Mary (Geer) Prior (1670 - aft. 1721)

Born 1670 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut

Ancestors

Wife of John Prior — married 15 Apr 1686 in Enfield,Hartford,Connecticut

Descendants

Died after 1721 after age 51 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut

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Biography

Mary Geer (or Geares as it reads on the Massachusetts Marriages, 1695-1910 record) was born about 1670 daughter of Thomas Geer and Deborah Davis , the eldest of at least three children. On April 15, 1686, in what was then Enfield, Hampshire County, Massachusetts, which is now in Hartford, Connecticut, she married John Pryor when she was 16 years old.They had a 60 acre farm in Namerick village in Windsor CT. They had at least ten children born to them, the first three recorded in Windsor Township, and the others all in Enfield, Hartford County, Connecticut

• Anna born on March 31, 1690
• Mary born on March 6, 1692
• John, born on May 16, 1695, m. Sarah Pease for a second wife, 1721, had one son, John b. 1723, went to East Windsor.
• Daniel born on October 16, 1697,, died at Cape Breton, 1746
• Sarah born on February 12, 1699
• Nathaniel born on September 21, 1702, m. Ann Pease, 1725, d. 1786, had one son who settled and died in Enfield
• Azariah or as listed on the record Ezerriah Prier, born on January 26, 1704, left town
• Ezekiel born on April 24, 1708, m. Deborah Geer, 1732, settled and died in Enfield, had one son who settled and died in Enfield, left a family
• Thankfull born on September 9, 1709
• Ebenezer born on October 2, 1712, m. Hannah Simons, 1737, left town, and died in Vermont, old.

Their name has been spelled as Prier and Prior as well as Pryor.

The last entry of Mary’s name in Pease’s book History of Enfield Connecticut Volume III was on April 13, 1727, and reads as follows “John Pryor husbandman and wife Mary to Ebenezer Bliss of Springfield cordwainer. (War.) 12 acres Simeon Booths homelot-Great River west, Country road east, William Booth north, John Pryor jun' south.” So she was alive in the spring of 1727. Unfortunately, it is not known when she died or where she’s buried.

Sources

• Genealogy of the Geer family in America from 1635 to 1914 by Geer, Walter, 1857-; Youngs, Florence E. (Florence Evelyn), b. 1868; Geer, James, b. 1783
• catalogue of the names of the first Puritan settlers of the colony of Connecticut; with the time of their arrival in the colony and their standing in society, together with their place of residence, as far as can be discovered by the records. &c collected from the state and town records by R.R. Hinman, Hartford. Printed by E. Gleason,1846,://dunhamwilcox.net/ct/puritan9.htm
• "Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org : modified 18 July 2017, 15:00), entry for Mary Geer(PID https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/4:1:LJ1M-RFD); contributed by various users.
• http://jtbullock.com/Tree/AnnaJones.html
• Allen, Francis. The History of Enfield, Connecticut (Wickersham Printing Co., Lancaster, PA, 1900) Vol. 2, Page 1765