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Historic leaves, volume 3, April, 1904 - January, 1905, Thomas Brigham the Puritan—an original settler (search)
ntic adventure their quest, they came to, the right place, for they were snapped up like Monday bargains; and, as the sage Morse observes, if the number of worthy husbands whom a lady married is the measure of her worth, our maternal ancestor was a most worthy and attractive woman, for she married no less than three. These were Thomas Brigham, who died in 1653, by whom she had five children; Edmund Rice, of Marlboro, by whom she had two daughters; and William Hunt, of Marlboro, who died in 1667. Mercy Hurd-Brigham-Rice-Hunt died December 23. 1693, after a third widowhood of twenty-six years. During this period she saw two bloody Indian wars. During the first Marlboro was burned, and she, with one of her sons, is believed to have fled to their former home on The Rocks in Somerville, while her other sons went in pursuit of the enemy. The children of Thomas and Mercy Hurd-Brigham were Mary, Thomas, John, Hannah, and Samuel. All were identified with the early history of Marlbo