Person:Martha Marks (7)

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  • WMartha Marks1724/25 - 1772
m. 11 Sep 1740
m. 17 Jan 1760
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Name[3] Martha Marks
Gender Female
Christening[1] 21 Mar 1724/25 Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
Marriage 11 Sep 1740 Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United Statesto Caleb Eddy (add)
Marriage 17 Jan 1760 Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United Statesto John Youngman
Death[2][4] 11 Nov 1772 Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
References
  1. "Brattle Square Church", in Dunkle, Robert J., and Ann S. Lainhart. Records of the Churches of Boston and the First Church, Second Parish, and Third Parish of Roxbury: including baptisms, marriages, deaths, admissions, and dismissals: (1600s-1800s). (Boston, MA: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001)
    p. 57.

    [#1237] Martha Marks. [baptized] 21 March 1725 [context shows this is 1724/25] [of] Mary Marks.

  2. Dunkle, Robert J., and Ann S. (Ann Smith) Lainhart. Inscriptions and Records of the Old Cemeteries of Boston. (Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society, c2000)
    p. 151.

    Here lies Interr'd the
    Body of Mrs MARTHA YOUNGMAN
    Widow of the late CALEB EDDY
    of Boston who died Novr 11th
    1772. Aged 49 years
    [Birth calculates to about 1723.]

  3. Eddy, Ruth Story Devereux. The Eddy family in America. (Boston: The Association, 1930)
    p. 94.

    Caleb Eddy [#214] m. Boston 11 Sep 1740 Martha Marks, who m. (2) 17 Jan 1760 John Youngman and d. Nov 1777 [sic, 1772] aged 49. 3 children from first marriage.
    [Note: a death in 1777 aged 49 would make Martha 12 at the time of her first marriage. See inscription from gravestone cited above. Other inconsistencies are found in the information on Caleb Eddy.]

  4. George, Elijah. Index to the probate records of the county of Suffolk, Massachusetts, from the year 1636 to and including the year 1893. (Boston, Massachusetts: Rockwell and Churchill, 1895)
    vol. 3, p. 380.

    Year: 1772
    Name: Youngman, Martha
    Type: will
    Case: 15262
    [Note: it is unfortunate that neither the Eddy Family, nor Source:Youngman, David. Genealogy and Biographical Sketches of the Youngman Family, provides an abstract of this will.]