Friday, November 24, 2017

52 Ancestors - Week 202: #281 Mary (Pierce) Dill (1682-1713) of Medford, Massachusetts

 Mary (Pierce) Dill (1682-1713) is #281 on my Ahnentafel List, my 6th great-grandmother, who married #280 Thomas Dill (1682-1718)  in 1706 in Woburn, Massachusetts.


I am descended through:

*  their son, #140 Thomas Dill (1708-1761) who married #71  Mehitable Brown (1714-1758) in 1733.
*  their son, #70 Thomas Dill (1755-1836), who married Hannah Horton (1761-1797) in 1782. 
*  their daughter, #35 Elizabeth Horton Dill (1791-1869), who married  #34 Alpheus B. Smith (1802-1840) 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 Pierce[1–2]    

*  Sex:                         Female    

*  Father:                    Nathaniel Pierce (1655-1692)    
*  Mother:                  Elizabeth Pierce (1646-    )  

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

*  Birth:                     31 July 1682, Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[1]    
*  Death:                    before May 1713 (before about age 31), Medford, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States

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


*  Spouse 1:                 Thomas Dill (1682-1718)
*  Marriage 1:             17 January 1705/6 (age 23), Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[2]

*  Child 1:                  Mary Dill (1706-    )
*  Child 2:                 Thomas Dill (1708-1761)
*  Child 3:                 Elizabeth Dill (1712-1714)  
4)  NOTES (with source citations as indicated in brackets):    


Mary Pierce was born 31 July 1682 in Woburn, Massachusetts[1], the first child of Nathaniel Pierce and his second wife, Elizabeth (Pierce) (Whittemore) Foster, who had four children before marrying Nathaniel Pierce.  Mary's father died in 1692 in Woburn, and there is no record of her mother marrying again.  

She married Thomas Dill of Cambridge Farms, Massachusetts on 17 January 1705/6 in Woburn[2].  He was the son of Peter and Thanks (Shepard) Dill.   They resided in Medford, Massachusetts, and had three children registered in the Medford town records between 1708 and 1712.

Mary (Pierce) Dill died after her daughter, Elizabeth, was born on 2 January 1712 and before 11 May 1713 when Thomas Dill married his second wife, Mary Cheney, in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

There is no death or burial record available for Mary (Pierce) Dill in Woburn, Cambridge, Medford or Littleton where Thomas Dill resided after Mary's death.
 
5)  SOURCES
 
1. Edward F. Johnson,  Woburn Records of Births, Marriages and Deaths [5 Volumes], (Woburn, Mass.: The News Print, 1893), Births, page 194, Martha Pierce entry, 1682, "daughter of Nathaniel."
2. Edward F. Johnson, Woburn Records of Births, Marriages and Deaths [5 Volumes], Marriages, page 77, Thomas Dill and Mary Pierce entry, 1706, "in Woburn."

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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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