↑ Possibly her birth is recorded in Boxford VRs, p. 94, as: "STIELS, ---, d. John and Deliverance, Oct. --- [1694-6?]"?
↑ It seems likely that she is the Mercy Stiles who m. 1722 James Richardson in Boxford, but her father's will in 1732/3 calls her "Mercy Blantchet" and that no record of that event, nor an identification of her first husband, has been found.