Mary Tompson

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• Baptised: 14 Nov 1619, Preston Capes, Northamptonshire, England

Notes:

No documentation absolutely proves that the Mary Tompson who married Joseph Wise was the Mary Tompson who was baptized in 1619 to John Tompson and Alice Freeman. But a large amount of evidence suggests that this is probably the case.*

Arguing that the two individuals were the same, Mary Lovering Holman (in Ancestry of Colonel John Harrington Stevens and His Wife Frances Helen Miller, Concord, New Hampshire: The Rumford Press, 1948) pointed out that, (1), when "Mary Tompsonn" married Joseph Wise in Roxbury in 1641, there was no Tompson family in Roxbury save for that of Alice (Freeman) Tompson; (2) in the course of their marriage, Mary frequently joined her husband Joseph in the sale of property, and only on one occasion signed in release of dower rights, a believable pattern of behavior if Mary was in fact from a gentry family; (3) Mary and Joseph named their seventh child Henry, "an unusual name at the time but that of Alice Freeman's father, brother, and great-grandfather, while the name of Katherine, the ninth child, also appears in the Freeman family"; and (4) if Mary the wife of Joseph Wise was in fact the Mary Tompson born to John Tompson and Alice Freeman in 1619, then she would have been 22 at her marriage, an entirely plausible age.

In 1980, 32 years later, Robert Charles Anderson wrote: "Joseph [Wise] is next seen marrying in Roxbury on 3 Dec. 1641 'Mary Tompsonn.' There is good reason to believe that this is the Mary Tompson baptized at Preston Capes, Northants, 14 Nov. 1619, to John and Alice (Freeman) Tompson (TAG 13: 1-8; 14:145 f.). Arguments for this identification of Joseph's wife are given by Mary Holman (Ancestry of Colonel John Harrington Stevens and His Wife Frances Helen Miller, pp. 422 f.), with support from Donald Lines Jacobus (TAG 32:128). Further supporting circumstantial evidence lies in the Rhode Island land records, where we find that on 7 June 1671 Joseph Wise of Roxbury sells to Deacon William Parke of Roxbury half of a 600 acre tract in Providence. After the document was drawn up, it was discovered that an error in the bounds had to be corrected. This correction was made and signed by Joseph Wise Senior and by Samiel Williams 'for his father Deacon William Park.' William Parke was son of Robert Parke of Roxbury by his first wife, and was therefore stepbrother of Mary Tompson, daughter of John and Alice (Freeman) Tompson. Samuel Williams, who had married Theoda Parke, daughter of William, was brother of Stephen Williams who had married Sarah, daughter of Joseph Wise. Two years later Joseph Wise sold the other half of this tract to Caleb Lamb and Stephen Williams (Rhode Island Land Evidences vol. 1, 1648-1696, pp. 40 f., 81.). ["Joseph Wise of Roxbury, Butcher," citation details below]


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* Note that even without this connection, JTS retains descent from "gateway ancestor" Alice Freeman, via descent from her daughter Bridget.

Mary married Joseph Wise on 3 Dec 1641 in Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts. Joseph died on 12 Sep 1684 in Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Baptised: 27 Feb 1650, Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts

Mary married Caleb Lamb on 30 Jun 1669 in Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts. Caleb (son of Thomas Lamb and Dorothy Harbottle) was born on 9 Apr 1641 in Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts; died in 1697. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Mary married Atherton Mather on 24 Oct 1705. Atherton (son of Timothy Mather and Elizabeth Atherton) was born on 4 Oct 1663 in Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts; died on 9 Nov 1734. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: Nov 1708, Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut

Notes:

Lineage of Rev. Richard Mather (citation details below) gives his birthdate as "Nov. 31, 1708", a date that does not exist.

He must have died before 1757 when his wife Lois remarried Isaac Mixer.

Richard married Lois Burbank on 21 Mar 1734. Lois (daughter of John Burbank and Mary Granger) was born on 15 Jan 1715 in Suffield, Hartford, Connecticut; died in 1760 in Suffield, Hartford, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

He is said to have married, 17 Feb 1763 at Suffield, Abiah Hall.

An Abiah Hall was definitely born 17 Jan 1740 at Suffield, daughter of Nathan Hall & Mabel Winchell. Nathan and Mabel published their intention at Suffield 9 Dec 1716, and banns were forbidden 14 Dec 1716, five days later, by Benjamin Winchell. [Barbour Collection, Suffield]

[But according to records on familysearch.org, Mabel's father was Thomas Winchell.]

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Alternate death: 1854, Deposit, New York

Thaddeus married Sarah Parker in 1803. Sarah (daughter of Capt. Nathan Parker and Sarah) died on 26 Feb 1857. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

"BIXBY.--On Wednesday, Nov. 12, 1890, at the residence of her daughter, Mrs. David Wetmore, No. 119 Lexington Av., CAROLINE M. BIXBY, mother of Francis M. and Butler H. Bixby. Notice of funeral hereafter." [New York Times obituary, citation details below.]

Family/Spouse: Ira Bixby. Ira was born in 1803; died in 1835. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Caroline married David Wetmore on 4 Sep 1855 in Hoboken, New Jersey. David (son of William Henry Wetmore and Sarah Brinckerhoff) was born on 31 Oct 1823. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]