↑ Threlfall, John Brooks. "Ancestry of Hester Wells Mason, of Watertown, Mass.", in The American Genealogist (TAG). (Donald Lines Jacobus, et.al.) vol. 54, p. 79.
Children of Thomas Wells and Helen Pilgrim: Hester, bp. St. Peter's, Maldon, Essex, England, 21 Jul 1661, m. 13 Jan 1632/33 Hugh Mason of Maldon. [Note: reference is made to speculation that her mother was a sister of William Siday, but she married as Helen Pilgrim, which would require she be a widow for that to be true.]