Mary Low

Mary Lamb, not the Daughter of Caleb Lamb & Mary Wise. Wife of David Lowe. Do not confuse with Mary Mather wife of Atherton Mather.

Biography

From https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Lamb-2720

This profile is part of the Chebacco Parish, Massachusetts One Place Study.

No information has been found concerning Mary Lamb's birth, baptism or parents, although her marriage in 1699 would suggest that she was born in about 1680, perhaps earlier.

Mary Lamb married David Low on 28 Dec 1699, at the Chebacco Parish Church in Ipswich.[1][2] They had nine children who survived to be named in their father's Last Will and Testament, dated 14 Mar 1745 (note that the following list is not necessarily in birth order):[3][4]

1. David Low, Jr. (b. 1701)
2. Mary Low (m. 24 Aug 1723, Jeremiah Lufkin)
3. Jeremiah Low (m. 4 Apr 1732, Lydia Gilbert)
4. Caleb Low (m. 8 Jan 1732, Abigail Varney)
5. Martha Low (m. Eleazer Crafts, Private)
6. Stephen Low (m. 31 Jan 1733/4, Sarah Low; d. 8 Jul 1758, Battle of Ticonderoga)
7. Joshua Low (m. 1.) 8 Aug 1734, Susanna Butler; 2.) 3 Apr 1760, Anna (---) Boardman)
8. Abigail Low
9. Eunice Low

Mary (Lamb) Low died on 3 Mar 1735, at Ipswich, Essex County, in the Province of Massachusetts Bay.[5]

Disputed Origins

From http://catnip13.tripod.com/Lamb.html

CALEB and MARY had the following children

• 28 F v. MARY LAMB was born on 7 Mar 1681 in Roxbury, MA.

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Lamb-2720

"Daughter of Caleb Lamb and Mary Lamb. Wife of David Low, I and Atherton Mather. Mother of David Low, II; Major Caleb Low, Sr.; Eunice Low; Mary Low; Martha Low; Joshua Low; Jeremiah Low; Stephen Low; Abigail Low; Joshua Mather; Richard Mather; Mary Mather; Thomas Mather; Eliakim Mather and Catherine Mather. Sister of Jeremiah Lamb".

It is self-evident that the same Mary Lamb cannot have been married to David Low in Ipswich in 1699 and having children with him into the 1730s and also have been married to Atherton Mather in Roxbury in 1705 and having children with him there.

Also on the profile was a date of death which proved to be that of Mary (Lamb) Low's husband, David, who died about 11 years after her.[17] Since Mary's putative parents, Caleb Lamb and Mary Wise, were born and lived in Roxbury, a separate profile for a Mary Lamb (b. 7 Mar 1681, Roxbury) with those parents holds the Mather family links, including that Mary's marriage to Atherton Mather in 1705, in Roxbury: Mary Lamb Mather. Since it is highly unlikely that the two Mary Lambs had the same parents, those parets have been detached from this profile.

Sources

• Massachusetts Vital Records Project, Ipswich - Marriages, p. 289: http://ma-vitalrecords.org/MA/Essex/Ipswich/Images/Ipswich_M289.shtml (accessed 29 Mar 2017)
• Massachusetts Vital Records Project, Ipswich - Deaths, p. 624: http://ma-vitalrecords.org/MA/Essex/Ipswich/Images/Ipswich_D624.shtml (accessed 29 Mar 2017)