Elizabeth Patchen

Evidence needed to support Johannis Bennett & Joanna Bennett as parents. Locations don’t match.

Elizabeth Bennett

• aka Iggleden, Eggleton, Patching, Patchen
• Born about 1610 in Kent, England
• Died before 1663 before about age 53 in Fairfield, Connecticut Colony, New England
• Parents; unknown
• Wife of Stephen (Igulden) Eggleton — married 30 Nov 1628 in Biddenden, Kent, England
• Wife of Joseph Patchen I — married 18 Apr 1642 in Roxbury, Massachusetts

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Stephen Iggleden, baptised at Biddenden, 17 January 1607/8; dead by 1638 (perhaps died on ship en route to America); Married at Benenden, 30 November 1628, Elizabeth Bennett, who is said to have emigrated to America with her daughters per "Castle", 1638, arriving as a widow, and to have married secondly at Roxbury, Mass., 10 April 1642 Joseph Patchen (arrived per "Hercules", 1634, as servant to Thomas Besbeech);

Biography

Extracted from https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Bennett-422

Immigration

It is believed that Elizabeth and her husband, Stephen, sailed with their children on the ship Castle in 1638, and that Stephen died on that voyage.[17] However, there is no ship's passenger list for the voyage so the evidence is circumstantial, such as the fact that others from Tenterden and vicinity in Kent made the voyage. Also, Peter Branch died on that voyage and in his will dated 16 June 1638, he left a reversionary bequest to "widowe Igleden the late wife of Stephen Igleden or to his children or to her children she had by him." Either Peter met the family on the ship, or knew them from Kent.

Elizabeth and her children settled at Roxbury, Massachusetts, and is on the list of proprietors in 1639.

Marriages and Children

On 30 Nov. 1628, Elizabeth Bennett married first Stephen Iggulden at All Saints Church, Biddenden, Kent, England and together they had the following children:[4]

Children baptized in Biddenden, Kent:[5]

1. Elizabeth Iggulden, bp. 31 Jan 1629/30 in Biddenden; bur 25 July 1630
2. Ruth Iggleden bp. 8 Nov 1631 in Biddenden[6]
3. Elizabeth Iggulden bp 11 May 1634. in Biddenden[7]
4. Hannah Iggulden bp 9 Oct 1636, Biddenden;[8] died at Roxbury, Mass. 20 Oct 1646, age 10 years.

Elizabeth Ingulden, and Joseph Patching were married in Roxbury, Massachusetts Apr. 18, 1642.[9][10] Their children were born in Roxbury, Massachusetts Bay:

1. Joseph Patching, b. 14 April 1643;[11] bpt. Roxbury 24 March 1649/50. He was assigned to sweep the meetinghouse in 1680. He died unmarried by 10 Dec 1689 (inventory taken). His estate was insolvent, with no land. His clothing and tobacco were at the house of Nathan Adams. Estate administration was granted to Jonathan Morehouse.[12]
2. John Patching b. 20 Dec 1644, in Roxbury[13] and baptized there with his brother. He was living at Stratfield, Connecticut, in 1712, a poor, old, man. His employer of 30 years, Dea. Isaac Wheeler, provided for him in his will.[14]
3. Another unnamed child of Joseph Patchin was buried 3m: (May) 1649.[15]

Genealogically and genetically it is not crucial to know who the first wife of Joseph Patchen was, since none of their children produced offspring.

Was Mary Sanderson a daughter?

Death

Joseph remarried about 1663, so Elizabeth had died by then.

Supporting data

Disputed Relationships

Elizabeth Bennett is frequently confused with Jane Unknown. People have called them Elizabeth Jane to try to reconcile the two women who both married men named Iggleden (or variant spellings). But it is very clear from the records that Jane (Unknown) was married to Isaac Cole and previously to Britton and Iggleden, and that it was Elizabeth Bennett who married to Stephenn Iggulden and then as his widow married Joseph Patchen.

This Elizabeth is also confused with Elizabeth (Iggleden) Egelden, the child who sailed aboard the ship Hercules in 1634. Donald Lines Jacobus made such an error in his 1932 History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield in which he claimed that Elizabeth was an adult sailing aboard the Hercules with her three children and that she later married Joseph Patchen.[1] Such errors are most likely based on the various passenger lists which sometimes indicated she was a servant, but the most accurate lists indicate she was actually a child. Additionally, a 10 year old daughter-in-law of Patchen died in Roxbury in 1646.[2][3] If Joseph had married the child Elizabeth of the 1634/5 ship Hercules she would not have had a 10 year old daughter (named Egelden) in 1646, which Elizabeth, widow of Stephen, did have.

See Egelden, Iggulden, Eggleton, Eggleston, Children of Massachusetts for more about the confusion amongst the Elizabeths surnamed Egelden/Iggulden/etc.

• 'Elizabeth Bennett
• 'F, b. circa 1608
• ' Elizabeth Bennett Emigrated in 1638 and settled at Roxbury, MA. She She had 2 more sons by her 2nd husband. She was born circa 1608 at Biddendon, Kent, England. She married Stephen Eggleston, son of Stephen Igleden and Sarah Haffenden, on 30 November 1628 at Biddenden, Kent, England. Elizabeth Bennett married Joseph Patchan on 18 April 1642.
• 'Family Stephen Eggleston d. 1638
• Children
  • ◦John Eggleston b. 1629, d. 1660
  • ◦Sarah Eggleston+ b. 1630, d. a 1676
  • ◦Ruth Eggleston b. 8 Nov 1631, d. 14 Oct 1703
  • ◦Elizabeth Eggleston b. 1634
  • ◦(Daughter) Eggleston b. 1636, d. 1646
  • ◦Richard Eggleston b. 1638
• http://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p13.htm#i375