Mary Martha (Kellum) Follett (1670 - 1706)

Born 18 Jun 1670 in Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts Bay

Wife of John Follett — married 10 Jul 1694 in Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts

Descendants

Died 17 Apr 1706 at age 35 in Attleboro, Bristol, Massachusetts Bay

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Biography

Mary Martha ("Martha") Kellum or Callum was born in 1670 in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts. She was the daughter of Machum Callum, whose name has also been recorded using different spellings: Mackum Callum, Makum MacCallum or Mackallum. His wife is sometimes is recorded as "Martha", full maiden name unknown.

Martha was the first wife of John Follett (aka John Follett I). They had at least six children. She passed just over week after her son Samuel was born on 5 April 1706.

She passed away on 17 April 1706 in Attleboro, Bristol, Massachusetts.

Sources

• "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FHLY-NM6 : 10 February 2018), Machum Callum in record for birth of Martha Callum, 13 Jun 1670; citing Salem, Essex, Massachusetts, ; FHL microfilm 877,468.
• "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FZZD-78G : 10 February 2018), Machum Callum in record for birth of Martha Callum, 13 Jun 1670; citing Salem, Essex, Massachusetts, ; FHL microfilm 877,468.
• "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VQXL-YX9 : 10 February 2018), Mackum Callum in record for christening of Martha Callum; citing Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts; FHL microfilm 0397791 V. 1.
• "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/Q29G-GCD3 : 5 November 2017), John Follett and Martha Kellum, 10 Jul 1694; citing Marriage, Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts, United States, , town clerk offices, Massachusetts; FHL microfilm 877,468.
• Mary Martha Kellum or Callum, "Ancestral File v4.19," database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.2.1/M44G-8FS ).
• Vital records of Attleborough, MA to 1849, Attleborough Deaths, at: https://ma-vitalrecords.org/MA/Bristol/Attleborough/aDeathsF.shtml (Martha, w. John [Follett], Apr. 17, 1706. [a. abt. 35 y. dup.], "Being the first that was Buried in ye Buring place.")
• Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/38021497/mary-martha-follett : accessed 14 January 2018), memorial page for Mary Martha Kellum Follett (18 Jun 1670–17 Apr 1706), Find A Grave Memorial no. 38021497, ; Maintained by Carol STEVENS (contributor 46861595) Unknown.
• Dearborn, David Curtis. The Callum/Collum Family of Salem and Mendon, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island, The American Genealogist (Barrington, RI, 1995) Vol. 70, Page 3.