Mary (Woods) Bellows (abt. 1634 - 1707)

Born about 1634 in England [uncertain]

Ancestors

Wife of John Bellows — married 9 May 1655 in Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts

Descendants

Died 16 Sep 1707 at about age 73 in Marlborough, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay

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Biography

Birth

1637 (see alternate birth date below)^[1]

Death

16 SEP 1707^[2]

Mary was born about 1634, the daughter of John and Mary (Parmenter) Woods, who settled in Concord, Massachusetts. It is uncertain whether she was born in England or in Concord. She married John Bellows in Concord 9 May 1655.^[3] John Woods' will refers to "my son-in-law John Bellows"..^[4]

They had 9 children^[5], and all are mentioned in John Bellow's will except Daniel, who died young. A 10th child, Benjamin, born after Nathaniel 18 Jan 1677, not named in the will, is probably the illegitimate child of oldest daughter Mary. The father is unknown, but daughter Mary was summoned to court five years later, apparently for fornication. She "had been gone from home" and did not appear in court.^[4]

Mary Bellows died in Marlborough 16 Sep 1707.^[6]

Sources

1. ↑ Cutter, William Richard. Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of Boston and Eastern Massachusetts (Lewis Hist. Pub. Co., Boston, 1910) https://books.google.com/books?id=kFoLBC2TwFYC&pg=PA1095
2. ↑ Cutter, William Richard. Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of Boston and Eastern Massachusetts (Lewis Hist. Pub. Co., Boston, 1910) https://books.google.com/books?id=kFoLBC2TwFYC&pg=PA1095
3. ↑ Mass. Vital Records, Concord Marriages
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1} The Great Migration, by Robert Charles Anderson, NEHGS, Boston 1999, Vol 1, A-B, pages 250-253
5. ↑ Daniel Wait Howe, Howe Genealogies, Vol. 1, John of Sudbury and Marlborough, NEHGS; Boston;1929;), p9-10
6. ↑ Mass. Vital Records, Marlborough Deaths

• Stearns, Ezra S. Genealogical and Family History of the State of New Hampshire (Lewis Publishing Company, 1908) Vol. 2, Page 568
• Kearney, Michael W., Notes On The Children of John¹ and Mary (Woods) Bellows of Concord and Marlborough, Massachusetts, The New England Historical & Genealogical Register (NEHGS, Boston, Mass., 2010) Vol. 164, WN 654, Page 153.