Person:Mary Chastain (8)

Mary Magdalene Chastain
 
  1. Mary Magdalene Chastain1727 -
m. 17 Jan 1754
  1. Rebecca Farrar1764 - 1798
Facts and Events
Name Mary Magdalene Chastain
Married Name Mary Cocke
Married Name Mary Farrar
Gender Female
Birth[2][3] 23 Aug 1727 pos Henrico County, Virginia
Marriage Bond 19 Apr 1742 Goochland, Virginia, United Statesto James Cocke, of Malvern Hills
Marriage 17 Jan 1754 [she is the widow Cocke]
to Peter Farrar, of Amelia County, Virginia
References
  1.   Family Recorded, in Dupuy, B. H. (Benjamin Hunter). The Huguenot Bartholomew Dupuy and his descendants. (Louisville, Kentucky: Courier-Journal Job Printing Company, 1908)
    p 179.
  2. Family Recorded, in McIlhany, Hugh Milton. Some Virginia families: being genealogies of the Kinney, Stribling, Trout, McIlhanny, Milton, Rogers, Tate, Snikckers, Taylor, McCormick and other families of Virginia. (Staunton, Va.: Stoneburner & Prufer, 1903)
    p 31.

    VII. Peter Farrar, b. June 6, 1730; m. Jan. 17, 1754, Mary Magdalene Chastain (b. Aug. 23, 1827; widow of James Cocke of Malvern Hills, and daughter of Dr. Stephen Chastain, one of the French Huguenots who settled Mannikin Town in Henrico County, who came over, we are told, “in the first ship”, and whose name occurs on the records of Henrico in 1706; his wife’s name was Martha, and she died it was 1725 aged 52.

    Their sixth child was –
    VIII. Rebecca Farrar, b. Dec. 28, 1764; m. Gen. Robert Porterfield ...

  3. Either her birth year is incorrect and should be earlier (in which case she was close to 50 when her daughter Rebecca was born), or her mother wasn't Martha, who died in 1725. Presumably her father had an unknown second wife.