Mary Barrett

Was she a wife of Thomas Page?. Not the same as Mary Ladbrook

Disambiguation

The Ancestry of Lydia Harmon, 1755-1836: Wife of Joseph Waterhouse of ... By Walter Goodwin Davis. Page 49. < GoogleBooks >

2. ELIZABETH COUSINS (Isaac'?). An Elizabeth Cousins married John Barrett in Charlestown, June 6, 1664.|| There seems little room for doubt but that the bridegroom of this match was John Barrett of Wells, Maine, the only son of John' Barrett senior, who appeared in that town about the year 1653, when he took the oath of allegiance, and to whom in 1657 the selectmen confirmed by grant the farm of one hundred and fifty acres which he had bought of Edward Rishworth, the original grantee.* “Oold John Barrett,” who may have lived in York and Charlestown before his settlement in Wells,f died at about the time of his son's marriage, leaving a will, probated July 4, 1664, by which his wife Mary inherited the Wells house and farm while his son John received several small lots of upland “at the stony brook" and marsh at “Ogunquett.”! The widow, Mary Barrett, deeded all of her inheritance to her son John” in 1670, $ and married again before 1671 when, as “Mary Ladbrooke formerly Barrett aged about 54 years" she made a deposition in regard to the boundaries at Stony Brook at the "tyme wo this Deponent & her husband liued at the Farme of Mr John Wheelwrights at Wells.”||

In addition to this father and son, both named John Barrett, a third John Barrett was their contemporary at Wells. He also took the oath of allegiance in 1653, and it was he, known as John Barrett, Jr., and after 1662 as John Barrett, Sr., Ensign Barrett or Lieutenant Barrett, who married Mary Littlefield. As Mary Barrett she was mentioned in the will of her father, Edmund Littlefield, in 1661, and in the will of her mother, Annis Littlefield, in 1677. Ensign John Barrett moved from Wells to Cape Porpoise about the year 1666, when he purchased from Morgan Howell his forty acre grant from the town and his sixty acre grant from Mr. George Cleaves, and it was to this deed that Thomas Cousins, seventeen years of age, affixed his monogram as a witness. The conclusion is unavoidable that the young man was living in Wells with his sister Elizabeth (Cousins) Barrett when he bore witness to the purchase made by Ensign John Barrett, who was doubtless & close kinsman. Ensign John Barrett died in 1689/90, and his widow Mary Barrett was appointed administratrix of his estate. It is probably the fact of his being designated "Senior” which has led genealogists to supply him with a son John, of the existence of whom no evidence has come to light, the “Junior” being Johna Barrett of Wells. Both were mentioned in the inventory of Morgan Howell in 1667, and both were members of the same grand jury in 1684.**

References

• The Ancestry of Lydia Harmon, 1755-1836: Wife of Joseph Waterhouse of ... By Walter Goodwin Davis. Page 49. < GoogleBooks >
• http://www.oakbaydesigns.com/Maine/2littlefield.htm “ Mary born 1630 (1617 see below note?) married Lt John Barrett, Page, & Ladbrook; …” NO - Mary Littlefield has been confused with Mary, widow of “Old” John Barrett.