Mary (Bird) Lake (abt. 1728 - 1796)

Born about 1728 in Bristol, England

Descendants

Died 27 Apr 1796 at about age 68 in Rainbow, Washington, Ohio, United States

Problems/Questions Profile manager: Terry Lake [send private message]

Biography

Mary (Bird) Lake performed Patriotic Service in New York in the American Revolution.

Mary (Bird) Lake is a DAR Patriot Ancestor, A067908.

Mary Bird born 1728 in Bristol, Bristol, England. Parents unknown at this time. Married to Archibold Lake of New Castle, England prior to arriving in America via St. John's, Newfoundland in 1762.

Mary is recognized for her patriotic service during the American Revolution. She served a matron to the hospital as per depreciation accounts as sourced from military bounty lands in New York. ^[1]

Their family was living in Marietta, Ohio in 1789 and were there during the outbreak of the 1791 Indian War. Theirs was one of 30 families which took refuge inside the the stockade at Campus Martius guarded by the Army.

Mrs. Lake taught Sunday School in the Block House of Marietta from 1791 to 1795 - the first school in Ohio and one of the first schools in the United States at that time.

Ohio History refers to Mary Bird as a Matron of Army Hospitals in Fishkill & New Windsor, N.Y who was personally thanked by General Washington for her "tender, vigilant and unremitting care" of the sick soldiers.

She and Archibold were the parents of 7 children. Mary was approx 68 years old when she passed in 1796. She is buried along side her family in the Rainbow Cemetery Rainbow, Washington County, Ohio

Sources

1. ↑ Daughters of the American Revolution, “Ancestor Database.” database, Genealogical Research System (http://services.dar.org/public/dar_research/ : accessed [27 Oct 2021]), [Mary X Lake, A067908]

• DAR Chapter John Haupt Chapter http://chapter.kansasdar.org/johnhaupt/
• https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/28926956/mary-lake

• https://www.familysearch.org/search/tree/results?count=20&query=%2Bgivenname%3AArchibald~%20%2Bsurname%3ALake~%20%2Bbirth_place%3AEngland~%20%2Bbirth_year%3A1720-1720~

• https://books.google.com/books?id=dGBKAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA304&dq=Mary+Bird+and+her+part+in+Campus+Martius+during+the+Indian+war&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjxg_bsj7XYAhVo4oMKHRYkBT8QuwUIKzAA#v=onepage&q=Mary%20Bird%20and%20her%20part%20in%20Campus%20Martius%20during%20the%20Indian%20war&f=false

Object:

File: http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=image&guid=214df34e-e291-45f9-8603-b510294e701a&tid=28422450&pid=47

Format: jpg

File: http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=image&guid=d6689384-7c6c-462f-87ac-c88e695f55ee&tid=28422450&pid=47

Format: jpg

Title: 1767-1789 Lake, Archibald + Mary Bird sea-farer and matron

Title: 1789-1795, Bird-Lake, Mary the clara barton of ohio

• Source: Title: The Sandusky Register at Newspapers.com Note: Page: Found in The Sandusky Register in Sandusky, Ohio on Wed, Jun 18, 1930. Mary Lake grave story Note: http://www.newspapers.com/clip/2281107/mary_lake_grave_story/ Repository: R-1349407386
• Source: Title: Marietta Daily Leader at Newspapers.com Note: Page: Found in Marietta Daily Leader in Marietta, Ohio on Wed, Mar 6, 1901. Mary Lake, noted women of ohio Note: http://www.newspapers.com/clip/2281121/mary_lake_noted_women_of_ohio/
• Source: Title: Web: Ohio, Find A Grave Index, 1787-2012 Author: Ancestry.com Publication: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc. APID: 1,70559::0 Repository: R-1349840409
• Source: Title: Ancestry Family Trees Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members. Page: Ancestry Family Tree Data: Text: http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=28422450&pid=47

Title: 1930 [Dedicated] Lake, Archibald + Mary Bird monument

Object:

File: http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=image&guid=214df34e-e291-45f9-8603-b510294e701a&tid=28422450&pid=47

Format: jpg

File: http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=image&guid=d6689384-7c6c-462f-87ac-c88e695f55ee&tid=28422450&pid=47

Format: jpg

Title: 1767-1789 Lake, Archibald + Mary Bird sea-farer and matron

Title: 1789-1795, Bird-Lake, Mary the clara barton of ohio

• Bird-3832 was created by Terry Lake through the import of Lake Family Tree.ged on May 8, 2015.