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Martha Smithe
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Born: Abt. 1608 England

Married:  03 Mar 1630/1 Lawford, Essex, England
   
     
Died: After 1684 Newbury, Essex, MA    

HUSBAND

John Cheney

CHILDREN

1. Pater Cheney
    bap. 17 Feb 1631/2 Lawford, Essex, England

2. Unnamed Daughter
    bap. 28 Apr 1734 Lawford, Essex, England

3. Daniel Cheney
    b. Abt. 1635
    m. 8 Oct 1665 Sarah Bailey
    d. 10 Sep 1694

4. Sarah Cheney
    bap. Feb 1635/6
    m. 23 Dec 1652 Joseph Plumer

5. Lydia Cheney
    b. 1638
    m. 12 Nov 1657 John Kendrick

6. Peter Cheney
     b. Abt. 1640
    m. 14 May 1663 Hannah Noyes

7 . Hannah Cheney b. 16 Nov 1642
    m. 16 Nov 1659 Richard Smith

8. Nathaniel Cheney
     b. 12 Jan 1644/5

9. Elizabeth Cheney
     b. 14 Jan 1647/8
    m. Stephen Cross

Martha Smithe
by Susan Brooke
Aug 2023

Martha Smith was the second wife of John Cheney.  She married on 3 Mar 1631 in Lawford, Essex, England and came to the colonies in 1636 with her husband, son Daniel, and three children from his first marriage. (1) Martha was still alive on 31 May 1684 when the estate of  her son Nathaniel was appraised.

Sources

 

(1) see John Cheney on Wikitree

He married at Lawford, Co. Essex, on 3 Mar 1630/1, as his 2nd, to Martha Smoithe.  His wife Martha was living on 31 May 1684, when appraisers of her son Nathaniel's estate stated she was yet living.

Mahler, Leslie, (Oct 2001) "The English Origin of John Cheney of Roxbury and Newbury, Massachusetts." The American Genealogist. AmericanAncestors.org (Vol 76, Pages 245-47).