"83 Mary Hurlbut, dau. of David and Mary, was born in Upper Houses, now Cromwell, Ct., 15 Dec. 1709. My correspondent the late Hon. Edwin Stearns, said she m. Hezekiah Brainerd, Jr., of Haddam. She was admitted to the ch'h in Middle Haddam Soc. Chatham, 16 Dec. 1740. They settled in Chatham, where he d. 14 Dec. 1774. The will of Hezekiah Brainerd Jr., was dated 22 Feb. 1768, and proved in Middletown Probate Court, 2 Jan. 1775. He bequeathed to his wife Mary, lands at Beaver Brook in Chatham, and also at Long Hill, Middletown; four children are named in the will; wife Mary and son Hezekiah Jr., executors. The date of her death not ascertained.
It will be proper to note that in the printed volume of the Brainerd Genealogy, p. 236, the name of the wife of Hezekiah Brainerd Jr ,is given as Mary, the dau. of Rev. Thomas [Phineas] Fiske, and the date of m. 26 Jan. 1731. Possibly however, Mary Hurlbut may have been a 2d wife of Mr. B. In the will of David Hurlbut, the name of Mary Brainerd his dau. appears, yet it may be that her husband was not Hezekiah Jr. The number of six children appears in the Brainerd book; perhaps all were not of one mother."
