Margaret ELSON

Margaret ELSON[1, 2]

Female 1612 - 1671  (59 years)

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  • Name Margaret ELSON 
    Born 1612 
    Gender Female 
    Died 4 Apr 1671  Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I16522  Ancestrees
    Last Modified 8 Jul 2022 

    Family Thomas WRIGHT, *,   b. 19 Nov 1610, The Moat House, South Weald, Brentwood Borough, Essex, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 21 Apr 1670, Weathersfield, Hartford, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 59 years) 
    Married May 1647  Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Last Modified 8 Jul 2022 
    Family ID F1401  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • "Thomas married second on 2 May 1647, Margaret Elson, widow of John Elson, who had been killed by the Indians in the Wethersfield massacre of 1637. There were no children from the second marriage. In his will, Thomas also gave to his wife Margaret, "All the linen that I have in my possession that was of her own spinning." Margaret is said to have been before her marriage to Elson, the wife of, possibly, Hugh Hilliard, or Hillier, by whom she had three children, Ben, Job, and John. She died 1670-1. Her will dated 19 January 1670/1671, mentions her grandson William, son of Job Hillier, deceased, Margaret Woustan and Sarah Holamouth, daughters of her son Benjamin Hillier, and the wife of her step-son Thomas Wright, (she gives her towe [tow] and if that was not enough, for her labor of love, her executors were to give more.) Inventory of her estate amounted to 82-19/8."

  • Sources 
    1. [S3266] Ancestry Family Trees, (Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members.), 1,1030::0., Ancestry Family Tree (Reliability: 0).

    2. [S797] Wright Lineage (http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~legends/wright.html, including transcriptions of 1st hand records).