Mary Sheldon

MARY HINSDALE' (Samuel' Robert1), daughter of Samuel Hinsdale and Mehitabel Johnson, his wife, born at Medfield, July 22, 1665; died at Northampton, September, 1738; married 1685, Deacon Thomas Sheldon, the fourth child of Isaac Sheldon and Mary Woodward, his wife, born at Northampton, August 6, 1661; died there, June 7,1725. He was deacon of the church at Northampton from 1702 until his death. He presented the church with a communion service of massive silver, still in use.

Children, all born at Northampton, Mass.:

1. THOMAS, born June, 1688; settled in Suffield.
2. MARY, born July 26, 1690; married June 19, 1708, Samuel Parsons.
3. REBECCA, born 1693; died 1703.
4. JOSIAH, bor n December, 1695; married Anne Stanley.
5. BENJAMIN, born 1697; married Mary Strong.
6. RACHEL, born Feb. 22, 1701; married, May 19, 1718, John Pomeroy.
7. JEMIMA, born May 31, 1702; married, Nov. 3,1720, Samuel Williams.
8. ELISHA, born Sept. 2,1709; graduated at Yale College, 1730; married Elizabeth Ely.