Mary was born in 1681 - likely York County, Maine - to John and Elizabeth Parsons.
In the Vital Records of York we read:
"Nicholas Cane his Children born in York of his Wife Mary the Daughter of John Parson viz.
John born Nov. 14 1706;
Abigail born Aug: 29 1708;
Mary born Janu 19 1714/15;
Joshua born March 19 1716/17;
Mercy born Octo: 14 1719;
Samuel born Nov. 30 1721;
Elizabeth born September, 11 1724."
Mary Parsons Cane died in the 1750s - her widowed husband, Nicholas Cane, took as his second wife, the widow Sarah Gray Jellison in Berwick, Maine in 1756.
Sources
"Vital Records of York," NEHGS Register, 1847-2011, Volume 110, page 178.
"Vital Records of York," NEHGS Register, 1847-2011, Volume 110, page 179.
Bragdon, Lester MacKenzie, comp., "Vital Records of York, Maine," New England Historical and Genealogical Register, vols. 109-123 (Boston, Mass.: The Society, 1955-69)
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