Nathaniel's wife's death is listed in the family memo book, but not her name. Her birth year can be deduced as 1725 from the stated age at death, and the marriage probably took place shortly before the first of the deeds transferring ownership of the Shutesbury farm (1745 Feb 3). That matches pretty well with the first child listed in the memo book (1745 Oct 20). However, there is no matching marriage listed in any of the published vital records of Massachusetts towns (excluding the coincidental marriage of Nathaniel of Braintree). John [Index: Nathaniel 1719 b Andover, MA 1998 07 09]