Person:Humphrey Tiffany (1)
Humphrey Tiffany
chr.4 Jun 1630 Hackney, Middlesex, England
d.15 Jul 1685 Massachusetts, United States
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m. Bef 1663
  1. Ebenezer TiffanyAbt 1663 - 1746/47
  2. James Tiffany1666 - 1732
  3. Thomas Tiffany1668 -
  4. Hezekiah Tiffany1670 - 1685
  5. William Tiffany1672 -
  6. Consider Tiffany1675 - 1708
  7. Ephraim Tiffany1677 - Bef 1727
  8. Elizabeth Tiffany1680 -
  9. Sarah Tiffany1683 -
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Name[1][2] Humphrey Tiffany
Gender Male
Christening[1] 4 Jun 1630 Hackney, Middlesex, England
Marriage Bef 1663 Based on estimated date of birth of eldest known child (Ebenezer).
to Elizabeth _____
Death[1][2][3] 15 Jul 1685 Massachusetts, United StatesKilled by lightning between Swansea and Boston.
Probate[3] 27 Oct 1685 Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United StatesAdministration to the widow.
References
  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1. Humphrey1 Tiffany, in Friedlander, Mary Banning. Block Island Settlers of Joshua's Town, Lyme, Connecticut, 1701-1800: Banning, Niles, and Tiffany Families. New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (New England Historic Genealogical Society, Jul, Oct 1999)
    153:453.

    "1. Humphrey1 Tiffany was probably the man of that name who was baptized at St. John's, Hackney, London, of 4 June 1630, son of Henry and Elizabeth (_____) Tiffany. He died on a journey between Swansea, Massachusetts, and Boston, on 15 July 1685 when he took refuge in a storm under a tree which was struck by lightning.

  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Baylin. History of New Plymouth, Records of Ancient Rehoboth. (22 Jan 1863)
    1:209.

    Humphrey Tiffany, Rehoboth, 1663, by wife Elizabeth had Sarah born July 6, 1683, and was an inhabitant of Dover for some time but killed July 15, 1685, on the journey between Swanzey and Boston by a stroke of lightening.

  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Humphrey Tiffany, in Jacobus, Donald Lines, and Edgar Francis Waterman. The Granberry Family and Allied Families: including the ancestry of Helen (Woodward) Granberry. (Hartford, Conn.: E.F. Waterman, 1945)
    329.

    "Humphrey Tiffany … removed in 1681 to Swansea, Mass. An account of his death was given by Samuel Sewall in his Diary, 15 July 1685. 'One Humphry Tiffiny and Frances Low, Daughter of Antony Low, are slain with the Lightening and Thunder about a mile or half a mile beyond Billinges Farm, the Horse also slain, that they rode on, and another Horse in the Company slain … Were coming to Boston.' His widow Elizabeth was appointed administratrix on his estate, 27 Oct. 1685."

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