Experience Bates was born in Weymouth, Massachusetts, on September 29, 1736.[1] She was the daughter of John and Deliverance Bates.
Her first husband was James Trufant. They married December 26, 1754.[2][3] They were the parents of twin daughters, Mary and Dilly (Deliverance?), born in 1756.[3][4]
After the death of James Trufant, Experience married Abijah Beal of Abington, Massachusetts, as her second husband in 1773 (intentions to marry were posted in Weymouth on Aug. 27, 1773).[5]
↑ Vital Records of Weymouth, Massachusetts, Vol. II, p. 25
↑ Massachusetts Vital Records: Weymouth. Deaths, p. 187, Ancestry.com. Note: The death record gives her age at death as 91, which would correspond to a birth in about 1734.
Bicknell, Thomas Williams,. History and genealogy of the Bicknell family : and some collateral lines, of Normandy, Great Britain and America, comprising some ancestors and many descendants of Zachary Bicknell from Barrington, Somersetshire, England, 1635. Providence: Bicknell, 1913.
Vital Records of Weymouth, Massachusetts. New England Historical Genealogical Society, 1910.
Massachusetts Vital Records: Weymouth 1633-1900, by Jay Mack Holbrook, 1991.
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