Stedman's Wikitree profile quotes the Stedman Family Organization website, based on "a handwritten manuscript in the NEHGS library, dated 29 March 1954. The manuscript was by a Miss Myrtle Jillson... Her source was Brainerd's Stedman Mss, Connecticut Historical Society, Hartford, Connecticut" as follows:
"John Stedman was probably born in Scotland and immigrated to America as a small child with his parents and younger brother. The family settled in New London, Connecticut.
He later moved to Hartford and married, probably in Hartford, Elizabeth Sergeant (or Remington, believed to be the daughter of John Remington). They had five known children. She died before 1664, and he married Elizabeth Blackleach, daughter of John Blackleach of Boston, before 1665. They had four children, including a daughter Elizabeth born in Hartford in 1665."
Given that Elizabeth Blackleach (later Dunk) was born August 12, 1644, she obviously could not have been the mother of the first 5 Steadman children.
Shouldn't the record be changed to include two wives?
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