Mehitable Brooks

ISSUES

• Birthplace in Not Certain
  • Mehitable may have been born in Salem. No source indicates the year that her father removed from Salem to Providence, which one can decipher by Anderson's Great Migration bio bits about Roger:
    • OCCUPATION: Neat herd at Salem, 1636-41 [STR 1:41, 109]; innkeeper at Providence by 1655 [RICR 1:313]. In 1657 the Rhode Island Treasurer was ordered to pay Roger "Moorie" Is. 6d. out of the treasury "for this day’s firing & house room" [PrTR 2:110].
    • OFFICES: Essex petit jury (from Salem), 25 January 1641[/2] [EQC 1:33].
    • Providence constable, 1655 [PrTR 2:81].
    • Land was laid out in Providence to Roger Mowry in early 1656 at his request [PrTR 2:92].
  • vi MEHITABLE, b. say 1644; m. (1) Providence 9 May 1662 [PrTR 3:23] Eldad Kingsley; m. (2) by 1685 as his second wife Timothy Brooks, son of Henry Brooks (they made a deed together on 3 June 1685 [PrTR 14:129-31)].
• Wikitree for Mehitable (Mowry) Brooks (abt. 1646–1730) assigns no children born to Timothy and Mehitable (as of 28 Nov 2024).

Wikitree: Mehitable (Mowry) Brooks (abt. 1646–1730)

Her first husband was Rev. Eldad Kingsley. Her second husband was Rev. Timothy Brooks. She moved with her second husband and her son by him, Josiah, to the Cohansey Settlement in Southern New Jersey around 1687. I am not sure why according to Find a Grave she is buried in Bristol County, Massachusetts, with her first husband, unless she left Southern New Jersey and went to live with her children by Rev. Kingsley. That is possible, since Rev. Brooks died in 1711 and she died in 1730.

Josiah remained in Southern New Jersey.

www.generationsgoneby.com

Mehitable, the daughter of Roger and Mary Johnson Mowry, was born at Salem, Massachusetts Bay Colony, ca 1642.[1] She married Eldad Kingsley on May 9, 1662.[2] They had six children who were born at Rehoboth.[3]

Elizabeth Kingsley b Jan 29, 1662 John Kingsley b May 6, 1665 Samuel Kingsley b Jun 1, 1669 Jonathan Kingsley b Feb 21, 1671 Mary Mercy Kingsley b Oct 7, 1675 Nathaniel Kingsley b Feb 5, 1678

After Eldad Kingsley's death Mehitable married Timothy Brooks.[4]

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Profile last modified 7 Oct 2020 | Created 7 Feb 2011

Mehitable (Mowry) Kingsley (abt. 1646 - 1730)

Mehitable Kingsley formerly Mowry

Born about 1646 in Providence, Rhode Island

Daughter of Roger Mowry and Mary (Johnson) Kingsley

Sister of Roger Mowry, Jonathan Morey Sr., Bethiah (Mowry) Palmer, Mary Mowry, Elizabeth Mowry, Nathaniel Mowry, John Mowry, Joseph Mowry, Benjamin (Mowry) Morey, Thomas Mowry and Hannah (Mowry) Sherman

Wife of Eldad Kingsley — married 9 May 1662 in Providence, Rhode Island

Wife of Timothy Brooks — married 1680 in Swansea, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Mother of Elizabeth (Kingsley) Palmer, John Kingsley, Samuel Kingsley, Jonathan Kingsley, Abigail (Kingsley) Snell, Mary Kingsley and Nathaniel Kingsley

Died 12 Apr 1730 in Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts Bay

Sources

↑ Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Begins Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Volumes I-III, 1995. Boston, MA: New England Historic Genealogical Society. (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2010) By Subscription. Page 1314.
↑ "Rhode Island Marriages, 1724-1916", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F8VB-HLX : 22 January 2020), Edward Kinsley, 1662. ↑ Vital Records of Rehoboth, 1642-1895. Marriages, Intentions, Births, Deaths. Part 1. Page 1661. ↑ New England Marriages to 1700. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2008.) Originally published as: New England Marriages Prior to 1700. Boston, Mass.: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2015. By Subscription. Page 215.