1. | Lydia Dumbleton was born about 1661 in Springfield, Non-County Area 1, Massachusetts Bay Colony (daughter of John Dumbleton and Mercy Marshfield); died about 1739 in Springfield, Hampshire Co, Massachusetts. Notes: From the Cooley Genealogy p 451 "Daniel Cooley married again, in 1709, the widow of Jonathan Burt, Lydia by name, daughter of John and Mercy Dumbleton." Lydia married Daniel Cooley on 17 Jun 1709 in Springfield, Hampshire Co, Massachusetts. Daniel (son of Benjamin1 Cooley and Sarah (wife of Ensign Benjamin Cooley) [?]) was born on 2 May 1651 in Springfield, Non-County Area 1, Massachusetts Bay Colony; died on 9 Feb 1726/27 in Springfield, Hampshire Co, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart] Lydia married Jonathan Burt on 8 Dec 1681 in Springfield, Hampshire Co, Massachusetts. Jonathan was born on 12 Sep 1654 in Springfield, Non-County Area 1, Massachusetts Bay Colony; died on 19 Jun 1704 in Springfield, Hampshire Co, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart] |
2. | John Dumbleton was born about 1625 in England; died on 27 Jul 1702 in Springfield, Hampshire Co, Massachusetts. Notes: John Dumbleton was born abt 1625 in England, son of Jonathan Dumbleton and Mercy ______ who had ten children in toto. John married Mercy Marshfield before 1650 in Springfield, Non-County Area 1, Massachusetts Bay Colony. Mercy (daughter of Thomas Marshfield and Mercy (Wife of Thomas Marshfield) [?]) was born about 1627 in Exeter, Devonshire, England; died on 4 Jul 1704 in Springfield, Hampshire Co, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart] |
3. | Mercy Marshfield was born about 1627 in Exeter, Devonshire, England (daughter of Thomas Marshfield and Mercy (Wife of Thomas Marshfield) [?]); died on 4 Jul 1704 in Springfield, Hampshire Co, Massachusetts. Notes: The evidence that Mercy Jr was the daughter of Thomas Marshfield and Mercy Sr is circumstantial but Douglas Richardson in the American Genealogists makes a compelling case that she was. Furthermore, the marriage of John Dumbleton and Mercy Marshfield Jr is also based on circumstantial evidence (her husband could have been no other than John Dumbleton at that time in Springfield).
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6. | Thomas Marshfield was born about 1601 in England; died between 1644 and 1649. Notes: Thomas Marshfield has been the subject of many books and articles largely due to his being a disreputable merchant who caused an uproar in the Towne of Windsor for the entire decade of the 1640s. To top it all off, he disappeared leaving his family destitute and his wife the subject of witchcraft rumors that eventually drove her out of town. He emigrated from Exeter, Devonshire, England to Dorchester, Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1630 on the Regard of Barnstaple. He was accompanied by his unnamed wife, daughters Sara and Mercy, and son Samuel. Thomas married Mercy (Wife of Thomas Marshfield) [?] about 1632 in England. Mercy was born about 1605 in Exeter, Devonshire, England; was buried on 30 Sep 1654 in Springfield, Massachusetts Bay Colony. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart] |
7. | Mercy (Wife of Thomas Marshfield) [?] was born about 1605 in Exeter, Devonshire, England; was buried on 30 Sep 1654 in Springfield, Massachusetts Bay Colony. Notes: In the late 1630s Mercy's husband had become so embroiled in debt problems he disappeared from Windsor never to be heard from again. In doing so, his family bore the brunt of the towne's ill will. Mercy was shunned by Windsor's society with "much rancor and resentment toward her because of her husband's treachery". By 1649 she had fled to Springfield but all was not well even there. In a "Pynchon Court Record" for 29-30 May 1649 Mary Parsons, herself later convicted of witchcraft by the General Court and sentenced to hang, had reported that Mercy "was suspected to be a witch when she lived in Windsor and it was publikely knowen that the devill followed her house in Windsor". Mercy fought back by bringing a court action against Mary Parsons for making a false accusation. Mercy was in luck, because Mary Parsons's reputation was even worse than hers. Mary was sentenced to be whipped and to pay
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