Andrew Pitcher married by 1641, Margaret _____. Sometime prior to 1657, "Margaret Pitcher" joined twenty other Dorchester women in signing a petition to the General Court is support of Alice Kibby, a midwife.
They had 8 children: Samuel, Experience Bugby, Mary, Ruth Newton, John, Nathaniel, Mary again, & Jonathan.
The record for the Mary Pitcher who was baptized on 30 November 1644 was later annotated "wife to Isaac Rush." Such annotations were common in the Dorchester church records. There are a numbere of problems with this annotation. First, Savage stated that this Mary "m. Mills." This was the annotation for the baptism of "[Lydia] Wilkins," immediately above the entry for Mary Pitcher. But the annotations routinely follow the baptisms, and so Savage's statement cannot be correct. Third, no other record has been found for an Isaac Rush. Third, and more decisively, Andrew Pitcher had a second daughter Mary, baptized on 29 April 1655, and so the earlier Mary must have died prior to that date. Fourth, none of Andrew Pitcher's daughters would have been old enough to marry before he made his will, and he named only Experience and Ruth in that document. The annotation to the baptism of the first Mary Pitcher remains unexplained, but she cannot have married anyone.
Source: Anderson's Great Migration Study Project.
Find A Grave contributor Cathy Truesdale adds:
In The Pitcher Book by William Richard Phipps, he states that Margaret's surname was Russell, his sources are 1. Grace Whipple Pitcher, Andrew Pitcher of Milton, MA, pp. 1-4; NEHCR, Register, NEHGS Vol. 5, Oct. 1851, p. 402; Clarence Almon Torrey, compiler, New England Marriages Prior to 1700 (Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Service, 1985) p.588; Western Massachusetts: a history, CD; New England Families, Vol. III, p. 515, 1330; Edited by Albert K. Teele, Milton MA History, p. 27.
They had 8 children: Samuel, Experience Bugby, Mary, Ruth Newton, John, Nathaniel, Mary again, & Jonathan.
The record for the Mary Pitcher who was baptized on 30 November 1644 was later annotated "wife to Isaac Rush." Such annotations were common in the Dorchester church records. There are a numbere of problems with this annotation. First, Savage stated that this Mary "m. Mills." This was the annotation for the baptism of "[Lydia] Wilkins," immediately above the entry for Mary Pitcher. But the annotations routinely follow the baptisms, and so Savage's statement cannot be correct. Third, no other record has been found for an Isaac Rush. Third, and more decisively, Andrew Pitcher had a second daughter Mary, baptized on 29 April 1655, and so the earlier Mary must have died prior to that date. Fourth, none of Andrew Pitcher's daughters would have been old enough to marry before he made his will, and he named only Experience and Ruth in that document. The annotation to the baptism of the first Mary Pitcher remains unexplained, but she cannot have married anyone.
Source: Anderson's Great Migration Study Project.
Find A Grave contributor Cathy Truesdale adds:
In The Pitcher Book by William Richard Phipps, he states that Margaret's surname was Russell, his sources are 1. Grace Whipple Pitcher, Andrew Pitcher of Milton, MA, pp. 1-4; NEHCR, Register, NEHGS Vol. 5, Oct. 1851, p. 402; Clarence Almon Torrey, compiler, New England Marriages Prior to 1700 (Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Service, 1985) p.588; Western Massachusetts: a history, CD; New England Families, Vol. III, p. 515, 1330; Edited by Albert K. Teele, Milton MA History, p. 27.
Andrew Pitcher married by 1641, Margaret _____. Sometime prior to 1657, "Margaret Pitcher" joined twenty other Dorchester women in signing a petition to the General Court is support of Alice Kibby, a midwife.
They had 8 children: Samuel, Experience Bugby, Mary, Ruth Newton, John, Nathaniel, Mary again, & Jonathan.
The record for the Mary Pitcher who was baptized on 30 November 1644 was later annotated "wife to Isaac Rush." Such annotations were common in the Dorchester church records. There are a numbere of problems with this annotation. First, Savage stated that this Mary "m. Mills." This was the annotation for the baptism of "[Lydia] Wilkins," immediately above the entry for Mary Pitcher. But the annotations routinely follow the baptisms, and so Savage's statement cannot be correct. Third, no other record has been found for an Isaac Rush. Third, and more decisively, Andrew Pitcher had a second daughter Mary, baptized on 29 April 1655, and so the earlier Mary must have died prior to that date. Fourth, none of Andrew Pitcher's daughters would have been old enough to marry before he made his will, and he named only Experience and Ruth in that document. The annotation to the baptism of the first Mary Pitcher remains unexplained, but she cannot have married anyone.
Source: Anderson's Great Migration Study Project.
Find A Grave contributor Cathy Truesdale adds:
In The Pitcher Book by William Richard Phipps, he states that Margaret's surname was Russell, his sources are 1. Grace Whipple Pitcher, Andrew Pitcher of Milton, MA, pp. 1-4; NEHCR, Register, NEHGS Vol. 5, Oct. 1851, p. 402; Clarence Almon Torrey, compiler, New England Marriages Prior to 1700 (Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Service, 1985) p.588; Western Massachusetts: a history, CD; New England Families, Vol. III, p. 515, 1330; Edited by Albert K. Teele, Milton MA History, p. 27.
They had 8 children: Samuel, Experience Bugby, Mary, Ruth Newton, John, Nathaniel, Mary again, & Jonathan.
The record for the Mary Pitcher who was baptized on 30 November 1644 was later annotated "wife to Isaac Rush." Such annotations were common in the Dorchester church records. There are a numbere of problems with this annotation. First, Savage stated that this Mary "m. Mills." This was the annotation for the baptism of "[Lydia] Wilkins," immediately above the entry for Mary Pitcher. But the annotations routinely follow the baptisms, and so Savage's statement cannot be correct. Third, no other record has been found for an Isaac Rush. Third, and more decisively, Andrew Pitcher had a second daughter Mary, baptized on 29 April 1655, and so the earlier Mary must have died prior to that date. Fourth, none of Andrew Pitcher's daughters would have been old enough to marry before he made his will, and he named only Experience and Ruth in that document. The annotation to the baptism of the first Mary Pitcher remains unexplained, but she cannot have married anyone.
Source: Anderson's Great Migration Study Project.
Find A Grave contributor Cathy Truesdale adds:
In The Pitcher Book by William Richard Phipps, he states that Margaret's surname was Russell, his sources are 1. Grace Whipple Pitcher, Andrew Pitcher of Milton, MA, pp. 1-4; NEHCR, Register, NEHGS Vol. 5, Oct. 1851, p. 402; Clarence Almon Torrey, compiler, New England Marriages Prior to 1700 (Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Service, 1985) p.588; Western Massachusetts: a history, CD; New England Families, Vol. III, p. 515, 1330; Edited by Albert K. Teele, Milton MA History, p. 27.
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