Mary (Wight) Murdock (1732)

Born 18 Aug 1732 in Windham, Windham County, Connecticut Colony

Ancestors

Wife of Samuel Murdock Jr. — married 15 Mar 1750 in Windham, Windham County, Connecticut Colony

Descendants

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Biography

Birth

Mary Wight was born 18 August 1732 in Windham, Windham County, Connecticut Colony to parents Joshua Wight and Elizabeth Spowell.^[1]

Marriage

She married Samuel Murdock Jr. on 15 March 1749/50 in Windham.<^[1]

She and Samuel had the following children, all born in Windham: ^[2]

1. Mary, born 4 or 24 January 1750/51,
2. Hezekiah, born 10 May 1752,
3. Joshua, born 27 September 1753; died 29 May 1761 "in the 8th year of his age",
4. Samuel [3], born 11 February 1755,
5. John, born 1 December 1756; died 25 April 1758,
6. Submit, born 10 January 1759,
7. John, born 23 October 1760,
8. Joshua, born 9 October 1763
9. Eli, born 9 June 1765,
10. Dan, born 23 March 1767,
11. Throop, born 15 October 1768,
12. Elizabeth, born 15 June 1770,
13. Eunice, born 26 February 1774.

Her husband, Samuel, had apparently moved ahead of his family, to Wilmington, Vermont in 1773; they joined him the following year. They moved to Rutland, Vermont in 1784, but by the time of the first United States Census in 1790, they were living in Halifax, Windham County, Vermont. No further record appears.^[3]

Mary's date and place of death are not recorded.

Note regarding death

There are Find A Grave: Memorial #90950932 for Mary and Find A Grave: Memorial #90950814 for her husband Samuel, asserting burial in Bell Cemetery in Halifax. Her memorial recites her death date is unknown, and Samuel's that he died in 1769, obviously in error. There are no photos of gravestones. It would be helpful if photos of their gravestones could be had to confirm their burials. To that end, photos have been requested. This note will be revised if photos are furnished.

Find A Grave: Memorial #87752103 is linked to Mary's Find a Grave page for Samuel, b 1729, d 1812 in Rhinebeck, Dutchess, New York and buried in New York. This page has a source from Hale Cemetery stating he was formerly of Windham, age 83. This page seems more likely based on births of children.

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870 (Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2011.) From original typescripts, Lucius Barnes Barbour Collection, 1928. Volume: Windham, page 268. See record at subscription site.
2. ↑ Barbour Collection, Volume: Windham, pages 181-182.
3. ↑ Murdock, Joseph Ballard; Murdock Genealogy: Robert Murdock of Roxbury, Massachusetts, and some of his descendants (Boston, C. E. Goodspeed, 1925). Pages 29-30. Availabe for loan from Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/murdockgenealogy00murd)