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Elizabeth

Female - 1688

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  • Name Elizabeth   [1
    Gender Female 
    Death 8 Nov 1688  [2
    Person ID I26363  Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
    Last Modified 29 Aug 2025 

    Family 1 Stephen Upson,   b. Abt 1612   d. Bef 1640 (Age ~ 27 years) 
    Marriage Bef 1638  [3
    Children 
    +1. Hannah Upson,   b. Abt 1638   d. 18 May 1708, Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 70 years)
    Family ID F24832  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 29 Aug 2025 

    Family 2 Hugh Griffin   d. 21 Jun 1656, Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Marriage Bef Mar 1640  [2, 4
    Children 
    +1. Jonathan Griffin,   b. 22 Jun 1647, Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 2 Feb 1685, Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 37 years)
    Family ID F15770  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 29 Aug 2025 

    Family 3 Philemon Whale,   b. Bef 27 May 1599   d. 24 Feb 1676, Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location (Age > 76 years) 
    Marriage 9 Nov 1657  Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location  [3
    Family ID F24833  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 29 Aug 2025 

  • Notes 
    • She married, first, Stephen Upson, whose given name was identified only recently by Robert Charles Anderson. After the death of her second husband Hugh Griffin, she married at Sudbury, on 9 Nov 1657, Philemon Whale.

      On 21 Apr 1676, not long after the death of her third husband, she lived through the attack on Sudbury by over a thousand native Americans led by "King" Phillip.

  • Sources 
    1. [S526] The Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury, Massachusetts, With Some Related Families of Adjoining Towns and of York County, Maine, by David W. Hoyt. Providence, Rhode Island, 1897-1916.

    2. [S647] Dawes-Gates Ancestral Lines by Mary Walton Ferris. Volume 1, 1943; volume 2, 1931.

    3. [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.

    4. [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., year only.