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Mary Rudd (Post)

Birthdate:
Birthplace: Norwich, New London County, Connecticut Colony, Colonial America
Death: November 13, 1705 (42-43)
Norwich, New London County, Connecticut Colony, Colonial America
Place of Burial: Franklin, New London County, Connecticut, United States
Immediate Family:

Daughter of John Post; John Post and Hester Post
Wife of Nathaniel Rudd and Nathaniel Rudd, Sr.
Mother of Mary Rudd; Jonathan Rudd; Mary Wood and Lydia Rudd
Sister of Margaret Abell; Elizabeth Bunnell; John Post, Jr.; Sarah Hough; Abigail Post and 2 others

Managed by: Joseph Theodore Bobrick, Jr.
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Immediate Family

About Mary Rudd

Not the same as Mary Post


Mary Post was born November 1662, in Norwich in the Colony of Connecticut. She is the daughter of John Post and Hester Hyde.[1]

Mary's father was one of founders of Mohegan in 1660. Their home lot was across the street from her grandfather and uncle on the Hyde side and her uncle on the Post side was just up the street.[2] Two years later, the town became known as Norwich.

This person is an ancestor of President Millard Fillmore. [3]


Mary, daughter of John and Hester (Hyde) Post; married Nathaniel Rudd April 16, 1685, recorded at Norwich, Connecticut. She was his first wife.

  • **Hyde Genealogy provides her birth as occurring at Norwich in 1662, but her birth is not recorded in Norwich Vital Records.

Children, births recorded at Norwich, included:

  • Jonathan, born May 22, 1693, m. Joanna Gregory.
  • Mary, born February 3, 1695/6, m. Ebenezer Wood.
  • Lidea, born June 22, 1697, died in childhood.

Mary's widow married as his second wife Abigael Hartshorn January 31, 1705/6

References

  1. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/28949237/mary-rudd
  2. http://aleph0.clarku.edu/~djoyce/gen/report/rr07/rr07_191.html#P93719 Children of Rebecca Bruen (5653) & Thomas Post: 15202. Mary Post. Born in Jun 1669 in Norwich, CT. Mary died on 7 Mar 1742.
  3. Hyde Genealogy, or, The Descendants, in the Female as Well as in the Male Lines, From William Hyde. Page 13. < AncestrySharing > Mary Post, born at Norwich in 1662, was the third daughter of Hester Hyde & John Post, grand daughter of William Hyde the first of Norwich. She married 16 April 1685 to Nathaniel Hyde of Norwich, son of Jonathan Rudd of Hartford. He married 2nd on 31 January 1706 to Abigail Hartshorne.
  4. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Post-150 cites
    1. Vital Records of Norwich, 1659-1848 (Society of Colonial Wars in the State of Connecticut, Hartford, 1913) Part 1, Page 50. < GoogleBooks > (Marriage, children, death recorded.)
    2. Find A Grave: Memorial #28949237 Mary Post Rudd
    3. Walworth: Walworth, Reuben Hyde. Hyde genealogy, or, The descendants, in the female as well as in the male lines, from William Hyde, of Norwich, Volume 1, J. Munsell, Albany, 1864. Page 13. < Archive.Org >
    4. Roberts, Gary Boyd; Ancestors of American Presidents. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2009
  5. https://www.ancestry.com/sharing/118537?token=%2Fu0MxDET9YJ%2BRAmdk... North American Family Histories
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Mary Rudd's Timeline

1662
November 1662
Norwich, New London County, Connecticut Colony, Colonial America
1694
March 22, 1694
Norwich, New London, Connecticut, United States
1695
February 3, 1695
Franklin, Norwich, New London County, Connecticut Colony, Colonial America
1695
1697
June 12, 1697
Norwich, New London, Connecticut
1705
November 13, 1705
Age 43
Norwich, New London County, Connecticut Colony, Colonial America
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Plains Cemetery, Franklin, New London County, Connecticut, United States