[Elizabeth Thompson] having joined the church 23 May 1703 and being about to marry Alexander Gray, she came into ct. and discl. the paternity, long shielded, of her two illegit. ch. The two young men involved, Thomas Ball of Kit. and Mannerell Hilton of York, soon vanished for all time. (Mass. Acts & Resolves, 1762-3, ch. 253, Y.D. 39, 52)[GDMNH p. 333]