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- ↑ Foster, F. Apthorp (ed.). Vital Records of Billerica, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850. (Boston, MA: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1908)
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Manning, William, Ens., and Mary Shed, Apr. 19, 1737.
- Source:Manning, William H. Genealogical and Biographical History of the Manning Families of New England and Descendants, p. 141, identifies Mary as "probably" widow of Nathan. Nathan Shed d. 18 Jun 1736 according to Billerica records, and she is a more appropriate age, but "Shed, Mary, w. Nathan" d. 21 Aug 1740, suggesting it was not her. Many sources thus suggest it was probably their daughter Mary, b. 1697, e.g., NEHGR, Vol. 44:368, "William French and Descendants": "She [Mary (French) Shed, widow of Nathan Shed] d. Aug. 21, 1740, having perhaps first m. William Manning; or it may have been her dau. Mary who m. William Manning." Hazen's History of Billerica, p. 94, says William Manning m. "Mary Shed, dau. or widow of Nathan."
It is pertinent to note that Hazen, p. 130, also says Mary Shed, d/o John Shed and Sarah Chamberlain, m. her cousin Abraham Chamberlain. But Chamberlain, p. 107, says, "she did not marry her cousin Abraham Chamberlain as Hazen stated" (and others who may have followed Hazen, such as Descendants of Daniel Shed, p. 53), and on p. 119, Chamberlain notes that Abraham Chamberlain in a deed refers to "his honored father-in-law Nathan Shed of Billerica. This means William Manning did not marry the daughter of Nathan, but leaves the daughter of John as a candidate for the wife of William Manning. Chamberlain has ruled out her marriage to Abraham Chamberlain, but he offers nothing to replace it.
There is always the possibility that the widow Mary did marry William Manning, and the death was simply recorded under her previous name in error. This is suggested by the proximity of the marriage to her becoming a widow. Finding a gravestone or an age at death, would probably go a long ways towards clearing up who did marry William Manning...
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