The brief mention of her in a 1913 Hewes genealogy indicates that nothing was then known of her ancestry (Eben Putname [error for Putnam], comp. and ed., Lieutenant Joshua Hewes, A New England Pioneer, and some of his Descendants, with material for a Genealogical History of Other Families of the Name, and a Sketch of Joseph Hewes, the Signer [Wellesley Farms, Mass., 1913], 421). She was living in 1712 when Fayerweather died, and it seems likely that she was the Mary Fayerweather who joined the First Church on 28 November 1714 (First Church, 39:105), since she already had a seat there, a bequest from her husband. … The lady who joined in 1714 could not have been her step-daughter, since Mary3 Fayerweather (John2, Thomas1) had married William Holberton in 1701. The Fayerweather File at Westborough records that Mary Fayerweather, wife of Captain John Fayerweather "died 6 July 1734, aged 27 years," but at least the age of death given here is incorrect, for it results in a birthdate of 1707, fifteen years after her marriage. A more reasonable chronology results if her age at death were 72; she would then have been born about 1662, and thus would have been 28 years younger than her husband, [who was] about 58 when they were married in 1692.
