Until at least 1665 [Matthias] Puffer had lived Braintree, where his father, George Puffer/Poffer, had been granted 20 acres on 24 February 1639[/40], the same day that Thomas Bliss received his 36 acres there. (Since the grant was made, not in the right of George Puffer or to his widow or heirs, but directly to him, it must be assumed that he was then living. This despite the fact that his death at Braintree is recorded as having occurred almost five months earlier, on 29 [7][September] 1639.)
[Footnote] 37. Puffer's death is recorded in a Boston volume into which were copied vital records submitted periodically by Suffolk Co. towns, beginning in 1644. Compiled retrospectively and the project of several transcriptions, these so-called Boston records are generally less reliable than those retained locally
