Mary (Holbrook) Summers (1650 - 1722)

Born 17 Mar 1650 in Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Ancestors

Wife of Ephraim Wheeler — married 1675 in Milford, New Haven, Connecticut Colony

Descendants

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Biography

Mary Holbrook was baptized 17 March 1650 in Dorchester, Norfolk, Massachusetts. She was the daughter of Richard Holbrook and Agnes.^[1][2]

She married 1st Ephraim Wheeler Sep 8 1675 in Milford, New Haven, Connecticut. Ephraim died 1685. ^[1][2][3][4]

They had at least 4 children:^[2]

1. Ephraim, b Jan 5 1681
2. Abigail, b Feb 9 1683
3. Hannah,
4. Mary, mar Eliphalet Gillet

She married 2nd Henry Summers^[1][5] 1694.

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} Abbott, Susan Woodruff. Families of Early Milford, Connecticut (Genealogical Publishing Co., 1979)
   • Page 372 Richard and Agnes Holbrook, dau Mary, bpt Dorchester, Mass 17 Mar 1650, mar 18 Sep 1674/5 Ephraim Wheeler, s of Thomas & Joanna bpt 1646, died 1685, mar 2nd Henry Summers
   • Page 115-16, #1 John Brinsmade married Abigail Wheeler, dau of Ephraim and Mary (Holbrook). She was born Feb 8 1683/4.
   • Page 300 #2 Eliphal Gillett m Mary Wheeler, who was bap Milford 3 Feb 1678 and died 31 Jan 1730, age 53, dau of Ephraim and Mary (Holbrook),
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2} Holbrook, Mary Louise. The Holbrook Family of Derby (Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor, New Haven, Connecticut, 1932). Page 1-2 Page 1 - #6 Mary, b at Dorchester, Mar 17 1650, mar Ephraim Wheeler Sep 8 1678; Page 2 - #6 Mary Holbrook, dau of Richard and Agnes Holbrook, b Mar 17 1650 at Dorchester, Mass, mar Sep 8 1678 Ephraim Wheeler in Milford, Conn. 4 Wheeler children
3. ↑ *Campbell, Hollis Andrew, Seymour Past and Present (W. C. Sharpe, Publisher, Seymour, Conn, 1902) Page 473 #6 Mary, dau of Richard Holbook, m Ephraim Wheeler
4. ↑ Wheeler, William. The Genealogy of the Wheeler Family (Washington, D.C., 1919) Page 14 #14 Ephraim (son of #4 Thomas and Joanna, son of #1 Thomas), was baptized Mar 26 1644, married Mary Holbrook Sep 8 1675, died 1685
5. ↑ Jacobus, Donald Lines. History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield (Produced in collaboration with the Genealogical Publishing Company, 2000), vol 1, p 595 Sumners, Henry, 2nd spouse is Mary, widow of Ephraim Wheeler and dau of Richard Holbrook, bapt at Dorcheser 17 Mar 1650.

• The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records (NEHGS, Boston, 2011) Vol. Milford, Page 86. Marriage record listed twice. First to Ebenezer Wheeler and second to Ephraim Wheeler, both with the same date and officiant.
• Ancestral File Number: 4CJ8-7T