Mary Cheney

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Biography

First wife of Benjamin Cheney, married in 1701 and died in 1705. Daughter of Joseph Cheney. Mary Cheney died at Cambridge, Massachusetts, on 31 Oct 1705,[4] eight days after giving birth to twin daughters,[5] her third and fourth children. She was 22 years old.

Mary Cheney was born at Medfield, Massachusetts, on 23 Jun 1683, the dauighter of Joseph Cheney and Hannah (Thurston) Cheney.[1]

Mary Cheney married Benjamin Cheney. No record has been found of the marriage, but in 1718 Benjamin conveyed to his brother-in-law Josiah Cheney all his own interest and that of the children of his “first wife, Mary Cheney, daughter of Joseph Cheney, late of Medfield” in the estate of her father.[2] Their first child was born on 21 Apr 1702.[3] They were first cousins, both grandchildren of William Cheney (abt.1603-1667) and Margaret (Unknown) Cheney (abt.1604-1686).

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Mary Cheney (1683 - 1705)

Mary Cheney

Born 23 Jun 1683 in Medfield, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Daughter of Joseph Cheney and Hannah (Thurston) Cheney

Sister of Hannah Cheney, Margaret (Cheney) Bullard, Prudence Cheney, Joseph Cheney, Susanna Cheney, Mehitable (Cheney) Morse, Mary Cheney, Josiah Cheney, Prudence Cheney, Prudence (Chaney) Lake, Melitiah (Cheney) Amidon, Hannah Cheney [half], Joseph Cheney [half], Ephraim Cheney [half] and Hannah Cheney [half]

Wife of Benjamin Cheney — married 21 Apr 1702 (to 1705) in Province of Massachusetts Bay

Mother of Mary Cheney, Benjamin Cheney, Hannah (Cheney) Goodale and Mary Cheney

Died 31 Oct 1705 at age 22 in Cambridge, Middlesex, Province of Massachusetts Bay

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Sources

↑ 1903 transcription of the birth record of Mary Cheney, daughter of Joseph and Hannah Cheney, in Vital records of Medfield, Massachusetts, to the year 1850 (Boston, Mass., 1903), page 31
↑ Charles Henry Pope, The Cheney genealogy (Boston, Mass., 1897), pages 48-49
↑ 1903 transcription of the birth record of Mary Chaney, daughter of Benjamin and Mary Chaney, in Vital records of Medfield, Massachusetts, to the year 1850 (Boston, Mass., 1903), page 29
↑ 1915 transcription of the death record of Mary Cheney, wife of Benjamin, in Vital records of Cambridge, Massachusetts, to the year 1850 (Boston, Mass., 1914-15), volume 2, page 503
↑ 1914 transcriptions of the birth records of Hannah and Mary Cheney, daughters of Benjamin and Mary, in Vital records of Cambridge, Massachusetts, to the year 1850 (Boston, Mass., 1914-15), volume 1, pages 134-135
Pope, Charles Henry. The Cheney Genealogy (Boston, MA, 1897) Page 45 & Page 48-50.
Torrey, Clarence Almon. Torrey’s New England Marriages Prior to 1700 (Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. Baltimore, 1985)