Mary Whitmore

• Parents: Jonathan Butterfield & Mary Dixon
• Husbands: Abraham Watson & Samuel Whitmore

Tombstone inscription:

• Here lyes ye Body of
• Mrs. Mary Whitmore,
• Wife to Mr. Samuel
• Whitmore (of Lexington)
• & formerly Wife to Mr.
• Abraham Watson who
• Died Novbr. 14th, 1730 in ye
• 61st Year of Her Age.

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Birth unrecorded

Mary Butterfield was born circa 1670, the daughter of jonathan Butterfield and and Mary Dixon of Chelmsford

On March 13, 1688/9, she married Abraham Watson, son of John Watson and Rebecca Errington of Cambridge, Massachusetts. Their children included:

Isaac, born March 3, 1689[7], who married Anna, then married Abiel Angier August 27, 1725; and who died Feb 27, 1741[6] [5]
Abraham, baptized Feb 21, 1696/7[8], who married Mary Unknown and then Mary (Grant) Hill Butterfield, widow of Abraham Hill Jr, widow of John Butterfield[6]
John, baptized February 21, 1696/7[9]
William, born May 8, 1698[10]
Mary, born April 14, 1700[11], who married Abraham Bradshaw
Jonathan, born October 18, 1702[12] baptized October 18, 1702[14]who married Abigail Bradshaw[6]
Jacob, baptized May 7, 1704[13], who married Lydia Monro[6]

Abraham Watson died March 23, 1705/6 at the age of 44[15].

After 1709, when Samuel Whitmore of Lexington became a widower, he and Mary remarried, and their children included:

John, born January 25, 1714 (Christened Jan 30, 1715

Mary (Butterfield) Watson Whitemore died Nov. 4, 1730 in Cambridge, and is buried in the Old Burying Ground in Cambridge. Her gravestone reads: Here lyes ye Body of Mrs. Mary Whitmore, Wife to Mr. Samuel Whitmore (of Lexington) & formerly Wife to Mr. Abraham Watson who Died Novbr. 14th, 1730 in ye 61st Year of Her Age.

The Butterfields of Middlesex by George A. Gordon, published in January 1890, in the New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Volume 44, page 34. Boston, MA: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1847-. (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2013.)

Ancestry of Col. John Harrington Stevens and His Wife Frances Helen Miller by Holman, Mary (Lovering), , 2 vols. (Concord, N.H.: Rumford Press, 1948–52); also Torrey, C.A., Notes and Corrections to Stevens-Miller Genealogy (1948), typescript (n.p., 1949), see Vol 1 page 246 for Mary Butterfield, who married Abraham Watson

Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States. Vital records of Chelmsford, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849. (Salem, Massachusetts: Essex Institute, 1914), Vol. 1, p. 35.
BUFFERFEILD, Mary, d. Mary, bp. 8 : 3 m : 1670. PR1
[Note: In old-styles dates, the third month is May. More info may be found here.]
[PR1=Extracts from Rev. John Fiske's notebook]

Lexington, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States. Record of births, marriages, and deaths to January 1, 1898. (Boston, Massachusetts: Wright and Potter Printing, 1898), p. 209.
WHITMORE
[25] Mary, wid. of Sam'l, [died] Nov. 14, 1730.

Births of children from Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915," database, FamilySearch