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]
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.
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This person immigrated to New England between 1621-1640 as a Minor Child (under age 21 at time of immigration) of a Puritan Great Migration immigrant who is profiled in Robert Charles Anderson's Great Migration Directory (or is otherwise accepted by the Puritan Great Migration (PGM) Project).
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Converse-12 and Converse-6 appear to represent the same person because: They identify the same second spouse. Died before she remarried? Is there definitive data on this?
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