Friday, April 17, 2020

52 Ancestors - Week 326: #537 Mary (Bennet) Knowlton (1686-1717) of Ipswich, Massachusetts

Mary Bennet (1686-1717) is number 537 on my Ahnentafel List, my 7th great-grandmother, who married #536 Nathaniel Knowlton (1683-1760) in 1703 in Ipswich, Essex County, Massachusetts.

I am descended through:

*  their son #268 Jeremiah Knowlton (1713-1752) who married #269 Sarah Allen (1717-1796)  in 1735.
*  their son #134 Jeremiah Knowlton (1745-1785) who married #135 Abigail Peirce (1750-1776) in 1771.
*  their daughter #67 Abigail Knowlton (1774-1855) who married #66 Nathan Gates (1767-1830)  in 1790.
*  their daughter, #33 Abigail Gates (1797-1867) who married  #32 Benjamin Seaver (1791-1825)  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 Bennet[1–5]    

*  Sex:                           Female    

*  Father:                      Henry Bennet (1664-1739)    
*  Mother:                     Frances Burr (1669-1708)  
   
2)  INDIVIDUAL EVENTS (with source citations as indicated in brackets):

*  Birth:                        3 March 1685/6, Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts, United States[1–3,5]    

*  Death:                      about 1717 (about age 31), Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts, United States[5]  

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

*  Spouse #1:                  Nathaniel Knowlton (1683-1760)    
*  Marriage #1:               21 April 1703 (age 17), Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts, United States[4-5]    

*  Child 1:                      Mary Knowlton (1704-1797)    
*  Child 2:                      William Knowlton (1706-1753)    
*  Child 3:                      Nathaniel Knowlton (1708-1753)    
*  Child 4:                      Jeremiah Knowlton (1712-1713)    
*  Child 5:                      Jeremiah Knowlton (1713-1752)    

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

The early Bennet families of Ipswich, Massachusetts was treated in the article "The Bennet Family of Ipswich" by John M. Bradbury in the New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Volume 29, pages 165-169[1].

Mary Bennet was born 3 March 1685/6 in Ipswich, Massachusetts, the first child of Henry and Frances (Burr) Bennet of Ipswich[1-3,5].

On 21 April 1703 in Ipswich, Mary Bennett married Nathaniel Knowlton (1693-1760), the son of Nathaniel and Deborah (Jewett) Knowlton of Ipswich[4-5].  They had five children, all registered in the Ipswich town birth records:

*  Mary Knowlton (1704-1797), married 1727 Benjamin Carril (1703-1796).
*  William Knowlton (1706-1753), married 1729 Martha Pinder (1708-1775).
*  Nathaniel Knowlton (1708-1753), married (1) 1729 Mary Fuller (1708-1735).
*  Jeremiah Knowlton (1712-1713).
*  Jeremiah Knowlton (1713-1752), married 1735 Sarah Allen (1717-1796).

Mary (Bennet) Knowlton died before 1717, when Nathaniel married, secondly, to Reform (Trescott) Jewett (1694-1755) on 13 June 1717 in Ipswich[5].

There are no death, burial and probate records for Mary (Bennet) Knowlton.
 
5.  SOURCES

1. John M. Bradbury, "The Bennet Family of Ipswich," New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Volume 29, Number 2 (April 1875), pages 165-169, page 169, #3, Henry Bennet family sketch.

2. "Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988," indexed database and digital image, Ancestry.com (https://www.ancestry.com, "Ipswich Church Records, Earmarks, Births, Marriages, Deaths," page 8 (image 38 of 326), Mary Benet birth entry, 3 March 1685.

3. Vital Records of Ipswich, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849 (Salem, Mass. : The Essex Institute,1910-1919), Births, page 37, Mary Bennet birth entry, 3 March 1685.

4. Vital Records of Ipswich, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849, Marriages, page 262, Nathan'll Knoulton Jr. and Mary Bennet marriage entry, 29 April 1703.

5. Rev. Charles Henry Wright Stocking, D.D., The History and Genealogy of the Knowltons of England and America  (New York City : 1897). Errata and Addenda by George Henry Knowlton of Albany, NY, page 37, #74 Nathaniel Knowlton (1683-1760) sketch.

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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 2020 for a seventh year to 364 Ancestors in 364 Weeks.  The list of 52 Ancestors biographies from my great-grandparents to the 7th great-grandparents (in work) is in   https://www.geneamusings.com/p/ancestor-biographies.html.


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