Mary (Brewster) Arnold (1685 - 1748)

Born 7 Dec 1685 in Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts

Ancestors

Wife of Edward Arnold — married 8 Oct 1706 in Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts

Descendants

Died 21 Mar 1748 at age 62 in New Bedford, Bristol, Massachusetts

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Biography

Mercy, daughter of William and Lydia (Partridge) Brewster, was born at Duxbury, MA on December 7, 1685. She married Edward Arnold, son of Seth and Elizabeth (Gray) Arnold, on October 8, 1706. Edward and Mercy had two children but only one survived infancy. Her husband died between September 27, 1744, his sister's will where he was named co-executor, and March 21, 1748, the date his will was probated. Mercy died between March 21, 1748, when her husband's will was probated and she was named executrix, and November 7, 1748, when she was not mentioned in the division of her uncle's will.

Sources

• Barbara Lambert Merrick, comp., Scott Andrew Bartley, ed., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations, Elder William Brewster, Volume 24, Part 1, 1st edition, (Plymouth: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 2014), pp. 194, 362-363

• Vital Records of Duxbury Massachusetts to the year 1850, (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1911), p. 34 (birth); p. 226 (marriage)

• Mayflower Families Vol. 15 p. 110