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| WITTER, Mary Polly
(1766-1859) |
WITTER, Mary Polly 2 3 4 5 6 7
Moved to Kirtland, Ohio with her husband and nine children, including oldest son, Erastus, and his family. Known as the first woman pioneer settler in Kirtland, "a woman of unusual abilities."
"Although there is a monument erected for Christopher Crary in Section D, lot 35, grave 9, he and his wife "Polly" are actually buried in Garwood Cemetery, Zane Township, Logan County, Ohio. (An inscription reading included him in Curl Cemetery nearby, but was likely in error.) He has a nice article in Soldiers and Widows of the American Revolution who lived in Lake County, Ohio by Mildred E. Hoyes Steed. The county of burial is misstated, however, as Union County. Crary is noted in the WPA cemetery map for Logan County."
Mary married Christopher CRARY, son of Oliver CRARY Esquire and Hopestill YORK, on 4 Nov 1784 in Preston, New London County, Connecticut.1 (Christopher CRARY was born on 24 Jun 1759 in Charlestown, Washington County, Rhode Island,11 died on 2 Jun 1848 in Zane Township, Logan County, Ohio and was buried in Jun 1848 in Garwood Cemetery, Zane Township, Logan County, Ohio 12.) |
1 Barbour, Connecticut Town Marriage Records, Barbour Collection (Preston Vital Records Part I - 1687-1850), p. 72. Surety: 4. Christopher [Crary] m. Polly WITTER, b. of Preston, Nov 4, 1784.
2 Unknown, Ohio County and Family Histories, 1780-1970: Pioneer Women and The Western Reserve, Kirtland, Lake County (Ohio Historical Archive), Pioneer Women of The Western Reserve, Kirtland, Lake County: page 780. Surety: 4. "Mrs. Christopher Crary (Polly Witter) must have been a woman of unusual ability to have managed her large family and looked after their mental as well as physical wants, providing their clothing by the work of her own hands, assisted by her daughters, as was the custom in most families in earlier years."
3 1810 US Census (Geauga, Ohio). Repository: Ancestry. Surety: 4. Lists Chistopher Crary, his wife and children, early settlers of Ohio.
4 1820 US Census (Kirtland, Geauga County, Ohio). Repository: Ancestry. Surety: 4. Lists Christopher Crary (age 45+, b. bef. 1775), wife Mary [Witter] (age 45+, b. bef. 1775) and children: 1 male (age 16-26, b. 1794-1804) [could be Oliver or Christopher], 2 males (age 10-16, b. 1804-1810) [Ebenezer and William] and 2 females (age 16-26, b. 1794-1804) [Sarah and Nancy], living in Kirtland, Ohio. At this time, Kirtland is part of Geaugua County. It will later become part of Lake County.
5 1800 US Census (Partridgefield, Berkshire County, Massachusetts). Repository: Ancestry. Surety: 4. Lists Christopher Crary (age 26-44, b. 1765-1785), wife Mary [Witter] (age 26-44, b. 1765-1785) and children: 1 son (age 10-15, b. 1785-1790) [Erastus W.], 1 son (age <10, b. 1790-1800) [Oliver Augustus], 1 daughter (age 16-25, b. 1774-1785) [Mary Witter], 1 daughter (age 10-15, b. 1785-1790) and 3 daughters (age <10, b. 1790-1800) [Lucy, Estelle and Sarah], living in Partridgefield, Massachusetts.
6 1790 US Census (Partridgefield, Berkshire County, Massachusetts). Repository: Ancestry. Surety: 4. Lists Christopher Crary (age 16+, b. bef. 1774), wife [Mary Witter], and children: 1 son (age <16, b. 1775-1790) [Erastus W.] and 2 daughters [Mary Witter and Abigail Polly], living in Partridgefield, Massachusetts. The ages of women were not included on this census. However, only two of Christopher's daughters were born before 1790.
7 1830 US Census (Kirtland, Geaugua County, Ohio). Repository: Ancestry. Surety: 4. Lists Christopher Crary (age 70-79, b. 1749-1759), wife [Mary Witter] (age 60-69, b. 1759-1769) and children: 1 son (age 20-29, b. 1809-1818) and 1 son (age 10-15, b. 1814-1819), living in Kirtland, Ohio. Living two houses away is their son, Erastus Crary, and his family.
8 Barbour, Connecticut Town Birth Records, Barbour Collection (Preston Vital Records Part I - 1687-1850), p. 256. Surety: 4. Mary, d. [Ebenezer, Jr. & Abigail], b. May 18, 1766.
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Unknown, Biographical History of Northeastern Ohio: Embracing the Counties of Ashtabula, Geauga and Lake (Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Co. 1893), p. 501. Surety: 4. His [Christopher Crary] wife, whose maiden name was Polly Winter [Witter], was born in Connecticut in 1765, and died in 1869, aged ninety-three.
[Information provided by Christopher Gore Crary]
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Garwood Cemetery Transcriptions (Genealogy in Logan County, Ohio: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ohlogan/cemzaga.html). Surety: 4. Crary, Mary, d 1 May 1859, ae 91y 11m 13d (wife of Christopher Crary)
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Vital Records of Rhode Island, 1636-1850, First Series, Births, Marriages and Deaths; A Family Register for the People (Charlestown [RI] Births and Deaths), Vol. V, Part V, p. 19. Surety: 4. 2-169
CRARY, Christopher, of Oliver and Hopestill, June 24, 1759.
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Garwood Cemetery Transcriptions (Genealogy in Logan County, Ohio: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ohlogan/cemzaga.html). Surety: 4. Crary, Christopher, d 2 Jun 1848, ae 88y 11m 8d (husband of Mary Crary)
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