Mary (Bigelow) Bruce (1677-1708) is number 517 on my Ahnentafel List, my 7th great-grandmother, who married #516 Thomas Read (1678-1755) in 1701, in Watertown, Middlesex County, Massachusetts.
I am descended through:
* their son #258. Isaac Read (1704-1780) who married #259 Experience Willis (1707-1787) in 1730.
* their daughter #129 Sarah Read (1736-1809) who married #128 Norman Seaver (1734-1787) 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 Bigelow[2-4]
* Alternate Name: Mary Bigulah[1]
* Alternate Name: Mary Bruce[5]
* Alternate Name: Mary Read[6]
* Sex: Female
* Father: Samuel Bigelow (1653-1732)
* Mother: Mary Flagg (1657-1720)
2) INDIVIDUAL EVENTS (with source citations as indicated in brackets):
* Birth: 12 September 1677, Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[1-2]
* Death: 21 February 1707/8 (age 30), Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[6]
* Distribution: 21 February 1731/2 (age 54), father's will proved; Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[7]
3) SHARED EVENTS (with source citations as indicated in brackets):
* Spouse 1: David Bruce (1675-1701)
* Marriage: 26 January 1699/1700 (age 22), Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[3-4]
* Child 1: David Bruce (1700-1772)
* Spouse 2: Thomas Read (1678-1755)
* Marriage 2: 3 December 1701 (age 23), Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[5]
* Child 2: Nathaniel Read (1702-1785)
* Child 3: Thomas Read (1706-1788)
* Child 4: Isaac Read (1704-1780)
* Child 5: Katherine Read (1707-????)
4) NOTES (with source citations as indicated in brackets):
Mary Bigelow was born 12 September 1677 in Watertown, Massachusetts, the daughter of Samuel and Mary (Flagg) Bigelow of Watertown[1-2]. The birth record in the Watertown town record book says:
"Mary Bigulah daughter of Samuel and Mary Bigulah born ye 12th of September."
Mary married David Bruce on 26 January 1699/1700 in Watertown[3-4]. He was the son of Thomas and Magdalen (Evans) Bruce of Marlborough. The marriage record in the Watertown town record says:
"David Brouce of Molbury and Mary Begelow of of Watertown were joyned in marriage before me Samll Angier minister of Watertown January 26 1699."
David and Mary (Bigelow) Bruce had one child, born in Watertown:
* David Bruce (1700-1772), married 1727 to Mary Brigham (1701-1741).
The elder David Bruce died 22 July 1701 in Marlborough, Massachusetts, leaving Mary with a small child.
Mary (Bigelow) Bruce married Thomas Read (1678-1755) on 3 December 1701 in Watertown[5], Massachusetts as his first wife. Thomas was the son of Thomas and Mary (Goodrich) Read of Sudbury, Massachusetts. The marriage record in the Watertown town record book says:
"Thomas Read of Sudbury and Mary Bruce of Watertown were joyned in marriage by me Samuel Angier minister in Watertown the 3 of December 1701."
Thomas and Mary (Bigelow) (Bruce) Read had four children, all recorded in the Sudbury town records:
* Nathaniel Read (1702-1785), married 1729 to Phebe Lamb (1708-1788).
* Isaac Read (1704-1780), married 1730 Experience Willis (1707-1787).
* Thomas Read (1706-1788), married 1734 to Sarah Maynard (1704-1776).
* Katherine Read (1708-????), married 1725 Joseph Joslin (1699-????).
Mary Read died 21 February 1707/8 in Sudbury soon after the birth of her daughter Katherine[6]. There is no known burial record for Mary (Bigelow) (Bruce) Read.
Mary's father, Samuel Bigelow, died in 1732. He wrote his will on 20 September 1720, and bequeathed money and/or land to his son-in-law Thomas Read, and to his Bruce and Read grandchildren[7]:
"Item: I give & bequeath Unto my three sons-in-law Tho Read, Josiah How & Dan'll Warrin besides what they have formrly five shillings each.
"Item: I Give & bequeath Unto my Grandson David Bruce a Certain piece of land in Marlborough in ye County of Middsx which I bought of my son Sam'll Biglo Jnr containing six acres, three quarters & fifteen rods, bounded northerly by a Road Leading to Framingham Westerly by land of Moses Newton Easterly by land of David Bruce & Southerly by Comon Land; also all yt parcell of land of Twenty acres in Marlborough wch John Sherman Had Granted him by ye Proprietors of sd Marlborough When I Impowered him to sue for a certain piece of Land given by Tho Bruce to his Grandson David Bruce. To have & to hold to Him of sd David Bruce & to ye Heires of his body Lawfully begotten, but in failior of such ... Land to Release to ye Biglos again, I also give to ye said David Bruce one pair of Steers Coming four years old.
"Item: I give & bequeath Unto my three Grandchildren Nath- Read, Isaac Read & Thomas Read Twenty shillings Each When they Arive to ye age of One & twenty years.
"Item: I give & bequeath unto my Grandaughter Cathron Read ye sum of seventeen pounds in or of money to be paid Her when she marries or Comes of Age besides all those things Which wear her Mothers ... Now in my Keeping for Her."
5. SOURCES
1. "Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988," indexed database and digital image, Ancestry.com (https://www.ancestry.com), "Watertown: Births, Marriages and Death," image 161 of 3991, Mary Begulah birth entry.
2. Henry Bond, M.D., Family Memorials: Genealogies of the Families and Descendants of the Early Settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts (Boston, Mass. : Little, Brown & Co., 1860), Mary Bigelow birth entry.
3. "Massachusetts, Town Records, 1620-1988," indexed database and digital images, Ancestry.com, "Watertown: Birth, Marriage and Death," image 186 of 3991, David Brouce and Mary Begelow entry, 1699.
4. Henry Bond, M.D., Family Memorials: Genealogies of the Families and Descendants of the Early Settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts, David Bruce and Mary Bigelow marriage entry.
5. "Massachusetts, Town Records, 1620-1988," indexed database and digital images, Ancestry.com, "Watertown > Births, Marriages and Death," page 16 (penned) (image 191 of 3991), Thomas Read and Mary Bruce marriage, 1701.
6. Vital Records of Sudbury, Massachusetts to the year 1850 (Boston, Mass. : New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1903), Deaths, page 322, Mary Read entry.
7. "Middlesex County, MA: Probate Papers, 1648-1871," indexed database and digital image, American Ancestors (http://www.AmericanAncestors.org : accessed 28 June 2015), Estate Packet #1728, Samuel Biglo estate, 8 sheets; citing original probate estate packet in Middlesex County Probate Court records.
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