Born in New Salem, Franklin, Massachusetts, United States
Daughter of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]
[sibling(s) unknown]
Wife of
James Hoyt
— married
[date unknown] [location unknown]
Descendants 
Mother of
James Hoyt, Mindwell (Hoyt) Crozier, Samuel Jerold Hoyt, Asa Tyler Hoyt, Mahala Peebles (Hoyt) Reed, Dan Young Hoyt and Damon Hoyt
Died
at age 85
in Westdale, East Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States
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Biography
Mary Peebles, also called Polly, was born in1788 in New Salem, Massachusetts. Her parents were James and Martha Peebles, also born in New Salem, Massachusetts. [New Salem,NH is now the town of Meredith, New Hampshire.] [1]
Mary Peebles married Freeman Fisher March 16, 1806 in Orwell Vermont. They moved to (at the time) Genessee County, NY and raised 7 children. Mary divorced Freeman circa 1854. She lived with her son Franklin for short time before moving back to Massachusetts, where she married James Hoyt . [2]
At the time of the 1871 Canada Census, Robert, Mindwell, Agusta, Mary, and Emily Crozier were listed as living in London, Ontario, along with Mindwell's mother Mary Hoyt.[3]
She died in 1874 in East Bridgewater, Massachusetts. [4] Mary is buried at Elmwood Cemetery in East Bridgewater. [5] Grave inscription:
- MARY C
- Widow of
- JAMES HOYT
- Died
- May 4, 1874
- Aged
- 85 yrs, 10 mos.
Sources
- ↑ "Massachusetts Deaths, 1841-1915," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N7P2-B52 : 22 May 2019), Mary C. Peebles Hoyt, 13 Jun 1874; citing E. Bridgewater, Mass, v 266 p 298, State Archives, Boston; FHL microfilm 960,205.
- ↑ Hoyt David W. A Genealogical History of the Hoyt, Haight, and Hight Families, Providence Press, Providence, Rhode Island, 1871 p. 79
- ↑ Census of Canada, 1871, Ontario, Middlesex East (9), London (C), page 51, dwelling 193, family 193, Mary Hoyt; RG31 - Statistics Canada, roll C-9905 (https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/census/1871/Pages/item.aspx?itemid=1033718 : Accessed March 7, 2024).
- ↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FHT6-5PT : 17 October 2017), Mary C. Peebles Hoyt, 13 Jun 1874; citing Death, East Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 007009810.
- ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #28148899
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Categories: Elmwood Cemetery, East Bridgewater, Massachusetts
The 1790 US Census shows her father James in New Salem, Massachusetts with one child under 5 years of age.
Mary Peebles, born to James and Martha Peebles, was born in New Salem, Massachusetts, not New Hampshire.
She is my great x 4 grandmother.
edited by Keith Fisher