Mary (Mayhew) Youngs (abt. 1687 - 1765)

Born about 1687 in New London, New London, Connecticut Colony

Ancestors

Wife of Joshua Youngs — married 9 Mar 1709 in Southold, Suffolk, New York

Descendants

Died 24 Apr 1765 at about age 78 in Southold, Suffolk, New York Colony

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Biography

Mary Mayhew was born c.1687-1689, (some records have 9 Jun 1693 but her mother died 1690), and died 1765. She was the daughter of John Mayhew and Joanna Christophers ^[1].

She is interred at Sterling Cemetery, Greenport, Long Island, NY.

"In MEMORY of Mary ye Wife of Joshua Youngs Esqr. who died April 24th 1765 in ye 78th Year of her Age."

Christening

9 Jun 1693 New London, New London, Connecticut

m. Joshua Youngs

Jeffrey Christophers (b. ca. 1621) and Christopher Christophers (ca. 1631-1687), brothers and mariners, arrived at New London, Connecticut, ca. 1665, perhaps by way of Barbadoes. They may have been born in Devonshire, England. Jeffrey and his family moved to Southold, Long Island, New York, ca. 1700. Christopher Christophers died at New London, Connecticut. Descendants of the brothers listed lived in Connecticut, New York, and elsewhere.

Sources

1. ↑ "The Salmon records; a private register of marriages and deaths of the residents of the town of Southold, Suffolk County, N.Y and of persons more or less closely associated with that place," [1696 - 1811 commenced by William Salmon and continued by members of the Salmon Family; edited by William A. Robbins (New York Genealogical and Biographical Society: New York, NY, 1918).

• Youngs, Selah, Jr., Youngs Family (New York, 1907) Page 64.
• Find A Grave: Memorial #455441
• "Christophers Genealogy : Jeffrey and Christophers of New London, Conn., and their Descendants," by John Reynolds Totten (Originally published in the New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, April, 1919 to July, 1921; Reprinted by Tuttle Antiquarian Boosk, Inc.:Rutland, VT; 929.2 C4667t & FHL Film #896762 Item 6
• The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record (NYGBS, 1919) Vol. 50, Page 114.
• Ancestral File Number: 8HXJ-LH