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Elizabeth Young (Hayden)

Also Known As: "Betsy", "Haden", "Tredway", "Treadeway", "Tredaway", "Treadaway", "Betsy Hayden", "Elizabeth Hayden", "Elizabeth Hayden Treadway", "Betsey Hayden"
Birthdate:
Birthplace: Hopkinton, Middlesex County, Province of Massachusetts
Death: June 23, 1810 (82)
Upton, Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States
Place of Burial: Reading, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States
Immediate Family:

Daughter of John Hayden, Sr. and Lucy Doggett
Wife of Jonathan Tredway and Dr. Joseph Young
Mother of Mary Treadway; Elizabeth Treadway; Benjamin Treadway; Lucy Treadway; Hannah Treadway and 8 others
Sister of Lucy Johnson; Lois Haro; Katherine Hayden; Sarah Bowker; John Hayden, Jr. and 6 others
Half sister of Elizabeth Griggs Carter; Elmore Doggett; John Doggett; George Daggett and William Doggett

Managed by: Richard Frank Henry
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About Elizabeth Young

Elizabeth Hayden Young (1728 - 1810), daughter of John Hayden (1702 - 1763) and Lucy Maynard (1709 -1774 ), was born 1 February 1728 at Hopkinton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. She died at the age of 82 on 23 June 1810 at Upton, Worcester County, Massachusetts. She married (1) Jonathan Tredway on 11 June 1744 at Framingham, Massachusetts; (2) Dr. Joseph Young (1729 - 1769) on 21 August 1759.

Marriages and Children

  1. Jonathan Tredway ( - before 1759), married 11 June 1744; no issue
  2. Joseph Young (1729 - 1769), married 21 August 1759
    1. Susannah Young (born 2 December 1759 Hopkinton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts)
    2. William Young (born 28 February 1761 Hopkinton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts)
    3. John Hayden Young (born 6 March 1763 Hopkinton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts)
    4. Joseph J. Young, Jr (born 21 March 1765 Hopkinton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts)
    5. Anna Young (born 30 July 1766 Hopkinton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts)
    6. Ichabod Young (born 24 July 1768)

Sources

  • Find A Grave Memorial# 75890449
  • The New England Historical & Genealogical Register, 1847-2011. Name: Elizabeth Hayden; Event Type: Birth; Birth Date: 1 Feb 1727; Birth Place: Hopkinton, Massachusetts, USA; Father's Name: John Hayden; Mother's name: Lucy Hayden. Source Information: Ancestry.com. The New England Historical & Genealogical Register, 1847-2011 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011. Original data: New England Historic Genealogical Society. The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. Boston: The New England Historic Genealogical Society.
  • Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988. Name: Elizabeth Haden; Event Type: Marriage; Marriage Date: 11 Jun 1744; Marriage Place: Framingham, Massachusetts; Spouse Name: Jonathan Tredway. Source Information: Ancestry.com. Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011. Original data: Town and City Clerks of Massachusetts. Massachusetts Vital and Town Records. Provo, UT: Holbrook Research Institute (Jay and Delene Holbrook).
  • Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988. Name: Elizabeth Tredway; Event Type: Marriage; Marriage Date: 21 Aug 1759; Marriage Place: Hopkinton, Massachusetts; Spouse Name: Joseph Young. Source Information: Ancestry.com. Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011. Original data: Town and City Clerks of Massachusetts. Massachusetts Vital and Town Records. Provo, UT: Holbrook Research Institute (Jay and Delene Holbrook).
  • U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970. Name: Mrs Elizabeth Hayden Treadway; SAR Membership: 50189; Spouse: Joseph Young; Children: John Young. Source Citation: Volume: 251; SAR Membership Number: 50189.
  • American Genealogical-Biographical Index (AGBI). Name: Elizabeth Hayden; Birth Date: 1727; Birthplace: Massachusetts; Volume: 75 Page Number: 448; Reference: Gen. Column of the " Boston Transcript". 1906-1941.( The greatest single source of material for gen. Data for the N.E. area and for the period 1600-1800. Completely indexed in the Index.): 14 Dec 1932, 2550. Source Information: Godfrey Memorial Library, comp.. American Genealogical-Biographical Index (AGBI) [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 1999. Original data: Godfrey Memorial Library. American Genealogical-Biographical Index. Middletown, CT, USA: Godfrey Memorial Library. Source Information: Ancestry.com. U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011. Original data: Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970. Louisville, Kentucky: National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution. Microfilm, 508 rolls.
  • Family Data Collection - Individual Records. Name: Elizabeth Hayden; Spouse: Joseph Young; Parents: John Hayden, Lucy Maynard; Birth Place: Middlesex Co, Hopkins, MA; Birth Date: 1 Feb 1728; Marriage Place: Hopkins, Middlesex Co, MA; Marriage Date: 21 Aug 1759; Death Place: Upton, Worcester Co, MA, USA; Death Date: 23 Jun 1810. Source Citation: Birth year: 1728; Birth city: Hopkins; Birth state: MA. Source Information: Edmund West, comp.. Family Data Collection - Individual Records [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2000.
  • Millennium File. Name: Elizabeth (Betsy) Hayden; Gender: Female; Birth Date: 1 Feb 1728; Birth Place: Hopkinton, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA; Death Date: 23 Jun 1810; Death Place: Upton, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA; Father: John Hayden; Mother: Lucy Maynard; Spouse: Joseph Young. Children: John Young. Source Information: Heritage Consulting. Millennium File [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2003. Original data: Heritage Consulting. The Millennium File. Salt Lake City, UT, USA: Heritage Consulting.

Elizabeth "Betsy" was the daughter of John Hayden and his wife (_).

HAYDEN siblings: Unknown.

Betsey married Dr. Joseph Young.

6 YOUNG children:

1. Susanna Young B-12/21/1759. 2. William Young B-2/28/1761. 3. John Young B-3/7/1763. 4. Joseph J. Young B-3/26/1765. 5. Anna Young B-7/30/1766. 6. Ichabod Young B-7/24/1768.

Susanna married Joseph Mosley Jr. on April 19, 1784. [Joseph Mosley Jr. was the 5th child of Joseph and Sibillah (Dudley) Moseley Sr.; Joseph Jr. was born in Sutton, MA.]

Historically Accepted Story of Elizabeth "Betsy" and Her Husband, Dr. Joseph Young:

1756-1800

Dr. Joseph Young, grandfather of Brigham Young, father of Susanna, was a veteran of the French and Indian Wars of the early colonial period. England and France were fighting on many fronts, but this war was of peculiar significance for its issue was whether the New World of North America would be controlled by the French or by the British. The final battle on the Plains of Abraham, near Quebec, in which Wolfe, while victor, lost his life, settled that issue for all time. Britain won and France withdrew.

Dr. Young being a surgeon had, as his main occupation, the amputation of arms and legs damaged in the fighting in the campaign to control the Canadian gateway near Lake George and Lake Champlain. He varied this work with the extraction of arrows from various parts of the soldiers' anatomy and probing for bullets fired at close range from the matchlock muskets of the French. These lead balls were more than one half an inch in diameter and made a hole large enough to make probing for a bullet a major operation- It seems impossible for men to have survived such a shock as these wounds must have inflicted, yet many of them lived. In those days it was a question of which was worse, the wound or the treatment, but men were tough fibered, and immune to many of the infecting bacteria of the day. Oftentimes the poultices and the ointment applied to these wounds were as effective as those treatments in use today.

After the war Dr. Young settled in the farming community of Hopkinton, Massachusetts. This town, a little east and south of Worcester, was new, with a good deal of new land, and a new opportunity, and here the doctor combined his practice of medicine with farming.

One fine day he received a call to come to the house of John Hayden, far gone with cancer. Dr. Young had a reputation in the neighborhood for successful treatment of cancer, but this particular case had resisted his best efforts. Nursing Mr. Hayden was his widowed daughter Betsy Hayden Treadway. She was fair and comely, so the visits had not only the effect of giving comfort to Mr. Hayden but also of giving interest in things other than medical treatment to Dr. Young. He fell in love with her, and in due course of time they were married. In the course of the next nine years six children were born to the couple.

In 1769 Dr. Joseph Young died. Many years later, Brigham Young stated that he was killed by the falling of a fence rail, but Phinehas, Brigham's brother, reported that the death was due to being struck by a falling tree. Both could have been right. It could be that a tree felled for the purpose of making fence rails could have been called a fence rail. It would have been an odd accident, indeed, for a fence rail, once split and placed in a fence, to have fallen in such a manner as to fatally injure a man. Fences in that day were usually called "worm" fences, because of the irregular way they "wormed" their way over the landscape. Even the top rail was not in a position to do more than injure an arm or a leg. A falling tree seems more reasonable as a cause of death.

After the death of her husband, Elizabeth Hayden Young was hard put to earn a living, and during the next four years lost her possessions. She was forced to send her children out to work. John and Joseph (John was six years of age at the death of his father) were "bound out" to a man by the name of Jones who had both white and black servants.

Research: Mary E. Warner, 2011.

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Elizabeth Young's Timeline

1727
February 1, 1727
Hopkinton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States
1728
February 1, 1728
Hopkinton, Middlesex County, Province of Massachusetts
1743
1743
Chester, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, United States
1745
April 17, 1745
Hopkinton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States
1747
April 7, 1747
Hopkinton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States
1748
May 15, 1748
Hopkinton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States
1750
March 10, 1750
Hopkinton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States
1751
December 21, 1751