Elizabeth (Blossom) Pike immigrated to New England as a child during the Puritan Great Migration (1621-1640).
Elizabeth Blossom was born in 1620 at Leiden, South Holland, Dutch Republic. [1]
She emigrated from England to Plymouth Colony on the second ship named the "Mayflower" with parents (Thomas Blossom and Ann Elsdon) in 1629. [2]
May 10, 1637 -- Elizabeth Blossom and Edward Fitz Randolph married [3] at Scituate, Plymouth Colony.[4]
1638 -- Edward and Elizabeth Blossom Fitz Randolph joined the Scituate church.[4]
1639 -- Edward and Elizabeth Blossom Fitz Randolph moved from Scituate to Barnstable, Barnstable county, Plymouth Colony. [4]
1640 - 1663 -- Edward and Elizabeth Blossom Fitz Randolph had 11 children: six sons (Nathaniel, John, Thomas, Joseph, Benjamin) and five daughters (Mary, Hannah, Mary, Elizabeth, and Hope).[5][6]
1685 -- Edward Fitz Randolph died at Woodbridge, Middlesex County, New Jersey.[6]
June 26, 1685 -- Widow Elizabeth Blossom Fitz Randolph gave to her four sons (John, Joseph, Thomas, and Benjamin) the land that had belonged to her deceased husband, Edward Fitz Randolph.[6]
June 30, 1685 -- Elizabeth Blossom Fitz Randolph and Captain John Pike of Woodbridge, New Jersey married at Woodbridge, Middlesex county, New Jersey. [7][8][6]
Circa January 20, 1689 -- Captain John Pike died at Province of East Jersey (now New Jersey). [9]
November 21, 1713 -- Elizabeth Blossom Fitz Randolph Pike died at Woodbridge, Middlesex County, New Jersey, then was buried at Saint James Episcopal Church Cemetery (aka Piscatawaytown Burial Ground and White Church Cemetery), Edison, Middlesex County, New Jersey. [6]
Research Notes
The following account is inaccurate in that Elizabeth Blossom was born after the ill-fated 1620 voyage of the "Speedwell." In a December 25, 1625 letter from Thomas Blossom to Plymouth Colony Governor William Bradford, Thomas informed Bradford that the son he had with him on the Speedwell was dead, but that he had had two children since 1620 at Leiden, the Dutch Republic. [10]
"In 1620, Elizabeth and her parents Thomas and Anne sailed on the "Speedwell" with the "Mayflower", but the Speedwell proving unseaworthy, both ships sailed back. In 1629, [a second] "Mayflower" sailed again, Elizabeth and her parents made the voyage and came to Salem, Massachusetts. Thomas Vail and wife Anne Blossom, with Elizabeth, aged 9 years, came to Salem, Mass, on the "Mayflower" in 1629." [11]
Edward Fitz Randolph and Elizabeth Blossom were Pilgrims, as we call them today. Edward came to Massachusetts from England with the 1630 Winthrop Fleet. Elizabeth was the child of Thomas Blossom and his wife, Anne. Her parents, followers of Rev. John Robinson, went with the Separatists from England to Holland, and her father and brother set out to travel to Plymouth on a second ship named the Mayflower. However, after the Speedwell, which carried them from Holland to England, developed vast troubles, they returned to Holland. They were unable to reach Plymouth until 1629 aboard another, a second, ship named the Mayflower, when Elizabeth was about nine years old.
The American President Barack Obama is a direct descendant of Edward and Elizabeth through their son Nathaniel.[12]
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Elizabeth Blossom Fitz Randolph Pike [1620 - 1713]. Find A Grave. Saint James Episcopal Church Cemetery, Edison, Middlesex County, New Jersey. Record added December 22, 2009 by Sue McDuffie. Memorial # 45704257. Accessed by Michael Boynton on January 6, 2015 at 9:37 PM. http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=45704257
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This person immigrated to New England between 1621-1640 as a Minor Child (under age 21 at time of immigration) of a Puritan Great Migration immigrant who is profiled in Robert Charles Anderson's Great Migration Directory (or is otherwise accepted by the Puritan Great Migration (PGM) Project).
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The link that cites Elizabeth Blossom's connection to Barak Obama is no longer active. I checked both the WayBack Machine and searched the AmericanAncestors.org site and there wasn't an obvious replacement.
Does anyone have a suitable citation to replace the current one? [Citation 12]
I'm a little intimidated about my ability to do proper citations to edit the profile. However, here are some other sources substantiating certain dates:
My editing on Blossom-237 was on the text, and mostly cosmetic, not on the vitals. The question I have is for Bob Tonsmeire, why the death date was removed?
Also, for Scott Ledbetter who created the profile, where is the source for the birth date? Is it also in Ancestral File Number: 9LFG-9C , and since that is derived, what is it's source?
There have been instances of parents naming two children the same and having different death dates, etc., and not always after the one dies first. The PDF on this profile has examples of that. Other times parents have changed the name of child to that of a child who died. We need to follow the sources. Changes should be documented.
Blossom-237 and Blossom-236 appear to represent the same person because: Deacon Thomas Blossom, Sr., and Ann Blossom had only one daughter. Her name was Elizabeth. Elizabeth Blossom married Edward Fitz Randolph on May 10, 1637 at Scituate, Plymouth Colony.
Blossom-237 and Blossom-68 are not ready to be merged because: This is confusing. The dates have been edited on 237. Were they edited to match 68? Based on what? Are they the same person? Or are we changing "facts" such that someone later will think they are the same person, when really they aren't?
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Does anyone have a suitable citation to replace the current one? [Citation 12]
My editing on Blossom-237 was on the text, and mostly cosmetic, not on the vitals. The question I have is for Bob Tonsmeire, why the death date was removed?
Also, for Scott Ledbetter who created the profile, where is the source for the birth date? Is it also in Ancestral File Number: 9LFG-9C , and since that is derived, what is it's source?
There have been instances of parents naming two children the same and having different death dates, etc., and not always after the one dies first. The PDF on this profile has examples of that. Other times parents have changed the name of child to that of a child who died. We need to follow the sources. Changes should be documented.