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Elizabeth Bradstreet (1663 - 1665)

Elizabeth Bradstreet
Born in Andover, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colonymap
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Died at age 2 in Andover, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colonymap
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Elizabeth was born January 29, 1663, in the city of Boston.[1]

Poem written by her grandmother, Anne Dudley Bradstreet

In Memory of My Dear Grandchild Elizabeth Bradstreet, Who Deceased August, 1665, Being a Year and Half Old
"Farewell dear babe, my heart's too much content,
Farewell sweet babe, the pleasure of mine eye,
Farewell fair flower that for a space was lent,
Then ta'en away unto eternity.
Blest babe why should I once bewail thy fate,
Or sigh the days so soon were terminate;
Sith thou art settled in an everlasting state. Since
By nature trees do rot when they are grown.
And plums and apples thoroughly ripe do fall,
And corn and grass are in their season mown,
And time brings down what is both strong and tall.
But plants new set to be eradicate,
And buds new blown, to have so short a date,
Is by His hand alone that guides nature and fate."

Sources

  1. Page 88, City Document 130. (https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/225360-a-report-of-the-record-commissioners-containing-boston-births-baptisms-marriages-and-deaths-1630-1699?viewer=1&offset=0#page=95&viewer=picture&o=&n=0&q=)
  • "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:DCTC-8QN2 : 10 November 2020), Elizabeth Bradstreet, 29 Jan 1663; citing Birth, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 004329324.




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Anne Bradstreet's youngest child was my ancestor John Bradstreet, born in 1652 when she was 40 years old. Two reasons I am certain that she is NOT the mother of Elizabeth b. 1663, d 1665: (1) She would have been 52 years old, and was in frail health; (2) She wrote a poem mourning the death of her grandchild Elizabeth in this time frame. Okay if I find this and correct the profile?
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