"In 1644, the widow Alice Tompson of Roxbury, Mass., married second, as his second wife, Robert Parke. The exact date is unknown, but it was shortly after May 30, 1644, when the clerk of the House of Deputies of the Massachusetts Bay Colony entered the following act [Records of the Governor and Company of the Massachusetts Bay in New England, vol. 3, p. 3]: The peticon of Robert Parke is graunted by ye whole Courte, and hath libtye to pced in marriage wth Alice Tompson wthout furthr publishe."