Note: Conflict: Rebecca Meriam, wife of Josiah Meriam died at Concord in 1826, but we also have Josiah marrying Mary Kingsbury in 1823? The death is recorded in the transcribed Concord VR, but I'm not able the original to see if there is a typo.
Widow Mary (Kingsbury) Meriam, daughter of Benjamin and Hannah (Woodman) Kingsbury, who was born in Lyme, New Hampshire, died at Boston, Massachusetts in September, 1883, aged 85 years 9 months and 22 days. [3]
Children
by Mary Brown
Ruth Brown born on March 8, 1779; married Eli Dakin on March 19, 1801. [1][4]
Molly/Mary born on November 29, 1780; married first Robert Kathrens of Boston on July 7, 1799 [1] ; married second Jacob Melvin Gordon on April 8, 1824. [4]
Josiah born on June 28, 1783, died aged 4 weeks on August 1, 1783. [1][4]
Betsey born on September 6, 1784 [1] ; died March 13, 1865; married ___ Gordon. [4]
Oliver born on March 11, 1787; married Martha Prescott, June 10, 1817. [1][4]
Jacob Brown, born on June 6, 1789; died on November 13, 1842, aged 57; married ___ . [1][4]
Anna born on March 26, 1792 [1]; died unmarried at Lexington on August 24, 1883. [5][4]
Lydia born on September 18, 1795; died aged 93 on December 23, 1888 [5]; married Colburn Hadlock of Boston on May 16, 1819. [1][4]
Darius born on June 21, 1798; married Lydia Vose Gregory on May 8, 1821. [1][4]
Elisha born on January 16, 1801; died on February 21, 1801. [1][4]
Jesse Wheeler born on February 26, 1802[1]; moved to Ohio. [4]
Hiram/(Ira) born on March 17, 1806 [1]; moved to Ohio. [4]
↑ 2.02.12.2 Wheeler, Albert Gallatin, The genealogical and encyclopedic history of the Wheeler family in America, American College of Genealogy, Boston, Massachusetts, 1914, p. 151
↑ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1841-1910. (From original records held by the Massachusetts Archives. Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2004.)
https://www.americanancestors.org/DB191/i/10203/250/120533939
↑ 5.05.15.2 Lexington, Mass., Record of Births, Marriages and Deaths to January 1, 1898, Wright and Potter Printing Company, Boston, Massachusetts, 1898
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