> Dow, in Hisotry of Hampton, has Ruth as the d/of John Moulton and Anne Green. > Noyes, et al, in Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire: > Under Johnson: Peter Johnson married Ruth Moulton (John). > Under Moulton: Ruth, d/of John, is said to have died bef 1649. > NEHG Register 131:314 in 1977, in the treatment of the English ancestry of > the Moultons, has Ruth as "unplaced". > Can anyone shed new, more recent light on this? Mariana, Keep looking through the NEHG Register for later Moulton articles. There is a series of three, each of the later two disputing facts in the earlier ones, published in October 1987, July 1990, and April 1993. The July 1990 issue, p.262 by Joy Wade Moulton "Some Doubts About the English Background of the Moulton Family" states under Ruth's record, "undoubtedly the Ruth Moulton who m. at Hampton 3 April 1660 Peter Johnson. [It has been stated] that she perhaps d. young since she was not mentioned in her father's will (Essex Institute, [Old] Norfolk Co., Mass., Records, 1:11-13). However, the woman of that name who m. Peter Johnson could not have been her aunt Ruth Moulton, b. ca. 1617, for Peter was bp. at Winnacunnet (later Hampton) early in 1639, and he and his wife had four children b. between 1663 and 1674. Of the two other Moultons in Hampton at that time, William had a Ruth b. 7 May 1659, and Thomas did not have a daughter by that name." While this still doesn't explain why Ruth isn't mentioned in the will, it does give some reason to place Ruth back as a daughter of John and Anne. Perhaps she was given her inheritance earlier so didn't need to receive anything in the will, or perhaps her father hated her husband or had disowned her. Been known to happen! Bill Teschek Assistant Director Lane Memorial Library 2 Academy Ave. Hampton, NH 03842 bteschek@hampton.lib.nh.us (603)-926-3368 (603)-926-1348 (fax)