Mary Adams

Notes:

Notes from Gerhard Cook' gen file: "Mary Adams goes back to Charlemagne.")

Mary married James Allen in 1742 in Boston,,MA. James (son of Living) was born on 20 Oct 1712 in Sudbury,Middlesex,MA. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Groton Avery's-:

Mary Allen, niece of Governor Samuel Adams.

Note: Mary Allen is not included in records of Dedham 1st or South Churches.

Mary married Joseph Avery before 1778. Joseph (son of William Avery and Bethia Metcalf) was born on 14 Oct 1751 in Dedham,,MA; died in 1824 in Holden,,MA. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

AVERY of Dedham, MA--

Catharine,(8), (Joseph-7, William-6, William-5)

Catharine married Samuel Browning Bent on 13 Mar 1816 in Holden,, MA. Samuel (son of David Bent and Martha Browning) was born on 27 Nov 1784 in Rutland, MA; died on 04 Dec 1858 in Middlebury,, VT. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

The Bent Family, by Allen H. Bent, pub. 1900.

page78-79

#111 in Bent family.

Mary Avery (6) Bent (Samuel B. (5), David (4), David (3), John (2), John (1)) was born in Middlebury, VT., Jan. 7 1819, and died Jan. 11, 1890, at Las Vegas, NM, while on the way to California to visit a daughter. She married, Sept. 19, 1838, Rev. Jonathan Blanchard who was born in Rockingham, VT., Jan. 19, 1811, and died in Wheaton, Ill., May 14, 1892. He was educated at Middlebury College, VT, Andover and Lane seminaries; taught school; lectured in the anti-slavery cause; was American vice-president of the World's Anti-slavery Convention in London, 1843; was pastor of the Sixth Street Presbyterian Church, Cincinnati, OH., from 1838 to 1845; President of Knox College (founded in 1837), Galesburg, IL, from 1846 to 1860, and President of Wheaton Collge, Wheaton, IL., from 1860 to 1882; devoted much of his time to the Christian Association opposed to Secret Societies.

Mary Avery Bent left her home in the spring of 1835, when only sixteen years old, and , with a young friend, set out for the then distant State of Pennsylvania. The beginning of the following year found her principal of the Girls' High School in Harrisburg, where she first met her future husband, then on an anti-slavery lecturing tour. Securing her position in Harrisburg for her sister, she set out in 1837 for Montgomery, AL., where she taught a few months in the Female Seminary, and then returned to her Vermont home. The following fall, a nineteen-year-old bride, she bade farewell to her native hills and began her duties as a minister's wife in Cincinnati. She was a woman of true piety, gentle but resolute, and in her home, in the church, and in the reforms so ardently espoused by her husband, was always ready with her untiring energy and unfailing judgement.

Children, i to iv. born in Cincinnati, v. to xii. born in Galesburg, IL.:
i. Jonathan Edwards Blanchard, b. July 24, 1839
ii. Mary Avery Blanchard,b. Jan. 7, 1841.
iii. William Walter Blanchard, b. Dec. 16, 1842.
iv. Catherine Lucretia Blanchard, b. July 13, 1844.
*** v. MARIA ELIZABETH BLANCHARD, b. Oct. 30, 1846,
vi. Charles Albert Blanchard, b. Nov. 8, 1848.
vii. Williston Blanchard, b. Sept. 13, 1850.
viii. Nora Emily Blanchard (twin), b. April 3, 1853.
ix. Sonora Caroline Blanchard (twin), b. April 3, 1853.
x. Julia Waters Blanchard, b. April 16, 1855.
xi. Cyrus Louis Blanchard, b. July 11, 1857.
xii. Geraldine Cecilia Blanchard, b. Oct. 15, 1859.

Mary married Jonathan Blanchard on 19 Sep 1838 in Middlebury, VT. Jonathan (son of Jonathan Blanchard and Mary "Polly" Lovell) was born on 19 Jan 1811 in Rockingham, , VT; died on 14 May 1892 in Wheaton, DuPage, Illinois, USA. [Group Sheet]