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the month. The birth does not appear at all in the Groton records, 

 but in the Middlesex County Records at East Cambridge it does 

 appear that " Eleazer son of Phebe Lawrence [was] born 24, 12, 75." 

 The entry is made with three others, where in each case the name 

 of the father is given, but not that of the mother. The omission to 

 give the father's name was doubtless due to the fact, that Thomas 

 Danforth, Recorder at Cambridge, read the return made at the time 

 by Janies Fisk, clerk of the Writs, as Phebe instead of Peleg, which 

 was the father's name ; and from this fact the confusion has arisen. 

 Mr. Butler probably thought that Phebe was not married, and so 

 placed her among the unfortunate women in the list. There is no 

 other record to show that there was a Phebe Lawrence in Groton at 

 that period. 



Now to the main support of my theory : Eleazer, the third child of 

 Peleg and Elizabeth (Morse) Lawrence, was born on February 28, 

 1674-5, as appears by another entry in the records made a few years 

 later, which is only four days after the time assigned in the list. 

 Without doubt the two Eleazers were one and the same person. See 

 the Groton Historical Series, Vol. I., No. XIIL (pp. 9, 10). 



Parker. — -William Parker, of Groton, married first, on March 30, 

 1736, Susanna Kemp ; and secondly, on January 9, 1755, Mrs. Sarah 

 (Boynton) Richardson, of Pepperell, born in the year 1721. She 

 was the eldest child of Nathaniel and Hannah (Perham) Boynton, of 

 Westford, and the widow of Abiel Richardson, a native of Billerica. 

 By the second marriage there were three children, namely : 



Susanna, who married Samuel Lawrence of Groton ; Ruth, who 

 married Samuel Taylor, of Dunstable ; and Elizabeth, who married 

 David Rogers, of Concord. 



Widow Sarah (Boynton | Richardson) Parker, after the death of 

 her second husband on February i, 1761, married thirdly, on July 23, 

 1767, David Taylor, of Concord. See Volume I, of the Groton 

 Historical Series, No. X. (p. 28) ; also No. XHL (pp. 31, :^;^). 



Lieutenant William Parker died in Groton, January 9, 1833, aged 71. 



Mercy and Mary. — Some time ago I sent a query to the New 

 England Historical and Genealogical Register, about the interchange- 

 able use of the names "Mercy" and " Mary," which-was printed in 



