Mary (Root) Montague (1711 - abt. 1800)

Born 30 Apr 1711 in Hatfield, Hampshire, Massachusetts

Ancestors

Wife of Samuel Montague Sr. — married 13 Jun 1754 in Sunderland, Franklin, Massachusetts

Died about 1800 at about age 88 in Sunderland, Massachusetts, USA [uncertain]

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Biography

Abstracted from History of Sunderland, p. 497:

Joseph Root, son of Joseph, was born in 1686. He married, on February 16, 1710, Mary, the daughter of Philip Russell.

Joseph was one of the first 40 settlers of Sunderland and the first schoolteacher employed in the town; his home lot No. 11, West side. At a town meeting held December 2, 1734, it was "Voted to give Widow Root for tending the Flagg on the Sabbath days, and on other occasions, for the year £1.s10. "

He died February 9, 1728, leaving an estate valued at £540, which was at that time the largest in Sunderland; Mary died January 23, 1738.

Children - eldest three were born in Hatfield, others at Sunderland:

• Mary, born April 30, 1711; married November 25, 1736, Jonathan Billings; married second, June 13, 1754, Samuel Montague.
• Joseph, born June 16, 1713.
• Jonathan, born February 1, 1716.
• Hannah, born March 2, 1718; married June 10, 1736, John Gunn.
• Eunice, born July 18, 1720; married October 30, 1751, Caleb Montague.
• Lydia, born March 12, 1722; married October 3, 1748, Moses Clark.
• Martha, born February 9, 1724; married August 12, 1756, Moses Field of Northfield; she married second, on December 24, 1793, Enoch Bardwell of Montague. Martha died March 3, 1813.

Sources

• Root Genealogical Records 1600-1870; Comprising the General History of the Root and Roots Families in America, by James Pierce Root, page 114

• A Genealogy of the Mortons, with Related Genealogies. by William Markham Morton, Published 1930, Halls Printing, Co., Ellsworth, Wisconsin

• History of the Town of Sunderland, Massachusetts, Which Originally Embraced Within its Limits the Present Towns of Montague and Leverett 1683-1899. John Montague Smith, Henry W. Taft and Abbie T. Montague. Greenfield, Massachusetts, Press of E. A. Hall & Co., 1899. https://archive.org/stream/historytownsund00montgoog or http://books.google.com/books?

See also:

• Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001 [1]

Mary Root

Birth Event Date: 30 Apr 1711

Event Place: Hatfield, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States

Father's Name: Joseph Root

Mother's Name: Mary

• Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850 (Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2016). [2]

Mary ROOT

Marriage 1736

Location Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States

Spouse Jonathan Billings

Town Info Northampton

Volume Name Northampton - V1 Page 1252

• "Massachusetts State Vital Records, 1841-1920", database with images, FamilySearch ([3] : 28 December 2022), Mary Billing in entry for Samu. Montague, 1754.

Samu. Montague

Spouse's Name Mary Billing

Marriage Date 13 Jun 1754

Marriage Place Sunderland, Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay

• Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988 Image

Mary Billings [lnab Eastman]

Birth Date abt 1712

Death Date 18 Dec 1799

Death Place Conway, Massachusetts

Death Age 87

Spouse Name Fellows

• Hampshire County, MA: Probate File Papers, 1660-1889. Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2016, 2017. (From records supplied by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Archives and the Hampshire County Court. Digitized mages provided by FamilySearch.org) [4]

Mary FELLOWS [lnab Eastman]

Probate Record 1799

Location Rowe, Franklin, Massachusetts, United States

Case Number 55-27

Case Type Guardianship

Note page 1 of 36

Volume Name Hampshire Box 55 Page 55-27:1