↑ First-hand information as remembered by Stanley Wood, Thursday, March 20, 2014. Replace this citation if there is another source.
↑Marriage notice:
"Massachusetts State Vital Records, 1841-1925"
citing Digital film/folder number: 004273839; FHL microfilm: 574885; Record number: 21; Packet letter: D
FamilySearch Record: FHCG-4Z7 (accessed 18 March 2024)
Marcy Eldridge marriage to Joseph Sampson on 30 May 1746 in New Bedford, Bristol, Massachusetts Bay.
↑Family History Or Pedigree:
"Mayflower Births and Deaths, Vol. 1 and 2" Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry Record 3718 #50701 (accessed 18 March 2024)
Name: Mercy Eldridge; Gender: Female; Relationship: Wife; Spouse's Name: Joseph Samson; Spouse Gender: Male; Household Members (Name) Relationship: Joseph Samson Self (Head) Mercy Eldridge Wife Edward Samson Child Benjamin Samson Child Sarah Samson Child.
Source Family History Library, Salt Lake City, UT, Film # 0883792.
Mayflower Families Fifth Generation Descendants, 1700-1880. (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2017). From Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Descendants of the Pilgrims who landed at Plymouth, Mass., December 1620. Plymouth, MA: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1975-2015. [1]
Mercy ELDRIDGE
Intention 5/30/1746
Location Dartmouth, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States
Volume Name Alden, John (Vol. 16, part 5) Page 25
Mayflower Families Fifth Generation Descendants, 1700-1880. (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2017). From Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Descendants of the Pilgrims who landed at Plymouth, Mass., December 1620. Plymouth, MA: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1975-2015. [2]
Mercy [Eldridge] SAMSON
Deed 9/25/1802
Location Fairhaven, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States
Spouse Joseph Samson
Volume Name Samson, Henry (Vol. 20, part 2) Page 408
Mercy [Eldridge] SAMSON 12/29/1803 Death
Plymouth County, MA: Probate File Papers, 1686-1881.Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2015. (From records supplied by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Archives.) [3]
Mercy SAMPSON
Probate Record 1812
Location Middleborough, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States
Original Text SAMPSON, Mercy
Case_Number 17595
Note page 1 of 16
Case Type Will
Volume Name Plymouth Cases 16000-17999 Page 17595:1
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