Individual Details

Mercy Hurd

(Abt 1614/15 - 23 Dec 1693)

Mercy Hurd, who is said to have come with her sister alone from England Mercy was 10 or 15 years younger than her husband, and that, persecuted in England for nonconformity, she came to New England with her sister, who married William (?) Cutter. Mercy Hurd married for her second husband, 1 March 1655, Edmund Rice, then of Sudbury, but who removed in 1660 to Marlboro, where he died 3 May 1663. On Mar 26, 1676, she was with the people of Marlboro when assembled in their meeting house for worship when the alarm was sounded and they barely reached the garrison house in time to find safety from the attacking Indians, who burned houses and barns and destroyed orchards and cattle. The people shortly retreated to the towns to the eastward, where they remained for some months until peace was assured. Notes from The History of the Brigham Family from the New Hampshire Historic Society 20 Park Street, Concord, New Hampshire, obtained by Ken and Susan Barbi on August 12, 2000.

Events

BirthAbt 1614/15England
Marriage1637Marlborough, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States - Thomas Brigham
MarriageAbt 1636/37Thomas Brigham
Marriage1 Mar 1655Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States - Edmund Rice
Marriage1664William Hunt
Death23 Dec 1693Age: 80, Marlborough, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States
Alt nameMercy Brigham
Alt nameMercy Rice

Families

SpouseEdmund Rice (1593 - 1662)
ChildLiving
ChildLiving
SpouseWilliam Hunt ( - 1666)
SpouseThomas Brigham (1602 - 1654)
ChildMary Brigham (1638 - 1675)
ChildThomas Brigham (1640 - 1717)
ChildJohn Brigham (1644 - 1728)
ChildHannah Brigham (1649 - )
ChildSamuel Brigham (1651 - 1712)

Endnotes

1. Compiler: Orlin Prentice Fay, Fay genealogy : John Fay of Marlborough and his descendants (n.p: Press of J.B. Savage, Cleveland, Ohio, 1898, n.d), p.15.

2. Ancestry.com, U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970 (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011), SAR Membership Number: 99414.

3. Yates Publishing, U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004), Source number: 219.000; Source type: Electronic Database; Number of Pages: 1; Submitter Code: BDJ.

4. Dodd, Jordan, Liahona Research, comp, Massachusetts, Marriages, 1633-1850 (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2005).

5. Yates Publishing, U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004), Source number: 219.000; Source type: Electronic Database; Number of Pages: 1; Submitter Code: BDJ.

6. Dodd, Jordan, Liahona Research, comp, Massachusetts, Marriages, 1633-1850 (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2005).

7. Ellery Bicknell Crane, Historic Homes and Institutions and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs of Worcester County, Massachusetts, with a History of Worcester Society of Antiquity: With a History of Worcester Society of Antiquity, Volume: IV (n.p: The Lewis Publishing Company, New York - Chicago, 1907, n.d), 15.

8. Compiler: Orlin Prentice Fay, Fay genealogy : John Fay of Marlborough and his descendants (n.p: Press of J.B. Savage, Cleveland, Ohio, 1898, n.d), p.15.

9. Ellery Bicknell Crane, Historic Homes and Institutions and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs of Worcester County, Massachusetts, with a History of Worcester Society of Antiquity: With a History of Worcester Society of Antiquity, Volume: IV (n.p: The Lewis Publishing Company, New York - Chicago, 1907, n.d), 15.

10. Dodd, Jordan, Liahona Research, comp, Massachusetts, Marriages, 1633-1850 (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2005).

11. Ellery Bicknell Crane, Historic Homes and Institutions and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs of Worcester County, Massachusetts, with a History of Worcester Society of Antiquity: With a History of Worcester Society of Antiquity, Volume: IV (n.p: The Lewis Publishing Company, New York - Chicago, 1907, n.d), 15.

12. Ellery Bicknell Crane, Historic Homes and Institutions and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs of Worcester County, Massachusetts, with a History of Worcester Society of Antiquity: With a History of Worcester Society of Antiquity, Volume: IV (n.p: The Lewis Publishing Company, New York - Chicago, 1907, n.d), 15.

13. Dodd, Jordan, Liahona Research, comp, Massachusetts, Marriages, 1633-1850 (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2005).

14. Ellery Bicknell Crane, Historic Homes and Institutions and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs of Worcester County, Massachusetts, with a History of Worcester Society of Antiquity: With a History of Worcester Society of Antiquity, Volume: IV (n.p: The Lewis Publishing Company, New York - Chicago, 1907, n.d), 15.

15. Ancestry.com, Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988 (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011).

16. Ellery Bicknell Crane, Historic Homes and Institutions and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs of Worcester County, Massachusetts, with a History of Worcester Society of Antiquity: With a History of Worcester Society of Antiquity, Volume: IV (n.p: The Lewis Publishing Company, New York - Chicago, 1907, n.d), 15.

17. Ancestry.com, U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970 (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011), SAR Membership Number: 99414.