Elizabeth Way

Elizabeth {Smith}

• Birth: 1630 Boston Suffolk County Massachusetts, British Colonial America

[Family Search: born 1629 in England - Elizabeth Smith (1629–1713) LC8R-19D]

• Death: Apr. 20, 1713 New London New London County Connecticut, British Colonial America

Elizabeth was the stepdaughter of John Smith. Her mother was Joanna whose maiden name and the name of her first husband remains unknown.

Elizabeth married George Way, born 2 March 1614 Ottery St. Mary, Devon, son of Thomas Way, in 1650.

A daughter Elizabeth was born on 19 March 1651 in Boston. The remaining children were born in Rhode Island: Joanna 1653, George 1655, Alice 1658, Agnes 1660, Thomas 1666 and Mehitable 1670. Mehitable died 1680 in Connecticut.

George was a fisherman along the coast of Maine for many year. In 1649, he was at the Isle of Shoals; then Cape Neddock and Winter Harboar in 1650; in Pemaquid in 1653.

In 1645, Goerge was granted 20 "akers" of land in Providence, Rhode Island. There was a notation of a home share in 1658, although this may have been burned during the King Phillip Indian war in 1676 when 100 buildings were borned in northern Providence.

Elizabeth's mother requested John Smith to consider making one of her daughter's sons his heir, but he declined because her daughter was a Quaker and he could not abide the Quakers.

Elizabeth and some of her children moved to New London to care for her mother, who was blind. George obtained a court order to have her return to live with him, but she never returned and died in New London in 1713. George died about 1686.

Family links:

Spouse:

 George Way (1614 - ____)*

Children:

 Thomas Way (1666 - 1726)*

*Calculated relationship

Burial: Unknown

Created by: Barbara Ferdinand Record added: Jul 21, 2009 Find A Grave Memorial# 39715354 http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=39715354

GEDCOM Note

Biography

Elizabeth was born about 1630, the daughter of Joane. Her mother Joane was a widow, with daughter Elizabeth, when she married 2nd John Smith. The maiden name of Elizabeth does not appear in the records. The maiden name of her mother Joane does not appear in the records.

"North America, Family Histories, 1500-2000 . FamilySearch images) John Smith, Elizabeth's step father, had no children of his own. He died Oct 4 1679. His will was made in favor of his wife Joanna. JoannaSmith, widow for the 2nd time, left her estate to her daughter Elizabeth, wife of George Way, then living in Lyme, CT, in 1687, and two grandsons.

The maiden name of Elizabeth does not appear in the records.

In 1682, the New London County court admonished Elizabeth to return toher husband or be imprisoned.<ref>Frances Manwaring Caulkins, History of New London Connecticut, (1895), p. 252</ref> In 1687, her mother, Joanna, widow of John Smith, left a will, naming her daughter Elizabeth Way, and grandsons George and Thomas Way.

<ref>Caulkins, p 322-323</ref> She died 20 APR 1713 in New London, New London, Connecticut, USA<ref>Source: #S801 Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Elizabeth Smith</ref>

Children

Named in the will of Elizabeth's mother; briefly profiled in the 1898 history of New London:<ref>Caulkins, pp 323, 362</ref># George Way, ensign, m Susanna, daughter of Joseph Nest; several children. He died in February 1716/7.# Thomas Way; m. Ann, daughter of Andrew Lester; 10 children between 1688-1714; he d in New Haven 1726.

Testimony of Richard Smith, aged sixty-four years, taken
May 15, 16S0 :
" That John Smith told him that he wrote over to his brother Smith in England, to send over Edward, his son, promising to his brother that he would make the said Edward, his child and heir. John Smith also informed the deponent in the reason why he chose this youth Edward Smith to be his heir namely, because his father was a very good man, and his mother a precious christian, and the youth himself, hopeful and like to make a good man, and so like to make a good use of his estate. Furthermore, John Smith added that his wife had been very earnest with him, to make one of her daughters children, his heir. But the said John Smith said he wholly declined it because his wife's daughter was a Quaker, and he said he could not abide the Quakers, and also that her husband did not please him. John Smith further added that he could not answer his wife's desire, for if he did, he could never fulfil his engagement to his brother, and he took it as a great token of his brother's love to him, in that he would part with his child and send him so many thousand miles to him, and he took notice of his kinsman Edward his love to him also, in that he would part with his father and come so many thousand miles to him, and therefore said he would make him his heir."

Sources

Birth: 1630
Boston
Suffolk County Massachusetts, USA Death: Apr. 20, 1713 New London New London County Connecticut, USA

Elizabeth was the stepdaughter of John Smith. Her mother was Joanna whose maiden name and the name of her first husband remains unknown.

Elizabeth married George Way, born 2 March 1614 Ottery St. Mary, Devon, son of Thomas Way, in 1650.

A daughter Elizabeth was born on 19 March 1651 in Boston. The remaining children were born in Rhode Island: Joanna 1653, George 1655, Alice 1658, Agnes 1660, Thomas 1666 and Mehitable 1670. Mehitable died 1680 in Connecticut.

George was a fisherman along the coast of Maine for many year. In 1649, he was at the Isle of Shoals; then Cape Neddock and Winter Harboar in 1650; in Pemaquid in 1653.

In 1645, Goerge was granted 20 "akers" of land in Providence, Rhode Island. There was a notation of a home share in 1658, although this may have been burned during the King Phillip Indian war in 1676 when 100 buildings were borned in northern Providence.

Elizabeth's mother requested John Smith to consider making one of her daughter's sons his heir, but he declined because her daughter was a Quaker and he could not abide the Quakers.

Elizabeth and some of her children moved to New London to care for her mother, who was blind. George obtained a court order to have her return to live with him, but she never returned and died in New London in 1713. George died about 1686.

Family links:

Spouse:

 George Way (1614 - ____)*

Children:

 Thomas Way (1666 - 1726)*

*Calculated relationship

Burial: Unknown

Created by: Barbara Ferdinand Record added: Jul 21, 2009 Find A Grave Memorial# 39715354 http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=39715354

References

• A genealogical history of the descendants of the Rev. Nehemiah Smith of New London County, Conn. : with mention of his brother John and nephew Edward. 1638-1888 by Smith, Henry Allen, 1847- (Publication date 1889). Page 28 - < Archive.Org >