Martha (Conant) Hosmer (1716 - 1795)

Born 10 Jul 1716 in Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay

Ancestors

Wife of Jonathan Hosmer — married 25 Apr 1734 in Concord Midsx Co MA

Descendants

Died 5 May 1795 at age 78 in Acton, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States

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Biography

Martha Conant was born on July 10, 1716, in Concord, Massachusetts, the daughter of Lot Conant and Martha Cleaves.^[1]

On April 25, 1734, in Concord, Massachusetts, she was united in marriage to Jonathan Hosmer.^[2] Their children:^[3][4][5]

1. Jonathan, b. 28 Aug 1734
2. Martha, b. 2 Apr 1736
3. Ruth, b. 8 May 1738
4. Stephen, b. 1 Feb 1739/40
5. Sarah, b. 7 Jul 1745
6. Lucy, b. 14 Nov 1752; m. Joseph Stanley
7. Abner, b. 26 Aug 1754
8. Jonas, b. 26 Oct 1758

Martha died on May 5, 1795, in Acton, Massachusetts,^[6] and is buried in Woodlawn Cemetery there.^[7]

Sources

1. ↑ VR of Concord: Page 90
2. ↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QPC7-XTGN : 11 May 2022), Jonathan Hosmer and Martha Concant, 25 Apr 1734; citing Marriage, Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 007011227.
3. ↑ VR of Acton: Pages 64-67
4. ↑ Conant: Page 212
5. ↑ Hosmer: Page 35
6. ↑ VR of Acton: Page 278
7. ↑ Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/70694557/martha-hosmer: accessed 04 March 2023), memorial page for Martha Conant Hosmer (10 Jul 1716–May 1795), Find a Grave Memorial ID 70694557, citing Woodlawn Cemetery, Acton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA; Maintained by TCW (contributor 47298351).

• Concord, Massachusetts Births, Marriages and Deaths 1635-1850 (Boston, 1895) Page 90

"Martha Conant Daughter of Lott Conant & Martha his wife was born July ye 10 day 1716"

• Conant, Frederick Odell. A History and Genealogy of the Conant Family in England and America (Portland, Maine, 1887) Page 174, 212
• Hosmer, George Leonard Hosmer Genealogy: Descendants of James Hosmer (Technical Composition Company, Cambridge, Mass., 1928) Page 35
• Vital Records of Acton, Massachusetts to the Year 1850 (New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, Mass., 1923) Page 64-67, 278

Acknowledgments

Thank you to Malcolm Osmer for creating WikiTree profile Conant-274 through the import of Elijah Hosmer_2013-02-03.ged on Feb 3, 2013.

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