Married William Freeborn in 1625 at the Saint Mary's Church in Maldon, Essex, England.

She had daughter Mary, born 1626, and according to Maldon Parish Registers, she was buried in October 1629. William then married Mary Perkins(?) in November, and his second wife is the Mary Freeborn who came with him to Rhode Island in 1634. This new information is from the "New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Vol 177, Fall 2023" page 395.

At the age 33 Mary Wilson Freeborn left England for America with her husband, William Freeborn age 40, and daughter, Sarah age 2 and daughter, Mary age 7. They sailed on the Francis leaving Ipwich, Suffolk, England and arrived in Boston in April 1634. {From the book, The Planters of the Commonwealth, by Charles Edward Banks, 1967 p.122}

The family settled in Roxbury, Massachusetts in the Batisford Manor.?? Daughter Mary died March 6, 1664. Mary, her husband William, and daughter Sarah perished within 2 weeks of each other in the Spring of 1670. Possibly they suscumbed to an epidemic. Sarah died April 23, 1670.. William Freeborn died April 28, 1670.. Mary Wilson Freeborn died May 3, 1670. died April 28, 1670.. Mary Wilson Freeborn died May 3, 1670.

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I would like to thank Find A Grave contributor Pam Watson #46996044 for sending me the following information.

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The Pursuit of a Pestilence

BY ERNEST CAULFIELD

Page-28 AMERICAN ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY

Cotton Mather's statement that in 1655 "an epidemical sort of cough had arrested most of the families in the country" suggests that all of these New England epidemics

were caused by the same disease. If so, it follows that influenza was sometimes very slow in spreading from one

colony to another, which is what one would expect in those

days of slow communications.

Letters written during the winter of 1660-1661 by many

persons living in different parts of New England confirm

John Hull's observations on an "epidemical cold" prevailing

not only in every town but "almost upon every person."

Hull did not seem greatly impressed with the seriousness of

the disease, no doubt because his family had it "very gently," but John Davenport, possibly influenced by his

son's alarming attack of pneumonia, wrote that in New

Haven some were "very ill and in great danger." The conflicting clinical evidence makes this epidemic difficult to classify although an incomplete list of deaths in Boston

tends to confirm John Hull's opinion of the next epidemic, that of 1670, the only information to be found is in a letter written by Richard Smith to John Winthrop, dated New London, May 2, 1670:

Here is many people dead at Rhode Island the later hand of winter and this spring 30 or 40: Mr. John Gard the Chief, others, those you know not and very sickly: still it takes them with a pain in head, stomach, & side on which follows a fever, & dies in 3 or 4 days.

This will have to be considered as a probable influenza epidemic since there are not many fulminating fevers with

pain in the side as a salient feature which can cause 30 or 40 deaths in a population of 5,000. It may be an early example of a number of colonial influenza epidemics that now seem very peculiar in that they were confined to sharply circumscribed areas.

An unusual number of different "sad disease" prevailed throughout New England during all of 1676.

∼William Freeborn married at St. Mary, Maldon, Essex, 25 July 1625, Mary Willson, born about 1601 (aged 33 in 1634). She died at Portsmouth RI, 3 May 1670, "aged 80 years."

They had 3 children: Mary Weaver, Sarah Browning, & Gideon.