Mary Purrier1

F, b. circa 1628
FatherWilliam Purrier b. c 1599, d. b 13 May 1676
MotherAlice Knight b. c 1598, d. b 13 Dec 1671
     Mary was born circa 1628 in Olney, Buckinghamshire, England. She was 7 years of age when she arrive on the ship "Hopewell" in 1635. Mary married James Reeve in the Town of Southold, Suffolk County, Long Island, New York.2 James & Mary had children: Mary [1647] [m. 9/05/1665 Thomas Terrill], William [1649-4/29/1697] [m. Mary], James [1650-5/06/1698], Isaac [1653-] & possibly others.

Family

James Reeve d. b 13 Dec 1671

Citations

  1. [S344] Josephine C Frost, Ancestors of James Wickham and his Wife Cora Prudence Billard, page 187 - 2. MARY PURRIER, daughter of William and Alice Purrier, was born in England in 1628 and married Thomas Reeve, who died before 1661.
  2. [S2250] Wesley Logan Baker, Study of the Reeve family of Southold, Long Island, N.Y.: and Southold descendants of the Southampton, L.I. Reeves family and genealogy of said families up to 1800, page 5 - Deposition of Thomas Osman 1658 - Thomas Osman, who married a sister of Mary Purrier Reeve, says in his 1658 Deposition that James Reeve was his brother in law and William Purrier was his father in law There is a lot of controversey among researchers as to whether James or Thomas Reeves was Mary's husband - This shows her husband to be James - thank you to the person that did the research on Wikitree and pointing us to this book - KLM, 15 June 2024.