The 1660 marriage date has been disputed by several researchers. Many accept that the first child born to the couple was Samuel in 1671 leaving an 11 year gap between the marriage date and the first record of a child born to the couple. This has led them to conclude that the date was incorrect and should be 1670. I have adopted the later date as the more likely but note that it is not the only possibility. However, in 1984 David Kendall Martin suggested that the wife of Nathan Fish was Deborah, an unrecorded daughter of Jacob and Mary (Nye) Burgess, who would have to have been born prior to Samuel, the first recorded child of Jacob and Mary.
