Nielsen Hayden genealogy
Elizabeth Simson
Abt 1616 - Aft 1673 (~ 57 years)-
Name Elizabeth Simson Birth Abt 1616 [1] Gender Female Death Aft Jun 1673 [1] Person ID I38646 Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others Last Modified 7 Oct 2022
Family Edmund Nicholson d. Between 4 Jun 1660 and 27 Nov 1660, Marblehead, Essex, Massachusetts 
Marriage Between 1636 and 1637 [1] Children + 1. Christopher Nicholson, b. Abt 1638 d. 10 Sep 1688, Perquimans County, North Carolina (Age ~ 50 years)Family ID F22687 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 7 Oct 2022
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Notes - Like her brother Francis Simson, she was, in the words of Mary Walton Ferris (citation details below), "sympathetically, if not actively, associated with the early Quakers of Massachusetts Bay Colony. There has been no evidence found that she attended their meetings but sympathy with them usually took the form of failure to attend the regular church meetings and for neglect of that sort Elizabeth was adminished by the court in November, 1659, and also in June, 1660, and was fined for the same offence in December, 1661, and in September, 1662."
After the death by drowning of her husband, she and her two sons were charged by Bay Colony authorities with having had a hand in his death, on no reasonable evidence. At least two contemporary accounts of these proceedings make it abundantly clear that this was entirely a matter of the Bay Colony establishment taking an opportunity to persecute Quakers. She and her two sons were never convicted, but they nonetheless spent time in prison and wound up required to pay hefty fines.
- Like her brother Francis Simson, she was, in the words of Mary Walton Ferris (citation details below), "sympathetically, if not actively, associated with the early Quakers of Massachusetts Bay Colony. There has been no evidence found that she attended their meetings but sympathy with them usually took the form of failure to attend the regular church meetings and for neglect of that sort Elizabeth was adminished by the court in November, 1659, and also in June, 1660, and was fined for the same offence in December, 1661, and in September, 1662."
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Sources - [S647] Dawes-Gates Ancestral Lines by Mary Walton Ferris. Volume 1, 1943; volume 2, 1931.
- [S647] Dawes-Gates Ancestral Lines by Mary Walton Ferris. Volume 1, 1943; volume 2, 1931.