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Friday, July 31, 2020

52 Ancestors - Week 341: #551 Marie (Wight) Clark (1667-1705) of Medfield, Massachusetts

Mary Wight (1667-1705) is number 551 on my Ahnentafel List, my 7th great-grandmother, who married #550 Joseph Clark (1664-1731)  in 1686 in Medfield, now Norfolk County, Massachusetts.

I am descended through:

*  their daughter, Hephzibah Clark (1699-1791), #275 who married #274 Timothy Hamant (1699-1774)  in 1727.
* their daughter #137 Patience Hamant (1735-1780) who married  #136 Moses Smith (1736-1806) in 1762.
*  their son #68  Aaron Smith (1765-1841) who married #69 Mercy Plimpton (1772-1850) in 1795.
*  their son #34 Alpheus Smith (1802-1840)   who married  #35 Elizabeth Horton Dill (1791-1869) 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:                      Marie Wight[1–2]    
*  Alternate Name:      Mary Clark
*  Alternate Name:      Mary Wight Clark

*  Sex:                         Female    

*  Father:                    Thomas Wight (1629-1690)    
*  Mother:                   Mehitabel Cheney (1643-1693)  

2)  INDIVIDUAL EVENTS (with source citations as indicated in brackets):
*  Birth:                       20 February 1667, Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States[1,3]    

*  Death:                      16 December 1705 (age 38), Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States[3–4]    
*  Burial:                      after 16 December 1705 (after age 38), Vine Lake Cemetery, Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States[3]  

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

*  Spouse 1:                 Joseph Clark (1664-1731)    
*  Marriage 1:              8 April 1686 (age 19), Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States[2]    

*  Child 1:                   Mary Clark (1687-1717)    
*  Child 2:                   Mehitable Clark (1690-1765)    
*  Child 3:                   Hannah Clark (1692-1773)    
*  Child 4:                   Esther Clark (1695-1774)    
*  Child 5:                   Joseph Clark (1697-1731)    
*  Child 6:                   Hephzibah Clark (1698-1791)    
*  Child 7:                   Thomas Clark (1703-1776)    

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

Marie Wight was born 20 February 1667 in Medfield, Massachusetts, the daughter of Thomas and Mehitable (Cheney) Wight[1,3].  

She married Joseph Clark (1664-1731) on 8 April 1686 in Medfield[2].  He was the son of Joseph and Mary (Allen) Clark of Medfield.

They had seven children, all born and recorded in the Medfield town records.  They were:

* Mary Clark (1687-1717), married 1705 Nathaniel Smith (1684-1762).
*  Mehitable Clark (1690-1765), married 1715 Timothy Morse (1687-1765).
*  Hannah Clark (1692-1773), married 1709 John Robbins (1688-1774).
*  Esther Clark (1695-1774), married 1715 Ebenezer Turner (1693-1759).
*  Joseph Clark (1697-1731), married 1718 Experience Wheeler (1697-1754).
*  Hephzibah Clark (1699-1791), married 1727 Timothy6 Hamant (1699-1774).
*  Thomas Clark (1703-1776), married 1727 Abigail Morse (1696-1777).

Mary's father, Thomas Wight (1629-1690) died intestate in Medfield, and left an estate, but there is no mention of any of the children in his estate file.  Mary's mother, Mehitable (Cheney) Wight, reportedly died in 1693 in Medfield.  

Mary (Wight) Clark died on 16 December 1705 in Medfield[3-4] at age 38, leaving seven children between the ages of 2 and 18.

Marie (Wight) Clark is probably buried in Vine Lake Cemetery in Medfield, but there is no gravestone.  There is a Find A Grave memorial for her[4].

5)  SOURCES

1. Vital Records of Medfield, Massachusetts to the Year 1850 (Boston, Mass. :  New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1903), Births, page 105, Marie Wight entry, 1667.

2. Vital Records of Medfield, Massachusetts to the Year 1850, Marriages, page 128, Joseph Clark and Marie Wight entry, 8 April 1686.

3. Find A Grave, indexed database and digital image,  (http://www.findagrave.com), Vine Lake Cemetery (Medfield, Mass.), Mary Wight Clark memorial #95763645 .

4. Vital Records of Medfield, Massachusetts to the Year 1850, Deaths, page, 202, Mary Clark death entry, 16 December 1705.

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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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