Jan, I'm honored to be in such good company as far as being a typ-o-ist. :) I guess if Provided had a memory lapse and couldn't recall exactly how old she was, she certainly muddied the waters for us didn't she? It was so neatly set in my records that there were two Provideds and the first one died in 1640. Everything I've seen repeats that same story: Perley's History of Salem; Savage; Pope's Pioneers of Mass (stating the second Provided was born (10) 1641 citing the Es. Court files; Snow-Estes Ancestry; Southwick Genealogy by Caller; etc, etc right down the line. The Southwicks had all their then children bp. when they joined the church 6 (10) 1639, Provided among them. So if there was only one then where did the (10) 1641 date come from in Essex Files??? The poem about Provided by John Greenleaf Whittier is the only one I ever hear talked about, but he wrote another poem called Banished from Massachusetts and in that one he mentions the name Southwick and states that as they leave their home for the last time the woman looks at the small grave of her deceased child one last time. I thought Whittier was talking about the first Provided's grave so that fit too. Looks like you may have a challenge before you if you intend to verify things in the records? Are you another descendant I hope? Barb Petty