Mary Tainter

I. MARY EYRE, bp. Lavenham, Suffolk, 22 June 1619 [NEHGR 69:249] (aged 15 in 1635 [Hotten 66]); m. by about 1642 Joseph Tainter [TAG 65:19-21, and sources cited there].

Joseph Tainter and wife Mary Guy (SIC: Eyre) lived on Lexington Street and had nine children. He came over in 1638 with Nicholas Guy. He was selectman many times and left a large estate. Some of his descendants were early settlers of Watertown, New York. (Great Little Watertown)

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From NEHGS, website: www.americanancestors.org, The American Genealogist, vol. 65, pgs. 21-23.

Joseph Tainter has been claimed many times as husband of Mary Guy, daughter of Nicholas Guy; but, as shown in the Appendix above, he must have been son of Nicholas' wife Jane by an earlier husband. This leaves Joseph's wife Mary unidentified. Joseph apparently obtained the twelfth farm by prevailing in a family feud with Ephraim Curtis, son of his sister Mary (Tainter) Curtis. We have already seen Joseph Tainter associated with the Eire family on two previous occasions, when he administered the estate of Thomas Eire, and as occupant of the land of Simon Eire in 1658. Furthermore, Joseph Tainter was, along with Anthony Stoddard, husband of Christian Eire, named an executor of the estate of William Paine. Perhaps most telling is the array of names given by Joseph Tainter and his wife Mary to their children. Aside from the obvious names of Joseph and Mary, they named their other seven children Ann, Rebecca, Benjamin, Jonathan, Sarah, Simon, and Dorothy. Every one of those names corresponds to one of the children of Simon and Dorothy (Paine) Eire, and the last two are especially diagnostic. Thus, we propose that Mary, the eldest daughter of Simon Eire, married about 1642, Joseph Tainter. [1]

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