Elizabeth Brown

Not to be confused with Elizabeth Crockett

Eliizabeth Roberts was "Elizabeth Mathes" [SIC: Matthews] when she married Ephraim Winship 13 Oct 1759 at Falmouth Maine. "Maine Vital Records, ...

Samuel Matthews 1726-1759

Marriage:

Elizabeth Roberts

1736-1759

Children (1)

Mary Mathews 1749-

Excerpt from The Maine Historical and Genealogical Register

Ephraim Winship, who was wounded in this fight, was born in Lexington, Mass., May 1, 1709, and there married Mehitabel Cutter, Aug. 28, 1735. They had six children between 1736 and 1747. He was a shoemaker by trade, and settled with the above family in New Marblehead, upon home lot No. 5, in 1750. His wife Mehitabel died April 18, 1753, aged 44 years. Mr. Winship's wounds were so severe that his recovery seems wonderful; for besides the bullet shot in the arm, another bullet destroyed an eye, and, as he possessed a "double crown," the Indians took two scalps from his head, leaving a narrow strip of scalp from the back of his head to the front. In this work they were interrupted by the guards, and one of the savages gave him a hasty, cruel blow with a tomahawk upon the head and left him for dead. He recovered however, and although badly hacked and shot, and having but one eye and less than one-fourth of his original scalp, he married again, Oct. 13, 1759, Mrs. Elizabeth (Roberts) Mathews, widow of Samuel. She had a family of four children by her first husband to join with his six; and then they together had four more, the last being born Dec., 1766, some six months after the father's death, which occurred June 4, 1766. His widow Elizabeth in 1768 married Amos Brown as her their husband, and by him had several children.

References;

Eliizabeth Roberts was "Elizabeth Mathes" [SIC: Matthews] when she married Ephraim Winship 13 Oct 1759 at Falmouth Maine.

• "Maine Vital Records, 1670-1921", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/2H26-S2X : 27 December 2014), Ephraim Winship and Elizabeth Mathes, 1759.

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• Reference: FamilySearch Genealogy - SmartCopy: Dec 28 2015, 4:17:41 UTC "Elizabeth was the daughter of George Roberts and Catherine Skillings." But this is contradicted by https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/LX3V-N86 which notes that Elizabeth Roberts married Richard Crockett and had children in the same years she was married to Ephraim Winship.