Person:Mary Swift (20)

  1. Mary SwiftAbt 1609 - 1676
m. 22 Oct 1625
  1. William SumnerAbt 1627 - 1675
  2. Joane Sumner1630 - 1695
  3. Deacon Roger Sumner1632 - 1698
  4. George Sumner1634 - 1715
  5. Samuel Sumner1638 -
  6. Elizabeth Sumner1640 - Bef 1688
  7. Increase Sumner1642/43 - 1683
  8. Abigail SumnerAbt 1646 - 1657
  9. Mary SumnerAbt 1647 -
Facts and Events
Name[1][4][5][6] Mary Swift
Alt Name[1] Mary West
Gender Female
Alt Birth? 20 Jun 1606 Bicester, Oxfordshire, England
Birth? Abt 1609 Bicester, Oxfordshire, England
Marriage 22 Oct 1625 Bicester, Oxfordshire, Englandto William Sumner
Death[2][3] 7 Jun 1676 Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
References
  1. 1.0 1.1 Holman, Mary Lovering. "Three Generations of the Sumner Family", in The American Genealogist (TAG). (Donald Lines Jacobus, et.al.)
    19:162.

    Bicester Parish Register: "1625. Oct. 22. William Sumner and Mary Sweift"
    [Includes discussion of long-standing error that this says Mary West which also contradicted by Thomas Swift's will naming William Sumner as brother-in-law.]

  2. Boston (Massachusetts). Record Commissioners. A Report of the Record Commissioners of the City of Boston: Containing Dorchester Births, Marriages, and Deaths to the End of 1825. (Boston, Massachusetts: Rockwell and Churchill, city printers, 1890)
    28.

    Mary the Wife of William Sumner Sen'r Died June 7th [16]76.

  3. Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England: Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692, on the Basis of Farmer's Register. (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co, 1860-1862)
    [SUMNER] "WILLIAM, Dorchester 1636, came prob. with w. Mary, and ch. William, Roger, George, Joan, and perhaps Abigail, wh. d. 19 Feb. 1658, was made freem. 17 May 1637 had Samuel, b. 18 May 1638; and Increase, 23 Feb. 1643; very oft. selectman, and rep. many yrs. His w. d. 7 June 1676, it is report. and he perhaps d. Mar. 1692, aged a. 86. He is thot. to have been only ch. of Roger of Bicester in Co. Oxford, 12 ms. from the city of O. and could only be two yrs. old when his f. made nuncup. will 3 Dec. 1608, pro. 22 Mar. foll. as set out in Geneal. Reg. IX. 300".
  4. Three Generations of the Sumner Family.
  5. Early Records of Lancaster, Massachusetts.
  6. Swigart, Edmund K. (Edmund Kearsley), and Richard Andrew Pierce. An Emerson-Benson saga: the ancestry of Charles F. Emerson and Bessie Benson and the struggle to settle the United States : including 194 allied lines : major families: Barrows, Besse, Blanchard, Bloss, Booth, Chittenden, Ford, Freeman, Hafford, Hall, Johnson, Joslyn, Lewis, Lord, Lyman, Merrill, Moulton, Perry, Rogers, Safford, Shaw, Spear, Stevens, Sumner, Woodward and Younglove. (Baltimore [Maryland]: Gateway Press, c1994).