Mary Niles

Not the same as Mary Farnsworth

Born in Braintree Village Massachusetts Bay on 1646. Mary married Joseph Niles and had 6 children. Mary married James Mycall and had 2 children. She passed away on 1694 in Braintree Village Massachusetts Bay.

Disputed Relations

In Great Migration Begins, Charles Anderson claimed that the Mary Farr, daughter of George Farr, married first James Mycall, then second Matthias Farnsworth. [1]

However, more recent research has pointed out that George Farr's daughter Mary was having children by Matthias Farnsworth during the same period of time that Mary Farr was having children with James Mycall, then Joseph Niles, in another town, so therefore they could not be the same woman.[2] This more recent article points out that the parents and origins of Mary Farr who m2 James Mycall, then second Joseph Niles, remains unknown.

• Nathan J. Rogers, "Mary (Farr) (Mycalls) Niles of Braintree, Massachusetts, and Mary (Farr) Farnsworth of Lynn and Groton, Massachusetts," in The American Genealogist, 75(2000):149-150
• Reference: Ancestry Genealogy - SmartCopy: Jun 3 2018, 21:42:51 UTC

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Biography

Parentage

In '"Great Migration Begins," in his profile of George Farr, Charles Anderson stated that his daughter Mary Farr, married first James Mycall, then second Matthias Farnsworth.[1]

Subsequent to the publication of "Great Migration Begins," Nathan Rogers had an article published in "The American Genealogist" that pointed out that George Farr's daughter Mary was having children by Matthias Farnsworth during the same period of time that the Mary Farr was having children with James Mycall, then Joseph Niles, in another town, so therefore they could not be the same woman.[2]

Anderson apparently recognized his mistake, as when volume V of his Great Migration series was published in 2007, he stated that James Mycall's wife Mary Farr married, second, Joseph Niles (rather than Matthias Farnsworth) and that her father was not George Farr but possibly James Farr.[3]

By suggesting that James Farr of Braintree may have been Mary's father, Anderson was coming around to the position taken decades earlier by Waldo C. Sprague who suggested that James was perhaps Mary's father.[4]

The argument that James Farr was Mary's father is (i) based on a record of an indenture from 1648 that refers to land formerly owned by John Niles that was between land of Daniell Lovett and James ffarce, which at least one researcher interpreted as reference to a James Farr, (ii) the record of the death in Braintree in 1672 of "Old Ffarr, and (iii) the absence of any other persons by the name of Farr in Braintree at the time.[5]

Date of Birth

Based on her 1657 marriage to James Mycall, Mary was probably born sometime in 1632-8.

First Marriage and Children

Mary and James Mycall were married in Braintree on "the 10th. mo. 11th. 1657" (December 11, 1657) by Major Atherton of Dorchester.[6][7]

Mary and James had the following children, born at Braintree:

James (twin), b. January 22, 1658/9.[8][9] May be the James McCall who married Anna (Winter) Batson, settled in Marshfield and died there on May 9, 1693.[10]
Rebecca (twin), b. January 22, 1658/9, m. July 16, 1679 Richard Thayer in Braintree, d. January 28, 1732 in Braintree

Second Marriage and Children

After Mary's first husband, James Mycall, died, Mary married second Joseph Niles in Braintree on November 15, 1661.[11] She had by him six children between 1665-1675.

Mary (Farr) Niles (abt. 1636 - aft. 1677)

Mary Niles formerly Farr aka Mycall, Micall, McCall

Born about 1636 in Massachusetts or England

Daughter of James Farr [uncertain] and [mother unknown]

[sibling%28s%29 unknown]

Wife of James Mycall — married 11 Dec 1657 in Braintree, Suffolk County, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Wife of Joseph Niles — married 16 Nov 1661 in Braintree, Suffolk County. Massachusetts Bay Colony

Mother of James Mycall, Rebecca (Mycall) Thayer, Benjamin Niles and Nathaniel Niles

Died after 1677 after about age 41 in Braintree, Suffolk County, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Profile last modified 5 Jan 2021 | Created 11 Nov 2014

Sources

↑ 1.0 1.1 Robert Charles Anderso. "The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633, Volume 3," p 2078
↑ 2.0 2.1 Nathan J. Rogers, "Mary (Farr) (Mycalls) Niles of Braintree, Massachusetts, and Mary (Farr) Farnsworth of Lynn and Groton, Massachusetts," in The American Genealogist, 75(2000):149-150
↑ 3.0 3.1 Robert Charles Anderson, "The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635," Volume 5, p 261, citing Nathan Rogers' TAG article
↑ 4.0 4.1 Nathan J. Rogers, "Mary (Farr) (Mycalls) Niles of Braintree, Massachusetts, and Mary (Farr) Farnsworth of Lynn and Groton, Massachusetts," The American Genealogist, Volume 75 (2000), p 150 fn. 10
↑ See profile for James Farr.
↑ 6.0 6.1 Samuel A. Bates, ed., Records of the Town of Braintree, 1640-1793..., Randolph, MA: 1886, p 716
↑ 7.0 7.1 "Early Records of Boston," The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Volume 12 (1858), p 347
↑ 8.0 8.1 "Boston Records," The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Vol. 13 (1859), p 213
↑ 9.0 9.1 Samuel A. Bates, ed., Records of the Town of Braintree, 1640-1793..., Randolph, MA: 1886, p 818
↑ 10.0 10.1 Clare M. McCall, Captain John McCall, 1726-1812: His Ancestors and Descendants, (Boston, 1985), pp 6-8
↑ 11.0 11.1 Samuel A. Bates, ed., Records of the Town of Braintree, 1640-1793..., Randolph, MA: 1886, p 717