Born ‎10 Jan 1667 at Branford, New Haven County, Connecticut, United States, died ‎23 Nov 1743‎, age 76 years

Name listed as Mercy every where but wikitree and CT Town Vital Records (Barbour Collection), where it's listed as Martha. Per Shepard, named Martha at birth but changed to Mercy

Born ‎1655 at Malden, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States, died ‎Feb 1737 at East Haven, New Haven County, Connecticut, United States‎, age 81 or 82 years
‎1st marriage to: Martha Rose, ‎2nd marriage to: Mercy Whitehead

The second Wiliam Ludington was aman of prominence ni New Haven. In the County Clerk's office in Litchfield, Conn., the first volume of land records has the original copy of a grant of land to Wiliam Ludington, signed by King George II. This land became the source of considerable wealth and many families of Ludingtons lived ni Litchfield county.