Mary (Kitchen) Turner (abt. 1684 - abt. 1769)

Born about May 1684 in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts Bay

Ancestors

Wife of John Turner — married 22 May 1701 in Salem

Descendants

Died about 1769 at about age 84 in Ipswich, Essex. Massachusetts Bay [uncertain]

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Biography

Mary Kitchen was christened at Salem in May of 1684, the daughter of Lieut. Robert Kitchen and Mary (Boarderman or Boardman) Kitchen. While an unsourced Find A Grave memorial page offers an exact birth date of 27 May,^[1] the available primary record gives only the month and year of her baptism and thus only "May 1684" is shown in the data field above.^[2]

Mary married John Turner at Salem in the spring of 1701. Widowed in 1742, she survived John by at least a quarter-century; her death is reported in Massachusetts: Legislators of the General Court as occurring about 1769, and her Find A Grave page reports her passing in 1768^[3] It is likely that she died at Ipswich, where she spent her last years with her daughter Elizabeth and Elizabeth's husband, Col. Thomas Berry (also recorded as "Berg").^[4]

Sources

1. ↑ Birth date and death year (unsourced; no image of gravestone): Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 04 September 2018), memorial page for Mary Kitchen Turner (27 May 1684–1768), Find A Grave Memorial no. 188540406, citing Burying Point Cemetery, Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA ; Maintained by Nareen, et al (contributor 46613568), https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/188540406/mary-turner
2. ↑ "KITCHIN... Mary, d. R., bp. May ––, 1684. CR1" -- Massachusetts Vital Records Project, John Slaughter, Owner/Administrator; https://ma-vitalrecords.org/MA/Essex/Salem/aBirthsK.shtml
3. ↑ Find A Grave, memorial page for Mary Kitchen Turner (27 May 1684–1768), Find A Grave Memorial no. 188540406, as above
4. ↑ The Bowditch Family of Salem, Massachusetts - North Carolina Branch 1524-1964, by Frederick T. Bowditch, p. 30; downloadable PDF at https://sites.rootsweb.com/~cetowne/Towne_Bowditch/Bowditch_Book.pdf

• Marriage (includes image of original record): "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q29P-S9ST : 17 October 2017), John Turner and Mary Kitchen, 22 May 1701; citing Marriage, Salem, Essex, Massachusetts, United States, , town clerk offices, Massachusetts; FHL microfilm 877,448. Alt. transcript: Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1621-1850 (Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2016), https://www.americanancestors.org/DB190/i/7793/574/140920566 (subscription required). Alt. transcript (free): "John, Capt. [Maj. dup.], and Mrs. Mary Kitchen, May 22, 1701. [May 15. dup.]" -- Massachusetts Vital Records Project, John Slaughter, Owner/Administrator; https://ma-vitalrecords.org/MA/Essex/Salem/aMarriagesT.shtml

• Birth month and year: The Turner Family of Salem, by G. Andrews Moriarty, Essex Institute Press, 1912, pp. 263-275; specific reference, p. 273, https://books.google.com/books?id=D1gMAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA273&lpg=PA273&dq=#v=onepage&q&f=false

• Death (about 1769): p. 1784, entry for Col. John Turner, "M Mary Kitchen (1684-a1769) in 1701" -- Massachusetts: Legislators of the General Court, 1691-1780 (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2002), (Orig. Pub. by Northeastern University Press , Boston, MA. John A. Schutz, Legislators of the Massachusetts General Court 1691–1780 A Biographical Dictionary, 1997.); https://www.americanancestors.org/DB142/rd/5875673 (by subscription)

See also:

• Marriage, parentage, and lineage: Essex Institute Historical Collections, Essex Institute, Essex Institute Press, 1912 - Essex County (Mass.); https://books.google.com/books?id=D1gMAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA273&lpg=PA273&dq=#v=onepage&q&f=false