Cemetery: Old Burying Point, Salem, Massachusetts

Salem Marriages: Archer, Jonathan, [jr. int.] and Mehitable Kimball, Nov. 3, 1772 29

Salem Deaths: Archer, Mehitabel, w. Jonathan jr. consumption, Dec. 1, 1791, a. 42 y. c.r.4 29

Salem Deaths: Archer, Jonathan assessor of the town, formerly a barber, consumption, June 1, 1800, a. 53 y. c.r.4 [a. 54 y. g.r.1] 29

Jonathan Archer, peruke maker, tanner, trader, and yeoman; conducted an inn on Union Street, and in the Revolution an office for shipping seamen on privateers; taught navigation; married Mehitable Kimball Nov. 3, 1772; she died first, he died in 1800; children: I. Daniel; master-mariner; died, probably unmarried, while residing in Liverpool, England in 1806; 2. Andrew, tanner; lived in Fairfield, ME; married Abigail Brown Sept. 24, 1806; 3. Mehitable; living in 1806; 4. Hannah, unmarried in 1806; 5. Lydia, unmarried in 1806; 6. Henry, born in 1789; shipmaster; died March 28, 1848. 30

According to this site, a peruke maker was a wig maker.