Marah (Brooks) Smith (1666 - aft. 1701)

Born Jun 1666 in Haddam, Connecticut

Ancestors

Wife of Henry Smith — married 15 Feb 1689 in Lyme, New London, Connecticut

Descendants

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Biography

She was born in June 1666 in Connecticut ^[1] and her parents were Marah Alice (Spencer) and Thomas Brooks. ^[2]

Marah "Mary" Brooks married on 15 Feb 1689 in Lyme, New London County, Connecticut to Henry Smith. ^{[3] [4] [5] [6]}

The children of Mary and Henry Smith included ^[6] ...

1. Johanna Smith, b: 09 July 1689; m: Jonathan Bates of Haddam
2. Sarah Smith, b: 04 Mar 1690/1; m: ??? WAY of New London
3. James Smith, b: 15 Jan 1692/3; occ: tanner; m: 16 Dec 1724 Elizabeth Way
4. Mary Smith, b: 24 Dec 1695; (unmarried: 1719); res: 1735 New London
5. Alice Smith, b: 09 June 1697; d: (young)
6. Jerusha Smith, b: July 1699; m: aft.1721 Daniel Chadwick
7. Thomas Smith, b: 27 Aug 1701; m: 12 Jan 1726/7 Elizabeth Robins.

Her husband died on 10 Nov 1701 in Lyme, New London County, Connecticut. ^[7]

Research Notes

We know she resided in Connecticut, but some alternate vitals put her in Massachusetts. Sources would be required to validate that info ...

b: 03 Apr 1666 in Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay

d: 22 Aug 1726 in Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay.

Sources

1. ↑ American Genealogical-Biographical Index (AGBI) compiled by Godfrey Memorial Library of Middletown, CT, USA; v19 p298 citing Genealogy Column of the "Boston Transcript" 1906-1941; source of material for genealogical data for the N.E. area and for the period 1600-1800; indexed; 11 Aug 1924, 1810; for Marah Brooks, b: 1666 Connecticut
2. ↑ North America, Family Histories 1500-2000 on ancestry.com citing "Mack Genealogy]: The Descendants of John Mack of Lyme, Connecticut"; for Mary Brooks, b: Jun 1666 (father: Thomas Brooks & mother: Alice Spencer)
3. ↑ Connecticut, U.S., Town Marriage Records, pre-1870 citing Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records v1-55 edited by Lorraine Cook White & Genealogical Publishing Co. of Baltimore, MD, USA 1994-2002; on ancestry.com with image; m: 15 Feb 1689 Lyme, Connecticut for Marah & Henry Smith
4. ↑ U.S., New England Marriages Prior to 1700 by Genealogical Publishing Co. of Baltimore, MD, USA; on ancestry.com; for Henry Smith, m: 15 Feb 1689 New England, USA; d: 1702; spouse: Mary Smith
5. ↑ "Ancestry of Lorenzo Ackley & His Wife, Emma Arabella Bosworth" by Nathan Grier Parke & edited by Donald Lines Jacobus & published in 1860 in Woodstock, Vermont; p285; in his 1949 report on "Richard Smith of Lyme," Donald Lines Jacobus identified Henry's wife as Mary Hungerford
6. ↑ ^{6.0 6.1} "Richard Smith of Lyme" by Donald Lines Jacobus; part of "The Smith Number" in The American Genealogist v25 #98 (April 1949) p140-143
7. ↑ Connecticut, U.S., Town Death Records, pre-1870 (Barbour Collection v1-55) on ancestry.com; for Henry Smith, Sr., d: 10 Nov 1701 Lyme, Connecticut

• Brainerd, Dwight. Ancestry of Thomas Chalmers Brainerd (Montreal, Quebec, 1948) p78

• Family Data Collection - Individual Records compiled by Edmund West on ancestry.com; for Mary Brooks b: 1666 Haddam, CT (parents: Thomas Brooks & Marah Spencer); spouse: Henry Smith

• Family of Richard and Linda (Humble) Roemer for Mary "Marah" Brooks, b: Jun 1666 Haddam, Middlesex County, CT (father: Thomas Brooks, Sr. b: c1617 & mother: Alice "Marah" Spencer, b: 1642 probably Lynn, Essex Co, MA); married: 15 Feb 1688/89 Haddam, Middlesex County, CT to Henry Smith, b: Lyme, New London Co, CT

• Ancestry of Michael Doyle Adams by Robin Forrest

• "Family Tree" on FamilySearch database (PID https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/4:1:MCR6-GBZ : modified 29 Mar 2018); contributed by various users; entry for Mara Brooks, b: June 1666 Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut; bpt: 02 Feb 1668 St.Werburgh, Derby, England.

• http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=16692088&pid=424819793 Ancestry Family Tree

• The Four Spencer Brothers - Their Ancestors and Descendants by Donald Lines Jacobus, M.A. in The American Genealogist, 27 (April 1951); Text: In 1903 the Rev. John Holding, M.A., then Vicar of Stotfold, County Bedford, England, published The Spencers of Bedfordshire. Despite a lack of formal arrangement, the book is a mine of information. The most prominent family of the Spencer name in Bedfordshire had their seat at Cople in the 16th and 17th centuries, and a good account is given of this family, tracing it back to one Thomas Spencer who was living at Eton in 1433. Several other groups of Spencers in various parishes and towns are included, but their connection, if any, with the Spencers of Cople does not appear. Herein, so far as we know, the ancestry of William, Thomas, Michael and Gerard Spencer is for the first time set forth, though some years earlier the noted antiquary, Henry F. Waters, had found mention of the four brothers in the will of their London uncle Richard Spencer, and had published this in the New England Hist. and Gen. Register and in 1901 included it in his Genealogical Gleanings in England. In recent years the parish registers of Stotfold and Edworth have been included by F. G. Emmison in his Bedfordshire Parish Registers Series. Careful comparison has been made between these and the entries as printed by the Rev. Mr. Holding, resulting in some corrections and in the addition of two or three important entries. Since both the parish records and the wills which prove the ancestry have appeared fully in the sources indicated, it is deemed unnecessary to repeat them here, except as reference is made to them in the pedigree of the family which follows. It is not felt that Mr. Holding established the parentage or origin of John Spencer, great-grandfather of the four emigrant brothers, hence we start our account with him. Note: The present history of the Spencer family which descended from the four New England sons of Gerard Spencer of Stotfold, Bedfordshire, had its inception in 1947 in a correspondence between the present compiler, Mr. Clarence A. Torrey of Boston, MA and the late Mr. Homer W. Brainard of Amherst, MA, all Spencer descendants who agreed to pool their data.

• Ancestry of Anna Shaylor Wife of Thomas Coleman by Daniel M. Hogan; The early members of the Shaylor family in America spelled their name in several ways (Shailer, Shayler, Shaylor, etc.). All, however, were pronounced with the long A. Shailerville, Connecticut and Shalerville, Ohio were both named for members of the Shaylor family. Anna Shaylor's father, Ephraim, was apparently the first of the line to spell his name Shaylor. This account of the ancestry of Anna Shaylor has been compiled from the following sources ...

1> A genealogy of five generations of descendants of Thomas Shaylor from a compilation by Harrison Shaylor, published in v4 #4 (March 1972) of the Connecticut Nutmegger (p532-541). This account does not list the last three children of Ephraim Shaylor--one of whom was Anna Shaylor--who were baptized together in Haddam, Connecticut in 1756.

2> A Supplement to the Shaylor Genealogy, by Ms. Jean Rumsey, published in v5 #1 (June 1972) of the Connecticut Nutmegger (p73-75).

3> A manuscript by L. B. Barbour entitled "The Descendants of Thomas Shailer of Haddam," now in the Manuscript Collection of the Connecticut Historical Society. This account does list Ephraim's last three daughters - including Anna - and mentions that Anna married Thomas Coleman.

4> A manuscript by H. W. Brainard, copied from Rollin A. Tyler's collection on the Shailer family, which is also in the Manuscipt Collection of the Connecticut Historical Society. Anna Shaylor and her two sisters, Sarah and Hannah - the last three children of Ephraim Shaylor and Eunice Wright - are named. All three were baptized on 12 Sep 1756 in Haddam, Connecticut.

5> The vital records of Bolton, Connecticut, and Vernon, Connecticut.

6> The records of the Congregational Church of Bolton, Connecticut which show the Thomas Coleman m: 25 Nov 1766 Anna Shaylor