James Penniman married "High Laver Essex, 26 July 1631, Lydia Eliot, sister of John Eliot and Jacob Eliot, and daughter of Bennet Eliot of Widford and Nazeing, Essex. (The High Laver parish register omits her maiden name [NEHGR 107:236; Waters 904-05].) She married (2) Medfield 7 [December] 1665 as his second wife Thomas Wight."