Ancestry of
Steve Young

NFL Hall of Fame Quarterback

Mercy -----

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• • 9th Great-grandmother of Steve Young — 12th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 2489 
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  • Death Date:
  • 22 Dec 1693 
  • Death Location:
  • Marlborough, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Thomas Brigham
  • Marriage Date:
  • BEF 1641 
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  Thomas Brigham

  Mary Brigham

  Hannah Brigham

  Samuel Brigham (Ahnentafel No:1244 )

  • Notes: 

  • Some sources list Mercy's maiden name as Hurd, but others disagree. Hunt is another possibility.

• Additional marriages for Mercy -----

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  • Spouse:
  • Edmund Rice
  • Marriage Date:
  • 1 Mar 1655/1656
  • Marriage Location:
  • Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts

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  • Spouse:
  • William Hunt
  • Marriage Date:
  • AFT 3 May 1663
  • Marriage Location:
  • prob. Marlborough, Middlesex, Massachusetts

• Sources for Mercy -----

  • ¹ Early New England Families, 1641-1700, William Shattuck (m. 1643), p. 5.
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Cambridge, Vol. 1, p. 89, Birth record for son Samuel Brigham.
  • ³ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, July 1936, Vol. 90, Page 289.
  • ⁴ The American Genealogist, 1954, Vol. 30, p. 101.
  • ⁵ Anderson, Robert Charles and others, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635, Vol. I, A-B, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1999), 402.
  • ⁶ Davis, Horace, Ancestry of John Davis, Governor and U. S. Senator and Eliza Bancroft His Wife, Both of Worcester, Massachusetts, San Francisco, California: n. p. (1897), 11.
  • ⁷ Little, George Thomas, comp., Genealogical and Family History of the State of Maine, Volume 1, New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company (1909), 245.
  • ⁸ Martyn, Charles, The William Ward Genealogy: The History of the Descendants of William Ward of Sudbury, Mass., 1638-1925, New York: Artemas Ward (1925), 69, 73.
  • ⁹ Wyman, T.B., Jr., Genealogy of the Name and Family of Hunt: Early Established in America from Europe . . ., Boston: John Wilson and Son (1862-3), 89-91.

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