Person:Margaret Partridge (1)

'… in the Visitation of Essex (Harl. Soc. Pub., xiii., part 1, p. 465), which was made in the year 1634, the children of Captain John Partridge, of Navestock, were John, aged about fourteen years, William, Jane and Margerett. From information obtained from the vicar of the parish of Navestock, in 1899, by Mr. Frank Harvey Partridge, of New York, it appears that, of the foregoing children, William was born in 1622, and Margerett in 1628. ... In the will of Margery Stacy, of Medfield, relict widow of Thomas Mason, made in 1695, the testatrix states her age as "about sixty and seven years" (Suffolk Co. Prob. Rec., vol. xx., p. 281). These coincidences, while they prove nothing, should, it seems to the writer, be given consideration in clearing up the mystery of the English origin of the Medfield Partridges.'

She seems to have married again, for she was called "Margery Stacy, relict to Thomas Mason." In her will, written in 1695, she describes herself as "aged about sixty and seven years, and being under Bodily Weakness, and not knowing how short my lifetime may be." She bequeathed all her real and personal estate to her son. and only surviving child, Ebenezer, "no part or parcel excepted." He was to pay one of her sons-in-law, "Three pounds in good current Country pay," and to each of her grandchildren by her daughters, he must also give five shillings money, or an English Bible. She died sixteen years afterwards, in 1711, aged eighty-three. Her estate was appraised at 719.18. She outlived all of the men who came to Medfield during the first ten years of its existence, except Edward Adams. She was a member of the church in Medfield.

Stasy, Margery, wid., [died] Feb. 7, 1710-11.