Mary Root

1667 - Aft 1724  (> 57 years)

• Name	Mary Root  [1]
  Birth	22 Sep 1667	Westfield, Hampden, Massachusetts   [2, 3]
  Gender	Female
  Alternate death	1721	Hadley, Hampshire, Massachusetts   [2]
  Death	Aft 20 Jan 1724  [4]
  Burial	Old Hadley Cemetery, Hadley, Hampshire, Massachusetts   [2]
  Person ID	I14733	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	6 Aug 2025

  
  

  Father	John Root,   b. 1642, Farmington, Hartford, Connecticut d. 24 Sep 1687, Westfield, Hampden, Massachusetts (Age 45 years)
  Mother	Mary Ashley,   b. 6 Apr 1644, West Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts d. 9 Mar 1701, Westfield, Hampden, Massachusetts (Age 56 years)
  Marriage	18 Oct 1664	Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts   [5, 6, 7, 8]
  Family ID	F9173	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	John Smith,   b. 15 May 1665, Hadley, Hampshire, Massachusetts d. 20 Jan 1724, Hadley, Hampshire, Massachusetts (Age 58 years)
  Marriage	1687  [4]
  Children	+ 1. Mary Smith,   b. 7 May 1689, Hadley, Hampshire, Massachusetts d. 29 Oct 1771, Suffield, Hartford, Connecticut (Age 82 years) + 2. Abigail Smith,   b. 26 Oct 1691
  Family ID	F9169	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	6 Aug 2025

  
  

• Sources

  [S8164] History and Genealogy of the Montague Family of America, Descended from Richard Montague of Hadley, Mass., and Peter Montague of Lancaster Co., Va. by George Wm. Montague, ed. William L. Montague. Amherst, Massachusetts: Press of J. E. Williams, 1886. [S2033] Find a Grave page for Mary Root Smith. [S2465] George E. McCracken, "Ancestry of President Rutherford B. Hayes." The American Genealogist 56:160, 1980., date only. [S2465] George E. McCracken, "Ancestry of President Rutherford B. Hayes." The American Genealogist 56:160, 1980. [S2038] Find a Grave page for Mary Ashley Root., date only. [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., date only. [S2040] The Ashley Genealogy: A History of the Descendants of Robert Ashley of Springfield, Massachusetts by Francis Bacon Trowbridge. New Haven, 1896., date only. [S7376] The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1636-1638, volume 1, by Ian Watson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2024.