It has come to my attention that the Jane Ayers who married David Belknap in Enfield, CT, on 23 Dec 1790 probably is not the Jane Ayers who was born 5 Jul 1756, Voluntown, New London, CT (as is shown in many family trees). I had wondered about this because of several inconsistencies: (1) Jane would have been too old in 1813 (at 57) to have given birth to their youngest daughter, Aurilla, (2) the 1830 census indicates that Jane was younger than David (who was b. 1760), and (3) Voluntown is not very near Ellington, where David was from, or Enfield, where they married. Recently, I noticed that the Voluntown Jane Ayers is shown by other sources as having married Andrew J. Eliot in 1774 in Voluntown and having a large family with him. A check of FamilySearch IGI shows another Jane Ayers or Eyers ca. 1762 in Enfield or b. 1764 in Ellington who married David Belknap. This Jane would be the right age and from the right part of the state. "Early Connecticut Marriages" also shows a Hannah Ayers being married in Enfield in 1796, who could be from the same Ayers family.

Can anyone shed any light on this? In particular, I haven't seen any sources that definitively linked the Voluntown Jane Ayers to the Jane Ayers who married David Belknap in Enfield; does anyone know of such sources? Or does anyone know of an Ayers (Eyers) family in Enfield?

Note: David and Jane went from CT to VT and then to Harrison Co., OH, where both died in 1832.