Hannah (Desborough) … m. (prob. at Hartford, marriage not recorded) before 1668, John2 Kelsey, … son of William1 Kelsey. … It is necessary to stress that John2 Kelsey m. Hannah Desborough and not her sister Phebe, because the learned Dr. James Savage made a lamentable error in his Gen. Dict. of New England, 2:52 and 3:7, in assigning Phebe to John Kelsey. This was because Savage never used original records outside the Boston area, but relied on correspondents who were sometimes undependable. The story that John Kelsey m. Phebe Desborough, having been printed by Savage, has, alas, been repeated endlessly by the type of people who write to the genealogical columns of newspapers, despite the fact that the original records and the fine Kelsey Genealogy show clearly that it was Hannah and not Phebe who was John Kelsey's wife. The contributor is very grateful to Prof. George McCracken for held with the Kelsey problem.
