Mary Moore

Mary was born in 1642 in Lancaster, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States. She died after 1703 In Massachusetts, United States. Mary married 1, 2 John WHITCOMB 3 on 16 Mar 1670/1671 in Lancaster, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States.

Other marriages: MOORE, John

They had the following children.

•   F i Ruth WHITCOMB was born on 27 Jun 1672. She died before 24 Jan 1754.
•   F ii Sarah was born 1 in 1674 in Lancaster, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States.

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Mary Whitcomb, widow of John Whitcomb, was the second wife of the 2nd John MOORE, (widower of Ann Smith)

• John Whetcomb and Mary his wife were married 16th 1st month 1670/1 in Lancaster, Massachusetts. He died 6 April 1683.[1]
• Mary Whitcomb m. 23 Aug 1683 in Lancaster, Massachusetts, John Moor.[1]

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• https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Whitcomb-248
  • The birth, marriage, and death register, church records and epitaphs of Lancaster, Massachusetts. 1643-1850. Lancaster: 1890 [https://archive.org/stream/birthmarriagedea1905lanc#page/14/mode/2up pp 14 (m.), 15 (d. & m.)
  • "John Moore of Sudbury, Mass." The American Genealogist 66:77 [https://www.americanancestors.org/databases/american-genealogist-th... link at American Ancestors ($)
• http://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:Mary_Whitcomb_%289%29
• http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:3117953&...
  • [Ref: DeForest MOORE p320, Plummer MOORE p77, Sargent MOORE p73]
• http://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:John_Moore_%28209%29
• Bolton, Ethel Stanwood. Some Descendants of John Moore of Sudbury, Mass. New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (1903-4), Vol. 57, p. 302.
  • "John Moore, s/o John, b. Lancaster 7 Apr 1662, d. Bolton 1740, m. (1) 23 Aug 1683 Mary Whitcomb, m. (2) Concord 1 Jan 1697-8 Hasadiah Fairbank."
    • [Note: the marriage to Mary Whitcomb appears to be the father re-marrying, not the son marrying. In his accounting of his father's estate, this John has a charge "to the Widow my Mother mary More", indicating that his father's widow was named Mary.]

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• http://www.jackson-flint.org/Pedigree/jackson/aqwg260.htm#4983
• 1Lancaster (Massachusetts). Town Clerk (Main Author), compiler, Town records, vital records, 1653-1906, 1653-1906 (Salt Lake City, Utah: Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1969), p. 14, LDS Family History Library, 35 N West Temple Street, Salt Lake City, UT 84150-3440, USA, 35 N West Temple Street Salt Lake City, UT, 84150-3440, USA, FHL US/CAN Film #810291. Microfilm of typescript and manuscript records at Lancaster, Massachusetts.
• 2Robert Charles Anderson, George F. Sanborn Jr., Melinde Lutz Sanborn, The Great Migration, Immigrants to New England 1634-1635 (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1999), Volume VII, T-Y, pp. 326-331, LDS Family History Library, 35 N West Temple Street, Salt Lake City, UT 84150-3440, USA, 35 N West Temple Street Salt Lake City, UT, 84150-3440, USA, FHL US/CAN Ref 2nd 974 W2aa, 6 vols.
• 3Fiske, Jane Fletcher , 1930-. (Added Author), New England Historical & Genealogical Register (Boston, Mass. : New England Historic Genealogical Society, c1995), vol. 167, pp. 181-2, LDS Family History Library, 35 N West Temple Street, Salt Lake City, UT 84150-3440, USA, 35 N West Temple Street Salt Lake City, UT, 84150-3440, USA, Book Area US/CAN 974 B2ne.

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GEDCOM Note

Biography

John Whetcomb and Mary his wife were married 16th 1st month 1670/1 in Lancaster, Massachusetts. He died 6 April 1683.<ref name=LVR>The birth, marriage, and death register, church records and epitaphs of Lancaster, Massachusetts. 1643-1850. Lancaster: 1890
[https://archive.org/stream/birthmarriagedea1905lanc#page/14/mode/2up pp 14 (m.), 15 (d. & m.)</ref>Mary Whitcomb m. 23 Aug 1683 in Lancaster, Massachusetts, John Moor.<ref name=LVR /> Mary died between 18 Nov 1703 and 25 April 1713.<ref>See [[#died|above]] for information on death of Mary, widow of John More.</ref>

John Whitcomb ===: John Whitcomb (d. 1683) married twice, both times towomen named Mary with no surname listed.

:The Lancaster Vital Records list two marriages, his death and birth of child Ruth on 27.4.72 - (27 Jun 1672)<ref name=Lancaster>Nourse, Henry S. The birth, marriage, and death register, church records and epitaphs of Lancaster, Massachusetts. 1643-1850. Lancaster (Mass.): 1890. pp. marriage 13, 14 death pp. 15, 20; Whitcomb moore m. p. 15</ref> ::John Whetcombe and Mary his wife were maryed May, 19, 1669 m. Mary 19 May 1669.<ref name=Lancaster />
::John Whetcomb & Mary his wife, m. 16.1.70/1<ref name=Lancaster /> (Mar 16, 1670/1)
::John Whitcomb dyed, April 6, 1683. John Whitcomb, drowned in Nashua River; inquest 7 April 1683.<ref name=Lancaster />

John Moor ===Mary Whitcomb m. 23 Aug 1683 in Lancaster, Massachusetts, John Moor<ref name=Lancaster />

: This MAY be the widow of John Whitcomb. It was not unusual at the time for persons to marry shortly after the death of a spouse. : Mary (Unknown) Whitcomb Moore was not mentioned in the 1696 distribution of John Whitcomb's estate to children Ruth and Sarah. But if she had remarried this would not be unusual. : The inventory of the estate of "Ensigne Jno Moore late of Lancaster ... yeoman ... Decd Intestate" was dated 23 Sep1702 was valued at £352. An accounting 18 Nov 1703 named widow Mary More. Vouchers were signed by mark by the widow Mary Moore on 12 Jan 1702/3 and 18 Nov 1703. The widow, Mary, was deceased by 25 April 1713,when a final division of property was requested.<ref>Holman, Mary (Lovering), Ancestry of Col. John Harrington Stevens and His Wife FrancesHelen Miller, 2 vols. (Concord, N.H.: Rumford Press, 1948–52); alsoTorrey, C.A., “Notes and Corrections to Stevens-Miller Genealogy (1948),” typescript (n.p., 1949) vol. 2: pp 152, 153 and footnote</ref>

Research Notes

:Space:Who were Mary Whitcomb and John Moor m. 1683. If Mary (Unknown) Moore was the widow of John Whitcomb, one would expect were daughters Ruth or Sarah Whitcomb to be mentioned in her probate records. Were they?

Sources

• "John Moore of Sudbury, Mass." The American Genealogist 66:77 [https://www.americanancestors.org/databases/american-genealogist-th... link at American Ancestors ($)