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Facts and Events
| Name[3] |
Mary Priest |
| Gender |
Female |
| Birth? |
Abt 1706 |
Lancaster, Worcester, Massachusetts, United StatesBased on order named in baptism |
| Christening[1] |
12 Sep 1708 |
Lancaster, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States |
| Marriage |
23 Mar 1720/21 |
Lancaster, Worcester, Massachusetts, United Statesto Ebenezer Houghton |
| Marriage |
20 Jan 1725/26 |
Lancaster, Worcester, Massachusetts, United Statesto Jonathan Houghton |
| Death[2] |
1791 |
Bolton, Worcester, Massachusetts, United StatesNote: No primary record found. |
References
- ↑ Nourse, Henry Stedman. Birth, Marriage, and Death Register, Church Records and Epitaphs of Lancaster, Massachusetts, 1643-1850. (Clinton, Massachusetts: W.J. Coulter, 1890)
p. 273.
1708.
Sept. 12. Annah Mary Abigail children of John Priest [baptized].
- ↑ Houghton, John Wesley. The Houghton Genealogy: The Descendants of Ralph and John Houghton of Lancaster, Massachusetts with an Introduction giving the Houghton Families in England from the time of William the Conqueror, 1065, to Lord Henry Bold Houghton, 1848. (New York: Frederick H. Hitchcock, © 1912)
p. 307.
Jonathan Houghton [#55] m. "1, 20, 1725" Mary Houghton, "who died in Bolton in 1791".
[Note: the basis for a death in 1791 is unknown, but the probate shows an administrator was appointed to complete administration of the estate in 1793, so certainly she had died by then.]
- ↑ Source:Houghton, John Wesley. Houghton Genealogy, p. 307, attempts no identification of Mary Houghton, the wife of Jonathan Houghton, despite being a book about Houghtons. Mary Priest married Ebenezer Houghton in 1720 but he died in 1723, and so his young widow would likely have married again. Could this Mary (Priest) Houghton be the Mary Houghton who married Jonathan Houghton?
It should be noted, that in the probate file of Ebenezer Houghton (Middlesex Probate 11924, the 1766 accounting [-sic-i.e., surprisingly late for a probate opened in 1723, but apparently so] by Mary Houghton says Ebenezer was "her former husband", suggesting she had remarried (otherwise, we would have expected "her late husband"). In the distribution of her father's real estate in 1756 (Worcester Probate 47969) she is named Mary Houghton, but unlike her sisters, no husband is identified. Of course, Mary would have no husband in 1756 if she never remarried after Ebenezer's death, or likewise, if she remarried to Jonathan Houghton who died about 1741, so this does not tell us anything. Likewise, either way, no husband would have been around to co-sign her 1766 account of Ebenezer's estate, and none did.
However deep in her father's probate file is a 1761 distribution of the balance of the estate, and this explicitly names her as Mary the widow of Jon'a Houghton, showing this speculation was indeed what happened.
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