Mercy Dyer

from:https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/33620125/mercy_(marcy)-dyer

"Mercy (Marcy) Freeman Dyer

BIRTH: 31 Aug 1702
Eastham, Barnstable County, Massachusetts, USA.

DEATH: 10 Dec 1786 (aged 84) Truro, Barnstable County, Massachusetts, USA.

BURIAL :Old North Cemetery Truro, Barnstable County, Massachusetts, USA.
MEMORIAL ID: 33620125.·

Daughter of Constant & Jane (Treat) Freeman

Inscription on headstone:

"In memory of Mrs. Mercy Dyer, wife of Mr. Ebenezer Dyer, who died Dec. 1786 aged 84 years"
Inscription on Footstone: "Mrs. Marcy Dyer"

Family Members:

Parents:

Constant Freeman 1669–1745,
Jane Treat Freeman 1674–1729.

Spouses:

Caleb Hopkins 1684–1741 (m. 1719),
Benjamin Higgins 1681–1761 (m. 1749),
Ebenezer Dyer 1697–1777 (m. 1771).

Siblings:

Constant Freeman 1700–1756,
Hannah Freeman Gross 1704–1758,
Elizabeth Freeman Lumbard (Lombard)1708–1771,
Jonathan Freeman 1710–1779,
Joshua Freeman 1717–1795.
Children:
Constant Hopkins 1720–1800,
Mary Hopkins Cross 1722–1795,
Caleb Hopkins 1726–1799,
Simeon Hopkins 1731–1821,
Mercy Hopkins Grozer 1733–1817,
James Hopkins 1736–1782.

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from: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Freeman-1112
Mercy Freeman was born 10 Nov 1702, the daughter of Constant Freeman and Jane Treat of Eastham, Barnstable, Mass[1]
Mercy Freeman

1. married Caleb Hopkins of Eastham, on Oct. 8, 1719[1]
2. married Benjamin Higgins June 28, 1749
3. married Ebenezer Dyer December 5, 1771 Truro, Barnstable, Ma[2]

Mercy died 10 November 1784 in Truro, Barnstable, Massachusetts, and is buried in the Old North Cemetery, Truro, Barnstable, Ma.
Note: Her gravestone in North Truro says that she died "Dec.1786"[3], but it is thought that the stone was erected long after her death, and the date upon it is probably erroneous. The Munsey-Hopkins Genealogy[2] gives Dec. 1786, aged eighty-four as her death.

Died Y. 10 NOV 1784. Truro, Barnstable, Massachusetts, USA. Age: 82.

Supporting data

• 'Full text of "Richard Higgins : a resident and pioneer settler at Plymouth and Eastham, Massachusetts, and at Piscataway, New Jersey, and his descendants"
• http://www.archive.org/stream/richardhigginsre00higg/richardhiggins...
• 3. BENJAMIN^ HIGGINS (Richard'), born July, 1640, at Plymouth; "deceased on ye 14th of March, 1690-1," at Eastham; married Dec. 24, 1661, Lydia Bangs, born ; died after Feb. 13, 1706-7; daughter of Edward and Lydia (Hicks) Bangs of Eastham. Benjamin Higgins resided at Eastham, probably on lands which had belonged to his father at Pochet, now in East Orleans. ...................
• An inventory of the estate of Benjamin Higgins, amounting to £85 in real estate and £206.06.00 in personal estate, was rendered June 19, 1691, and sworn to by Mrs. Lydia Higgins, administratrix, five days later. "Memorandum: that Ichabod Higgins hath already had £10 and a piece of land on which his house stood, appraised at £9." An agreement was made that Ichabod should have in cattle, bedding, boards, shingles and cash £20.05.00; Richard the loom and gears, 7 acres of land, a cutlass, cartridge box, cattle and cash £20.18.00; Joshua a gun, rapier, cartridge box, bedding, wearing clothes, powder and bullets, saddle and cloth, cattle, sheep and cash £20.05.00; Lydia should have cattle, sheep, an iron pot, books, cloth and cash £20; Isaac a gun, ammunition, a cutlass, cartridge box, bedding, clothing, cattle, sheep and cash £20.05.00; Samuel was to have a gun, sword, cartridge box, a book, bedding, clothes, ammunition, cattle, sheep and cash £20.05.00; 'Benjamin was to have two-thirds of the housing and one-third of the lands and meadows'; the widow to have her legal third part. She was living Feb. 13, 1706-7, when her brother, Joshua Bangs, willed to her one-eighth part of such personal estate of his as might remain after the death of his wife. Aug. 20, 1711, town of Eastham "Laid out to widow Lidia Higgins for her natural life and then returns to the town, a parcel of land near the head of Namskaket on the Eastern side of the first lot which is the lot of Daniel Cole Sr." The date of her death is unknown. She married (2) Nicholas Snow.
• Children born at Eastham.
  • 21. ix. 'Benjamin, b. Sept. 15, 1681; married (1) Sarah Freeman; (2) Mercy Hopkins.
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References

• General Society of Mayflower Descendants Membership Applications, 1620-1920. (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2020). < AmericanAncestors > Name George HOLMAN Birth 7/21/1866 Location Talca, Chile Original Text See orig papers Gen. U.G. Holman Spouse Mary Campbell Covening Gen Member Number 01965-01 Note page 1 of 4 Generation 9 Gender M State Member Number 720 Supplement Number 1 Source 104754408-00126 Volume Name Hopkins, Stephen Page 319:1