Banks says that Amy was “Amy Eddy, daughter of John & Hepzibah (Daggett) Eddy of Tisbury . . . the basis for this belief is largely circumstantial and too complicated to warrant explanation. It is founded on deeds, probates, statements of kinship and tradition.”[ 31] We do not know what this evidence is, so we cannot follow Banks’ reasoning. There is no record of John and Hepzibah (Daggett) Eddy having a daughter named Amy,[ 32 ] and more importantly, Joseph Daggett and Hepzibah (Daggett) Eddy were siblings. Thus, it would have been illegal for Joseph Daggett to have married his niece.
