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See the talk page for Mary Lee, daughter of Thomas Lee Jr and Sarah Kirtland.--Neal Gardner 15:40, 21 September 2009 (EDT)
While trying to determine if a Mary Lee married one of my direct ancestors I found an article that deductively rules out that this Mary Lee married Thomas Lord. Instead of the Mary Lee, daughter of Sarah Kirtland and Thomas Lee Jr, the article rather convincingly gives the Mary Lee, daughter of Marah DeWolf and Thomas Lee Jr as the wife of Thomas Lord, contrary to the Lee and Lord Genealogies. By the way, I'm a "double" Lee descendant through Jane "Lil Jennie" Lee and Col. Stephen Lee.
Look on the Harvard Library site for:
The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record,
Article: A Remarkable Case of Mistaken Identity,
Volume 52 (1921),
Pages 91-94
After a week, I'll change this to the correct Mary Lee, if there are no objections.--Neal Gardner 15:35, 21 September 2009 (EDT)
- The only mention I can find of Mary Lee, born 1672, daughter of Thomas and Sarah (Kirtland) (other than the Lord and Lee genealogies) is in the Salisbury charts mentioned in the NYG&BR article mentioned above. She is not listed in either the GPC or NEHGS version of the Lyme Vital Records, and apparently not in the 1976 version [Lyme Connecticut Vital Records To The End of the Year, 1850, Verne M. Hall and Elizabeth B. Plimpton, eds. (Moodus, CT: Elizabeth B. Plimpton, 1976] (to which I do not have access] which was the source used by Smith and Sanborn when preparing the Lee sketch in The Ancestry of Emily Jane Angell. Furthermore, Eliza Warren Avery, in an article titled William Lord's Wife and the Family of Thomas Lee {TAG 32:81, April 1956) begins with "Who was the first wife of William2 Lord of Saybrook, Conn.? She certainly was not "Mary Lee, b. 1671," daughter of Thomas Lee of Lyme. Whoever surmised that a man baptized in 1618 married a woman born In 1671 and so 28 years younger than his oldest child of whom she was supposed to be the mother had forgotten all about dates. Furthermore, Thomas Lee had no such daughter. Thomas Lee's children are all recorded on the Lyme Records as follows …." That being said, I'm going ahead to merge this Mary Lee with Mary Lee b. 23 Apr. 1678 (who, by the way, did not marry Edward Lay but had three husbands: Joseph Beckwith, Captain Daniel Sterling, and Captain John Riggs.--jaques1724 11:19, 3 March 2012 (EST)
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