Ancestral Glimpses » Mary Elizabeth Maplett (-± 1646)

Personal data Mary Elizabeth Maplett 

• She was born on 12 MAR 1608–9 in Middlehulton, Deane, Lancashire, ENGLAND.
• She was baptized on March 12, 1609.
• She died about December 1646 in Portsmouth, Newport County, Rhode Island, British America.
• Alternative: She died after 1677 in Warwick Township, Kent County, Rhode Island, British America.
• A child of John Maplett and Mary Gates
• This information was last updated on April 19, 2018.

Household of Mary Elizabeth Maplett

She is married to Samuel Gorton.

They got married on May 20, 1628 at St. Mary Magdalene, Old Fish St., London, ENGLAND, she was 20 years old.

Child(ren):

1. Samuel Gorton  1630-1724 
2. Mary Gorton  1632-1687 
3. Benjamin Gorton  ± 1630-1696 
4. John Gorton  1640-???? 
5. Elizabeth Gorton  1636-1704 
6. Mahershallal Hashbaz Gorton  1632-1692 
7. Sarah Gorton  1643-????
8. Elnathan Gorton  1643-????
9. Anna Gorton  1644-1750 
10. Susannah Gorton  1650-1734 

Notes about Mary Elizabeth Maplett

Descendants of Samuel Gorton

Generation No. 1

1. SAMUEL2 GORTON (THOMAS1) was born 12 Feb 1591-92 in Manchester, Lancaster, England, and died 10 Dec 1677 in Providence, RI. He md. MARY MAPLET 20 May 1628 in St. Marymagdalene, Old Fish, dau. of JOHN (MAPLETT) and MARY. She was born 12 Mar 1608-09 in England, Middlesex, England, and died abt. Dec 1646 in Portsmouth, RI.

Children of SAMUEL GORTON and MARY MAPLET are:
2. i. ELIZABETH3 GORTON, b. 28 Nov 1641, Newport, RI; d. 1704, RI.
ii. SUSANNAH GORTON, b. Warwick, Kent, RI; d. 28 May 1734, Roxbury, Suffolk, MA.
iii. SAMUEL GORTON, b. 11 Jan 1629-30, Gorton, Manchester, Lancaster, England; d. 6 Sep 1724, Warwick, Kent, RI.
iv. MARY GORTON, b. 13 Oct 1643, Gorton, Manchester, Lancaster, England; d. 7 Jan 1730-31.
v. JOHN GORTON, b. 1640, Gorton, Manchester, Lancaster, England; d. 2 Feb 1713-14, Warwick, Kent, RI.
vi. BENJAMIN GORTON, b. Aquindneck Island, Newport, RI; d. 25 Dec 1696, Warwick, Kent, RI.
vii SARAH GORTON, b. Bet. 1643 - 1644, Aquindneck Island, Newport, RI.
viii. ANNA GORTON, b. 5 Jun 1644, Warwick, Kent, RI.
ix. MAHERAHALLAL GORTON, b. 1642, Plymouth, Plymouth, MA; d. 29 Nov 1692.
x. ELNATHAN GORTON, b. 4 Jul 1643, Warwick, Kent, RI.
xi. MALER GORTON, b. abt. 1636, Gorton, Manchester, Lancaster, England.

Source: http://www.delcore.com/genealogy/gorton/GENE12-0001.html
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NOTES
"MAPLETT: ADDITIONS. -- Since the publication of the article entitled "The Ancestry of Mary Maplett, Wife of Samuel Gorton of New England," in the present volume of the REGISTER, pp. 115-118 (Apr 1916), an examination of the parish registers of Northolt (formerly Northall), co. Middlesex, England, for the years 1560-1605, has brought to light the following Maplett entries, in addition to the marriage record of Matthew Randall and Ellen Maplett already printed:
"Christenings
"1575Ellen Maplett dawghter of John Maplett 2 Feb [1575-76].
"1577Thoms Maplett son of John Maplett 25 Jun.
"1581Mary Maplett dawter of John Maplett 28 Nov.
"Bur.
"1592John Maplett p'son of Northall 7 Sep.

"In the records of Haberdashers' Hall in London the following entry has been found:
"'John Maplett, free by George Brough, 4 Apr 1600.'
"This shows that John Maplett, the father-in-law to Samuel Gorton, was admitted to the freedom of the Company of Haberdashers, after he had served his time as an apprentice to George Brough. A careful search has been made for the entry of apprenticeship, but is has not been found.
29 Hillside Avenue, Malden, Mass. George Walter Chamberlain"

Source: New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1916, Vol 70. Boston, Published by the Society of the Robert Henry Eddy Memorial Rooms.
Repository: Fort Worth Public Library, Fort Worth, Texas.

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She is listed as being "of Warwick, RI".[155, p. 2]

She was bapt. 12 Mar 1608-09 at the parish church on London's Milk Street known as St. Lawrence Jewry and St. Mary Magdlene, London.[159, p. 475]

"She came from a well-known, affluent family. . . The circumstance of her growing up in a family of culture and station would justify Samuel's later assertion that his wife 'had bin as tenderly brought up as was any man's wife than in that towne' [Plymouth in New England]. Sixteen years younger than her husband and raised in such genteel, urban surroundings, Mary must have been a woman of great character and strength to have survived the vicissitudes of the tumultuous life which spanned their many years together. She outlived her husband, but the date of her death is not known. She bore him nine surviving children, one or more of them before leaving the gentle shores of England for the wilderness. Once there, in New England, she accompanied her husband bravely as the Gorton family moved six times in six years to different frontier settlements, facing hazards of hostile Indians and no less hostile Puritan countrymen. Pregnant in the supposed security of their sixth homestead, she was chased out of their Shawomet home, along with other wives and children, by a raiding party of 40 armed militia and hords of shrieking Indians, escaping only barely with her life. She later maintained a home for their numerous children for four years while Samuel was away on an important mission to England. It is not too much to assume that she must have been a woman of great inner resources and a steadying influence on her volatile husband or else he would not have sucessfully made the transition from fire-brand to elder statesman."[159, p. 6]
Source: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~barbpretz/ps03/ps03_266.html
Accessed: 16 Dec 2003, David Lee Powell

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