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Ensign James Nash
b.1678 Weymouth, MA
d.27 Aug 1725 Abington, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States
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m. Abt 1666
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m. Abt 1700
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m. Bef 1710
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No marriage records found for James Nash. Potentially from 1-3 wives depending on how you interpret all the data. Source:Vital records of Weymouth, Massachusetts, to the year 1850, p. 1:192, shows the birth to James and Hannah of daughter Hannah [Sept. 4, torn, ?1701] and son James [June 22, 1700-1 [sic]]. This suggests a first wife named Hannah. It is unfortunate that both dates are mangled, but it seems likely all this activity is within a couple of years of 1700. Source:Pane-Joyce Report, at [1], says that James and wife Experience arrived in Abington in 1710 with three children: James, Hannah, and Peter. (It appears to cite Source:The Nash family of Weymouth, Massachusetts as a source, which I have not seen.) This is 6 or 7 years later, with only one additional child (whose birth record is unknown to me) which would be a typical pattern to see if the first wife died in that interval. Experience's maiden is given as Pettee (citing the same source). [Settlement of James' estate mentions a daughter Experience who most likely was born before 1710 and should have been included in this listing.] In Source:Vital records of Abington, Massachusetts, to the year 1850, p 1:142-1:147, it lists Abigail, bp. 1714; Jacob, bp. 1714, Sarah, b. 1719; Samuell, b. 1721; Silence, bp. 1726. The last three explicitly name the mother as Experience, but no mother is identified for the first two. There is no birth record for the Mary Nash who married Obadiah Reed in 1731, but she is named in the settlement of her mother's estate in 1737 and her age at death calculates to a birth in 1712. Source:Hobart, Benjamin. History of the Town of Abington, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, p. 414, lists James wife as Mary ---. It is not known what the basis for this is, as no child's birth record gives her name. If one believes the Pane-Joyce statement, James never had a wife named Mary while in Abington since he arrived with Experience and she was still his wife when his last children were born. Source:The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, p. 55:221, suggests Experience Drake m. Boston 23 Jan 1706 William Richards, Jr. and "perhaps" m. (2) James Nash of Weymouth. But the article is only a reader's query and gives no basis for this supposition. Clearly, there is not much time between 1706-1710 for her to become a widow, grieve, and remarry in a different town as this scenario would require. Source:Ancestors of James Wilson Yates and his wife Nancy Davis Terry : showing Mayflower descent from John Alden, Myles Standish, William Mullines, Alice Mulines, Priscilla, p. 44, indicates William Richards d. 2 Jan 1728, which seems to rule this out fairly conclusively. The only birth record of anybody by the name Mary or Experience and surname Petty/Pettee/Pittee in Weymouth or Abington that looks relevant is "Pittey, Mary, ch. Joseph and Sarah, [born] Dec. 27, 1672" who is about 5 years older than James. In summary, it looks like there were at least two wives, Hannah, presumably mother to James and Hannah and then Experience probably mother of all the rest (surely Experience is the most likely mother of daughter Experience, and as she seems to be older than Peter Experience is probably mother of Peter, and Experience appears to be the mother of all Abington born children, and so that accounts for the rest). --Jrich 15:10, 21 June 2009 (EDT) References
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