Mary (Unknown) Mitchell (abt. 1620 - aft. 1662)

Wife of Experience Mitchell — married about 1640 in Plymouth, Plymouth Colony

Descendants

Died after 1662 after about age 42 in Plymouth Colony [uncertain]

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Biography

This person is an ancestor of President William Howard Taft, ^[1]

Date of birth derived from probable date of marriage of 1641. Date of death also estimated. She was the second wife of Experience Mitchell and is believed to be the mother of his five youngest children: Sarah, Edward, Jacob, John, and Hannah.

Maiden Name

Note: this information was duplicated from the page for Constant (Mitchell) Briggs (1620-aft.1690), wife of John Fobes (abt.1613-bef.1660).

John Vobes/Fobes' nuncupative will refers to Experience Mitchell as Constant (Mitchell) Briggs (1620-aft.1690)'s "brother." Stearns' 1908 Genealogical and Family History of the State of New Hampshire^[2] and the 1972 unpublished manuscript The Fobes Family in America^[3] apparently read the term "brother" in the modern sense and state that Constant's maiden name was Mitchell. Based no doubt on Stearns and The Fobes Family in America, most online genealogies for Constant also state that her maiden name was Mitchell.

At the time, however, the term "brother" was used to refer not only to a brother-by-blood but also a brother-in-law or step-brother. In fact, evidence suggests that it is perhaps more likely that Constant was the sister-by-blood of Experience's second wife Mary rather than sister-by-blood of Experience himself: (1) Since, as discussed above, Constant was probably born sometime in 1615-1627, Experience was probably born sometime in 1603-1609, ^[4] and Experience's second wife Mary was probably born about 1620, Constant's date of birth is more consistent with her being Mary's sister-by-blood than Experience's sister-by-blood. (2) Constant did not have a son named Thomas, suggesting she was not the daughter of Thomas Mitchell. (3) Both Constant and Mary had sons named Edward, suggesting that they had a common father named Edward. If Constant was the sister-by-blood of Experience's second wife, Mary, rather than Experience himself, Constant's maiden name is unknown, not Mitchell.

Sources

1. ↑ Roberts, Gary Boyd; Ancestors of American Presidents
2. ↑ Stearns, Ezra S. Genealogical and Family History of the State of New Hampshire, Vol. II. Lewis Publishing Company, 1908. pp. 975-976. Link to pages at hathitrust.org
3. ↑ Fobes, Lawrence G. The Fobes Family in America: The Descendents of John Fobes, Immigrant in 1636 to Duxbury, Massachusetts, Vol. 2. manuscript, 1972. p. 1. Link to manuscript at familysearch.org
4. ↑ Experience Mitchell (abt.1602-bef.1689)

• Source Wood, Ralph V., Jr., Mayflower Families through Five Generations Volume 12, Rockland, Maine: Picton Press,Revised Edition,2011 p. 29-37.

• Source: Robert Charles Anderson, "Experience Mitchell",The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Vol.II. Boston, New England Historic Genelogical Society 1995, p 1270-1273

• Roberts, Gary Boyd; Ancestors of American Presidents. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2009. p. 94.

Acknowledgements

• This person was created on 14 September 2010 through the import of 124-DeCoursey.ged.
• This person was created through the import of grant2.ged on 07 February 2011.
• This person was created on 31 March 2011 through the import of Dickinson Family Tree.ged.