Margerite (Wathen) Weed (1674 - aft. 1742)

Born 24 Sep 1674 in Amesbury, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Ancestors

Wife of George Weed — married before Sep 1700 in Salisbury or Amesbury, Essex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay [uncertain]

Descendants

Died after 1742 after age 67 in Salisbury, Essex, Province of Massachusetts Bay

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Biography

Margerite Wathen was born on September 24, 1674 at Amesbury, Massachusetts Bay Colony, a daughter of Ezekiel Wathen and Hannah Martyn.^[1]

Margerite married at Amesbury or Salisbury to George Weed.^[2]

Margerite was living when her husband George wrote his will on 25 January 1731/2, and it was proved on 31 July 1732 at Salisbury, Massachusetts.^[2] Executors were wife Margery and son Nathaniel.^[2]

Margerite was living in 1742. On 05 April 1742, her son Jacob was administrator of his brother Nathaniel's estate and the estate was divided among Nathaniel's brothers and sisters.^[3][4][2]

Their children were recorded at Amesbury:^[2]

1. Sarah Weed, b. 3 Sept 1700; mar Thomas Challis
2. Hannah Weed, b. 2 Aug 1702
3. Phoebe (Pheby) Weed, b. 28 Oct 1704; mar. Moses Bowdy
4. George Weed, b. 11 July 1706; prob. d. young.
5. Deborah Weed, b. 16 Aug 1708
6. Nathaniel Weed, b. 19 July 1710; d. bef. 05 Apr 1742.
7. Lydia Weed, birth not recorded
8. Jacob Weed, b. 16 Feb 1713
9. George Weed "4th", b. Mar. 3, 1714-15; prob. d. young.

Religion

1735: Margery Weed, of Amesbury, was among those on the list of Quakers exempted by the court in paying any tax in supporting 'ministers in the province.'^[5]

1741: July 14: The court had ordered a list of Quaker's, exempt from paying the tax to the ministery, living in the east parish to be placed on the town Record. Widow Margery Weed was included. ^[5]

Sources

1. ↑ Topsfield Historical Society, compiler, 1913 Vital Records of Amesbury, Massachusetts to the End of the Year 1849 Topsfield, MA: Topsfield Historical Society, p. 249, citing Old Norfolk County Court records.

   "Wathen, Margerite, d. Esekiell and Hanah, Sept. 24, 1674."

2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4} Pendery, Joyce C., Descendants of George and Margery Wathen of Salem, Massachusetts. The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (Vol 154, Pages 339, 349) Boston, MA: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1847-. (Online database accessed 15 February 2016: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2013.)
3. ↑ 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.) Link by $ubscription.
4. ↑ David Webster Hoyt, Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury ( Providence, R.I. : [Snow & Farnham, printers, 1897) , p. 347.
5. ↑ ^{5.0 5.1} Merrill, Joseph. History of Amesbury: Including the First Seventeen Years of Salisbury, to the Separation in 1654; and Merrimac, from Its Incorporation in 1876, Press of F. P. Stiles, Haverhill, Massachusetts, 1880, p. 200: 205