Person:Elizabeth Unknown (3941)

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Elizabeth Unknown
b.Bef 1606
m. Bef 1626
  1. Sarah ThaxterEst 1635 - 1678
m. 29 Sep 1654
  • HJohn DwightBef 1601 - 1660/61
  • WElizabeth UnknownBef 1606 - 1660
m. 20 Jan 1657/58
Facts and Events
Name[1] Elizabeth Unknown
Gender Female
Birth[1] Bef 1606 Based on estimated date of first marriage.
Marriage Bef 1626 Based on estimated date of birth of eldest known child.
to Deacon Thomas Thaxter
Marriage 29 Sep 1654 Hingham, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United Statesto William Ripley
Marriage 20 Jan 1657/58 Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United Statesto John Dwight
Death[1][2][3][4] 17 Jul 1660 Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States
References
  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Lincoln, George; Thomas T. Bouve; Edward T. Bouve; John D. Long; Walter L. Bouve; Francis H. Lincoln; Edmund Hersey; Fearing Burr; Charles W. S Seymour; and Town of Hingham. History of the Town of Hingham, Massachusetts . (Hingham, Massachusetts: The Town, 1893)
    3:229-30.

    "The chris. name of his [Thomas Thaxter] wife was Elizabeth. She outlived him, and m. secondly, Sep. 29, 1654, William Ripley, wid'r. Surviving him, she m. thirdly, Jan. 28, 1657-58, John Dwight of Dedham, and d. 17 July, 1660."

  2. John Dwight, in Anderson, Robert Charles; George F. Sanborn; and Melinde Lutz Sanborn. The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635. (Boston, Massachusetts: NEHGS, 1999-2011)
    2:376.

    She died at Dedham 17 July 1660 [DeVR 8]. "About the 6th month last, there was likewise another woman, well reputed of, drowned herself at Dedham, - one Go[ody] Dwite. Two awful strokes unto all that knew them; and no little scandal, by accident, to religion; and a great brand of infamy upon themselves. This is not the death of the righteous" (Hull 196 (entry dated 24 October 1660)].

  3. 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. 8.

    Elizabeth Dwight, deceased ye 17 July, [16]60.

  4. "Hobart Journal", in The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society)
    Vol. 121, p. 111.

    1660
    Jly
    18 Elizebeth sometimes wife to Tho Thaxter & to william Riply then to Mr Dwight at Dedham was drowned in a well.