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References
- ↑ Barre, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States. Vital Records of Barre, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849. (Worcester, Massachusetts: Franklin P. Rice, 1903)
p. 112.
BIXBY, Mary and Abraham Sterns of Worwick, May 28, 1788.
- ↑ Warwick (Massachusetts). Town Clerk. Vital records, 1739-1900
p. 118.
Marriage Intented Between Mr. Abraham Steavens of Warwick and Mrs Mary Bixby of Barre April 1788.
- ↑ Mary Bixby is not identified by Source:Allred, Marilyn. Town of Warwick, Franklin County, Massachusetts, Genealogical Records 1739-1900, Births, Marriages,, p. 262. There is no Mary Bixby born in Barre, no Mary Bixby that is mother to children born in Barre. The "Mrs." in the intention raises the possibility she is a widow, but as the first daughter of Abraham and Mary is named Mary, if so, she is probably a young widow who had no previous daughter.
Source:Bixby, Willard Goldthwaite. Genealogy of the Descendants of Joseph Bixby (1621-1701) of Ipswich and Boxford, Massachusetts, p. 126-7, offers no candidates, but rules out one they apparently thought had potential, namely the daughter of Sampson Bixby and Mary Bullard of Sutton. That Mary, called Polly Bixby of Barre, was still unmarried in 1799 when part of the father's estate was sold by the heirs.
Though no hard evidence has been found, it seems almost certain that Mary was Mary (Hastings) Bixby, the widow of Asa of Barre, whom she married in 1787 [note: may be misrecored, probably 1786], and who had the misfortune to die early 1787. Since Timothy Hastings was appointed administrator of the estate of Asa Bixby, it would seem Mary was the daughter of Timothy Sr. and Rebecca (--) Hastings, who had two children, Mary and Timothy Jr., baptized in Newton (date not recorded), before having a daughter Rebecca born in Barre in 1773. Naming children Asa, Rebecca and Timothy-Hastens would seem to say this must be right.
Addendum: the will of Asa Bixby gives his widow Lot 43 in the second division of Warwick "now called Orrange". Franklin County Deed, Vol. 1, p. 599, Abraham Stevens of Warwick sells to Wit Fuller of Warwick, 17 Nov 1788, a certain tract in Orange, "part of Lot N'o 43 in the second Division of Land laid out in Warwick but now in Orrange" containing 58 3/4 acres. He does not mention his wife nor how he obtained the land, but this appears to prove the above speculation.
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