Mary Weld1

#12512, (say 1680 - )

Family 1

David Alexander b. s 1675, d. 1704
Child 1.Mary Alexander9 (1702 - )

Family 2

Samuel Smead b. 1669, d. 1731
Children 1.Mary Smead10 (1708 - )
 2.Sarah Smead10 (1709/10 - )
 3.William Smead10 (1712 - 1712)
 4.Marcy Smead10 (1714 - )
 5.Samuel Smead Jr.10 (1718/19 - )
Her married name was Alexander.2 
Her married name was Smead.1 
Birth*say 1680She was born say 1680.1 
Marriage*3 July 1701She married David Alexander on 3 July 1701 at Deerfield, Massachusetts.3 
29 February 1703/4She was captured in the Deerfield Raid and Massacre on 29 February 1703/4 at Massachusetts. She was later redeemed; Deerfield French and Indian raid.4,5,6,7 
Marriage*18 April 1707She married Samuel Smead, son of William Smead Jr and Elizabeth Lawrence, on 18 April 1707 at Massachusetts.8 

Citations

  1. [S762] Thomas W. Baldwin, compiler, Vital Records of Deerfield Massachusetts, to the Year 1850 (Boston: Wright & Potter Printing Company, 1920), p. 230, as Smeed: "Samuel, widr., and wid. Mary Alexander, Apr. 18, 1707." MarWeld's husband, David, was killed in the Deerfield Raid.
  2. [S762] Thomas W. Baldwin, Vital Records of Deerfield, p. 148: "David Alexander and Mary Welld."
  3. [S762] Thomas W. Baldwin, Vital Records of Deerfield, p. 148: "David Alexander and Mary Welld." David was killed in the Deerfield Indian Raid in 1704. His wife Mary, age 36, and their dau., Mary, were taken captive (Sheldon History of Deerfield I:308). The wife was later redeemed and married Samuel. Source: Captors and Captives: The 1704 French and Indian Raid on Deerfield, Evan Haefeli, Kevin Sweeney (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2005).
  4. [S1512] John Williams, The Redeemed Captive Returning to Zion (Boston: Samuel Hall, 1795). Reprinted Springfield, Mass.: H. R. Huntting Co., 1908, pp. 171-172. Hereinafter cited as Redeemed Captive Returning to Zion.
  5. [S741] George Sheldon, History of Deerfield, Massachusetts, Volume 1 (Greenfield, Mass.: E.A. Hall and Co., 1895), 308, 309. Has Henry Nims as age 12. He was 22.
  6. [S741] George Sheldon, History of Deerfield I, p. 304-05.
  7. [S1230] Emma Lewis Coleman, New England Captives Carried to Canada between 1677 and 1760. Two volumes (Portland, Maine: The Southworth Press, 1925).
  8. [S762] Thomas W. Baldwin, Vital Records of Deerfield, p. 230, as Smeed: "Samuel, widr., and wid. Mary Alexander, Apr. 18, 1707." Mary Weld's husband, David, was killed in the Deerfield Raid. Mary, age 36, and their dau., Mary, were taken captive (Sheldon History of Deerfield I:308). The wife was later redeemed and married Samuel. Source: Captors and Captives: The 1704 French and Indian Raid on Deerfield, Evan Haefeli, Kevin Sweeney (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2005).
  9. [S762] Thomas W. Baldwin, Vital Records of Deerfield, p. 9.
  10. [S1229] Massachusetts Town and Vital Records: Deerfield 1675–1898, Holbrook Research Institute (Jay and Delene Holbrook), compiler, Provo, UT and Oxford, MA, transcript, p. 182, img 116/481, births and deaths in Samuel Smead's Family.