Person:Elizabeth Redding (1)

Unconfirmed information that she was born about 1635 and died in Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts. This from Hale Hamilton h2ham@@aol.com

Unconfirmed information from Ancestry.com that she was born 1634 in Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts and died Feb. 16, 1706 in Ipswich, Essex County, Massachusetts

Information from http://home.comcast.net/~heidi.quinn/all_warrenline.htm b.Abt 1634 Cambridge MA d. 15 or 16 Feb 1706/07 in Ipswich According to Laurel Thatcher Ulrich's "Good Wives", on the struggle to maintain status, in @@1674 "an Ipwich busybody named Elizabeth Hunt suspected Sarah [Roper] of stealing her bodkin after it fell to the floor during church. Although the bodkin was retrieved, Goody Hunt continued to press the grievance. Standing by the gate of the Donison house, she told another neighbor that she had been inside to talk to the Major-General about it, but that he would have nothing to do with it even though he was a magistrate. Sarah Roper could not come there to be examined, Goody Hunt reported, because Mistress Denison was "afraid of her" [due to an humiliation the mistress suffered at Sarah Roper's hand 9 years earlier]... The rule of modesty prevented Elizabeth Hunt from such direct and open competition [as her husbands']. She had clear ideas about what was appropriate for a woman in her position... She knew what was happening in every house in the neighborhood and she testified in almost every case emanating from her section of the town... When Elizabeth lost her bodkin, she imagined the servant Sarah Roper "picking her teeth" with it.... It is little wonder that a woman like Elizabeth Hunt might succumb to the temptation to push and shove when her neighbor's daughter oce again jammed her chair hard against the end of the bench [at church]. "Take notice of Goody Hunt," Thomas Knowlton cried aloud from the gallery - as if a dozen of her nearest neighbors had not already recorded both the pattern and meaning of her behavior. In 1681 Samuel Hunt was among eight successful petitioners who sought liberty to "raise the hidmost seate in the morwest syde of the Meeting Hosue two foote higher than it now is, for there wives to sitt in"... [so] ambitious matrons like Elizabeth Hunt could at least sit together in elevated dignity. "

1. ↑ Wyman, Thomas Bellows. Genealogy of the Name and Family of Hunt: Early Established in America from Europe: Exhibiting Pedigrees of ten thousand Persons: Enlarged by Religious and Historic Readings: Enriched with Indices of Names and Places. (Boston, Mass.: John Wilson and Son, 1862-3)
   p. 82.
2. ↑ Wyman, Thomas Bellows. Genealogy of the Name and Family of Hunt: Early Established in America from Europe: Exhibiting Pedigrees of ten thousand Persons: Enlarged by Religious and Historic Readings: Enriched with Indices of Names and Places. (Boston, Mass.: John Wilson and Son, 1862-3)
   p. 124.