2nd wife of William Chamberlain

280. William2 Chamberlain (Henry1);198 born 1626;198 died 22 Oct 1678 at Hull, MA.1

William Chamberlain married (first), about 1651, a wife who died at Hull about 1660. He married (second), about 1661, a wife who was the mother of his four youngest children.

Children by second wife, all born in Hull:

• 6. Benjamin, baptized at Hingham, May 18, 1662.
• 7. Joseph, born about 1665.
• 8. Mary, born about 1672, died at Newport, Rhode Island, October 3, 1707. She married, about 1691, Nathaniel Sheffield, a native of Braintree, Massachusetts, who removed to Newport, Rhode Island. He was deputy from Newport for 1699, 1701, 1702, 1709, 1710, 1711, 1713, and 1718; captain, 1702; general treasurer, 1705 to 1708; inspector of the transcription of the laws of the colony in 1699; and major of Groat, alias Foot, Island from 1710 to 1716. He married (second) Catharine Gould Clarke, and died at Newport, November 12, 1729.
• 9. Sarah, born about 1616; alive at Newport in 1693, and there styled a spinster.