Born in Brentwood, Essex, England
[uncertain]
Ancestors [uncertain]
Daughter of Edward (Convers) Converse
and Sarah (Parker) Converse
Wife of
Simon Thompson
— married
19 Dec 1643 [location unknown]
Wife of
John Sheldon
— married
1 Feb 1659 in Billerica, Middlesex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony
Descendants 
Mother of
John Thompson, Sarah (Thompson) Redknapp, James Thompson, Mary Thompson, Ann Thompson, Rebecca Thompson and John Sheldon Jr
Died [date unknown]
[location unknown]
Profile last modified
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Biography
Mary (Converse) Sheldon immigrated to New England as a child during the Puritan Great Migration (1621-1640).
Simon Thompson, the second son of James b. Eng. 1593 and his 1st wife Elizabeth ___, was born in England, but there are no known means of determining the date. He came to Charlestown, and subsequently to Woburn with his father, and was married December 19, 1643, to Mary Converse, daughter of Edward Converse, one of the first and foremost settlers of the southern part of Woburn (now Winchester). He dying in May 1658, Mary, married in 1659, John Sheldon of Billerica. (p. 12)[1]
Marriages
- Simon Thompson
- Mary Converse
- Date: December 19, 1643
- Woburn. Middlesex, Massachusetts [2]
- John Sheldon
- Mary Thompson, wid
- Date: February 1, 1658/59
- Place: Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts
- Recorded in Billerica, Middlesex, Massachusetts [3]
Sources
- ↑ Memorial of James Thompson, of Charlestown, Mass., 1630-1642, and Woburn, Mass., 1642-1682: And of Eight Generations of His Descendants Leander Thompson Press of L. Barta & Company, 1887
- ↑ Torrey, Clarence A. New England Marriages Prior to 1700. Baltimore, MD, USA: Genealogical Publishing Co., 2004. in New England Marriages Prior to 1700 [database on-line], Ancestry.com. Page 738
- ↑ Vital Records of Billerica Massachusetts to the Year 1850 New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, Mass., 1908 Stanhope Press, F. H. Gilson Company, Boston, Mass. Page 315
- See also:
- "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/F4V4-25R : 5 November 2017), Mary in entry for John Shildon, 24 Apr 1660; citing Birth, Billerica, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States, town clerk offices, Massachusetts; FHL microfilm 901,881.
- Sewall, Samuel. The History of Woburn, Middlesex County, Mass. (Wiggin & Lunt, Boston, 1868) Page 73
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Rejected matches › Mary Eunice (Thompson) McDougall (1860-) › Mary Ann Jackson (Thompson) Carrott (abt.1845-abt.1932) › Mary Elizabeth (Thompson) Battershall (1838-1918) › Mary Polly (Daniels) Thompson (aft.1766-) › Adda Mary (Thompson) Murphy › Mary Sheldon (1697-) › Mary (Warner) Sheldon (abt.1677-) › Mary Elisabeth (Thompson) Gwillim (abt.1868-) › Mary Unknown (abt.1620-abt.1654)
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