Elizabeth Blake

• Not the same as Elizabeth Johnson, who died unmarried.
• Sometimes confused with Elizabeth Partridge Johnson 1677-1739 also buried at Old Farm Hill Cemetery, Middletown, Middlesex County, Connecticut.

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This Elizabeth Johnson was the daughter of Nathaniel Johnson and Mary (Smith) Johnson born abt. 1678 in Roxbury, Mass, or 1686 in Woodstock, Connecticut, and died Mar. 17 1735/36 Middletown, Hartford (now Middlesex) County, Connecticut as the wid. of John Blake who died in 1724; and was buried in the Old Farm Hill Cemetery there.

Elizabeth Johnson married 20 October 1705 at Woodstock (recorded at Middletown) to John Blake, son of John Blake Jr. and Sarah Hall. He was born 19 May 1683 in Middletown, and died there 8 Dec 1724.

The children of Elizabeth Johnson and John Blake were:

1. Richard (3), b. Aug. 9, 1706.
2. Anna, b. Nov. 1, 1707, d. Jan. 35, 1707-8.
3. John (3), b. Dec. 2, 1708.
4. Joseph (3), b. Sept. 24, 1713. Married Esther Bacon.
5. Freelove

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Will

Blake, Elizabeth, Middletown, in Manwaring, Charles W. A Digest of the Early Connecticut Probate Records. (Hartford, Conn.: R. S. Peck & Co., 1904-06)
3:141-42. "Probate Records. Vol. XII, 1732 to 1737. Page 367.

Blake, Elizabeth, Middletown. Invt. £87-07-06. Taken 23 March, 1736, by Daniel Hall and Stephen Blake. Will dated 4 February, 1735-6.

• I, Elizabeth Blake, widow relict of John Blake the 2nd, late of Middletown, do make my last will and testament as follows:
• What right I have in lands in Woodstock shall be equally divided among my foure sons, viz., Richard, John, Joseph and Freelove.
• And that my moveable estate shall be equally divided among my fower sons, except one pair of steers 3 years old next spring, which steers I give to my son Freelove besides his equal quarter-part of all my estate whatsoever. I also give unto my son Freelove that gun which I bought with my own money. The reason why I give the above particulars to my son Freelove is because he hath taken care of me and my creatures and wrought for a great part of them. It is my will that what right I have in lands descending to me in right of my father shall be equally divided amongst my four sons.
• I give to Mary Bevin, who liveth with me, one cow. I appoint my son Richard sole executor.
• ELIZABETH X BLAKE, LS.
• Witness: Elizabeth Kent, Esther Blake, Joseph Rockwell.
• Court Record, Page 47—6 July, 1736: Will exhibited by Richard Blake, executor. Proven."

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Disambiguation

A different Elizabeth Johnson, dau. of Isaac Johnson and Mary (Harris) Johnson was born 19 Feb 1680/81 in Middletown, CT. She d. Aug. 13, 1768, unm. according to "Genealogy of Captain John Johnson". p. 10 and 16.

The Inventory of the Estate of Nathaniel Johnson, Sr., of Woodstock deced 14 Feb 1698-9, apprized this 19 June 1699, by us Phillip Eastman, Matthew Davis, Samuel Perin, and Exhibited by Smith Johnson son and admr, 29 June 1699.

The above probate record and the following deed are given in order to show that John Blake did not marry Elizabeth Johnson, the daughter of Isaac and Mary (Harris) Johnson, b. 19 Feb. 1681, but Elizabeth Johnson, the daughter of Nathaniel and Mary (Smith) Johnson. John Blake, the son of John and Sarah Blake, was b. 19 May 1683, Middletown, Conn.; m. Elizabeth Johnson 20 Oct. 1705 Middletown; d. 8 Dec. 1724 Middletown, as John Blake Senr.; the widow Elizabeth Blake d. 17 Mar. 1735-6 Middletown.(Suff. Deed XXVII: 243, and other deeds to p. 246) Woodstock 8 Dec. 1709.

John Blake of Middle Town, Co. Hartford, weaver, who married with Elizabeth Johnson Daughter unto Nathanael Johnson late of Woodstock, Co. Suff., and Elizabeth my wife, having received of our Brother Smith Johnson of Woodstock lands by the name of the homelott number eighty of 47 acres and a half, & fifteen pounds ten shillings in money for our proportion of the Estate of the said deced. In presence of Edward Bridge, John Chandler, John Bacons.

Suff. ss. Woodstock, 22 May 1710, Elizabeth Blake personally acknowledged the deed. Rec. 21 Oct. 1713.

References

1. Reference: Find A Grave Memorial - SmartCopy: Aug 28 2020, 17:41:36 UTC
2. Reference: Ancestry Genealogy - SmartCopy: Apr 15 2017, 22:17:28 UTC
3. https://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:Elizabeth_Johnson_%2841%29
4. https://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:John_Blake_%2874%29
   1. Blake, George Matthew. Our Folks: Descendants of John Blake, of Middletown Conn. (second preliminary draft). (Rockford, Ill.: George Matthew Blake, 1895). [Misidentified parents of Elizabeth Johnson.]
5. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Johnson-6442
6. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Blake-1651
7. http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=70864216
8. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/70864210/elizabeth-blake Gravesite Details: Wife of John.