Mary Bird, 17381803 (aged 65 years)

Name
Mary Bird
Given names
Mary
Surname
Bird
Birth 1738

MarriageJonathan ChurchillView this family
1799 (aged 61 years)
Death February 1, 1803 (aged 65 years)
Unique identifier
01A1D78097FF4A22ABEDF242BAF5A1253CD7

Last change August 28, 2018

Family with parents
father
mother
Marriage
Marriage:
herself
17381803
Birth: 1738
Death: February 1, 1803Woodbury, Litchfield, Connecticut, USA
Family with Jonathan Churchill
husband
17241803
Birth: 1724 32 54Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut, USA
Death: after February 1803Woodbury, Litchfield, Connecticut, USA
herself
17381803
Birth: 1738
Death: February 1, 1803Woodbury, Litchfield, Connecticut, USA
Marriage
Marriage: 1799Woodbury, Litchfield, Connecticut, USA
Jonathan Churchill + Lydia Smith
husband
17241803
Birth: 1724 32 54Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut, USA
Death: after February 1803Woodbury, Litchfield, Connecticut, USA
partner’s partner
17281799
Birth: July 7, 1728 25 24West Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States
Death: before 1799Woodbury, Litchfield, Connecticut, USA
Marriage
Marriage: November 1746
16 months
step-son
17481749
Birth: February 14, 1748 24 19Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut, USA
Death: June 2, 1749
22 months
step-son
17491829
Birth: November 25, 1749 25 21Woodbury, Litchfield, Connecticut, USA
Death: February 6, 1829Goshen, Litchfield, Connecticut, USA
2 years
step-son
17521792
Birth: February 2, 1752 28 23Woodbury, Litchfield, Connecticut, USA
Death: September 29, 1792Bethlehem, Litchfield, Connecticut, USA
2 years
step-son
17541776
Birth: February 25, 1754 30 25Woodbury, Litchfield, Connecticut, USA
Death: 1776Revolutionary, War
2 years
step-daughter
17561776
Birth: July 5, 1756 32 27Woodbury, Litchfield, Connecticut, USA
Death: July 5, 1776
3 years
step-son
1759
Birth: December 1, 1759 35 31Woodbury, Litchfield, Connecticut, USA
Death:
2 years
step-son
17621847
Birth: April 15, 1762 38 33Bethlehem, Litchfield, Connecticut, USA
Death: January 27, 1847Bergen, Genesee, New York, USA
2 years
step-daughter
1764
Birth: July 20, 1764 40 36Woodbury, Litchfield, Connecticut, USA
Death:
2 years
step-daughter
17661770
Birth: December 2, 1766 42 38Woodbury, Litchfield, Connecticut, USA
Death: 1770
3 years
step-son
17691857
Birth: October 19, 1769 45 41Woodbury, Litchfield, Connecticut, USA
Death: May 8, 1857
6 years
step-daughter
1775
Birth: July 5, 1775 51 46Woodbury, Litchfield, Connecticut, USA
Death:
Note

BIRTH: Year calculated from age at death. FAMILY: Her parents have not been found, nor her birth. However, it should be noted that Capt. Joseph Bird was one of the original proprietors of Goshen, purchasing land in 1837. (Rev. A. G. Hibbard, <i>History of the Town of Goshen</i>, 1897: Hartford, FHL book 974.61/G1 H2h p. 317.) DEATH: Congregational Church Records of Woodbury, FHL 6181, item 3: Deaths in Woodbury by William Cothren: "Wife of Jonathan Churchill, age 65, d. Feb. 1, 1803."

Note

There is no marriage record because vital records weren't well kept at that time in Woodbury. However, we know they married about 1799 from the following and from Mary's death record. “Mary Bird’s lease from Jonathan Churchill, 1799: Know all men by these presents that I Jonathan Churchill of Woodbury in the county of Litchfield and state of Connecticut for the consideration of the love and sincere affection I have for Mary Bird of the town of Bethlem in the county and state aforesaid whom I expect to marry and being desirous if she should live beyond my appointed time of life that she may have some comfortable expectation of support in her old age..." Marriage record has not been found. (Woodbury Land Records, Vol 29, FHL film 6162, item 2, p. 210.)

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