Person:Mary Unknown (4688)

In the probate of the estate of Richard Risley, on 7 December 1648, William Hills is required to post bond for the payment of legacies to the Risley children and to provide for their education [Manwaring 1:31], thus completing the identification of the second wife of William Hills.

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} Jacobus, Donald Lines. The Risley Family of Connecticut. American Genealogist (D.L. Jacobus). (Oct 1949)
   75:233.

   Richard¹ Risley … married Mary _____, who died between 1655 and 1657. She married second, by December, 1648, William¹ Hills.

2. ↑ William Hills, in Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995)
   2:943.

   Marriage... (2) Late 1648 Mary (_____) Risley, widow of Richard Risley [TAG 25:233; Manwaring 1:31]; she died about 1655, presumably at or shortly after the birth of her son Benoni.