!RELATIONSHIPS: Benjamin Read, HISTORY OF SWANZEY NEW HAMPSHIRE; 1734-1890; The Salem Press, 1892; p 497; FHL Book 974.29/S1 H2r.

!SPOUSE-CHILDREN: Swanzey, NH Town Records; 1741-1844; Town Clerk, Swanzey NH, Vol 2; Pg 2; SLC Microfilm #0015328; NOTE: Contains original volumes C & D.

!RELATIONSHIP: Vermont Bible Records Vol 36; 1786; NSDAR; p 39; DAR Library, Washington, DC; NOTE: Abstract of the will of Mary Grimes dated 12 Sept 1786 at Swanzey, NH. Mary Grimes gives her son William his father's silver shoe buckles because "he bearing up his father's name."

!PROBATE-CHILDREN: Probate Packet for William Grimes; ; Cheshire Co NH Probate Court, will dated 19 Dec 1780, estate settled July 1787; Case #8; ; photocopy in the possession of Pat Geary, Harrisonburg VA; NOTE: will names wife Mary and six children, however, Mary dies before the estate is settled.

!COMMENT: Letter from Ken Stevens in Walpole, NH to Pat Geary in Harrisonburg, Va; ; dated ; ; original in possession of Pat Geary, Harrisonburg, VA; NOTE: states "According to one unverified source Mary, wife of William Grimes, was a full-blooded Indian."
Death obtained from film #0015577, Swanzey Cemetery Records, copied by Walter
F. Oakman, Concord, NH in 1941
Mary was listed as the wife of William Grimes. She died five years after
he did. She was 71 years old = birth year of 1715
Mary is listed as the mother of all William's children born in Swanzey, as she was the only wife listed. If he had a wife prior to his marriage to Mary, it is yet to be documented. The Ancestral file, does list a wife, Agnes, which has yet to be documented.
GEARY file: Mary's will was dated 12 Sept, 1786.

• Married: 1740

1. Mary Grimes b: 10 Nov 1744 in Swanzey, Cheshire, New Hampshire c: 17 Dec 1744 in Swanzey, Cheshire, New Hampshire
2. James Grimes b: 10 Feb 1743 in Swanzey, Cheshire, New Hampshire c: 10 Feb 1743 in Swanzey, Cheshire Co., New Hampshire
3. William Grimes b: 12 May 1747 in Swanzey, Cheshire, New Hampshire
4. Charles Grimes b: 15 Apr 1754 in Swanzey, Cheshire, New Hampshire c: in , , New Hampshire
5. Sarah Grimes b: 3 Apr 1751 in Swanzey, Cheshire, New Hampshire c: Apr 1756 in Swanzey, Cheshire, New Hampshire
6. Susannah Grimes c: 27 Jan 1760 in Swanzey, Cheshire, New Hampshire
7. Elizabeth Grimes b: 12 Apr 1749 in Swanzey, Cheshire, New Hampshire c: 12 Apr 1749 in Swanzey, Cheshire Co., New Hampshire
8. John Grimes b: 24 May 1741 in Swanzey, Cheshire, New Hampshire
9. Samuel Grimes b: 3 Apr 1751 in Swanzey, Cheshire, New Hampshire c: 11 Nov 1751 in Swanzey, Cheshire, New Hampshire

1. Title: Find A Grave, Inc. Find A Grave.com.
   Author: Digital image. http://www.findagrave.com/
   Note: Her maiden name is given as White.
2. Title: Find A Grave, Inc. Find A Grave.com.
   Author: Digital image. http://www.findagrave.com/
   Note:

   Tombstone Inscription

   
   Inscription:
   "In Memory of Mrs Mary Grimes Wife of Mr William Grimes fhe(she)died Sept 26th 1786 In the 71st year of her Age
   Friends retire prepared be When God fhall(shall) Call for follow me"