Mary Unknown

Female 1625 - 1699  (74 years)

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  • Name Mary Unknown 
    Birth 1625 
    Gender Female 
    Death 1699  Portsmouth, RI Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I01032  Sorensen-Remington Family Tree
    Last Modified 7 Aug 2018 

    Family Thomas FISH,   b. Abt 1618, Market Harborough, Great Bowden, Leichester, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1 Dec 1687, Portsmouth, RI Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 69 years) 
    Marriage 1645  Portsmouth, RI Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
     1. Thomas Fish, Jr.,   b. Between 1640 and 1646, Portsmouth, RI Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Between 1683 and 1684, Portsmouth, RI Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 43 years)
     2. Mehitable Fish,   b. Between 1648 and 1650, Portsmouth, RI Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1687 (Age 39 years)
     3. Alice Fish,   b. 1652, Portsmouth, RI Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 20 Jul 1734, South Kingstown, RI Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 82 years)
     4. Mary Fish,   b. 1652, Portsmouth, RI Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Abt 4 Apr 1747, Portsmouth, RI Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 95 years)
     5. Daniel Fish,   b. Between 1653 and 1655, Portsmouth, RI Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 16 Sep 1723, Portsmouth, RI Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 70 years)
     6. John FISH,   b. Between 1655 and 1657, Portsmouth, RI Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1742, Dartmouth, MA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 87 years)
     7. Robert FISH,   b. Abt 1665, Portsmouth, RI Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1730 (Age 65 years)
    Family ID F00392  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 7 Aug 2018 

  • Notes 
    • Her place of birth is given in some genealogies as Portsmouth, but that is impossible, since the settlement was not begun until the middle 1930s. The Portsmouth Compact, dated 1638, does have a Phillip Shearman as one of the signers. However, his daughter named Mary was born later.

      Other possibilities -- Mary Sherman, May 1624 - 1673/1699 ?, daughter of Samuel Sherman 20 Oct 1601 - Oct 1644 & Hester Burgess 1604 - 14 Aug 1646. Or, someone else has suggested she may have been Mary Soule, a daughter of George Soule.

      Dr. Kenneth Parker's notes indicate Thomas Fish's wife was Mary AYERS (no source documentation given; Dr. Parker has passed away). See the following note.

      "I believe that this lady was Mary Ayers whose father was Henry Ayres. She was born 1615?? and died 1699 in Portsmouth, RI. Mary Ayres married Thomas Fish in 1647 in Portsmouth. He was the son of Robert Fish and Alice Fish. I got this from RootsWeb.com by a David E. Crandall, Jr. [dcrandall.jr@prodigy.net]. A note on this RootsWeb.com site says: A notation in an issue of "Second Boat" lists her maiden name as Ayres, daughter of Henry. Submission was by Mary P. Lavery, 7 Paris Ave., Corinth, NY 12822. TORREY lists her name as [?Sherman]. The FISH genealogy very tentatively assigns her maiden name as SOULE. (RIGENWEB mailing list posting from Arlene Clarke Haddock).

      See notes for her husband, Thomas Fish.

      See her Portsmouth will dated 9 September 1697, proved 9 Aug 1699, which mentions sons John Fish, Robert Fish, Thomas Fish (dec.), and Daniel Fish; daughters Mehittable Tripp, Mary Brayton, and Alike (Alice?) Knowles; grandchildren Preserved Fish and Mehitable Fish, of Thomas (dec.); grandchildren Thomas Fish, Comfort Fish, and Ruth Fish, of Daniel; granddaughter Mary Fish, of John; grandson Robert Fish of Robert.