| Mary (Wilder) Underwood migrated to New England during the Puritan Great Migration (1621-1640). Join: Puritan Great Migration Project Discuss: pgm |
Mary's birth information is uncertain. She may have born about 1623 in Shiplake, Oxfordshire, England[citation needed] to parents Thomas Wilder and Martha. Alternatively, she may have been born before 1618 in the same place to the same parents. Apparently a daughter Mary was listed in Thomas Wilder's will written January 3, 1618/19.[citation needed]
Mary came to America in 1638 with her mother on the ship Confidence. She lived at Hingham, Massachusetts and later at Watertown, Massachusetts. Mary Wilder Underwood's sister Elizabeth Ensign, in making her will in 1663 mentions a Sarah Underwood, "not yet 15". She married Joseph Underwood on 16 May 1645 in Watertown, Middlesex, Massachussetts. Mary passed away on 13 December 1658. She was 39 years old.
This page is a subsidiary of the author's Wilder Genealogy Page. The author is of the opinion that the legendary English ancestry presented in the various published genealogies written by Rev. Moses Wilder and revised and updated by his descendants is incorrect. That legendary descent is unsupported by available documentation, and appears to have been constructed based on a lot of wishful thinking and a little correspondence with the most prominent line of Wilders in England at the time of Rev. Moses Wilder. One can only conclude that subsequent researchers have chosen to overlook Rev. Wilder's statement in his book the he had never viewed any English document, and left such study to future research.
The author has done research in many English sources, and has come to different conclusions than other authors have presented. In fact, the present author is of the opinion that probably no such person as the legendary patriarch of the family, Nicholas Wilder, the warrior of Bosworth, ever even existed! This page is presented purely as reference for comparison to the other point of view. Please see the present author's research at Ralph Clark's Wilder Genealogy Page.
Note that some persons on this page have a (T) after their names. This indicates a legendary version of a person for whom a corresponding individual, with additional or alternative information, may be found in the author's index to other pages. Here follows the Legend (not the genealogy) of Nicholas Wilder. Note: P.O. Box 641188 Los Angeles, CA 90064-1188 Ultimate Family Tree, ver 3.10 Patch CLARKB Project Version 306 April 6, 2006 Italicized: Y Paranthetical: Y Data: Text: 7 ii. Mary Wilder(23) (#3181) was born in Shiplake, Oxfordshire, England before 1619. Mary died December 23, 1658 in Watertown, MA, at 39 years of age. She married Joseph Underwood. (Joseph Underwood is #3180.) Joseph was born circa 1614 in England. In Thomas Wilder's will written January 3, 1618/19 in Shiplake, Oxfordshire, England, Mary was named as his daughter, not yet of legal age.(24) Note: (23)(24)1618 Will (newer), Thomas Wilder.[1]
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Maybe this one should be protected as well, as there seems to be an issue with duplicates.