Treasure Chest Thursday -- 1647 Marriage Record of John Medcalfe and Mary Chickering in Dedham, Massachusetts Bay Colony

It's Treasure Chest Thursday - an opportunity to look in my digital image files to see what treasures I can find for my family history research and genealogy musings.

The treasure today is the 1647 marriage record of John Medcalfe and Mary Chickering in Dedham, Massachusetts Bay Colony:

The marriage entry for John Medcalfe and Mary Chickering is the first entry in the 1647 entries in the left-hand column:

The transcription of the information on this record is:

"1647   John Medcalfe & Mary Chickering was

married the 23 of the 1 mth" Sept. 2, 1724"

The source citation for this marriage record is:

 "Massachusetts, U.S., Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988," imaged, Ancestry.com (https://www.ancestry.com), "Dedham, Births, Marriages and Deaths," no page number (image 139 of 1916), John Metcalfe and Mary Chickering marriage entry, 23 March (1st month) 1647.

This is probably an Original Source record (because it appears to be the first Dedham town record book that starts in 1635, but it may be a transcription of the original copied later - it's difficult to tell) with Primary Information and Direct Evidence of the name, death date and place of the marriage of John Medcalfe and Mary Chickering in Dedham town.

John Metcalf (1622-1690) was baptized 5 September 1622 in Norwich, Norfolk, England, the sonf of Michael Metcalf and Sarah Elwyn; he died 8 October 1690 in Medfield, Massachusetts Bay Colony.  He married Mary Chickering (1628-1698) on 23 March 1647 in Dedham, Massachusetts Bay Colony.  Mary was born about 1628 in Ringsfield, Suffolk, england, the daughter of Francis Chickering and Anne Fiske; she died 15 March 1698 in Medfield, Massachusetts Bay Colony.

John and Mary (Chickering) Metcalf are my 9th great-grandparents, through their son Michael Metcalf (1650-1691) who married Elizabwth Bowers (1654-1724) in 1676 in Medfield, Massachusetts Bay Colony.

   

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