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Mehitable Plaisted
b.Abt 1694
Facts and Events
References
- ↑ Sargent, William M. (William Mitchell), and Maine) Maine Historical Society (Portland. Maine Wills, 1640-1760. (Portland, Me.: Brown Thurston, 1887)
242-.
Will of "Iohn Pickerin of Said Portsmouth", dated 21 Jun 1721, sworn to "15 May, 1721" [sic], probated 19 Jul 1722, inventory 10 Feb 1721/22, has the following clause: "I Give and bequeath unto my Dece'd Grandaughter Mehitable Gerrish her Son Now liveing with his Grand Father John pLaisted five pounds to be paid him in money when he Comes to age of Twenty one Years by my Executor."
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Point of Graves Cemetery in Portsmouth, New Hampshire", in The Maine historical and genealogical recorder. (Portland, Maine: S.M. Watson)
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"Here lyes ye body of Mrs. Mehitable Gerrish, wife to Mr. Benjamin Gerrish, aged 21 years, who deceased Jan. ye 3rd, 1715. She lived beloved and died lamented."
- Life Swiftly Passing and Quickly Ending
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Life swiftly passing and quickly ending by Cotton Mather
"A very short sermon, on the shortness of humane life. Preached after the death of Mrs. Mehetable Gerrish, the consort of Mr. Benjamin Gerrish, and the daughter of John Plaisted, Esq. Who died III d. XI m. 1715-16 [3rd day, 11th month, i.e., January, 1715-16]. In the twenty first year of her age"
- Most sources suggest that Mehitable married Timothy Gerrish, but few give a date or other particulars. Source:Cutter, William Richard. Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of Boston and Eastern Massachusetts, p. 2:682, says: Children (6) of John & Mary (Pickering) Plaisted: 6. Mehitable, married Captain Timothy Gerrish, his first wife. Source:Stackpole, Everett Schermerhorn. Old Kittery and Her Families, p. 667, says that Mehitable, d/o John Plaisted and Mary Pickering, m. Timothy Gerrish. But note that Stackpole, on p. 444 that Col. Timothy Gerrish m. 14 Nov 1706 Sarah Eliot (and there are probate documents that show this to be so). She lived until 1770, and as Timothy was only 22 in 1706, born 1684, he was not likely to have married before this. Source:Maine Historical Magazine (Porter, Joseph W), p. 8:144, in an unsigned article on Roger Plaisted of Kittery, says that Mehetable m. Capt. Timothy Gerrish and that John Pickering in his will of 1721 named his deceased granddaughter Mehetable. This gets to the crux of the problem. The will does indeed name deceased granddaughter "Mehitable Gerrish" but never indicates her husband is Timothy. It is clear from the gravestone that this is an incorrect assumption.
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