Elizabeth Bridger

Not the same as Elizabeth Jackman, widow Caulfield

The will of Arthur [Arthur Allen II] was proved in Surry Co. Court September 5, 1710 and named the following children.

• 3. Elizabeth Bridger

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The will of Arthur Allen II implies that two of Elizabeth's children, Joseph and Martha, were of age at the time: so, they would have been born no later than 1688--thereby establishing a likely birth for her in the early 1670s, at the latest. Consequently, she was in every probability her parents's eldest child. She died between the 2 December 1726 making of her sister Ann Day's will, in which she was mentioned, and probably 27 December 1730: her husband's will, which was made on this date, names no wife and places one of their under-age sons under guardianship.

from "The Allen Family of Surry County, Virginia: Its British Roots and Early Generations in America," by William P. Carrell II, B.A., J.D., Louisville, Kentucky, (c) May, 2004 & Revised October, 2011 p. 31

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