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Mary (Foster) Peabody (abt. 1620 - 1705)

Mary Peabody formerly Foster aka Wood
Born about in Exeter, Devon, Englandmap
Daughter of and
Sister of , , , , and
Wife of — married about 1642 (to 27 Mar 1649) [location unknown]
Wife of — married 1650 (to 19 Feb 1698) [location unknown]
Descendants descendants
Mother of , , , , , , , , , , and
Died at about age 85 in Topsfield, Essex, Massachusetts Baymap
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Biography

Mary (Foster) Peabody immigrated to New England as a child during the Puritan Great Migration (1621-1640).

Mary Foster, daughter of Reginald Foster the Ipswich pioneer immigrant, [1] is mentioned in her father's will dated at Ipswich, 30 April 1680, as follows:

My daughter Mary, wife of ffrancis Paybody. [2]
Wife of Daniel Wood — married about 1642 to March 27, 1649, Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts[3]
Wife of Francis Peabody — married about 1650 [2]

Mary was appointed administrator of her husband's Daniel Wood's estate on March 27, 1649. His entire estate was left to the widow for the bringing up of their two children. [4]

When Mary and Francis Peabody married about 1650, he had five children under the age of ten by his first wife. [2] By her second husband, Francis Peabody, she had three sons, and six daughters: [2]

In January, 1695/6, Francis Peabody gave 'my loving son' 100 acres at Boxford. [1]

Francis died at Topsfield on February 19, 1697/8. [1]

In his will written on January 20, 1695/6, Francis Peabody left bequests to the following: [5]

  • sons John and Joseph Peabody
  • son William Peabody
  • son-in-law Daniel Wood
  • son Isaac Peabody
  • grandson Jacob Peabody, son of Jacob, deceased
  • grandchildren Keziah and Percy Peabody, children of son Jacob, deceased
  • son Nathaniel Peabody
  • grandson Sampson How
  • wife Mary
  • daughter Lydia Perly
  • daughter Mary Death
  • daughter Sarah How
  • daughter Hepzibah Ray
  • wife Mary and sons John and Isaac to be executors [5] [1]

Mary (Foster) (Wood) Peabody passed away April 9, 1705.[1][6][7]

Children

by Daniel Wood

  1. Daniel born ---. [4]
  2. Judith born ___ [4]; married Thomas Dorman. [8]

by Francis Peabody

  1. Mary born about 1650; married John Death by 1670. [1]
  2. Isaac born about 1652; married Sarah ___. [1]
  3. Sarah born about 1654; married Abraham How at Ipswich on March 26, 1678. [1]
  4. Hepsibah born about 1656; married Daniel Ray/Rea at Salem on April 10, 1678. [1]
  5. Ruth born on May 22,1658; no further record. [1]
  6. Damaris born on June 21, 1660: died December 19, 1660. [1]
  7. Samuel born June 4,1662, died September 13, 1667. [1]
  8. Jacob born July 28, 1664; married Abigail Towne at Topsfield on January 12, 1686/7. [1]
  9. Hannah born May 8, 1668; no further record. [1]
  10. Nathaniel born July 20, 1669; married Frances Hoyt. [1]

Sources

  1. ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 1.12 1.13 1.14 Anderson, Robert C. Francis Peabody in: Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volume V, M-P, New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, Massachusetts, 2007, p. 400- (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2010.)
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 The ancestry of Franklin Merriam Peabody, page 7-8
  3. ↑ "Peabody (Paybody, Pabody, Pabodie) Genealogy" (Boston, MA: Selim Hobart Peabody, editor; Charles Henry Pope, Publisher, 1909)
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Essex County, MA: Early Probate Records, 1635-1681: Volume 1: p. 106-7 Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2015. https://www.americanancestors.org/DB1652/i/33911/107/56272163
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Case 20826: p. 1-8: Essex County, MA: Probate File Papers, 1638-1881.Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2014. (From records supplied by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Archives.) https://www.americanancestors.org/DB515/i/13789/20826-co1/245855042
  6. ↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-8979-Q5R8?cc=2061550&wc=Q4DW-YWP%3A353349401%2C353514201%2C353516401 : 20 May 2014), Essex > Topsfield > Births, marriages, deaths 1677-1742 vol A > image 64 of 102; citing Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston.
  7. ↑ "The Pioneers of Massachusetts" (Charles Henry Pope)
  8. ↑ Dearborn, David Curtis, Mary Porter, Wife of Uzziel Rea (4) of Danvers and Topsfield, Massachusetts in: The American Genealogist, Volume 65, D. L. Jacobus, New Haven, Connecticut, 1990, p. 146 (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2009 - .) https://www.americanancestors.org/DB283/i/12960/146/24671614

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Acknowledgments

  • WikiTree profile Foster-3636 created through the import of my family 10.ged on Aug 1, 2012 by Lydia Vierson.




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Madison-125 Bobbie (Madison) Hall
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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Rejected matches › Mary (Foster) Lovejoy (1673-1763) › Mary Ann (Foster) Ratts (abt.1844-abt.1907) › Mary Foster (-1705) › Mary Fosten (bef.1621-)

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