I don’t normally post on my genealogical research here. That has its own webtrees powered site at http://genealogy.jasongreen.net/. However, I’ve run into a confusing branch in my father’s family.

Mark Miner has a page on Noah Cross which lists Noah’s son Moses as being married to a Mary Kelley (b. 1760). In Francis Byron Greene, History of Boothbay, Southport and Boothbay Harbor, Maine, 1623-1905 is listed a published intention of marriage between Moses, of Freetown, and Mary, of Boothbay, dated 22 October 1768. Google Books Marriage intentions were apparently, like Banns, published close to the wedding date. This would have made Mary only 8 years old. Betrothal of an 8 year old might be plausible, but even in the Middle Ages, the wedding itself would have been later. I’m perplexed.