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Facts and Events
This person does not have any known living descendants. She died unmarried and without issue. [5]
Personal History
Mary Peacock, only daughter of Samuel Peacock and Mary Kittredg,[2] was born 19 March 1722/3, in Billerica, Province of Massachusetts Bay.[1][2] She died 15 February 1764, in Dracut.[3][4]
In 1743 Mary was granted a legacy of £83-15-⅔ from her father's estate to be paid by her brother William.[6]
In her will dated 11 January 1764,[5] Mary Peacock (her + mark) of Dracut, County of Middlesex, Province of Massachusetts Bay in New England, spinster, “being sick and weak in body”, bequeathed to her father-in-law Ephraim Curtice of Dracut her land in the township of Woodstock and all of her bonds and notes for money “for providing for me in my long time of sickness and to defray the expensive charge he hath ben at in providing doctors for me &c.” She bequeathed to her mother Mary Curtice all of her apparel and clothes. She appointed her father-in-law to be her sole executor. The will was presented to the probate court of Middlesex Co. on 19 March 1764 by her named executor and proved by the oaths of Ephraim Curtis Jr. and Thomas Hovey. As executor, Ephraim Curtis, yeoman, along with Ephraim Curtis Jr., husbandman, and Thomas Hovey, gentleman, all of Dracut, signed a bond in the amount of £100.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 “Billerica births”, in Foster, F. Apthorp (ed.). Vital Records of Billerica, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850. (Boston, MA: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1908)
p. 149.
“PEACOCK, Mary, d. Samuel and Mary, Mar. 19, 1722–3.”
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Billerica (Massachusetts). Town Clerk. Vital records and indexes, 1653–1910. (Salt Lake City, Utah: Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1972, 2001)
vol. 1, p. 121, and vol. 2, p. 131; FHL 901881 (Births, marriages, deaths 1627–1834).
Digital record with image viewed in “Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626–2001,” database, FamilySearch, DGS 7009657, image 104 (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F4V4-SLZ : accessed 9 Feb. 2017).
The original record in the first volume appears as follows:
“Mary their [Samuel Peacock and Mary Kittredg] daughter was borne March 19, 1722/3.”
Digital record with image viewed in the same, image 204 (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F4VH-5M9 : accessed 9 Feb. 2017).
The transcribed record in the second volume appears as follows:
“Mary Daughter of Samuel and Mary [(Kittredge)] Peacock was born March 19, 1722/3.”
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 “Dracut deaths”, in Dracut, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States. Vital records of Dracut, Massachusetts, to the year 1850. (Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1907)
p. 291.
“PEECOCK, Mary, Mrs., Feb. 15, 1764.”
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Dracut (Massachusetts). Town Clerk. Town and Vital Records, 1699-1858. (Salt Lake City, Utah: Filmed by Genealogical Society of Utah, 1971)
vol. 2, p. 289; FHL 868712, item 2.
Image viewed in “Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626–2001,” database, FamilySearch, DGS 7011177, image 347 (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-L979-C34X : accessed 9 Feb. 2017).
“Mrs. Mary Peecock Deceast February 15th, AD 1764”
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Massachusetts. Probate Court (Middlesex County). Probate records, 1648-1924. (Salt Lake City, Utah: Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1964-1967)
first series 1648–1871, file no. 17083, Mary Peacock, 1764; FHL 421487 (Probate papers 17015–17147), image nos. 583–586 (DGS 7553731, starting at image 586).
(https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QSQ-G9D5-X7NW : accessed 11 Feb. 2017)
The will of Mary (+) Peacock of Dracut, Co. of Middlesex, Prov. of Massachusetts Bay in New England, spinster, dated 11 Jan. 1764, proved 19 March 1764; sole exor. father-in-law Ephraim Curtice; wit. by Daniel Fox, Ephraim Curtis Jr., Thomas Hovey. Bond £100, dated 19 March 1764, for Ephraim Curtis, with Ephraim Curtis Jr., Thomas Hovey; wit. by Andw Bordman, Thomas Danforth.
- ↑ See the probate records of her father's estate.
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