Mercy Oakley

1692 - 1762  (~ 70 years)

• Name	Mercy Oakley  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7]
  Birth	Abt. 1692	Westchester, New York, USA
  Gender	Female
  Residence	27 Jul 1754	Westchester, Westchester, New York, USA   [3]
  Residence	24 Jul 1760	Westchester, Westchester, New York, USA   [1, 7]
  Residence	23 May 1762	Westchester, Westchester, New York, USA   [4, 6]
  Will	23 May 1762	Westchester, Westchester, New York, USA   [4, 6]
  Death	Bef. 5 Jul 1762	Westchester, Westchester, New York, USA   [5]
  Probate	5 Jul 1762	Westchester, New York, USA   [5, 6]
  Person ID	I784	Ryer Genealogy
  Last Modified	15 Feb 2025

  
  

  Father	Miles Oakley,   b. 24 Dec 1671, Westchester, New York, USA d. 1743 (Age 71 years)
  Mother	Mercy Gardiner,   b. 15 Nov 1676, Westchester, New York, USA
  Family ID	F227	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Joshua Hunt, Esq.,   b. Abt. 1683, Westchester, Westchester, New York, USA d. Bef. 25 Mar 1762, Westchester, Westchester, New York, USA (Age ~ 79 years)
  Children	+ 1. Capt. John Hunt,   b. Abt. 1708, Westchester, Westchester, New York, USA + 2. Caleb Hunt,   b. Abt. 1710, Westchester, Westchester, New York, USA d. Bef. 12 Dec 1769, Eastchester, Westchester, New York, USA (Age ~ 59 years)   3. Joshua Hunt, Jr.,   b. Abt. 1712, Westchester, Westchester, New York, USA   4. Israel Hunt,   b. Abt. 1714, Westchester, Westchester, New York, USA   5. Miriam Hunt,   b. Abt. 1716, Westchester, Westchester, New York, USA   6. Mary Hunt,   b. Abt. 1718, Westchester, Westchester, New York, USA   7. Enoch Hunt,   b. Abt. 1720, Westchester, Westchester, New York, USA   8. Elizabeth Hunt,   b. Westchester, Westchester, New York, USA
  Family ID	F251	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	15 Feb 2025

  
  

• Notes

  Mercy Hunt, Westchester. Leaves to daughter Elizabeth Fowler, the use of personal estate for life, then to daughter Mary Hunt. Mentions “my 3 sons Jeremiah, Pexall, and Benjamin.” Makes John Hitchcock Sr and Benjamin Palmer executors. Dated May 23, 1762. Proved July 5, 1762. source: Pelletreau, William Smith. Early Wills of Westchester County, New York: from 1664 to 1784: a Careful Abstract of all Wills (nearly 800) recorded in New York Surrogate's Office and at White Plains, N.Y. from 1664 to 1784 : also the Genealogy of "the Havilands" of Westchester County and Descendants of Hon. James Graham (Watkinson and Ackerley Families): with Genealogical and Historical Notes. New York, NY: F. P. Harper, 1898.

  
  

• Sources

  [S126] Collections of the New York Historical Society for the Year 1897; Abstracts of Wills on File at the Surrogate's Office, City of New York. Volume 6, 1760-1766, (New York, NY: New York Historical Society, 1898). [S289] Will of Joshua Hunt Sr., 24 Jul 1760, Westchester, Westchester County, New York. [S10] John Reynolds Totten, ed., The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, Volume 53, (New York: New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, 1922). [S321] Will of Mercy Hunt, 23 May 1762, Westchester, Westchester County, New York. [S322] Probate of the will of Mercy Hunt, 5 Jul 1762, Westchester County, New York. [S6] William Smith Pelletreau, Early Wills of Westchester County, New York: from 1664 to 1784: a Careful Abstract of all Wills (nearly 800) recorded in New York Surrogate's Office and at White Plains, N.Y. from 1664 to 1784 : also the Genealogy of "the Havilands" of Westchester County and Descendants of Hon. James Graham (Watkinson and Ackerley Families): with Genealogical and Historical Notes, (New York, NY: F. P. Harper, 1898). [S21] Ancestry.com, New York, U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 1659-1999 [database on-line]., (Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015).