Mary Silver (1694 - 1740)

Born 26 Feb 1694 in Haverhill, Essex, Province of Massachusetts Bay

Ancestors

Died 2 Apr 1740 at age 46 in Montreal, Canada, New France

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Biography

Mary was a daughter of Thomas Silver and Mary (Williams) Silver, born on 26 February 1693/4 in Haverhill, Massachusetts.^[1]

Mary was born in 1694 . "On 29 Aug 1708, a party of French and Indians attacked Haverhill, then a village of about thirty houses. Mary, age fourteen, was taken captive and taken to Montreal where she was turned over to 'The Sisters of the Congregation'. Marie Adelaide Silver died 2 April 1740 at the Hotel-Dieu in Montreal, Canada. This seizure is the subject of John Greenleaf Whittier's poem, Pentucket."^[2]

Sources

1. ↑ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850 (Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2016). https://www.americanancestors.org/DB190/i/7717/273/22264738 Haverhill, Vol. 1, page 273].
2. ↑ The Essex Genealogist, Volume 22, Number 2, 2002, p. 86-99, "Descendants of Thomas Silver of Essex County, MA" by Marsha Russell. https://www.americanancestors.org/databases/essex-genealogist-the/image?pageName=86&volumeId=13117ence here

• Vital Records of Haverhill, Massachusetts: To the End of the Year 1849 (Topsfield Historical Society, 1910) Vol. 1, Page 273. Birth record.

"Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/FZKJ-S2W : accessed 17 December 2015), Mary Silver, 05 Jun 1692; citing ROWLEY,ESSEX,MASSACHUSETTS, ; FHL microfilm 0496782 IT 1-2.

See also:

• Ancestry.com. Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988

Mary Silver

Birth Date: 26 Feb 1693-1694

Birth Place: Haverhill, Massachusetts

Father Name: Thomas Silver

Mother Name: Mary Williams