Ancestry of
O. Henry

Short Story Writer

Mary -----

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• • 4th Great-grandmother of O. Henry — 7th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 77 
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  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1670 
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  • Death Date:
  • 28 Sep 1712 
  • Death Location:
  • Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • James Paterson
  • Marriage Date:
  • 30 Nov 1704 
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  • Child:

  John Paterson (Ahnentafel No:38 )

  • Notes: 

  • Mary's maiden name may have been Ellery, daughter of William and Mary Ellery. Evidence is needed to support this.

• Additional marriages for Mary -----

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  • Spouse:
  • Samuel Talcott
  • Marriage Date:
  • BEF 25 Oct 1691

• Sources for Mary -----

  • ¹ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Wethersfield, p. 206, Marriage record for James Paterson and Mrs Mary Talcott.
  • ² Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Wethersfield, p. 206, Death record for Mary Paterson.
  • ³ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Wethersfield, p. 206, Birth record for son John Paterson.
  • ⁴ New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, 1890, Vol. 21, p. 100.
  • ⁵ Egleston, Thomas, The Life of John Paterson: Major-General in the Revolutionary Army, New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons (1894), 1-2.
  • ⁶ Vanderpoel, Emily Noyes, Chronicles of a Pioneer School from 1792 to 1833: Being the History of Miss Sarah Pierce and Her Litchfield School, Cambridge, Massachusetts: The University Press (1903), 4.
  • ⁷ Walworth, Reuben H., Hyde Genealogy; or the Descendants in the Female as well as in the Male Lines, from William Hyde, of Norwich (2 vols.), Albany, NY: J. Munsell (1864), 270.