Individual Details

Mary D. "Polly" Lovejoy

(30 Apr 1761 - 19 Nov 1789)

Polly probably attended private school taught by Rev. Jacob Bailey. Her husband, Samuel, manufactured barrels at Sidney in the Winter and went fishing on his own small vessel to "the banks" every Summer. Polly and Samuel had two children.

Events

Birth30 Apr 1761Charlestown, Suffolk, Massachusetts, British America
MarriageAbt 1778Samuel Dinsmore
Death19 Nov 1789Kennebec, Maine, United States

Families

SpouseSamuel Dinsmore (1759 - 1836)
ChildPolly Dinsmore ( - )
ChildAbiel Dinsmore (1787 - )
FatherCaptain Abiel Lovejoy (1731 - 1811)
MotherMary "Polley" Brown (1741 - 1812)
SiblingNathaniel Lovejoy (1759 - 1849)
SiblingFrances "Fanny" Lovejoy (1762 - 1812)
SiblingAbiel Lovejoy Jr. (1764 - 1858)
SiblingThomas Lovejoy (1766 - 1817)
SiblingFrancis Lovejoy Sr. (1768 - 1841)
SiblingAbigail "Nabby" Lovejoy (1770 - 1854)
SiblingSarah Lovejoy (1772 - 1821)
SiblingHannah Lovejoy (1773 - 1844)
Siblinginfant Lovejoy (1775 - 1775)
SiblingCol. Stephen Lovejoy (1776 - 1859)
SiblingWilliam Lovejoy (1778 - 1872)
SiblingJacob Lovejoy (1780 - 1871)
SiblingBetsy Lovejoy (1782 - 1810)
Siblinginfant Lovejoy (1784 - 1784)
SiblingPhebe Lovejoy (1785 - 1871)

Notes

Death

This can't be right, CE Lovejoy says she died in 19 Nov 1780 but had Abiel 1787. Maybe he meant 1790?

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), 91; digital images, Heritage Quest Online (http://persi.heritagequestonline.com : accessed 10 November 2009.

2. 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), 91; digital images, Heritage Quest Online (http://persi.heritagequestonline.com : accessed 10 November 2009.