Mary Jervice

Mary Jarvis (Porter) was born about 1629 / baptized 10/12/1645 in Salem, Essex, Mass to Jonathan Porter b: ABT 1606.

She was married to Stephen Jarvis b: 1625 in England and they had the following children:

• Elizabeth Green (Jarvis), b. ABT 1651, in Salem, Essex, Mass,
• Stephen Jarvis, b. ABT 1654 in Huntington, Suffolk, New York,
• William Jarvis, b. ABT 1656 in Huntington, Suffolk, New York,
• Jonathan Jarvis, b. ABT 1658 in Huntington, Suffolk, New York,
• Eunice Jarvis, b. 1762 in Huntington, Suffolk, New York,
• Edwin Jarvis, b. ABT 1664 in Huntington, Suffolk, New York,
• Thomas Jarvis, b. ABT 1666 in Huntington, Suffolk, New York , 1500-2000 Ancestry.com Ancestry.com Operations, Inc. 1,61157::0

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Eunice's father was Jonathan Porter, he was of Salem Massachusetts in 1636, a sergeant in 1647, and in (vol. 3, p. 462) Sept. of that yr. had gr. of 200 acres, was selectman 1653 and 4, but late in that year conveyed his estate at Salem to son-in-law James Chichester, on condition that he should provide for his widow Eunice if she outlived him and removed to Huntington, L. I. had died bef. 1660, when Eunice sued for her right in November of that year, and in 1670 estate was divested to the heirs, who were all females. His three daus. married respectively, James Chichester, Edward Harnett, and Stephen Jarvis; and the widow. Eunice re-married Giles Smith of Fairfield CT. Sourced from "Early Settlers of New England" by James Savage.

Stephen Jarvis married MARY PORTER of Salem, around 1650... Stephen and Mary moved to New York with the rest of the Porter family, around 1658. (Mary's dad was fined and then run out of town by the Puritans after joining the Quakers.) ... Stephen signed a will on 10 Mar 1691/92, which was proved in Brookhaven, New York on the 16th of April in 1694. He died on the 5th of August in 1693."[1]

GEDCOM Source

Book Title: The Jarvis Family : or, The Descendants of the first settlers of the name in Massachusetts and Long 1,61157::253036

References

• “1626-1637” By Sidney Perley. Page 373. GoogleBooks. Jonathan Porter,' a planter, lived in that part of Salem which is now Beverly. ... 'Jonathan Porter married Eunice , and removed to Huntington, L. I., in 1665; she was his wife in 1660, and married, secondly, Silas Smith oi Fairfield; children: 1. Mary, baptized Oct. 12, 1645; 2. Jonathan, baptized March 12, 1648.
• ”History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield, Volume 1.” edited by Donald Lines Jacobus. Page 490. GoogleBooks Jonathan Porter left by his widow Eunice 3 married daughters in 1670: Chichester, Hornett, Jarvis.