife: 3. Lucy, born October 2, 1667; married, May 15, 1683, Thomas Damon, of Reading. 4. Edward, born April 26, 1670; mentioned below. 5. peter, born 1673. 6. Ebenezer. 7. Daniel, married May 19, 1709, Jane Armitage.".
1William Richard Cutter, Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of Boston and Eastern Massachusetts, Vol. 1, p. 157 (1908).
"EMERSON (VI) James Emerson, son of Rev. Joseph Emerson (5), was born at Ipswich, Massachusetts, in 1655, and died at Mendon, Massachusetts, in 1718. He married, at Mendon, 1685, Sarah --------. Children: 1. James, born March 13, 1692. John, born June 9, 1694, at Ipswich: mentioned below. 3. Joseph, born December 18, 1696. 4. Elizabeth, born March 6, 1698. 5. Ebenezer. 6. Nathaniel.".