Citing parish registers in Norman F. Hosford and David H. Hosford, The Hosford Genealogy: A History of the Descendants of William Hosford Sometime Resident of Beaminster, Dorsetshire, Dorchester, Massachusetts; Windosr, Connecticut; and Calverleigh, Devonshire (West Kennebunk, Maine, 1993)
The second marriage with Williams is inferred from a Conn. court record of Oct. 27, 1674, reading in part as follows:
'We the underwritten; In behalf of ourselves and Joan and Mary, the daughters of Richard Samwais, having received this day of the Sect'y a bond, made to colony of Conn. of 60 pounds obligating ye grandfather hosford or uncle John Hosford or our father, Williams.' etc.
