While researching Mary Nock, wife of Thomas Wentworth, I ran into the following puzzle. The 2-volume Wentworth family history by John Wentworth, mayor of Chicago, suggests that Thomas Wentworth's wife Mary Nock was a sister of Rebecca Nock (who married Thomas Wentworth's brother Richard); a third sister, Love, died single. Rebecca is said to be daughter to Thomas Nock of Dover, NH, who died in 1666, but the generations don't work: Mary and Rebecca must have been born after this Thomas' death. (see v.1 p.208)

Another Thomas Nock living in the Dover area has daughters named Rebecca, Mary, and Love, however. He was married to Abigail Brickett, and his children were as follows:
- Hannah (b. 8/9/1714)
- Nathaniel (twin b. 1/26/1717)
- Mary (twin b. 1/26/1717)
- James (b. 8/1/1720)
[All four were baptized together 7/1/1722]
- Mercy (b. 4/4/1723, bapt. 8/4/1723)
- Love (bapt. 10/23/1726)

This information comes from "Collections of the Dover, N.H., Historical Society" here on ancestry.com and from the "Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire".

Here's my question:
Does anyone know if the Thomas Nock married to Abigail Brickett was a son of the Thomas Nock who died in 1666? The latter apparently had a son named Thomas, but the author of the Wentworth history believed that this son died without issue.