Elizabeth (Axtell) Blake (abt. 1667 - bef. 1726)

Born about 1667 in Middlesex, England

Ancestors

Wife of Francis Turgis — married 1691 in Charlestown, , South Carolina

Descendants

Died before 23 Jul 1726 before about age 59 in Berkeley County, Province of South Carolina

Biography

Elizabeth was the daughter of Daniel Axtell and Rebecca Holland, who immigrated from England to the Province of Carolina about 1678.

Sometime before 1691 she married Francis Turgis of Cedar Grove Plantation on the Ashley River in Berkeley County. They had two children, Elizabeth (m. Thomas Diston and Paul Jenys) and Mary (m. Walter Izard). Francis Turgis died about January 1697.^[1]

Elizabeth married second in December 1698, as his second wife, Joseph Blake, then deputy governor of the province. They had a daughter Rebecca (m. George Smith) and a posthumous son Joseph. Joseph Blake died 7 September 1700.^[2][3][4][5]

Elizabeth Blake, widow, of Berkeley County, wrote her Will on 30 September 1725, and it was proved 23 July 1726. She mentions her daughters Elizabeth Diston and Mary Izard, her son Joseph Blake, and her sister [in-law] Elizabeth Weekly, daughter of Benjamin Blake, deceased. She left money for the building of an Anabaptist parsonage and the maintenance of an Anabaptist minister.^[6]

Marriage

1701 Charlestown, South Carolina

Husband: Francis Turgis

Child: Elizabeth Turgis

Child: Mary Turgis

Child: Rebecca Blake

Child: Joseph Blake

Death

1725/6 Charlestown, South Carolina

Sources

1. ↑ Edgar, Walter B. and N. Louise Bailey. Biographical Directory of the South Carolina House of Representatives, Volume II: the Commons House of Assembly 1692-1775 (1977), p. 685
2. ↑ "Blake, Joseph" South Carolina Encyclopedia https://www.scencyclopedia.org/sce/entries/blake-joseph/
3. ↑ Smith, Henry A. M. “The Upper Ashley; And the Mutations of Families.” The South Carolina Historical and Genealogical Magazine 20, no. 3 (1919): 151–98. http://www.jstor.org/stable/27569491.
4. ↑ Smith, Henry A. M. “The Upper Ashley; And the Mutations of Families.” The South Carolina Historical and Genealogical Magazine 20, no. 3 (1919): 162-3. http://www.jstor.org/stable/27569491
5. ↑ “Blake of South Carolina.” The South Carolina Historical and Genealogical Magazine 1, no. 2 (1900): 156-7. http://www.jstor.org/stable/27574908
6. ↑ "South Carolina Probate Records, Bound Volumes, 1671-1977," images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:939L-NH94-6X?cc=1919417&wc=M6N4-ZZ9%3A210905601%2C211337101 : 21 May 2014), Charleston > Wills, 1722-1731, Vol. 002 > image 215 of 507; citing Department of Archives and History, Columbia. Will of Elizabeth Blake

• Stott, Clifford L., Humphrey Blake (1494?–1558) and His Descendants in New England and South Carolina: Blake, Richards, Selleck, Torrey, and Wolcott, The New England Historical & Genealogical Register (NEHGS, Boston, Mass., 2009) Vol. 163, WN 652, Page 291.
• Hunting For Bears, comp. South Carolina Marriage Index, 1641-1965. [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2005.

• http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?f=sse&db=scmarriages_ga&h=92067&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt
• Marriage: Dec 1698 South Carolina