Mary (Day) Coleman (1641 - 1725)

Born 28 Oct 1641 in Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut

Ancestors

Wife of Samuel Ely — married 28 Oct 1659 in Springfield, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Wife of Thomas Stebbins II — married 12 Apr 1694 in Springfield, Hampshire County, Province of Massachusetts Bay

Wife of John Coleman — married 11 Dec 1696 in Springfield, Hampshire County, Province of Massachusetts Bay

Descendants

Died 17 Oct 1725 at age 83 in Hatfield, Hampshire, Massachusetts

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Biography

Mary Day was born about 1641 at Hartford, Connecticut, the daughter of Deacon Robert Day and Editha Stebbins. ^[1]

Her father Robert Day died when she was about seven years old. Her mother Editha married Deacon John Maynard, a bachelor, who died about ten years later.

Editha Stebbins Day Maynard married for a third time, to Elizur Holyoak, about 1658, and moved to his home in Springfield, Massachusetts Bay Colony, about twenty-two miles away.

Mary moved to Springfield with her mother, and married there, 28 October 1659, Samuel Ely, the son of Nathaniel Ely. ^{[2] [3]} In 1659, Springfield was a town in the unorganized part of Massachusetts Bay Colony, outside the boundaries of the four original counties.^[4]Ten of their sixteen children died in infancy or in early youth. Samuel died 17 March 1692, at Springfield, Massachusetts.

Mary married for her 2nd husband, 12 April 1694, at Springfield, Hampshire County, Province of Massachusetts Bay, Thomas Stebbins, Jr., of Springfield. ^{[5] [6]} Thomas died at Springfield 7 December 1695.

Mary Day Ely Stebbins married for her 3rd husband, at Springfield, John Coleman on 11 December 1696. ^{[7] [8] [9]}

John Coleman died 21 January 1711, and his wife Mary died 17 October 1725, age 84. ^[10] They are buried at Hill Cemetery, Hatfield, Hampshire, Massachusetts, ^[11]

Sources

1. ↑ Great Migration 1634-1635
2. ↑ History of Early Hartford
3. ↑ Great Migration 1634-1635
4. ↑ History of Hampshire County, Massachusetts
5. ↑ History of Early Hartford
6. ↑ Great Migration 1634-1635
7. ↑ History of Early Hartford
8. ↑ Early Families of New England
9. ↑ Great Migration 1634-1635
10. ↑ History of Early Hartford
11. ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #15358973

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• Early Families of New England. (Original Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2013. (By Alicia Crane Williams, Lead Genealogist.) entry for Humphrey Johnson, page 5

• History of Early Hartford, database, Society of the Descendants of the Founders of Hartford (accessed Oct. 24, 2013)

• History of Hampshire County, Massachusetts, Wikipedia, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License

• Ancestral File Number: 1DSD-579

• Jordan, John W. Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (Lewis Historical Pub. Co., New York, 1915, Vol 3, p 1256-1259)

• Find A Grave: Memorial #15358931

• Jacobus, Donald Lines. Hale, House, and Related Families, Mainly of the Connecticut River Valley (Connecticut Historical Society, Hartford, 1952) Page 537-9.