Individual Details

Mary Connable

(1747 - April 1, 1821)

Mary Connable was born in 1747 in Bernardston, Massachusetts to Samuel and Mary English Connable. She was a teacher and ‘a remarkably ingenious, enterprising and industrious woman’. She built a water wheel near her home, stayed single and lived her whole life in the home she was born in which her brother John, then nephew Joseph inherited with a room given to Mary: the south lower room.

Events

Birth1747Bernardston, British America
Will1821Bernardston, Franklin, Massachusetts, United States
DeathApril 1, 1821Bernardston, Franklin, Massachusetts, United States
ProbateOctober 9, 1821Bernardston, Franklin, Massachusetts, United States
BurialOld Cemetery, Bernardston, Franklin, Massachusetts, United States
OccupationInventor
OccupationTeacher

Families

FatherSamuel Connable (1717 - 1796)
MotherMary English (1715 - 1791)
SiblingSamuel Connable (1743 - 1794)
SiblingJohn Connable (1749 - 1813)
SiblingRebecca Connable (1755 - 1816)
SiblingElizabeth Connable (1757 - 1821)

Endnotes

1. Ancestry.com. Massachusetts, Wills and Probate Records, 1635-1991, Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015., Franklin Probate Files, 1079-1113 image 1010 of 1066.

2. Ancestry.com. Massachusetts, Wills and Probate Records, 1635-1991, Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015., Franklin Probate Files, 1079-1113 image 1010 of 1066.

3. Connable, Edwards Joseph. Genealogical memoir of the Cunnabell, Conable Or Connable family, Jackson, Mich., Daily Citizen Book Printing House, 1886, Volume 1 Page 53 John Cunnabell and His Descendants.

4. , "FindAGrave.com," online database, Find a Grave ( http://www.findagrave.com : accessed ), .

5. Connable, Edwards Joseph. Genealogical memoir of the Cunnabell, Conable Or Connable family, Jackson, Mich., Daily Citizen Book Printing House, 1886, Volume 1 Page 53 John Cunnabell and His Descendants.

6. Kellogg, Lucy Jane (Cutler). History of the Town of Bernardston, Franklin County, Massachusetts. 1736-1900: With Genealogies. Greenfield, Mass.: Press of E.A. Hall and co., 1902, Page 354.

7. Connable, Edwards Joseph. Genealogical memoir of the Cunnabell, Conable Or Connable family, Jackson, Mich., Daily Citizen Book Printing House, 1886, Volume 1 Page 53 John Cunnabell and His Descendants.

8. Kellogg, Lucy Jane (Cutler). History of the Town of Bernardston, Franklin County, Massachusetts. 1736-1900: With Genealogies. Greenfield, Mass.: Press of E.A. Hall and co., 1902, Page 354.