Margaret Sheafe
Born: May 12, 1673 Charlestown, Massachusetts
Married: April 8, 1699, Charlestown, Massachusetts
Died: May 24, 1750 Harvard, Massachusetts
Father: William Sheafe b.c.1649
Mother: Ruth Wood b.c.1649
Husband: Richard Stratton b.1664
Children:
Mary Stratton b.1702
Ruth Stratton b.1700
Margaret Stratton b.1705
Notes:
-Lived at Charlestown, Boston, Andover. Finally to Chelmsford where
they owned a mill. She married second Moses Parker. She wrote a will naming her children and grandchildren in 1747. It was proven July 30, 1750. She died in Harvard, the town in which her son-in-law Jonas Whitney was from. Harvard Vital Record books indicate there was a gravestone, but it must have been badly worn, being read as "1760". Church record lists the correct '1750', and age as 77. Actual gravestone inscription gives her exact date of birth as May 12, 1673
Sources:
-Birth Source: NEHGR 125:59, and "The Genealogist: English Origins
and Descendants of Edward Wood", Gravestone inscription
-Marriage Source: Charlestown Vital Records, Chelmsford Vital Records.
-Burial Source: "A Book of Strattons", Harvard Vital Records, Gravestone, Church Record, Will Proven