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- ↑ Boston (Massachusetts). Record Commissioners. A Report of the Record Commissioners of the City of Boston: Containing Dorchester Births, Marriages, and Deaths to the End of 1825. (Boston, Massachusetts: Rockwell and Churchill, city printers, 1890)
p. 23.
1674.
Jonathan Wood of Medfield & Mary Daniel of Milton, were joined in Marriage by Mr Stoughton of Dorchester Assistant on the 26th of the (3 mo:) called May 1674.
- ↑ Milton, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States. Milton Records, Births, Marriages, and Deaths, 1662-1843: alphabetically and chronologically arranged. (Boston)
p. 110.
Mary Daniel of Milton and Jonathan Wood of Medfield May 26, 1674..
- ↑ In the short period of this marriage there are a couple of ambiguous dates for which it is hard to determine the correct double dating. The marriage is clear in May 1674. Was daughter Silence born 5 Feb 1674/75 (9 months later), or 5 Feb 1675/76 (posthumously). Not sure if her name indicates the latter case?
The father's date is clear at 3 Jan 1675/76, but was the mother's death 23 Feb 1675/76 (soon after) or 23 Feb 1676/77 (a year later)?
One would think, both the birth of Silence and the death of the mother being taken from the same book, that a consistent approach was used, meaning those events are at least a year apart, since one is recorded 1675 and the other 1676. Thus, we can probably rule out that the mother's death was caused by complications of childbirth.
Thus, either Silence was born 1674/75 and lost both her parents at age 1, or Silence was a posthumous baby in 1675/76 and lost her remaining parent at age 1.
That's what the records say. However, Source:Jameson, Ephraim Orcutt. History of Medway, Mass., 1713 to 1885, p. 32, tells a more romantic story, suggesting all events happened at once. However, even if all the years are interpreted in such a way as to be the same year, the dates simply do not fit ("When the tragic news was brought ... the wife of Jonathan Wood was immediately seized with the pains of labor and soon after delivered of a daughter, her only child, and a few hours later died." [emphasis added, father died 2 Jan, child b. 5 Feb, mother d. 23 Feb])
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