Mary1

F, #1415, * 1678, + 20 Dec 1758

Family

Thomas Morehouse * 1674, + 6 Sep 1748
Children
  • Jehu Morehouse3 * 5 Jan 1700/1, + May 1778
  • Mary Morehouse+3,4 * 16 May 1702, + 6 Sep 1748
  • Sarah Morehouse3 * 6 Feb 1703/4
  • Jethro Morehouse3 * 3 Feb 1705/6, + s 1750
  • Thomas Morehouse3 * 16 May 1708
  • Thankful Morehouse3 * 23 Jul 1710
  • Steven Morehouse3 * 10 Aug 1712, + 21 Sep 1738
  • Hannah Morehouse3 * 4 Sep 1715
  • Elisha Morehouse3 * s 1717
  • Elizabeth Morehouse3 * s 1719
     Mary was born in 1678 in Fairfield County, Connecticut.1 She married Thomas Morehouse, son of Thomas Morehouse and ? Keeler.2,1 She died on 20 Dec 1758 in Westport, Connecticut.3
     Thomas was listed in the June 1745 census in Wilton Parish, Norwalk, Connecticut, with his wife Mary, and three children: Elisha, Hannah and Betty.2
Mary made a will on 18 May 1756. It was probated 11 Feb 1761. She mentions her daughters Mary Bedient, Sarah Mills and Elizabeth Raymond and her grandchildren: daughters of John Sherwood, deceased; daughters of Solomon Munroe, and daughters of son Thomas; children of son Elisha; granddaughter Molly.3
     According to Settlers of the Beekman Patent, Thomas was b. c 1680 in Fairfield, CT. When he made his will he was 'late of Norwalk.' Mary died 28 Jun 1761. She may have been the daughter of Jehu Burr, b. 19 Aug 1783.
In general the data from Beekman Settlers corresponds with those in the Morehouse genealogy.2,3

Citations

  1. [S175] Bedient-1, online: www.bedient.org.
  2. [S953] Frank J. Doherty, Settlers Beekman Patent, vol. 9, pg. 141. Thomas Morehouse.
  3. [S464] Donald Lines Jacobus, Morehouse-Jacobus. Online at http://www.americanrevolution.org/morehouse.html
  4. [S426] Bedient-2, online: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~bedient