Numerous online trees have attempted to make Freelove “legitimate” and apply Grace with the maiden name of “Freelove,” as the daughter of Thomas Freelove (died 1739) of Freetown, Massachusetts, who had no association with Stonington. How great would it be for a matrilineal descendant of “Mercy Giggles” to participate in the mtDNA study I offered in my previous post? Any descendants of Mercy Giggles or Freelove Frink amongst our readers? Notes Her daughter Mercy Jiggles married John Trumbull in Boston in 1742 and had children. Mercy (Fosdick) (Jiggles/Juggles) Morris died at Charlestown, Massachusetts 9 July 1754 and is buried there at the Phipps Street Burial Ground. The elder Mercy was still in New London by her court appearance for drinking in 1717/18, but by 1730 the now widowed Mercy had moved to Boston, where that year she published intentions to marry Thomas Morris. In the diary of Joshua Hempstead, it is noted that “Thomas Jegglls was put in prison” (without explanation) on 11 January 1713/14 he escaped and ran away the following day.Ī year later Thomas and Mercy had a second daughter, also named Mercy. Mercy and her first husband Thomas had a daughter Mary baptized in New London in 1709, for whom nothing further is known. Mercy’s surname was probably pronounced with a soft g, as it often written as Jiggles or Juggles. One such matrilineal descendant was her great-granddaughter Mercy (Fosdick) 5 (Jiggles/Juggles) Morris (1686-1754) ( Mercy Pickett 4, Ruth 3 Brewster, Jonathan 2, William 1). My last post discussed finding matrilineal descendants of Lucretia (Oldham) Brewster. I found Mercy Giggles without even looking. The division of Grace’s estate was not completed until 10 February 1778, and as Freelove had died in the interim, Grace’s only heirs were Freelove’s eight surviving children – Bartholomew Coats, Ruhamah Jeffords, Hannah Burch (these three by Freelove’s first husband), and her five sons by the second husband – Asa, Elisha, Seth, James, and Nathan Frink. Her daughter Freelove (Frink) (Coats) Frink died the following year at Preston on 25 April 1776. Grace Frink never married and died at Preston 14 January 1775. Freelove’s name was possibly related to her birth: she was born at Stonington 4 August 1719, daughter of Grace Frink, a single woman. Freelove married again the following year – at Preston, Connecticut 13 November 1752 – to her first cousin James Frink, and had five additional children, all sons. They had five children in quick succession, two sons followed by three daughters, but then Hezekiah died in 1751.
Three years after confessing to fornication, Freelove Frink married Hezekiah Coats at Stonington on 22 September 1742. Greene, had the an item concerning “Mercy Giggles” and Freelove Frink.” I was interested to know what became of these two eighteenth-century Connecticut ladies.
Following up on my post about the Geer and Christophers families of Connecticut, the last TAG article by Norman Ingham, which was followed by comments by David L. The American Genealogist (TAG) has frequently published amusing short items found in the records, often as “filler” for the lower half of a page.
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