MARY SEARS (WORDEN) 1610-1687

[Ancestral Link: Marguerite Anderson (Miller), daughter of Hannah Anderson (Anderson), daughter of Mary Margaret Edmiston (Anderson), daughter of Martha Jane Snow (Edmiston), daughter of Gardner Snow, son of Abigail Farr (Snow), daughter of Mercy Winslow (Farr), daughter of Thomas Winslow, son of Samuel Winslow, daughter of Mercy Worden (Winslow), daughter of Mary Sears (Worden).]



Identity of Peter Worden's Wife
　
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　Mary Sears [or Mary Magdalene Winslow?]
　　　　　Mary Sears was born in 1610. She married Peter Worden. Mary Sears died in 1687. 　　　　　She left a will on 9-Jan-1679. She wrote a codicil on 24-Jul-1680. Helen Dunton Gilchrest calls her, withut justification, "Mary Sears Worden," and states she "was probably related to Richard Sears, the Pilgrim, but she is not listed as one of his children. She may have been his sister. The Worden property adjoined that of Richard Sears. Mary's will was witnessed by two of Richard's sons. The inventory was taken by another of his sons." Others believe that she was a Winslow; several references state (without citing the basis for the claim) that her daughter, Mercy, and [Mercy's] husband Kenelm Winslow were cousins. If Kenelm and Mercy were first cousins, Mary would have to be a daughter of Edward Winslow. A few printed references say that Mary's middle name was Magdalene; if so this supports the Winslow theory for the second wife of Edward Winslow was Magdalene Oliver.
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Mary Sears Worden
John2 BURGESS (1) (Thomas1)(95) (#1008) was born CIRCA 1631.(96) John place of birth has not been established.It could have been in England or Massachusetts. John died 1701 in Yarmouth, Barnstable Co., Massachusetts., USA, at 70 years of age.(97) He married Mary WORDEN in Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts., USA, September 08, 1657.(98) (Mary WORDEN is #1023.) Mary was born in Yarmouth, Barnstable Co., Massachusetts., USA February 10, 1639.(99) Mary was the daughter of Peter WORDEN and Mary UNKNOWN. Mary died 1723 in Yarmouth, Barnstable Co., Massachusetts., USA, at 84 years of age.(100) John2 Burgess Sr. (Thomas1) was born in England circa 1631. In The Burgess History Tree, p. 73, Paul Burgess states (without citing his source) that John was born 10 February 1627/28 in Truro, Cornwall, England. We have seen no evidence that places our Burgess family in Cornwall or any evidence of the birth dates of any of Thomas and Dorothy's children, other than Elizabeth (based on her age at death). He died in 1701 in Yarmouth, Barnstable County, Massachusetts. He married Mary Worden on September 1657 in Sandwich, Barnstable County, Massachusetts. Mary was born 10 February 1638/39. She died in 1723. Helen Dunton Gilchrest, in "The Ancestors and Descendants of Robert Franklin Dunton of Belfast, Maine," p. 28, identifies without documentation the wife of Peter Worden, Jr. as Mary Sears: "Mary Sears Worden was probably related to Richard Sears, the Pilgrim, but she is not listed as one of his children. She may have been his sister. The Worden property adjoined that of Richard Sears. Mary's will was witnessed by two of Richard's sons. The inventory was taken by another of his sons." John BURGESS (1) and Mary WORDEN had the following children: 8 i. Patience3 BURGESS (#1025). She married Jonathan NYE January 30, 1689.(101) Marriage date could be 1689/90. (Jonathan NYE is #1034.)
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Mary [Worden] estate inventory 31 May 1687
Estate Inventory of Mary Worden
Her inventory was taken by Paul Sears and John Hall and sworn to by John Burge 31 May 1687 and recorded 8 June 1687.

To neate cattle L9-15-0


To one mare and half a coult 1-02-0


To one feather bed 2-18-4


To one rug and part of a coverlid 1-03-0


To three blankets 1-05-0


To one payer of sheets 0-13-0


To one bolster and two pillow cotes and one blanket 0-16-0


To one flock bed and one pillow 1-06-0


To one skillet and one chambre pot 0-18-6


To one fullian 0-05-0


To 3 and 1/2 cotton wool, seven and 1/2 linin and yarn 0-18-6


To one Bible and a payer boddess 0-11-0


To wearing apparrell 3-16-6


To one hood and scarf and waste coate and two aprons and gloves 0-12-3


To one shift and hancerchers and head linin and stockings shoes and kuff pins 1-03-0


To remnants of searq, linen cloth and lasses and silk 2-19-2

To debts to the estate 1-07-6
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