Person:Mercy Parish (1)
Mercy Parish
b.5 Jan 1667/68 Groton, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States
d.25 Apr 1743 Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States
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m. 14 Dec 1687
  1. Mercy Richardson1689/90 - 1743
  2. Josiah Richardson1691 -
  3. Robert Richardson1693 -
  4. Zachariah Richardson1695/96 - 1776
  5. Hannah Richardson1698 - 1746
  6. William Richardson1701 - Bef 1776
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m. Aft 1711
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Name[2][5] Mercy Parish
Gender Female
Birth[1] 5 Jan 1667/68 Groton, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States
Marriage 14 Dec 1687 Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United Statesto Josiah Richardson
Marriage Aft 1711 Death of Mercy's first husband
to Jonathan Butterfield
Death[3][4] 25 Apr 1743 Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States
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Death of Mrs. Mercy Butterfield History of Chelmsford by Wilson Waters
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Death of Mrs. Mercy Butterfield History of Chelmsford by Wilson Waters
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  1. ↑ Groton, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States. Vital Records of Groton, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849. (Salem, Massachusetts: Essex Institute, 1926-1927)
    p. 179.

    PARISH, Mary, d. Robert and Mary, [born] Jan. 5, 1667. CT.R.

  2. ↑ The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society)
    Vol. 98, p. 363.

    Lt. Josiah Richardson m. Mary (or Mercy), d/o Robert Parris and Mary Crispe of Dusntable, formerly of Groton, b. Groton 5 Jan 1667/8, d. Chelmsford 25 Apr 1743 "as the wife of Jonathan Butterfield, Jr., her second husband".

  3. ↑ Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States. Vital Records of Chelmsford, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849. (Salem, Massachusetts: Essex Institute, 1914)
    p. 372.

    BUTTERFIELD, Mercy, w. Jonathan, [died] Apr. 25, 1743. [in her 75th y. GR1]
    [Age 74, so born about 1669. GR1=Forefather's Cemetery.]

  4. ↑ Find A Grave: Forefathers Burial Ground, Chelmsford, Mass., in Find A Grave
    Mrs. Mercy Butterfield.
    Here Lies Buried
    The Body of
    Mrs Mercy Butterfield
    Wife of Mr Jonathan
    Butterfield Who
    Died April ye 25
    1743 in The
    75th Year of Her
    AGE
  5. ↑ Great confusion is caused because there are birth records for two daughters of Robert Parish named Mary Parish: the one cited, and one on p. 179: "PARRIS, Mary, d. Robert, 8 : 7 : [16]74. CT.R.". The eldest one is generally named Mercy "in later records", was obviously the only one of them old enough to have married Josiah Richardson in 1687, and is the one whose birth would match the age at death of Jonathan Butterfield's wife Mercy. According to Source:Davis, Walter Goodwin. Ancestry of Sarah Hildreth, 1773-1857, p. 50, the other one died young: she is not mentioned in her father's 1709 will: of the two, only Marcy Richardson is named. Source:Vinton, John Adams. Richardson Memorial, p. 48, is one of those confused, saying her name on the records was Mary Parris, which refers to the wrong one, and then saying "The widow, Mercy Richardson, died April 25, 1743." without mentioning the second marriage that is required to match the death record found on that date.
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