Nancy Proffitt (Tompkins) - Parents?

d/o James Edwin Tompkins & Frances Elizabeth Coleman, born about 1762, died Camp Branch in Perry Co, Ky between 1811-1814, bond to marry Sylvester Proffitt dated Aug 26, 1782 in Wilkes Co, NC

According to https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/188175469/nancy-proffitt

I’m not sure I believe the mother 1st wife of James Tompkins is accurate.

https://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:James_Tompkins_%282%29 Shows only one wife, Elizabeth Tompkins for James Tompkins, Sr.

I’m going to disconnect 1st wife of James Tompkins as wife. It looks to be an error.

Well, found this:

https://www.quiltedfamilytrees.com/getperson.php?personID=P17&tree=001

One World Tree chart has another child of James Tompkins, a Mary Gardiner Tompkins, b 27 May 1764. There is some indication that James was married to his 1st wife and they had Mary Gardiner. I don't know the wife's name. It is likely she died and James and Elizabeth married abt 1767. If the child survived, Elizabeth surely raised her. This is supposition on my part as I have no record of this child.

Later: I have found a rootsweb chart by Melvin Morris who gives the information on James' first wife and their child, Mary Gardiner Tompkins. She apparently was taken as a child with James and Elizabeth when they traveled to the Carolinas where she married Joseph Sewell. Joseph Sewell is mentioned in various documents pertaining to North Carolina.

However …

https://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:Mary_Tompkins_(42)

Find a Grave and other genealogical sites identify her with the Mary Tompkins, daughter of James Tompkins, baptized in Morristown, New Jersey in 1744. However, this appears to be due to a consolidation of at least two different James Tompkins, and it is unlikely that this is true.

So we have lots of uncertainty around the identification of first wife of James Tompkins and of Mary Sewell