Mehitabel Smith

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The 10 children of William and Isabel Holdred (Holdridge) were:

VI. Mehitable- b. 14 Apr. 1652 Haverhill, m. 25 Jan. 1668/9 Haverhill, Jonathan Smith (d. after 1725 Exeter), d. after 1699 Exeter

Mehitable (Mehitabel) Smith formerly Holdridge

• Born 14 Apr 1652 in Haverhill, Norfolk, Essex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony
• Died after 1689 in Hampton, Rockingham, New Hampshire
• Daughter of William Holdridge and Isabella (Craddock) Holdridge
• Wife of Jonathan Smith — married 25 Jan 1670 in Haverhill, Norfolk, Massachusetts Bay
• Mother of Israel Smith, Jacob Smith, Ithiel Smith, Abigail (Smith) Blake, Leah (Smith) Blake, Mehitable Clifford, Joseph Smith, Oliver Smith and Jonathan Smith

Biography

Mehitable, the daughter of William Holdridge, was born 14 April 1652 in Haverhill, Essex, Massachusetts. Mehitable Holdridge ... She passed away about 1678. [1]

Marriage

25 JAN 1668/69
Haverhill, Essex, Massachusetts Husband: Jonathan Smith Wife: Mehitable Holdred

Notes

Note N4019Jonathan (2) Smith, who married, January 25, 1670, Mehitable Holdred. Jonathan was brickmaker by trade and settled in Exeter. They had seven children, of whom the fourth was Abigail (Wentworth - p59)

Died Cause: Y. AFT 1689. Hampton, Rockingham, New Hampshire, USA.

On 9 Oct. 1666: “Wm Holdred having complained against John Ilsly of Salisbury for his children abusing the daughter of said Holdred, now his apprentice, as by several testimonies appeared, court ordered that said Ilsly should restrain his children from further abuse upon penalty of £10 to be paid to the treasurer of the county, and also to appear at the next Salisbury Court for not coming according to summons”. Then on 9 April 1667: “in the complaint of Wm Holdred v. Jno. Ilsley, the court found some truth in that said Ilsley’s children had been beating Holdred’s daughter and ordered Ilsley to pay costs of court”. The daughter must have been either Mehitable or Mary as the other daughters had either died or married off. [12]

On 24 Jan. 1669/0 Robert Swan deposed “that in the month of December last, William Holdiege, Senior, being at deponent’s house about his daughter who lived with Lt. Browne, said ‘what if she do run away, and this was before I heard she was gone away’. Then on 11 Apr: “Josef Page deposed that he heard Elesebath Daves say that Mehitabell Heldrig had not stolen the scarf but that she, Mehitabell would do it”. The following day: “Mehetabell Smith convicted for stealing several goods from her master Lt. Georg Brown and for running away from his service, was sentenced to be whipped ten stripes or pay a fine”.[13] Perhaps Mehitable being light fingered was a reason why the Ilsley children had been beating on her a few years before? Perhaps her falling in love with Jonathan Smith was the reason for her running away from Lt. Brown.

References

• Great Migration, Vol 3, G-H Page 368 - 372 AncestryImage “William Holdred”
• https://mathcs.clarku.edu/~djoyce/gen/report/rr02/rr02_217.html#P49361
• http://babbage.clarku.edu/~djoyce/gen/report/rr04/rr04_017.html#P49368
• http://babbage.clarku.edu/~djoyce/gen/report/rr14/rr14_152.html#P85091
• Reference: MyHeritage Family Trees - SmartCopy: Oct 4 2016, 4:18:45 UTC
• https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Holdridge-49
• First-hand information as remembered by Robert Smith, Thursday, January 15, 2015. Replace this citation if there is another source.
• Source S166 Author: Edward Norris Wentworth, Jr Title: The Genalogy of Edward Norris Wentworth Junior Publication: Location: Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA; Date: June 1928; Repository: #R2 NOTE: Special Project Submitted in Courses in Community Life and Advance Biology at the University High School, University of Chicago
• "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FZS1-KXM : 4 December 2014), Mehetabel Holdridge, 14 Apr 1652; citing HAVERHILL,ESSEX,MASSACHUSETTS, ; FHL microfilm 14,767.
• Global, Find A Grave Index, Memorial ID 95958429. Accessed July 9, 2019. Created by Kody Kemp on August 25, 2012. Includes biographical information. Maintained by Kody Kemp Contributor #47913006: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/95958429/mehitable-smith