Friday, August 24, 2018

52 Ancestors - Week 240: #365 Mary (Chase) Horton (1695-after 1734) of Essex and Bristol Counties, Mass.

Mary Chase Horton (1695-after 1734) is #365 on my Ahnentafel List, my 6th great-grandmother, who married #364 John Horton (1696-1796)  in 1719 in Bristol County, Massachusetts.

I am descended through:

*  their son, #182 Nathaniel Horton (1730-1819) who married #183 Sarah Pray (1734-1820)  in about 1755.
*   their daughter #91 Phebe Horton (1772 - after 1820) who married #90 Simon Wade (1767-1857)  in 1790.
*  their daughter #45 Miranda Wade (1804-1850) , who married #44 Jonathan White (1803-1850) in 1824.
*  their son #22 Henry Arnold White (1824-1885) who married #23 Amy Oatley (1826-1864) in 1844.
*  their daughter #11 Julia E. White (1848-1913) who married #10 Thomas Richmond (1848-1917) in 1868.
*  their daughter #5 Alma Bessie Richmond (1882-1962) who married #4 Frederick Walton Seaver (1876-1942) in 1900.
*  their son #2 Frederick Walton Seaver (1911-1983) 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 Chase[1–3]    
*  Alternate Name:    Mary Horton[4–5]

*  Sex:                        Female    

*  Father:                   Thomas Chase (1654-1734)    
*  Mother:                  Rebecca Follansbee (1658-1711)  

2)  INDIVIDUAL EVENTS (with source citations as indicated in brackets):
*  Birth:                    15 January 1694/5, Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts, United States[1–2]    

*  Distribution:         3 August 1732 (age 37) father's will written, proved 25 February 1733/4; Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts, United States[4]    

*  Deed:                    9 March 1733/4 (age 39), signed land deed in Rehoboth, Mass.; Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States[5]    

*  Death:                  after 9 March 1733/4, Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States    
 
3)  SHARED EVENTS (with source citations as indicated in brackets):

*  Spouse 1.                  John Horton (1696-1796)    
*  Marriage 1:               9 July 1719 (age 23), Swansea, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States[3]    

*  Child 1:                    Ruth Horton (1720-    )    
*  Child 2:                    Mehitable Horton (1723-1806)    
*  Child 3:                    Mary Horton (1725-1827)    
*  Child 4:                    John Horton (1727-1776)    
*  Child 5:                    Nathaniel Horton (1730-1819)    

4)  NOTES (with source citations as indicated in brackets):   
Mary Chase was born 15 January 1594/5 in Newbury, Massachusetts, the daughter of Thomas
and Rebecca (Follansbee) Chase of Newbury[1-2]. The birth record in the town records say: "Mary ye daughter of Thomas Chase & Rebecca his wife borne January 15^th [1694]" Although the record page says "1694" at the top, the year should be written as "1694/5" since
this birth occurred in the January after December 1694. Mary Chase married John Horton on 9 July 1719 in Swansea, Massachusetts[3]. They had five
children: * Ruth Horton, born 19 July 1720 in Rehoboth, Massachusetts, married George Round
(1718-1791) on 6 January 1738 in Rehoboth. * Mehitable Horton, born about 1723 in Rehoboth, died September 1806 in Foster, R.I.,
married Amos Hammond (1734-1813) on 6 April 1756 in Rehoboth. * Mary Horton, born 27 October 1725 in Rehoboth, died 10 April 1827 in Rehoboth, married
Joseph Round (1720-1791) on 16 April 1744 in Rehoboth. * John Horton, born 27 January 1727/8 in Rehoboth, died 27 April 1776 in Scituate, R.I.,
married Sarah Hicks (1739-????) on 6 December 1756 in Rehoboth. * Nathaniel Horton, born 1730 in Rehoboth, died 4 May 1819 in Foster, R.I., married Sarah
Pray (1734-1820) in about 1755 in Scituate, R.I. Mary's father, Thomas Chase, died testate in 1734, having written a will on 3 August 1732,
and proved on 25 February 1733/4[4]. It included:
" I give to my daughter Mary Horton five pounds in Bills of Credit or in other species equivalent
to Bills of Credit to be paid by my Executor within five years after my Decease." On 9 March 1733/4, John Horton Jr. of Rehoboth, husbandman, for £56 sold to John Baker of
Rehoboth a tract of land on the easterly side of Palmer River, a part of his homestead farm[5].
The deed was signed by John and Mary Horton.
Some derivative sources state that Mary (Chase) Horton died on 9 March 1732/3 in Rehoboth,
but her death is not in the Rehoboth Vital Records book. Since she signed the 9 March 1733/4
deed, she must have been alive on that date. It is likely that she died between 1734 and 1756,
but there are no records in Rehoboth, Massachusetts or Scituate, Rhode Island for the death. There is a Find A Grave memorial for Mary Chase Horton with a death date of 9 March 1731
in Rehoboth, Massachusetts, but there is no gravestone or cemetery record. The date is
probably spurious. There are no probate records for Mary (Chase) Horton.
 
5)  SOURCES

1. Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988, indexed database and digital image, Ancestry.com (https://www.ancestry.com), "Newbury Births, Marriages and Deaths," page 51 (image 697 of 2384), Mary Chase birth entry.

2. The Essex Institute, Vital Records of Newbury, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849, 2 Volumes (Salem, Mass. : The Essex Institute, 1911), Volume 1, Page 84, Mary Chase birth entry.

3. H. L. Peter Rounds, Jane Fletcher Fiske, and Margaret F Costello, Vital records of Swansea, Massachusetts to 1850 ( Boston, Mass. : New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1992), John Horton and Mary Chase marriage entry.

4. Essex County, Massachusetts, Probate Records and Indexes 1638-1916, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, Family History Library (Salt Lake City, Utah), on 280 FHL microfilm reels, Volume 321, pages 055-056, Thomas Chase will, on FHL Microfilm US/CAN 0,875,131.

5. "Massachusetts, Land Records, 1620-1986," digital images, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org), Bristol County, "Deeds 1765, Vol. 48," page 375 (image 203 of 302), John Horton Jr. and Mary Horton to John Baker, dated 9 March 1733/4, recorded 17 October 1765.

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NOTE:  In 2014, 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 2018 to 260 Ancestors in 260 Weeks.

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