Mary (Little) Thurber (1738 - aft. 1777)

Born 4 May 1738 in Bristol, Bristol, Rhode Island

Ancestors

Wife of Thomas Luther — married 11 Jan 1756 in Swansea, Massachusetts Bay

Wife of Richard Thurber — married 30 Dec 1764 in Swansea, Bristol, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Descendants

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Biography

Mary Little, daughter of Thomas Little and Margaret Lawton, was born at Bristol, Rhode Island, 4 May 1738. ^[1]

She died sometime after 1777, based on the estimated birth of her last known child, Lawton. Note the use of her mother's maiden name. ^[2]

Mary married (1) Thomas Luther, son of Robert Luther and Elizabeth Wilbour, at Swansea, Bristol Co., Massachusetts, 11 Jan 1756;^[3]she married (2) Richard Thurber, son of Edward Thurber and Hopestill Luther, at Swansea, 30 Dec 1764.^[4]

Thomas Luther and Mary had issue in Swansea, Bristol, Massachusetts:

• Ezra, born 21 Oct 1756 ^[5] married Mary Sisson 29 Oct 1786 in Swansea. ^[6]
• Margret, born 26 Sep 1758 ^[7]Died 15 June 1759^[8][9]
• Dalana, born 10 Sept 1760, married Joseph Chase 17 Apr 1777.^{[10][11][12][13]}
• Pheby, born 3 Aug 1762.^[14]

Notes

Any references to FamilySearch collections, or "copy of an index", and the like MUST be verified against the original source records. Please my freespace page for an explanation of the so-called index of Swansea vital recordsSpace:Swansea_Vital_Records:_A_Bungled_Index

Records of Swansea are spread over multiple sets of vital records requiring cross referencing and multiple references. Swansea was established in Massachusetts 30 October 1667 by petition to the Court at Plymouth. It was the fourth town founded in Bristol County, Massachusetts. Only 10 miles from Swansea in Bristol County, MA is the town of Bristol, in Bristol County, Rhode Island. Swansea originally extended from the boundaries of Taunton, MA (founded 1637) and Rehoboth, MA (founded 1643) to Mount Hope Bay. The area of Swansea was reduced three times, first by the incorporation of Barrington as a town in 1717 which was ceded to Rhode Island and merged into Warren, Rhode Island in 1747.^[15] Warren was ceded to Rhode Island from Massachusetts in 1747 along with the Attleborough Gore (now Cumberland), Barrington, Bristol, Tiverton, and Little Compton, Rhode Island, then by the annexation of Warren by the state of Rhode Island in 1747, ^[16] and finally by the incorporation of Somerset, MA as a separate town in 1790.^[17]

Sources

1. ↑ Robert S. Wakefield, John Bradley Arthaud, Jane Fletcher Fiske, and Judith Haddock Swan, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations, Descendants of the Pilgrims Who Landed at Plymouth, Mass. December 1620: Volume Eighteen, Family of Richard Warren, three parts , (Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1999-2011), 18:2:219
2. ↑ https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/20454621/lawton-thurber
3. ↑ H. L. Peter Rounds, Jane Fletcher Fiske and Margaret F. Costello, Vital Records of Swansea, Massachusetts to 1850 (Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1992), 207, further cited as Vital Records of Swansea
4. ↑ Vital Records of Swansea, 201
5. ↑ "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FZD8-ZMB : 14 January 2020), Mary in entry for Ezra Luther, 1756.
6. ↑ Massachusetts Marriages, 1695-1910, 1921-1924", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FC81-Y25 : 28 July 2021), Mary in entry for Ezra Luther, 1786.
7. ↑ "Rhode Island Town Deaths Index, 1639-1932", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F89F-VQB : 4 November 2020), Mary Luther in entry for Margret Luther, 1758.
8. ↑ A copy of the index of Swansea, Mass. vital records book B & a few records of book D, 1702-1800, vol. viii. by Swansea (Mass. : Town). p58.https://archive.org/details/copyofindexofswa00unse/page/n113/mode/2up
9. ↑ Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FZDZ-86K : 14 January 2020), Mary in entry for Margret Luther, 1758.
10. ↑ A copy of the index of Swansea, Mass. vital records book B & a few records of book D, 1702-1800, vol. viii. by Swansea (Mass. : Town). p54.https://archive.org/details/copyofindexofswa00unse/page/n113/mode/2up
11. ↑ "Rhode Island Town Deaths Index, 1639-1932", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F89F-J2C : 4 November 2020), Mary Luther in entry for Delana Luther, 1760.
12. ↑ "Massachusetts Marriages, 1695-1910, 1921-1924", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FCXD-HBR : 28 July 2021), Mary in entry for Joseph Chase, 1777.
13. ↑ "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FZDZ-PF4 : 14 January 2020), Mary in entry for Delana Luther, 1760.
14. ↑ "Rhode Island Town Deaths Index, 1639-1932", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F89F-VJX : 4 November 2020), Mary Luther in entry for Pheby Luther, 1762.
15. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barrington,_Rhode_Island
16. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren,_Rhode_Island
17. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somerset,_Massachusetts

Acknowledgments

• Thanks Richard Bailey for providing the unsourced family tree handed down to him.