Samuel Penfield had only one wife. This was Mary Lewis whom he married in Lynn. She was the mother of all his ten children and outlived him by some thirty years. She was born in Malden, Mass., in January, 1652, the daughter of John Lewis by his second wife, Mary Brown — not the daughter of Edmund Lewis of Lynn as has sometimes been supposed. For her has been claimed royal descent. Proof that it was this Mary Lewis who married Samuel Penfield is found, according to Lewisiana, in a deed dated August, 1695, in Cambridge, which in listing the children and heirs of "the late John Lewis, late of Malden" mentions Mary who married Samuel Penfield. (Lewisiana, vol. 16, p. 233.) Some years after the death of her husband who, as stated, died in 1711, she evidently married the widower, William Stone of Guilford, Conn., whose wife had died in 1712. She apparently outlived her second husband and is buried in what is now Portland, Conn., in the Penfield lot in Center cemetery, as mentioned, where her gravestone bears the following unique inscription: "Here Lies the Body of Mrs Mary Penfield and Widow of Wil:m Stone who Dyed January ye 30th 1741 about 90 Years of Age."
