Mary (Maplet) Gorton (bef. 1609 - aft. 1670)

Born before 12 Mar 1609 in London, London, England

Ancestors

Wife of Samuel Gorton Sr. — married 20 May 1628 in St Mary Magdalene, Old Fish Street, City of London, London, England

Descendants

Died after 1670 after age 60 in Portsmouth, Newport, Rhode Island

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[Note: Death date: She is mentioned in the will of her brother April 13, 1670; assume she was still alive at this time. ]

Biography

Mary Maplet was baptized at St. Lawrence Jewry, London England on March 12, 1608/9, daughter of John Maplet, haberdasher, and his second wife Mary ___. ^[1]

Mary married May 20, 1628 at St Mary Magdalene, Old Fish Street, City of London, London, England to Samuel Gorton. "Samuel Gorton of the parish of Michnells Bassisham to Mary Maplet spinster of S Lavano in the Old "Jury." ^[2]

Mary is named in her father's will of January 11, 1629/30, as my daughter Mary Gorton. ^[1] Her husband Samuel was baptized at Manchester England on February 12, 1592/3, son of Thomas Gorton of Manchester and his second wife Anne ___. (Vol. 82: p. 340) ^[3]

Her mother widow Mary Mayplett of London, in her will of December 7, 1646, leaves bequests to her daughter Mary, wife of Samuel Gorton of New England. ^[1]

In the April 13, 1670 will of her brother John Maplett of Bath, Somerset, he left bequests to 'my dear sister' Mrs. Mary Gorton of New England and her children. ^[1]

Samuel and Mary arrived at Boston in March 1636/7, with son Samuel aged about six and one or more other children. ^[4]

Samuel and Mary were of Plymouth Colony by 1637, they removed to Rhode Island, being of Portsmouth in 1639 and of Warwick in 1642. ^{[3] [5] [6]}

Children

1. Samuel born about 1630; married Susanna Burton. ^{[3] [7]}
2. john born ___; died February 3, 1713/4; married Margaret Wheaton/Weston on June 28, 1668. ^{[3] [7]}
3. Benjamin born ___; married Sarah Carder on December 5, 1672. ^{[3] [7]}
4. Mahershalalhasbaz (sic) born ___; married Daniel Cole. ^[3]
5. Mary born ___; died before 1688; married first Peter Greene of Warwick; married second John Sanford of Portsmouth. ^[3]
6. Sarah born ___; married William Mace. ^[3]
7. Ann born ___; married John Warner on August 4, 1670. ^{[3] [7]}
8. Elizabeth born ___; married John Crandall Jr. on June 18, 1672/3. ^{[3] [7]}
9. Susanna born ___; married Benjamin Barton on June 18, 1672. ^[3][7]

Source notes

Baptisms: Cathedral Church of Manchester Co.,, Lancaster

1592: Samuel son of Thomas Gortonne, 12 February [1592/3] (p. 91)^[3]

Warwick Marriages

1-3: Gorton John, and Margaret Weston; m. by John Greene, Asst., Jan. 25, 1665 (p. 46).

1-4: Gorton, Anna and John Warner, Aug. 7, 1670. (p. 46)

1-5: Gorton, Elizabeth and John Crandall Jr., June 18, 1672. (p. 46)

1-5: Gorton, Susan and Benjamin Barton, June 18, 1672. (p. 46)

1-5 Gorton, Benjamin and Sarah Carder, of Richard; m. by John Greene, Justice, Dec. 5, 1672. (p. 47)

1-7: Gorton, Samuel, and Susannah Burton, of William and Hannah; m. by John Greene, Justice, Dec. 11, 1684. (p. 48)

Warwick Deaths

1-12: Gorton, Samuel July 22, 1672. (p. 163)

2-3: Gorton, John, Sr., died Feb. 3, 1713/4. (p. 163)

1-12: Gorton, Samuel died June 5, 1721. (p. 163)

2-5: Gorton, Benjamin died Dec. 25, 1699. (p. 163)

2-5: " , Sarah his wife died Aug. 1, 1724. (p. 163)^[7]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3} Chamberlain, George Walter. The Ancestry of Mary Maplett Wife of Samuel Gorton of New England , The New England Historical & Genealogical Register (NEHGS, Boston, Mass., 1916) Vol. 70, Page 115-8.
2. ↑ St Mary Magdalene, Old Fish Street, City of London by subscription at: https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/1624/31281_a101952-00075?pid=7521427
3. ↑ ^{3.00 3.01 3.02 3.03 3.04 3.05 3.06 3.07 3.08 3.09 3.10 3.11} Vital Records from The NEHGS Register. Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2014. (Compiled from articles originally published in The New England Historical and Genealogical Register.)
4. ↑ The Life and Times of Samuel Gorton: The Founders and the Founding of the Republic : a Section of Early United States History and a History of the Colony of Providence and Rhode Island Plantations in the Narragansett Indian Country Now the State of Rhode Island, 1592-1636-1677-1687 : with a Genealogy of Samuel Gorton's Descendants to the Present Time, by Adelos Gorton, G.S. Ferguson Company, printers, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1907
5. ↑ Rhode Island, a Guide to the Smallest State, compiled by Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration for the State of Rhode Island, Houghton, Mifflin Co., Boston, 1937
6. ↑ State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations at the End of the Century: A History, Volume 1, by Edward Field, Mason Publishing Company, Boston, Massachusetts, 1902
7. ↑ ^{7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 7.5 7.6} Vital Record of Rhode Island 1636-1850, First Series -Births, Marriages and Deaths, Vol. I Kent County, by James N. Arnold, Narragansett Historical Pulbishing Co., Providence, RI, 1891

Mary Maplet was born after 1550 at Northall, Middlesex, England. B. :: ABT 1589 England. She married Samuel Gorton.

Mary Elizabeth "Mary Elizabeth MAPLETT Gorton" Gorton (born Maplet), 1608 - 1677

Mary Elizabeth Gorton (born Maplet) was born on month day 1608, at birth place, to Rev. John Maplett, Jr. and Mary Maplet (born Ellen). Rev was born on November 28 1581, in Northall (now No, Middlesex, England. Mary was born circa 1572, in Of St. Lawrence, Jewry, London, England. Mary was baptized on month day 1609, at baptism place. She had 9 siblings: Infant Maplet, Stillborn Child Maplet and 7 other siblings. Mary married Samuel Gorton,. Samuel was born on February 12 1593, in Gorton, Lancashire, England. His occupation was Clothier, sectary, assistant, fifth president of Providence and Warwick, commissioner, and deputy, 5th president of providence and warwick. They had 2 children: John Gorton (Grorton) and one other child. Mary passed away on month day 1677, at age 69 at death place. She was buried in month 1646, at burial place, Rhode Island.

Mary Elizabeth "Mary Elizabeth MAPLETT Gorton" Gorton (born Maplet) in The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1916

"... Matthew, notice 184 Chafylld, see Chatfield Chamberlain, George Walter The ancestry of Mary Maplett, wife of Samuel Gorton of New England 115 The redeemed captives of 1747 260 Report of the Committee on Collection ..." Publication place: Boston, Massachusetts, USA Publication date: 1916

She is listed as being “of Warwick, RI”.1356

She was baptized 12 March 1608/9 at the parish church on London’s Milk Street known as St. Lawrence Jewry and St. Mary Magdlene, London.1368

“From the Registers of the Parish of St. Lawrence Jewry, London, 1538-1638 Christenings . . . 1608 Mary daughter of John Maplet haberd. 12 March [1608/9].” 1371

“Samuel married Mary Maplett shortly before 1630. Mary was the daughter of John Mayplet, haberdasher of St. Lawrence Jewry, London and his wife Mary. The Rev. John Mayplet BA, MA was Mary’s grandfather and her brother was Dr. John Mayplet, BA MA, MD, physician to Charles II.” 1392

“Mary, bapt. 12 Mar. 1608/9; m. before 11 Jan. 1629/30 Samuel Gorton, afterwards well-known in the history of new England; a legatee in the will of her brother, Dr. John Maplett, which was signed 31 July 1670.” 1371

“She came from a well-known, affluent family. . . The circumstance ofher growing up in a family of culture and station would justify Samuel’s later assertion that his wife ‘had bin as tenderly brought up as was any man’s wife than in that towne [Plymouth in New England]. Sixteen years younger than her husband and raised in such genteel, urban surroundings, Mary much have been a woman of great character and strength to have survived the vicissitudes of the tumultuous life which spanned their many years together. She outlived her husband, but the date of her death is not known. She bore him nine surviving children, one or more of them before leaving the gentle shores of England for the wildrness. Once there, in New England, she accompanied her husband bravely as the Gorton family moved six times in six years to different frontier settlements, facing hazards of hostile Indians and no less hostile Puritan countrymen. Pregnant in the supposed security of their sixth homestead, she was chased out f their Shawomet home, along with other wives and children, by a raiding party of 40 armed militia and hords of shrieking Indians, escaping only barely with her life. She later maintained a home for their numberous children for four years while Samuel was away on an important mission to England. It is not too much to assume that she must have been a woman of great inner resources and a steadying influence on her volatile husband or else he would not have sucessfully made the transition from fire-brand to elder statesman.”1399

“The wills of Mrs. Mary Mayplett of London and Dr. John Maplett of Bath, discovered by Mr. Henry F. Waters and published in the Register for 1890, p. 384, and 1892, p. 153, prove that Samuel Gorton’s wife was Mary Maplett, who parentage would seem to justify the statement that ‘she had been as tenderly nurtured as any man’s wife in Plymouth.’ Judge Brayton in his ‘Defence of Gorton,;’ and Mr. Austin, call the wife Elizabeth, and ithas been suggested that two sets of cildren are rather indicated by Gorton’s special bequest to his eldest son Samuel for helping ‘me bring up my family when my children were young’; but the third son, Benjamin, named a child Maplet, and if Gorton had lost a first wife in New England it would hardly have escaped notice. Mrs. Mayplett’s will refers to her daughter Mary, wife of Samuel Gorton, in New England, and Dr. Maplett made bequests to his sister, Mrs. Mary Gorton of New England, and to each of her children.“1378

“It appears, therefore, that Mrs. Samuel Groton was Mary, daughter of John Maplett, gent. of St. Martin’s le Grand, London, and Mary, his wife, and that her family probably bore arms, although it must be added that the heraldic ordinaries do not mention them. In fact, Maplett must be a very uncommon name, for an extended search through tables of English names has revealed only the following other instances . . . From these few instances the name would seem to have been chiefly associated with Cumberland.” 1378

“Gorton, Samuel, of London and of New England, clothier, bapt. at Manchester, Eng., 12 Feb. 1592/3; living 11 Aug. 1674; m. before 11 Jan. 1629/30 Mary Maplett, bapt. in the parish of St. Lawrence Jewry, London, 12 Mar. 1608/9, a legatee in the will of her brother, John Maplett of Bath, co. Somerset, Eng., ‘Doctor of Physick,’ dated 13 Apr. 1670, daughter of John Maplett of London, haberdasher, and his second wife, Mary (____).” 1361

“the wills of Mary Mayplett of London, widow, and Dr. John Maplett of Bath, co. Somerset, were discovered in England by the late Henry FitzGilbert Waters, Esq., and abstracts of them were published in the Register in 1890 and 1892. They rpoved that the wife of Samuel Gorton, whose controversies with the authorities of the Plymouth Colony and the Massachusetts Bay Colony have been often described, was not Elizabeth (____), as Austin and other had stated, but Mary (Maplett). These wills seems also, as a contributor to the Register (vol. 51, pp. 199-200) pointed out, to justify the assertion of Gorton that his wife ‘had bin as tenderly brought up as was any man’s wife then in that towne [Plymouth in New England].’ The same contributor suggested that Mary (Maplett) Gorton might have been the granddaughter of Rev. John Maplet of Northall, co Middlesex, through his son John. The wills of this Rev. John Maplet and his son John hae recently been found, and they, with certain show that this suggested ancestry of Mary (Maplett) Gorton is the correct ancestry. Abstracts of these wills and of the two discovered by Mr. Waters, with other English records, are given below, and are followed by a brief pedigree showing the descent of Mary (Maplett) Gorton and her brothers and sisters from Rev. John Maplet of Northall.” 1371

NameMary Maplet1356

Birthbef 12 Mar 1608/91368,596,1361,1371 Christen12 Mar 1608/9, Parish Church Of St. Lawrence Jewry, London, England1242,596,1361,1371 DeathDec 1677, Warwick596 FatherJohn Maplet (>1571-<1629) MotherMary (-<1647) Spouses 1Samuel Gorton1356 Birthbef 12 Feb 1592/3, Gorton, Lancashire, England1368,1369,596,1370,1361 Deathbef 10 Dec 1677, Warwick, RI1242 OccupationHaberdasher FatherThomas Gorton (-<1610) MotherAnne (-<1623) Marriagebef 11 Jan 1629/30, England1368,1369,596,1361,1371 ChildrenMary (-<1688)

She was “a legatee in the will of her brother, Dr. John Maplett, which was signed 31 july 1670.” 1371

“The nuncupative Will of Mr John Maplettt [her father] of the parish of St. Lawrence in the old Jury [London], 11 January 1629 [1629/30]. Memorandum that on the 11th day of January, 1629, about seven o’clock in the morning, Mr John Maplett of the parish of St. Lawrence in teh old Jury sent for Mr William King of the same parish to come and speak with him, he being sick in body but sound in mind & memory, and he told Mr King that he prepared himself for another world, but that his desire was to make known that he appointed his wife Mary Maplett his sole executrix, & did give her his whole estate to dispose of to his children as she thought fitting, and did also bequeath to his dauther Mary Gorton forty shillings: Mr King urged him to give a better legacy to his said daughter but he answered again that he had given her a great portion in marriage, & that he knew not how his estate would fall out. Therefore he concluded this to be his last will & testament. [Witnesses:] John Maplett, William Kinges, Elizabeth ffreeman, William ffreeman, John Maplett, Susanna Kinge. Proved 15 January 1629/30 by Marie Maplett, relict and sole executrix nominated in said will, William Kinge and Susanna King bearing witness that this was the last will and testament made by said deceased. (P.C.C., Scroope, 6).” 1371

“Mary Mayplett [her mother] of London, widow, 7 December 1646, proved 10 April 1647. Imprisis I give and bequeath unto my daughter Mary Gorton, wife of Samuel Gorton living in New England, all the money which her said husband Samuel Gorton doth owe me, and a breed of cattle which he hath of mine. Item I give and bequeath unto my said daughter Mary the sum of ten pounds of lawful money of England to buy her mourning; to be paid by my executor within one year next after my decease. To my daughter Elizabeth Ham and to her husband William Ham the like sum of ten pounds, between them, to buy them mourning. To my sister Elizabeth Freeman, widow, six pounds to buy her mourning. To my grandchild Samuel Chapleine, son of my said daughter Elizabeth Ham by her former husband, the sum of twenty pounds, which I have lent to the Parliament upon the public faith, and all the interest, profit and increase that shall accrue, and arise thereof. To Mr. Joane Joyner twenty shillings. To Mrs. Elizabeth Warrington ten shillings. To Mrs. Elizabeth Swann, widow, ten shillings. The residue to my son John Mayplett, whom I make and ordain sole executor. Fines, 69. [We have here the Christian, and probably the family name of the wife of the famous Samuel Gorton of Warwick, R.I., author of Simplicity’s defence against Seven Headed Policy. - Editor.]” 1400

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• The New England Historical and Genealogical Register,: Volume 51 1897 By New-England Historic

• Mary Elizabeth "Mary Elizabeth MAPLETT Gorton" Gorton (born Maplet), 1608 - 1677

• Fleming Family History - Person Sheet