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Mercy Bell

Female 1678 -


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  • Name Mercy Bell  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5
    Birth 5 Nov 1678  Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location  [4, 5, 6, 7, 8
    Gender Female 
    Notes 
    • Samuel Hoyt married Mercy Holmes; widow of John Holmes, and daughter of Capt. Jonatan Bell; she married 15 Jun 1716, Peter Ferris.

      Mercy, widow of John Holmes, married second, Thomas Mulford, June 19, 1712, issue: Elisha Daniel, Barnabas, Thomas. Mercy, wife of Thomas Muford, died May 17, 1737, and is buried at East Hampton, L.I. [9, 10]
    Person ID I39274  Mindrum
    Last Modified 13 Jun 2021 

    Father Jonathan Bell,   b. Sep 1641, Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 11 Mar 1698/9, Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 57 years) 
    Mother Susannah Pierson   d. 4 Jan 1706/7, Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Marriage 31 Oct 1672  Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location  [6, 8, 11, 12, 13
    Family ID F26952  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 John Holmes,   b. Abt 1675, Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 6 Jul 1703, Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 28 years) 
    Marriage 15 Jan 1701/2  Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location  [4, 7, 14, 15
    Family ID F26780  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 9 Jun 2021 

    Family 2 Samuel Hoyt,   b. 27 Jul 1673, Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 9 Dec 1711, Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 38 years) 
    Marriage 13 Jul 1704  [1, 3
    Family ID F26741  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 24 May 2015 

    Family 3 Peter Ferris,   b. Abt 1661   d. 2 Jan 1736/7, Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 76 years) 
    Marriage 15 Jun 1716  Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 4, 16
    Family ID F9364  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 30 Jun 2015 

    Family 4 Dr. Richard Barnum   d. Dec 
    Family ID F18737  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 14 Aug 2015 

  • Sources 
    1. [S1701] Donald L. Jacobus, History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield, History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield, (Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Co., New Haven, CT, 1930), p. I:61, p. I:297.

    2. [S2762] Frederick C. Hart, Jr., Connecticut Ancestry, August 2008, Vol. 51, No. 1, Ancestry of William Weed, Part 13: Ferris, p. 10.

    3. [S295] Hoyt, David W., A Genealogical History of the Hoyt, Haight, and Hight Families, A Genealogical History of the Hoyt, Haight, and Hight Families, (Providence Press Co., Boston, 1871), p. 319, 7 Feb 2003.

    4. [S4566] Paul W. Prindle, Ancestry of Elizabeth Barrett Gillespie, (1976), p. 272.

    5. [S7091] Ellery B. Crane, Genealogy of the Crane Family, Vol. II, (Press of Charles Hamilton, Worcester, MA 1900), p. 303.

    6. [S8425] Stamford Town Meeting Records, 1630-1723, Transcribed 1886, Vol. 1, p. 108 (131).

    7. [S1701] Donald L. Jacobus, History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield, History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield, (Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Co., New Haven, CT, 1930), p. I:61.

    8. [S8952] E. B. Huntington, Stamford Registration of Births, Marriages and Deaths to 1825, Wm. W. Gillespie & Co., Stamford, 1874, p. 10.

    9. [S1701] Donald L. Jacobus, History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield, History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield, (Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Co., New Haven, CT, 1930), p. I:297.

    10. [S6881] John V. Hecker, New York Genealogical Biographical Record, Vol. 28, 1897, Genealogy of the Bell Family, p. 202.

    11. [S1701] Donald L. Jacobus, History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield, History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield, (Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Co., New Haven, CT, 1930), p. I:60.

    12. [S3331] Lyman H. Weeks, The Bell Family in America, p. 12.

    13. [S7091] Ellery B. Crane, Genealogy of the Crane Family, Vol. II, (Press of Charles Hamilton, Worcester, MA 1900), p. 302.

    14. [S8425] Stamford Town Meeting Records, 1630-1723, Transcribed 1886, Vol. 1, p. 123 (155).

    15. [S8952] E. B. Huntington, Stamford Registration of Births, Marriages and Deaths to 1825, Wm. W. Gillespie & Co., Stamford, 1874, p. 45.

    16. [S1701] Donald L. Jacobus, History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield, History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield, (Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Co., New Haven, CT, 1930), p. 61, p. 320.