Mary Borden
(1744-1773)
BIRTH
1744
PLACE
Bordentown, New Jersey
DEATH
March 12, 1773
PLACE
New Castle, Delaware
FAMILY
HUSBAND
Thomas McKean
(1734-1817)
CHILDREN
Letitia McKean Buchanan
(1769-1845)
HOMES
RELIGIOUS VIEWS
RELIGION NOT DOCUMENTED
DENOMINATION NOT DOCUMENTED
MEMBERSHIPS
AWARDS
Mary Borden (1744–1773) was Thomas McKean’s first wife and the daughter of Colonel Joseph Borden of New Jersey. They married in Bordentown on July 21, 1763, and had six children, including Joseph Borden McKean, later Pennsylvania’s attorney general. She died in Delaware on March 12, 1773, before her husband signed the Declaration of Independence. Her life is documented chiefly through the McKean family; the cause of her death has not been established.
EARLY LIFE
The exact date and place of Mary Borden’s birth have not been established in the source used for this entry. The surviving biographical summary provides only limited evidence about childhood, schooling, and the daily circumstances of the household, so those details are not reconstructed here without documentation. What can be stated securely is that this person belonged to the interconnected family world from which HistoryGPS traces participants, relatives, and later descendants of the Revolutionary generation.
No distinct public profession or office for Mary Borden is established by the source summary used for this entry. The surviving record is primarily genealogical and documents family identity rather than an independent public career. Mary Borden died on Mar 12, 1773. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.
CAREER
DEATH
Mary Borden died on Mar 12, 1773, in New Castle, Delaware. Mary Borden was Thomas McKean ’s first wife and the daughter of Colonel Joseph Borden of New Jersey. They married in Bordentown on July 21, 1763, and had six children, including Joseph Borden McKean, later Pennsylvania’s attorney general. She died in Delaware on March 12, 1773, before her husband signed the Declaration of Independence. Her life is documented chiefly through the McKean family; the cause of her death has not been established. The available account does not establish a medical cause or a dependable sequence of final symptoms and care.
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