Paige mentions an agreement in 1703 pertaining to the estate of Edmund Angier, signed by only 5 of 14 children (the rest apparently deceased): Samuel and four married daughters [not specified by Paige, but presumably Ruth, wife of Rev. Samuel Cheever; Elizabeth, wife of Rev. Jonathan Pierpoint; Sarah, wife of Rev. Christopher Toppan; Mary, wife of John March].
In the family for Edmund Angier, he shows two daughters named Mary: one with the recorded baptism of 10 May 1663 who d. young, and one whose birth was not recorded who married John March of Newbury. There is no explanation if there is evidence for two Marys, or if Paige just assumed this based on Mary's husband's birth in 1676, 13 years after the baptism in 1663. While the assumption of two Mary's seems most reasonable, the relatively small family (for the times) of only 5 children, the last born in Jan 1709/10, seems to leave the door open to the possibility that there might have only been one? Not to assume purely pecuniary motives, but at the time of their marriage 1700, a Mary Angier baptized in 1663 would have been a 37-year old spinster left without parents, and heir to her merchant father's estate. Likewise, John March's father would have died the year before leaving John's mother a widow with numerous under-age children and the 24-year old John as the only adult child, presumably sharing in the task of providing for his siblings.
