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Facts and Events
| Name[1][2] |
Elizabeth Pitkin |
| Married Name |
Elizabeth Marsh |
| Gender |
Female |
| Birth[1] |
Oct 1677 |
Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States (probably) |
| Marriage |
6 Jan 1698 |
Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States (probably)This marriage is not recorded in any published Connecticut Vital Records.
to Captain John Marsh |
| Alt Death[3] |
1 Nov 1738 |
Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States |
| Will[4] |
30 Nov 1748 |
Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States |
| Death[2] |
1 Dec 1748 |
Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States |
| Burial[3] |
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Ancient Burying Ground, Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States |
| Probate[4] |
24 Dec 1748 |
Will proved. |
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 William Pitkin, Elizabeth Pitkin, in Pitkin, Albert Palmer. Pitkin Family of America: A Genealogy of the Descendants of William Pitkin, the Progenitor of the Family in this Country, from his Arrival from England in 1659 to 1886, with Additional Historical and Biographical Notes of the Family, etc. also, Additional Notes of the Descendants of Martha Pitkin, who Married Simon Wolcott. (Hartford, Conn.: Press of the Case, Lockwood & Brainard Co., 1887)
2, 6.
"6. Elizabeth Pitkin, b. Oct, 1677. m. John Marsh."
"She 'owned her covenant' with the 'First Church of Hartford,' with her brother John, March 15, 1696. Capt. Marsh represented Hartford in the Legislature for forty sessions (Hollister's 'Conn.,' Vol. I, p 514) and his son, Hon. Ebenezer Marsh, represented Litchfield for forty-eight sessions."
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 92. Elizabeth Pitkin, in Marsh, Dwight Whitney. Marsh Genealogy - Giving Several Thousand Descendants of John Marsh of Hartford, Connecticut, 1636-1895: also Including Some Account of English Marshes, and a Sketch of the Marsh Family Association of America. (Amherst, Mass.: Dwight Whitney Marsh, 1895)
28.
"92. Elizabeth Pitkin. … received to full communion March 15. 1712-13. … Elizabeth (Pitkin) Marsh, d. Hartford. Dec. 1. 1748, … and their gravestones still stand by Centre Church."
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Elizabeth Pitkin Marsh, in Find A Grave.
The abstract of her probate indicates that she made her will 30 November 1748 and that it was proved 24 Dec 1748. Therefore the date of death indicated on her gravestone, 1 November 1738, cannot be correct. Almost certainly erroneous information was given to the individual who cut the gravestone.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Marsh, Elizabeth, Hartford, in Manwaring, Charles W. A Digest of the Early Connecticut Probate Records. (Hartford, Conn.: R. S. Peck & Co., 1904-06)
3:586-87.
"Probate Records. Vol. XV, 1745 to 1750. Page 252.
Marsh, Elizabeth, Hartford. Will dated 30 November, 1748: I, Elizabeth Marsh of Hartford, widow and relict of John Marsh, late of sd. Hartford, do make this my last will and testament: I give to my daughter Elizabeth Cook and to her heirs, to be at her and their own dispose forever, all my wearing apparrel of what sort and denomination soever, all my cloth, wool, yarn, flax, and all my bedding and the furniture belonging thereto, as also my pewter, brass, iron and the whole of my household goods and linens, and one cow, and £20 in bills of publick credit of the old tenor, to be paid her by my executor hereafter named. I give to my son John Marsh and his heirs £100 in old tenor bills of credit. And further, my will is that my son Hezekiah Marsh shall have the lands I lately bought of John Marsh and Daniel Marsh, he paying for it the just value thereof to my executor or to the rest of my children. And what remains of my estate, whether real or personal, after the before-mentioned legacies are paid, I give to be equally divided to my sons, Ebenezer Marsh, William Marsh, Isaac Marsh, George Marsh, John Marsh, Timothy Marsh and Hezekiah Marsh, and to their heirs forever. I constitute my son Timothy Marsh to be my executor.
ELIZABETH X MARSH, LS.
Witness: William Pitkin, Sarah Catlin, Abigail Church.
24 December, 1748: Then Timothy Marsh, executor to the will above written, exhibited the same in Court, which was proved and approved, and the sd. executor accepted the trust thereof. Sd. will is ordered to be recorded and kept on file. [This Court Record follows the will, upon the same page of manuscript.]"
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