"Capt. Samuel3 Welles (Capt. Samuel2, Gov. Thomas1), … married on 20 June 1683 (Stile's Wethersfield 2:776), Ruth Rice of Marlborough, Massachusetts, daughter of Dea. Edmund Rice and Marcy (Hurd) Brigham, …"
[Footnote] "This marriage is not recorded in Barbour or in published vital records for Marlborough or Sudbury. Welles (1968) 5:6 notes that 'Samuel Welles, Jr., on June 1, 1684, yeoman of Wethersfield, in Conn. in consideration of 35 pounds sold land in Marlborough, Mass. owned by Edmund Rice, his wife's father, and by him willed to her.'"