Mary (Holton) Root (abt. 1636 - 1718)

Born about 1636 in Hartford, Connecticut Colony

Ancestors

Wife of David Burt — married 18 Nov 1655 in Hampshire Co; Massachusetts

Descendants

Died 16 Dec 1718 at about age 82 in Northfield, Franklin, Province of Massachusetts Bay

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Biography

Birth

• about 1639 ^{[1] [2]}
• 1 Sep. 1636 Hartford, CT
• about 1636 in Hartford, Connecticut,^[3] before counties were created.

Marriage

• 18 Nov. 1655 in Northampton Co., Mass. ^{[4] [5]}
• 15 Nov 1655 the first marriage between residents of Northampton took place. David Burt and Mary Holton were the parties to this solemn contract. Mary Holton was the daughter of WIlliam Holton, one of the first settlers. The home lot of David Burt was the third on the east side of King Street. Here he built his log house and the newly wedded couple commenced their married life.

Death

• 12 August 1691 Northampton, MA
• 16 Dec. 1713 Northfield, Hampden, MA ^{[6] [7]}
• 16 Dec 1718, Death Place: Northfield, Franklin, Massachusetts

Sources

1. ↑ Hale, House and Related Families, by Donald L. Jacobus & E. F. Waterman, Page 489
2. ↑ Parke, Nathan. The Ancestry of Lorenzo Ackley & His Wife Emma Arabella Bosworth (Elm Tree Press, Woodstock, Vt., 1960)
3. ↑ Hunter, Joan A. "William Holton of Hartford, Connecticut, and Northampton, Massachusetts." The Genealogist 25:1 (2011)
4. ↑ American Marriage Records Before 1699, by W. M. Clements; 1926, Page 50.
5. ↑ Burnham, Roderick H Genealogical Records of Henry and Ulalia Burt (Burnham, Warwick, New York, 1892)
6. ↑ Lineage Book, Daughters of American Colonists, Volume I, page 363.
7. ↑ The Ancestry of Lorenzo Ackley & his wife Emma Arabella Bosworth, by N. Grier Park, II; Woodstock, VT: 1960.

• Trumbull, James. History of Northampton, Massachusetts, From its Settlement in 1654 (Northampton, Mass., 1898) Page 30.
• AGBI: American Genealogical-Biographical Index, Godfrey Memorial Library, Middletown, CT, USA
• Clemens, William Montgomery. American Marriages Before 1699 (Biblio Co., Pompton Lakes, New Jersey, USA, 1926)