Person:Mary Unknown (5586)

Facts and Events
Name Mary _____
Gender Female
Marriage 4 Jan 1653 Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USAto William Bullard
Death[1][2][3] 17 May 1685 Charlestown, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA
References
  1. Stott, Clifford L., and Myrtle Stevens Hyde. The English Bullard Family Revisited and their Bignett Connection. New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 154:172-188. (2000)
    154:178.

    'He m. ... (2) at Cambridge, Mass. 4 Jan. 1653 [citing AEBK, p. 205], Mary (____) Grissell, who d. at Charlestown 17 May 1685, widow of Francis Grissell of Charlestown.'

  2. Smith, Dean Crawford, and Melinde Lutz Sanborn. The Ancestry of Eva Belle Kempton 1878-1908. (Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1996-2008)
    1:205.

    ''WILLIAM ... married second Cambridge 4 January 1653 MARY (_____) (_____) GRISWOLD, died by 9 9mo 1655 (Middlesex Deed 1:152-53) ...'

    The same 9 Nov 1655 deed is cited by Stott and Hyde as evidence that William's second wife Mary was the widow of Francis Grissell. However, they do not interpret it as meaning that Mary had died by then.

  3. Joslyn, Roger D. Vital Records of Charlestown, Massachusetts to the Year 1850. (Boston, MA: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1984-1995)
    1:128.

    'Deaths in Charles Town 1684 ...
    Mary, wife of Wm. Bullard of Charles Town, d. May 17, 1685 [17.1.85, Co. Rec. 4:99].'

  4.   Torrey, Clarence Almon. New England Marriages Prior to 1700. (1963)
    page 117.

    'BULLARD, William (1594-1687, 1686?) & 2/wf Mary (?POST) GRISWOLD (-1685), w Francis; ,,,'

    Later works indicate that Mary's maiden name is unknown, and that her previous husband was Francis Grissell, not Francis Griswold (see other sources).