Person:Elizabeth Usher (7)

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Name Elizabeth Usher
Gender Female
Birth[1] 1 Feb 1645/46 Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
Christening[2] 8 Feb 1645/46 Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
Marriage Bef 1666 Based on birth of eldest known child
to Samuel Shrimpton
Death[3][4] 13 Apr 1713 Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
Burial[3] 22 Apr 1713 Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
References
  1. Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States. Births, Baptisms, Marriages, and Deaths, 1630-1699 (A Report of the Record Commissioners): Document 130. (Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States: Rockwell and Churchill, City Printers, 1883)
    p. 20.

    1645. Town.
    Elizabeth of Hezekiah & Frances Usher born 1st - 12th month.
    [Note: In old-styles dates, the twelfth month is February. For comparison to the modern calendar, it corresponds to the following year. More info may be found here.]

  2. "First Church", in Dunkle, Robert J., and Ann S. Lainhart. Records of the Churches of Boston and the First Church, Second Parish, and Third Parish of Roxbury: including baptisms, marriages, deaths, admissions, and dismissals: (1600s-1800s). (Boston, MA: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001)
    p. 156.

    The 8th Day of the 12th Moneth 1645 by our Teacher.
    ...
    Elizabeth User the Daughter of Hezekiah Usher a Recommended Member of the church at Cambridge being about 7 Dayes old.

  3. 3.0 3.1 Sewall, Samuel. Samuel Sewall's Diary, 1674-1729. (Boston, Mass.: Massachusetts Historical Society, 1879-1883)
    Vol. 2.

    Friday, April, 17. Madam Elizabeth Stoddard dyes about 4.m: reckon'd a vertuous Gentlewoman; Has languish'd a long time.

    Midweek, Apr. 22. Madam Stoddard buried; Bearers, Gov'r Dudley, L't Gov'r Tailer; L't Gov'r Usher, Sam'l Sewall, Peter Sergeant esqr.

  4. Note: the death date belongs to the widow of Samuel Shrimpton. While there is evidence that he married a daughter of Hezekiah Usher, there is evidence he may have had subsequent wives. See the discussion on the family page.