Mary Whittier

Children by wife, Ann Mitton, not in order of birth.

3. Mary, unmar. in 1 7 1 7, and living in Boston; later mar. Nathaniel Witcher of Salisbury.

Mary Brackett was the daughter of Capt. Anthony Brackett and Anne (Mitten) Brackett.[1][2] She was probably born about 1668.

Mary Brackett came from a family that was one of the first to settle the area now known as Portland. As a young girl, she and some relatives had been taken captive by a party of Indian raiders and marched into the wilderness before they escaped in a canoe. Later, in separate incidents, her grandparents, father and brother were killed.[3]

Links

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massachusetts_Bay_Colony

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Greenleaf_Whittier_Homestead

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Brackett-430

Mary Whittier formerly Brackett aka Bracket, Ring

Born about 1668 in Casco Bay, Province of Maine

Daughter of Anthony Brackett and Ann (Mitton) Brackett

Sister of Seth Brackett, Elinor (Brackett) Pullen, Anthony Brackett Jr., Kezia Brackett, James Brackett [half], Jane Brackett [half], Zachariah Brackett [half], Zipporah (Brackett) Towle [half], Ann Brackett [half], Sarah Brackett [half] and Susannah (Brackett) Blake [half]

Wife of Joseph Ring — married 1700 (to 1705) [location unknown]

Wife of Nathaniel Whittier — married Jun 1710 in Salisbury, Essex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay

Mother of Seth Ring

Died 19 Jul 1742 in Salisbury, Essex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay [uncertain]

Profile last modified 11 Dec 2018 | Created 28 Oct 2014

Biography

Mary married, first, Joseph Ring of Salisbury.[1] [2] They were probably married about 1700.

Mary's husband, Joseph, was killed by Indians in Maine in 1705.[3][2]

Mary married, second, Nathaniel Whittier in Salisbury in June 1710.[4][1][2]

Nathaniel died in Salisbury on July 18, 1722.[1]

Mary (Brackett) Whittier died on July 19, 1742.[1][2]

Sources

• Brackett Genealogy, H. I. Brackett, 1907, pps 60 thru 71. < Archive.Org >.
• 1. Whitcher, William F., Descendants of Chase Whitcher of Warren, NH, News Book and Job Print, 1907, pp 8-9
• 2. Charles Collyer Whittier, "The Descendants of Thomas Whittier and Ruth Green," The Tuttle Publishing Company, 1937, pp 16-17
• 3. “Captain Joseph Ring 1664-1705," Lyons History Blog, submitted by geraldine on October 1, 2014.
• 4. Vital Records of Salisbury, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849, The Topsfield Historical Society, 1915, p 515