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:
“But the ocean was the grand fact there, which made us forget both bayberries and men.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“To get it right, be born with luck or else make it. Never give up. Get the knack of getting people to help you and also pitch in yourself. A little money helps, but what really gets it right is to never—I repeat—never under any conditions face the facts.”
—Ruth Gordon (1896–1985)
“France, indeed! whose Catholic millions still worship Mary Queen of Heaven; and for ten generations refused cap and knee to many angel Maries, rightful Queens of France.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)