Mary Gary

Biography

Mary Fairbanks was born to George and Rachel (Adams) Fairbanks in Medfield on 15 Mar 1674-5[1]

Benjamin Allen married Mary Fairbanks, both of Medfield, in Dedham on 16 Apr 1696. [2]

Benjamin and Mary removed to Ashford, Connecticut, where he died. His widow Mary then married Nathaniel Gary.[3][4][5] married 4 Feb 1712/3 at Ashford, Windham, Connecticut. The son of Nathaniel Gary and Anne Douglas, he was Anne Rice’s widower.

Benjamin Allen and Mary Fairbanks had five children recorded in Medfield:[6]

1. Benjamin, b. 15 Mar 1696-7
2. Mary, b. 10 July 1698
3. Lydia, b. 25 July 1700
4. Edward, b. 13 Feb 1702-3
5. David, b. 1705 ?

and possibly more, born elsewhere.

After the death of his wife Ann Rice, Nathaniel Gary remarried to Mary Fairbanks, widow of Benjamin Allen, about 1712 in Ashford, Windham, CT.

their children were:

1. William, (adopted?)
2. Eunice Gary aka Geary was born 25 Oct 1714 in Pomfret, Windham, Connecticut Colony. Married her cousin Joseph Gary/Geary.
3. Benjamin,
4. Sarah,
5. Joseph Geary aka Gary Born 8 Nov 1721. Married Ruth Goodall.
6. Ann.

Sources

• https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Fairbanks-1272 cites

1. Norfolk, Vital Records of Medfield, Massachusetts, to the year 1850, p. 50:"Fairbanks" & "Fayrbanke"
2. Hill, Don Gleason, The Record of Births, Marriages, and Deaths . . . in the Town of Dedham . . . 1635-1845, Vol. 1, p. 27: "Benjamin Alline and Mary Fairbank"
3. Tilden, William S., History of Medfield . . . 1650-1886, (Boston, 1887, Geo. H. Ellis), p. 305
4. Birth not found in Medfield records.
5. no primary source yet found for these events, but the lack of vital records in Medfield for this couple or their children subsequent to 1703 supports their removal to another location.
6. Norfolk, Vital Records of Medfield, Massachusetts, to the year 1850, pp. 16-17
7. Gary genealogy : the descendants of Arthur Gary of Roxbury, Massachusetts, with an account of the posterity of Stephen Gary of Charlestown, Massachusetts, and also of a South Carolina family of this name by Brainerd, Lawrence, 1874-1925, page 40 and 44 plus more https://archive.org/details/garygenealogydes00brai/page/40/mode/2up...