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- ↑ Historical Society of Watertown (Massachusetts). Watertown Records. (Watertown, Mass.: Press of Fred Barker, 1894-1939)
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Middlesex Watertown Nouember the 23'd: 1710 Daniel Benjamin & Mary Bond both of Watertown were Joyned in Marriage By Jonas Bond Justice of the Peace.
[Note: Source:Bond, Henry. Family Memorials. Genealogies of the Families and Descendants of the Early Settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts, Including Waltham and Weston (1855), p. 28, reports this date as 23 Nov 1738, an obvious typo, since all their children were born before this date. He corrects this on p. 681, but see the note below.]
- ↑ Bond appears to create duplicate children for 3 of the 4 children, i.e., those that died young., possibly all three fictitious. Daniel's will only names Lydia, her husband, and her six children. No other children and no other grandchildren.
He wonders about John, for whom he gives no information but a question mark, so it is impossible to know what he based this on, but no such child is named in his will.
Bond apparently misreads the death date of son Daniel, getting 1725/26 instead of 1727/28, so he creates a fictitious one to match the mistaken death date, and marries off the one that died at age 4 m. The marriage to Lydia Warren is probably the 2nd marriage of the father, since he names wife Lydia in his will, and the marriage is only a year after his first wife died.
Bond shows baptisms of Mary and Sarah on 30 Jan 1726. The baptisms are apparently in Waltham but have not been located. But as neither one is named in the will, nothing has been found to confirm these children existed. This Mary is shown marrying Jonas Gale, but Jonas Gale's will names wife Mary Gale, so she long survived Daniel Benjamin and should have been mentioned, especially if Jonas was a ward of Daniel Benjamin as claimed. Like for Lydia, if Mary was a daughter, her children would have represented other grandchildren that one would expect to see in the will. The lack of mention of Mary or her children in the will suggests her parents may not have been identified incorrectly?
Bond gives no information beyond the baptism for Sarah.
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