Ancestry of
John Ely

(1737–1800)

Mercy Pickett

View famous kin of Mercy Pickett

• • Grandmother of John Ely — 3rd Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 7 
  • Father:
  • John Pickett 
  • Mother:
  • Ruth Brewster   
  • Birth Date:
  • 16 Jan 1660/1661 
  • Birth Location:
  • New London, New London Co., Connecticut 
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  • Death Date:
  • 28 Nov 1725 
  • Death Location:
  • New London, New London Co., Connecticut 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • John Arnold
  • Marriage Date:
  • 6 Dec 1703 
  • Marriage Location:
  • New London, New London Co., Connecticut 
  • Child:

  Ruhamah Arnold (Ahnentafel No:3 )

• Additional marriages for Mercy Pickett

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  • Spouse:
  • Samuel Fosdick
  • Marriage Date:
  • 1 Nov 1682
  • Marriage Location:
  • New London, New London Co., Connecticut

• Sources for Mercy Pickett

  • ¹ General Society of Mayflower Descendants Membership Applications, 1620-1920, p. 4075, Gen. No. 22740, Application for Cortlandt Parker.
  • ² General Society of Mayflower Descendants Membership Applications, 1620-1920, General No. 4349, Supplemental 4 for Bessie (Hancop) Ludwig.
  • ³ Connecticut Society of Genealogists, The Connecticut Nutmegger, 2003, Vol. 36, p. 387, give incorrect parentage for Mercy.
  • ⁴ Fosdick, Raymond, B., Annals of the Fosdick Family, New York: The American Historical Company, Inc. (1953), 44-60, 63.
  • ⁵ Merrick, Barbara Lambert, comp., Mayflower Families in Progress: William Brewster of the Mayflower and His Descendants for Four Generations, 3rd edition, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2000), 18, 58-60.
  • ⁶ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 239, 356 [incorrectly gives name as Mary].
  • ⁷ White, Lorraine Cook, ed., Connecticut Town Birth Records, pre-1870 (Barbour Collection), originally published as The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records, Vols. 1-55, New London, p. 6, Birth record for daughter Ruhamah Arnold.