Here Lyes ye / Body of Ms. / Mary Albert / Wife to Mr. / Daniel Albert / Who Dec'd Octo'r / 23d 1726: in ye 25 / Year of Her Age. [25th year, so age 24, so born about 1702.]
↑NEHGR, Vol. 79, p. 303, assigns Mary to Robert and Esther Houghton. The basis for this is unknown, except that nothing contradictory has been found. The wife Mary of Daniel Albert died before her father's estate was divided, so was not mentioned in the division, and as the article says, "d., probably s.p." [without issue] since she died soon after marriage and had no heirs mentioned either. But that also means the settlement can not show her placement in this family is correct.
The treatment of Mary by Source:Houghton, John Wesley. Houghton Genealogy, p. 303 fully illustrates the weakness of that source. It says that Mary, b. "6, 30, 1695", m. "3, 23, 1715" Thomas Blackman; and says it was Hannah that married Daniel Albert. Not only is this contradicted by what records there are, the settlement of the father's estate names Hannah Houghton and has no mention of Mary. So Hannah could not have married, and Mary Blackman, who probably was alive, had in any event. several children that would have had rights to a share of the estate. But it is not just this source that didn't look at probate files, it is that it simply states so many facts that are wrong. Was there any research behind its presentation?
