"Jonathan Strong (son of Elder Ebenezer Strong of Northampton, and Hannah Clapp) … m. Aug. 5, 1762, for 2d wife widow Mary Clapp née Sheldon … (dau. of John Sheldon of Deerfield, Mass.). There was a mutual attachment between Jonathan Strong and Mary Sheldon in early life with the expectation though not the pledge of marriage. On Feb. 29, 1704-5 [1703-4], she was carried into Canada as a prisoner by the French and Indians. When after an absence of two or three years she was restored to her home, her first question was whether Jonathan Strong was married. As her return was deemed very uncertain he had courted and married another. She also soon married. In 1761 they both lost their partners and were married in 1762, to each other, he being 79 years old and she 75."
