Mary Aspinwall (1628-1676)

Aspinwall Family Connection
CHILDREN:i (poss.) MARY, b. about 1628; m. Cambridge 6 October 1658 John Gove as his first wife. (There is no direct evidence that Mary belongs in this family, but she has been placed here by many writers because there is no other family in which to place her [unless she is in some way related to Peter Aspinwall, who arrived in New England in the 1640s]. Her estimated date of birth, which would make her thirty at marriage, is made necessary because there is no place else to fit her in the sequence of births down to 1644, and any later date would make her only about twelve at marriage. [As Boston town clerk and recorder of births, marriages anddeaths at the time these early Boston vital records were prepared in 1644, Aspinwall included his daughter Dorcas, who must in fact have been born in Portsmouth. Having done that, he would surely have included daughter Mary if she had been born in 1642, say.])