"Mary3 Richards married first, about 1692, Benjamin3 Fairbanks, born at Dedham, 17 Feb. 1661/2, son of John2 (Jonathan1) and Sarah (Fiske) Fairbanks. This marriage was not recorded in Dedham, and as the account of Benjamin3 Fairbanks and his family on page 44 of the Fairbanks Genealogy (L. S. Fairbanks, 1897) does not state the date and place of the marriage or the maiden name of Benjamin's wife, it is evident the compiler of that genealogy did not find a record of the marriage in any other town."