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Martha Martyn (Symonds)

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Birthplace: Ipswich, Massachusetts Bay Colony
Death: February 15, 1692 (49-50)
Ipswich, Essex County, Province of Massachusetts
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Daughter of Hon. Samuel Symonds and Martha Symonds
Wife of Rev. John Denison and Richard Martyn of Portsmouth
Mother of Rev. John Dennison; Martha Whipple and Daniel Dennison
Sister of Ruth Emerson; Priscilla Baker and Samuel Symonds
Half sister of Capt. Daniel Epps, II; Elizabeth Chute; Eppes; Dorothy Harrison; Jane Anne Symonds and 9 others

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About Martha Martyn

HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF STONINGTON, county of New London, Connecticut, from its first settlement in 1649 to 1900, by Richard Anson Wheeler, New London, CT, 1900, p. 337


  • The descendants of William and Elizabeth Tuttle, who came from old to New England in 1635, and settled in New Haven in 1639, with numerous biographical notes and sketches : also, some account of the descendants of John Tuttle, of Ipswich; and Henry Tuthill, of Hingham, Mass. (1883)
  • http://www.archive.org/stream/descendantsofwil01tutt#page/n87/mode/2up
  • (MARTHA SYMONDS MOTHER IS NOT CORRECT)
  • Sarah Tuttle, b. 1633; d. Dec. 1, 1666; m. Feb. 1, 1654, RICHARD MARTIN. He was a merchant, one of the founders of the First chh., Portsmouth, N. H.; Rep. and Speaker of the House. He m. (2) MARTHA, wid. of JOHN DENISON. She was dau. of Lieut. Gov. Samuel SYMONDS of Mass., and his wife, who was a dau. of Gov. Winthrop of Mass. He m. (3) Elizabeth, dau. of Henry Sherburne. She had been twice a wid. Her 1st husband was Tobias Landon, m. 1656; (2) Tobias Lear, m. 1667; (3) Richard Martin. He m. (4) Mary Denning, wid. of Samuel Wentworth, and mother of Lieut. Gov. John Wentworth of Mass. She d. Jan 20, 1724-25, and her funeral sermon was preached by Rev. Jabez Fitch, a copy of which is in possession of Mark Hunking Wentworth of Portsmouth, N. H. --Wentworth Mormorial. i. all by 1st m.
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Martha Martyn's Timeline

1642
1642
Ipswich, Massachusetts Bay Colony
1665
September 22, 1665
Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony
1668
March 1, 1668
Ipswich, Essex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony
1670
April 14, 1670
Ipswich, Essex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony
1692
February 15, 1692
Age 50
Ipswich, Essex County, Province of Massachusetts