Mercy Nye^[1]

1652 - 1744  (92 years)

• Name	Mercy Nye
  Birth	8 Apr 1652	Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts, USA   [2, 3, 4, 5]
  Gender	Female
  Death	13 Nov 1744	Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts, USA
  Person ID	I42139	Master
  Last Modified	12 Jan 2021

  
  

  Father	Benjamin Nye,   b. 4 May 1620, Biddenden, Kent, England d. 30 Apr 1714, Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts, USA (Age 93 years)
  Mother	Katherine Tupper,   b. 11 Jan 1623, Chelmsford, Essex, England d. 4 Jun 1676, Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts, USA (Age 53 years)
  Marriage	19 Oct 1640	Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts, USA   [6]
  Family ID	F9798	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Matthias Ellis,   b. 2 Jun 1657, Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts, USA d. 30 Aug 1748, Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts, USA (Age 91 years)
  Marriage	Jan 1679	Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts, USA   [4, 5]
  Children	1. Freeman Ellis,   b. 1679  [Father: natural]   2. Captain Joel Ellis,   b. 17 Jan 1679, Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts, USA d. 21 Jun 1763, Middleborough, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA (Age 84 years)  [Father: natural]   3. John Ellis,   b. 1680, Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts, USA d. 19 Oct 1712, Chatham, Barnstable, Massachusetts, USA (Age 32 years)  [Father: natural]   4. Mathias Ellis,   b. 5 Nov 1681, Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts, USA d. 30 Aug 1748, Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts, USA (Age 66 years)  [Father: natural]   5. Manoah Ellis,   b. 1682, Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts, USA d. 2 Dec 1726, Harwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts, USA (Age 44 years)  [Father: natural]   6. Mehitable Ellis,   b. 17 Aug 1683, Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts, USA  [Father: natural]   7. John Ellis,   b. 17 Aug 1683, Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts, USA d. 12 Dec 1717, Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts, USA (Age 34 years)  [Father: natural]   8. Cornelius Ellis,   b. 1684, Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts, USA d. 7 May 1729, Harwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts, USA (Age 45 years)  [Father: natural]   9. Mercy Ellis,   b. 17 Aug 1685, Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts, USA d. 30 Oct 1751, Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts, USA (Age 66 years)  [Father: natural] + 10. Experience Ellis,   b. 26 Jul 1687, Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts, USA d. 2 Sep 1750, Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts, USA (Age 63 years)   11. Malachi Ellis,   b. 1689, Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts, USA d. 21 Mar 1762, Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts, USA (Age 73 years)  [Father: natural]   12. Remember Ellis,   b. 1 Dec 1691, Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts, USA d. 13 Nov 1744 (Age 52 years)  [Father: natural]   13. Isabel Ellis,   b. 31 Dec 1693, Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts, USA  [Father: natural]   14. Mehitabel Ellis,   b. 31 Dec 1693, Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts, USA d. 20 Sep 1751, Taunton, Bristol, Massachusetts, USA (Age 57 years)  [Father: natural]   15. Samuel Ellis,   b. 12 Nov 1699, Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts, USA  [Father: natural]
  Family ID	F9824	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	10 Jan 2021

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 8 Apr 1652 - Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts, USA Marriage - Jan 1679 - Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts, USA Death - 13 Nov 1744 - Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts, USA  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Notes

  Mistaken Identity Mercy NYE From "Genealogies of Mayflower Families, G-Pa, Nye-Snow Family Record:""Mercy Nye and Mercy, Wife of Lt. Matthias Ellis":'The following case of mistaken identity is a perfect example of how an error, once it has appeared in print, can have a life of its own 1. Per the Genealogies of the Mayflower family HER PARENTS ARE NOT BENJAMIN NYE & KATHERINE TUPPER As listed in the ancestral file, Benjamin's daughter Mercy Nye didn't marry Lt. Matthias Ellis or anyone else! It is now clear that the identity of Mercy Nye Ellis is still to be found. See below George H. Nye and Frank E. Best, the compilers of "A Genealogy of the Nye Family" published in 1907, stated that the Benjamin Nye of Sandwich and his wife Katherine (Tupper) Nye's daughter Mercy Nye, born 8 Apr. 1652, married about 1678 Matthias Ellis. The compilers of "Thomas Tupper and His Descendants (The Register, 99:59), repeated the allegation (1945) and Mrs. Lydia Brownson and I in our "Lt. John and Elizabeth Ellis of Sandwich" also wrongly assumed that the identification of Mercy, wife of Matthias Ellis was correct. Conclusive proof has come to light which shows that Mercy Nye did not marry Lt. Matthias Ellis or anyone else! It is now clear that the identity of Mercy Ellis is still to be found. The proof lies in the wording of an original deed which is now in the possession of Mr. Lindsay Armstrong of Sandwich, Mass., who has furnished me with a Photostat. This document is a conveyance by "Benjamin Nye of the Town of Sandwich in the county of Barnstable in New England", dated 9 June 1704, in which the grantor gives all his lands, mills, and appurtenances in Sandwich to his son Jonathan Nye. This gift was subject to the restriction that the grantee Jonathan Nye was to continue to care for, "relieve and support" the father "and Katherine my now wife and Mercey Nye my daughter who have not been able for some years last past to relieve and support ourselves by reason of weakness and other infirmities." Benjamin Nye gave also in this deed to his son Jonathan land in Middleborough in Plymouth Colony. As if it were not fortunate enough that the actual deed has itself been preserved, an additional oddity, worthy of a Ripley "Believe It Or Not", appears here. On the back of the original document is the notation, "June the 9th 1704 then received this deed to be recorded, and is accordingly recorded in Barnstable County. Recorded in the fourth Book of Evidence of Lands folio 151 and herewith compared per me Wm Bassett Regr." But this volume, of course, was consumed in the Court House fire of 1827. And so, below the first notation there is a second note on the original deed's back page: "Barnstable SS received Aug. 24, 1909 at 12 M and is entered with Barnstable County Deeds in book 297, pg. 221. Attest John A. Holoway, Register." One wonders how many instances may exist of a deed, recorded and destroyed and re-recorded more than two hundred years later, so that it can be seen to-day, along with the original from which both copies were made! Another curious facet of this misidentification of Mercy, wife of Lt. Matthias Ellis, is to be found in the "Nye Family Of America Association Proceedings At The Second Reunion", published by E. Anthony and Sons, Inc., New Bedford, Mass., in 1904, a Mrs. Jerome Holoway read a paper which shows that the original Benjamin Nye deed, here referred to, had been found, and was then in the hands of a descendant, Samuel H. Nye of East Sandwich. Although Mrs. Holoway does not seem to have noted that the instrument proved that Mercy Nye was unmarried in 1704, she actually provided additional proof. She stated that by a deed dated 1713 Jonathan Nye gave considerable land to his son Jonathan, provided that the latter care for "my sister Mercy who is feeble in body and mind." Therefore, we know now that Mercy Nye--unmarried and unable to care for herself in 1704--was still in feeble health in 1713. In contrast, Mercy, wife of Lt. Matthias Ellis, mother of ten children, was still sufficiently vigorous by 13 Nov 1744 so that in her husband's will of that date he made her co-executrix! One final note, although at their second reunion the Nye Family Association were already aware that Benjamin Nye's daughter was not married in 1704, strangely enough, George H. Nye and Frank E. Best, op. cit., made the misidentification in 1907. And in "A Genealogy of the Nye Family, Vol. II" (1965), although the writer contributed numerous additions and corrections, the error about Mercy Nye was once again overlooked. Mia culpa!--Pittsburgh, Pa; Maclean W. McLean Sources 1 Lorna Borman, The Descendants Of The Nye Family In Denmark, England, and America. 2 Tupper Family Association, Thomas Tupper and His Descendants. 3 Roberts, Gary Boyd, Genealogies Of Mayflower Families, Genealogical Publishing Company, Baltimore, MD, 1985.(Genealogy Library, genealogy.com, 2001). Marilyn Mangano Mistaken Identity: In The N.E. Historical Genealogical Register, July 1965, I found that Matthais's will was witnessed by Elisha & Elad Tupper, Jr. and Sumuel Jenning. Barnstable County Probate, vol. 8 page 215-6. I didn't see the name of Burgess mentioned. I also saw that he left Joseph Nye, Jr. L4. 18s.

  
  

• Sources

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