0058. Mary Meader (1765 – 1840)

Mary Meader, daughter of Benjamin Meader (1736-1827) [0022] and Patience Varney Hanson (1741-1825), was born in Rochester, NH January 2, 1765 and died in Sandwich, NH in March, 1840, in her 76th year. On February 23, 1804 she married Paul Bunker, a blacksmith, who was born July 11, 1773 and died in Sandwich on November 17, 1846. They lived in Sandwich, where he died.

[Note: Unpublished Volume V states that the marriage date of 1804 is obviously wrong.]
The children of Mary Meader and Paul Bunker were:
i. Lydia Bunker, born march 4, 1798 at Sandwich.
ii. Huldah Bunker, born September 12, 1799 and died young.
iii. Simeon Bunker, born in October, 1800 at Sandwich.
iv. Huldah Bunker.
v. Patience Bunker.
– AAMeader, #19
– NEHGR, 5:216
– Moran, Edward C, 60