Photos:Mt Lebanon Hancock Hamilton Richmond
Village:Hancock, MA Source:hsvcensus:711Search: Full Last First
id 711 lastname Jump firstname Mary Ann sex f birth_date 1857.04.04 birth_place Grand Gorge, NY date_admitted Hancock 1865, 1867, 1870, 1875 covenant_signed Housework, 1870 census. shaker_residences 1875 health 1865 MA census, Hancock family 140 (West Family): age 8, born Roxbury, NY. When West Family was broken up, she was transferred to Chh Family 1867.11.27, NOC.10,467. 1870 U.S. census, Hancock family 96: age 13, housework, born NY. Her father died when she was 'very young,' so her mother took her, her sisters & brothers & went to the Shakers; Mary left the Shakers at age 18 [c1875] & married Samuel Thorpe of New Kingston, NY, then moved to Roxbury NY; widowed with several small children, she raised them alone; see obituary for Mary (Jump) Thorpe, Catskill Mt News, May 22, 1936, p5.