Children of John Firmin and ---- [unknown first wife]: Elizabeth, bp. Nayland, Suffolk, 27 Apr 1615, "possibly" m. by 1639 Richard Beers of Watertown.
"In the Boston News-letter for 24 June 1706 is the notice of death in Watertown on 16 June of that year of "Mrs. Elizabeth Beers (widow of Capt. John [recte Richard] Beers ...) in the 92 year of her age.... She came to New England in June 1630 being then sixteen year old, and lived in New England 76 years." This would be the right age for the Elizabeth who was baptized to John Firmin in Nayland, and her husband did acquire the estate of John Firmin. He acquired it, however, from a person who had purchased the land from the heirs of John Firmin, and we would have to assume that Richard Beers and his wife had been parties to the sale to Barnabas Fawer, and had then turned around and repurchased the land from him."
Also, "There are, however, some arguments against the identification." [More than one John Firmin in Nayland, no listing of heirs, nothing connecting Watertown man and Nayland man.]
