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Elizabeth Briggs (Ellis)

Birthdate:
Birthplace: Sandwich, Plymouth Colony, British North America
Death: Rochester, Plymouth Colony, British North America
Immediate Family:

Daughter of Lt. John Ellis of Sandwich and Elizabeth Ellis
Wife of Samuel Briggs
Mother of Elizabeth Benson; Bennet Stewart; Samuel Briggs, II and Hannah Briggs
Sister of Bennett "Sally" Ellis; Lt. Mordecai Ellis; Deborah Doty; Manoah Ellis; Joel Ellis and 4 others
Half sister of John Ellis, Jr.

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About Elizabeth Briggs

Not the same as Elizabeth Harris

Biography

Elizabeth Ellis was born Abt 1645, Sandwich, Barnstable, MA and died unknown. 5,24,29,37,65

Parents: Lt John Ellis Sr (1623-1697) and Elizabeth Freeman (1623-1692)

Married:

  1. Samuel Briggs, son of John Briggs and Catherine [Unknown], on 2 Feb 1663/64 in Sandwich, Barnstable, MA. 5,37.,110 (Samuel Briggs was born about 1640 29 and died on 2 Nov 1688 in Rochester, Plymouth, MA 110.)

Children of Elizabeth Ellis and Samuel Briggs:

  1. Elizabeth Briggs+
  2. Bennet Briggs
  3. Ebenezer Briggs
  4. Samuel Briggs
  5. Hannah Briggs
  6. John Briggs+

Notes

ELIZABETH, b. about 1645; m. about 1664 SAMUEL2 BRIGGS (John1). He was among the original settlers in Scippican and he held land in common with William2 Ellis (see No. 7 below for details). We believe that there can be little doubt that Samuel Briggs' wife was a daughter of Lt. John1 Ellis, particularly since his first two daughters were named Elizabeth and Bennet, presumably after the wife's mother and the grandmother, Bennet (Hodsoll) Freeman, and that the printed accounts which claim that Briggs married the daughter Bennet2 Ellis are mistaken, since, as noted below, Bennet Ellis was born in 1649, yet the wife of Samuel Briggs had a daughter born in April 1665 when Bennet2 Ellis would have been barely sixteen years old. [Lt. John & Elizabeth (Freeman) Ellis of Sandwich, Mass by Lydia B. (Phinney) Brownson, of Duxbury, Mass & Maclean W. McLean, of Pittsburg, PA]

Citations

  • 37 Robinson, Randy, Robinson Ancestors (http://www.flinthills.com/~rlrobins/).
  • https://mhollick.typepad.com/slovakyankee/2014/12/john-ellis-ca-162...
  • ”Lt. John and Elizabeth (Freeman) Ellis of Sandwich, Mass.” by Lydia B. Brownson and Maclean W. McLean New England Historical & Genealogical Register 119 (1965):161-173.
  • The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635 by Robert Charles Anderson, George F. Sanborn, Jr., and Melinde Lutz Sanborn (Boston, NEHGS, 2001), II:576-82. [Freeman]
  • John Briggs of Sandwich, Massachusetts by E.A. Hannibal (1962)
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Elizabeth Briggs's Timeline

1645
February 2, 1645
Sandwich, Plymouth Colony, British North America
1665
April 3, 1665
Sandwich, Barnstable County, MA, USA
1667
October 14, 1667
Sandwich, Barnstable County, Massachusetts, United States
1673
December 12, 1673
Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States
1675
February 14, 1675
Sandwich, Barnstable co., Massachusetts
1935
January 19, 1935
Age 289
January 19, 1935
Age 289
January 19, 1935
Age 289
January 19, 1935
Age 289