Mary (Ball) Pond (abt. 1628 - 1719)

Born about 1628 in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England

Wife of Robert Pond Jr — married 1652 in Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Wife of Nicholas (Ellen) Allen — married 3 Jul 1663 in Dorchester, Massachusetts

Wife of Daniel Henshaw — married 1669 in Milton, Norfolk, Massachusetts

Descendants

Died 1719 at about age 91 in Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts

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Biography

Mary Ball Born about 1628 in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England.

She married first Robert Pond about 1652 [location unknown] .

Mary married for a second time to Nicholas Ellin.

Her third husband was Daniel Henshaw.

Research Notes

A search of Ancestry.com indicates a number of unsourced family trees, but no actual records to support the existence of this person. Ken Spratlin Family Tree

However, http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~hwbradley/genealogy/aqwg1117.htm#19624 lists the following sources, but indicate a husband named Daniel Henshaw.

1. Savage, James, A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, showing three generations of those who came before 1692 (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1860-62.), 2:404, 3:453, Los Angeles Public Library, 929.274 S264.
2. Clapp, Ebenezer, The Clapp Memorial: Record of the Clapp Family in America (Boston: D. Clapp & Son, 1876.), p. 97, Los Angeles Public Library, 929.2 C589.
3. Snyder, Betty Pond, Pioneer Pond People plus Robinson and Allied Families (Foster City, CA: B.P. Snyder, 1992.), p. 11, Los Angeles Public Library, 929.2 P796-2.
4. "A Sketch of the Life of Hon. Joshua Henshaw," NEHGR 22:2 (Apr 1868) (New England Historic, Genealogical Society.), p. 115, Los Angeles Public Library.
5. "Abstracts of Suffolk Wills: Nicholas Ellin," NEHGR 19:1 (Jan 1865) (New England Historic, Genealogical Society.), pp. 36-37, Los Angeles Public Library.
6. Torrey, Clarence Almon, New England Marriages Prior to 1700 (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1985.), p. 247, Los Angeles Public Library, Gen 974 T694.

Mary married Nicholas Ellin after Robert Pond died, He named Mary Pond as an heir to his estate: «u»«b»Will of Nicholas Ellin«u»«b»: 16 Nov. 1661: Unto all Concerned and also to whome they may necessarily come, grace and peace as to all the Israeli of God. I, Nicholas Ellin being in present weakness of body, but in enjoyment of understanding. Debts paid, my will is, that my wife, Mary Ellin, shall have the vse of my House and halfe the Land and Cattle and all other movables during the term of her Widdowhood, to bring up my youngest Children borne of her, and if shee marry, then to take Care only of that which now shee is thought to Goe with. My will is, that my wife then shall have, mainly, when she marryes, £10 paid her and soc to remove. My will is, that my Eldest sonn, Daniel Ellin, shall have the vse of the other halfe of my House and Land and movables together with my wife during the time of her Widdowhood. When my wife shall remove by death or bee marryed, then her Dowry of £10 being paid, and 5s. to Martha Pond, and 5s. to Mary; Pond my wives dau. which my will is to give to them as a Remembrance of my love to them, then the Risidue of my Estate bee prized and Equally divided Among them all, namely, my Children, only my Eldest sonn, Daniel Ellin, to have that swamp lying at the West End of my barne, which I have began to cleere, and his [ ] which my will that hee shall have more then rest, and if my wife shall marry before that Child bee growne up to get its own liuinge, which shee is Conceived now to bee with child of, then my will is, that shee shall have 30s, more then the rest, and that 30s. to be paid to my wife, It is to bee understood that when my Louinge wife is Either marryed or Else by God's Providence removed by death, that my sonn, Daniell, shall have the refusing house and Land, paying the rest of my children their Equall Portions in Currant pay; and for as much as hee is to have the present hee of one halfe of my House and land, therefore, my will is, that halfe the portions of the Rest of the Children shall bee paid as they come to Age, by my Eldest sonn, although my wife Continue in the possession of the rest. My will is, that my wife, Mary Ellin, and my eldest sonn, Daniel Ellin, bee Executor and Executrix of this my last will. I desire my Friends Thomas Swift and Samuell Wadsworth bee Overseers. Nicholas X Ellin his Mark

Sources

Marriage: The book " A Genealogical Record of Daniel Pond and his Descendants" by Edward Doubleday Harris, Pgae 6.

Birth of Daughter Mary; Citation: Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850 (Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2016). https://www.americanancestors.org/DB190/i/7693/5/142205412