"Timothy Mather … m. (1) by 1651 Elizabeth Atherton (eldest known child b. Dorchester 5 September 1651 [DVR 6]), daughter of Humphrey Atherton {1637, Dorchester} (on 27 September 1661, administration on the 'estate of the late Major General Humphry Atherton' was granted to 'Jonathan Atherton his eldest son and Timothy Mather, James Throwbridge and Obadiah Swift 3 of his sons-in-law' [SPR 4:31; SLR 6:181]); …"