Family:Abraham Cruttenden and Elizabeth Usborne (1)

Abraham Cruttenden's First Wife

"No marriage record for Abraham Cruttenden has been found in Kent in the printed indexes to Cowper, Canterbury Marriage Licenses, 1619-1660 or the prior volume, Joseph Meadows Cowper, Canterbury Marriage Licenses, First Series, 1568-1618 (Canterbury: Cross and Jackman, 1892). The records for all parishes in East Kent (Diocese of Canterbury) 1538-1753 have been indexed by Jane Jones. A search in her private index was requested by Dr. Geoffrey Swinfield, but no marriage was found. West Kent and Sussex records have not been searched. A Thomas Cruttenden had children baptized at Hawkhurst in 1561 and 1563, and further work may provide clues to the ancestry of Abraham Cruttenden."^[1]

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 Lynes, Martha A. The Ancestry of William¹ Chittenden of Guilford, Connecticut. New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (New England Historic Genealogical Society, Jul 2006)
   (at 160:213).

   (Abraham Cruttenden) married first about 1622 Elizabeth -----, who may have come to New England with him in 1639. Most sources say her name was Mary, but the baptisms of Abraham's daughters Elizabeth and Hannah give her name as Elizabeth.

2. ↑ Elizabeth Usborne, in Mahler, Leslie. The English Ancestry of Elizabeth Usborne, First Wife of Abraham(1) Cruttenden of Guilford, Connecticut. New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (New England Historic Genealogical Society, Jan 2011)
   165:23.

   Elizabeth Usborne..m. by 1623 Abraham Cruttenden.

3.   At the publication of this first source, the last name of Elizabet had not yet been discovered.