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Biography
Mary Routt was born 26 Feb 1689 per Northumberland, Virginia Colony, extant birth records, per source attached.
Records needed to verify first and second marriages. They seem to overlap.
Sources
Damon Miller, firsthand knowledge. See the Changes page for the details of edits by Damon and others.
Beverly Fleet, Virginia Colonial Abstracts, v. III, Northumberland, Virginia, Record of Births 1661-1810, (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company) Rout/Routt, p. 74: Children of Richard Routt: Ann b. 17 Aug 1675, Frances b. 14 June 1686, Mary b. 26 Feb 1689, George b. 26 Aug 1692; Hathi Trust Digital Library repository (https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39076006495472;view=1up;seq=80)
"Virginia Marriages, 1785-1940," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/XRKY-5ZK : 5 December 2014), Edward Ponton and Mary Matheny, 20 Nov 1739; citing Overwharton Parish,Stafford,Virginia, reference ; FHL microfilm 6,104,724.
(Note: This is marriage number three - Crosby first, then Matheny).
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Mary by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA.
However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line.
It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Mary:
When you click on Find A grave it shows her memorial has been removed. I don't think she was married to both men as like you say the marriages overlapped and there would be problems with the births of the children.