Person:Elizabeth Emerson (22)

Elizabeth Emerson

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m. 29 May 1686

Facts and Events

Name^[1]	Elizabeth Emerson
Gender	Female
Birth^[1]^[2]	16 Mar 1686/87	Haverhill, Essex, Massachusetts, United States
Death^[1]^[3]	15 Mar 1696/97	Haverhill, Essex, Massachusetts, United StatesKilled by the Indians.

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 7. Thomas² Emerson, in Pope, Charles Henry. The Haverhill Emersons. (Boston, Mass.; Cambridge, Mass.: Murray and Emery, 1913; 1916)
1:31.

"Elizabeth³ (Emerson), b. March 16, 1686-7."
↑ Haverhill, Essex, Massachusetts, United States. Vital Records of Haverhill, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849. (Topsfield, Mass.: Topsfield Historical Society, 1910)
1:122.

"Emmerson, … Elizabeth, d. Thomas and Elizabeth (Goardin), [born] Mar. 16, 1686-7."
↑ Although her death is not recorded in the published Haverhill Vital Records, she, by process of elimination, has to have been the third child killed during the Indian raid of 15 March 1696/7. The deaths of her parents and her younger siblings, Sarah and Timothy, were so recorded; her brother, Thomas, was carried into captivity, and her sister Mary was "the only child saved …"