Family:Unknown and Mercy Billings (1)

The article "THE FRAUDULENT ANCESTRY OF ROGER AND WILLIAM BILLING(S) OF DORCHESTER, MASSACHUSETTS" by Paul C. Reed, published in The American Genealogist, Vol. 74, No. 1 (January 1999) contains this tidbit:

It is interesting to note that though the immigrant William Billing’s will mentions Beriah Grant, the illegitimate son of his daughter Mercy Billing, he is overlooked in her account in the Creighton—Mounsey article, and all of her Grant descendants have been completely omitted from the published accounts of the Billings and Grant families, even though they lived in the same communities in Connecticut and New York.

See http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~wdwrth/Billings/Issues.html

1.   Grant, Arthur Hastings. The Grant family: a genealogical history of the descendants of Matthew Grant of Windsor, Conn., 1601-1898. (Salt Lake City, Utah: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1971)
   p. 513-514.

   Beriah (s. of Mercy Billings) bp. Stonington, July 24, 1698; m. Martha, dau. of Wm. Parke ...