Mary Purchase

Mary GROVE 1, 2 was born 1610 in , , England. She died 3 7 Jan 1656 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts. Mary married Thomas PURCHASE on Aug 1631 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts.

No children.

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Thomas Purchase first married Mary Grove, named a kinswoman to Sir Christopher Gardiner, between April 21 and August 30, 1631 at Boston. Thomas Dudley, however in a letter to the Countess of Lincoln wrote of her as follows:

"This man [Gardiner] had in his family (and yet hath) a gentlewoman, whom he called his kinswoman, and whom one of his wives in her letter names Mary Grove, affirming her to be a known harlot, whose sending back into Old England she also desires..." An attempt was made to capture Gardiner which did not succeed, but Mary Grove was detained. She was to be sent to "the two wives in Old England" to be investigated. Governor Bradford had informed Dudley that "[Gardiner] brought over with him a servant or two and a comely young woman, whom he called his cousin, but it was suspected she (after the Italian manner) was his concubine." Before Mary Grove could be sent back to England, Dudley writes, "And then one Purchess, a man who liveth in the eastern part of New England, coming to the Massatusets, there did he marry with this Gardner's wench, and take her away and this Gardner both with him; which was done about twelve months since..."

Thomas Purchase had no children with Mary Grove. She died at Boston on January 7, 1655/6.

References

• The Essex Antiquarian
• http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~hwbradley/genealogy/aqwg1413.htm#23448 cites
• 1Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633 (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995-), 3:1532, Los Angeles Public Library, Gen 974 A549.
• 2"Thomas Purchas of Pejepscot," The Essex Antiquarian 10:3 (Jul 1906), p. 132, Family History Library, 974.45 B2a.
• 3Record Commissioners of Boston, Boston Births, Baptisms, Marriages and Deaths, 1630-1699 (Boston: Rockwell and Churchill, 1876-1898.), p. 52, Los Angeles Public Library, Gen 974.42 B74BoR.