Mary (Osborn) Bennett (1653 - 1726)

Born 29 Mar 1653 in New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut Colony

Ancestors

Wife of Ephraim Booth — married 9 Jun 1675 (to 1683) in New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut

Wife of James Bennett II Esq — married about 1684 in Fairfield, Fairfield, Connecticut Colony

Descendants

Died 28 Nov 1726 at age 73 in Stratfield, Fairfield, Fairfield, Connecticut Colony

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Biography

Mary Osbourne and her sister Elisabeth, daughters of Sister Osborne were baptized at the New Haven Congregational Church 21 Nov 1655. Mary was born on Mar 29, 1653. Elisabeth was born 5 Jan 1654.^[1]

Elizabeth Osborn the daughter of Jeremiah Osborne was borne 7 Jan 1654. [1654/55]^[2]

Mary married (1) Ephraim Booth and (2) James Bennett^[3]

Mary died 28 Nov 1726 and was buried in Stratfield.^[3]

Mary Osborn was born on 29 March 1653 in New Haven, New Haven County, Connecticut, the only known child of Jeremiah Osborn and an unknown mother.^[4]

On 9 June 1675, when she was twenty-two, she married Ephraim Booth. She bore him four known children, one son and three daughters.^[4]

On 28 November 1726, when she was seventy-three, she died,^[4] probably in Connecticut, of unknown causes.

Citations

1. ↑ Connecticut Church Records Index: New Haven First Congregational Church 1639-1937. Vol. J-Z. Hartford: Connecticut State Library, 1947.
2. ↑ Vital Records of New Haven 1649-1850 Part I. Hartford: The Connecticut Society of the Order of the Founders and Patriots of America, 1917 p. 11
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1} Jacobus, Donald Lines (compiler). Families of Ancient New Haven, Vol I-VIII. and Index Vol IX New Haven: 1931. Reprint, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1974, 1981, 1997. Originally published as New Haven Genealogical Magazine, Volumes I-VIII. Rome, NY and New Haven, CT 1922-1932.
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1 4.2} Jacobus, Donald Lines, History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield, Vol. 1, Page 88. URL: https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/48014/FamFairfieldI-002979-54/161247?backurl=&ssrc=&backlabel=Return&rc=266,643,415,673;1197,792,1321,830;128,931,225,971;275,1029,389,1068;387,1030,533,1068;620,1377,725,1409;891,1904,1018,1943#?imageId=FamFairfieldI-003013-88 Accessed 3 Jan 2020.

Sources

• Pendery, Joyce S., Descendants of George and Margery Wathen of Salem, Massachusetts, The New England Historical & Genealogical Register (NEHGS, Boston, Mass., 2000) Vol. 154, Page 334.
• Jacobus, Donald Lines. The Genealogy of the Booth Family (E.C. Booth, Pleasant Hill, Mo., 1952)

• The compiler of this works appears to be a professional genealogist although he does not cite specific sources except to say "Authorities Aside from Original Sources Consulted". Under this title he lists a number of local histories and other Booth genealogies as well as original town and church records. Vital Records of (CT Towns of) Stratford, Newtown, Fairfield, Woodbury, weston, Berlin, Farmington, Roxbury, etc. Church Records (Congregational & Episcopalian) of Stratford, Hungtington, and Trumbull, Redding, Roxbury, South Britain, Easton, New Britain, Southington. Probate Recrods of Fairfield Stratford, Danbury, Woodbury, Farmington. Land Records Stratford, Newtown, Scattering Cemetery inscriptions, Hale Collection, State Library hartford, many towns Family Records, State Library Hartford, CT In many cases his dates differ from Orcutt's History of New Milford p. 657-58. MSS: Booth Collection, Kate S. Fogarty, Fairfield Historical society\Pattersosn Genealogy, D. Williams Patterson, CT Historical society and numerous printed sources and family histories. see p 115-116 Names, dates and information of this line down to Mead Booth are taken from this book.

• Donald Lines Jacobus, History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield, CD-Local and Family Histories: CT, 1600's - 1800's, (Produced in collaboration with the Genealogical Publishing Company, 2000), vol 1 p 88.

• Donald Lines Jacobus, Families of Old Fairfield, vol 1 p 67.

• Donald Lines Jacobus, Families of Ancient New Haven ([CD]Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1981[originally]Rome, N.Y. and New Haven, Conn., 1922-1932), vol 6, p 1323.

• Osborne Origins, "Mary OSBORN-4975" (citing Jacobus, p. 1323, & CT Town Vital Recs.)

• Jacobus, Donald Lines, History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield, Vol. 1, Page 88. URL: https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/48014/FamFairfieldI-002979-54/161247?backurl=&ssrc=&backlabel=Return&rc=266,643,415,673;1197,792,1321,830;128,931,225,971;275,1029,389,1068;387,1030,533,1068;620,1377,725,1409;891,1904,1018,1943#?imageId=FamFairfieldI-003013-88 Accessed 3 Jan 2020.