Elizabeth Warren

Elizabeth Walker

• Gender: Female
• Birth: September 1583 Great Amwell, Hertfordshire, England
• Death: October 02, 1673 (90) Plymouth, Plymouth Colony, Colonial America
• Place of Burial: Burial Hill, Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States
• Daughter of Augustine Walker and 1st wife of Augustine Walker
• Wife of Richard Warren, "Mayflower" Passenger

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With her five daughters, Elizabeth (Walker) Warren immigrated on the ship Anne in 1623 and joined her husband Richard, who had immigrated three years earlier on the Mayflower. The Anne and her companion ship Little James were the 3rd and 4th ships (after Fortune in 1621) bringing new colonists to the Plymouth Colony.

Please note this comment from Caleb Johnson, Mayflower researcher:

"Common mistake #1: Richard Warren's wife is not Elizabeth (Jewett/Jonatt/Juett) Marsh. This is easily disproven. Elizabeth (Jewett) Marsh was born in 1614, which makes her not only younger than Richard Warren's two oldest children, but also makes her only fourteen years old when Richard Warren died. [Mayflower Descendant 2:63]."

Place of birth has also been (erroneously?) reported to be Baldock, Hertfordshire, England.

Birth: Abt 1583 in England, Christening: Sep 1583 Great Amwell, Hertford, England 1 Death: 12 Oct 1673 in Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts 2

Richard Warren married Elizabeth Walker, at Great Amwell, Hertfordshire, on April 14, 1610. Elizabeth Walker was the daughter of Augustine Walker of Great Amwell. She was baptized at Baldock in September 1583. This information came to life with the discovery of Augustine Walker's will dated April 19, 1613, in which he named his daughter Elizabeth and her children Mary, Ann and Sarah Warren.

Plymouth County Records (8:35) mention Elizabeth Warren’s death as follows: "Mistris Elizabeth Warren, an aged widdow, aged above 90 yeares, deceased on the second of October, 1673, whoe, haveing lived a godly life, came to her grave as a shocke of corn fully ripe."

She came over in 1623 on the ship "Anne" with daughters Abigail, Anne, Elizabeth, Mary and Sarah. Richard and Elizabeth Warren had two sons born at Plymouth, Nathaniel, who married Sarah Walker, and Joseph, who married Priscilla Faunce. (The Faunce family also came to Plymouth on the Anne.

Family

• Parents: Augustine Walker and unknown (see note 1)
• Married: to Richard Warren (c. 1580-1628) 14 Apr 1610 in Saint Leonards Great Amwell, Hertford, England 3 Change Date: 12 Dec 2008 see note 1

Their children

• F 1. Mary Warren was born about 1610 in England and died on March 27, 1683 in Plymouth, Massachusetts about age 73.
• F 2. Anna Warren was born about 1612 in Prob. England and died after February 1676 in Marshfield, Massachusetts.
• F 3. Sarah Warren was born about 1614 in England and died after July 1696.
• F 4. Elizabeth Warren was born about 1616 and died on March 9, 1670 in Hingham, Massachusetts about age 54.
• F 5. Abigail Warren was born about 1618 in England and died after January 3, 1692 in Marshfield, Massachusetts. Married Anthony Snow at Plymouth in 1639. He lived until 1692.
• M 6. Nathaniel Warren was born about 1624 in Plymouth, Massachusetts and died in 1667 in Plymouth, Massachusetts about age 43.
• M 7. Joseph Warren was born about 1626 in Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts and died on May 4, 1689 in Plymouth, Massachusetts about age 63.

notes

An article by Edward J. Davies in the April 2003 issue of The American Genealogist gives evidence that Elizabeth Warren may have been the daughter of Augustine Walker. An Elizabeth Walker, daughter of Augustine Walker, married a Richard Warren in Great Amwell, Hertfordshire, on April 14, 1610. The will of Augustine Walker, dated April 19, 1613, refers not only to his daughter Elizabeth Warren but also her 3 daughters : Mary, Ann and Sarah. These three Warren daughters correspond to three of the Warren daughters who were passengers on the Anne in 1623.
"She was a remarkable woman for her times, and she was prosperous in managing her lands. Unlike most Plymouth widows [she survived Richard by 45 years], she was not obliged to remarry, and she was customarily over the years given the title of 'Mrs.' when most women were being called 'goodwife.' She was also honored by being allowed to succeed to her husband's rights as 'Purchaser.' She lived to see at least 75 of her great-grandchildren.
"Mrs. Warren was usually styled 'Mistress', a title not at all common then. Her name appears frequently in the colonial records, for she had the rare distinction of remaining a widow forty years, succeeding to her husband's rights as a 'Purchaser.' . . The following Order by the Gneral Court, 7 to 17 Mar., 1636-7 states 'It is agreed upon by the consent of the whole Court that Elizabeth Warren Widow the relict of mr Richard Warren Deceased shall be entered and stand and bee Purchaser instead of her said husband aswell because that (he dying before he had prformed the said bargaine) the said Elizabeth pfformed the same after his decease as also for the establishing of the Lotts of land formerly given by her unto his sonnes in law Richard Church Robert Bartlett and Thomas Little in marriage with their wives her daughters. (Court Orders I:107.) (Mayflower Descendants III:48).'
She is also listed as being born about 1583. "Her will is recorded in Suffolk County Prob. Rec. V.:11, her estate being 365 pounds 14 s."
"The wife [of Richard Warren] and 5 daughters came on the 'Anne' in 1623. . . In a codicil to his will dated 16 July 1667 Nathaniel Warren mentions his mother Elizabeth Warren, his brother Joseph Warren and his sisters Mary Bartlett Sr., Anna Little, Sarah Cooke, Elizabeth Church and Abigail Snow. On 4 March 1673/4 Mary Bartlett, the wife of Robert Bartlett ack, she had received full satisfaction for her share of the estate of Mistris Elizabeth Warren, deceased; and John Cooke in behalf of all her sisters testified to the same. The court settled the remainder of the estate on Joseph Warren."
"The 22 May 1627 Division of Cattlenames Richard Warren, wife Elizabeth Warren, Nathaniell Warren, Joseph Warren, Mary Warren, Anna Warren, Sara Warren, Elizabeth Warren and Abigail Warren. "
Edward J. Davies has found evidence for Augustine Walker, Great Amwell, Hertfordshire, as the father of Elizabeth, who married Richard Warren on 14 April 1610, in that same location. (The American Genealogist, April 2003, v. 78, no. 2, p. 81-86)

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Richard Warren

Richard Warren's English origins and ancestry have been the subject of much speculation, and countless different ancestries have been published for him, without a shred of evidence to support them. Luckily in December 2002, Edward Davies discovered the missing piece of the puzzle. Researchers had long known of the marriage of Richard Warren to Elizabeth Walker on 14 April 1610 at Great Amwell, Hertford. Since we know the Mayflower passenger had a wife named Elizabeth, and a first child born about 1610, this was a promising record. But no children were found for this couple in the parish registers, and no further evidence beyond the names and timing, until the will of Augustine Walker was discovered. In the will of Augustine Walker, dated April 1613, he mentions "my daughter Elizabeth Warren wife of Richard Warren", and "her three children Mary, Ann and Sarah." We know that the Mayflower passenger's first three children were named Mary, Ann, and Sarah (in that birth order).

Very little is known about Richard Warren's life in America. He came alone on the Mayflower in 1620, leaving behind his wife and five daughters. They came to him on the ship Anne in 1623, and Richard and Elizabeth subsequently had sons Nathaniel and Joseph at Plymouth. He received his acres in the Division of Land in 1623, and his family shared in the 1627 Division of Cattle. But he died a year later in 1628, the only record of his death being found in Nathaniel Morton's 1669 book New England's Memorial, in which he writes: "This year [1628] died Mr. Richard Warren, who was an useful instrument and during his life bare a deep share in the difficulties and troubles of the first settlement of the Plantation of New Plymouth."
All of Richard Warren's children survived to adulthood, married, and had large families: making Richard Warren one of the most common Mayflower passengers to be descended from. Richard Warren's descendants include such notables as Civil War general Ulysses S. Grant, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Alan B. Shepard, Jr. the first American in space and the fifth person to walk on the moon.

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Richard Warren was a passenger on the Mayflower, arriving in Plymouth in 1620. We know he was from London and the evidence seems to indicate that he was a man of some wealth.
His wife, Elizabeth, arrived in Plymouth on the Anne in 1623 with the couples’ daughters Abigail, Anna, Elizabeth, Mary and Sarah. Two sons, Nathaniel and Joseph, were born to the Warrens in Plymouth.
Richard Warren died in 1628. His wife Elizabeth outlived him by 45 years, dying at Plymouth in 1673. Her death was noted in the Records of Plymouth Colony (PCR 8:35) : "Mistris Elizabeth Warren, an aged widdow, aged above 90 yeares, deceased on the second of October, 1673, whoe, haveing lived a godly life, came to her grave as a shocke of corn fully ripe."
During the long period of her widowhood, Elizabeth Warren’s name appears in the records of Plymouth Colony. She appears first as executor of her husband’s estate, next paying taxes owed by a head of household, and finally as an independent agent in her own right.

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References

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