Looking at the links in the profile, it seems to me that:
a) The spouse in the WikiTree link is an alternate name ... no reference for why 'Ebenezer' vs. Thomas Mathews who changed his name to Thomas Elliott.
b) The earliest of the children was listed as b. 1795 ... and none of the other references to that son Stephen Mathews->Elliott have anything other than a year -- which I would then venture that it is a 'circa' 1795. If so, he may have been born near or even after the sister b. 1798.
c) There are 3 children born before the listed marriage ... but in that time period, I wouldn't think that is a significant factor.
As to her being a Hazard ...
The dates of the children from both of the current marriages (as can be seen on her timeline) are rather consistent and 'work' with her age (if one allows the 1st-born to have been born a couple of years later than 1795).
Where there *is* disagreement with the "Hazard" book is in the parentage of Mercy' mother (James Perry & Mercy Potter vs. Benjamin Tallman & Elizabeth Gorton, weith the latter currently shown as Mercy's maternal grandparents). The Benjamin+Elizabeth link is not strongly supported by documents.
There don't appear to have been any reversible (recent) mis-merges on Mercy Peckham's profile.
It is possible there are two different 'Mercy's (with their birth dates improperly the same between them) and thus completely separate Mathews->Elliott family vs. the Dockray family, but I don't currently see anything which would strongly indicate "same" or "different" person(s) for Mercy.
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