Elizabeth Cole-Wentworth

Col. Wentworth John married 3d, 1 June 1768, Elizabeth, daughter of Col. Thomas Wallingford and Mary Pray, and widow of Capt. Amos Cole, of Dover, N.H. She died 11 July 1776, aged 40 years.

Biography

http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~teschek/genealogy/wallingford/i00000...

101. Elizabeth4 Wallingford (Col. Thomas3, John2, Nicholas1) was born in Somersworth or Dover, New Hampshire about 1736.(1069) (Based on age of 40 at death.) Elizabeth died 11 July 1775, probably in Somersworth, New Hampshire. Somersworth schoolmaster Joseph Tate's diary has the following: "Tuesday July 11th. 1775 Madam Eliz. Wentworth Wife of Collo. Jno. Wentworth of Somersworth Dy'd Bury'd on Thurs. 13. She was one of Collo. Thos. Wallingford Decds. Daughters."(1070)

She married twice. She married Amos Cole, 4 January 1756.(1071) Amos died 1 January 1762.(1072) There is some question about the validity of the date provided by the Wentworth Genealogy. See under his son Amos below for more information.

She married Col. John Wentworth, 1 June 1768, in Exeter, New Hampshire.(1073) John was born 30 March 1719, in Dover, New Hampshire.(1074) (Date from gravestone) John was the son of Capt. Benjamin Wentworth and Elizabeth Leighton.

She is listed twice in the family records kept by Somersworth schoolmaster Joseph Tate. Once as the widow Cole with her four Cole children, and again as the third wife of Col. John Wentworth with her two Wentworth children. Tate started his record in 1767 when she was a widow, and added her to John Wentworth's record later.(1080)

Tate's diary has the following entry: "Somersworth Tuesday January ye 17. 1775 Collo. John Wentworth's Negro Tom fell in ye fire & Burnt to Death(1081)

Elizabeth Wallingford and Amos Cole had the following children:

• child 221 i. Mary5 Cole was born in Berwick, York County, Maine 22 August 1756.(1082) She married Captain James Adams, 25 May 1778. The Adams (p.406) and Wentworth (1:393) genealogies says they married in June 1778 but this is in error according to Somersworth schoolmaster Joseph Tate's diary which has the following entry: "Mr. James Adams of Rochester Married to Miss Polly Cole of Somersworth Monday May ye 25. 1778."(1083)
• child 222 ii. Ambrose Cole was born 27 January 1758.(1090) No Ambrose Cole appears in either the 1790 or the 1800 published censuses of New Hampshire.
• child 223 iii. Elizabeth Cole was born 2 May 1760.(1091) The Wentworth Genealogy gives a date of 4 June 1760, which disagrees with Tate's record.(1092) Elizabeth died 29 October 1848.(1093) She married Nathan Webb Adams, 12 February 1784, in Rochester, Strafford County, New Hampshire.(1094) He was from Newington, N.H. and she was from Rochester at the time of their marriage.
• child 224 iv. Amos Cole was born 19 August 1762.(1101) The Wentworth Genealogy gives a date of 1 April 1762 and adds that it was three months after the death of his father.(1102) He further states that his father died on January 1. It is unknown where he got his information, but it likely comes from family sources. That means he was probably sure of one of the dates, and extrapolated the other from family information that the two events were three months apart. Tate's record gives a date of Augsut 19th, so this may put into question the date of his father's death as well. No Amos Cole appears in either the 1790 or the 1800 published censuses of New Hampshire.

Elizabeth Wallingford and Col. John Wentworth had the following children:

• child 225 v. Abra Wentworth was born in Somersworth or Dover, New Hampshire 14 or 15 April 1769.(1103) Tate's "Diary" is for Somersworth families, and he includes all the children of Col. John Wentworth. The secondary source Durrell Genealogy states that she was born in Dover. Abra died 27 July 1846, in Dover, Strafford County, New Hampshire.(1104) She married twice. She married first, William Pitt Moulton, 7 September 1788, in Hampton, Rockingham County, New Hampshire.(1105) At the time of their marriage William was from Dover and Abra was from Somersworth. Abra had no children. She contributed much information to the compiler of the Wentworth Genealogy.(1113)
• child 226 vi. Samuel Wentworth was born probably in Somersworth, New Hampshire 21 September 1770.(1114) Samuel died in 1826.(1115) He married Unknown Brewster, about 1801.(1116) Unknown was born about 1772. (Based on age at death). Unknown died 27 October 1843.(1117) He was a trader in Dover, N.H. and a Selectman in 1803. They had three children, all of whom either died young or never married.(1118)

References

• The Wentworth Genealogy: English and American, Volume 1 By John Wentworth. Page 393 GoogleBooks
• "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". By John Wentworth, LL.D., of Chicago, Ill. In Two Volumes, Volume 1. 1870 Press of Alfred Mudge & Son, Boston, Mass. p. 224
• https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/47889972/elizabeth-wentworth
• https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Wallingford-210