Ancestry of
Mary Standish

(c1660–p1731)

Mary Standish

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• • 1st Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 1 
  • Father:
  • Josiah Standish 
  • Mother:
  • Sarah Allen   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1660 
  • Birth Location:
  • Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • AFT 16 Apr 1731 
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  • Notes: 

  • The article "Marriages in The Town of Bridgewater previous to its Division" (see NEHGR 21:225-8) listed the marriage "James Cary and Mary Shaw, Jan. 4, 1681." However the actual marriage record does not give Mary's maiden name. Proof that Mary was actually Mary Standish comes from a deed dated 16 April 1731 that contains the signature of Mary Cary releasing her right in the estate of her sister Martha Standish. (see MF5G(Standish), 14:15). Also, John and Mary (Standish) Cary had a son James who married Sarah Shaw, daughter of Joseph and Judith (Whitmarsh) Shaw. It's very possible that confusion with the wives of father and son caused the misidentification of the maiden name of Mary as Shaw.

• Marriages for Mary Standish

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  • Spouse:
  • James Cary
  • Marriage Date:
  • 4 Jan 1681
  • Marriage Location:
  • Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts

• Sources for Mary Standish

  • ¹ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 365.
  • ² Roser, Susan E., Mayflower Increasings, 2nd Edition, Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company (1997), 107.
  • ³ Wakefield, Robert S. and Russell L. Warner, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 14, Family of Myles Standish, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2007), 6, 15.