Mary (Andrews) Stocking (bef. 1756 - 1825)

Wife of Benjamin Stocking — married 7 Jan 1789 in Chatham, Middlesex Co., Connecticut

Biography

Massachusetts Colony

• From John Maltby:

After the death of wife Phebe Washburn, Benjamin Stocking remarried to Mary “Molly” (Andrews) Stocking, widow of Steven Stocking,^[1] on 7 Jan. 1789 in Chatham.^[2] They were living in Chatham, CT, in the 1790,^[3] and 1800 federal censuses,^[4] where he was a tanner and shoemaker,^[5] and he died on 4 Dec. 1808 in Byron, Genesee Co., NY, aged 76 years,^[6] but was buried in Portland, CT.^[7] No probate records were found for him in Connecticut. Mary (Andrews) (Stocking) Stocking died on 9 May 1825.^[8]

Sources

1. ↑ Stocking, The Stocking Ancestry, pp. 12-13, 15, for the first husband of Mary Andrews.
2. ↑ MF5G: Eaton, p. 123; Bailey, Frederic W., Early Connecticut Marriages as Found on Ancient Church Records Prior to 1800, New Haven, CT, [hereinafter Bailey, Early Connecticut Marriages], Vol. 4, p. 102, which gives the date as 1 Jan. 1788; MF5G: Eaton, p. 123; Stocking, The Stocking Ancestry, p. 15.
3. ↑ Heads of Families at the First Census of the United States Taken in the Year 1790: Connecticut, Bountiful, UT, 1993, p. 80, Chatham town, Middlesex County, the Benjamin Stocking household had 2 free white males aged 16 or older, and 2 free white females.
4. ↑ 1800 Federal Census, Chatham, Middlesex Co., CT, p. 383, the Benjamin Stocking household had 1 male aged 45 or over, and 1 female aged 45 or over.
5. ↑ Stocking, The Stocking Ancestry, p. 15.
6. ↑ Stocking, The Stocking Ancestry, p. 15.
7. ↑ MF5G: Eaton, p. 123, taken from his gravestone in Portland, CT.
8. ↑ Stocking, The Stocking Ancestry, p. 13.

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