Mary (Holmes) Scofield (abt. 1696 - aft. 1754)

Born about 1696 in Greenwich, Fairfield, Connecticut Colony [uncertain]

Ancestors

Wife of Caleb Mead — married Feb 1716 in Stamford, Fairfield County, Connecticut [uncertain]

Wife of John Scofield — married 17 Nov 1743 in Greenwich, Fairfield, Connecticut Colony

Descendants

Died after 5 Jul 1754 after about age 58 in Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut Colony [uncertain]

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Biography

Origin

Mary was born ca 1695 at Greenwich, Fairfield County, Connecticut, and she was a daughter of Stephen Holmes and Mary Hobby.^{[citation needed]}

Family

Mary married 16 February, 1716 in Greenwich, Fairfield County, Connecticut to Caleb Mead.^[1]

Children of Mary (Holmes) Mead and Caleb Mead:^[1]

1. Caleb Mead (Capt.) b 28 Oct 1716 Greenwich; mar Hannah Rundle
2. Stephen Mead b 26 Sept 1718
3. Mary Mead b 2 Jan 1720
4. Sarah Mead b 31 Dec 1722 in Greenwich
5. Abigail Mead b 12 Feb 1725
6. Jeremiah Mead b 13 Feb 1727 in Greenwich; mar Amy Lockwood
7. Titus Mead b 15 Sep 1729 in Greenwich; mar 1) Rachel Rundle, 2) Lucy Mumford, 3) Tamise Brown
8. Jemima Mead b abt 1731 in Greenwich; mar Ezra Smith Jr

Mary married second John Scofield, at Greenwich, Connecticut, November 17, 1743.^[2][3] Mary was the widow of Caleb Mead. Mary and John did not have children together.^[4]

Death and Legacy

Mary died after July 5, 1754, when her spouse, John, wrote his will naming her as well as her child, Jemima, by her first marriage.^[5]

Abstract of Caleb Mead's will reads:

Mead, Caleb, late of Greenwich, blacksmith, will dated Apl. 19, 1733, probated Dec, 4. 1733, mentions his wife Mary, and children Caleb, Jeremiah, Titus, Mary, Sarah, Abigail, and Jemima, Executors his brothers Ebenezer Mead and Jabes Mead, Witnesses Theophilus Peck, Eliphalet Mead, and Hezekiah Reynolds, page 52, Ap1. 7, 1741, Jeremiah Mead, son of decedent, made choice of Caleb Mead to be his guardian^[6].

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Mead, Spencer P. History and Genealogy of the Mead Family of Fairfield County, Connecticut, Eastern New York, Western Vermont, and Western Pennsylvania, from A.D. 1180 to 1900. (Page 273) New York: Knickerbocker, 1901, Web accessed July 15, 2014
2. ↑ E.B. Huntington, Stamford registration of births, marriages, and deaths : including every name, relationship, and date now found in the Stamford registers, from the first record down to the year 1825. Reference page 89 via InternetArchive
3. ↑ CTGenWeb.org, Reference John #21
4. ↑ Spencer P. Mead, Ye Historie of Ye Town of Greenwich, County of Fairfield and State of Connecticut: With Genealogical Notes, published 1911. Reference page 644
5. ↑ Ancestry $haring Link, Connecticut, U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 1609-1999 for John Scofield, Stamford District, Probate Records, Vol 1-3, 1728-1772 Reference pages 106-107 John Scofield Will
6. ↑ Mead, Spencer P., Abstract of probate records for the district of Stamford, (page 152), self published, 1919, Web accessed July 22, 2014