"None of these children [attributed to Benjamin by Deane], except Deborah and Elizabeth, are mentioned in the will of Benjamin of Lebanon [shown to be the son of Walter by Walter's will]. This difficulty might be avoided in two ways - first, on the supposition that Abigail and Robert were dead at the time Benjamin made his will [although typically he would then bequeath to the heirs of his deceased children]; or second, on the assumption that these children remained at Scituate instead of emigrating with the rest of the family to Little Compton and Lebanon, and that their father Benjamin had already amply provided for them, by settling upon them the Sciutate property, which had come to him through his father's will [this, being called supposition, indicates no such deed was known to the author, plus such situations are often stated explicitly in the will]. ... It is possible that there was another Benjamin, who was killed in King Phillip's war [note: p. 141 says town records confirm lands assigned to Charles Stockbridge for use of Benjamin Woodworth's family in 1676, supporting the idea that one Benjamin Woodworth did die in King Philip's war as Deane says, long thought to be Walter's son until Walter's will proved his son Benjamin lived long past 1676] and who was the father of Robert, Elizabeth, etc., but was not the son of Walter?..."
