Person:Martha Downs (2)
Martha Downs
b.1691 Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, United States
d.16 Feb 1772 Somersworth, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA
Parents and Siblings
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m. Abt 1689
  1. Thomas DownsAbt 1688 - 1749
  2. Ebenezer DownsAbt 1690 - Aft 1755
  3. Martha Downs1691 - 1772
  4. Samuel Downs1695 - Bef 1755
  5. William DownsBef 1696 - 1754
Spouse and Children
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  • H.  James BunkerAbt 1665 - Bef 1724
  • W.  Martha Downs1691 - 1772
m. Abt 1717
  1. Elijah BunkerBef 1724 - Aft 1804
Spouse and Children
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m. Bef 8 Dec 1725
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Facts and Events
Name Martha Downs
Gender Female
Birth[1] 1691 Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, United States
Marriage Abt 1717 to James Bunker
Marriage Bef 8 Dec 1725 Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, United Statesto John Mackelroy
Death[1][2][3] 16 Feb 1772 Somersworth, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA
References
  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Priscilla Eaton, The Sinful and Sorry James1 Nute of Dover, New Hampshire: His Sons and his Supposed Daughters, in The Genealogist (American Society of Genealogists). (New York, New York: Organization for the Promotion of Scholarship in Genealogy, 1980-)
    Vol 33.1 Spring 2019 pages 118-135.

    Martha Downs m ca. 1717 James Bunker b ca, 1665 d. ca. 1722 [estate admin to his grown sons James and Joseph 5 May 1724]. Martha had one child Elijah Bunker who m Judith ___ and had five daus bp in 17 Oct 1756 Dover, New Hampshire. The other 6 Bunker children of James Bunker were from his 1st wife, Anne (Thomas) dau. of James and Martha (Goddard) Thomas (m bef 1700). Ann died about 1717. Martha married second to John Mackleroy bef 8 Dec 1725 who died Somersworth 16 Feb 1722. James Bunker's probate papers include an article of agreeement between Martha Mackelroy "widow relict of James Bunker late of Dover" and "James Bunker and Joseph Bunker," in which settlement she agrees "to maintain the child she hath had by the aforesaid deceased," signed 8 Dec 1725 N.H.State Probate 32:2,9). Master Tate listed Martha's death following that of her second husband, 16 Feb 1772. [Note the wife of Philip Stackpole died 24 Sep 1792 and is often conflated with Martha Downs in older sources].

  2. ↑ Master Tate's Diary, in The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society)
    74:183.

    link This is the Diary of Master Joseph Tate of Somersworth, NH "Mr. John Mc.kleroy of Somersworth Dy'd on Sunday Feb. 16th 1772 Mrs. Martha Mckleroy Wo. of ye abovesd. Jno. Mckleroy Dy'd"

  3. ↑ Kenneth Freeman Mosman and Beverly Ruth Frerich, Martha (Downes) (Bunker) Mackelroy and Martha (-) Stevens Stackpole of Dover, New Hampshire: Different Women, Different Lives , in Tibbetts, Charles W, ed, and New Hampshire Society of Genealogists. The New Hampshire genealogical record. (Dover, New Hampshire: New Hampshire Genealogical Society )
    22:61-62 2005.

    Stackpole in old Kittery and others conflated these two women and the authors sort them out.

  4.   Kenneth Freeman Mosman and Beverly Ruth Frerichs, Sisters Martha (-) (Stevens) Stackpole and Judith (-) Downs of Somersworth, NH, in Lapham, William B. (William Berry). The Maine genealogist and biographer : a quarterly journal. (Augusta, Maine: Maine Genealogical and Biographical Society)
    27:179+.

    link Circumstantial case is made that Martha the wife of Thomas Stevens and Philip Stackpole was actually Martha Littlefield sister of Judith Littlefield (it is already established she was not Martha Downs). Judith Littlefield married to Samuel Downs.

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