Mary (Thompson) Wise (abt. 1619 - 1693)

Born about 14 Nov 1619 in Preston Capes, Northamptonshire, England [uncertain]

Ancestors

Wife of Joseph Wise — married 3 Dec 1641 in Roxbury, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Descendants

Died 4 Aug 1693 at about age 73 in Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay Colony

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Biography

Mary (Thompson) Wise immigrated to New England as a child during the Puritan Great Migration (1621-1640).

Birth

Baptized: 14 November 1619 at Preston Capes, Northamptonshire, England. ^[1]

Marriage and Children

Married: Joseph Wise on 3 December 1641 at Roxbury, Massachusetts.

'Joseph, and Mary Tompsonn, Dec. 3, 1641'.^{[2] [3]}

Children of Joseph Wise and Mary Tompson:

• Joseph Wise
• Jeremiah Wise.
• Sarah Wise.
• Mary Wise.
• John Wise
• Henry Wise.
• Bethiah Wise.
• Katherine Wise.
• Benjamin.
• William Wise.
• Benjamin Wise.
• Abigail Wise.

Death

Died: 4 August 1693 in Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts.^[3]

Errors to Avoid

Death Date: Said to have died 27 November 1651 in Roxbury. There is no evidence for this and it does not appear in the Vital Records - date is unsupported. She was also having children through 1666.

Disputed husband: She is often said to be the Mary who married the Rev. Richard Blinman. This is a very complicated problem addressed by David L. Greene F.A.S.G in 1983. His conclusion ultimately was to accept that Mary Tompson had married Joseph Wise in 1641 as published in 1980 by Robert Charles Anderson, and that the wife of Richard Blinman remained uncertain.^[3][4] Greene tentatively identifies the wife of Richard Blinman as a daughter of Robert Parke, and so a step-sister of Mary Tompson.

Sources

1. ↑ The American Genealogist, vol. 13 (July 1936):1-8. Alice (Freeman) Tompson) Parke, by Clarence Almon Torrey.
2. ↑ Roxbury.Vital records of Roxbury, Massachusetts to the end of the year 1849, vol 2: Marriages and Deaths. (Salem: Essex Institute, 1926):442.
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2} The American Genealogist vol. 56 (1980):80-82. Joseph Wise of Roxbury, butcher, by Robert Charles Anderson.
4. ↑ The Genealogist vol. 4 no. 2 (Fall 1983):173-186. Mary, Wife of the Rev. Richard Blinman of Marshfield, Gloucester, and New London: An Unsolved Problem, by David L. Greene F.A.S.G.