Mercy Chandler

Biography

Recorded as written:

DANIEL CHANDLER (David, David, Joseph, John, William) and Mercy Huntoon, Hardwick, Vt.

She was born 18 April, 1775;  she d. 31 May, 1833 in Hardwick, leaving six sons and six daughters. They lived in Hanover, N. H., until their four oldest children were born, and until their two oldest were burnt up in the house they were building. Mrs Chandler left the two oldest, Benjamin and Mary, in care of the carpenter, who was finishing off their house, and took with her Rebecca and Daniel to a neighbor's to a quilting. Mr. Chandler was threshing in the barn. It is supposed, that while at play with the carpenter's shavings, the two children set the house on fire, in which they were consumed. At their funeral the minister said, in the performance of his sacred duty, that because these children had not been baptized they were damned to all eternity, and would burn in hell fire forever. Mrs. Chandler, being of a confiding, credulous nature, believed that by her neglect, she had been thus the cause of their everlasting misery, and hence her mind was ever after disturbed and unbalanced at intervals. Soon after this sad event the family removed to Hardwick, where he bought one hundred and twenty acres of the wilderness and cleared it up for a farm about an eighth of a mile west of the spot where he and some of his family now lie buried. He died 17 Aug, 1828 aged 56.

Their children were:
# Benjamin; b. in Hanover 10 Feb., 1797; consumed by fire, aged about six years

1. Mary; died a about four years
2. Rebecca; b.16 Nov., 1798; m. in Hardwick, Ephriam Noyes
3. Daniel; b. 24 March, 1801; m. 20 Aug., 1830, Lucy French Shedd
4. Mary, 2d, b. in Hardwick 12 Jan, 1803; m. 28 Feb., 1836, Nathaniel Daily
5. David, b. 28 Oct., 1804
6. Sally, b. 24 April 1806; m. 28 March, 1853, Milo Shepherd Swett
7. Eliza, b. 1 April, 1808, Georgetown, Mass.; m. Lincoln Dole. Her three children died young.
8. Mercy Selena, b. in Hardwick 3 April, 1810; m. 1 Nov, 1832, Bela Atwood
9. Benjamin, b. 4 Aug., 1812; m. first 21 Oct., 1839, Clarissa Johnson of Claremont, N. H.. She d. 3 Aug., 1844 dau. of Palmer Johnson by his wife Polly Peabody. A monument marks her grave in Claremont. He m. second 1 Jan., 1855, Miranda, dau. of Samuel Stiles by his wife Clarissa Cheney, grandau. of Samuel Stiles of Danville, Vt .,by his wife Susan Pierce. She was the widow of Ichabod K. Hunt, by whom she had Rosella M. Hunt, b. in Albany, Vt., 9 Dec., 1847. Mr Chandler is a farmer at Alder Brook, Hardwick. No issue.
10. John Gilman, b. 2 June 1814; m. in Lowell, Mass., 9 April, 1840, Sarah Maria Webster
11. David D, b. 30 Jan., 1816; m. 17 Aug., 1841, Mary A. Hibbee
12. Sumner, b. 8 March, 1820; m. Emily F. Stiles

Source: [The Chandler Family: The Descendants of William and Annis Chandler who settled in Roxbury, Mass.; George Chandler; Press of Charles Hamilton; Worcestor, Mass.;1883; pg.533]

Link:https://books.google.com/books?id=h2JmAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA533&lpg=PA533&d...

Note: Name on Marriage certificate is Mary. Daughter Mercy is also listed as Mary on some documents.

Added by D. Glenn/ 2016