Ocean Born Mary is a folklore legend of New England. Born Mary Wilson on the Atlantic Ocean on July 26, 1720, she grew up in Londonderry, New Hampshire. Daughter of James and Elizabeth (Fulton) Wilson, Mary married James Wallace on December 18, 1742. She had four sons, Robert, William, Thomas, and James Wallace, and one daughter Elizabeth. Three of the sons married sisters, daughters of Robert and Mary Moore of Londonderry. Robert married Jeannette, William married Hannah, and James married Anna. Elizabeth married Lieut. Thomas Patterson of the New Hampshire militia.
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Famous quotes containing the words ocean, born and/or mary:
“the ocean, under the pulsation of lighthouses and noise of bell
buoys,
advances as usual, looking as if it were not that ocean in which
dropped things are bound to sink—
in which if they turn and twist, it is neither with volition nor
consciousness.”
—Marianne Moore (1887–1972)
“Was I not born in this Realm? Were my parents born in any foreign country?... Is not my Kingdom here? Whom have I oppressed? Whom have I enriched to other’s harm? What turmoil have I made to this Commonwealth that I should be suspected to have no regard of the same?”
—Elizabeth I (1533–1603)
“The first general store opened on the ‘Cold Saturday’ of the winter of 1833 ... Mrs. Mary Miller, daughter of the store’s promoter, recorded in a letter: ‘Chickens and birds fell dead from their roosts, cows ran bellowing through the streets’; but she failed to state what effect the freeze had on the gala occasion of the store opening.”
—Administration in the State of Sout, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)