Person:John Elson (1)

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Capt. John Elson
 
d.Bef 9 Mar 1647/48 Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut, United States
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  • H.  Capt. John Elson - Bef 1647/48
  • W.  Margaret _____Est 1612 - Bef 1671
m. Est 1640
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Name Capt. John Elson
Gender Male
Marriage Est 1640 to Margaret _____
Death[2] Bef 9 Mar 1647/48 Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut, United States
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Misinformation

Several books have published the misinformation that he was killed in the 1637 "Wethersfield massacre". The probate records, which indicate that the taking of his inventory was assigned in March 1647/48 and completed in May 1648[2] prove this wrong.

References
  1.   Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England: Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692, on the Basis of Farmer's Register. (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co, 1860-1862)
    2:115.

    "JOHN, Wethersfield, perhaps br. of Abraham, m. a wid. wh. had s. Benjamin, and Job, and John, had no ch. of his own, left good est. to the mo. and boys, d. prob. at same time with Abraham, the inv. of John being tak. only a few days after the inferior one of A. His wid. m. Thomas Wright."

  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Manwaring, Charles W. A Digest of the Early Connecticut Probate Records. (Hartford, Conn.: R. S. Peck & Co., 1904-06)
    1:10.

    'At a Court held 9 March 1647.
    The Inventories of John Elsen & Abraha Elsen are brought into Courte. ...
    Invt. of John Elsen was taken 16 May (Probably 1648.)'

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