Mary (Chase) Weeks (1687 - 1745)

Born 17 Jan 1687 in Nantucket, Dukes, New York Colony

Ancestors

Wife of Benjamin Weeks — married about 14 Jan 1703 in Falmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts

Descendants

Died 1745 at about age 57 in Cartaret County, North Carolina

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Biography

Mary was born 17 January 1687 in Nantucket, Dukes, New York Colony (later Nantucket, Massachusetts Bay Colony) to Isaac Chase and Mary Tilton.^[1] She married Benjamin Weeks 14 January 1704 in Massachusetts Bay Colony.^[2] She died in August 1788 in Carteret County, North Carolina.^[3]

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From her husband's profile:

Mary CHASE-10294 and Benjamin WEEKS-10293 had the following children: i. Theophilus WEEKS-10287. 419 418. Theophilus WEEKS was born about 1708 in Falmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts. He died in 1772 at the age of 64 in Swansboro, Onslow, North Carolina.

Theophilus WEEKS and Grace GREEN were married in 1735 in Swansboro, Onslow, North Carolina. Grace GREEN died after 1775 in Onslow County, North Carolina. She was born in Falmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts.

ii. Archelaus WEEKS was born (date unknown).

iii. Lydia WEEKS was born (date unknown).

iv. Thankful WEEKS was born about 1718 in . She died about 1785 at the age of 67 in Craven, Rowan, North Carolina.

Thankful WEEKS and Thomas HICKS were married about 1740 in (probably) Massachusetts.

Thomas HICKS was born on 19 February 1719 in Swansea, Bristol, Massachusetts. He died about 1777 at the age of 58 in Duplin County, North Carolina.

"Birth date found recorded in the records of Swansea, Bristol Co., MA. Believe Thomas to be a son of Thomas and Abigail Hicks of Swansea Massachusetts. If he is not their son, Thomas, it would still seem probable he came from the Hicks family line that started out from Mass. (Both families trace back to the orginal Hicks settling in Massachusetts.) Some descendants moved to Long Island, New York. Later, descendants from that family moved to what became Granville Co., NC. I find a Thomas Hicks in Edgecomb Co., NC (Granville was created from part of Granville) in 1747. He sells land there in 1752, but when the will of his father is probated in 1788, Thomas is listed as unmarried. Our Thomas was deceased by that time. Our Thomas shows up in Duplin County in 1754. However, since Thankful's parents settled in the Carteret/Onslow Co. portion of NC, as did the family of Thomas and Abigail Hicks, I think it more probable that our Thomas was also in that region.

There is a land purchase by a David Hicks, most likely their son, for 400 acres in Carteret Co. on the North side of Bogue Sound on 1 April 1752 and for Thomas Hicks in September of 1749 [Colonial Land Entries in North Carolina 1735-1752 by A. B. Pruitt, Vol. 2, entries 1091.] Thomas Hicks also had land on Boque Sound. When he sells the land there, shortly a Thomas Hicks shows up in Duplin Co., NC. Several things point to his being the same individual as the Thomas Hicks of Carteret, Bogue Sound -- he is a Cooper, and he signs his own name being two points to notice."

v. Isaac WEEKS was born in 1722.

vi. Elizabeth WEEKS was born in 1725.

vii. Jabez WEEKS was born (date unknown).

viii. Christian WEEKS was born (date unknown).

ix. Mary WEEKS was born (date unknown).

x. Benjamin WEEKS was born (date unknown).

Sources

1. ↑ "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VQDC-6H2 : 15 January 2020), Mary Chase, 1687.
2. ↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QPZN-HGLX : 11 May 2022), Benjamin Week and Mary Chase, 14 Jan 1704; citing Marriage, Tisbury, Dukes, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 007009758.
3. ↑ Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/183603357/mary-weeks: accessed 25 June 2023), memorial page for Mary Chase Weeks (17 Jan 1687–Aug 1788), Find a Grave Memorial ID 183603357; Burial Details Unknown; Maintained by Jo W. (contributor 48017095).

• Vital Records of Tisbury, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850 (NEHGS, Boston, Mass., 1910) Page 26. Birth record.