Person:Elizabeth Unknown (3958)

Elizabeth _____

b.Bef 1625

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m. 1645

Facts and Events

Name^[1]^[2]	Elizabeth _____
Married Name	Elizabeth Goodrich
Gender	Female
Birth^[1]	Bef 1625	Estimate based on date of birth of eldest known child.
Marriage	1645	Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut, United Statesto John Goodrich
Death^[1]	5 Jul 1670	Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut, United StatesChildbed

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 Goodrich, in Jacobus, Donald Lines, and Edgar Francis Waterman. Hale, House and Related Families, Mainly of the Connecticut River Valley. (Hartford: The Connecticut Historical Society, 1952)
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Elizabeth -----, who died in childbed in Wethersfield, 5 July 1670.
↑ In an article in Source:TAG, p. 9:45, entitled "Corrections of Printed Authorities", Donald Jacobus refutes several sources that claim John Goodrich's wife was Elizabeth Edwards. Source:Adams, Sherman W. History of Ancient Wethersfield, Connecticut : Comprising the Present Towns of Wethersfield, Rocky Hill, and Newington; and of cites Source:Goodwin, Nathaniel. Genealogical Notes, or Contributions to the Family History of Some of the First Settlers of Connecticut and Massachusetts, p. 54, in saying so, and both are frequently cited in turn. But it cannot be so, as Thomas Edwards, her supposed father, b. 1621 based on age at death, was too young to be the father of a woman who married and had a child by 1645. Thomas Edwards' probate "indicate quite clearly" that he had only a daughter Ruth who had issue. Jacobus further speculates that the misunderstanding was the result of misinterpreting a deed of sale from Thomas Edwards to John Goodrich as implying a relationship, when there was none. He summarizes, "The maiden name of Elizabeth, the first wife of John Goodrich, is unknown."