Friday, November 10, 2017

52 Ancestors - Week 200: #279 Mary (Boyden) Guild (1708-1776) of Massachusetts

Mary (Boyden) Guild (1708-1776) is #279 on my Ahnentafel List, my 6th great-grandmother, who married #278 Nathaniel Guild (1712-1796)  in 1733 in Dedham, Massachusetts.


I am descended through:

*  their daughter, #139 Mary Guild (1735-1800), who married #138 Amos Plimpton (1735-1808),in 1756.
*  their daughter, #69 Mercy Plimpton (1772-1850) who married #68 Aaron Smith (1765-1841) in 1795.
*  their son, #34 Alpheus B. Smith (1802-1840), who married #35 Elizabeth Horton Dill (1791-1869) in 1826.
*  their daughter #17 Lucretia Townsend Smith (1828-1884)who married  #16 Isaac Seaver (1823-1901)  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 Boyden[1–2]    
*  Alternate Name:       Mary Guild[4–5]    
*  Alternate Name:       Mary Gile[3]  

*  Sex:                          Female    

*  Father:                     Thomas Boyden (1681-1770)    
*  Mother:                   Deborah Wight (1685-1730)  

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

*  Birth:                       9 February 1707/8, Wrentham, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States[1]    
*  Distribution:            10 October 1771 (age 63), father's will proved; Wrentham, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States[3]    

*  Death:                      20 March 1776 (age 68), Walpole, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States[4–5]

3)  SHARED EVENTS (with source citations as indicated in brackets):


*  Spouse 1:                Nathaniel Guild (1712-1796)    

*  Marriage 1:             12 June 1733 (age 25), Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States[2]  

*  Child 1:              Mary Guild (1735-1800)    
*  Child 2:              Nathaniel Guild (1739-1793)    
*  Child 3:              Mercy Guild (1742-1820)    
*  Child 4:              Susanna Guild (1744-1822)    
*  Child 5:              Samuel Guild (1746-1816)    
*  Child 6:              Mehitable Guild (1752-1816)

4)  NOTES (with source citations as indicated in brackets):    


 Mary Boyden was born 9 February 1707/8 in Wrentham, Massachusetts, the first child of Thomas and Deborah (Wight) Boyden[1].

Mary Boyden "of Wrentham" was married by John Metcalfe to Nathaniel Guild "of Dedham"  on 12 June 1733 in Dedham, Massachusetts[2].  They had four children between 1735 and 1752, all born in Walpole, Massachusetts.

Mary's father, Thomas Boyden, died testate in 1770.  In his will, written 5 July 1765 and proved 10 October 1771, he bequeathed 13 pounds, 8 shillings and 6 pence to his daughter "Mary Gile."[3]

Mary Guild died on 20 March 1776 in Walpole, Massachusetts.  Her husband, Nathaniel, died in 1796 in Walpole[4-5].  here are no burial records for Mary (Boyden) Guild in Walpole, Wrentham or Medfield, Massachusetts.
 
5)  SOURCES
 
1. Thomas W. Baldwin, Vital records of Wrentham, Massachusetts, to the year 1850 (Boston, Mass. : Stanhope Press, 1910), Births, page 34, Mary Boyden entry, `1708.

2. Don Gleason Hill (editor), The Record of Births, Marriages and Deaths in the Town of Dedham,1635-1845 (Dedham, Mass. : Town of Dedham, 1886), page 60, Nathll Guild of Dedham and Mary Boyden of Wrentham entry, 1733.

3. Suffolk County (Massachusetts) Probate Records, 1636-1899, Family History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah; on 435 FHL Microfilm Reels, "Volumes 69-71, 1770-1772," accessed on FHL US/CAN microfil 493,882, Volume 71, pages 17-18, Thomas Boyden will and letters testamentary.

4. Vital Records of Walpole, Massachusetts to the Year 1850 (Boston, Mass. :New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1902), Deaths, page 203, Mary Guild entry, 1776, "wife of Nathaniel".

5. Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988, digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com), "Walpole Births, Marriages and Deaths," (image 331 of 2213), Mary Guild entry.

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NOTE:  Amy Johnson Crow suggested a weekly blog theme of "52 Ancestors" in her blog post 


 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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