Biography
Mercy Godfrey was born 10 September 1764 in Chatham, Barnstable County, Massachusetts, United States to Knowles Godfrey (1735-1766) and Jerusha Ryder (1739-1766) and died 6 September 1838 Orrington, Penobscot County, Maine, United States of unspecified causes. She married Christopher Taylor (1759-1786) 17 April 1784 in Chatham, Barnstable County, Massachusetts, United States. She married Hezekiah Eldredge (1768-1838) .
Mercy Godfrey, orphaned by the smallpox outbreak of 1766, married Christopher Atwood Taylor, who died, leaving her with a son, Christopher Taylor. She married (2) Hezekiah Eldridge, son of Hezekiah Eldridge and Mary Polly Doane, who both died in the same smallpox outbreak. She died in Orrington, Maine in 1838.
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Children
Name | Birth | Death | Joined with |
Christopher Taylor (1781-1863) |
Name | Birth | Death | Joined with |
Mary Doane Eldridge (1790-1866) | |||
Seth Eldridge (1792-1860) | |||
Hezekiah Eldridge (1795-1883) | |||
Knowles Godfrey Eldridge (1797-) | |||
Jerusha Ryder Eldredge (1800-1835) | |||
Hannah Eldridge (1803-1857) | |||
Benjamin Godfrey Eldridge (1804-1833) | |||
Mercy Eldridge (c1808-) |
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