Hannah (Smith) Metcalf (1703 - 1744)

Born 30 Mar 1703 in Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts Bay Province

Ancestors

Wife of Benjamin Plimpton — married 14 Dec 1725 in Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts Bay Province

Wife of Jonathan Metcalf — married about 1733 in Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts Bay Province [uncertain]

Died 16 Sep 1744 at age 41 in Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts Bay Province

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Biography

Birth

Hannah was born in Medfield on March 30, 1702-3 ^[1]

Marriage

Hannah Smith married Benjamin Plimpton in Medfield on December 14, 1725^[2] Hannah and Benjamin had one child, in Dedham:^[3]

• Deborah, b. Jan. 12, 1728-9 in Dedham

Benjamin died in Medfield on March 24, 1730-1^[4]

Hannah then married, as his second wife, Jonathan Metcalf in 1733. ^[5][6]

Jonathan and Hannah had, in Medfield:^[7]

• Hannah, b. Oct. 28, 1734,, died 14 days later
• Hannah, b. Aug. 10, 1736, d. Dec. 22, 1736
• John, b. Oct. 1, 1739, died six months later
• Seth, b. Apr. 4, 1741, died June 1, 1742
• Jonathan, b. Sept. 10, 1744, married Patty Dwight in 1777

Hannah Smith Plimpton Metcalf died on Sept. 16, 1744, six days after delivering Jonathan, their only child to survive past the age of two.^[8]

Sources

1. ↑ Norfolk County, Massachusetts Bay Province, Vital Records of Medfield through 1850, page 92
2. ↑ Norfolk County, Massachusetts Bay Province, Vital Records of Medfield through 1850, page 172
3. ↑ The record of births, marriages and deaths, and intentions of marriage, in the town of Dedham - 1635-1845, p. 55
4. ↑ Norfolk County, Massachusetts Bay Province, Vital Records of Medfield through 1850, page 229
5. ↑ Tilden, p. 437
6. ↑ no record of this marriage found in Medfield nor Dedham vital records.
7. ↑ Norfolk, Vital Records of Medfield, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850, p. 71, 233
8. ↑ Norfolk County, Massachusetts Bay Province, Vital Records of Medfield through 1850, page 223