Mors, Ellizabeth, d Joseph and Grace, Jan. 4, 1699-1700.
Source:Hudson, Charles. History of the Town of Marlborough, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, p. 478, plays havoc with this family. The problem seems to start with the statement that he says Benjamin Woods' will dates "furnish the only date of death", and since he says 1758 for the will, his confusion is natural. [The 1758 date appears to be his son, Benjamin Woods Jr. Middlesex Probate Index shows Benjamin Woods of Marlborough in 1740 (file 25404) and Benjamin Woods in Marlborough in 1758 (file 25408).] Based on this error, apparently, he proceeds to identify Benjamin Woods daughter Elizabeth b. 1719 as the person who m. 1747 Samuel Brigham Esq. who was born 1689, and hence 30 years older than her. The published VRs of Marlborough have been "enhanced" with the notes of Andrew Henshaw Ward, who is a reasonable genealogist, but it can be hard to tell which is the original record, and which information was added from these notes. Nevertheless, even allowing that the information is the VRs may not all e b"official", it still makes so much more sense than Hudson, that Hudson must be rejected. From the VRs, Benjamin's daughter Elizabeth married Jonathan Loring who was b. 1719, and so the same age as her, while it was his widow b. 1699 who married Samuel Brigham b. 1689, who was of the same generation as her.
