Martha Ide
Personpeople/martha-ide-d1676.md
As written
- name
- Martha Ide
- sex
- female
- access
- public
- summary
- First wife of Nicholas Ide of Rehoboth, buried there on 3 Nov 1676, the year of King Philip's War, when the town was burned and her sons John and probably Nicholas served; John was buried six weeks after her. Probably the mother of Timothy Ide, and probably a daughter of Thomas Bliss of Rehoboth.
- buried
- date
- 3 Nov 1676
- place
- Rehoboth, Massachusetts
- basis
- documented
- confidence
- proven
- sources
- [vital-records-rehoboth]
- father
- id
- thomas-bliss-d1649
- basis
- inferred
- confidence
- probable
- sources
- [will-thomas-bliss-rehoboth, book-savage-genealogical-dictionary]
- note
- Very probably. His will calls Nicholas Ide "my sonninlaw" and leaves a heifer to Nicholas's son Nathaniel; Savage agrees. The will does not name Nicholas's wife. In 1649 "son-in-law" could also mean a stepson, and the Bliss Genealogy (1881) suggested Nicholas might be a son of Bliss's wife by an earlier husband. Not the Thomas Bliss of Hartford who was an ancestor of Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Martha was the first wife of Nicholas Ide of Rehoboth, and very probably a daughter of Thomas Bliss, whose will of 1649 calls Nicholas "sonninlaw."
King Philip's War. Rehoboth was burned on 28 Mar 1676, "forty houses and thirty barns" (Bliss, History of Rehoboth, p. 95). Her son John had been in the Narragansett expedition, and Nicholas, probably her son, served under Major Bradford that summer (Bliss p. 117; see Nicholas Ide). In the burned town some twenty people were buried between late May and December 1676, none of them said to be slain, perhaps of a sickness. Her son-in-law Samuel Fuller was buried on 15 Aug 1676. "The wife of Nicholas [I]yde" was buried "the third of November, 1676" (Rehoboth VR p. 900; "IDE Martha, buried Nov. 3, 1676," p. 839), and her son John in the middle of December (p. 900).
Open questions
- Her Bliss parentage: the 1648 petition, if it exists, or Thomas Bliss's estate papers.
---name: Martha Idesex: femaleaccess: publicsummary: >-First wife of Nicholas Ide of Rehoboth, buried there on 3 Nov 1676, the year of King Philip's War,when the town was burned and her sons John and probably Nicholas served; John was buried six weeksafter her. Probably the mother of Timothy Ide, and probably a daughter of Thomas Bliss ofRehoboth.buried:date: 3 Nov 1676place: Rehoboth, Massachusettsbasis: documentedconfidence: provensources: [vital-records-rehoboth]father:id: thomas-bliss-d1649basis: inferredconfidence: probablesources: [will-thomas-bliss-rehoboth, book-savage-genealogical-dictionary]note: Very probably. His will calls Nicholas Ide "my sonninlaw" and leaves a heifer to Nicholas's son Nathaniel; Savage agrees. The will does not name Nicholas's wife. In 1649 "son-in-law" could also mean a stepson, and the Bliss Genealogy (1881) suggested Nicholas might be a son of Bliss's wife by an earlier husband. Not the Thomas Bliss of Hartford who was an ancestor of Ralph Waldo Emerson.---Martha was the first wife of Nicholas Ide of Rehoboth, and very probably a daughter of Thomas Bliss,whose will of 1649 calls Nicholas "sonninlaw."**King Philip's War.** Rehoboth was burned on 28 Mar 1676, "forty houses and thirty barns" ([Bliss,*History of Rehoboth*](/files/sources/book-bliss-1836-history-rehoboth/), p. 95). Her son John had been inthe Narragansett expedition, and Nicholas, probably her son, served under Major Bradford that summer(Bliss p. 117; see [Nicholas Ide](/people/nicholas-ide-d1690/)). In the burned town some twentypeople were buried between late May and December 1676, none of them said to be slain, perhaps of asickness. Her son-in-law Samuel Fuller was buried on 15 Aug 1676. "The wife of Nicholas [I]yde" wasburied "the third of November, 1676" (Rehoboth VR p. 900; "IDE Martha, buried Nov. 3, 1676," p.839), and her son John in the middle of December (p. 900).## Open questions- Her Bliss parentage: the 1648 petition, if it exists, or Thomas Bliss's estate papers.