Capt. John Gerrish married secondly, on or before 28 Apr. 1699, Sarah Hobbes, third child of Richard and Elizabeth (Page or Paige), who was baptized in St. Bartholomew's Parish, Crewkerne, co. Somerset, England, but came to live in Boston with her uncle Nicholas Page or Paige and his wife Anna, who were residents of Rumney Marsh, then belonging to Boston, but later part of Chelsea. Richard Hobbes and Elizabeth "Pagge" were married at Crewkerne 13 June 1671, and the baptisms of the following children born to them are recorded there: John, 16 July 1673; Margaret, 20 Oct. 1674; Sarah, 14 Nov. 1676; Elizabeth, 4 Oct. 1678. Mrs. Nathaniel Oliver of Boston, whose Christian name was Martha, was a niece of Nicholas Paige and probably a sister of Sarah (Hobbes) Gerrish. (Somerset Parish Registers, vol. 5, p. 40, and information obtained from Crewkerne by Prof. Barrett Wendell; Chamberlain's History of Chelsea, vol. 1, pp. 659-660, vol. 2, p. 75.)
