Elizabeth Curtis

Elizabeth married Thomas Curtis, son of Thomas Curtis, by 1644, and died before 1673, when Thomas' wife Abigail was named in a bequest by Thomas' mother, Richardene, widow of Thomas Chambers.

Their children include

1. Benjamin Curtis (-10 Aug 1703)
2. Hannah Curtis
3. Abigail Curtis (5 Dec 1647-)
4. Elizabeth Curtis (Died young) (ca 1649-between 1671 and 1680)
5. Joseph Curtis (ca 1653-ca 1706).
6. Samuel Curtis (1659-)
7. Lydia Curtis
8. Job Curtis (ca 1664-)
9. Dodovah Curtis (ca 1668-).
10. Sarah Curtis
11. Rebecca Curtis
12. Anne Curtis. Born ca 1671 in York, York Co., ME.

It is possible some of the children listed are by the 2nd wife Abigail.

notes

From Deane’s History of Scituate:49

Thomas Curtis, (brother of Richard), was in Scituate 1649. He had previously lived at Georgiana, and is called of York, in our records. He returned to York, where he was living in 1684, at which date he gave a deed to his son Samuel, of lands on Curtis or Buttonwood hill, where Samuel and several generations of his family lived.   Two children of Thomas Curtis were born and baptized in Scituate second parish, Elizabeth 1649, and Samuel 1659. He had also a son Benjamin of Portsmouth. We have seen a deed (preserved here) from Robert Tufton Mason to Benjamin Curtis, conveying a lot of land ‘on Great Island in the Piscataqua River,’ dated 1681.

Thomas’s will was dated 19 Apr 1680, but not probated until 1 Oct 1706. It mentions his sons Joseph, Dodivah and Job; daughters Abigail, Lydia, Sarah, Rebecca and Anne Curtis, and Hannah Jynkins. He had already given portions to sons Benjamin and Samuel.

comments

From http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~barbpretz/ps03/ps...

“Nothing is known concerning his wife’s surname, but her given name is Elizabeth. No birth or death is available for her. His will does not mention her so it can be assumed that she died before 1680.”9

• New England Marriages Prior to 1700  By Clarence Almon Torrey, Elizabeth Petty Bentley. Page 199. "CURTIS, Thomas (1619-1706?) & 1/wf Elizabeth ?; b 1644; Scituate/ York, ME. "CURTIS, Thomas (1619-1706?) & 2/wf Abigail ?."
• The pioneers of Massachusetts a descriptive list, drawn from records of the colonies, towns and churches and other contemporaneous documents. By Charles Henry Pope ...Published 1900 by C.H. Pope in Boston . Written in English. Page 93. Bequest to Thomas Curtice, his wife Abigail, his daughter Elizabeth.
• A genealogy of the Curtiss family: being a record of the descendants of widow Elizabeth Curtiss, who settled in Stratford, Conn., 1639-1640 by Frederic Haines Curtiss. Published 1903 by Rockwell and Churchill Press in Boston . Written in English.  Page 38-39
• http://aleph0.clarku.edu/~djoyce/gen/report/rr02/rr02_258.html#P11659 note: Payne Joyce has only wife Abigail, which conflicts with Torrey.