Walter Davis asserts that she was first married to Daniel Wood of Ipswich, who died before 1649 Mar 27, when his wife Mary was named administratrix and two children were mentioned in the care of the widow. The evidence that this widow mary was Mary Foster is two-fold: (a) in 1679, Hepsibah (Peabody) Rea called Judith (Wood) Dorman sister, and (b) the will of Francis Peabody in 1696 called Daniel Wood his son-in-law and gave him land in consideration of an obligation for when Wood came of age. [Walter G. Davis, “Massachusetts and Maine Families in the Ancestry of Walter Goodwin Davis,” published 1996 in Baltimore, MD by Genealogical Publishing Co.]

Item (a) is in a court deposition in the county court files. [“Records and files of the quarterly courts of Essex County, Mass,” pub. 1911 in Salem, MA by Essex Institute

There is slim evidence that she was the mother of the Peabody children. The town birth records mention only the father, but the county court records of the birth of the last child, Nathaniel, do show the mother as Marie.143