Born before in Mistley, Essex, England
Daughter of John Cheney
and Amy (Unknown) Cheney
Sister of
Martha (Cheney) Burkby, John Cheney, Unknown Cheney [half], Sarah (Cheney) Plummer [half], Daniel Cheney [half], Peter Cheney Senr [half], Lydia (Cheney) Kendrick [half], Hannah (Cheney) Smith [half], Nathaniel Cheney [half] and Elizabeth Cheney [half]
Wife of
William Law
— married
3 Sep 1645 (to before 2 May 1666) in Rowley, Essex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony
Descendants 
Died before
at about age 40
in Rowley, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony
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Biography
Mary (Cheney) Lawes immigrated to New England as a child during the Puritan Great Migration (1621-1640).
Mary Cheney was baptized in Mistley, Essex on 24 July 1625. Her parents were John and Amie Cheney. [1][2]
"John Cheny he came into the Land in the year 1635. He brought 4 children, Mary, Martha, John, Daniel." [3]
Mary married at Rowley 03 September 1645 to William Lawes (her surname does not appear in the marriage record, but her identity is demonstrated by her father's will).[4]
In John Cheney's will, dated 5 June 1666 and proved 25 September 1666, he made a bequest to "William Lawes's three daughters namely Rebeca, Mary and Pricilla" 40s each at age 18.[5]
Her husband's estate papers indicate he was married a second time, and a marriage record indicates he married on 02 May 1666,[6] so she likely was deceased by that date.
Sources
- ↑ Leslie Mahler, "Various English Wills Relating to New England Colonist: Gillett, Swaine, Cheney, and Tutty-Knight-Whitman," The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Vol. 162 (April 2008)115-116. Boston, MA: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1847-. (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2013.)
- ↑ Church Record https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JMNQ-JBT
- ↑ Great Migration 1634-1635, C-F. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2008.) Originally published as: The Great Migration, Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volume II, C-F, by Robert Charles Anderson, George F. Sanborn, Jr., and Melinde Lutz Sanborn. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001. p. 60, citing Roxbury Church Records, 81.
- ↑ Great Migration 1634-1635, C-F. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2008.) Originally published as: The Great Migration, Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volume II, C-F, by Robert Charles Anderson, George F. Sanborn, Jr., and Melinde Lutz Sanborn. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001. p. 62.
- ↑ Great Migration 1634-1635, C-F. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2008.) Originally published as: The Great Migration, Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volume II, C-F, by Robert Charles Anderson, George F. Sanborn, Jr., and Melinde Lutz Sanborn. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001. p. 61.
- ↑ Essex Institute, compiler, Vital Records of Rowley, Massachusetts to the end of the year 1849 (Salem, MA: Essex Institute, 1928-1931), Vol. 1:340.
- "Law, William, and Faith Smith, wid. John, May 2, 1666.*"
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