Person:Elisha Hedge (1)

Name^[1]	Elisha Hedge
Gender	Male
Birth^[2]	Abt 1642
Marriage		to Mary _____, possibly Sturgis
Will^[1]	13 Feb 1730	Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States
Death^[2]^[3]	17 May 1732	Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 White, Elizabeth Pearson. John Howland of the Mayflower: The First Five Generations. (Rockland, Maine: Picton Press, 1990-2008)
113.
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 William Hedges, in Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995).

Children... with first wife... ii. Elisha, b. abt 1642 (d. Yarmouth 17 May 1732 "in his 91st year" [YarVR 809]); m. by 1666 Mary___ (eldest child b. 30 Nov 1666 [YarVR 6]). (Mary is said to be daughter of Edward Sturgis, but that is based on close association of the families and no direct evidence).
↑ Thacher, Julia Edgar (Le Roy), comp. Joshua Gray of Yarmouth, Massachusetts, and his descendants. (Boston, Massachusetts, 1914)
18.

... Elisha Hedge, the father of Thomas, was a leading resident of Yarmouth, and his name frequently appears on the records. He had an early grant of land near Edward Sturgis, and was among those who paid the highest tax "towards the charges of the late war" [King Philip's]. He was constable in 1685. His wife's name was Mary, and although their marriage is not found on record, the conclusion has been reached through research that she was Edward Sturgis' daughter Mary who was baptized in Scituate, June 1, 1646. She died March 5, 1712-13, and her husband "m^r Elisha hedge departed ys Life on y^e 17^th: day of May 1732: in or near y^e 92 year of his age." ...