Children of Solomon Packard: Jacob, b. 2 Sep 1720, d. 1777, m. Dorothy Perkins, "widow of Mark Perkins".
[See Jacob's father Solomon who married the widow of Mark Perkins in 1760. Mark did not die until 1756 even though Jacob's marriage occurred 1742. Mark's wife Dorothy was about a generation older than Jacob and not likely to be his wife. So there are two possibilities: Mark and Dorothy Perkins had a son named Mark who also married a Dorothy, then died young and Jacob married that widow of this younger Mark Perkins; or this source is mistaken and Jacob married the daughter of Mark Perkins named Dorothy. In Source:Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts, United States. Vital Records to End of the Year 1849, p. 1:285, the birth of Mark's daughter Dorothy is recorded on 25 Feb 1721-2 which matches Jacob very well, but there is no birth recorded for a son named Mark. Moreover, since Mark Perkins and Dorothy Whipple did not marry until 1721, that means Dorothy was their first child. There was not time for them to have a son that reached legal age and married, much less some more time to die and have his widow mourn and remarry, all by 1742. Thus we have to assume it was Mark's daughter, not widow, that married Jacob Packard.]
