52 Ancestors - Week 394: #615 Mary (Ockington) Harrington (1669-1725) of Watertown, Massachusetts

Mary Ockington (1669-1725) is #615 on my Ahnentafel List, my 7th great-grandmother, who married #614 Edward Harrington (1668-1736)  in 1692 in Watertown, Middlesex County,  Massachusetts Bay Colony.

I am descended through:

* their daughter #307 Mary Harrington (1693-1774)  married #306 Joseph Grout (1683-1758) in 1717.

* their daughter #153 Mehitable Grout (1726-1795) married #152 Moses Brigham (1723-1769) in 1749.
* their son, #76 Phinehas Brigham (1755-1802) married #77 Lydia Batherick (1752-1795) in 1779.
* their son #38 Lambert Brigham (1794-1834) married #39 Sophia Buck (1797-1882) in 1817.
* their daughter #19 Sophia Newton (1834-1923) married #18 Edward Hildreth (1831-1899) in 1852.
* their daughter #9 Hattie Louisa Hildreth (1857-1920) married #8 Frank Walton Seaver (1852-1922) in 1874.
* their son #4 Frederick Walton Seaver (1876-1942) married #5 Alma Bessie Richmond (1882-1962) 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 Ockington[1]

*  Alternate Name:       Mary Okinton[3]

*  Alternate Name:       Mary Ockington Harrington[2]

*  Alternate Name:       Mary Harrington[4]

*  Alternate Name:       Mary Ockington[5]

*  Sex:                          Female

*  Father:                    William Ockington (1639-1702)

*  Mother:                  Mary --?-- (1632-1694)

2)  INDIVIDUAL EVENTS (with source citations as indicated in brackets):

*  Birth:                   7 September 1669, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States[2–3]

*  Death:                   23 October 1725 (age 56), Waltham, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[1,3-4]

*  Burial:                  after 23 October 1725 (after age 56); Grove Hill Cemetery, Waltham, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[3]

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

*  Spouse 1:             Edward Harrington (1668-1736)

*  Marriage 1:          30 March 1692 (age 23), Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[1,5]

*  Child 1:               Mary Harrington (1692-1774)

*  Child 1:               William Harrington (1694-1751)

*  Child 1:               Mindwell Harrington (1697-1700)

*  Child 1:               Joanna Harrington (1699-1768)

*  Child 1:               Edward Harrington (1702-1792)

*  Child 1:               Samuel Harrington (1704-1784)

*  Child 1:               Nathaniel Harrington (1706-1784)

*  Child 1:               Francis Harrington (1709-1793)

*  Child 1:               Susannah Harrington (1711-1790)

   

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

Mary Ockington was born 7 September 1669 in Boston, Massachusetts Bay, the daughter of William and Mary (--?--) Ockington of Boston[2-3].

Mary married Edward Harrington (1669-1736) on 30 March 1692 in Watertown, Massachusetts Bay[1,5]. He was the son of Robert and Susannah (George) Harrington of Watertown. They had nine children, all born and recorded in Watertown town records:

* Mary Harrington (1693-1774), married (1) 1710 Daniel Rogers (1686-1711).; (2) 1717 Joseph Grout (1683-1758).
* William Harrington (1694-1751), married 1725 Anna Spring (1691-1770)
* Mindwell Harrington (1697-1700).
* Joanna Harrington (1699-1768), married 1720 John Tainter (1699-1768).
* Edward Harrington (1702-1792), married 1731 Anna Bullard (1713-1771).
* Samuel Harrington (1704-1784), married (1) 1725 Sarah Warren (1702-1733); (2) 1736 Elizabeth Stratton (1716-1801).
* Nathaniel Harrington (1706-1784), married 1747 Mary Kimball (1724-1804).
* Francis Harrington (1709-1793), married (1) 1736 Prudence Stearns (1713-1751); (2) 1752 Deborah Brigham (1714-1799).
* Susannah Harrington (1711-1790), married 1731 Samuel Barnard (1699-1762).

Mary (Ockington) Harrington died 23 October 1725 in Waltham, Massachusetts Bay[1,3-4]. She is buried in Grove Hill Cemetery in Waltham[3].

5.  SOURCES

1. 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), page 275, Edward Harrington family sketch.

2. Boston City Registrar, Reports of the Record Commissioners of the City of Boston; Volume 9 (Boston, Mass.: Rockwell and Churchill, 1883), page 111, Mary Okinton birth entry, 7 September 1669.

3. Find A Grave, indexed database and digital image, (http://www.findagrave.com), Grove Hill Cemetery, Waltham, Mass., Mary Ockington Harrington memorial #34616582.

4. Vital records of Waltham, Massachusetts, to the year 1850 (Boston, Mass. : New-England Historic Genealogical Society, 1904), Deaths, page 270, Mary Harrington entry.

5. Watertown Records, Comprising the First and Second Book of Town Proceedings, with the Land Grants and Possessions. etc. (Watertown, Mass. : Watertown Historical Society, 1894), Volume 1, page 65 of 66, Edward Herrington and Mary Ocington marriage, 30 March 1692.

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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 2021 for an eighth year to 416 Ancestors in 416 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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