Mary Maxson

In "New England, The Great Migration and The Great Migration Begins, 1620-1635" under Vol 2, p. 103, Robert Charles Anderson states that there is no factual evidence has been found that supports Mary Mosher as a wife for John Maxson. (Steven Ferry, February 16, 2019.)

http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~sam/mosher.html#P1508

Mary MOSHER (Nicholas2, John MOGER1). Mary died on 2 Feb 1718/1719. In 1665 Mary married John MAXSON, son of Richard MAXSON & Rebecca ?. Born in 1630. John died on 17 Dec 1720; he was 90. Religion: Baptist.

They had the following children:

• i. John (1666-1747)
• ii. Dorothy. Born in 1668. Dorothy died on 15 Feb 1713/1714; she was 45. On 5 Jan 1692/1693 when Dorothy was 24, she married Joseph CLARKE, son of Joseph CLARKE & Bethiah HUBBARD. Born on 4 Apr 1670 in Westerly, Washington Co., RI. Joseph died in 1718; he was 47.
• iii. Joseph. Born in 1672/1673. Joseph died in Sep 1750; he was 78. Joseph married Tacy BURDICK, daughter of Robert BURDICK & Ruth HUBBARD. Tacy died in 1747.
• iv. Mary. Born in 1675. Mary died in 1721; she was 46. Mary married Daniel LEWIS. Daniel died in 1718.
• v. Hannah. Born in 1678. Hannah died in 1752; she was 74. Hannah married Hubbard BURDICK, son of Robert BURDICK & Ruth HUBBARD. Hubbard died in 1758.
• vi. Jonathan (ca1681-1732)

Sibling: Hugh, Jr. born 1633.

http://www.citereh.com/p7.htm#i286

Mary Mosher (F) b. Unknown, d. 2 February 1718, #286

    Mary Mosher was the daughter of Nicholas Mosher and Lydia Maxson.1 Mary Mosher was born Unknown. She married John Maxson, son of Richard Maxson and Rebecca (?). Mary Mosher died on 2 February 1718. 

    Her married name was Maxson.  

Citations

[S50] Sarah George Zakzrewski, "Sarah Zakrzewski Family Tree".

Born in Portsmouth, Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations
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Mary (Mosher) Maxson (1640 - 1718)

Mary Maxson formerly Mosher
Born 1640 in Portsmouth, Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantationsmap
ANCESTORS ancestors
Daughter of Nicholas Mosher and Lydia (Maxson) Mosher
Sister of Hugh Mosher, Daniel Mosher and John Mosher
Wife of John Maxson Sr. — married before 1667 in Westerly, Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantationsmap
DESCENDANTS descendants
Mother of Tacy (Maxson) Burdick, John Mosher Maxson Jr., Dorothy (Maxson) Clarke, Joseph Maxson I, Mary (Maxson) Lewis, Hannah (Maxson) Burdick and Jonathan Maxson
Died 2 Feb 1718 at about age 78 in Westerly, Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantationsmap
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Contents

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1 Parentage
2 Biography
2.1 Children of John Maxson and Mary Mosher
2.2 Research Notes
3 Sources
4 Acknowledgements
Parentage

In the Chamberlain Clarenbach Descendants of Hugh Mosher and Rebecca Maxson through seven generations, the authors state the following about Mary’s father, Nicholas Mosher: [1]

“Mr. Medleycott found no records of Nicholas other than his baptism in 1596 and his mention in the will. He would fit admirably as the father of Hugh of Rhode Island, who gave the name Nicholas to his firstborn. Nicholas and his family probably went to Rhode Island before 1660, for Hugh’s sister Mary married John Maxson of Portsmouth, Rhode Island about 1665, and on 24 October 1677 John Maxson was excused from jury duty because his wife and mother-in-law were both ill (Austin, Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island).[2] The mother-in-law was probably the Lydia Mosher who was a member of the Tiverton Baptist Church in 1680 when Hugh was pastor (Arnold, Vital Record of Rhode Island, 8:507).”[3]
Notes:

- Below Lydia Mosher’s name in the membership list of Tiverton Baptist Church is Rebecca Mosher, Rev. Hugh Mosher’s wife/John Maxson’s sister.
- Siblings married siblings — Hugh Mosher and Mary Mosher married Rebecca Maxson and John Maxson.
- The will referred to in the quote above is that of Nicholas’s brother Hugh Moger.
Biography

Mary Mosher was born in 1640/1, and died in 1718.[2][4][5][6][7][8] She was born at Portsmouth, Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations and died at Westerly, Rhode Island. Mary was the daughter of Nicholas Mosher and Lydia Maxson, immigrants from Somerset, England.

The following is extracted from The Seventh-day Baptist Memorial : [6][9]

“In 1661, Mr. Maxson, then twenty-three years old, joined a company which was formed at Newport for the purchase and settlement of a portion of the Narragansett country, called by the Indians Misquamicut, as appears from the records of the company. The articles of agreement were signed on the 22d of March, 1661, and Mr. Maxson soon after removed to the new settlement which thence became the scene of his labors. He was married to Mary Mosher, the daughter or sister of Hugh Mosher, one of the purchasers of Misquamicut,[10] whose name is among those recorded in the Rhode Island Historical Society’s Collection.”[6]
Mary Mosher married John Maxson[7][8] at Westerly, Rhode Island by 1667:

"Maxon/Maxson, John (1639-1720) & Mary [Mosher/Moshier?] (1641-1718); b 1667; Newport/Westerly, RI”[4]
Soon after settling in Mesquamicut (Westerly), John and Mary embraced the Sabbath, and joined the church at Newport, Rhode Island. In 1708, when the Westerly congregation was set off as a separate church, John Maxson, Sr. was ordained to the office of Elder (pastor) to the congregation in and about Westerly, now called the First Hopkinton Seventh Day Baptist Church at Ashway, Rhode Island.

Children of John Maxson and Mary Mosher

John Maxson and Mary Mosher had the following children:[7][11]

John Jr.; (1666-1747); 30 Jul 1692, John and his wife Judith admitted to membership of the church[6]
Dorothy, b. 1668; d. 15 Feb 1713/1714, aged 45; 5 Jan 1692/1693 when Dorothy was 24, she married Joseph CLARKE, son of Joseph CLARKE & Bethiah HUBBARD, b. 4 Apr 1670 in Westerly, Washington Co., RI; d. 1718, aged 47
Joseph, b. 1672-3; bapt. 24 Jan 1694;[6] d. Sep 1750, aged 78; m. Tacy, daughter of Robert BURDICK & Ruth HUBBARD; Tacy d. 1747
Mary, b. 1675; d. 1721, aged 46; m. Daniel LEWIS, d. 1718
Hannah, b. 1678; d. 1752, aged 74; m. Hubbard BURDICK, son of Robert BURDICK & Ruth HUBBARD, d. 1758
Jonathan, b. abt 1680-1; d. 1732; 23 Jul 1710, submitted to the ordinance[6]
Note: The Seventh-day Baptist Memorial gives Tacy as a daughter—on 24 Sep 1693, she was admitted to membership of the church.[6] Tacy is not mentioned in Walter LeRoy Brown, nor in John Maxson’s Will. This is probably Tacy Burdick who married John and Mary’s son, Joseph Maxson.

“John Maxon, Sen. died Dec. 17, 1720, in his 82nd year. Mrs. Mary Maxson died Feb. 2, 1718, in her 78th year.”[8][7]

John Maxson wrote his will 22 Jan 1716 and it was probated 16 Feb 1721. There is a tradition recorded in the diary of G.H. Richardson, now in the collections of the Newport Historical Society, which reads:

"Today, Dec. 20, 1720, died John Maxson Dr., age 82 yrs. He lost his father and brother Richard who were attacked and killed by the Indians. Mrs. Maxson escaped in a shallop to Acquetneck and her son was born soon after the landing in the spring of 1638 before the purchase of the island from the Indians. He was the first white child born on the island of Rhode Island."[11]
"Mary (Mosher) Maxon died February 2, 1718. John and his wife were buried in the Clarke burying ground, near the old meeting house. His grave was marked with a blue slate stone, upon which was the following inscription:"[11]
"Here lieth the body of John Maxson, died Dec. ye 17, 1720, in the 82nd year of his age."
In 1884, the remains of John and Mary were removed to the "Circle".[12] The early ministers of the First Hopkinton Church have been reinterred on the spot where the church stood and a monument has been erected to their memory. (See image on this profile.)[11]

Research Notes

One of the great grandsons of Mary Mosher and John Maxson was Mosher Maxson.

On May 19, 1710, John Babcock and Robert Babcock with ten others bought from the colony (Westerly) a tract of land containing 2,684 acres, known as the Maxson purchase.[13]

Sources

↑ Chamberlain, Mildred (Mosher), and Laura (McGaffey) Clarenbach, comps. Descendants of Hugh Mosher and Rebecca Maxson Through Seven Generations. Revised ed. Madison, Wisconsin: Laura M. Clarenbach, 1990, pp. x-xi.
↑ 2.0 2.1 Austin, John Osborne. The genealogical dictionary of Rhode Island comprising three generations of settlers who came before 1690 : with many families carried to the fourth generation. J. Munsell's sons in Albany, 1887. John Maxson & Mary Mosher, 1641-2Feb 1718, of Hugh Mosher, pg. 342
↑ Arnold, James Newell. Vital Record of Rhode Island: 1636-1850 : First Series : Births ..., Volume 8. Narragansett Historical Publishing Company, Providence, R.I., 1896. Tiverton Baptist Church: Mosher, Lydia, Rebecca, pg. 507
↑ 4.0 4.1 Torrey, Clarence Almon. New England Marriages Prior to 1700. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1985. Page 498.
↑ See image of gravestone on this profile by Andrew Miller: Mary, Wife of John Maxson, 1640-1718, First Hopkinton Cemetery, Hopkinton, Washington, Rhode Island
↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 6.5 6.6 The Seventh-day Baptist Memorial (1852-1854). G. B. & J. H. Utter, Publishers & Steam Printers. Westerly, R. I., 1874. Vol. 1. No. 2. New York, April, 1852. John Maxson, Sr., pg. 51
↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 Savage, James. A genealogical dictionary of the first settlers of New England, Volume 3. Jazzybee Verlag, 2016, Maxson, Maxon, Maggson, John & Mary Mosher, pg. 1702. : “A genealogical dictionary of our early colonists. Every volume shows three generations of those who came before 1692. Although more than a century has elapsed since the publication of this monumental work, it remains the standard to our day. We do not mean that new information has not been unearthed or that the work is free from errors, but Savage had just the peculiar qualifications necessary. He was so persistent in gathering data and so conservative in his use of them, that a statement made on his authority bears great weight. This work has the whole of New England for its field;” and on Archive.org Maxson, pg. 183
↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 Waters, Henry F. (Henry Fritz-Gilbert). The New England historical and genealogical register. Publisher [Boston] : [New England Historic Genealogical Society], 1847. Early Settlers of Westerly, R.I., pg. 168
↑ Seventh Day Baptist Historical Library & Archives Seventh Day Baptist Memorial (1852-1854) : accessed 6 May 2022
↑ Denison, Rev. Frederick, A.M. Westerly (Rhode Island) and its Witnesses, for Two Hundred and Fifty Years, 1626-1876. J.A. & R.A. Reid, Providence RI, 1878. Purchase of Misquamicut, pp. 47-51
↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 11.3 Brown, Walter LeRoy. The Maxson family; descendants of John Maxson and wife Mary Mosher of Westerly, Rhode Island (Albion, NY 1954). Pages 1-3 : Note: This book contains some errors
↑ Andrews, Mary S. A Brief History of a few Early Settlers of Rhode Island and some of their Descendants. Farina, IL. 1910. transcribed by Daisy (Vincent) Schrader, 5 June 1926
↑ Babcock, Stephen, 1832-1916, comp. The Babcock genealogy. New York, Eaton & Mains, 1903. Capt. John Babcock, pg. 18
New England, The Great Migration and The Great Migration Begins, 1620-1635.
Cole, J.R. History of Washington and Kent Counties. Kent County, RI: W. W. Preston & Company, 1889. John Maxson married Mary, daughter of Hugh Moshier, pg. 344.
Champlin, J.D. Jr.; "Early Settlers of Westerly, Rhode Island"; vol. 14, p. 24, 1860.
Magazine of the Daughters of the Revolution, Volumes 1-2. The Daughters, 1893. Page 23.
Acknowledgements

Sara V Mosher, 2019, 2022, 2023