Elizabeth Tompkins

Not the same as Elizabeth Clark

Note: secured by Thomas Pells last will stating his three step grandchildren. After Francis Brewster disappeared on the ship to London, Dr Pell married his widow Lucy.

Biography

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/White-18564

Elizabeth was born perhaps 1655, and likely in Connecticut, likely Fairfield, possibly New Haven. This was unlikely to have been Eastchester, Westchester County, New York, as suggested by Source: #S93 , since Eastchester was not settled by Europeans until 1666.

Marriage

Elizabeth White married Nathaniel Tompkins, perhaps in 1672, rather than 1670 as suggested by Brown[4]

Children

Nathaniel and Elizabeth had, in Eastchester:[5]

1. Anne, b. 1672, married Isaac Odell
2. Elizabeth, b. 1674
3. Mary, b. 1676, married Jonathan Odell, the couple living in the family house headed by her brother Nathaniel in 1698 per the census
4. Nathaniel, b. 20 Sep 1678
5. Rebecca, b. 1680, living in the house of Moses Hoit in 1698 per the census
6. Deborah, b. 1684 or 1685, apparently born after her father signed his will, which does not mention her, in September 1684. Living in the house of Isaac and Anna Tompkins Odell in 1698 per the census.

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Origins

Torrey gives no last name at birth for Elizabeth in his record of the marriage.

Historic Homes and Institutions and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs of Worcester County Massachusetts with a History of Worcester Society of Antiquity, by Ellery Bicknell Crane (New York, Chicago: Lewis Publishing Company, 1907) , p.139, gives no LNAB in its exhaustive treatment.

As noted in a comment by Timothy Wilder, recent work by David Tompkins states that she was Elizabeth White, sister of Nathaniel White. Nathaniel Tompkins appointed Nathaniel White as co-executor with his wife Elizabeth and his brother John Tompkins of his will of 2 September 1684.[1]

Conclusion: The sources favoring White, particularly David Tompkins, are persuasive. White seem to be the right answer for Elizabeth's LNAB.

Elizabeth White was likely born about 1656 in Fairfield, Connecticut Colony, where she was part of the household of Dr. Thomas Pell, the Fairfield man who purchased from the Indians Pelham Manor, Eastchester, and Westchester and who in his will set up his nephew as the First Lord of Pelham Manor. Her mother Elizabeth was the daughter of Lucretia and the late Francis Brewster and therefore became Thomas Pell's step-daughter when Lucretia married him. Elizabeth lived in Pell's Fairfield establishment with Mary and Nathaniel White, presumably her younger siblings.

Elizabeth and her siblings received legacies from Dr.Pell's will dated 21 Sep 1669.[2]

So what is their relationship to Dr. Pell? That section of his will is offers some insight. It reads:

Item - I give to my sonne (his wife's son [in law]) Francis French, all my tobacco, growing or not growing, in casks, or otherways made up in tools or twist. Item - I give to Nathaniel French two young cowes and one young bull. Item - To Elizabeth White I give the worst feather bed and boulster, one iron pott, six porringers, six spoons of alcamy, six pewter platters, one brass skellet, and fifteen poiunds more in goods or cattle, current pay, and two comely suits of apparel, one for working days, another for Sabbath dayes, with two paire of shoes. Item - to Mary White I give six pounds and one suite of aparell of serge, with two shifts, and wool for stockings. I give to Nathaniell White, an apprentice in some handicraft trade; and if it be for his advantage, to give tenne pounds with him out of my estate, not diminishing his twenty pounds, which is to be improved for his use. I give to Barbary my servant - I set her at liberty to be a free woman . . . and one flock bed and boulster, and two blancoats, a pair of sheets, and cotton rug, one iron pott, an iron skellett, six trays and chest . . . six porringers, two pewter platters, six pewter spoons or ye value of them, two cowes or the value of them.[3]

That wording suggests that Nathaniel, Mary, and Elizabeth White were in some way Dr. Pell's dependents. Subsequent activities in Eastchester support the explanation that the three were the children of Elizabeth Brewster, daughter of Dr. Pell's second wife Lucretia, and therefore his step-grandchildren.

The timing of the will, which refers to Elizabeth by her maiden name, establishes that she married after 1669. If she was born after 1654, as suggested by the testimony her mother gave under her maiden name in the slander trial in that year, that suggests she was married about 1672, when she might have been 17.

References

• http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Tompkins-325
• Historic Homes and Institutions and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs of Worcester County Massachusetts with a History of Worcester Society of Antiquity, by Ellery Bicknell Crane (New York, Chicago: Lewis Publishing Company, 1907) Vol. II, p. 139. < Archive.Org >

1. Tompkins, David A., Eastchester Village, colonial New York 1666-1698: Maps and Inhabitants, (Eastchester Historical Society, 1997), p. 31 & 33, citing Grenville McKenzie's Families of Colonial Phillipsburg,
2. Pelletreau, William S., Early Wills of Westchester County , New York, from 1664 to 1784 . . . a careful abstract . . ., (New York, 1898, Francis P Harper), pp. 1, 379-380, 390
3. Bolton, Robert, History of the County of Westchester, from its first settlement to the present time, (New York, 1848, Alexander S. Gould), Vol. 1, pp. 523-524
4. Source: #S93
5. Will, 1698 census, and other sources listed below
6. Tompkins, David A., Eastchester Village, colonial New York 1666-1698: Maps and Inhabitants, (Eastchester Historical Society, 1997), p. 31 & 33, citing Grenville McKenzie's Families of Colonial Phillipsburg and the 1698 census of Eastchester.
7. The Ancestry of Henry James Lawless, Jr. Book Two: Maternal Ancestry by Ethan J. Kennedy (2010) p. 192
8. Clan of Tomkyns, Vol. I, Robert A Tompkins (Manuscript in the Los Angeles Library) Url: http://www.lapl.org/central/tomkyns.html , Vol. I, p. 23.
9. Source: S521 Historic Homes and Institutions and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs of Worcester County Massachusetts with a History of Worcester Society of Antiquity, by Ellery Bicknell Crane (New York, Chicago: Lewis Publishing Company, 1907) Internet Archive
10. Source: S587New England Marriages Prior to 1700, by Clarence Almon Torrey (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2011) Vol. III, p. 1528. "TOMPKINS, Nathaniel (-1684/5) & Elizabeth ____; ca 1672?; Eastchester, NY {Fairfield Fam. 1:612; Cornell 384; NYGBR 54:279}"
11. Source: S497 History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield Compiled and Edited, by Donald Lines Jacobus (Fairfield, Connecticut: Daughters of the American Revolution, 1930) Vol. I, p. 612.
12. Westchester Patriarchs. A Genealogical Dictionary Of Westchester County, New York, Families Prior to 1755. Norman Davis. 1988. pp. 238-239.
13. History of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the county of Westchester From Its Foundation, A.D. 1693, to A.D. 1853 by Robert Bolton (New York: Stanford & Swords, 1855) Internet Archive
14. Source: S93 Abbreviation: Joseph N. Brown. FTW Title: Joseph N. Brown. FTW Note: 3
15. Van Tasel family history- The Tompkins family
16. Find a Grave, database and images (www.findagrave.com/memorial/143548452/elizabeth-clark : accessed 12 July 2021), memorial page for Elizabeth White Clark (6 Mar 1654–25 Dec 1711), Find a Grave Memorial ID 143548452, citing Old Burying Ground, Cromwell, Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA ; Maintained by Lynne Ream (contributor 47484531) .