Deborah (Church) Throop (1677 - 1752)

Born 13 Mar 1677 in Hingham, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay

Ancestors

Wife of Samuel Gray — married 13 Jul 1699 (to 23 Mar 1712) in Little Compton, Newport, Rhode Island

Wife of Dan Throop — married 21 Jan 1713 in Little Compton, Colony of Rhode Island

Descendants

Died 8 Jun 1752 at age 75 in Lebanon, New London, Connecticut

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Biography

Deborah Church, the ninth child of Joseph Church and Mary Tucker, was born in Hingham, Massachusetts 13 March 1676/7.^[1]

Deborah Church married Samuel Gray 13 July 1699. They had Samuel (1700), John (1701), Dorothy (1704), Joseph (1706), Lydia (1707), Simeon (1709) and Ignatius (1711).^[2]

Samuel Gray died 23 March 1712 in Little Compton, Rhode Island. On 21 January 1713, she married Dan Throop^[3]. They had Dan (1715) and Joseph (1717).

Burial

Old Cemetery, Lebanon, New London, Connecticut

Sources

1. ↑ Robert S. Wakefield, F.A.S.G. "The Children and Purported Children of Richard and Elizabeth (Warren) Church", The American Genealogist, Vol. 60, No. 3, July 1984, page 133.
2. ↑ Church, John A., Descendants of Richard Church of Plymouth, Mass. (Tuttle Co., Rutland, Vermont, 1913) Page 16, 38, 39.
3. ↑ Rhode Island: Vital Records, 1636-1850. (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2014), Originally Published as: Vital record of Rhode Island 1636-1850: First Series: births, marriages and deaths: a family register for the people, by James N. Arnold. Providence, RI: Narragansett Historical Publishing Company. https://www.americanancestors.org/DB532/rd/14343/6-65/260882622

• Mitchell, Nahum. History of the Early Settlement of Bridgewater, in Plymouth County, Massachusetts (Kidder & Wright, Boston, 1840) Page 384: In her father's will she is listed as "Deborah Gray".
• Wilbour, Benjamin Franklin. Little Compton Families (Genealogical Publishing Co., 1997, 1998, 2000, 2003)
• Clarke, Augustus Peck. Clarke's Kindred Genealogies (Harvard Print. Co., Cambridge, Mass., 1896) Page 78
• History of the Town of Hingham, Massachusetts (The Town of Hingham, Massachusetts, 1893): Vol II, p.126
• Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/46181013/deborah-gray_throope : accessed 26 August 2021), memorial page for Deborah Church Gray Throope (12 Mar 1672–8 Jun 1752), Find A Grave: Memorial #46181013, citing Old Cemetery, Lebanon, New London County, Connecticut, USA ; Maintained by John Beckstein (contributor 46939506) .