"George Woolworth Colton, in A Genealogical Record of the Descendants of Quartermaster George Colton (1912), p. 31, gave the marriage of Isaac Colton in 1762 to Mrs. Elizabeth Sears of Middletown, as his third wife, but did not identify her further. Bailey's Early Connecticut Marriages 3:77, listed the record in Chatham, then part of Middletown, as '_____ Cotton [sic] & Elizabeth Sears, Dec. 29, 1760.' But in the 1968 reprint, with notations by Donald Lines Jacobus, Mr. Jacobus (bless him!) had supplied the first name of Isaac for the groom, and added the maiden name of the bride as Knowles. Checking backward through two pages, I found the marriages of John Sears to Elizabeth Freeman, 5 April 1753, and Samuel Freeman to Eliza Knowles, 4 Feb. 1748."
