Heathcock Genealogy Database - Person Sheet
NameThomas Cotton , Step 8G Grandfather
Death1718
Notes for Mary (Spouse 1)
Note: Commonly, internet genealogies give the name of Richard Hyde’s wife “Mary Cotton”. I have seen no source for this surname and suspect that it is an error due to the fact that Mary Hyde remarried after Richard Hyde II died in 1710 to Thomas Cotton, whereupon her name became Mary Cotton.
One poster in Genforum suggests that here surname might have been Bassnet or Rogers.
“Thomas [Cotton] I took as a second wife, Mary (Bassnett?/Rogers?) Hyde, whose first husband (and father of her three surviving children) was Richard Hyde II. Mary's oldest child, Anne Hyde, was the wife of a John Smith and the mother of a girl by the name of Mary. This Mary Smith appears to have been the wife of William Cotton, the brother of Thomas Cotton II. Mary's second surviving child was a son, Richard Hyde III. Her youngest surviving child was Jane Hyde who was born in 1697 give or take one year. Jane Hyde was the wife of Thomas Cotton II.”
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