Elizabeth Whale

Biography

Widow Elizabeth Upson, who had a daughter Hannah by her first marriage, married Hugh Griffin about 1639.[1][2][3] [4] Her maiden name and first husband are unknown (see disputed first husband section below).[1]

Hugh died on June 27, 1656 at Sudbury. [5] His will mentions their children: Jonathan, Abigail, Sarah, Shemuel and Hannah (Upson), daughter of his wife Elizabeth by her previous marriage.[1][3] (Researchers should take care not to conflate this couple of Sudbury and their children with Humphrey Griffin who married Elizabeth Andrews in Ipswich whose will was probated in 19 Nov 1661).[6][1]

After his death, Elizabeth married third, Philemon Whale at Sudbury on Nov. 9, 1657, as his third wife. [5][1][2] [4][6]

Philemon died at Sudbury on Feb. 24, 1675. [5][6] His will dated Jan. 19, 1675 and probated on 4: 2: 1676 leaves bequests to his wife Elizabeth, and to William, Jacob, Joseph, and Benjamin, children of his daughter Elizabeth Moore.[1][7][6]

Sources indicate that Elizabeth lost property in the Indian attack on Sudbury in 1676, the year after her husband's death. [1][6][8]

Elizabeth died at Sudbury on Nov. 8, 1688. [5][1] [7][6]

Upson Child

1. Hannah Upson born about 1637/8; married Edward Wright, son of the widow Dorothy Wright, on June 18, 1659 at Sudbury, MA, as his second wife. died there on May 18, 1708. [5] [2][3][1][6]

Griffin Children

1. Abigail born Nov., 1640; died nov. 16, 1660. [5][1] [3] [9]
2. Sarah born Nov. 20, 1642; married Jonathan Stanhope on May 11, 1674. [5] [3] [9][1]
3. Jonathan born in June or Sept, 1647; died Feb. 2, 1685; married Mary Long on Oct. 25, 1676 . [5] [3] [9][1]
4. Shemuel born Jan. 9, 1644. [5] [3][1]

Disputed first Husband Upson

The first husband of "Widow Elizabeth Upson" of Sudbury and father of Hannah Upson who married Edward wright is unknown. Exhaustive research into Thomas Upson of Connecticut and Stephen Upson who came in 1635 on the "Increase" and arrived in Boston late July 1635 has yielded no connection to this family. While Banks, Pope and Savage have searched for a connection in Boston records in fact no record of Stephen Upson of Boston has been found after his arrival. While we can't rule out that Stephen could have been a member of this family other than a shared surname there is no reason to suspect that he was.[1][6][10]

Source notes

Sudbury Marriages

GRIFFINE, Elizabeth and Philemon Whale, Nov. 9, 1657. MR (p. 208)

Griffin, Jonathan and Mary Long, Oct. 25, 1676. MR (p. 208)

Griffin, Sarah and Jonathan Stanhop, May 11, 1674. MR (p. 208)

Sudbury Births

Children: GRIFFIN/GRIFFYN

Abigail, d. Hugh & Elezabeth, Nov. 3 [dup. Nov. 16] 1640. [Abigail, Nov. 16 MR] (p. 60)

Jonathan s. Hugh (Griffen) & Elizabeth, June 22, [dup. Sept. 22], 1647. (p. 60)

Sarah [dup. Griffyn] d. Hugh and Elizabeth, Nov. 20, 1642. (p. 60)

Shemuel s. Hugh & Elize[beth], Jan. 9, 1644. (p. 60)

Sudbury Deaths

GRIFFINE, Hugh, June 27, 1656. MR (p. 308)

WHALL, Elizabeth, Nov. 8, 1688. MR (p. 329)

WHALEY, Philemon, Feb. 24, 1675. MR (p. 329)

Griffin, Abigail, Nov. 17, 1660. MR (p. 308)

Griffen, Jonathan, Feb. 2, 1685. MR (p. 308) [5]

New England Marriages

GRIFFIN Hugh ( - 1656) & Elizabeth UPSON (wid.) m. 3rd Philomen WHALE, 1657; b 1640, Sudbury (p. 325)

UPSON, ___ (? Stephen) & Elizabeth ___ ( - 1688); m/2 Hugh GRIFFIN ca 1639; m/3 Philemon Whale 1657; b.
1638 ? Sudbury (p. 764) [2]

Sources

• 1. ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 1.12 1.13 Mary Walton, "Upton" in Ferris, Dawes-Gates Ancestral Lines, A memorial volume: The American ancestry of Rufus R. Dawes, Vol 1 (Wisconsin: Cuneo Press, 1931-43) p 639 -- 641 (see also Dawes-Gates Vol II, 509, 575) link
• 2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 New England Marriages Prior to 1700, by Clarence Almon Torrey, Genealogical Publishing Com, 1985
• 3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 The Annals of Sudbury, Wayland, and Maynard, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, Alfred Sereno Hudson, Higginson Book Co., 1891
• 4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 The History of Sudbury, Massachusetts. 1638-1889, by Alfred Sereno Hudson, R. H. Blodgett, 1889
• 5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 5.6 5.7 5.8 5.9 Vital Records of Sudbury Massachusetts to the Year 1850, NEHGS, Boston, MA 1903
• 6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 6.5 6.6 6.7 Mary Walton Ferris, "Whale" in Dawes-Gates Ancestral Lines, A memorial volume: The American ancestry of Rufus R. Dawes, Vol 1 (Wisconsin: Cuneo Press, 1931-43): 660 -- 665 link
• 7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Proceedings of the Worcester Society of Antiquity, Volume 24, Worcester Historical Society, Worcester, MA, 1908
• 8. ↑ Descendants of Thomas Brewer: Connecticut to Maine, 1682-1996, with Allied Families, by Dorothy Brewer Erikson, Jane Fletcher Fiske New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1996
• 9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 The Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury, Massachusetts: With Some Related Families of Newbury, Haverhill, Ipswich and Hampton, Volume 3, by David Webster Hoyt, Snow & Farnham, Printers, Providence, RI, 1916
• 10. ↑ "Stephen Upson" in The Upson family in America Upson Family Association of America (Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Co., 1940) p 529 link