Generation 1

ROBERT PARISH

Parents:

Robert Parish married Mercy Crispe on 11 Apr 1667 in Chelmsford. [Ref]

Children of Robert Parish and Mercy Crispe:

1. Mercy Parish was born on 5 Jan 1667/8 in Groton. She died on 25 Apr 1743 in Chelmsford. She married first Lieut. Josiah Richardson. She married second Jonathan Butterfield, Jr.

Generation 2

MERCY (MARY) PARISH (1668 - 1743)

Parents: Robert Parish and Mercy Crispe. [Ref, 3;82]

Mercy (Mary) Parish was born on 5 Jan 1667/8 in Groton. [Ref][Ref, 3;82][Ref] She died on 25 Apr 1743 in Chelmsford. [Ref] She married first Lieut. Josiah Richardson on 14 Dec 1687. [Ref] She married second Jonathan Butterfield, Jr. [Ref]

Her father calls Mercy "Marcy Richardson" in his will. [Ref, 3;82]

References

Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633. Vol. 1-3. Boston, MA, USA: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995. Entry for Benjamin Crisp.

Davis, Walter Goodwin, Massachusetts and Maine Families in the Ancestry of Walter Goodwin Davis, v. I-III, Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., 1996.

Foster, George Richardson, "A Line of Descendants of Ezekiel and Susanna (Bradford) Richardson," Notes Section, New England Historical and Genealogical Register 98, 1944, 363-366.

Hackett, Frank W., "William Adams Richardson," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 53, 1899, 153-162.

Source Massachusetts Vital Records to 1850. Online Database: NewEnglandAncestors.org, New England Historical and Genealogical Society, 2001-2007.