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About Elizabeth Brown
Not the same as Elizabeth Palmer
Elizabeth (Bulkeley) Brown, daughter of Rev. Edward Bulkeley (1614 - 1696) and Lucian Bulkeley, was born about 1637 at Concord, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. She married (1) Reverend Joseph Emerson (____ - 1717) on 7 December 1655 at Concord; (2) Captain John Brown (1629 - 1694) on 29 March 1682 at Reading, Middlesex County. She died at the age of 56 on 4 September 1693 at Reading, and was buried at Old Burying Ground, Wakefield, Middlesex County.
Marriages and Children
- Joseph Emerson (1629 - 1694) married 7 December 1665 Concord, Middlesex County, Massachusetts
- Lucy Ann Emerson Damon (1667 - 1740)
- Edward Emerson (1670 - 1743)
- Peter Emerson (1673 - 1751)
- Ebenezer Emerson (1678 - 1751)
- Daniel Emerson (1680 - 1725)
- John Brown (____ - 1717) married 29 March 1682 Reading, Middlesex County, Massachusetts
Gravestone Inscription
"Here lyes the body of Mrs. Elizabeth Brown, wife to Capt. John Brown, Esquire, formerly wife to Rev. Joseph Emerson of Mendon, who deceased Sept. 4, 1693, in the 56th year of her age."
Sources
- Donald Lines Jacobus, "The Bulkeley Genealogy: Rev. Peter Bulkeley, being an account of his career, his ancestry, the ancestry of his two wives, and his relatives in England and New England, together with a genealogy of his descendants through the seventh American generation." New Haven, Connecticut, 1933.
- Samuel Chenery Damon, "The Damon, Emerson and Bulkeley Families: Damon memorial: or, Notices of three Damon families who came from old...", Page 69: "Robert Bulkley, Esq., an English Baron, was Lord Manor of Bulkley, in the County Palatine of Chester, in the reign of King John, who died in 1216."
- Find A Grave Memorial# 21230461
- link to The Bulkeley family; or the descendants of Rev. Peter Bulkeley, who settled at Concord, Mass., in 1636. Compiled at the request of Joseph E. Bulkeley Author Chapman, F. W. (Frederick William), 1806-1876,Bulkeley, Joseph Edmund, b. 1812. Page 41
- http://trees.wmgs.org/getperson.php?personID=I33216&tree=Schirado
Elizabeth Bulkeley was born in Concord, Massachusetts in 1637. Her grandpa Reverend Peter Bulkeley, migrated from England and founded Concord, Massachusetts in 1635. Peter was the first pastor of First Parish Church in Concord, Edward, Elizabeth’s dad was the 3rd pastor and Elizabeth married a pastor, Joseph Emerson. Elizabeth and Joseph had 6 kids. Their son Edward Emerson married Rebecca Waldo, their great grandson was Ralph Waldo Emerson. Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote a poem mentioning his 5th great grandpa Peter Bulkeley, Hamatreya, a couple lines, “Bulkeley, Hunt, Willard, Each of these landlords walked amidst his farm. Saying, T’is mine, my children’s and my name’s. Where are these men? Asleep beneath their grounds. Earth laughs in flowers, to see her boastful boys. Mine and yours; Mine, not yours. Earth endures Stars abide”.
When Joseph Emerson died in 1680, widow Elizabeth married John Browne. Elizabeth died in 1693, her 2nd husband John Browne died in 1717. They are both buried at Old Burying Ground in Wakefield, Massachusetts. A sign posted there, “The gravestones in this semi-circle were originally located in the town’s first Burying Ground, near the present site of the Bandstand. These stones represent some of the oldest expressions of Puritan gravestone art in New England”. Elizabeth’s headstone is art, hand made and created. Inscription: Memento Mori “remember you will die” Fugue Hora “the hour flees” Here lyes ye body of Mrs. Elizabeth Browne wife to Cap’n John Brown Esq and former wife of ye Reverend Mr Joseph Emerson of Mendon who deceased Septemb’r ye 4th 1693 in ye 56 year of her age.
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Elizabeth Brown's Timeline
| 1637 |
1637
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Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States
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| 1667 |
October 2, 1667
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Milton, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, USA
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| 1670 |
April 26, 1670
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Mendon, Worcester County, Massachusetts, Colonial America
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| 1673 |
1673
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Mendon, Massachusetts, United States
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| 1677 |
1677
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Mendon, Worcester County, Massachusetts Bay Colony
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1680
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Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts
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| 1693 |
September 4, 1693
Age 56
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Reading, Middlesex, Massachusetts
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1693
Age 56
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Old Burying Ground, Wakefield, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States
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