Margaret (Williams) Trask (abt. 1774 - abt. 1813)

Born about 1774 in Massachusetts Bay Colony

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Descendants

Died about 1813 at about age 39 in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada

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Biography

Margaret Williams was born about 1774, the second of ten children and the first daughter born to Richard Williams and his wife Margaret Harris. ^[1]

According to Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Genealogies, Richard was born in North Wales and came to America alone at the age of 13. He was apprenticed to Samuel Harris of Boston to learn the cooper's trade. About 1770, Richard married Samuel's daughter Margaret Harris, and a few years later, they came to Nova Scotia and settled at Chegoggin, Yarmouth County. ^[2]

According to Elias Trask, His Children, and Their Succeeding Race, Margaret Williams married Elias Trask in October 1794, and their marriage banns were recorded in the Second Book, Township of Yarmouth. ^[3] Elias was the son of Thomas Trask and Hannah Waterman, who had come to Yarmouth from Plymouth, Massachusetts in about 1773. ^[4][5]

Margaret and Elias had six children:

1. Richard (1795 - 1870) m. Rachel Harris
2. Abigail (1798 - 1857) m. Peter John Cosman
3. Hannah (1800 - 1884) m. Pearl Durkee
4. Mary (1802-1803)
5. Elias Mason (1804 - 1881) m. 1 Mehitable Mary Harris, 2 Mary Ellis/Albrecht*
6. Mary (1806 - 1890) m. Aaron Sollows

Elias passed away in July 1852. Margaret's death date is so far unknown.

Notes

Note - Elias Mason's second marriage is recorded is to "widow Albrecht" and also to "Mary Ellis", so her actual name at the time of marriage is not 100% clear.

Margaret was born in 1773. Margaret Williams ... She passed away about 1813. ^[6]

Sources

1. ↑ FamilySearch: Margaret Williams. https://ancestors.familysearch.org/en/KNDD-WH9/margaret-williams-1774.
2. ↑ Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Genealogies - No 40 Williams Family, pg. 239. https://www.ancestry.ca/imageviewer/collections/48652/images/YarmouthNS-001498-239.
3. ↑ Gwen Guiou Trask, Elias Trask, His Children, and Their Succeeding Race, pg. 43. Yarmouth, Nova Scotia: Sentinel Printing, 1979.
4. ↑ Ancestors of Elias Trask. https://homepages.rootsweb.com/~ecross/Trask/TraskFamilyGenealogyReport.htm.
5. ↑ Trask, Gwen Guiou. Elias Trask, His Children, and Their Succeeding Race, pg. 24-25. Yarmouth, Nova Scotia: Sentinel Printing, 1979.
6. ↑ First-hand information as remembered by Ted Pitman, Wednesday, April 8, 2015. Replace this citation if there is another source.

• Allison, David. History of Nova Scotia (Volume 3). https://en.geneanet.org/archives/ouvrages?action=detail&book_type=livre&livre_id=132182&page=746&name=TRASK&with_variantes=0&tk=a992307e0a59b68d : 1916.

• Census of Nova Scotia, 1827, Elias Trask. https://archives.novascotia.ca/census/1827/returns/?ID=3464

• Census of Nova Scotia, 1838, Elias Trask. https://archives.novascotia.ca/census/1838/returns/?ID=30291.

• Canada, Nova Scotia Deaths, 1864-1877", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:ZYH6-3N3Z : 22 July 2021), Margaret Williams in entry for Richard Trask, 1870.

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