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Elizabeth Fones

Elizabeth Fones

Female 1610 - Aft 1653  (> 43 years)

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  • Name Elizabeth Fones  [1, 2
    Birth 21 Jan 1610  London, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [3, 4, 5
    Gender Female 
    Alternate birth 21 Jan 1610  Groton, Suffolk, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 6
    Death Aft 10 Jan 1653  Hell Gate, Long Island, New Netherland Find all individuals with events at this location  [4
    Alternate death Aft 1655  Newtown, Long Island, New Netherland Find all individuals with events at this location  [3, 7
    Alternate death 1668  [8
    Alternate death 1669  New York Find all individuals with events at this location  [6
    Person ID I5176  Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
    Last Modified 29 Apr 2024 

    Father Thomas Fones,   b. 24 Mar 1572, London, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Aft 14 Apr 1629, London, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age > 57 years) 
    Mother Anne Winthrop,   b. 16 Jan 1586   d. 16 May 1619 (Age 33 years) 
    Marriage 25 Feb 1605  [8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13
    Family ID F2591  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Henry Winthrop,   b. 10 Jan 1608, Groton, Suffolk, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 2 Jul 1630, Salem, Essex, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 22 years) 
    Marriage 25 Apr 1629  Newgate, London, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [3, 4, 5, 6, 14, 15
    Family ID F1242  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 29 Apr 2024 

    Family 2 Lt. Robert Feake,   b. Abt 1602, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1 Feb 1661, Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 59 years) 
    Marriage Between 2 Nov 1631 and 27 Jan 1632  Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location  [16, 17
    Divorce May 1647  New Netherland Find all individuals with events at this location  [18
    Children 
    +1. Hannah Feake,   b. Jun 1637, Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 31 Jan 1678, London, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 40 years)
    Family ID F5243  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 29 Apr 2024 

    Family 3 William Hallett,   b. Abt 1616, Bridport, Dorset, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Aft 1705, Hell Gate, Long Island, New York Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 90 years) 
    Marriage Bef Mar 1649  [4
    Family ID F3721  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 4 Mar 2020 

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    Elizabeth Fones
    Elizabeth Fones

  • Notes 


    • Arrived in Massachusetts 2 Nov 1631, on the Lyon.

      Early Massachusetts settler whose personal life and wild habits of owning her own property scandalized Puritan society. She wound up living on Long Island with her third husband. She is the subject of a quite good 1958 historical novel by Anya Seton called The Winthrop Woman.

      The real indictments laid against her by her detractors were: (1) the suggestion that she began her relationship with her third husband before while still married to her second one (true) and (2) the suggestion that she was not legally divorced from her second husband when she married her third one (probably untrue). Added piquance was provided by the fact that her third husband had been her second husband's business manager. It seems clear, however, that her second husband (1) went insane and (2) essentially abandoned her.

      Elizabeth Fones (~1610->1655) = William Hallett (~1616-~1706)
      William Hallett (1648-1669) = Sarah Woolsey (1650-1727)
      Sarah Hallett (b. 1673) = George Phillips (1664-1739)
      George Phillips (1698-1771) = Elizabeth Mills (1706-1768)
      Samuel Phillips (1782-1806) = Sarah Mills (1734-1795)
      Hannah Phillips (1756-1834) = Daniel Brush (1744-1805)
      George Phillips Brush (1775-1829) = Polly Keeler (1780-1865)
      Emeline Keeler Brush (b. 1821) = Harvey Woodworth (b. ~1813)
      Louisa Mart Woodworth (b. 1842) = Thomas George Maxwell (b. 1835)
      James Willard Maxwell (b. ~1901) = Adele Thompson (b. ~1903)
      Mary Maxwell (1929-1994) = William Henry Gates, Jr. (b. ~1926)
      William Henry "Bill" Gates III (1955- )

  • Sources 
    1. [S1272] George E. McCracken, "The Feake Family of Norfolk, London, and Colonial America." New York Genealogical and Biographical Record 86:132, 86:209 (1955), 87:28, 87:104 (1956), 92:229 (1961), 94:243 (1963), 136:303 (2005).

    2. [S3790] Hallett family of Dorsetshire, England, New England, New Netherland, Hallet's Cove, New York, New Brunswick, Aroostook County, Maine, USA by William C. Hallett. Titusville, Florida: 2014.

    3. [S199] Genealogies of Long Island Families, From the New York Genealogical and Bibliographical Record ed. Henry B. Hoff. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1987.

    4. [S756] Early New England Families Study Project: Accounts of New England Families from 1641 to 1700 by Alicia Crane Williams. Online database, New England Historic Genealogical Society.

    5. [S3825] Milton Rubincam, "A Winthrop-Bernadotte Pedigree." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 103:246, Oct 1949., date only.

    6. [S7595] The Fones Family by Art Reierson. 1998.

    7. [S201] The Winthrop Woman by Anya Seton. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1958. Historical novel, with nonfiction notes and a well-researched pedigree chart.

    8. [S3825] Milton Rubincam, "A Winthrop-Bernadotte Pedigree." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 103:246, Oct 1949.

    9. [S172] The Winthrop Family in America by Lawrence Shaw Mayo. Boston: The Massachusetts Historical Society, 1948.

    10. [S1123] Suffolk Manorial Families: Being the County Visitations and Other Pedigrees ed. Joseph James Muskett. Exeter: William Pollard & Co., Ltd, 1900., "25 Feb 1604".

    11. [S3823] Evidences of the Winthrops of Groton, Co. Suffolk, England by Joseph James Muskett and Robert C. Winthrop. 1894., "25 Feb. 1604".

    12. [S6585] Stephen Waasa Spaulding, “How Edward1 Spaulding, a Puritan Farmer from the Norfolk/Suffolk Border, Came to Prosper in New England.” The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 173:220, Summer 2019., "in Groton, Suffolk, 25 Aug 1603/4".

    13. [S7595] The Fones Family by Art Reierson. 1998., says "January 25, 1603 in Edwardstone, Suffolk, England".

    14. [S101] The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633, Volumes 1-3 and The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volumes 1-7, by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1996-2011.

    15. [S1272] George E. McCracken, "The Feake Family of Norfolk, London, and Colonial America." New York Genealogical and Biographical Record 86:132, 86:209 (1955), 87:28, 87:104 (1956), 92:229 (1961), 94:243 (1963), 136:303 (2005)., date only.

    16. [S2306] The Winthrop Fleet: Massachusetts Bay Company Immigrants to New England 1629-1630 by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2012.

    17. [S7595] The Fones Family by Art Reierson. 1998., says "December 02, 1631".

    18. [S2308] Donald Lines Jacobus, "That Winthrop Woman Again!" New York Genealogical and Biographical Record 97:131, 1966.