Born in Rowley, Essex, Province of Massachusetts Bay
Ancestors 
Daughter of Benjamin Thurston
and Sarah (Burpee) Thurston
Sister of
David Thurston, Sarah Thurston, Esther Thurston, Hannah (Thurston) Hardy, Abigail (Thurston) Jewett and Lois Thurston
Wife of
Jonathan Wiggin
— married
1771 in Stratham, New Hampshire
Descendants 
Mother of
William Howe Wiggin and Sarah (Wiggin) St. Clair
Died after
after age 40
in New Hampshire
Profile last modified
| Created 8 May 2016
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Biography
Mehitable, child of Benjamin Thurston & Sarah, was born on 20 March 1741 in Rowley, Massachusetts, United States.[1]
Mehetable, child of Benj Thurston & Sarah Thurston, was baptised on 29 March 1741 in Rowley, Massachusetts, United States.[2]
Mehetable died on 14 November 1784.[3]
Mehitable died on 14 November 1784 in New Hampshire, United States.[4]
Sources
- ↑
Birth:
"Massachusetts, U.S., Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988"
Town and City Clerks of Massachusetts. Massachusetts Vital and Town Records. Provo, UT: Holbrook Research Institute (Jay and Delene Holbrook)
Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry Record 2495 #3789732 (accessed 13 May 2023)
Mehitable Thurston born on 20 Mar 1741, child of Benjamin Thurston & Sarah, in Rowley, Massachusetts, USA. - ↑
Baptism:
"Massachusetts, U.S., Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988"
Town and City Clerks of Massachusetts. Massachusetts Vital and Town Records. Provo, UT: Holbrook Research Institute (Jay and Delene Holbrook)
Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry Record 2495 #10879959 (accessed 13 May 2023)
Mehetable Thurston baptism on 29 Mar 1741, child of Benj Thurston & Sarah Thurston, in Rowley, Massachusetts, USA. - ↑
Death:
"New Hampshire, U.S., Death and Burial Records Index, 1654-1949"
FHL Film Number: 1001113
Ancestry Record 2555 #286036 (accessed 13 May 2023)
Mehetable Wiggin death 14 Nov 1784. - ↑
Death:
"New Hampshire, U.S., Death Records, 1650-1969"
New Hampshire Archives and Records Management; Concord, New Hampshire; New Hampshire Death Records, 1650-1969
Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry Record 61834 #260401 (accessed 13 May 2023)
Mehitable Wiggin death 14 Nov 1784 in New Hampshire, USA.
- Thurston, Brown, Thurston Genealogies, 1635-1892, Second Edition, published by Brown Thurston, Portland, Maine, 1892, Pg. 20.
- Rowley Births, Thurston.
- Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850 (Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2016). [1]
- Mehetable THURSTON
- Birth 1741
- Location Rowley, Essex, Massachusetts, United States
- Original Text Mehetable, d. Benjamin and Sarah, Mar. 20, 1741. [1740-41. P. R. 2.]
- Volume Name Rowley - V1 Page 219
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Mehitable by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Mehitable:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Mehitable by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Mehitable:
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~1.56%
~3.12%
Anonymous (G) Grant 
:
23andMe, GEDmatch TN2483229 [compare]
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~0.78%
Sharon (Anderson) Delio :
AncestryDNA, Ancestry member sdelio
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~0.78%
A Cisneros :
Family Tree DNA Family Finder, FTDNA kit #B263437
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Tim Prince
Thurston-1714 and Thurston-1348 appear to represent the same person because: Birth and death match. I've seen several places asserted that this Mehitable married Wiggin, but no primary source, unless the death record counts.
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Tim Prince
This profilie is a mixture of Mehitable Thurston (1741-) and Mehitable (Thurston) Chute (1753-1819) The one who married Wiggin died 1784.
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by Tim Prince
Rejected matches › Mehitable (Thurston) Chase (abt.1741-abt.1825)
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