Person:Mary Sheafe (1)
Mary Sheafe
chr.28 Sep 1620 Cranbrook, Kent, England
d.22 Jul 1693 Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States
Parents and Siblings
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m. 17 Oct 1610
  1. Harman SheafeAbt 1612 -
  2. Joanna SheafeAbt 1614 - 1668
  3. Jacob SheafeBef 1616 - 1658/59
  4. Unknown SheafeBef 1616 - 1616
  5. Mary Sheafe1617 - 1617/18
  6. Mary Sheafe1620 - 1693
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Facts and Events
Name[1][2] Mary Sheafe
Gender Female
Christening[1][2] 28 Sep 1620 Cranbrook, Kent, England
Marriage Neither the date nor the place of this marriage is known.
to Deacon Robert Merriam
Will[2] 15 Feb 1686/87
Death[1][2] 22 Jul 1693 Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States
Burial[3] Old Hill Burying Ground, Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States
Probate[2] 21 Aug 1693 Will proved.
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The Will of Mary Merriam, Widow of Robert

"I Mary Merieam widdow of Concord in the County of Medelsex in the Masatusats Colliny in New England: being in perfect memory doe make this my last will and Testament in maner and form as following: First I commeet my soule into the hands of God my Father through Jesus Christ: and my body to be decently buried: hoping the resurection thereof to eternall life.

As touching my outward estate which God hath given mee as followeth

It I give to my cousin Jonathan Hubbard who liveth now in my hous with me all my housinge and lands in Concord whech my husband gave to me and the medow which I bought of John Willer, and a wood lott which was my husbands that I bought againe, to him and his heirs for ever

It I give to my cousin Mris Elizabeth Corwin my Brother Jacob Sheafes eldest daughter ten pounds in monny to her or her children. I give to my cousin Mris Mehittibell Sheafe the youger daughter of my brother Sheafe ten pounds in monny to her or her childeren.

It I give to my owne sisters childeren but four of them liveing now in the sowern parts to say John Chittenden, Nathanaell Chittenden and there two sisters Mary and Johana ten pounds apice in monhy two them or theer children.

It I give to my cousin John Rucke five pounds in monny to him or his childeren.

It I give to my cousin Samuell Rucke five pounds in monny to him or his childeren.

It I give to my cousin Willam Meriam four pounds in monny to him or his childeren.

It I give to my cousin Elyzabeth West four pounds in monny to her or her childeren.

It I give to my cosin Isack Day four pounds in monny to him or his childeren.

It I give to my cousin John Meriam forty shillings in monny to him or his childeren.

It I give to my cousin Samuell Meriam forty shillings tc monny to him or his childeren.

It I give to my cousin Scochford or his wife forty shillings in monny.

It I give to my cousin Robert Meriam six pounds in monny and my great silfer cup.

It I give to Sara Wilier which formerly lived with me halfe my wearing apearell linen or wollen silk or stufe to her or her childeren, and the other halfe to my cousin Samuell Meriams wife and her childeren.

It I give to John Hamelton four pounds in goods.

Lastly I doe heareby nomenate and consticute my cousin Jonathan Hubard that now lives with me and my cousin John Meriam and my cousin Samuell Meriam my joynt Executors of this my will. In witness hearof I set to my hand and seale This Fifteen day of Februery one thousand six hundered Eighty six Eighty seven.

Two words scribled out before signed in the 16 line.

Mary Merieam.

Signed sealed and published before us

John Wheller sener
Steven X [his marke] Hosmer
Thomas Browne

Proved 21 August 1693"[2]

References
  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Holman, Mary Lovering. The Sheafe Line. American Genealogist (D.L. Jacobus). (Oct 1945)
    (at 22:90).

    Maary (Sheafe), bapt. 28 Sept. 1620, d. 22 July 1693, Concord, Mass.

  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 Robert Merriam, in Pope, Charles Henry. Merriam Genealogy in England and America: Including the "Genealogical Memoranda" of Charles Pierce Merriam, the Collections of James Sheldon Merriam, etc. (Boston: Charles H. Pope, 1906)
    39-40.

    … Mary, daughter of Edmund Sheafe, of Cranbrook, co. Kent, who was baptized there 26 Sept. 1620. … She died 22 July 1693 "aged 72 years," says her gravestone.

  3. ↑ Mary Scheaffe Meriam, in Find A Grave.
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