91. Plummer

Outline

1. (poss.) Francis Seaborne alias Plomer (d. ca. 1612) m. ____; Wotton under Edge, Gloucestershire, Eng.
2. Francis Plummer (ca. 1594–1673) m. (1) Ruth ____ (d. 1647); Newbury, Mass.
3. Joseph Plummer (ca. 1630–aft. 1706) m. 1652 Sarah Cheney (1636–aft. 1692); Newbury, Mass.
4. Joseph Plummer (1654–1728) m. 1685 Hannah Jewett (d. ca. 1731); Newbury, Mass.
5. Dr. David Plummer (1696–1748) m. (1) 1723 Ann Newman (ca. 1692–1736); Gloucester, Mass.
6. Dr. Samuel Plummer (1725–1778) m. (4) 1763 Anna (Stevens) Sanders (b. 1739); Gloucester, Mass.
7. Capt. William Stevens Plummer (1766–1800) m. 1796 Catherine Marriot Stetson (ca. 1778–1828); Gloucester, Boston, Mass.
8. Catherine Marriot Plummer (1798–1841) m. (1) 1825 William Perkins Matchett Jr. (1805–1834); Brighton, Mass.; Cincinnati, Ohio

Sources

This line is largely taken from Sidney Perley, The Plumer Genealogy, Historical Collections of the Essex Institute 50-51 (1914-15). The series was later collected and published as The Plumer Genealogy (Salem, Mass.: Essex Institute, 1917), which contains substantially the same information. A promising inquiry into the English origin of the family appears in John Plummer, New Light on Francis¹ Plummer of Massachusetts: A Test of Tradition and Conventional Wisdom, National Genealogical Society Quarterly 83 (1995): 112-23, but I find the evidence for Plummer’s proposed English origin less than conclusive.

Related surnames

2913. Cheney · 1457. Jewett · 45. Matchett · 729. Newman · 181, 183. Stetson · 365, 5847, 5853. Stevens