F, #421, b. 12 April 1738, d. 8 August 1790
Father*Ebenezer Bacon b. 4 Dec 1708, d. b 2 Feb 1799
Mother*Lydia Lothrop1 b. 1716, d. b 27 Jan 1792
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     Mary Bacon was also known as Polly Bacon. She was born on 12 April 1738 in Barnstable, Massachusetts.2 She was the daughter of Ebenezer Bacon and Lydia Lothrop.1 She married Benajah Strong, son of Lt. Jedediah Strong and Elizabeth Webster, on 13 April 1758 in Lebanon, New London County, Connecticut.3,4 She and Benajah Strong moved to Hartford, Windsor County, Vermont where they were some of the first settlers, along with Strong brothers Solomon and Elijah.5 She died on 8 August 1790 in Hartford at age 52.6,7

Family: Benajah Strong b. 17 Jan 1734, d. Mar 1815

Citations

  1. [S406] Elizabeth Pearson White, John Howland of the Mayflower, Volume 1: The First Five Generations: Documented Descendants Through his First Child Desire Howland and her Husaband Captain John Gorham (Camden, Maine: Picton Press, 1990). Hereinafter cited as John Howland of the Mayflower.
  2. [S382] Town and City Clerks of Massachusetts, Massachusetts Vital and Town Records (Oxford, Massachusetts: Holbrook Research Institute, dates vary), Mary Bacon birth entry from Barnstable, Massachusetts. Hereinafter cited as Massachusetts Vital and Town Records.
  3. [S146] Frederic W. Bailey, compiler, Early Connecticut Marriages as Found on Ancient Church Records Prior to 1800 (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1968), Benajah Strong/Mary Bacon entry. Hereinafter cited as Early Connecticut Marriages.
  4. [S360] Connecticut Church Records Index (Hartford, Connecticut: Connecticut State Library, 1942), Mary Bacon/Benajah Strong marriage entry (Lebanon, CT). Hereinafter cited as Connecticut Church Records Index.
  5. [S76] William Howard Tucker, History of Hartford, Vermont, July 4, 1761 - April 4, 1889: The First Town on the New Hampshire Grants Chartered After the Close of the French War (Burlington, VT: The Free Press Association, 1889). Hereinafter cited as History of Hartford, Vermont.
  6. [S76] William Howard Tucker, History of Hartford, Vermont, Polly Bacon information in Benajah Strong entry.
  7. [S243] Benjamin W. Dwight, The History of the Descendants of Elder John Strong, of Northampton, Mass. (Albany: J. Munsell, 1871). Hereinafter cited as Descendants of Elder John Strong.