♀Marcy Curtis

Marcy Curtis, whom a compiled collection of Connecticut vital records gives as born 20 January 1727 at Farmington, was the youngest of the ten children of Thomas Curtis and Mary Goodrich, sixteen years after her brother Zebulon. She was the fifth great-grand-aunt of Frederic Roger Curtis (1928–2007), the sister of Zebulon Curtis (1710–1798), Roger’s fifth great-grandfather.

Early life

Marcy Curtis was a daughter of Thomas Curtis (1680–1752) and Mary Goodrich (born 1682). The compiled Farmington town records enter her as “Mercy”, the daughter of Thomas, and print her birth as 20 January 1726/7. A history of Wethersfield published in 1904 lists her under the same spelling and gives the same date.

Her parents later moved on. Her father was still of Farmington in 1744, and in 1746 a deed describes him as late of Farmington and now of Torrington, where her brother Zebulon had settled. Her mother was living at Torrington in 1754, when she was admitted to the church there with Zebulon and his wife. No record places Marcy in either household, and no record of her death is known.

Notes

The Warner marriage

The 1904 history says Mercy was supposed to have married Capt. John Warner. A New Milford marriage of “Marcy, of Farmington, d. Thomas” to John Warner on 3 July 1727 is reported by a family-tree website, which attributes it to an older daughter of the same name born about 1705. That marriage cannot belong to a girl born the previous January. Whether the family had two daughters named Marcy or Mercy, or whether the Warner marriage belongs to some other woman, is open.

Her name

The Farmington town book and the 1904 history write the name Mercy; the family tree here has Marcy.