Mary (Stevens) Ingersol (1694 - 1789)

Born 2 Feb 1694 in Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts Bay

Ancestors

Wife of Josiah Ingersol Sr. — married 30 Dec 1712 in Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts Bay

Descendants

Died 13 Jan 1789 at age 94 in Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts, USA

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Biography

Mary Stevens was born 11 February 1694 in Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts to Lieutenant Samuell Stevens and Mary Ellery.^[1]

Babson's history tells us Mary (Stevens) Ingersol, born in 1694 was daughter of Mary (Ellery) Stevens, born in 1677, whose mother was the second-born of John Coit and Mary Stevens born in 1655. The footnote which summarized this family states^[2]:

"Daniel Ellery, son of Nathaniel, born in 1732, intended marriage with Mary Matchett, Dec. 20, 1754; and had a daughter Mary, baptized Jan. 11, 1756. This infant, I suppose, was the subject of the following notice in a Boston newspaper of Feb. 2, 1756: " Gloucester, Jan. 6, 1756.— This day, a child was born that has ten grand fathers and grandmothers, all living; and this child makes the fifth generation ; and the firstborn of every one of the generations was a daughter; and every one of the children's name was Mary; and they are all of there now living." These Marys must have been, first, Mary the Infant, whose mother was Mary (Matchett) Ellery, born in 1734,the second; whose mother was Mary (Ingersol) Matchett, bom in 1713, the third; whose mother was Mary (Stevens) Ingersol, born in 1694, the fourth; whose mother was Mary (Ellery) Stevens, bom in 1677, the fifth. The mother of the last was also a Mary, the second-born of John Coit and Mary Stevens : she was born in 1655."

Mary Stevens and Josiah Ingersall (also written Ingersol) married in Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts on December 30, 1712.^[3]

Sources

1. ↑ Ancestry.com. Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011. Original data: Town and City Clerks of Massachusetts. Massachusetts Vital and Town Records. Provo, UT: Holbrook Research Institute (Jay and Delene Holbrook). IMAGE OF ORIGINAL RECORD AVAILABLE ON ANCESTRY (a fee site)
2. ↑ History of the town of Gloucester : Cape Ann. . Babson, John J. (John James), 1809-1886. Page 87; https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=yale.39002003013431&view=1up&seq=11
3. ↑ Early Vital Records of Massachusetts From 1600 to 1850 - GLOUCESTER MARRIAGES: Josiah, and Mary Stevens, Dec. 30, 1712. Gloucester - Marriages : Image of page 302