Mary (Winship) Brown (1641 - bef. 1695)

Born 2 Jul 1641 in Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Ancestors

Wife of Boaz Brown — married 8 Nov 1664 (to before 1695) in Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Descendants

Died before 1695 before age 53 in Stow, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony

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Biography

Mary Winship, born 2 July 1641, in Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts,^[1] was the daughter of Lt. Edward Winship and Jane Wilkinson.^[2]

Mary married Boaz Brown at Concord, Massachusetts, on 8 November 1664 and was the mother of all his children.^[2] Their children were:

• Boaz, born 1665 at Concord^[2]
• Thomas, born 1667 at Concord^[2]
• Mary, born 1670 at Concord and died young^[2]
• Edward, born 1672/3 at Concord^[2]
• Mary, born 1678 at Concord^[2]
• Mercy, no record of birth, but was likely born at Concord^[2]
• Jane, born in Stow in 1684^[2]

She was named in the will of her stepmother, Elizabeth, dated 18 October 1689.^[2]

Mary died before 1695, when her husband remarried. Her exact date of death is unknown.^[2] She probably died in Stow, as her husband was called "of Stow"' when he remarried in Dedham in 1695.

Sources

1. ↑ Baldwin, Thomas W., Vital Records of Cambridge, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850 Volume 1. Births (Boston, Mass. 1914)(Free e-book) (Records are also available at ma-vitalrecords.org) p. 775
2. ↑ ^{2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 2.10} Brown, Keith F. "The Wives of Boaz Brown, Sr., of Concord, Stow, and Dedham, Massachusetts." in The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. Boston, MA: NEHGS, Vol. 140, Oct 1986, p. 317. AmericanAncestors.org($).