Mary (Harrington) Sheffield (abt.1745-abt.1821)

Mary Sheffield formerly Harrington

Born about 1745 in Rhode Island

Ancestors

Daughter of Stephen Harrington Jr. and Elizabeth (Shippe) Knight

Sister of Sarah (Harrington) Sherman, Daniel Harrington, Zerviah (Harrington) Northup and Stephen Harrington III

Wife of Amos Sheffield — married 18 Mar 1761 in Rhode Island

Descendants

Mother of Ruth (Sheffield) Baxter, Elizabeth (Sheffield) Davison, Stephen Sheffield and Amos Sheffield

Died about 1821 at about age 76 [location unknown]

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1 Biography
2 Sources
- 2.1 Footnotes
- 2.2 Acknowledgments

Biography

Mary was born c.1745 in Rhode Island. She married Amos Sheffield on 18 Mar 1761 in Rhode Island. Mary Harrington passed away around 1821.

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Sources

Rob Hoyt, http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~jcahill/simon.htm#id2393. http://nseaton.org/Eaton/getperson.php?personID=I9511&tree=nseaton
Ancestry.com. Rhode Island, Vital Extracts, 1636-1899 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014.
Original data: Arnold, James Newell. Rhode Island Vital Extracts, 1636–1850. 21 volumes. Providence, R.I.: Narragansett Historical Publishing Company, 1891–1912. Digitized images from New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, Massachusetts.
Manuscript of Harrington Family Genealogical Gazeteer by George H. Harrington, Austin, Texas, June 14, 1941. Section I. Harrington families arranged in the alphabetical order of the Christian names of the male partners. Ancestry.com

Footnotes

Acknowledgments

Thank you to Marie Chantigny for creating Harrington-2168 on 5 Aug 13. Click the Changes tab for the details on contributions by Marie and others.

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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Mary by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Mary: