Mary (Fisher) Wetherell (abt. 1604)

Born about 17 Jun 1604 in Boughton Monchelsea, Kent, England [uncertain]

Ancestors

Wife of William Wetherell — married 26 Mar 1627 in Canterbury, Kent, England

Descendants

Died [date unknown] in Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts

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Biography

Birth, Death (29 Mar 1684, Scituate)^{[citation needed]}

Baptism possibility: 17 Jun 1604, Boughton-Monchelsea, Kent, England, daughter of Thomas Fisher^[1]

Mary Fisher was born in England in 1602. She is the daughter of Thomas Fisher and Joan Lake.

Mary, daughter of Thomas Fisher, was licensed to marry William Wetherell on March 26, 1627 at St. Mildred, Canterbury, Kent, England. ^[2]

They had three children in England and another six born in America.^[3]

William and Mary and their three children emigrated to America aboard the ship Hercules and in the ship's register he is recorded as "Schoolmaster" from Maidstone, England. ^[4] They arrived in 1634 or before and by 1635, William was employed in a grammar school at Charleston in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. He then taught at Cambridge for the next two years.^[3]

In 1638, the family moved to Duxbury in Plymouth Colony.^[3]

In 1644, they moved on to Scituate in Plymouth Colony. On September 2, 1645, he was ordained as the first minister of the church organized there. From then on, the church records are in his hand until 1674.^[3]

Sources

1. ↑ "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N1ZV-XZP : 11 February 2018, Mary Fisher, ); citing Boughton-Monchelsea, Kent, England, index based upon data collected by the Genealogical Society of Utah, Salt Lake City; FHL microfilm 1,751,591.
2. ↑ Anderson, Robert C. William Wetherell in: Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volume VII, T-Y, New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, Massachusetts, 2011 p. 318-323 (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2012.)
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3} Benton Page 53
4. ↑ Hotten: James C. The Original Lists of Persons of Quality; Emigrants; Religious Exiles; Political Rebels; Serving Men sold for a term of years; apprentices; children stolen; maidens pressed; and others who went from Great Britain to the American Plantations, 1600-1700 : with their ages and the names of the ships in which they embarked, and other interesting particulars; from mss. preserved in the State Paper Department of Her Majesty's Public Record Office, England, London, England, 1874, Intoo p. xix.

• Benton: Benton, Charles Edward, Ezra Reed and Esther Edgerton: Their Life and Ancestry, A.V. Haight Company, 1912 On Archive.org

See Also:

• Find-A-Grave: Mary Fisher Wetherell No stone, no burial information.
• Hall, Virginia. Rev. William Witherell, M.A., of Scuituate, Mass., The Genealogical Advertiser (Lucy Hall Greenlaw, Cambridge, Mass., March, 1898) Vol. 1, No. 1, Page 21