1. [[Category:Puritan_Great_Migration]] {{Puritan Great Migration|needs=Research|needs1=Biography}} == Biography == :Mary Brownson was baptized December 12, 1627 at Earls Colne, Essex, England.<ref> Baptism register 1620 to 1639 (D/P209/1/2) 12.10.1627 (Friday 12 October 1627) document 6702624 "Mary daughter of Jn Brownson and Fran Brownson christened 12.10.1627" </ref>the daughter of John Bronson<ref name=Sibley>[https://archive.org/stream/bronsonlineage1600sibl#page/11/mode/1up| Sibley, Harriet Bronson. ''"Bronson Lineage"'' 1636-1917] Dallas, Oregon. 1917, p. 11</ref> In 1635 she accompanied her parents to Massachussets, probablyon the "Defense" with other people from Earls Colne. She grew up in Hartford and married John Wyatt by 1647, John Graves perhaps in 1671, William Allis in 1679 and Samuel Gaylord in 1681. She died after 1694. Death:: She was living in 1694.<ref> Jacobus, Donald Lines . The ancestry of Lorenzo Ackley & his wife Emma Arabella Bosworth / compiled and published by N. Grier Parke, II; (Woodstock, Vt. : Elm Tree Press, 1960.)</ref> Jacobus does not state why he knows this, but somewhere there isa document signed or acknowledged by her in 1694. : After 22 SEP 1689 (the date of husband Samuel's will) :Find a grave says she died 1688, but she was alive still then.:Apparent incorrect report of being killed by Indians in the HatfieldMassacre on September 19, 1677. Her husband John Graves was killed in the massacre. According to Find a Grave she was buried Center Cemetery Whately, Franklin County, Massachusetts, USA<ref>{{FindAGrave|31733622|sameas=no}}</ref> This is however a very modern monument that says only Mary Wyatt (no dates) and may not even be her, and is probably not where she was buried. == Sources == <references /> * <span id='ECE'></span>''Earls Colne, Essex'': [http://linux02.lib.cam.ac.uk/earlscolne/ Records of an English Village 1375-1854] (Cambridge University)* <span id='Torrey'></span>Torrey, Clarence Almon. ''[[Space:Torrey’s New England Marriages Prior to 1700|Torrey’s New England Marriages Prior to 1700]]'' (Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. Baltimore, 1985)* Vol. III, p. 1729. WYATT, John (-1688) & Mary [BRONSON], m/2 John GRAVES 1671?, m/3 William ALLIS 1678, m/4 Samuel GAYLORD 1681; by 1647;Hartford/Farmington/Haddam, CT* <span id='Orcutt'></span>Orcutt, Samuel. ''[[Space:History of the Towns of New Milford and Bridgewater, Connecticut, 1703-1882|History ofthe Towns of New Milford and Bridgewater, Connecticut, 1703-1882]]'' (Case, Lockwood and Brainard Co., 1882)* <span id='Graves'></span>Graves, Gemont. ''[[Space:Graves GenealogyTraced from Thomas Graves|Graves Genealogy Traced from Thomas Graves]]'' (Free Press Printing Co., Burlington, VT, 1911) [https://books.google.com/books?id=fjNPAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA9 Page 9] *Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850 ::Wm., William, Lt. ALLYS 1678 ::Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts, United States ::June. 25. 1678 ::Leiut Wm Allys and widow Mary Graves Joined in Mariage Marriage *New England Marriages to 1700 :: John GRAVES 1671 ::Hadley, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States ::GRAVES, John (-1677) (below) & 2/wf Mary (BRONSON) WYATT, w John, ::m/3 William ALLES 1678,::m/4 Samuel GAYLORD 1681/[2?]; 20 Jul, ?25 Jul 1671, ca 1668, 20 Jul1671?;:: Hadley {Hale (1952) 577; Bassett (1926) 139; Dommerich Chart 21; Stevens-Miller 367; Warne Marriage ===See Also===*Holman, Mary Lovering. ''"Ancestry of Colonel John Harrington Stevens"'' Number 63 p. 367 "The Graves Line"[https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89067408831;view=1up;seq=391 link]*Jacobus, Donald Lines. ''"Hale, House and Related Families"'' Genealogical Pub. Co. Baltimore. 1978. p. 577.[https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89066151523;view=1up;seq=599 see at hathitrust]*Allis, Horatio D. ''"Genealogy of William Allis and Descendants"''Hartford, Conn. p. 5.[https://archive.org/stream/genealogyofwilli00alli#page/n24/mode/1up see at archive.org]*Massachusetts Marriages, 1695-1910 https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FC91-KQ9?from=lynx1&treeref=MCZY-DP3