"1. Robert1 Waterman, born in England, died at Marshfield, Mass., 10 Dec. 1652; … He was made a freeman of the Colony, 7 Mar. 1642/3, and immediately became one of the two Grand Jurors for Marshfield. He served the town as Committee [Deputy] in the General Court of the Colony, 1643, 1644. 1646 to 1650 inclusive. (This service qualifies him as an ancestor for the Massachusetts Society, Colonial Dames of America.) …
Administration on his estate was granted, 1 Mar. 1652/3, to his widow Elizabeth, and the estate was finally settled 7 June 1660, when 'a quietus est was graunted unto Elizabeth, sometimes the wife of Robert Waterman.' She had remarried some years before."