Mary Leete

Francis Newman was born in England in 1605 and married Mary — Newman Street Leete in 1630 when he was twenty-five.

Mary was the wife of (1) Governor Francis Newman, of New Haven, Connecticut, (2) Rev. Nicholas Street, and (3) Governor William Leete of Connecticut.

She married Governor Francis Newman in 1630. He died on November 18,1660 at age 55. She married Rev. Nicholas Street III after 1660. He died on April 22, 1674. She married Governor William Leete after 1774. She died on 13 December 1683. Governor Leete had died on April 16, 1683, a short time before her.

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Biography

This is the profile for the first wife of Rev. Nicholas Street.

Name; Parentage

The name and parentage of Nicholas Street's first wife are unknown. Emery in his 1854 "Ministry of Taunton" stated that "Mr. Street married for his first wife, a sister of Elizabeth Pool, the foundress of Taunton."<ref name="TauntMinistry157"/> Emery, however, provided no supportfor his assertion. No doubt in reliance on Emery, the 1890 NEHGR article on "Rev. Nicholas Street and his Descendants" stated that the "maiden name [of Nicholas Street's first wife] is said to have been Poole."<ref name="NEHGR44p184"/> This apparently led some family genealogiesto speculate that Nicholas' first wife was Elizabeth Poole's sister Anne Poole, and she is shown as his first wife and mother of his children in many current family trees. It is well documented, however, that Anne Poole married Edmund Walrond of Devonshire and was his loving wife until Edmund's death in 1640, when Anne was approximately 50 years old.<ref name="PooleProfile"/> It is therefore impossible that she could have been Nicholas's first wife and the mother of his children. The proposition that Nicholas's wife was a sister of Elizabeth Poole is also made unlikely by the fact that, while Elizabeth's willcontains bequests to her brother and his children, it does not mention any sister or Nicholas or his wife or children.<ref name="ElizabethPoleWill"/>

By the time he published "History of Taunton" in 1893, Emery himself had abandoned his early assertion about a Poole connection and stated, "the most diligent, persistent inquiries at the most likely sources of information have as yet failed to reveal the name of his first wife, the mother of his children, unless it be the 'Alice Street' of whom our early records speak and who, coming over from England in the Susan and Ellen in 1635, at the age of twenty-eight, has not been claimed by any other family."<ref name="TauntHist176"/> (The "Alice" theoryseems to have gotten little traction, perhaps because her 1635 date of arrival occurred while Nicholas was still in England attending Emmanuel College.) The 1895 "The Street Genealogy" stated "Whom he first married is not known."<ref name="Street3"/> The combination of Emery's theories led Torrey in his "New England Marriages to 1700" to throw up his hands and list Nicholas's first wife as "?Alice ___/POOLE?"<ref name="Torrey"/> The estimable Donald Lines Jacobus probably best summed up the speculation about her identity when, in his 1935 TAG article about Nicholas and his Gilbert in-laws, he stated: "No suggestion as to [the identify of Nicholas's first wife] has yet been seen which possesses any merit.<ref name="TAG27:11"/>

Date and Place of Birth

Based on estimated date of birth of her first child (about 1629), Nicholas Street's first wife was probably born sometime in 1605-1610, withabout 1608 being a reasonable midpoint estimate. Based on the fact that Nicholas had lived in Bridgewater, Somerset growing up and later lived near Taunton, Somerset,<ref name="HusbandProfile"/> Nicholas Street's first wife was probably born in Somerset.

Marriage ===Based on Nicholas Street's date of baptism (January 1603/4)<ref name="HusbandProfile"/> and the estimated date of birth of his eldest child (Susanna, about 1629), Nicholas probably married his first wife about 1628. Based on his probable date of emigration (1637), they were almost certainly married in England. Based on the fact that Nicholas had lived in Bridgewater, Somerset growing up and later lived near Taunton, Somerset,<ref name="HusbandProfile"/> Nicholas and his first wife werevery likely married somewhere in Somerset.

Immigration; Residency in Taunton

As discussed in Nicholas' profile, Nicholas, his wife and three eldest children probably emigrated from England to New Englandin 1637 on the ship Elizabeth and settled initially in Taunton inthe Plymouth Colony.

Children

Nicholas and his first wife had the following children:# Susannah, b. perhaps about 1629<ref>Based on estimated date of marriage.</ref> probably in Somerset, England,<ref name="EstimatedPOB"/> m. about 1650 George Macey<ref name="Street5"/> at Taunton,<ref>Based on Nicholas's and George's residency at the time.</ref> d. after 16 Apr 1696<ref name="SusannahAccounting"/># Hannah, b. perhaps about 1631<ref>Based on siblings estimated birth date and date of birth of her daughter in 1653 or 1654.</ref> probably in Somerset, England,<ref name="EstimatedPOB"/> m. about 1652 Henry Andrews<ref name="NEHGR52p17"/> at Taunton, d. before 1659<ref name="HannahDeath"/># Samuel, b. about 1634<ref>Based on supposed age of 82at death in January 1717</ref> probably in Somerset, England,<ref name="EstimatedPOB"/> grad. Harvard 1664,<ref name="Street6"/> m. 3 Nov 1664 Anna Miles at New Haven,<ref name="Street6"/><ref name="NEHGR44p184"/><ref name="Dodd153"/> d. 16 Jan 1717 (age 82) in Wallingford, Connecticut<ref name="Street6"/><ref name="NEHGR44p184"/><ref name="Dodd153"/># Sarah, b. perhaps about 1639<ref>Based on date of marriage and estimated date of birth of sister Abiah.</ref> at Taunton,<ref name="EstimatedPOB"/> about m. 20 Nov 1662 James Heaton at New Haven<ref name="Street8"/># Abiah, b. about 1641 at Taunton,<ref>Based on supposed age of 75 at death in November 1716.</ref> m. 28 Sep 1664 Daniel Sherman at New Haven<ref name="Street9"/>

Death

The date and place of death of Nicholas Street's first wife is uncertain. She died before or soon after his removal to New Haven in November1659, as Nicholas married, second, Mary Newman, widow of Gov. Francis Newman of New Haven,<ref name="Street4"/><ref name="TauntHist176"/> who died in November 1660.<ref name="NewmanWiki"/>

<ref name="NewmanWiki">"Francis Newman," wikipedia.com</ref> <ref name="Torrey">Clarentce Almon Torrey, "New England Marriages Prior to 1700, Volume 2," p 1467</ref> <ref name="NEHGR52p17">Almon D. Hodges, Jr, "Henry Andrews of Taunton and the Calves Pasture," New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Vol. LII (1898),p 17</ref> <ref name="HannahDeath">Based on husband's second marriage to Mary Wadsworth about 1659. See D. Hodges, Jr, "Henry Andrews of Taunton and the Calves Pasture," New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Vol. LII (1898), p 17</ref> <ref name="Dodd153">Stephen Dodd,"The East-Haven Register, In Three Parts, A.H. Maltby & Co., 1824, p 153</ref> <ref name="SusannahAccounting">"Abstract of Bristol County, Massachusetts Probate Records, 1687-1745, Genealogical Publishing Company, 1987, p 12</ref> <ref name="Street9">Mary A. Street, "The Street Genealogy," 1895, p 6</ref> <ref name="Street8">Mary A. Street, "The Street Genealogy," 1895, p8</ref> <ref name="Street6">Mary A. Street, "The Street Genealogy," 1895, p 6</ref> <ref name="Street5">Mary A. Street, "The Street Genealogy," 1895, p 5</ref> <ref name="Street4">Mary A. Street, "The Street Genealogy," 1895, p 4</ref> <ref name="Street3">Mary A. Street, "The Street Genealogy," 1895, p 3</ref> <ref name="EstimatedPOB">Based on Nicholas's presumed residency at estimated date of birth.</ref> <ref name="HusbandProfile"> See the profile for Nicholas Street.</ref> <ref name="TAG27:11">Donald Lines Jacobus, "John Gilbert of Taunton, Mass. and the Maternal Ancestryof Rev. Nicholas Street of Taunton, Mass., and New Haven, Conn." The American Genealogist, Vol. 27 (1951), p 11</ref> <ref name="TauntHist176">Samuel Hopkins Emery, "History of Taunton, Massachusetts fromIts First Settlement to the Present Time," 1893, p 176</ref><ref name="ElizabethPoleWill">Quarter Millennial Celebration of the City of Taunton, Massachusetts, Tuesday and Wednesday, June 4 and 5, 1889," City Government of Taunton, 1889, pp 253-5</ref> <ref name="PooleProfile"> See the profile for Anne (Poole) Walrond.</ref> <ref name="NEHGR44p184">Henry A. Street, "Rev. Nicholas Street and His Descendants," New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Vol 44 (1890), p 184</ref> <ref name="TauntMinistry157">Samuel Hopkins Emery, "The Ministry of Taunton, with Incidental Notices of Other Professions," 1853, p 157</ref>

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