Site Title - Mehitable Crowell

Mehitable Crowell

F, b. 1691, d. 21 March 1766

Mehitable was born in 1691. Mehitable married John Rider, son of John Rider and Hester Hall, circa 1713 in Chatham, Barnstable County, Massachusetts. Mehitable's husband, John, died on 10 January 1766 in Chatham, Barnstable County, Massachusetts, leaving her a widow.¹ Mehitable died on Friday, 21 March 1766 in Chatham, Barnstable County, Massachusetts, during a smallpox epidemic.² She was buried at Chatham, Barnstable County, Massachusetts, in the Old Burying Ground.

Family

John Rider b. 28 May 1692, d. 10 Jan 1766

Children

John Rider b. 4 Apr 1714, d. b 22 Mar 1774
Reuben Rider b. c 1716, d. 12 Feb 1773
Stephen Rider b. c 1718, d. 18 Jan 1766
Simeon Rider+ b. 4 Apr 1720, d. a 21 Feb 1774
Mehitable Rider b. 27 Jan 1724, d. 9 May 1788
Zenus Rider b. 27 Apr 1726, d. Jan 1766
Bethiah Rider b. 11 Sep 1728, d. 17 Jan 1766
Zerviah Rider b. 12 Jan 1734
Esther Rider b. 4 Mar 1735

Citations

[S1827] Stanley W. Smith, Chatham, Mass., Gravestone Records, page 49 - John Rider, died with the smallpox, 10 January 1766, in his 76th year - The Old Baptist Cemetery.
[S1825] Massachusetts Vital Records to 1850: Records in the oldest Burying Ground in Chatham - page 178 - Mehitahle Rider, widow of John, died of small pox, 21 March, 1766, in her 77th year - transcribed by New England Historic Genealogical Society 2001-2016.