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Facts and Events
References
- ↑ Dedham (Massachusetts). Town Clerk; Julius Herbert Tuttle; Benjamin Fisher; and Don Gleason Hill. The early records of the town of Dedham, Massachusetts. (Dedham, Massachusetts: Dedham Transcript Press, 1886-1936)
Vol. 1, p. 25.
Elizabeth Draper, deceased Sept. 12, [16]92.
- The cited death record is 3 days after the birth of a daughter Elizabeth to Daniel and his wife Elizabeth. Source:Draper, Thomas Waln-Morgan. Drapers in America, p. 167, obviously assumes this death record belongs to the daughter, thus gives only one wife to Daniel and attributes all children to her, and creates a second daughter Elizabeth, birth unknown, to go with the death date in 1728.
Portions of this are shown to be false by NEHGR, Vol. 47, p. 343, which pursued the ownership of the property of Peter Aspinwall to show that his daughter Elizabeth had married "before 1 May 1701" Daniel Draper (the relevant deed is Suffolk deed Vol. 31, folio 99, reverse side where Daniel Draper of Dedham and Elizabeth his Wife one of the Daughters of Peter Aspinwall convey their rights to Samuel Aspinwall).
There is no marriage record for the second wife, so pinning down the date of marriage is not as certain. The absence of a birth record for a second daughter named Elizabeth, and the lack of parents in the death record, suggests the daughter b. 1692 lived, and this death was the mother's. Based on that arrangement, Elizabeth was her only daughter, and all other children belong to the second wife, Elizabeth (Aspinwall) Stevens, whom Daniel must have married by 1695 when his son Daniel was born.
NEHGR, Vol. 157, p. 201, suggests this Elizabeth might be the daughter of John, b. 1664, but it does not explain why it thinks so, nor why it doesn't think it could be the daughter of Peter, b. 1671.
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