Mary Crowell was born in Yarmouth in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, most likely on 26 June 1697. She was the daughter of John Crowell and Hannah Hathaway.[1]
The birth year of abt 1722 for son Nathaniel is based on his gravestone. No clear record establishing the younger Nathaniel as the son of this Nathaniel and Mary has been found, but many researchers claim this connection and it appears likely given the repetition of the name Nathaniel in the previous and later generations of this family, the younger Nathaniel's birth in 1722, his marriage in Truro in 1748, and the gap between 1717-1730 in the other known children of the older Nathaniel and Mary.
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↑See "Yarmouth, Mass., Vital Records," The Mayflower Descendant 13 (1911): 220-27, at 220-21; and Lydia B. Brownson, et al., Genealogical Notes of Cape Cod Families, (Duxbury, Mass.: 1966), 15:107. The original record of the birth dates of the children in this family incorrectly records Mary's birth as "the 26th day of June in the year : 1798" while the dates for all of her siblings were from 1682-1706. The MD editor notes her birth year of "1798" was "[p]lainly an error for 1698. The whole family was recorded at one time." However that would put her birth just six months before her sister Reliance. Brownson et al. record her birth as "June 25, 1697?"
↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QPZ5-HVM5 : 31 October 2019), Nathanil Adkins and Mary Crowel, 1 Oct 1716; citing Marriage, Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 007009773. Note that the FamilySearch index record gives the date 1 Oct 1716, but the original record says "Nathanil adkins & mary Crowel were married October ye 17th : 1716: by david greenleaf").
↑ George Ernest Bowman, Vital Records of the Town of Truro, Massachusetts to the End of the Year 1849," (Boston: Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1933), 15.
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