Maria T. Flagler

Person/Family

Spouse 1

John Purdy (son of Francis Purdy and Anna Nancy Forman)

+1.	William H. Purdy

2.	Francis Purdy

3.	Edward Purdy

4.	Maria M. Purdy

+5.	George Washington Purdy

Sources

1. Yearbook of the Dutchess County Historical Society, Volumes 63-66. Published by the Dutchess County Historical Society. Volume 64, 1979, Page 64, The Flagler Cemetery at Green Haven, by Robert Pierce. The article describes the effort by Flagler family members to create a consolidated Flagler family cemetery, exhuming and reburying 71 Flagler relatives from 13 different cemeteries. Maria [also, Mariah] S. Flagler Purdy, 1792-1836, originally interred in Pittsbury Presbyterian Church at Washington Hollow, reinterred in the Flagler Cemetery, Green Haven [now Poughquag], Dutchess County, New York. Her dates of birth and death are presumed to come from either cemetery records or her gravestone.
2. New York, Church Records, 1660-1954 (available at familysearch.org), John Purdy and Maria T. Flagler, married on 14 June 1815 in Pleasant Valley, Dutchess County, New York.
3. Notices of Marriages and Deaths, About 4000 in Number, Published in Newspapers. Printed at Poughkeepsie, New York. 1778-1825. Compiled and Edited by Helen Wilkinson Reynolds. Collections of The Dutchess County Historical Society, Volume IV. P.J. [Poughkeepie Journal], 21 June 1815 (also R.H.). On Wednesday last [i.e., 14 June] by the late Rev. Mr. Clark, Mr. John Purdy, merchant, of Clinton, late of Fishkill, to Miss Maria S. Flagler, dau. of Mr. Solomon Flagler of Clinton.
4. History of McHenry County, Illinois. Chicago: Inter-State Publishing Company, 1885. Page 914, biographical sketch of George Purdy giving vital and biographical details, including his wife and three children, and details of his father John Purdy, John’s three wives and seven children.