Elizabeth

- 1674

• Name	Elizabeth   [1]
  Gender	Female
  Death	4 May 1674	Groton, New London, Connecticut   [2, 3]
  Person ID	I20352	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	7 Nov 2021

  
  

  Family ID	F12584	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	7 Nov 2021

  
  

• Notes

  From the journal of Simon Bradstreet, 4 May 1674: "Jno. Packer his wife dyed within an hour or two after shee was deliuered. She had many small children wch added to her husbands losse." W. Herbert Wood (citation details below) notes that the will of John Friend of Salem (4 Apr 1655 / 26 Mar 1656) left to his daughter "Elizabeth Pecker" 20s. besides the £10 her grandfather had given her; also, that John Friend was, like John Packer, a carpenter; and that "[t]he first son of John and Elizabeth Packer was named John, no doubt for his father, but possible also for his mother's father. The second son was named Samuel, the name of Elizabeth Friend's older brother. There was also a daughter named Elizabeth who, by her second husband, John Weeks of Groton, had a son named Friend. The occurence of this name is highly significant, and had not been used previously in any Groton family, so far as the writer has been able to discover."

  
  

• Sources

  [S1431] The Snow-Estes Ancestry by Nora E. Snow and Myrtle M. Jillson. Hillburn, New York: 1939. [S6067] Blackman and Allied Families by Alfred L. Holman. Chicago, 1928. [S6077] W. Herbert Wood, "John1 Packer of Groton, Conn., His Wives and Children." The American Genealogist 28:175, 1952.