"Benjamin2 Niles (John1) … spent some time on Block Island, where in December 1681 he 'demanded of the wardens to be maryd [to Ruth _____] they refusing they took one Another as man and wyf.' In 1691 he bought land at Lyme and removed there with his wife and three daughters."
[footnote] "A fourth daughter, Mary, attributed to Benjamin by Eno, was actually the daughter of Ambrose3 Niles."