Grace Garfield (1688)

Born 6 Jul 1688 in Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay

Wife of Isaac Newton — married 8 Dec 1719 in Marlborough, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Biography

Grace was born on 6 July 1688 in Watertown, Mass.

Research Notes

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 ? Marlborough, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States. Vital records of Marlborough, Massachusetts, to the end of the year 1849. (Worcester, Massachusetts: Franklin P. Rice, 1908), 290.

Newton, Isaac and Grace Garfield, Dec. 8, 1719.

p. 166: "It is supposed (I saw the statement as though written by John Ward Dean) she was the daughter of Joseph and Sarah (Gale) Garfield of Watertown ... If so, she would have been several yearsthe elder"

p. 185: "I have found nothing further of the wife Grace Garfield. And as none of the children of Moses of Stafford have the name it is possible she died and Isaac had a second wife..."

Presumably, this identification of Grace as the daughter of Joseph is based on Joseph's son Benjamin (Grace's brother) moving to Marlborough to provide opportunity for this marriage, as no hard evidence seems to exist.

Although not as common as an older man marrying a younger woman, a woman marrying a man eight or more years younger commonly occurs. (See e.g. [1])

If the author did not believe Grace was Isaac's first wife why then would she proceed to say that he may have later taken a second wife?

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