Mercy Reed

Abt 1676 - 1738  (~ 62 years)

• Name	Mercy Reed  [1]
  Birth	Abt 1676	Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts   [2]
  Gender	Female
  Alternate birth	Between 5 Feb 1682 and 4 Feb 1683	Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts   [2]
  Death	4 Feb 1738	Abington, Plymouth, Massachusetts   [2]
  Person ID	I3261	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of TNH
  Last Modified	17 Aug 2022

  
  

  Father	William Reed,   b. 15 Dec 1639, Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts d. Between 26 Oct 1705 and 12 Sep 1706, Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts (Age 65 years)
  Mother	Esther Tomson,   b. 28 Jul 1652, Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts d. Between 26 Oct 1705 and 12 Sep 1706 (Age 53 years)
  Marriage	Abt 1675	Middleborough, Plymouth, Massachusetts   [1, 3, 4]
  Family ID	F134	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Andrew Ford,   b. Between 13 May 1681 and 12 May 1682, Abington, Plymouth, Massachusetts d. 12 May 1750, Abington, Plymouth, Massachusetts (Age ~ 68 years)
  Marriage	27 Nov 1706	Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts   [2, 5]
  Children	+ 1. Mercy Ford,   b. 10 Nov 1708, Abington, Plymouth, Massachusetts d. 19 Oct 1736, Abington, Plymouth, Massachusetts (Age 27 years)
  Family ID	F6505	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	17 Aug 2022

  
  

• Notes

  "Mercy, m. Nicholas Whitmarsh of Weymouth." [Chamberlain, History of Weymouth, listing Mercy Reed, daughter of William Reed and Esther Tomson.] Nicholas Whitmarsh was her first husband, not her father as incorrectly stated in many sources.

  
  

• Sources

  [S584] History of Weymouth, Massachusetts, volumes 3 and 4, by George Walter Chamberlain. Weymouth, Massachusetts: Weymouth Historical Society, 1923. [S636] Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Volume 12, Francis Cooke of the Mayflower by Ralph V. Wood, Jr. Camden, Maine: Picton Press, 1996; revised edition, 2014. [S1739] Mayflower Increasings: From the Files of George Ernest Bowman at the Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants by Susan E. Roser. 2nd edition. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1995. [S636] Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Volume 12, Francis Cooke of the Mayflower by Ralph V. Wood, Jr. Camden, Maine: Picton Press, 1996; revised edition, 2014., says "probably in Middleboro". [S559] Genealogy of the Descendants of John Whitmarsh of Weymouth, Mass. by Newton Whitmarsh Bates. 1916., date only.