Person:Patience Converse (2)

Name^[1]	Patience Converse
Gender	Female
Birth^[2]	21 Jul 1712	Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States
Marriage	29 Oct 1730	Leicester, Worcester, Massachusettsto Zachariah Brown
Marriage	29 Dec 1758	Brookfield, Worcester, Massachusetts, United Statesto Capt. Thomas Gilbert
Death^[3]	11 Jan 1763	Brookfield, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States

References

↑ Johnson, Edward Francis. Notes on the Family of Deacon Edward Convers. Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States. Woburn Records of Births, Deaths, and Marriages
3:329.

Children of Josiah Convers and Hannah Sawyer: Patience, b. 21 Jul 1712.
↑ Johnson, Edward F. Woburn Records of Births, Deaths, and Marriages . (Woburn, Massachusetts: Andrews, Cutler & Co., 1890-1919)
1:58.

CONVERSE, Patience, d. Josiah and Hannah, [born] July 21, 1712.Pa
↑ Brookfield, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States. Vital Records of Brookfield, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849. (Worcester, Massachusetts: Franklin P. Rice, 1909)
p. 489.

GILBERT, Patience, w. Thomas, Jan. 11, 1763.
The theory discussed on Family:Josiah Converse and Eleanor Richardson (1) that the family of Josiah Converse and Hannah Sawyer moved to Leicester makes it very probable that this is the Patience who married Zachariah Brown. Given his death date, it seems possible she then married Capt. Thomas Gilbert. But there is a considerable age difference. Since there is no record of a daughter Patience of Zachariah and Patience Brown, we are left to assume Thomas needed a mother for his children, Patience needed a father for hers, and so this is what happened, but it would not be hard to imagine other explanations.