Polly (Wright) Kingsbury (1787 - 1871)

Born 3 Jun 1787 in Coventry, Connecticut

Ancestors

Wife of Harvey Kingsbury — married 7 Apr 1824 in Coventry, CT

Descendants

Died 25 Nov 1871 at age 84 in Coventry, Connecticut

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Biography

Polly was born in Coventry, Connecticut. Her Mother, Mary "Jeffers" Wright died soon after the birth of Polly and her twin sister, Bestey. Roswell married second, Abigail Benton who took on the job of raising two year old twins, one of whom was a dwarf.

Polly married Harvey Kingsbury on April 7, 1824. They were step cousins. His mother, Ruth Benton Kingsbury, was the sister of Abigail Benton Wright.

She is buried in the Center Cemetary in Coventry.

Note that one Internet source refers to Polly as "Mary". This may be a confusion with her daughter Mary. According to a visitor to this page: "There is no need for the note about possible confusion with the name Mary. Polly is the standard nickname for people named Mary. I must have 50 Mary's in my file who were called Polly."^[1]

Note: This individual has always been Polly: Coventry birth, marriage and death records. Her gravestone. Her sampler. Initials on her thimble, spoons and forks, her homespun linens. Her school notebook. Her journal. Address on a letter written to her. Sworn testamony in the case of her father's revolutionary pension file. And in our family's oral tradition. ^[2]

Sources

1. ↑ Private message to Chris Whitten from Bill Harris, 4 Nov 2012.
2. ↑ Signed Rebecca Syphers. This is from first hand knowledge.

• "Connecticut Births and Christenings, 1649-1906", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F7W5-ZS9 : 7 January 2020), Polly Wright, 1787.

• "Connecticut Marriages, 1630-1997", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:H963-593Z : 11 January 2020), Polly Wright in entry for Harvey Kingsbury, 1824.

• "Connecticut Births and Christenings, 1649-1906", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F771-WVJ : 7 January 2020), Polly Wright in entry for Elisabeth Wright Kingsbury, 1824.

• "Connecticut Births and Christenings, 1649-1906", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F771-WJX : 7 January 2020), Polly Wright in entry for Mary Jeffers Kingsbury, 1826.

• "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M68B-884 : 19 December 2020), Polly W Kingsbury in household of Harvey Kingsbury, Coventry, Tolland, Connecticut, United States; citing family , NARA microfilm publication (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).

• "United States Census, 1870", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MN7G-J2K : 28 May 2021), Polly Kingsbury in entry for Henry Gilbert, 1870.

• "Connecticut, Charles R. Hale Collection, Vital Records, 1640-1955", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F78X-V38 : 16 September 2020), Polly Wright Kingsbury, 1871.

• Find a Grave, database and images (www.findagrave.com/memorial/15688628/polly-wright-kingsbury : accessed 06 July 2021), memorial page for Polly Wright Kingsbury (3 Jun 1787–24 Nov 1871), Find A Grave: Memorial #15688628, citing Center Cemetery, Coventry, Tolland County, Connecticut, USA ; Maintained by David Simpson (contributor 46841829) .

• Hale collection Connecticut grave stones

• Dimock, Susan Whitney. Records of the Town and Churches in Coventry, Connecticut, 1711-1844 (New York, The Baker & Taylor company, 1897). p69, 125, and 149.

• Revolutionary War Records Section, The Department of the Interior, Bureau of Pensions Application or Roswell Wright.