Individual Details
Mary "Polley" Brown
(19 Jul 1741 - 19 Jan 1812)
The wife, Mary, is described as "always pleasant and agreeable, apparently in good health very erect in figure with gentle, lady-like manners."
Events
| Birth | 19 Jul 1741 | Charlestown, Suffolk, Massachusetts, British America |  |  | |
| Marriage | 14 Dec 1758 | Charlestown, Suffolk, Massachusetts, British America - Captain Abiel Lovejoy | | ||
| Census (family) | 1790 | Vassalborough, Lincoln, Maine, United States - Captain Abiel Lovejoy | | | |
| Census (family) | 1800 | Sidney, Kennebec, Maine, United States - Captain Abiel Lovejoy | | | |
| Census (family) | 1810 | Sidney, Kennebec, Maine, United States - Captain Abiel Lovejoy | | | |
| Death | 19 Jan 1812 | Sidney, Kennebec, Maine, United States | | |
Families
| Spouse | Captain Abiel Lovejoy (1731 - 1811) |
| Child | Nathaniel Lovejoy (1759 - 1849) |
| Child | Mary D. "Polly" Lovejoy (1761 - 1789) |
| Child | Frances "Fanny" Lovejoy (1762 - 1812) |
| Child | Abiel Lovejoy Jr. (1764 - 1858) |
| Child | Thomas Lovejoy (1766 - 1817) |
| Child | Francis Lovejoy Sr. (1768 - 1841) |
| Child | Abigail "Nabby" Lovejoy (1770 - 1854) |
| Child | Sarah Lovejoy (1772 - 1821) |
| Child | Hannah Lovejoy (1773 - 1844) |
| Child | infant Lovejoy (1775 - 1775) |
| Child | Col. Stephen Lovejoy (1776 - 1859) |
| Child | William Lovejoy (1778 - 1872) |
| Child | Jacob Lovejoy (1780 - 1871) |
| Child | Betsy Lovejoy (1782 - 1810) |
| Child | infant Lovejoy (1784 - 1784) |
| Child | Phebe Lovejoy (1785 - 1871) |
| Father | Nathaniel Brown (1704 - 1797) |
| Mother | Abigail Colesworthy ( - ) |
| Sibling | Sarah Brown (1739 - 1754) |
| Sibling | Abigail Brown (1740 - ) |
| Sibling | Nathaniel Brown (1743 - 1744) |
| Sibling | Nathaniel Brown (1745 - ) |
| Sibling | Stephen Brown (1747 - 1748) |
| Sibling | Sarah Brown (1748 - 1819) |
| Sibling | Joseph Brown (1752 - 1824) |
| Sibling | James Brown ( - ) |
Notes
Birth
or March 29, 1734, but probably the former.Census (family)
Capt Lovejoy2 males 16+
8 males <16
5 females, Mary, Phebe, Betsy Hannah
Abiel Lovejoy 111
Mathew Hastings 102
Dodife Townsend 225
Census (family)
All on the same page as follows:Mathew Lincoln 21010 20010 (Sarah Lovejoys's husband)
David Smiley 31110 01210 (Frances Lovejoy's husband)
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Dodiver Townsen 11010 21100 (Father of Jacob Lovejoy's future wife Sarah Townsend)
Moses Hastings 11102 31103 (Possible father of Hannah Hastings, Stephen's wife?)
Stephen Lovejoy 00100 10100
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Abiel Lovejoy 00311 11202 2
Abiel Lovejoy Jr. 31010 21?10
Abiel Lovejoy:
3 men 16-26, Jacob (20) William (22)
1 man 26-45
1 man 45+, Abiel (69)
1 girl under 10
1 girl 10-16, Phebe (15)
2 women 16-26
2 women 45+, Mary (59) & ?
2 other free persons except Indians not taxed
Census (family)
Francis Lovejoy 10010 12010Abiel Lovejoy Jr. 01001 22002
Stephen Lovejoy 10011 30011
William Lovejoy 20010 10110
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Jacob Lovejoy 00010 00000
Stephen Lovejoy:
1 boy under 10
1 man 26-45, Stephen (34)
1 man 45+
3 girls under 10
1 woman 26-45, Hannah
1 woman 45+
The man and woman 45+ could be Stephen's parents, Abiel and Mary.
Death
Mary was stricken with paralysis the following December (after her husband's death), it is said, and died Jan. 19, 1812.Endnotes
1. Lovejoy, Clarence E., The Lovejoy genealogy with biographies and history, 1460-1930: especially recording the American descendants and the English ancestry of John Lovejoy (1622-1690) of Andover, Mass., and of Joseph Lovejoy (1684-1748) of Prince George County, Md., but also embracing all known data on other persons bearing the Lovejoy name whether or not identified with the emigrant ancestors (New York: Lovejoy, 1930), 80; digital images, Heritage Quest Online (http://persi.heritagequestonline.com : accessed 10 November 2009.
2. Arthur Wentworth Hamilton Eaton, The history of Kings County, Nova Scotia, heart of the Acadian land : giving a sketch of the French and their expulsion: and a history of the New England planters who came in their stead, with many genealogies, 1604-1910 (Salem, MA: The Salem Press Company, 1910), 587; digital images, Google Books (http://books.google.com : accessed 30 November 2009.
3. Lovejoy, Clarence E., The Lovejoy genealogy with biographies and history, 1460-1930: especially recording the American descendants and the English ancestry of John Lovejoy (1622-1690) of Andover, Mass., and of Joseph Lovejoy (1684-1748) of Prince George County, Md., but also embracing all known data on other persons bearing the Lovejoy name whether or not identified with the emigrant ancestors (New York: Lovejoy, 1930), 80; digital images, Heritage Quest Online (http://persi.heritagequestonline.com : accessed 10 November 2009.
4. Arthur Wentworth Hamilton Eaton, The history of Kings County, Nova Scotia, heart of the Acadian land : giving a sketch of the French and their expulsion: and a history of the New England planters who came in their stead, with many genealogies, 1604-1910 (Salem, MA: The Salem Press Company, 1910), 587; digital images, Google Books (http://books.google.com : accessed 30 November 2009.
5. U.S. Census images. Heritage Quest Online. Subscription database through the Sonoma County Public Library. (ProQuest LLC, 2009.), 1790 > MAINE > LINCOLN > VASSALBOROUGH Series: M637 Roll: 2 Page: 135.
6. U.S. Census images. Heritage Quest Online. Subscription database through the Sonoma County Public Library. (ProQuest LLC, 2009.), 1800 > MAINE > KENNEBEC > SIDNEY Series: M32 Roll: 7 Page: 399.
7. U.S. Census images. Heritage Quest Online. Subscription database through the Sonoma County Public Library. (ProQuest LLC, 2009.), 1810 > MAINE > KENNEBEC > SIDNEY Series: M252 Roll: 11 Page: 787.
8. Lovejoy, Clarence E., The Lovejoy genealogy with biographies and history, 1460-1930: especially recording the American descendants and the English ancestry of John Lovejoy (1622-1690) of Andover, Mass., and of Joseph Lovejoy (1684-1748) of Prince George County, Md., but also embracing all known data on other persons bearing the Lovejoy name whether or not identified with the emigrant ancestors (New York: Lovejoy, 1930), 80; digital images, Heritage Quest Online (http://persi.heritagequestonline.com : accessed 10 November 2009.