Person:Esther Ordway (1)

Name^[3]	Esther Ordway
Gender	Female
Birth^[1]	Aug 1689	Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts, United States
Marriage	Aft 14 Mar 1712/13	to John Rogers (add)
Death`^?`	30 Nov 1747	Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts, United States

References

↑ Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts, United States. Vital Records of Newbury, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849. (Salem, Mass.: The Essex Institute, 1911)
1:372.

ORDWAY, Esther, d. John and Mary, [born] Aug. ---, 1689/
Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts, United States. Vital Records of Newbury, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849. (Salem, Mass.: The Essex Institute, 1911)
2:710.

ROGERS, wid. John, [died] Nov. 30, 1747. CR2
↑ Holman, Mary Lovering. Ancestry of Charles Stinson Pillsbury and John Sargent Pillsbury. (Concord, New Hampshire: Privately Printed at The Rumford Press, 1938)
2:736.

Children of John Ordway and Mary Godfrey: 4) Esther, b. Aug. 1689, d. 30 Nov 1747, m. (int.) 14 Mar 1712-13 John Rogers.
A relatively recent (1986) article in NEHGR, p. 140:210, claims John's widow Esther m. (2) Newbury 18 Jun 1741 Joshua Sawyer Jr. The marriage record names "Mrs. Esther Sawyer" but at this point in time, Mrs. did not necessarily mean a married woman, i.e., a widow. In fact, Joshua Sawyer Jr. was b. 1711, and with his wife Esther had six children 1744 through 1760. So his wife was probably not a widowed woman born in 1689, and over 70 at the time of the birth of their last child. Thus Mary Lovering Holman's identification of Esther as the widow of John Rogers who d. 1747 seems more reasonable.