Elizabeth Tozier

William Wentworth and his first and/or second wife had eleven children, birth dates of the children not known, but estimated by assuming they were at least 21 years old when recorded as taxed:

Elizabeth, b. ca. 1653; m. (1) James Sharpe, m. (2) Richard Tozier, Jr.

no children known

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Elizabeth Wentworth
Gender: Female
Birth Place: MA — Birth Year: 1652
Spouse : James Sharp
U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900

Captured by Indians 18 Mar 1690.

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• Genealogical and personal memoirs relating to the families of ..., Volume 1 By William Richard Cutter
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• (XIX) Christopher Wentworth, son of William Wentworth (18), was born probably in 1556; married August 19, 1583, at the church of St. Peter, t Gowts, in the city of Lincoln, Catherine, youngest daughter of William Marbury Esq., of Girsby, in the parish of Burgh-upon-Main, Lincolnshire, by his wife Agnes, daughter of John Lenton. One of her younger brothers was Rev. Francis Marbury, whose daughter Anne married William Hutchinson and became afterwards the famous religious leader in New England. Christopher seems to have been constantly changing his residence, the baptisms of his eight children have taken place in five different places. His will was dated December 8, 1628, at Barrow, a village near Goxhill, the seat of his ancestor, but it was not proved until May 15, 1633, and then at Alford, forty miles distant. Children: 1. William; mentioned below. 2. Anne, baptized at Ireby, Lincolnshire, October 28, 1585; married Rev. John Lawson. 3. Faith, baptized at Great Grimsby, May 14, 1587. 4. Elizabeth, baptized at Ireby, Augugst 15, 1589; married John Winne. 5. Frances, baptized at Ireby, November 8, 1590. 6. Francis, baptized at Conisholm, May 24, 1593, died young. 7. Priscilla, baptized june 14, 1594; married September 1, 1619, William Holmes. 8. Christopher, baptized at Waltham, February 27, 1596-97, died young.
• (XX) William Wentworth, son of Christopher Wentworth (19), was baptized at St. Peter at Gowts, in the city of Lincoln, June 8. 1584. He was living in Alvord from 1614 to 1620. He married, November 28, 1614, Susanna Fleming, a widow, daughter of Edward Carter, of Well. She had married first, July 1, 1613, Uther Fleming, son of Robert and Jane Fleming, her first husband dying six months later. Three children of Wentworth were baptized at Alford. Then he removed to Rigsby. Children: 1. William, mentioned below. 2. Edward, baptized at Alford, January 18, 1617-18. 3. Christopher, baptized at Alford, June 4, 1620, buried at Rigsby, May 18, 1621. The son Edward, settled at Boston. England, and had a large family.
• (XXI) Elder William Wentworth, son of William Wentworth (20). was baptized at Alford. England, March 15, 1615-16. He was the American immigrant, and came to Exeter, New Hampshire, with numerous relatives and friends. The first record we have of him is his signature to a compact drawn by Rev. John Wheelwright for the government of Exeter, dated July 4, 1639. Wentworth probably came over in 1637 with a party of Wheelwright's friends. The settlement at Exeter was made up of exiles and dissenters from the Puritan church in Boston, and when in 1642 the jurisdiction of Massachusetts extended to Exeter, Mr. Wheelwright was obliged to leave the town he had founded, being under sentence of banishment. He went to Wells, province of Maine, to which Massachusetts then had no claim, and with him went Wentworth and other adherents from Exeter. In 1642 Wentworth was a juror of Wells in the county court at York ; in 1648, constable ; and juror again in 1647 and 1649. He removed to Dover, New Hampshire, 1650, in the section set off later as the town of Somersworth. December 19, 1729, incorporated April 22, 1754. as a town ; and the lower part, including the Wentworths', was set off from Somersworth and incorporated July 3, 1849, as the town of Rollinsford. Most of the numerous grants of
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• land to Wentworth were in that vicinity, north and east of Garrison Hill, on the eastern side of the present road to Great Falls and west of north of Fresh Creek tidewater. The Boston and Maine railroad runs through the property, which was also cut by the turnpike to South Berwick. Part of the estate has come down in the family to Bartholomew Wentworth, now or lately living on the old place. In 1651 Wentworth was a selectman of Dover, also in 1657-60-64-70; moderator of town meeting 1661 ; commissioner to end small causes, 1663; "lot-layer," 1657-60-61; served on important special committees of church and town. The office by which he is best known and remembered is that of ruling elder of the First Church of Dover, organized December, 1638. He was elected before 1655, and served in the pastorates of Daniel Maud, John Reyner, John Reyner Jr., and John Pike, a period of more than forty years. He frequently preached in the absence of the pastor of the church. He officiated as minister at Cocheco, 1665-66, and seems to be the first person employed by public authority to preach within the limits of the present city of Dover. He preached more commonly, we are told, at Quamphegan, now South Berwick, Maine. He preached in Exeter in 1690 and 1693. In March, 1693, the town agreed with him to supply the pulpit for one whole year, if he be able, and to pay him forty pounds for his services. In 1693 he gave his farm at Cocheco to his son Benjamin, whose descendants still own some of the land.
• The story of the saving of Heard's Garrison by Elder Wentworth is famous. On the evening of June 27, 1689, squaws requested leave to sleep by the kitchen fires in the various garrison houses, and were admitted to four of the garrisons, a common practice. Just before dawn the Indian murderers were admitted by the squaws, and in three of the houses they killed twenty-three and carried away twenty-nine captives. Wentworth was awakened by the barking of a dog, and found the Indians entering the open door, pushed them out, and managed to hold the door until help came. Two bullets passed through the door above him. He returned to Dover. He died March 16, 1696-97. He married first, Elizabeth Kenny, and second (probably) Elizabeth —— , who survived him. Children: 1. Samuel, born 1641. 2. John. 3. Gershom. 4. Ezekiel. 5. Elizabeth, born 1653; married first, James Sharp ; second, Richard Tozer, Jr. 6. Paul. 7. Sylvanus. 8. Timothy. 9. Sarah, probably married Benjamin Barnard. 10. Ephraim, mentioned below, 11. Benjamin.
• (XXII) Ephraim Wentworth, son of William Wentworth (21), died in Dover, New Hampshire. He owned the mill privilege at Fresh Creek, which he received from his father. He sold it in 1652. On November 8, 1708, he bought of John Tuttle Sr., half the lower fall of Salmon river, the west side. He also bought a hundred acres, being half the grant made to William Pomfret in 1656 in Cocheco woods. He was surveyor of highways 1702, and fence viewer in 1709. He married first, Mary, daughter of Richard and Grace Miller of Kittery, Maine ; second, Elizabeth —— , probably widow of Joseph Beard. .... etc. ____________________
• The Wentworth genealogy, comprising the origin of the name, the family in England, and a particular account of Elder William Wentworth, the emigrant, and of his descendants (1870)
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• XX. William Wentworth, who was baptized at St. Peter at Gowts, in the City of Lincoln (where his parents were married the preceding year), on the 8th of June, 1584, and who was mentioned as such, and still living, in his father's will, in 1628.
• Down to this point, every step in the descent from the first Saxon Wentworth is abundantly substantiated, and we have as positively traced the last representative named, Christopher Wentworth, till his death at or near Alford. Feeling confident that there must have been some special reason for ending his days in that neighborhood, the writer set earnestly about the task of discovering it; and to that end spent several weeks in a close examination of the Parish registers of that place and of the towns immediately adjacent, as well as of the Transcripts in the Bishop's Registry at Lincoln, whenever the originals were defective; and although, perhaps, unable to adduce what would be required at evidence in a court of law, believes that a chain of circumstances so strong and clear can be presented that there need be little hesitation in adopting his conclusions.
• The Alford parish registers show that a William Wentworth was living there certainly from 1614 to 1620, and those of Rigsby that he was of that parish in the following year; and the object is now to show that he was identical with this William, eldest son of Christopher Wentworth and Catharine Marbury.
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• The first mention of him in the Alford register is in the record of his marriage, which took place the 28th of November, 1614, when, if our theory be correct, he would have been about thirty years of age. The name of his wife is given as Susanna Fleming. She was, however, a widow; and an examination of the register, confirmed by various wills, reveals the following facts: Her maiden name was Carter, and so far as can be ascertained, she was the daughter of Edward Carter, of Well, a small village two miles southwest from Alford, who was probably a small farmer. On the 1st of July, 1613, she was married at Alford to Uther Fleming, son of Robert Fleming, of Alford, and his wife Jane. This Robert Fleming, who died in 1599, calls himself, in his will, a shoemaker. From the character and extent of his bequests, it is evident that he was what would be called in England, a "well-to-do tradesman." Uther Fleming lived but little more than six months after his marriage, as he was buried at Alford on the 22d of January, 1613-14; and on the 29th of May following, their only child, a posthumous daughter named Anne, was baptized. (This child was buried at Alford, the 27th of November 1619.) Six month later, the young widow married William Wentworth.
• According to the Alford registers, their eldest child was baptized on the 15th of March, 1615-16, and was named William, after his father. On the 18 of January, 1617-18, another son was baptized, named Edward, doubtless after his maternal grandfather. A third son was baptized at Alford, on the 4th of June, 1620, and was named Christopher, in all probability after his father's father.
• .... etc.
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• XXI. William Wentworth, who it is believed, was identical with the New England emigrant, afterwards known as Elder Wentworth. As has been seen, he was baptized at Alford on the 15th of March, 1615-16, and, assuming the identity, it is a curious fact that he died on the eighty-first anniversary of his baptism, viz: the 15th March, 1696-7.
• The circumstantial evidence touching the iedentity mentioned may be summed up as follows: ....
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• Dr. Belknap describes him thus:
• William Wentworth was one of the first settlers at Exeter; and after the breaking up of their "Combination" for a government he removed to Dover, and became a ruling Elder in the church there.
• In 1689, he was remarkably instramental of saving Heard's garrison. After this, he officiated several years as a preacher, at Exeter and other places, and died at a very advanced age, at Dover, in 1697, leaving a numerous posterity. From him the several sovernors of that name are descended. He was a very useful and good man.
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• If there were two wives and the name of one was not Elizabeth, the first must have died prior to 18 November, 1666-7. There is a family tradition that when he was quite advanced in years he married a second wife, who was very young even to be married, and that he had children by both wives.
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• She was certain of hearing the family talk over about the second wife's youth, her inexperience, and her making no preparation for the birth of her first child, and that her own ancestor Timothy, was a child of the first wife. She thought Mrs. Elizabeth Tozer ws one of the children of the last wife. This Mary married Samuel Bracket, of limington, Me., and had a daughter Phebe Bracket, who assured the author, during the lifetime of her mother, as follows:
• From the first time I consulted mother about the daughter of Ezekiel Knight, of Wells she thought she was the second wife of Elder William, and the more she has thought of it the more she has thought that she was a Knight; but she will not allow me to say for a certainty. Yet she is certain that Elder William had a second wife.
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• We first find Elder William with a wife Elizabeth in 1666-7. The same tradition that gives Elder Wentworth a second wife also gives Elizabeth as her first child, and Timothy as the last child of the previous wife; and also that he had children after he had had grandchildren. The first grandchild whose birth has been found recorded was born 1666; so it may be inferred that if he had a second wife he married her between 1660 and 1665, and that Mrs. Elizabeth Tozer and sons Ephraim and Benjamin were her children.
• The order of the birth of the prior chldren would seem to be as follows: Samuel, John, Gershom, Ezekiel, Paul, Sylvanus, and Timothy. We know he had a child in 1640; and there is every probability that Ephraim and Benjamin were born after 1670, making a difference of over thirty years in the births of children, and creating a probability that there were two wives. And there may have been other children. Indeed under the head of the "Daughters of Elder William," the claims of Sarah, wife of Benjamin Barnard, to be his daughter, upon the ground that her children, left fatherless, call Paul Wentworth their uncle, are canvassed.
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• Paul Wentworth's wife was Catherine __; nothing else in known. If the following account of the Barnard family is correct, she could not have been a sister of Benjamin Barnard, who was son of John Barnard, of Watertown, Mass.:
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• Children of Elder William Wentworth
  • 2. I. Samuel, born in 1640.
  • 3. II. John.
  • 4. III. Gershom.
  • 5. IV. Ezekiel.
  • 6. V. Paul.
  • 7. VI. Sylvanus.
  • 8. VII. Timothy.
  • 9. VIII. Elizabeth, married Richard Tozer, jr. (54 after Timothy.)
  • 10. IX. Ephraim.
  • 11. X. Benjamin.
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