Mary (Herrick) Starkweather (abt. 1691 - 1786)

Born about 1691 in Beverly, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Ancestors

Wife of John Starkweather — married 28 Dec 1708 (to 1750) in Preston, New London, Connecticut Colony

Descendants

Died 18 Jan 1786 at about age 95 in Preston, New London, Connecticut, United States

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Biography

This profile is part of the Herrick Name Study.

Mary Herrick was probably born in late 1691 or early 1692 in Beverly, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony. Her parents were Ephraim & Judith (Woodbury) Herrick. No birth record has been found for Mary. Her parents were married on 2 January 1688/9.^[1] They had a daughter Judith born to them on 29 June 1690^[2], so Judith was their first-born child. Judith is the only birth on record for them in Beverly. Mary was married on 28 December 1708^[3], which constrains her birth year to not later than 1692.^[4] Mary is identified as the daughter of Ephraim Herrick in Ephraim's will of 1745, in which he mentions his daughter Mary just after his daughter Judith is mentioned, in presumed customary birth order.

Ephraim moved his family to Preston, New London, Connecticut Colony about 1694.^[5] His daughter Anna was born there on 5 February 1696/7.^[6]

Mary married John Starkweather in Preston on 28 December 1708 (the marriage was also recorded in Stonington, New London, Connecticut Colony records).^[3]

Mary and John had children, the first three born in Preston, the rest in Stonington:^[6][7][8]

1. Mary (1710/11), married Jeremiah Kinne
2. Lydia (1712/13), married (perhaps) Samuel Coggswell
3. Anna (1715), married her cousin Joseph Starkweather, then Simeon Benjamin
4. John (bp. 23 Feb 1718/9), died young
5. Samuel (1719/20), married Sarah Purple
6. John (1722), married Jerusha Smith, then Elizabeth (Belcher) Hatch
7. Joel (1724), married Jane/Joan (Campbell) Trumble
8. Elizabeth (1726), married Caleb Rude
9. Robert (1728), married Sarah (Eveleth) Colby
10. Woodbury (1731-1755), died unmarried
11. Ephraim (1733), married Sarah (Lawrence) Carpenter
12. Eunice (1735), married Abraham Kirby

The Starkweather family lived on the border of Preston and Stonington. Mary was admitted to the church in the South Society of Stonington on 4 July 1714, and John was admitted to the church in the North Society of Preston on 11 November 1720.^[8]

John Starkweather died unexpectedly in 1750 while on business in Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay Colony.^[8] There is a headstone with his name on it in the Eliot Burying Ground in Roxbury: Find A Grave: Memorial #29214463.

Mary died on 18 January 1786, most likely in Preston. She is buried in the Leonard cemetery in Griswold, New London, Connecticut. Per the church record she was aged 96 years (which has resulted in her often being assigned a birth year of 1690).^[9] Mary has a Find A Grave: Memorial #69969931 which assigns her a specific birth date of 14 June 1690, which is not correct.

Sources

1. ↑ New England Marriages to 1700. Torrey, v.2 p.744 (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2008.) Originally published as: New England Marriages Prior to 1700. Boston, Mass.: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2015. NEHGS member site
   • Text: "HERRICK, Ephraim (1664-) & Judah?/Judith? WOODBERRY (1667-); 2 Jan 1688/9; Beverly/ Preston, CT {Preston CT VR 248; Herrick 11; Fulton Anc. 110; Putnam's Mag. 6:301}"
2. ↑ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850 (Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2016). NEHGS member site
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1} Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Stonington, p.120 (Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2011.) From original typescripts, Lucius Barnes Barbour Collection, 1928. NEHGS member site
4. ↑ The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. Boston, MA: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1847-. William Woodbury of Salem and Beverly, v.173:3 p.217 (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2018.) NEHGS member site
5. ↑ Herrick, Jedediah, Genealogical register of the name and family of Herrick,..., (1846) p.11 InternetArchive
6. ↑ ^{6.0 6.1} Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870 Preston, pp.190-192 (Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2011.) From original typescripts, Lucius Barnes Barbour Collection, 1928. https://www.americanancestors.org/DB414/i/13114/190/234848916 NEHGS member site]
7. ↑ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870 Stonington, pp 242 (Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2011.) From original typescripts, Lucius Barnes Barbour Collection, 1928. NEHGS member site
8. ↑ ^{8.0 8.1 8.2} Starkweather, Carlton Lee, A brief genealogical history of Robert Starkweather of Roxbury and Ipswich, Massachusetts : (1904), pp.31-34 InternetArchive
9. ↑ "Connecticut, Charles R. Hale Collection, Vital Records, 1640-1955", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-L9F5-SGW4?cc=2658554 : 9 November 2023), > image 1 of 1.

• "Hartford Courant" Newspaper, dated 27 Nov 1769, p 3 newspapers.com/clip/25286769/mary_herrick_starkweather_79_years_old/