Person:Yetmercy Shove (1)

m. 17 Feb 1674/75
  1. Mary Shove1676 -
  2. Joanna Shove1678 - Bef 1719
  3. Edward Shove1680 - 1746
  4. Yetmercy Shove1682 - Aft 1760
m. 24 Nov 1709
  1. Yetmercy Howland1713 - 1737
  2. Josiah Howland1717 - Bef 1748
Facts and Events
Name[1][4] Yetmercy Shove
Gender Female
Birth[1][2][3] 7 Nov 1682 Taunton, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States
Marriage 24 Nov 1709 Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United Statesto Josiah Howland
Living[2] 21 May 1760 Dighton, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States
Death[2] Aft 21 May 1760 Dighton, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States (probably)
References
  1. 1.0 1.1 George Shove, in Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England: Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692, on the Basis of Farmer's Register. (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co, 1860-1862)
    4:89-90.

    … the whimsical. bapt. Yetmercy, (born, Taunton) 7 Nov. 1682.

  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 Josiah3 Howland, in General Society of Mayflower Descendants. Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Descendants of the Pilgrims Who Landed at Plymouth, Mass. December 1620. (New England - United States: General Society of Mayflower Descendants., Various)
    25-26.

    … Yetmercy Shove who was born at Taunton 7 November 1682 and died after 21 May 1760, daughter of George and Hannah (Bacon) (Walley) Shove. … On 20 May 1760 Yetmercy Howland late of Bristol, R.I., now of Dighton, widow, sold to Thomas Cobb of Attleborough, Esq., ½ part of a purchase right in Taunton North Purchase whch descended to her from her father George Shove, acknowledged by Yetmercy on 21 May 1760.

  3. Taunton, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States. Vital Records of Taunton, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850. (Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1929, c1978)
    Vol. 1, p. 387.

    SHOVE, Mercy [TPR Yetmercy], ch. George and Hopestill [sic, dup. Hannah (Walley), TPR Goarg [and Hannah Walley]], [born] Nov. 7, 1682. [Yett Mercye, d. Gorge, PCR]

  4. Source:Otis, Amos. Genealogical Notes of Barnstable Families, p. 2:52, lists Yetmercy as 2nd wife of John Howland as part of a completely bungled list of his marriages. This is clearly incorrect.