"… Mary (______) Norton (ILR 2:5), widow of George Norton {1629, Salem} [GMB 2:1337; see also EQC 2:254, 3:285-86, 288). On 29 November 1659, Mary Norton, widow of George Norton, had ten children aged from twenty-four through five years, which would support a birth date for Mary of about 1615 [EQC 2:191). She was living on 14 February 1676[/7?) [ILR 4:74). (Seversmith dismisses the undocumented claim that she was Mary Machias; he also argues convincingly that the claim that Mary was sister of Bethia Cartwright of Salem derives from a misreading of Bethia's will [TAG 15:194-95].)"