DJD-250-Mercy-4

LINE OF DEACON JOHN DUNHAM OF PLYMOUTH FOURTH GENERATION IN AMERICA

250. MERCY 4 DUNHAM (Eleazer 3 Joseph 2 John 1) born in Plymouth10 December 1686. [1] Mercy married in Plymouth 8 April 1706 SAMUEL KEMPTON, [2] son of Ephraim and Mary (Reeves) Kempton of Scituate.[3] Samuel was born in Salem, Massachusetts 4 March 1681/2. [4] Children of Samuel and Mercy (Dunham) Kempton born in Plymouth [5] i. Mary 5 Kempton b. 12 December 1707; m. 12 Dec. 1728 Timothy Burbank of Boston, “now res. in Plymouth” Children of Timothy and Mary (Kempton) Burbank b. in Plymouth [6] i. Mary 6 Burbank b. 24 July 1730 ii. Timothy 6 Burbank b. 9 Feb. 1731/2 iii. Isaac 6 Burbank b. 22 Dec. 1733 iv. Rebeckah 6 Burbank b. 19 Feb. 1735/6 v. Ezra 6 Burbank b. 20 Feb. 1737/8 vi. Hannah 6 Burbank b. 21 Oct. 1740 vii. Joseph 6 Burbank b. 22 May 1743 viii. Lucy 6 Burbank b. 4 May 1745 ix. Marcy 6 Burbank b. 17 March 1747/8 x. David 6 Burbank b. 1 April 1750 ii. Lois 5 Kempton b. 12 February 1710/11. m. Plymouth 28 April 1733 John Holmes [7] Children of John and Lois (Kempton) Holmes born in Plymouth: [8] i. Lois 6 Holmes b. 3 January 1734/5; d. 11 September 1736 ii. Marcy 6 Holmes b. 9 August 1736 iii. John 6 Holmes b. 16 July 1738 iv. Nehemiah 6 Holmes b. 12 July 1740 v. Lois 6 Holmes (again) b. 18 October 1744 vi. Margaret 6 Holmes b. 3 February 1746/7 vii. Ruth 6 Holmes b. 15 January 1748/9 iii. Bathshua 5 Kempton b. 17 March 1712/13. m. in Plymouth 29 Jan. 1735/6 Nicholas Drew. [8] Children of Nicholas and Bathshua (Kempton) Drew b. in Plymouth: [9] i. Abigail 6 Drew b. 10 July 1737; d. 5 Aug. 1738 ii. Abigail 6 Drew (again) b. 3 Jan. 1738/9 iii. Lois 6 Drew b. 22 Feb. 1740/1; d. 7 Aug. 1742 iv. Nicholas 6 Drew b. 19 May 1743 v. Josiah 6 Drew b. 6 Aug. 1745 vi. Abbet 6 Drew b. 25 Nov. 1747 (or Abbot) vii. Samuel 6 Drew b. 3 Dec. 1749 viii. David 6 Drew b. 17 Feb. 1752 ix. Stephen 6 Drew b. 23 July 1754 iv. Samuel 5 Kempton b. 7 April 1714. m. Plymouth 9 Feb. 1736/7 Mabel Soule of Duxbury. Mabel’s maiden name was Partridge but her parents have not been identified. She had married first John Soule who died in Duxbury in 1734. She had two children by John Soule, Lydia and Samuel. [10] Children of Samuel and Mabel (Partridge) (Soule) Kempton born in Plymouth: [11] i. child 6 Kempton stillborn 5 July 1737 ii. Samuel 6 Kempton b. 5 November 1738 iii. Mabel 6 Kempton b. blind 28 October 1740 iv. Lydia 6 Kempton b. 31 May 1742 v. Oliver 6 Kempton b. 16 September 1743 v. John 5 Kempton b. 27 December 1716. m. 28 Feb. 1735/6 Elizabeth Randel of Plympton. [12] Children of John and Elizabeth (Randel) Kempton b. in Plymouth: [13] twins 6 Kempton b. May 1737, one born dead, the other d. soon i. Jerusha 6 Kempton b. 29 August 1738 ii. John 6 Kempton b. 22 July 1740 iii. Elizabeth 6 Kempton b. 21 June 1742 iv. Nathaniel 6 Kempton b. 23 July 1744; d. 19 August 1756 v. Hannah 6 Kempton b. 22 November 1747 vi. Mary 6 Kempton b. 15 September 1749 vii. Deborah 6 Kempton b. 7 July 1751 viii. Samuel 6 Kempton b. 14 February 1753 ix. Zacheus 6 Kempton b. 4 December 1754 x. Sarah 6 Kempton b. 18 May 1756 xi. Joannah 6 Kempton b. 14 March 1758 xii. Nathaniel 6 Kempton b. 6 June 1762 vi. Marcy 5 Kempton b. 12 Feb. 1718/19; m.at Plymouth 15 January 1740 Joseph Abbot of Plymouth [14] vii. Sarah 5 Kempton b. 28 Feb. 1720/21; d. 16 May 1721 viii. Sarah 5 Kempton (again) b. 16 June 1722; d. 10 Aug. 1722 ix. Sarah 5 Kempton (again) b.27 Feb. 1723/4; d. 19 July 1724 x. Sarah 5 Kempton (again) b. 11 June 1725 xi. Rebeccah 5 Kempton b. 31 March 1731. References: 1. Plymouth VR p. 2. 2. Plymouth VR p. 89; Ancestry of Eva Belle Kempton, p. 82. 3. Ibid. 4. Ibid. 5. Ibid; Plymouth VR p. 47. 6. Plymouth VR p. 105-6. 7. Plymouth VR p. 161. 8. Plymouth VR p. 163 & 99. 9. Plymouth VR p. 119. 10. Plymouth VR p. 100; Mayflower Families-George Soule Vol. 3. p. 61. 11. Plymouth VR. p. 129. 12. Plymouth VR p. 163. 13. Plymouth VR p. 128. 14. Plymouth VR. p. 102.

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