… says of Nicholas Street: "He named in his will a gr. da. Hannah Andrews; either he had another da. who m _____ Andrews & had this child; or else Susanna or an unknown da. had this child who perhaps m ____ Andrews, since we know not whether it was her maiden or married name."
So there is an element of speculation to this marriage. When the will of Nicholas Street is combined with the will of Mary Andrews, it presents a strong circumstantial case that Henry Andrews' first wife was a daughter of Nicholas Street. The granddaughter Hannah Andrews can be shown not to be the daughter of Samuel Street, and the timeline for any grandchild of Nicholas Street marrying, though possible, would be tight. While one can speculate in all sorts of ways to have a granddaughter named Hannah Andrews, no evidence of such a granddaughter is known, and no such speculations seem to deal with the facts on the Andrews-side as easily as this conclusion. (Those facts being that here is a Hannah Andrews by Henry's first wife who died by 1659 with no other children, explaining why the granddaughter was mentioned in Rev Street's will when some of the other grandchildren weren't, and this Hannah Andrews did not marry until 1679 so was known as Hannah Andrews in 1674.) It is true that the name of Nicholas' daughter being Hannah is based on Dodd, a secondary source, but in 1824, when this work was done, might he have had access to some useful document now lost? Especially since Dodd was pastor at the same church where Nicholas Street's grandson Nicholas had earlier been pastor.
