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Child of John and Mary (Foote) Stoddard: 'Mercy, b. Nov. 1652; m. Mar. 10, 1685, Joseph Wright, of Wethersfield.'
In 1915, Frank Farnsworth Starr demonstrated that the second wife of Deacon Joseph Wright was Mercy (Deming) Curtis (see her person page), not Mercy Stoddard. [Frank Farnsworth Starr, Various Ancestral Lines of James Goodwin and Lucy (Morgan) Goodwin of Hartford, Connecticut, 2 vols. (Hartford, 1915), 2:229-45 (at 243-44)].
'Stoddard, John, Wethersfield. Invt. … Taken 20 December, 1664, … Six children: … Mercy 12, …'