Mary (Read) Seaver (1680-????) is number 513 on my Ahnentafel List, my 7th great-grandmother, who married #512 Joseph Seaver (1672-1754) in 1700, in Sudbury, Middlesex County, Massachusetts.
I am descended through:
* their son, #256 Robert Seaver (1702-1752) who married #257 Eunice Rayment (1707-1772) in 1726.
* their son #128 Norman Seaver (1734-1787) who married #129 Sarah Read (1736-1809) in 1755.
* their son #64 Benjamin Seaver (1757-1816) who married #65 Martha Whitney (1764-1832) 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 Read[1–2]
* Alternate Name: Mary Sever[3]
* Sex: Female
* Father: Thomas Read (1653-1733)
* Mother: Mary Goodrich (1650-1724)
2) INDIVIDUAL EVENTS (with source citations as indicated in brackets):
* Birth: 5 January 1679/80, Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[1]
* Distribution: 26 August 1754 (age 74), husband's will proved; Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[3]
3) SHARED EVENTS (with source citations as indicated in brackets):
* Spouse 1: Joseph Seaver (1672-1754)
* Marriage 1: 13 October 1700 (age 28), Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[2]
* Child 1: Robert Seaver (1702-1752)
* Child 2: Mary Seaver (1706-1748)
* Child 3: Nathaniel Seaver (1709-1777)
* Child 4: Hannah Seaver (1712-1771)
* Child 5: Elizabeth Seaver (1714-1758)
* Child 6: Abigail Seaver (1720-1815)
4) NOTES (with source citations as indicated in brackets):
Mary Read was born 4 January 1679/80 in Sudbury, Massachusetts, the daughter of Thomas and Mary (Goodrich) Read[1].
On 13 October 1700, Mary Read married Joseph Seaver, the son of Shubael and Hannah (Wilson) Seaver of Sudbury.[2] They had six children born between 1702 and about 1720, all born in Sudbury or Framingham:
* Robert Seaver (1702-1752), married Eunice Rayment (1707-1772) in 1726 in Boston.
* Mary Seaver (1706-1748) married Christopher Nickson (1703-1748) in 1726.
* Nathaniel Seaver (1709-1777) married (1) Rebecca Willis (1718-1753) in 1737, and (2) Judith Treadway (1728-1818) in 1754.
* Hannah Seaver (1712-1771) married Jonathan Belcher (1707-1787) in 1732.
* Elizabeth Seaver (1714-1758) married Samuel How (1719-1747) in 1738.
* Abigail Seaver (1720-1815) married Azariah Walker (1722-1798) in 1748.
The Seaver family lived near Mary's parents in the Lanham area of Sudbury, near the town line with Framingham on the south.
When Joseph Seaver died in 1654, his will bequeathed to his wife, Mary[3]:
"Item: First, I give and bequeath unto my well-beloved wife, Mary Sever, one full third part of my Real Estate with house room where it shall be most conveniant for her in my building during her natural life, and also one third of my moveables estate to be at dispose for ever."
Mary Sever and her living children subscribed their names as satisfied with the contents of the will.
It is not known when Mary (Read) Seaver died, or where she was buried. There are no evident probate records for Mary Seaver in the Suffolk county or Middlesex County records, nor a subsequent marriage or death record for her.
5. SOURCES
1. Vital Records of Sudbury, Massachusetts to the year 1850 (Boston, Mass. : New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1903), Births, page 117, Mary Read entry, 1679.
2. Vital Records of Sudbury, Massachusetts to the year 1850, Marriages, page 265, Joseph Seaver and Mary Read entry.
3. "Probate Records 1648-1924 (Middlesex County, Massachusetts)," 886 FHL US/CAN Microfilms, Joseph Sever estate, Probate Packet 20,066, accessed on FHL Microfilm 0,421,515.
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