Family talk:Ezra Tyler and Prudence Richardson (1)

not fully proven [30 August 2014]

"This marriage is not fully proven. However, the scarcity of men named Ezra Tyler and women named Prudence Richardson, of an age appropriate for this marriage, makes it virtually certain that the E. T. born 1737 in Haddam married the P. R. born 1744 in East Haddam."

This marriage seems pretty fully proven to me. It was recorded in a church record. If anything is not proven, it would be the identity of one of the people attached as husband and wife, and therefore, this comment would really belong on the page of whichever one you felt was inappropriate. As you attached this Prudence Richardson to Joseph Arnold, and as Joseph Arnold married widow Tyler and as Joseph Arnold's wife's age at death matches the birth of Prudence Richardson, it doesn't seem like it is her that would be inappropriate... And as Ezra Tyler is only a name and not identified, it is not him... So I think your objection needs a little more explanation. --Jrich 23:08, 30 August 2014 (UTC)

We know that Tyler's widow married Joseph Arnold. No record that I have seen, however, identifies the parents of the Prudence Richardson who married Ezra in 1764. Tyler's parents are stated, in the third volume of the Tyler Genealogy, to have been Abraham Tyler and Eunice Arnold. Based on geography and age, Prudence born 1744 almost has to be the wife, successively, of Tyler and Arnold although no record evidence (seen so far) specifically makes the connection.--jaques1724 00:50, 31 August 2014 (UTC)

Except her age at death. Plus somebody named Prudence Richardson did marry Ezra Tyler and some widow of a Mr. Tyler married Joseph Arnold. So there appears to be a complete chain of names with some evidence (age at death) to tie it back to the beginning. So to postulate it differently would require giving evidence to show there is a reason to doubt it, like Ezra Tyler living past 1786, or that there is a record of Prudence Richardson doing something other than marrying Ezra Tyler, or a different widow Tyler existed, or anything that to show that the alternative has a shred of evidence to support it. --Jrich 02:50, 31 August 2014 (UTC)