Elizabeth Perley

   Elizabeth Porter was born on 7 October 1673.1 She was the daughter of Israel Porter and Elizabeth Hathorne.1 She married Joseph Putnam, son of Lieutenant Thomas Putnam and Mary Veren, on 21 April 1690 in Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts.1 She died in 1746.1

    Elizabeth's mother was sister to Honorable John Hathorne, the witchcraft judge.1 Citations [S901] Eben Putnam, A History of the Putnam Family in England and America, Volume I, Recording the Ancestry and Descendants of John Putnam of Danvers, Mass., Jan Poutman of Albany, N.Y., Thomas Putnam of Hartford, Conn. (Salem: The Salem Press, 1891), 49.

http://www.brazoriaroots.com/p9930.htm ______________________ Info added per DAR's "Lineage Book of the Charter Members" by Mary S Lockwood and published 1895 states she was mother of Maj Gen Israel Putnam" whose "services are a matter of history."

Eben Putnam source of birth and death dates

Eben Putnam Publisher Salem MA: Salem Press, 1891

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Descendants of Joseph Putnam and Elizabeth Hawthorne Porter 1. Joseph1 Putnam, born1 14 Sep 1669 in Salem Village (Danvers), Essex, MA; died 1724 or 1725 in Salem Village (Danvers), Essex, MA, son of Thomas Putnam and Mary Veren. He married on 21 Apr 1690 in Salem Village (Danvers), Essex, MA Elizabeth Hawthorne Porter, born 7 Oct 1673 in Salem Village (Danvers), Essex, MA; died 1746 in Salem Village (Danvers), Essex, MA, daughter of Israel Porter. Notes for Joseph Putnam It is said that Israel's father, Joseph Putnam, was such an outspoken critic of the witchcraft persecutions which shook Salem in the final years of the seventeenth century that he earned the lasting disapproval of both relatives and neighbors. As a precaution against the time when he might be accused of being a witch (or a warlock), they say Joseph Putnam kept his musket loaded and a fast horse saddled at all times, ready for possible flight.

Joseph Putnam will always be remembered for his opposition to Mr. Parris and the witchcraft trials. The position which he took could only have been maintained by one who, like himself, was allied with the principal families of the county. He opposed from first to last the proceedings which disgraced Dauvers and his immediate relatives and friends. This was a source of peril to even him, however, and for six months, one of his fleetest horses was kept saddled, ready at a moment's notice, should an attempt be made to seize his person. This fact was well known and it was also known that he would resist every attempt of that nature, even though it cost the lives of those who came to take him. It is a significant fact that his children were baptized in Salem, this being a very public manner of showing his disapprobation of the course followed by Mr. Parris. Joseph Putnam should be honored far above all others of his generation; for he showed that not only did he have the courage common to all of the family, but was above the ignorant superstition of the time by which such men as Judge Samuel Sewall and Cotton Mather were overcome.

It is proper to state at this juncture, that the romantic tale of a sister of Joseph Putnam being accused of witchcraft at a session of the Court to which she had been drawn by curiosity, and her flight and concealment in Middleton woods, is entirely without foundation. Mr. Tarbox in his History of Gen. Israel Putnam quotes from Mr. Rice, but however thrilling and interesting a story this account may be, it has absolutely no foundation. Children of Joseph Putnam and Elizabeth Hawthorne Porter were as follows: 2 i Mary2 Putnam, born 2 Feb 1689/90 in Salem Village (Danvers), Essex, MA. 3 ii Elizabeth2 Putnam, born 12 Apr 1695 in Salem Village (Danvers), Essex, MA. 4 iii Sarah2 Putnam, born 26 Sep 1697 in Salem Village (Danvers), Essex, MA. 5 iv William2 Putnam, born 8 Feb 1699/1700 in Salem Village (Danvers), Essex, MA; died 19 May 1729. 6 v Rachel2 Putnam, born 7 Aug 1702; died 1781. 7 vi Anne2 Putnam, born 26 Apr 1705. + 8 vii David2 Putnam, born 25 Oct 1707 in Salem Village (Danvers), Essex, MA; died 1768 in Danvers, Essex, MA. He married Rebecca Perley. 9 viii Eunice2 Putnam, born 13 Apr 1710; died 2 Feb 1787. 10 ix Huldah2 Putnam, born 29 Nov 1717. + 11 x Gen. Israel Porter2 Putnam, born 7 Jan 1717/18 in Salem Village (Danvers), Essex, MA; christened 2 Feb 1717/18 in Salem (Danvers), Essex, MA; died 29 May 1790 in Brooklyn, Windham, CT; buried 1 Jun 1790 in Town Green, Brooklyn, Windham, CT. He married (1) Hannah Pope; (2) Deborah Lothrop Avery Gardiner. 12 xi Mehitable2 Putnam, born 12 Mar 1719/20; died 2 Sep 1801. She married on 24 Mar 1740/41 Richard Dexter. Generation 2

1 Eben Putnam, A History of the Putnam Family in England and AmericaA History of the Putnam Family in England and America (Salem Press, Salem, MA, 1891). Descendants of Joseph Putnam page 4 8. David2 Putnam (Joseph1 ), born 25 Oct 1707 in Salem Village (Danvers), Essex, MA; died 1768 in Danvers, Essex, MA. He married on 28 Nov 1728 in Boxford, Esses, MA Rebecca Perley, born 28 Oct 1710 in Boxford, Esses, MA; died 1762 in Danvers, Essex, MA. Children of David Putnam and Rebecca Perley were as follows: + 13 i Joseph3 Putnam, born 14 Oct 1739 in Danvers, Essex, MA; died 9 Mar 1818 in Danvers, Essex, MA. He married Ruth Flint. 11. Gen. Israel Porter2 Putnam (Joseph1 ), born 7 Jan 1717/18 in Salem Village (Danvers), Essex, MA; christened 2 Feb 1717/18 in Salem (Danvers), Essex, MA; died 29 May 1790 in Brooklyn, Windham, CT; buried 1 Jun 1790 in Town Green, Brooklyn, Windham, CT. He married (1) on 19 Jul 1739 in Salem (Danvers), Essex, MA Hannah Pope, born 3 Sep 1721 in Danvers, Essex, MA; died 6 Sep 1765 in Brooklyn, Windham, CT, daughter of Joseph Pope and Mehitable Putnam; (2) on 3 Jun 1767 Deborah Lothrop Avery Gardiner, born abt 1720; died 14 Oct 1777 in Putnam's HDQTRS, Fishkill, Dutchess, NY.

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