Friday, July 21, 2017

52 Ancestors - Week 184: #263 Mary (Goble) Fletcher (1694-1734) of Concord, Massachusetts

Mary Goble (1694-1734)  is #263 on my Ahnentafel List, my 6th great-grandmother, who married #262 John Fletcher (1692-????) in 1715 in Watertown, Massachusetts.


I am descended through:

*  their daughter #131 Abigail Fletcher (1720-1783) who married #130, Samuel Whitney (1719-1782) in 1741.
*  their daughter #65 Martha Whitney (1763-1832)  who married #64 Benjamin Seaver (1757-1816)  in 1783.
*  their son #32 Benjamin Seaver (1791-1825) who married #33 Abigail Gates (1797-1867) in 1817.
*  their son #16 Isaac Seaver (1823-1901) who married #17 Lucretia Townsend Smith (1828-1884) in 1851.
*  their son #8 Frank Walton Seaver (1852-1922) who married #9 Hattie Louisa Hildreth (1857-1920) in 1874.
*  their son #4 Frederick Walton Seaver (1876-1942) who married #5 Alma Bessie Richmond (1882-1962) in 1900.
*  their son #2 Frederick Walton Seaver (1911-1983) who married #3 Betty Virginia Carringer (1919-2002) in 1942.
*  their son #1 Randall Jeffrey Seaver (1943-living)

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1)  PERSON (with source citations as indicated in brackets):
*  Name:                    Mary Goble[1–3]   
*  Alternate Name:    Mary Fletcher[4–5]   

*  Sex:                       Female   

*  Father:                 Thomas Goble (1656-1724)   
*  Mother:               Sarah Shepard (1667-1746)  
   

2)  INDIVIDUAL EVENTS (with source citations as indicated in brackets):

*  Birth:                  19 February 1693/4, Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[1,2]   
*  Distribution:       1727 (about age 33), Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[4]   
*  Death:                 27 March 1734 (age 40), Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[5]   
  
3)  SHARED EVENTS (with source citations as indicated in brackets):
  
*  Spouse 1:           John Fletcher (1692-    )   
*  Marriage 1:       10 May 1715 (age 21), Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[3]   

*  Child 1:             Martha Fletcher (1716-    )   
*  Child 1:             John Fletcher (1718-1792)   
*  Child 1:             Abigail Fletcher (1720-1783)   
*  Child 1:             Jonah Fletcher (1723-    )   
*  Child 1:             Thomas Fletcher (1724-    )   
*  Child 1:             David Fletcher (1726-    )   
*  Child 1:             Peter Fletcher (1729-    )   
*  Child 1:             Elisha Fletcher (1731-    )   
*  Child 1:             Mary Fletcher (1733-    )   
  
4)  NOTES (with source citations as indicated in brackets):   

 Mary Goble was born 19 February 1693/4 in Concord, Massachusetts, the second child and second daughter of Thomas and Sarah (Shepard) Goble of Concord[1-2].  Mary was a twin to her brother Stephen Goble born on the same day.

She married John Fletcher (1692-????) of Concord, son of Samuel Fletcher and Elizabeth Wheeler, in Watertown, Massachusetts on 10 May 1715[3].  They had nine children recorded in Concord between 1716 and 1733.

Her father died 10 March 1724.  In the distribution of Thomas Goble's estate in 1727, Mary Fletcher and the heirs of Sarah Wood, the two daughters of the deceased, received two and a half acres and a few rods of pasture land, two acres and 54 rods of meadow land, and 18 and three quarters acres of land in Goble's Plain, for a total of 74 pounds, 4 shillings, 5 pence[4].

Mary (Goble) Fletcher died 27 March 1734 in Concord[5].  There is no probate record or known burial record for her.
 
5)  SOURCES

1. George Tolman (compiler), Concord, Massachusetts Births, Marriages and Deaths, 1635-1850 (Concord, Mass. : Committee on Printing, 1894), page 38, Mary Goble birth entry.

2. Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988, digital images, Ancestry.com, "Concord Vital Record Transcripts," page 38, image 43 of 500, Mary Goble birth entry.

3. Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988, digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com), "Watertown births, Marriages and deaths," page 44 (image 206 of 3991), John Fletcher and Mary Goble marriage entry.

4. "Middlesex County, MA: Probate Papers, 1648-1871," digital image, American Ancestors (http://www.AmericanAncestors.org : accessed, Probate Packet #9,238, Thomas Goble, 1724.

5. George Tolman (compiler), Concord, Massachusetts Births, Marriages and Deaths, 1635-1850, page 158, Mary Fletcher death entry.

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NOTE:  Amy Johnson Crow suggested a weekly blog theme of "52 Ancestors" in her blog post Challenge:  52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks on the No Story Too Small blog.  I have extended this theme in 2017 to 208 Ancestors in 208 Weeks.




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2 comments:

Geolover said...

Is #262 a Fletcher or a Whitney?

Randy Seaver said...

Ah, you found my unintentional error. I get them mixed up because the families intermarried a lot in my line.

It should be Fletcher. I fixed it. Thanks!