Margaret

Bef 1590 - Aft 1665  (> 77 years)

• Name	Margaret   [1, 2]
  Birth	Bef 1590  [3]
  Gender	Female
  Death	Aft 1665  [3]
  Person ID	I4756	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of TNH, Ancestor of TSW
  Last Modified	14 Apr 2024

  
  

  Family 1	William Oddyn   d. Between 21 Oct 1612 and 3 Dec 1612, Essex, England
  Marriage	Bef 1610  [3]
  Children	+ 1. Sarah Odding,   b. Bef 21 Oct 1612, Braintree, Essex, England d. Aft 31 Jul 1681 (Age > 69 years)
  Family ID	F2887	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	6 Feb 2016

  
  

  Family 2	John Porter,   b. Abt 1608   d. Aft 25 Apr 1674, Pettaquamscutt, Rhode Island (Age ~ 66 years)
  Marriage	Bef 1633	Braintree, Essex, England   [3, 4, 5]
  Divorce	1665	Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts   [6]
  Family ID	F5979	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	6 Feb 2016

  
  

• Notes

  Emigrated to Roxbury, Massachusetts in 1633 with her second husband John Porter, their daughter Hannah, and her daughter Sarah by her late first husband. "The life of Margaret (-----) (ODDING) PORTER was not one of stability. She was probably born by 1590 and married by 1610 to William ODDYN, a weaver. In 1612 she was left a young widow with a small daughter, Sarah. Sometime before 1633, probably before 1629, she married John Porter, likely in Braintree. John and Margaret had a daughter, Hannah, probably born in England. John, Margaret, Sarah, and Hannah came to Roxbury during 1633, where they joined the church late that year, John Porter and his son-in-law Philip Sherman were among those who broke from the Roxbury church. Margaret was uprooted again, moving to Portsmouth, Rhode Island, by 1638. Her life there was not happy. John Porter abandoned her by 1665, moving to Pettaquamscutt and apparently taking up with another woman. Margaret was obliged to petition the court for relief, the last mention of her." [Patricia Law Hatcher, "Reconstructing Sarah (Odding) Sherman", citation details below.]

  
  

• Sources

  [S101] The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633, Volumes 1-3 and The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volumes 1-7, by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1996-2011. [S950] Michael Johnson Wood, "The Early Shermans of Dedham, Essex, and Their Wives." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 166:245, October 2012; 167:35, January 2013; 167:149, April 2013; 167:213, July 2013; 167:275, October 2013; 168:16, January 2014. [S998] Patricia Law Hatcher, "Reconstructing Sarah (Odding) Sherman, Wife of Philip Sherman of Portsmouth, Rhode Island." The American Genealogist 73:176, July 1998. [S2203] New England Marriages Prior to 1700 by Clarence A. Torrey. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2015., date only, "ca 1610/15". [S101] The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633, Volumes 1-3 and The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volumes 1-7, by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1996-2011., "by about 1630". [S2203] New England Marriages Prior to 1700 by Clarence A. Torrey. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2015.