Nathaniel Covell (abt. 1720 - aft. 1770)

Born about 1720 in Chatham, Barnstable, Massachusetts Bay

Ancestors

Husband of Mary (Chase) Godfrey — married after 20 Jul 1740 in Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts

Descendants

Died after 1770 after about age 50 in Chatham, Barnstable, Massachusetts

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Biography

"Nathaniel Covell, son of Joseph and Hannah (Bassett) Covell, b. ...; m. Mary Chase, dau. of Isaac of Yarmouth (Int. July 20, 1740). She was born Jan 9, 1720-21. This family having joined the Baptist Church of Harwich, removed to that town about 1770, where most of their children married. Children: 1. Joseph, b. July 3, 1741; m. Mercy Nickerson of Harwich (Int. April 23e, 1760, Har. Rec.). 2. Nathaniel, b. April 27, 1743; no record of him. 3. Obadiah, b. Jan. 28, 1744; no record of him.4. Dorcas, b. June 1, 1747; died May 16, 1753. 5. Isaac, b. April 6, 1749; m. Ruth Doane of Harwich, Nov. 8, 1769 (Har. Rec..). 6. Judah, b. Mar. 25, 1751-2; m. Jane Gage of Harwich, Nov. 4, 1773 (Har. Rec.). Ebenezer, b. Dec. 6, 1752; died Nov. 27, 1754. Dorcas, b. Apr. 4, 1755; no record of her."

Name

Nathaniel (Covel) /COVELL/ Found multiple versions of NAME. Using Nathaniel /COVEL/.

Birth

Date: AFT 1701

SDATE 1 JAN 1702

Place: Chatham, Barnstable, Massachusetts, ^[1]

Date: 1721

SDATE 1 JUL 1721

Place: Chatham, British America^[2]

Event

Type: Move

Date: 1756

Place: Middleborough, British America^[3]

Marriage

Nathaniel Covell Nathaniel Covel married Mary Chase in 1740 at Chatham, Barnstable, Massachusetts. Mary was a descendant of William Chase^[4]

Children

1. Child: Joseph Covel

2. Child: Nathaniel Covel

3. Child: Obadiah Covel

4. Child: Dorcas Covel

5. Child: Isaac Covel

6. Child: Judah Covel

7. Child: Ebenezer Covel

8. Child: Dorcas Covel

9. Child: Ebenezer Covel

10. Child: Mary Covel

Marriage:

Date: 20 JUL 1740^[5]

Banns of Marriage:

Date: 20 JUL 1740

Place: Yarmouth, British America^[6]

Child: Constant Covell

Child: James Covell

Child: Nathaniel Covel

Child: James (Covel) Covell

Child: Joseph (Covel) Covell

Child: Nathaniel Covell

Child: Dorcas (Covel) Covell

Marriage:

Date: 1 MAR 1703/4

Place: Eastham, British America^[7]

Research Notes

There is a conflict with Nathaniel's DOD (18 Feb 1756) with the birth of his child Mary Covell and the birth of a son Ebenezer both born in Middleborough. She was born on 28 Jan 1759.^[8] Nathaniel's profile page at FamilySearch shows a DOD of 1790.^[9] The source is from an ancestry.com tree and is not shown here because the death date is unsourced. Given that Mary's birth is sourced and her mother is not listed as a widow, the DOB has been changed to after 1770 to avoid this conflict and another. Also, Nathaniel's wife is Mary Chase.

Sources

1. ↑ Source: #S586 Page: 24 March 2012; 575-577
2. ↑ Source: #S583 Page: 24 March 2012; births of children of Nathaniel Covel and his wife Mary
3. ↑ Source: #S585 Page: 24 March 2012 Data: Text: On 18 Feb. 1756, Samuel Waterman and Mary his wife, of Halifax, sold to Nathaniel Covel of Chatham, Mass., 214 acres in Middleboro, which "did originally belong to our Honoured Father Thomas Thomson deceased" (ib., 43-197).
4. ↑ Vital Records from The NEHGS Register. Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2014. Compiled from articles originally published in The New England Historical and Genealogical Register.(https://www.americanancestors.org/DB522/i/14318/133/264637303)
5. ↑ Source: #S586 Page: 24 March 2012; 575-577
6. ↑ Source: #S586 Page: 24 March 2012; 575-577
7. ↑ Source: Page: 24 March 2012; 575-577
8. ↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q29L-1KYG : 10 November 2020), Nathaniel Covel in entry for Mary Covel, 28 Jan 1759; citing Birth, Middleborough, Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 004934231.
9. ↑ https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/LBKQ-FGX

Source of above quote: The History of Chatham by William Smith, 1971 Edition, p. 337, Footnote #48

Acknowledgments

• Source: S1 Abbreviation: Ancestral File (R) Title: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Ancestral File (R) (Copyright (c) 1987, June 1998, data as of 5 January 1998) Repository: #R1 Repository: #R1
• Repository: R1 Name: Family History Library Address: 35 N West Temple Street CONT Salt Lake City, Utah 84150 USA Address 1: 35 N West Temple Street Address 2: Salt Lake City, Utah 84150 USA
• Source: S583 Abbreviation: The Mayflower descendant v11 Title: , "Chatham, Mass., Vital records," The Mayflower descendant : a quarterly magazine, 11 (1909) (http://hdl.handle.net/2027/njp.32101076382702?urlappend=%3Bseq=57 : accessed ). Repository: #R97 Page: 24 March 2012; births of children of Nathaniel Covel and his wife Mary
• Repository: R97 Name: Hathitrust Address: Web Address: www.hathitrust.org
• Source: S585 Abbreviation: The Waterman Family, Volume 1 Title: Edgar Francis Waterman, The Waterman Family (1939), ; digital images, (: accessed . Repository: #R42
• Repository: R42 Name: books.google.com Address:
• Source: S586 Abbreviation: Cape Cod Library of History and Local Genealogy Title: Front Cover, Cape Cod Library of local history and genealogy: a facsimile edition of 108 pamphlets published in the early 20th century, Volume 1 (n.d.), ; digital images, (: accessed .