Mary Little

Mary Sturtevant

• Born 7 Dec 1651 in Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts
• Died 10 Feb 1717 in Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts
• Daughter of Samuel Sturtevant Sr. and Hannah (Unknown) Bass
• Siblings: Ann born 4 June 1648, John born 17 October 1650, Samuel born 19 April 1654, Hannah born 4 September 1656, John born 16 September 1658, Lydia born 18 December 1660, James born 11 February 1663, and Joseph born 16 July 1666.
• Wife of Ephraim Little — married 22 Nov 1672 in Scituate, Plymouth Colony

Family

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Little-148

Mary Sturtevant married Ephraim Little, who was born May 17, 1650,at Plymouth, Massachusetts, son of Thomas Little and his Wife Anna Warren. He married Mary Sturtevant on November 22, 1672. They had a family of nine children and resided at Marshfield, Massachusetts. Three of the children did no survive infancy. He died at Scituate, Massachusetts on November 24, 1717. He was in his sixty-eighth year. He left a will naming his wife, five surviving children and grandchildren by the sixth child. He was a yoeman.

Ephraim and Mary had the following children:

1. Anna, born 23 August 1673
2. [unnamed child], birth date unknown, buried 14 June 1675
3. Ephraim, born 27 September 1676
4. Mercy, born 26 February 1678
5. David, born 17 March 1680/1
6. John, born 18 March 1682/3
7. Mary, born 1 July 1685
8. Ruth, born 23 November 1686
9. Barnabas, born 8 February 1691/2

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The inscription on her headstone says

• Here Lyes Ye Body of Mrs./
• Mary Little Wife of/ Mr. Ephraim Little Who/
• Departed this life Feb'ry/
• ye 10th 1717/ In the 66th/
• Year of her age

confirming her birth as 1651

References

• https://mathcs.clarku.edu/~djoyce/gen/report/rr04/rr04_441.html#P1997
• https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Little-148 cites
• Robert S. Wakefield, Mayflower Families through Five Generations, Vol 18 Part 1 of 3, Richard Warren, Boston, Mass.: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 2004. "The Silver Book" *https://famouskin.com/family-group.php?name=42044+paget+brewster&ah...
• https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/8650589/mary-little
• Find a Grave, database and images (www.findagrave.com/memorial/8650589/mary-little : accessed 12 August 2021), memorial page for Mary Sturtevant Little (7 Dec 1651–10 Feb 1717), Find a Grave Memorial ID 8650589, citing Men of Kent Cemetery, Scituate, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, USA ; Maintained by Connie Schwindt Rumold (contributor 47931842) .