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About Mercy Knowles
Descendant of Elder William Brewster, "Mayflower" Passenger and Mary Brewster, "Mayflower" Passenger
https://ancestors.familysearch.org/en/LT4G-1ZP/mercy-freeman-1659-1745
Mercy Freeman 15 July 1659–17 April 1745
Birth • 9 Sources 15 July 1659 Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States
Age 85 Death • 4 Sources 17 April 1745 Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States
Mercy Freeman Knowles, "Find A Grave Index"
SPOUSES AND CHILDREN
Samuel Knowles Sr 1651-1737
Marriage: Dec 1679 Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States
Mercy Freeman 1659-1745
Children (11)
Captain James Knowles 1680-1765
Mercy Knowles 1681-1732
Samuel Knowles Jr 1683-1750
Nathaniel Knowles 1686-1732
Richard Knowles 1688-1769
Rebecca Knowles 1690-1754
John Knowles 1692-1754
Ruth Knowles 1694-1745
Capt. Cornelius Knowles 1695-1764
Amos Knowles 1702-1786
James Knowles 1705-1765
PARENTS AND SIBLINGS
Major John Freeman 1626-1719
Marriage: 13 February 1650 Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts Bay, British Colonial America
Mercy Prence 1631-1711
Children (14)
John Freeman 1650-1650
Rev. John Freeman Jr. 1651-1721
John Freeman 1651-1721
Patience Freeman 1652-1725
Deacon Thomas Freeman 1653-1715
Patience Freeman 1655-1720
Lieutenant Edmund Freeman 1655-1717 Mercy Freeman 1659-1745
William Freeman 1661-1687
Hannah Freeman 1665-1743
Prence Freeman 1665-1747
Prince Freeman 1665-1747
Nathaniel Freeman Esq. 1669-1760
Bennet Freeman 1671-1716
The Descendants of Elder William Brewster, Part 1, Generations 1 through 4, Barbara Lambert Merrick, General Society of Mayflower Descendants, Plymouth MA, 2014, p. 156
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Freeman-1977
Biography
Mercy Freeman was born in July 1659 in Eastham, (then) Plymouth Colony, the daughter of John Freeman and Mercy/Marcy Prence.[1][2]
Mercy married Samuel Knowles in December 1679, probably in Eastham where their family records are written.[3] The date is given in the Brewster Genealogy as 16 December 1679 without a source.[4]
Josiah Paine, a local historian, recorded the gravestone inscriptions in the Old Cemetery at Orleans in 1867. At that time he found the stones for both Samuel and Mercy, and gave us:[5]
Here Lyes the Body of Mr. Samuel Knowles
Formerly Representative for the Town of Eastham;;
Who died June ye 19
1737, in the 86th Year of his age
"He married Mercy, daughter of Major John Freeman, of E[astham], in Dec., 1679. She died in 1744. The inscription upon her gravestone has become illegible."[5]
Mercy Knowles, widow of Eastham, wrote her will on 05 September 1739 and it was proved on 17 Apr 1745. She mentioned her sons Samuel, Richard, John, Cornelius Amos and James Knowles; daughters Rebecca Withrell, Mercy Rich and Ruth Avery; (unnamed) children of her deceased son Nathaniel Knowles; granddaughter Rebecca, daughter of deceased son Nathaniel; granddaughters Ruth Rich, Mercy Godfree. Son Samuel Knowles named as executor. The inventory of her estate was taken on 22 April 1745.[6]
Children born Eastham (Knowles):[3]
James, b. 13 Aug 1680
Mercy, b. 13 Sep 1681
Samuel, b. 15 Jan 1682[/3]
Nathaniel, b. 15 May 1686
Richard, b. late July 1688
Rebeckah, b. mid March 1690
John, mid April 1692
Ruth b. Nove 1694
Cornelius, b. Oct 1695
Amos, b. 1702
James, b. 1705[7]
Birth 23 JUN 1659 Eastham, Massachusetts (Barnstable) [citation needed]
Mercy (Freeman) Knowles (1659 - bef. 1745)
Mercy Knowles formerly Freeman
Born Jul 1659 in Eastham, Plymouth Colony
Daughter of John Freeman Sr and Mercy (Prence) Freeman
Sister of John Freeman, John Freeman Jr, Thomas Freeman, Edmund Freeman, William Freeman, Hannah (Freeman) Mayo, Prince Freeman, Patience (Freeman) Paine, Nathaniel Freeman Esq and Bennett (Freeman) Paine
Wife of Samuel Knowles — married Dec 1679 in Eastham, Plymouth Colony
Mother of James Knowles, Mercy (Knowles) Rich, Samuel Knowles Jr., Nathaniel Knowles, Richard Knowles, Rebecca (Knowles) Wetherel, John Knowles, Ruth (Knowles) Avery, Cornelius Knowles, Amos Knowles and James Knowles
Died before 17 Apr 1745 before age 85 in Eastham, Barnstable, Province of Massachusetts Bay
Profile last modified 24 Nov 2022 | Created 11 May 2011
Mercy (Freeman) Knowles was related to a passenger on the Mayflower.
Sources
↑ Bowman, George Ernest, "Plymouth Colony Vital Records," Mayflower Descendant, Vol. 17:200.
"Marcye ffreeman the Daughter of John ffreeman was borne in July 1659"
↑ Hayward, Elijah, "Plymouth Colony Records," NEHGR Vol. 9(1855):314.
"Eastham, John Freeman, to Mercy Prince, Feb. 13, 1649-50, and had John, b. Feb. 2, 1650-1, d. an infant; John, Dec 1651; Thomas, Sept. 1653; Edmund, June, 1657; Mercy, July 1659."
↑ 3.0 3.1 Bowman, George Ernest, "Eastham and Orleans, Mass., Vital Records," The Mayflower Descendant, Vol. 6:204-5.
" Samuel Knowles and Mercy ffreeman wear maried december in the year 1679"
↑ Jones, Emma C. Brewster, The Brewster Genealogy, 1566-1907; a Record of the Descendants of William Brewster of the “Mayflower.” Ruling Elder of the Pilgrim Church Which Founded Plymouth Colony in 1620, (New York : Grafton Press, 1908) accessed May 3, 2021, page 23.
↑ 5.0 5.1 Paine, Josiah, "Inscriptions upon Gravestones in the Old Cemetery at Orleans, Mass.", NEHGR Vol. 21(1867):213.
↑ Barnstable County Probate Records, Vol. 8:87-89, Estate of Mercy Knowles.
↑ Mayflower Families Fifth Generation Descendants, 1700-1880. (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2017). From Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Descendants of the Pilgrims who landed at Plymouth, Mass., December 1620. Plymouth, MA: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1975-2015. William Brewster, MFIP Patience, (2001) p. 93. (Link by $ubscription.)
See also:
Paine, Josiah, Early Settlers of Eastham : Containing Sketches of All Early Settlers of Eastham (Yarmouthport, Mass. : C. W. Swift, 1916), page 27.
Plymouth & Cape Cod, MA Genealogy
Entries: 14133 Updated: 2015-05-03 19:41:05 UTC (Sun) Contact: Harry Hadaway
ID: I2783
Name: Mercy Freeman
Sex: F
Birth: 15 JUL 1659 in Eastham, Barnstable, MA 1
Reference Number: 5716
LDS Baptism: 15 JUL 1890 2
Endowment: 10 SEP 1903 SLAKE 2
Sealing Child: 15 MAR 1943 SLAKE 2
Death: 1744 in Eastham, Barnstable, MA 1
Father: John Freeman Major b: BEF 28 JAN 1627 in Billingshurst, Sussex, England c: 28 JAN 1627 in
Billingshurst, Sussex, England
Mother: Mercy Prence b: ABT 1631 in Plymouth, Plymouth, MA
Sources:
Title: Mayflower Births & Deaths, Volume II, By Susan Roser Author: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Title: Ordinance Index (TM) Repository: Name: Family History Library84150 USA
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!Source: A book, "History of Don Merlin
!Source: A book, "History of Don Merlin Grover and Jennette Morris Grover, Ancestors and Descendants, FHL Call No. U.S./Can, Book Area 929.273, G919b1, L. Don Berchtold, grandson, author. This PAF has been updated from the IGI, and Ancestral File since the book was published.
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!BIRTH: "A Descent from Henry III to Jud
!BIRTH: "A Descent from Henry III to Judith Lewis Gibbins of Saco, Maine" by Walter Goodwin Davis, B.A., L.L.B., of Portland, Maine. Article in "The American Genealogist" Number 73, July 1942, Vol. xix, No. 1.
!MARRIAGE: As above
!DEATH: As above
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1. CD V709-01, Vol.09, World Family Tre
1. CD V709-01, Vol.09, World Family Tree, @1997, Broderbund Software,Inc. 2. CD V189 Colonial Genealogies #1, 1607-1920, Colonial Families, VolumeVI, Avery Family. 3. "Savage, Vol 2 Dict, First Settlers of NE". 4. "New England Families Genealogical and Memorial: Volume IV". 5. CD171, Genealogies of Mayflower Families, 1500s-1800s, Genealogies ofMayflower Families, G-Pa, "Knowles Family of Eastham, Mass", by CharlesThornton Libby, Esq., of Portland, ME. 6. "The Mayo Genealogy", compiled by Elna Jean (May) Mayo, SecondEdition, December 1965. 7. CD171, Genealogies of Mayflower Families, 1500s-1800s, Genealogies ofMayflower Families, A-F, "The Freemans - The Eastham Branch of theSandwich Family - Major John Freeman", bThe Learning Company, 1999.
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!See notes of father and husband. LDS pr
!See notes of father and husband. LDS proxy temple ordinances are in the 1997 IGI from temple records.
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sources
https://archive.org/details/earlysettlersofe01pain/page/n25/mode/2up Early settlers of Eastham : containing sketches of all early settlers of Eastham, Vol. 1 by Josiah Paine
http://www.usgennet.org/usa/topic/newengland/savage/ A Genealogical Dictionary of The First Settlers of New England, by James Savage
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Mercy Knowles's Timeline
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July 15, 1659
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Eastham, Plymouth Colony, Colonial America
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| 1680 |
August 13, 1680
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Eastham, Barnstable, MA
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September 13, 1681
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Cape Cod, Eastham, Barnstable County, Massachusetts, British Colonial America
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| 1682 |
January 15, 1682
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Eastham, Cape Cod, Plymouth Colony
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1685
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Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts
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May 15, 1686
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Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts, USA
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July 31, 1688
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Eastham, Barnstable County, Dominion of New England
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March 15, 1690
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Eastham, Barnstable County, New Plymouth Colony
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April 15, 1692
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Eastham, Barnstable County, Massachusetts, British Colonial America
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