Person:Mary Unknown (5232)

The Identity of William Preston's Second Wife

"In 1950 Donald Lines Jacobus noted that "[i]t has been stated in many accounts that William Preston's second wife was a daughter of Robert Seabrook, but the compiler doubts that this was so and believes that identification to have been based on a misinterpretation of a deed in Stratford" [Kimberly Gen 11]. In 1960 he provided more detail, noting that the "Evidence for this claim was a deed in which her son Jehiel Preston mentioned land that came from his grandfather Robert Seabrook. However, it is known that Jehiel's wife was a granddaughter of Robert Seabrook, and that fact suffices to explain the term used in the deed. Mary's identity remains unknown" [Ackley-Bosworth 314].^[1]

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} 1. Thomas¹ Kimberly, in Jacobus, Donald Lines. The Genealogy of the Kimberly Family. (Neenah, Wisconsin, United States: Privately Printed for James Cheney Kimberly by George Banta Publishing Company, Menasha, Wisconsin, 1950)
   7.

   "Thomas¹ Kimberly … married second, about 1660, Mary (_____) Preston, born about 1601, widow of William Preston."

2. ↑ ^2.0 2.1 Thomas Kimberly, in Anderson, Robert Charles; George F. Sanborn; and Melinde Lutz Sanborn. The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635. (Boston, Massachusetts: NEHGS, 1999-2011)
   4:163.