The wife of Stephen Alling and daughter of Colonel Joseph and Hannah (Trowbridge) Whiting, and the sister of Hannah (Whiting) Ingersoll, Phebe (Whiting) Alling, and John Whiting. (After Mary died, Capt. Stephen Alling married Sarah Andrew of Milford.) Mary’s husband Stephen was the only child of Stephen and Mary (Trowbridge) Alling, born in 1716; died 1772. His original name was Charles, but after his father died, his mother ordered his name changed to Stephen after his late father. When his mother died, Stephen Trowbridge became his guardian.