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Mary Bridges

Female 1667 - Aft 1685  (> 19 years)


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  • Name Mary Bridges 
    Born 14 Apr 1667  Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Female 
    Died Aft 1685 
    Person ID I850  Petersen-de Lanskoy
    Last Modified 27 May 2021 

    Father Edmund Bridges,   b. Abt 1612, , , England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 13/13 Jan 1684/5, Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 73 years) 
    Mother Mary Langton,   b. Abt 1625, , , England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 24 Oct 1691, Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 66 years) 
    Married 6 Apr 1665  Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F616  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • RESEARCH_NOTES:
      1. The book "The Great Migration," by Robert Charles Anderson, pp. 389-92:
      "EDMUND BRIDGES
      ORIGIN: Unknown
      MIGRATION: 1635 on the James
      FIRST RESIDENCE: Lynn
      REMOVES: Rowley by 1641, Ipswich by 1660, Salem by 1670, Ipswich by 1684
      OCCUPATION: Blacksmith [EPR Case #3295].
      CHURCH MEMBERSHIP: Admission to Lynn church prior to 7 September 1639 implied by freemanship.
      FREEMAN: 7 September 1639 [MBCR 1:376].
      EDUCATION: Signed his deed of 1682 and his will.
      OFFICES: Essex County grand jury, 30 September 1651, 26 September 1654, 25 September 1660 [EQC 1:232, 362, 2:225]. Petit jury, 30 September 1662, 30 September 1673, 28 November 1676, 27 September 1681 [EQC 2:434, 5:224, 6:215, 8:150]. Replacement juror, 30 November 1675 [EQC 6:73].
      ESTATE: "Edward Bridges" received ten acres in the Lynn land division of 1638 [EQC 2:271].
      On 14 April 1660, Edmond Bridges of Ipswich, smith, and Anthony Potter sold to Elder John Whipple of Ipswich part of a six-acre lot that had previously been Henry Kingsbury's [ILR 1:247-248].
      On 26 June 1663, Zacheus Gould of Topsfield sold a small parcel of land to Edmond Bridges and Daniel Black. Bridges and Black immediately mortgaged the property back to Gould, with Bridges accepting one-third of the responsibility for the mortgage and Black two-thirds [ILR 2:162-64].
      On 22 February 1663/4, Edmond Bridges of Ipswich, smith, sold to Nicholas Wallis six acres of meadow in Ipswich [ILR 3:204-5].
      On 9 December 1670, Edmond Bridges of Salem, blacksmith, sold to Ensign John Gould of Topsfield, yeoman, an eight-acre parcel of land with a dwelling house and barn in Topsfield, also a parcel of ten acres of meadow, swamp and upland in Topsfield [ELR 3:101].
      On 12 April 1682, Edmund Bridges Sr. of Salem, blacksmith, made a one year mortgage with Mrs. Eliza[beth] Turner of Salem, widow, for his "dwelling house & shop & wharf, with sixty poles of ground with it" MLR 6:49].
      In his will, dated 6 January 1684[/5] and proved 31 March 1685, Edmond Bridges Sr. of Ipswich, blacksmith, in "weakness of body and many infirmities often prevailing," stated that "I have already given unto all my children but Mary [their] portions as was suitable and convenient to my estate," but in addition bequeathed to "John Bridges my rapier'; to "Josiah Bridges ... my musket'; to "Fayth Bridges" a pewter platter marked with an "EBA"; to "Bethiah Bridges, the fellow or other pewter platter with the same marks"; to "my daughter Mary," £20 in goods; to "my beloved wife Mary Bridges" use of the whole estate during her life unless she marry, then £10; residue of estate at death of wife or her remarriage to be equally divided among "John Bridges my son, my son Josiah Bridges, my daughter Faith Bridges alias Black, Bethiah Bridges alias Peabodie, and Mary Bridges"; "my beloved wife Mary Bridges & my son John Bridges" executors; "Daniel Epps" with "Lieut. John Appleton" overseers [EPR Case #3295].
      The inventory of the estate of Edmond Bridges, taken 16 January 1684[/5], totalled £215 6s. 6d., of which £90 was real estate: "the homestead with all the housing belonging to it," £70; and "9 acres of land," £20 [EPR Case #3295].
      An undated account of debts showed £175 12s. 2-1/2d. in sums owed by Bridges, including amounts to settle the entitlements of the Littlehale heirs [EPR Case #3295].
      BIRTH: About 1612 (aged 23 in 1635 [Hotten 107]; deposed "aged about forty-six years" in September 1658 [EQC 2:117]). In May 1661 he was released from training "except twice a year" [EQC 2:281].
      DEATH: Ipswich 13 January 1684/5.
      MARRIAGE: (1) By about 1636 Elizabeth ___. She died at Ipswich 31 December 1664. (Some secondary sources, including Savage, propose an earlier wife Alice, but no supporting evidence for this has been found, so we assume here two wives only for Edmund Bridges.)
      (2) Ipswich 6 April 1665 Mary (Langton) Littlehale, widow of Richard [EQC 6:118], born about 1625 (deposed 24 November 1685 "aged sixty years" [EQC 9:545]); she died at Ipswich 24 October 1691. (On 15 March 1664/5, Edmond Bridges of Ipswich acknowledged that "I have nothing to do directly nor indirectly anyways to dispose of or having any interest at all of Mary Litelhale['s] accommodation at Haverhill notwithstanding she is to be my wife, but leaveth it wholly to the said Mary to dispose of for her own use and her four children which she hath by Rich[ar]d Litelhale" [ILR 5:108]).
      CHILDREN:
      With first wife
      i EDMUND, b. about 1636 (deposed June 1664 "aged about twenty-seven years" [EQC 3:160, 183]; deposed for 27 March 1666 court "aged twenty-nine years" [EQC 3:312]; deposed in June 1674 "aged about thirty-nine years" [EQC 5:354]); Topsfield 11 January 1659/60 Sarah Towne, daughter of William Towne [Amos Towne Anc 4- 6].
      ii HACKALIAH, b. say 1638 (fined for running away from his father September 1655 [EQC 1:404]); accused by Sarah French for getting her with child September 1656, case discharged [EQC 2:2]; whipped for fornication and ordered to discharge the town about bringing up the child of Mary Quilter, September 1657 [EQC 2:54]; "Hackoliah Bridges drowned at the Gay Head December the 23rd 1671 his estate being inventoried and prized amounted to the just sum of twenty-eight pounds eighteen shillings and eight pence, the said estate was committed into the hand of Mr. Richard Sarson as administrator upon the said estate," who presented the inventory on 25 January 1671/2 [Dukes LR 1:311]; "Hackaliah Bridges being cast away and dying intestate," Essex administration was granted on 8 February 1671/2 "to Obadiah Bridges, his brother, who was to bring in an inventory" [EQC 5:1; EPR 2:253]; apparently unmarried.
      iii MEHITABLE, b. Rowley 26 March 1641; no further record.
      iv JOHN, b. say 1643; m. (1) Ipswich 5 December 1666 Sarah How; m. (2) Andover 1 March 1677/8 Mary (Tyler) Post, widow of Richard.
      v FAITH, b. about 1645 (deposed at court June 1674 "aged twenty-nine years" [EQC 5:354]); m. after 1660 and by March 1664 Daniel Black [EQC 3:130, 192-94].
      vi OBADIAH, b. about 1647 (deposed at court September 1667 "aged about twenty years" [EQC 3:444]; deposed at court November 1669 "aged about twenty-four years" [EQC 4:195]); m. (1) Ipswich 25 October 1671 Mary Smith; m. (2) by 1677 Elizabeth ___ (his administratrix [EQC 6:344]).
      vii BETHIA, b. say 1649; m. Boxford or Topsfield 26 October 1668 Joseph Peabody (marriage recorded in both towns).
      viii JOSIAH, b. about 1654 (deposed 2 March 1676 "aged about twenty-two years" [EQC 6:239]); m. (1) Ipswich 13 November 1676 Elizabeth Norton; m. (2) Ipswich 19 September 1677 Ruth Greenslip.
      With second wife
      ix MARY, b. Ipswich 14 April 1667; living 1684/5.
      ASSOCIATIONS: The inventory of Roger Lancton of Haverhill was taken 24 January 1671[/2] at the request of "Mr. Edmon Bridges and Samewall Varnum related to the said Rodger who deceased without a will" [EPR 2:260]. The relationship was evidently through Edmund's second wife.
      COMMENTS: On 13 July 1635, "Edmond Bridges," aged 23, was enrolled at London for passage to New England on the James [Hotten 107].
      Edmund Bridges was excused for neglect of public service, at his request, July 1647 [EQC 1:119]. He did take some responsibilities, since he was named executor of the will of Thomas Scott of Ipswich, written 8 March 1653/4 [EPR 1:169; ILR 1:190]. He also deposed as attorney to John Caldwell in November 1653, saying that, "being in Goodman Bridges' shop, Goodman ___ being present, he heard him say that a woman and her daughter, gathering berries, saw four women, Mrs. Perkins, Goody Evens, Goody Dutch, etc. As they approached them, the four women sat upon the ground, but when they came near, the women had vanished. He could not say that they were witches" [EQC 1:325].
      In September 1660 Faith Bridges and Daniel Black were in court over his unlawful seduction of her without her father's permission [EQC 2:243].
      While still minors Edward and Hackaliah were in trouble for things like lying, fornicating and getting drunk [EQC 2:3, 40-42, 52-54, 68]. Edmund's children kept unsavory company and were often called to depose in court about unlawful events they witnessed. Sometimes they were more than witnesses. Andrew Mansfield of Lynn deposed in September 1667 that "in hay time, two or three of Goodman Bridges' sons of Ipswich overtook him on this side of Lynn bridge and stayed there to light their pipes." The youngest, Hackaliah, was charged with feloniously assaulting a man upon the highway that night, but the court found for Bridges [EQC 3:444-45]."