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Elizabeth Simpson (Keech)

Also Known As: "Alder", "Adler Keech"
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Birthplace: Charles County, Province of Maryland
Death: November 21, 1786 (73-74)
Prince George County, Maryland, United States
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Daughter of Hon. James Keech and Ruth Keech
Wife of George Alder and Joseph Greene Simpson
Mother of James Alder; Bowles Alder; Ruth Hawkins Hayes; Mary Lindsey Alder; Andrew Simpson and 3 others
Sister of Margaret Horrell; Martha Musgrove; James Keech; Eleanor Ann Keech; Dorothy Cartwright and 3 others

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About Elizabeth Simpson

Biography

Elizabeth (Keech) Simpson was born circa 1712 in Charles County, Province of Maryland. Her parents were Hon. James Keech and Ruth (Hawkins) Keech.

Elizabeth married George Alder. Together they had the following children: James Alder; Bowles Alder; Ruth Hawkins (Alder) Hayes; Mary Lindsey Alder.

Elizabeth married Joseph Greene Simpson on August 28, 1737. Together they had the following children: Andrew Simpson; Thomas Simpson; John Simpson; Sarah Mary (Simpson) Bobo.

She died on November 21, 1786 in Prince George County, Maryland, United States.


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Henry Hawkins, of Charles County, in his Will dated 18 October 1698 and proved 12 May 1699, recorded in "Maryland Will Book, 6: 310, named his wife Elizabeth (who was the widow of Francis Wyne) and his six children. Of these two were by his first wife. They were Henry Hawkins and Ellinor (Hawkins) Tubman. The others were children of his second wife and were John Hawkins, Henry Holland Hawkins (so named to distinquish him from his half brothers, Henry Hawkins and Henry Wine). Ruth Hawkins and Mary Hawkins. Henry Holland Hawkins became "whole and sole executor" under his mother's Will. Ruth Hawkins became the first wife of James Keech, Gent., and had daughters named Martha and Elizabeth Keech, mentioned in the Will of their grandmother Elizabeth Hawkins already cited.



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Elizabeth Simpson's Timeline

1712
1712
Charles County, Province of Maryland
1730
1730
St. John's Parish, Prince George's County, Maryland
1731
January 5, 1731
St. John's Parish, Prince George's County, Maryland
1735
March 24, 1735
St. John's Parish, Prince George's County, Maryland
1737
October 12, 1737
St. John's Parish, Prince George's County, Maryland
1739
1739
Virginia
1741
1741
Prince George's County, Maryland
1743
February 24, 1743
Culpeper County, Province of Virginia, Colonial America