Person talk:Alice Warren (2)

Correcting a common mistake [18 November 2009]

One piece of evidence invalidates several assertions presented on this page with no sources: namely second marriage Family:John Blackwell and Alice Warren (1), third marriage Family:William Spooner and Alice Warren (1), and death 4 Mar 1691/1692 in Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States. I believe this is all the result of a common error originating with Source:Spooner, Thomas. Records of William Spooner of Plymouth, Mass. and His Descendants. However it does not stand up to the facts.

To be brief, Source:Mayflower Descendant, p. 7:146, "The Surviving Children of Nathaniel Warren", notes that "This fourth of march 1692 the within named Thomas Gibbs and Alice his wife and Sarah Blackwell appeared and Did freely own what is written on ye other side hereof to be their act and deed. Before me Stephen Skeff County Magistrate." This is after the alleged death of Alice, after the alleged third marriage, not to mention the second, and clearly shows that it was Alice's sister Sarah that married John Blackwell. Confirmed by the will of Thomas Gibbs in 1729 and his death in 1732 (see Source:Mayflower Descendant, p. 23:123), it is difficult to see how his wife Alice could have remarried twice before his death???

Source:The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, p. 117:185, says that Alice, d/o John Blackwell and Sarah Warren, b. 1681, m. abt. 1699 William Spooner of Dartmouth [son of John and grandson of the immigrant William]. Her uncle Nathaniel Warren (brother to Sarah and Alice Warren) bequeaths to "Alice Blackwell alias Spooner, the wife of William Spooner of Dartmouth" in his will dated 28 Oct 1707, but her relationship is not specified in the will beyond being "my kindred" (see Source:Mayflower Descendant, p. 22:44).

I have removed the invalid assertions. --Jrich 23:01, 17 November 2009 (EST)