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About Elizabeth Burroughs
Disputed Origins
Her parentage is disputed. Some people say that she was the daughter of John Jessup and Joanna Kerrich Jessup. Others say that she was the daughter of Thomas Pettit and Christian Mellows Pettit and the widow of a Mr. Reed.
About 1664 in Newtown, Elizabeth became the second wife of John Burroughs. They had one son together: John Jr. in 1665.
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=49867563
Various online sources state, with no evidence, that John Burroughs's second wife was Elizabeth (Jessup) Reed, the sister of his first wife Joanna. It is then very difficult to explain why she named in her willa sister Hannah Pettit. If Elizabeth were a Jessup, we would need a likely candidate for a Hannah Jessup who married a Pettit, and none presents herself. We would also need an Elizabeth Jessup who married a Reed, and again, we are at a loss. On the other hand, there is a natural reason for how she erroneously became a Jessop -- confusion with John Burrough's first wife, which at some point morphed into the statement that they were sisters.
GEDCOM Note
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One Name Study|name=Reed
Is she the daughter of Thomas Petitt, born Elizabeth Pettit, born at Exeter 1637 ?
Second wife of John Burroughs. Pg. 1679. Jordan, John W. ColonialFamilies of Philadelphia. New York, New York: Lewis Pub. Co, 1911. Print.
John and Elizabeth had one son together: John Jr. in 1665, who was granted land in John Senior's will. Elizabeth named both Johns in her own will.
Elizabeth Burroughs of Newtown left a will dated 25 Nov 1678.Collections NY Gen. & Biog. Soc.]]: Vol. 25, Pages 55-56 Steve Warling, Descendants of John Burroughs, personal website, archive copy. It mentions
- children Joseph Reed, John Reed, Mary Moore, Sarah Reed, and John Burroughs, John Burroughs being underage.
- John's father John
- sister Hannah Pettit
- Executor was her son-in-law Samuel Moore of Newtown.
- Administration ofher estate was granted to Samuel Moore on 20 Nov 1679 in Queens Co, NY.
Research Notes
Some online sources say Elizabeth was born 1637 at Exeter, but a trustworthy source remains to be found and included here. We find clues about her parentage in her will and that of her second husband. Elizabeth names a sister Hannah Pettit, while her husband John Burroughs's will was witnessed by Thomas Pettit, who was later named overseer of thewill.
Thomas Pettit and Christian Mellowes removed to Newtown in the 1650s and had a daughter Hannah b. 1647and also a son Thomas Jr. So this is suggestive that Elizabeth was another of their children.
Various online sources state, with no evidence, that John Burroughs's second wife was Elizabeth (Jessup) Reed, the sister of his first wife Joanna. It is then very difficult to explain why she named in her willa sister Hannah Pettit. If Elizabeth were a Jessup, we would need a likely candidate for a Hannah Jessup who married a Pettit, and none presents herself. On the other hand, there is a natural reason for how she erroneously became a Jessop -- confusion with John Burrough's first wife, which at some point morphed into the statement that they were sisters.
Sources
- Collections of the New-York Genealogical and Biographical Society (New York, 1892)
- Find A Grave, database and images (findagrave.com : accessed 16 February 2019), memorial page for Elizabeth Burroughs (1637–20 Nov 1678), Find A Grave Memorial no. 49867563
- http://swarling.mywebcommunity.org/burroughs/newtown0001.htm
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http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=49867563
http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/BURROUGHS/1999-10/093...
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Name
: Name: Elizabeth Ann /Jessup/
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Birth
: Birth: :: Date: 1628 :: Place: Newtown, Queens, New York, USA :: Source:
Death
: Death: :: Date: 26 Feb 1677 :: Place: Long Island, Queens, New York, USA :: Source:
Notes
- Ralph Ege, Pioneers of Old Hopewell, (Race & Savidge, 1908), p.88, notes Ralph Hunt was an overseer of Edward Jessop's will in 1666.
- "Sons and Daughters of the Pilgrims" (Philadelphia: 1929), by the Nat'l Assoc. of Sons and Daughters of the Pilgrims, has a number of undocumented society applications which say that Ralph Hunt m. Elizabeth Jessup d/o Edward Jessup
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Elizabeth Burroughs's Timeline
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Exeter, Rockingham County, New Hampshire, British Colonial America
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1651
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Queens, Newtown, Suffolk County, New York, United States
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June 22, 1665
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Newtown, Queens, New York, British Colonial America
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November 20, 1678
Age 41
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Newtown, Queens County, New York, British Colonial America
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