Mary Trask

Lawrence and wife Cassandra and son Josiah and daughter Mary were fined, whipt, imprisoned and finally banished for being Quakers, and their son Daniel and daughter Provided were sentenced by the General Court to be sold into slavery. Lawrence and wife Cassandra went to Shelter Island, Long Island Sound, being banished under pain of death in 1659, and died there in the spring of 1660 from privation and exposure; his wife died three days after him. Their son Josiah went to Rhode Island and established a home for himself and family. He came back to Salem in 1660 to look after his parents' property and found the property in very poor condition, and was whipped for returning to Massachusetts.

http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ahopkins/southwick/the_sout...

Children of William Traske (1585-1666) and Sarah (1608-1667)

1. Sarah Traske (1634-1696)
2. Mary Traske (1636-1686)
3. Susanna Traske (1638-Unknown)
4. William Traske, Jr. (1640-1689) 1640 1689
5. John Traske (1642-1729)
6. Eliza Traske (1645-Unknown)

~• {ed. note: Is there not also a son named Henry Trask b. 1630? }

for, it is said that Henry Trask (b.1630) married Mary Sarah Southwick (see discussion tab here)

Mary Southwick, was daughter of Lawrence Southwick c 1598 – 1660 and Cassandra Burnell 1598 – 1660 as evidenced by his will which lists her Mary as wife of Henry Trask.

She was baptized 13 May 1632 in Kingswinford, Staffordshire, England. The reference for this information is The English Ancestry and American Posterity of Joseph Southwick by Neal S Southwick. Rexburg, Idaho.1981.

She married fist Henry Trask and second to William Nichols 1599 – 1695.

Children with Henry Trask:

Mary, born Aug. 14, 1652. Ann, born April 14, 1654.Hannah is mentioned in the will of Lawrence Southwick. Sarah, born July 27, 1656] Henry, born April, 1669

In some genealogies she is supposed to be the parents of William Nichols children:

Children of Henry Trask and Mary Southwick

John Nichols 1640 – 1700

Hannah Nichols 1646 – 1717

Mary Nichols 1653 – 1695

However, since she was still married to Henry Trask at the time this is impossible. They are the children of his first wife in my opinion.

Death

   After 1696 — Age: 66 Salem, Essex, Massachusetts, USA She was still living 26 Oct 1696 as evidenced by the will of her husband William Nichols. She is said to have been too feeble to be administrator his estate. See William Nichol's Profile. 

For further information see the profile of her second husband William Nichols. This includes information from the family wills.

Sources

Bio of William Nichols 1599-1696 in A genealogical dictionary of the first settlers of New England showing three generations of those who came before May, 1692, on the basis of Farmer's Register ... By James Savage Published 1860 by Little, Brown and company in Boston.
Text: http://genweb.net/~books/savage/ electronic version 4/2000 http://www.usgennet.org/usa/vt/state/savage/ 10/2002 http://genweb.net/~books/savage/

The Essex Antiquarian Vol 1 # 4 1897 Article on William Nichols called "Old Nichols Homestread, Now Ferncroft Inn" by Andrew Nichols.

http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/59016579/person/48360217080

DAR library, Southwick Genealogy

New England Marriages Prior to 1700 Title: New England Marriages Prior To 1700 Author: Clarence Almon Torrey Publication: CD-ROM, New England Historical Genealogical Society, 2001 Genealogical Publishing Company, Inc., 1985.

http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=ryder10&i...

http://ntgen.tripod.com/bw/south_index.html

Mary was baptized in Kingswinford, Staffordshire on 13 May 1632 (Janet Ireland Delorey, A Study of Lawrence and Cassandra Southwick, Privately published, 1997, 56, citing transcription of Kingswinford Register, Family History Library, Salt Lake City)

William Carroll Hill, The Family of Bray Wilkins(Milford, NH: The Cabinet Press, 1943)

The genealogy of the Descendants of Lawence and Cassandra Southwick of Salam, Massachusetts by James Moore Caller 1881.

A study of Lawrence and Cassandra Southwick by Janet Ireland Delorey 1997.

The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Volume 56 p 73 link

Family Data Collection - Births

   1 citation provides evidence for Name, Birth

Family Data Collection - Individual Records

   1 citation provides evidence for Name, Birth, Death

U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900

   2 citations provide evidence for Name, Birth, Marriage

U.S., New England Marriages Prior to 1700

   1 citation provides evidence for Name, Birth, Marriage

"Will of Lawrence Sethick." The Essex Antiquarian." Vol. 8 pp 166/7. 1904.

WikiTree profile Southwick-88 created through the import of Putnam2-1_2010-01-02_2011-02-16_2011-10-11.ged on Oct 12, 2011 by Putnam-327 | John Putnam. See the Changes page for the details of edits by John and others.

please do not merge with Mary Trask until conflicts are resolved