Bishop · ◉ direct ancestor

♀Mary Bishop

Born 1756. Died 1832.

Mary Bishop (1756–1832) was a woman of Harpswell, in what was then the District of Maine^W, who married Michael Merryman there in 1783 and whose eldest son married his first cousin, the daughter of Michael’s brother James. She was the fourth great-grandmother of Nancy Jane Blanchard (1929–2006), through her son Walter Merriman (1785–1867).

Almost everything known of her comes from the 1905 genealogy Walter Merryman of Harpswell, Maine, and His Descendants by the Rev. Charles Nelson Sinnett, which gives her birth in 1756 and calls her a daughter of Luke Bishop. No record of her parents has been found; the first federal census, in 1790, does list a Luke Bishop heading a household at Harpswell. She married Michael Merryman (1760–1848) on 13 February 1783, and a history of Brunswick, Topsham and Harpswell published in 1878 also names Mary Bishop as Michael’s wife. That history and the 1905 book drew on the recollections of the same family, so they are not two independent witnesses. In the 1790 census Michael’s household at Harpswell held one man, two boys under sixteen and two females. Her son Walter, born in 1785, married Hannah Merryman, a daughter of James Merryman and Hannah Blake, in 1805, so that Mary was her daughter-in-law’s aunt by marriage. The 1905 genealogy dates her death to 26 January 1832.

The Harpswell town birth records, as indexed, name her only by her surname, Bishop, as the mother of seven children born there between 1785 and 1799. Walter, the eldest, was followed by James, Mary, Michael, Abigail and two sons named Hudson.

The 1905 genealogy gives her age at death as 66, which does not agree with the birth year of 1756 that it prints for her; that would make her 75 or 76. A family chart compiled in 1994 gives her birth as 1766 and her death as 25 January 1832, and calls her “Mrs. Mary (Estes) Bishop”; no record has been found to explain that name.

Family time line

◉ Mary Bishop 1756–1832

◉ Michael Merryman 1760–1848

Married 13 Feb 1783, Harpswell, Cumberland, Maine, United States, Harpswell, Maine

◉ Walter Merriman III 1785–1867

○ James Merryman 1787–1876

○ Mary B. Merryman 1789–1859

○ Michael Merryman 1792–1877

○ Hudson Merryman 1794–1797 ✧

○ Abigail Merryman 1796–1873

○ Hudson Merryman 1799–1885

Recorded events

Event	When	Where	Evidence ?on record - the record itself, its image, or a transcript or printed copy of it has been read from a compiled source - an index, a printed genealogy or a memorial page says so not yet documented - in the family record, no source attached yet
Birth	1756		from a compiled source
Death	1832		from a compiled source

17561832 177017801790180018101820

Sources

Sinnett, Walter Merryman of Harpswell, Maine, and His Descendants (1905), p.103 — Birth, Death, about this person, family with Michael Merryman
The Records of the Congregational Church of Christ in Harpswell (Rev. Samuel Eaton), 1764-1810, typescript — Marriage (Michael Merryman)

Line of descent

Descendants

Walter Merriman III 1785–1867
1. Enos Merryman 1807–1851
  1. Robert Lincoln Merryman 1829–1903
    1. George M. Merryman 1861–
    2. Robert L. Merryman 1864–
    3. Elmira Merryman 1876–
    4. Nellie Alexander Merryman
  2. Harriet Knights Merryman 1832–1873
    1. Thomas P. Merryman 1851–
  3. Walter Merryman 1833–1881
  4. George Merryman 1836–1858
  5. Enos Merryman 1840–
  6. Fannie Quincy Merryman 1843–
    1. Mary F. Bishop 1877–
    2. Infant Bishop 1878–1878 ✧
    3. Edward Brown Bishop 1881–
    4. Fannie Merryman Bishop 1887–
  7. John H. Merryman 1846–
2. John Merryman 1808–1891
  1. Hannah Ellen Merryman 1829–1844 ✧
  2. Frances Erwin Merryman 1831–
    1. Nancy Ellen Woodside 1855–
    2. Augusta Curtis Woodside 1860–
    3. Francis Henry Woodside 1867–
  3. Nathaniel Merryman 1833–1870
  4. Augusta Merryman 1834–1874
  5. Richard Merryman 1836–1914
    1. Evalyn Olive Merryman 1870–
    2. Walter Roberts Merryman 1872–
  6. William Simpson Merryman 1840–1909
    1. Anna Walker Merryman 1869–1942
    2. Maude Dennett Merryman 1874–1961
  7. Lydia W. Merryman abt 1844–1899 ⚭
    1. Margaret Tapley 1874–
    2. Edward Kent Tapley 1876–1896
    3. Linda Kent Tapley 1878–
    4. John D. Tapley 1885–
  8. Robert M. Merryman abt 1846–1908 ⚭
    1. John W. Merryman 1880–
    2. Nettie Frances Merryman 1896–
  9. Hannah E. Merryman abt 1848–1867
  10. Linda Merryman abt 1854–
3. Galen Merryman 1810–1892
4. Mary Jane Merryman 1813–1844
  1. Fannie J. McManus 1843–1853 ✧
  2. Walter McManus
5. Fanny Merryman 1815–1831
6. Robert S. Merryman 1825–1892 ⚭
  1. Mary J. Merryman 1847–1853 ✧
  2. Anthony N. Merryman 1855–1865 ✧
  3. Enos L. Merryman 1857–1881
    1. Edwin C. Merryman 1881–
    2. Harry Merryman 1882–
James Merryman 1787–1876
1. Deborah Merryman 1814–1888
  1. Mary Orr 1842–1853 ✧
  2. Isaac Henry Orr 1844–1864
  3. James Lewis Orr 1846–1900
    1. Ethel Waldron Orr 1882–
  4. Hudson Bishop Merryman Orr 1848–
    1. Infant Orr 1877–
    2. Orah Mary Orr 1879–1892 ✧
    3. Sinnett Winfred Orr 1881–
    4. Jennie Grace Orr 1883–
    5. John William Orr 1886–1901 ✧
    6. Mattie Lewis Orr 1889–
    7. Helena Almira Orr 1890–
    8. Bertha Irene Orr 1895–1897 ✧
  5. Mary Elizabeth Orr 1854–1874
2. Jeremiah Curtiss Merryman 1817–
  1. Jeannette S. Merryman 1847–1905
  2. Frederic Merryman 1855–1857 ✧
  3. Edward J. Merryman 1858–1885
  4. Curtiss H. Merryman 1861–
  5. Albert S. Merryman 1865–
3. Paul Curtiss Merryman 1820–1893
  1. Eliza Reed Merryman 1853–
    1. Annie Caroline Chenery 1875–1879 ✧
    2. Bessie Moreland Chenery 1876–
    3. George Skolfield Chenery 1879–1880 ✧
    4. Emma Williams Chenery 1883–1902
    5. Oliver Henry Chenery 1885–
    6. Lida Merryman Chenery 1890–
  2. Mary Curtiss Merryman 1855–1859 ✧
  3. George Skolfield Merryman 1859–1862 ✧
  4. Fannie Skolfield Merryman 1861–
    1. Annie Merryman Hall 1893–
    2. Ernest Hall 1898–
  5. Alice Curtiss Merryman 1866–1869 ✧
  6. Ernest Merryman 1869–
  7. Curtiss Merryman 1871–1880 ✧
  8. Nellie Merryman 1874–
  9. Andrew Gibson Merryman 1878– ☘
4. Hudson Bishop Merryman 1822–1867
  1. William Henry Merryman 1852– ✝
5. Mary C. Merryman 1827–1855
  1. Annie James 1857–
6. Henry A. Merryman 1829–1868
Mary B. Merryman 1789–1859
1. Belinda Merryman 1816–1871
2. Freeman M. Merryman 1818–1886
  1. Elizabeth Merryman 1852–1890
    1. Marian Norton Pennell 1876–
  2. Frederick S. Merryman 1856–1879
3. Abigail B. Merryman 1820–1884 ⚭
  1. Belinda Merryman Stover 1841–
    1. Ida Albertina York 1866–
    2. David William Dennison York 1870–
    3. Belinda York 1875–1875 ✧
  2. Mary M. Kincaid 1844–
    1. Harriet Osgood 1872– ⚭
    2. David Earle Osgood 1874–
    3. Mabel E. Osgood 1876–
    4. Abbie R. Osgood 1882–
    5. Grace F. Osgood 1884–
  3. William H. Kincaid 1846– ⚭
    1. James H. Kincaid 1868–
    2. Willie R. Kincaid 1872–
    3. Jessie A. Kincaid 1876–
  4. Harriet Peterson Kincaid 1852–1902
    1. Fred Andrew Smart 1875–
    2. Ada Almira Smart 1878–1879 ✧
    3. Flores May Smart 1879–1880 ✧
    4. Flores Isabel Smart 1881–
    5. Harold Kincaid Smart 1883–
    6. Margaret Montgomery Smart 1887–
    7. Marcia Elizabeth Smart 1891–
  5. David Ashley Kincaid 1855–
    1. Isabel Montgomery Kincaid 1888–
    2. Abbie Margaret Kincaid 1890–
  6. Frank Kincaid 1857–
  7. Annie Josie Kincaid 1865–
4. Thomas Merryman 1826–1892 ⚭
  1. Thomas P. Merryman 1851–
    1. Fred Knights Merryman 1881–
    2. Hattie Belle Merryman 1883–
    3. Fannie Bishop Merryman 1885–
5. James Ira Merryman 1831–
  1. Annie Merryman 1860–1891
  2. Frank A. Merryman 1864–
  3. Grace Merryman 1869–
  4. Bertha Merryman 1874–
Michael Merryman 1792–1877
1. Mary Alice Merryman 1832–
  1. Asenath M. Dennison 1855–
  2. George C. Dennison 1860–
  3. Lucy Chandler
  4. Helen Chandler
  5. James Chandler
2. George C. Merryman 1834–1869
3. Catherine L. Merryman 1836–1882
4. Robert M. Merryman 1839–1900
5. Washington Merryman 1843–
6. Margaret A. Merryman 1848–1881
7. Walter S. Merryman 1850–
Hudson Merryman 1794–1797 ✧
Abigail Merryman 1796–1873
1. Hiram A. Dunning 1825–1878 ⚭
  1. Benjamin Franklin Dunning 1866–1926
    1. Hiram Eugene Dunning 1896–1978
    2. Bennie Libby Dunning 1899–1978
2. Benjamin R. Dunning 1826–1878
3. Mary Ann Dunning 1829–
4. Clement S. Dunning 1836–
5. Abigail B. Dunning 1841–1865
Hudson Merryman 1799–1885
1. Eliza Ann Merryman 1826–
  1. Flora A. Stover 1859–
2. Lavina Merryman 1831–1832 ✧
3. Lavina Merryman 1835–
  1. Alfred Mitchell Merryman 1868–
    1. Frances Lavinia Merriman 1905–
  2. Lorenzo S. Merryman 1869–
4. George William Merryman 1836–1842 ✧
5. Sylvester S. Merryman 1840–1863
6. Isaac Merryman 1840–1897
  1. Georgia F. Merryman 1878–
  2. Willis Merryman 1886–
7. George W. Merryman 1843–
  1. Hattie C. Merryman 1886–
8. Frances M. Merryman 1850–
  1. Flora Ella Merryman 1895–