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Mary (Elliot) Hall (1662 - 1729)

Mary Hall formerly Elliot aka Elliott, Eliott, Woodbury
Born in East Coker, Somerset, Englandmap
Ancestors ancestors
Wife of — married 4 Jun 1684 (to 13 Oct 1691) in Salem, Essex County, Massachusettsmap
Wife of — married after 5 Jun 1704 in Exeter, Rockingham, New Hampshiremap
Descendants descendants
Died at age 67 in Exeter, Rockingham, New Hampshire, New Englandmap
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Biography

Mary was born in January 1662 in East Coker, Somerset Co., England. She was the daughter of (Lt.) Andrew Elliot (1627-1703) and Mary Vivion (Elliot), his second wife (1st was Grace Woodier). She had two half-brothers: Andrew and William and a sister, Emma. The family emigrated from Southwest England to Massachusetts Bay, New England, between 1668 and 1670, when Mary was a child. They settled in Beverly, Essex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony, New England.

Andrew is said to have been a cordwainer (leather shoe maker). He was a "freeman" of Essex county; a Lieutenant in the 1690 Canada military expedition; Beverly's first town clerk in 1690; a Selectman & representative to the General Court. He also served as a juror in the infamous Salem Witchcraft trials of 1692.[1]

On June 4, 1684, Mary married Nicholas Woodbury, Jr., a wealthy merchant whose family had also immigrated to Beverly, Massachusetts, from South Petherton, an English village just 10 miles from East Coker, Somerset. Mary and Nicholas had the following 5 children:[2]

Children

Children of Nicholas Woodbury and his wife, Mary Elliot, born Beverly,[3]

  1. William Woodbury, born 29 March 1685; died Beverly, 25 March 1718. On 27 June 1704, Abigail Bradford of Beverly accused William Woodbury of fathering her child; he was ordered to pay maintenance on the child. William married, by 1706, Rebecca _____.
  2. Judith Woodbury, born 31 March 1686, died 1775; married (1) at Beverly, 23 May 1704, William^4 Woodbury, son of William^3 (Humphrey^2, John^1) and Hannah Haskell.
  3. Andrew Woodbury, born 25 May 1688; died 27 July 1688.
  4. Mary Woodbury, born 23 August 1689, died by 30 June 1719; married Beverly, 22 May 1712, her stepbrother, Josiah Hall, son of Kinsley Hall and his first wife, Elizabeth Dudley.
  5. Infant son Woodbury (twin), born 19 October 1691, died young.
  6. Infant son Woodbury (twin), born 19 October 1691, died young.

Unfortunately, Nicholas Woodbury died in October 1691 returning from a trading mission to Barbados, British West Indies, leaving his children without a father. Her mother, Mary Elliot Woodbury, remarried between 1692 and 1700 to a prominent merchant friend of the family, Captain Kingsley Hall of Exeter, Rockingham, New Hampshire. Captain Hall was also a recent widower with minor children to raise. Mary and her children moved north to Exeter. She lived there until her death on June 24, 1729. Captain Kingsley Hall died in 1736.

Sources

  1. ↑ The Ancestry of Overmire Tifft Richardson Bradford Reed on RootsWeb - Lt. Andrew Eliot . It cites many sources.
  2. ↑ Cape Cod-to-Carmel Kelleys on RootsWeb - Nicholas Woodbury
  3. ↑ David Curtis Dearborn and John Bradley Arthaud, "William1 Woodbury of Salem and Beverly, Massachusetts," New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 175 (2021):207-222, 348-360, at 349-352 (Nicholas3 Woodbury).
  • Dearborn, David Curtis & Arthaud, John Bradley. William1 Woodbury of Salem and Beverly, Massachusetts, NEHGR (NEHGS, Boston, Mass., 2021) Vol. 175, Page 214 & Page 349. "Mary married second in Beverly between 11 February 1698/9 and 1702, Kinsley Hall of Exeter, New Hampshire."




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Married Kinsley Hall after 5 June 1704 he issues a receipt to Mrs. Mary Woodbury for the property she is bringing with her to their impending marriage (Essex Deeds, Vol. XXXVII, p. 41: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-89Z8-3S7Y). It (or a corresponding document) is declared 'lost or mislaid' in a 1718 deed making provision for her (Vol. XXXIV, p. 259: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-99Z8-MFG2).
posted by Patrick Griffith
Eliott-34 and Elliot-1325 appear to represent the same person because: They have the same father, practically same death date, same name.
posted by Anonymous Przybylek

Rejected matches › Mary Elliot (1661-)

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