Elizabeth Consalus (1751 - aft. 1809)

Born 10 Feb 1751 in Machackemeck, Orange, New York

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Died after 1809 after age 57 in Oxford Township, Sussex, New Jersey, United States

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Biography

Peter married Elizabeth born abt. 1751 (Probably Consalus). This story seems to fit into the timeline “Old Manuel Gonzales had seven daughters. Among them were Catharine (wife of John Turner) and Elizabeth, who was taken to Canada by the Indians when seven years old. She and her father were hunting for the horses just back of the Bushkill Church, on the Delaware flats. The Indians saw them and started in pursuit. Mr. Gonzales jumped into a washout near the river and was concealed, but little Lizzie ran in a different direction and was captured. They heard her scream when she was taken. The first night of their encampment they wished to kill her, but an old Indian said, "No, she was a smart little girl, and he would take care of her." They took her to Canada, where she lived for thirty-two years, and married an Indian chief, by whom she had two children, who died. An old man afterward came to Bushkill and remarked that if Gonzales would give him a mug of cider he would tell him where his daughter was. The man's description was so accurate that Mr. Gonzales and a neighbor went in search of her. They found her as described, but she did not wish to return. Although her husband and children were dead, she was with difficulty prevailed upon to abandon the life she had so long followed. She remembered that she had lived beside a large river, that a horse jumped over the fence and killed itself, and certain apples that she used to eat. She also remembered that her name was Lizzie, but she had forgotten her other name. She married Peter Quick, of Belvidere, after her return.”^[1][2]

Sources

1. ↑ Alfred Mathews, History of Wayne, Pike, and Monroe Counties, Pennsylvania R.T. Peck & Company, Philadelphia, 1886 pg. 928
2. ↑ Peter Quick Bio