John A Mack

Marlow Historical Society: Genealogy of the Signers of Marlow’s Petition, 1772.

• John Mack --- John Mack is on the short list of those who planned to transport their families to Marlow in the spring of 1772. Again we have the problem that there are several contenders for the honor of signing the 1772 petition, all named John Mack, and all in some way connected to Marlow. Unless Solomon Mack’s grandfather was here, which seems unlikely as he would have been extremely old to have made the trip, the most likely choice is John Mack, born in Lyme, Connecticut on Jan. 15, 1736, son of Jonathan Mack and Sarah Bennett. Sarah Bennett’s maternal grandmother is Sarah Champion, an ancestor of other Marlow dwellers. His paternal grandparents are John Mack and Sarah Bagley (again) and his maternal grandparents are Henry Bennett and Sarah Champion, all of whom have links to Marlow though their descendants. This John Mack’s wife is Sarah Beckwith, another Marlow link, who was born in Lyme in 1745 She died Jan. 3, 1836. The pair had several children: Two [sic], Azubah, and Caroline who was born March 21, 1761 in East Haddam, just up the Connecticut River from Lyme. These Lyme/Marlow folk seem to recycle unusual names such as “Azubah,”
• He arrived in Connecticut age 27 in 1680.
• Will. In the name of God. Amen. Know all Christian people that I, John Mack, Sr. of the town of Lyme and county of New Longdon, and Colony of Connecticut in New England, laboring under bodily infirmities but of perfect mind and memory now knowing how soon my great change may come do think it my duty to set my house in order before I die; and of all I give and bequeath my Soul to God that gave it me and my body to the dust from whence it was taken to be decently buried at the charge of my executor hereafter named. In hope of a joyful resurrection at the last day with the Justified in Christ Jesus.
• WILL - To my dear and loving wife Sarah I give and bequeath all my household goods and all my hors kind and two cows and ten sheep and my sadle and bridle; to be her own dispose forever she paying to my daughter Marah twenty shillings and also be at twenty shillings charge in new covering the old house wiht one year after my decease. Also to my loving wife Sarah I give and betweath the use and improvement of that four acres of land in my son John his Lott which I reserved in the deed of gift and gave him during his natural life; and the Improvement of one end of my dwelling house to with; the estates end one Room and the lentow, and half the orchard, as long as she remains my widow; also one Great Bible during the time of her natural life; and I do also give to my wife Sarah my part of the crop of corn that is or shall be up on my Lands this present year or the year that I shall decease. Also, one of the best of my swine to be at her dispose. To my eldest son John I give and bequeath five shillings and the reason I give him no more now, is I judge that I have given him a full portion as my eldest son already. [Copied as written].
• Descendants of Jscques de Gylette. Ancestors of Julius Whitney Thompson.

Sources:

• [a] Col. Charles Dyer Parkhurst, Early Families of New London and Vicinity, manuscript, photocopy at the Connecticut State
• Library, Hartford, CT
• [b]. Col. Charles Dyer Parkhurst, The Lay Family of Lyme, CT typescript, copy at the D.A.R. Library, Washington D.C.
• [c] Robert L. Ward, William Warman of Lyme and his Daughter Abigal [Warman], [Davis], [Mack], [Kelsey] Lay. The American
• Genealogist [TAG], volume 48 [1972] pages 13-18.
• [d] The Descendants of John Mack of Lyme, Connecticut by Mrs. Sophia [Smith] Martin. Hartford, Connecticut.
• [e] New England Marriages before 1700. Page 482.

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Father of:

Orlandder Mack

"Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VQ64-798 : 4 December 2014), John Mack in entry for Orlando Mack, 16 Dec 1693; citing CONCORD,MIDDLESEX,MASSACHUSETTS, ; FHL microfilm 0823762 IT 1.

in the North America, Family Histories, 1500-2000

Name: John Mack Gender: Male Birth Date: 6 Mar 1653 First Marriage Date: 5 Apr 1681 First Marriage Place: Boston Death Date: 24 Feb 1721 Spouse: Sarah Bagley Child: Elizabeth Mack Lydia Mack Josiah Mack Orlando Mack Ebenezer Mack Marah Mack Rebecca Mack Joanna Mack Deborah Mack Jonathan Mack John Mack Sarah Mack

Source Citation Book Title: Mack Genealogy : The Descendants of John Mack of Lyme, Conn. Source Information Ancestry.com. North America, Family Histories, 1500-2000 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2016.