Nielsen Hayden genealogy
Elizabeth Barsham
1659 - Bef 1735 (< 76 years)
Generation: 1
Generation: 3
Generation: 4
1. Elizabeth Barsham was born on 29 Jul 1659 in Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts (daughter of William Barsham and Anabel Smith alias Bland); died before 26 Sep 1735 in Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts. Elizabeth married Adam Eve on 5 Jul 1694. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
Children:- Anabell Eve was born on 11 Mar 1701 in Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts; died in 1733 in Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts.
2. William Barsham was born about 1610; died on 3 Jul 1684 in Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts. Other Events and Attributes:
- Alternate death: 13 Jul 1684, Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts
Notes:
He arrived in Watertown in 1630. Robert Charles Anderson says he was "possibly a carpenter, as he was involved twice in assessing work on building the meetinghouse."
William married Anabel Smith alias Bland before 1635. Anabel (daughter of John Smith alias Bland and Isabel Drake) was born about 1613; died before 23 Aug 1683. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
3. Anabel Smith alias Bland was born about 1613 (daughter of John Smith alias Bland and Isabel Drake); died before 23 Aug 1683. Children:
- 1. Elizabeth Barsham was born on 29 Jul 1659 in Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts; died before 26 Sep 1735 in Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts.
Generation: 3
6. John Smith alias Bland was born between 1585 and 1590; died after 2 Nov 1663 in Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts. Notes:
"John Bland was one of the earliest settlers of the Vineyard, owning land there as early as 1646. The most striking document relating to this man is a deposition of 16 April 1691, in which Nathaniel and Abraham Drake, both elderly residents of Hampton, NH, state that they knew John Bland when they had all lived in Colchester, co. Essex, in old England, but he was 'sometimes called, by some persons, John Smith, but his name, and his ancestors name, was called Bland'." [Robert Charles Anderson, "John Smith of Watertown, Mass.", citation details below]
John married Isabel Drake. Isabel (daughter of William Drake and Joan Merrylls) died before 12 Oct 1639; was buried on 12 Oct 1639 in Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
7. Isabel Drake (daughter of William Drake and Joan Merrylls); died before 12 Oct 1639; was buried on 12 Oct 1639 in Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts. Notes:
She is mentioned in her mother's will as the wife of John Smith.
Children:
- 3. Anabel Smith alias Bland was born about 1613; died before 23 Aug 1683.
Generation: 4
14. William Drake was born in of Halstead, Great Bromley, Essex, England; died before 3 Nov 1616; was buried on 3 Nov 1616 in Elmstead, Essex, England. William married Joan Merrylls on 12 Oct 1578 in Halstead, Great Bromley, Essex, England. Joan died after 16 Mar 1617. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
15. Joan Merrylls died after 16 Mar 1617. Other Events and Attributes:
- Alternate death: Aft 16 Mar 1616
Children:
- 7. Isabel Drake died before 12 Oct 1639; was buried on 12 Oct 1639 in Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts.