Mary Chickering

1630 - 1698  (68 years)

• Name	Mary Chickering
  Birth	1630  [1]
  Land/House	Nov 1646 (16 years)
  She transferred all of her interest in a parcel of land in Suffolk, England to her cousin, John Chickering, the son of Henry Chickering in November 1646.
  Moved To	Abt 1652 (22 years)	Medfield, Norfolk County, Massachusetts Bay Colony   [8, 11]
  John and Mary came to Medfield, Massachusetts about 1652, with their three children.
  History	17 Oct 1691 (61 years)	Plymouth Colony merged with Massachusetts Bay Colony forming the Province of Massachusetts Bay
  Death	15 Mar 1697/98	Medfield, Norfolk County, Province of Massachusetts Bay   [1, 8, 9, 11, 12]
  Burial	Aft 15 Mar 1697/98	Vine Lake Cemetery, Medfield, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, U.S.A. Vine Lake Cemetery, Medfield, Massachusetts   [1]
  	Gravestone of Mary (Chickering) Metcalf Plot: Grave #470
  Person ID, Branch	I139	Roy Line
  Last Modified	4 Jul 2025

  
  

• Notes

  Parents: Many sources list her as the daughter of Francis and Anne (Fiske) Chickering. In this they take the lead of Savage (1860), but he was proved wrong by Clarence Almon Torrey in 1940. [9]

  
  

Spouse / Partner	John Metcalfe,   b. 5 Sep 1622, Norwich, Norfolk, England d. 8 Oct 1690, Medfield, Norfolk County, Massachusetts Bay Colony (Age 68 years)
Marriage	22 Mar 1647	Dedham, Norfolk County, Massachusetts Bay Colony   [2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11]
	Marriage Record of Mary Chickering and John Metcalf
Age at Marriage	She : ~ 17 years and 3 months - He : 24 years and 6 months.
Children	3 sons and 5 daughters
1. John Metcalfe,   b. 21 Mar 1648, Dedham, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, U.S.A. d. 1738, Medfield, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, U.S.A. (Age 89 years)  [Father: Birth]  [Mother: Birth]     2. Michael Metcalfe,   b. 20 Sep 1650, Dedham, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, U.S.A. d. 9 Dec 1691, Medfield, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, U.S.A. (Age 41 years)  [Father: Birth]  [Mother: Birth]     3. Mary Metcalfe,   b. 2 Oct 1652, Dedham, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, U.S.A. d. probably young  [Father: Birth]  [Mother: Birth]     4. Elizabeth Metcalfe,   b. Dedham, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, U.S.A. d. 27 Nov 1735, Medfield, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, U.S.A.  [Father: Birth]  [Mother: Birth]     5. Joseph Metcalfe,   b. 22 Nov 1658, Medfield, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, U.S.A. d. 1741, Medfield, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, U.S.A. (Age 82 years)  [Father: Birth]  [Mother: Birth] +   6. Experience Metcalfe,   b. 16 Oct 1661, Medfield, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, U.S.A. d. 18 Feb 1730/31, Medfield, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, U.S.A. (Age 69 years) ▻ Isaac Wheeler  m. 1682/83     7. Hannah Metcalfe,   b. 13 Oct 1664, Medfield, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, U.S.A. d. 20 Dec 1719, Medfield, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, U.S.A. (Age 55 years)  [Father: Birth]  [Mother: Birth]     8. Mary Metcalfe,   b. 2 Jun 1668, Medfield, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, U.S.A. d. 17 Feb 1726/27, Medfield, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, U.S.A. (Age 58 years)  [Father: Birth]  [Mother: Birth]
Family ID	F173	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
Last Modified	21 Jul 2025




• Pedigree

  ← Click to display 1Mary Chickering(1630 – 15 Mar 1697/98) 2 3

  
  

• Event Map		Marriage - 22 Mar 1647 - Dedham, Norfolk County, Massachusetts Bay Colony Moved To - Abt 1652 - Medfield, Norfolk County, Massachusetts Bay Colony Death - 15 Mar 1697/98 - Medfield, Norfolk County, Province of Massachusetts Bay Burial - Aft 15 Mar 1697/98 - Vine Lake Cemetery, Medfield, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, U.S.A.  = Link to Google Earth
  Pin Legend	: Address       : Location       : City/Town       : County/Shire       : State/Province       : Country       : Not Set

  
  

• Sources 🟢 Primary Evidence 🟡 Secondary Evidence 🟠 Tertiary Evidence 🔴 Unreliable Evidence

  [S14] Ancestry.com, Find a Grave® Index, 1600s-Current® http://findagrave.com, (Lehi, Utah: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.), Memorial ID 90971369 Mary Chickering Metcalf. [S1904] Goodwin, Nathaniel. Genealogical Notes on Contributions to the Family History of Some of the First Settlers of Connecticut and Massachusetts, (Hartford, Connecticut: Nathaniel Goodwin, 1856). [S95] Hanson, Robert Brand. The Vital Records of Dedham, Massachusetts volume 3: Marriages, (Bowie, Maryland: Heritage Books, 1989). [S699] Harris, Luther Metcalf. "Metcalfe Family,", (Boston: The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, volume VI (1852)). [S188] Holbrook Research Institute, Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988, (Provo, Utah: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011), Marriage Record of Mary Chickering and John Metcalf. [S1905] Metcalf, Isaac. Metcalf Genealogy, (Cleveland, Ohio: The Imperial Press, 1898). [S808] Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May 1692 on the Basis of Farmer's Register, volume III, (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1861). [S82] Tilden, William S. History of the Town of Medfield, Massachusetts 1650-1886 , (Boston: George H. Ellis, Printers, 1887). [S1222] Torrey, Clarence Almon. "Francis Chickering of Dedham, Massachusetts", (New Haven, Connecticut: The American Genealogist, volume XVII, number 2, October 1940). [S91] Torrey, Clarence Almon, New England Marriage Prior to 1700, (Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1985). [S485] Wheeler, Daniel Merrick. The Wheeler Family of Rutland, Mass. and Some of their Ancestors, (Pittsfield, Massachusetts: by the author, 1924). [S93] Woods, Henry Ernest. Vital Records of Medfield, Massachusetts to the year 1850, (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1903).