1The Ayer Genealogy, The Essex Antiquarian, Vol. 4, p. 145 (Oct 1900).
"SERG. ROBERT AYER2, born about 1625. He was made a freeman in May, 1666; was a constable in 1671; and was a yeoman or plowman. He lived in Haverhill; and married Elizabeth Palmer Feb. 27, 1650-1. She died in Haverhill April 24, 1705, aged seventy-one; and he was living in 1711, at the age of eighty-six, dying between 1713 and 1723.
Children, born in Haverhill:--
16--I. ELIZABETH3, b. Nov. 10, 1652; m., first John Clement of haverhill, cooper, Feb. 22, 1676; lived in Haverhill; he d. May 16, 1692; she m., second, Samuel Watts of Haverhill, yeoman, March 8, 1696-7; his first wife was Elizabeth Ayer (24).
17--II. SAMUEL3, b. Nov. 11, 1654. See below (17).
18--III. MEHITABLE3, b. Sept. 14, 1656.
19--IV. TIMOTHY3, b. Oct. 2, 1659. See below (19).
20--V. ----- (dau.)3, b. July 9, 1662; d. July 9, 1662.
21--VI. HANNAH3, b. Jan. 26, 1663; d. March 10, 1675-6.
22--VII. MARY3, b. b. Jan. 15, 1667; d. April 14, 1668.".