An early tradition, the origin of which I have not been able to trace, gives the name of Gorton’s wife as Elizabeth. In the New England Historical and Genealogical Register, (Vol. XLIV) however, there is a record of the bequest of Mary Mayplett, of London, widow, on Dec. 7, 1646, to her daughter, “_Mary_ Gorton, wife of Samuell Gorton, being in New England,” of “all the money which her said husband Samuell doth owe me, and a breed of cattle which he hath of mine.” In a later volume (XLVI), there is a record of the will of “John Maplett, Doctor of Physicke, of the city of Bath, Somerset,” dated April 16, 1670, which contains the following clause: “I give and bequeath unto my dear sister, Mistress Mary Gorton, of New England, the sum of 20s., and to each of her children I give the sum of 10s. apiece.” Dr. John Maplett, the brother-in-law of Samuell Gorton, was eminent in letters as well as in medicine, having been for a time the Principal of Worcester College. (_Vide_ Stevens’s Cyc. of Nat. Biography.) Samuell Gorton’s oldest child was a daughter named Mary, probably for her mother. His youngest daughter was named Elizabeth, but the late date of Dr. Maplett’s bequest to his sister Mary precludes the idea of a second marriage. There appear to have been at least two instances in the later history of the Gorton family of marriages between Samuells and Elizabeths, and it is probably from this that the confusion has arisen. I am indebted to Mr. Adelos Gorton, of Philadelphia, for important facts bearing on this question. Footnote 17: Winslow afterwards vaguely accused her of “having made some unworthy speeches and carriages.” (“_Hypocrisy Unmasked_”). Footnote 18: For an account of Gorton’s trial see Plymouth Colony Records, Vol. I, pp. 100, 105, under date “5 Nov. 1638.” Footnote 19: _Vide_ Portsmouth Records, under date “Aprill the 30th, 1639.” Footnote 20: April 28, 1639, William Coddington was Governor, under the Royal Charter, from May, 1674, to May, 1676, and from Aug. 28, 1678, to Nov. 1 of the same year, dying in office. Footnote 21: March 12, 1640. Footnote 22: He is said to have characterized the magistrates as “just asses,” and to have called one of the witnesses a “jack-an-apes.” (See charges in Portsmouth Records). This occurred in August, 1640. Footnote 23: So Leckford (1641), Winthrop and Morton. Judge Staples questions this. Gorton himself refers to “fines, whippings and banishments out of their jurisdiction,” suffered by himself and friends. (_Simplicities Defence_). See also Edward Winslow’s “_Hypocrisie Unmasked_.” Footnote 24: