Margaret Wallingford

Col. Thomas Wallingford, of Somersworth, married for his first wife Margaret Clements.

Col. Thomas Wallingford and Margaret Clements had the following children:

• child + 92 i. Capt. Thomas4 Wallingford was born about 1716 to 1718.
• child + 93 ii. Margaret Wallingford was born about 1716 to 1718.
• child + 94 iii. Hannah Wallingford was born 5 May 1720.
• child 95 iv. Judith Wallingford was born in Dover, New Hampshire 25 March 1721/2.(482) Judith died before September 1772.
• child + 96 v. Ebenezer Wallingford was born 21 July 1724.
• child + 97 vi. Abigail Wallingford was born 30 September 1726

Comments

1. Hannah, born May 5, 1720, married Capt. John Brown.
2. Judith, b. March 25, 1722.
3. Ebenezer, who married a sister of Col. John Wentworth, died May 15, 1777.

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He married three times. He married first, Margaret Clements, about 1717, probably in Dover, New Hampshire.(419) Margaret's father made his will in October 1716 and in it Margaret still have the surname Clements was likely wasn't married yet(420). Allowing for the births of their children at the logical times suggests a year of 1717 for the wedding, or possibly late 1716.(421) Margaret is mentioned as his wife in a deed of 1 October 1719.(422)

Margaret was born about 1698, in Dover, New Hampshire.(423) Margaret was the daughter of Job Clements and Abigail Heard. Margaret died in 1729 or 1730, probably in Dover, New Hampshire.(424) Margaret was baptised, as an adult, by the Rev. Jonathan Cushing of the First Church of Dover, on 18 February 1729.(425) It is probable that she died shortly after that, and it may have been her illness which induced the baptism. On 21 July 1730 her husband Thomas sold a piece of property and his wife Mary released her dower, so by this time Margaret was evidently deceased.

Four of the children of Thomas and his first wife Margaret were recorded in the Dover records: Hannah, Judith, Ebenezer, and Abigail, but since Thomas Jr. was later (in his father's probate records) called the eldest son, he must have been born before these other four. And since the daughter Margaret, who married a Goodwin, had her first child in 1741, she, too, must have been born before the other children. In these records Thomas is listed as the first born, but it could just as easily have been Margaret(481).

Sources

1. The New England Historical & Genealogical Register and Antiquarian Journal, Volume 20 (Google eBook) S.G. Drake, 1866 - Genealogy. Page 335-336. "Wallingford"