unsubscribe -----Original Message----- From: TCT222@aol.com <TCT222@aol.com> To: WISE-L@rootsweb.com <WISE-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Thursday, March 11, 1999 2:37 PM Subject: Re: WISE-D Digest V99 #26 >In a message dated 3/11/99 11:26:08 AM Eastern Standard Time, WISE-D- >request@rootsweb.com writes: > >> This is my first message to the WISE List. For a long time, I have had >> Mercy WISE b. 21 MAY 1685, Essex, MA, d.7 FEB 1771, m. 31 DEC 1707, at >> Middletown, CT. to Israel BARNES. >> I believe she is the dau of Henry WISE, but there are several Henrys, >> and I'm not sure which one would be her father. Would he be Henry, b. >> 1654, m. Mary MANSFIELD? > >Betty: >This is what I have: > >WISE, Henry b: March 01, 1654/55 in Roxbury, Suffolk, MA, USA d: Abt. June 11, >1684 in Guilford, New Haven, CT > +MANSFIELD, Mary b: April 06, 1658 d: Abt. 1712 m: Abt. 1680 in Guilford, >New Haven, CT, USA > > >NEGHS vol.11 page 330, Roxbury Births > >Henry sonne of Joseph Wise borne 1:1:54 (March 1, 1655) >***** >Genealogies of CT. Families Vol II, p. 471 > >Children > >Sarah, m. _____WRIGHT >Mary, d. aft 1756;m. Dec. 31, 1707, Israel BARNES of New Haven. He was born > April 22, 1680 and died 1751. > >***** >Genealogies of CT. Families Vol II, p. 470-1 > >Mary Mansfield, daughter of Joseph Mansfield and Mary Potter. > >In the New Haven County Court record (vol 1, p. 210), her married name is >given as Tirhan, a variant for Turhand. The only man in the vicinity bearing >this uncommon name, who could be her husband was Thomas Tirhan of Guilford, >CT, who died in 1696, leaving a widow Mary and children Henry, Samuel, and >Abigail (New Haven County Court Records, vol I, p. 241). But Mary had been >married before, as administration on the estate of Henry Wise of Guilford, >deceased, was granted, 11 June 1684, to his widow Mary (County Court Records, >Vol 1, p. 147), and in June 1686, there is further record of this estate, >mentioning the widow Mary, Thomas Terhan present husband to the relict. and >two children, unnamed (County Court Records, Vol1, p. 160). > >She married thirdly, John Hill of New Haven as his second wife in Aug. 1703. > >In 1712, administration on the estate of mary Hill of New Haven, deceased, was >granted to Henry Turhand of Wallingford; and the estate was distributed to her >son Henry, daughter Mary wife of Israel Barnes, and the heirs of her daughter >Sarah Wright, deceased (New Haven Probate Records, vol.4, pp 55, 89) > >Children by Henry Wise: > >Sarah Wise, d. bef 1703, m. _____ Wright, >Mary Wise, d. aft 1756, m. 31 Dec. 1707, Israel Barnes of New Haven. He was > born 22 Apr. 1680, d. 1751 > >Children by Thomas Turhand/Tirhand > >Henry Turhand, of Wallingford, m. 7 Nov 1712, Elizabeth Merriman, b. 4 May, > 1693. >Samuel Turhand, not named in the distribution of his mother's estate. >Abigail Turhand, not named in the distribution of her mother's estate. >***** >Hope this helps. > >Tracy