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Mary Elizabeth Whitfield (Goodman)

Also Known As: "Elizabeth Goodman"
Birthdate:
Birthplace: Wiggins, Gates , North Carolina, Colonial America
Death: February 1773 (79)
Rockford, Lenoir, now, Surry County, North Carolina, Colonial America (Killed by Goshen Creek Area Hunting Ground Natives 1773, Dobbs County, NC during Cherokee War outside area of Ft Barneswell )
Place of Burial: Seven Springs, Wayne Co, North Carolina, United States
Immediate Family:

Daughter of Henry Goodman and Rebecca (Reeves) Goodman
Wife of William Whitfield, I
Mother of Margaret Winkfield; Mary Elizabeth Graddy; William Whitfield, II; Edith (Whitfield) Smith; Matthew Whitfield and 7 others
Sister of Henry Goodman and Charity Goodman

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About Mary Elizabeth Whitfield

3 Children: Mary Whitfield Graddy 20 May 1715 -30 Dec 1791 (aged 76) always lived in Albertson, Duplin Co, NC buried in Graddys Cemetery Duplin Co MEMORIAL ID 25376890; William Joshua Whitfield 1715–1795; Edith (Whitfield) Smith 1717–1785.

Spouse: William Whitfield 1688–1770

William Whitfield settled in Nansemond County, Virginia in the early part of the 18th Century, and then went into North Carolina to Chowan and Bertie Counties, North Carolina, he traveled to the United States on his own ship.

William is the son of Matthew (born 1666) who also immigrated from Lancaster, England, District of Lancashire, and Priscilla Lawrence Whitfield of Nansemond County, Virginia. Priscilla is the daughter of John and Mary Lawrence of Virginia.

William Whitfield and Elizabeth Goodman of Gates County, North Carolina, were married 1n 1713 in Chowan County. They had eleven children.

(Information provided by Direct Whitfield Descendant Nancy Yankie.)


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Mary Elizabeth Whitfield's Timeline

1693
July 1693
Wiggins, Gates , North Carolina, Colonial America
1714
1714
Chowan County, NC, United States
1715
May 20, 1715
North Carolina, British Colonial America
May 20, 1715
Chowan, North Carolina, British Colonial America
1717
March 7, 1717
Craney Island, Portsmouth, VA
May 27, 1717
Bertie, North Carolina
1719
February 9, 1719
Chowan, North Carolina, British Colonial America
1720
January 1720
Craven, North Carolina, British Colonial America
1720
Bertie County, Province of Carolana