Elizabeth (Slade) Upham (abt. 1603 - 1671)

Born about 1603 in England

Wife of John Upham — married 1 Nov 1626 in Bicton, Devon, England

Descendants

Died 1671 at about age 68 in Malden, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony

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Resolved Origins

Elizabeth was previously connected, without source and incorrectly, to parents being Roger Slade and Margerye Slade. As shown on the G2G post linked on her profile, Elizabeth's origins are now known.

August 30, 2022: her father William's will referencing "daughter Elizabeth and her children in New England" has been partially transcribed at this Free Space Page and together with parish records clearly lays out the family structure. A G2G post was made with additional details before adding her parents, William Slade of Colaton Raleigh & Sidmouth and Collett Martin, first wife of William.

Biography

Birth & Baptism

Elizabeth was baptized 8 October 1602 at Sidmouth, Devon, England as daughter of William.^[1] Note that her baptism is transcribed on findmypast.co.uk once as 8 October 1602 and once as 8 October 1603. The 1603 entry includes a link to an image of the original parish register where the date is hard to read on Elizabeth's page but the previous page (which is the same year up to July) is clearly 1602 and easy to read, so 1602 is her correct baptismal year. She was the 7th known child of William baptized at Sidmouth and the last of Collette before her mother died and William remarried to Lucretia (Lee) Channon, widow of Edward Channon.

Marriage

Elizabeth Slade married John Upham at Bicton, Devon, England on November 1, 1626.^[2] John, the son of RIchard Upham of Bicton, was born about 1599 (age 79 years, given in a deposition November 6, 1679). ^{[3] [4]}

John Upham, aged 35, his wife Elizabeth aged 32, sons John Jr. aged 7 and Nathaniel aged 5, daughter Elizabeth aged 3, and his sister Sarah Upham aged 26, were passengers for New England on the ship Marygould out of Weymouth, Dorset, England on March 20, 1635. ^{[5] [6] [7]} His family was part of a group of twenty-one families, followers of by Reverend Joseph Hull, previously rector at Northleigh in Devon, who assembled the group to set sail for New England. ^[8]

• 1635: Arrived in New England and settled at Weymouth. ^[3]
• 1635: July 8: Governor Winthrop granted Mr. Hull, minister, and the 21 families with him, the plantation at Wessaguscus (renamed Weymouth). ^[8]
• 1650/1: Removed to Malden, Massachusetts. ^{[3] [8]}
• 1662: July 2: John deeded the 'mansion where I dwell' with barns, outhouse, and several parcels of land to his daughter-in-law Elizabeth, wife of son Nathaniel deceased, reserving the right of myself and my wife Elizabeth until our decease. ^{[3] [8]}
• 1664: October 13: He deeded his son Phineas his 12-acre homelot, with house, outhouse, yard, gardens and fruit orchard, reserving one-half the fruit, and reserving his and his wife Elizabeth's rights until death. In addition, Phineas was deeded two 4 acres lots of salt marsh, one being in Charlestown. ^{[3] [8]}
• 1664: November 20: John Upham of Malden purchased 3 acres of Seth Switsher of Charlestown. ^[3]
• 1670/1: February 2: John deeded the 'mansion in which I now dwell' with 11 acres, and 3 other lots to son Phineas, reserving his and his wife Elizabeth's rights, and the right's of Elizabeth Thomson, widow of son Nathaniel, until their deaths. ^{[3] [8]}

Elizabeth signed the above deed on February 2, 1670, but must have died soon afterward, as John Upham married second in August 1671 at Malden, Massachusetts, Katherine, widow of Angel Hollard of Boston.^{[4] [9]}

Children

1. John Jr. born about 1628 ^[5]; buried at Weymouth on June 5, 1640. ^{[10] [3] [8]}
2. Nathaniel born about 1630 ^[5]; married Elizabeth Stedman at Cambridge on March 5, 1661; died fifteen days after his marriage on March 20, 1661. ^{[3] [8] [11]}
3. Elizabeth born about 1632 ^[5]; died at Charlestown in January, 1705/6; married Thomas Welch c 1653. ^[3]
4. Phineas born about 1635; married Ruth Wood on April 14, 1658 ^[12] ; his nuncupative will was dated on April 3, 1677. ^[3]
5. Mary born c 1640; married John Whittemore by 1662 ^[3]; died on June 27, 1677. ^[8]
6. Priscilla born about 1642; married Thomas Crosswell by 1663; died on December 8, 1717. ^{[3] [8]}

adopted son

1. John Upham Jr., born about 1648, came 'fatherless and friendless' from Barbados c1652; died of small pox aged 30 on November 25, 1677; married Elizabeth Mousall. ^[8]

Research notes

Malden Marriages

Upham, John, and ––––– Hollir [error for Catharine Hollard.], ––: 6m: 1671. CC (p. 309)

Upham, Phineas, and Ruth Wood, 14: 2m: 1658. CC (p. 309)

Malden Deaths

Upham, John, 84 y., Feb. 25, 1681. GR (p. 384) ^[12]

Weymouth Deaths

Upham, John son of John burried June 5, 1640. (p. 358) ^[10]

Cambridge Marriages

Upham, Nathaniel and Elizabeth Stedman, Mar. 5, 1661-2. (p. 399)

Cambridge Deaths

Upham, Nathaniel, Mar. 20, 1661-2. (p. 771) ^[11]

Sources

1. ↑ "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:J7SG-X57 : 18 September 2020), Elyzabeth Slade, 1602.
2. ↑ Marriage: "Devon Marriages And Banns"
   Archive: South West Heritage Trust; Reference: 1181A/PR/1/1
   FindMyPast Image - FindMyPast Transcription (subscription required, accessed 8 February 2024)
   Elizabeth Slade marriage to John Uppam on 1 Nov 1626 in Bicton, Devon, England.
3. ↑ ^{3.00 3.01 3.02 3.03 3.04 3.05 3.06 3.07 3.08 3.09 3.10 3.11 3.12} Anderson, Robert C. Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volume VII, T-Y, NEHGS, Boston, Massachusetts, 2011 p. 149-58, (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2012.)
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1} Hotchkiss, Fanny Winchester. Winchester Notes, Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Company, 1912 p. 58
5. ↑ ^{5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3} Hotten: James C. The Original Lists of Persons of Quality; Emigrants; Religious Exiles; Political Rebels; Serving Men sold for a term of years; apprentices; children stolen; maidens pressed; and others who went from Great Britain to the American Plantations, 1600-1700 : with their ages and the names of the ships in which they embarked, and other interesting particulars; from mss. preserved in the State Paper Department of Her Majesty's Public Record Office, England, London, England, 1874, p. 283-6
6. ↑ Chapter XV, The Coming of the Hull Company, Vol. I, History of Weymouth Massachusetts in four volumes, Weymouth Historical Society, Wright and Potter Printing Company, Boston, 1923 p. 72
7. ↑ Anderson, Robert Charles; George F. Sanborn; and Melinde Lutz Sanborn. The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635. (NEHGS, 1999-2011).
8. ↑ ^{8.00 8.01 8.02 8.03 8.04 8.05 8.06 8.07 8.08 8.09 8.10} Upham, Frank Kidder, Upham genealogy; the descendants of John Upham, of Massachusetts, who came from England in 1635, and lived in Weymouth and Malden, Joel Munsell's Sons, Albany, New York, 1892, p.19: 21: 33-4: 39: 41-8
9. ↑ Births, Marriages and Deaths of the Town of Malden Massachusetts 1649-1850, University Press, Cambridge, 1903 p. 309
10. ↑ ^{10.0 10.1} Vital Records of Weymouth Massachusetts to the Year 1850, Volume II Marriages and Deaths, NEHGS, Boston, Massachusetts, 1910
11. ↑ ^{11.0 11.1} Baldwin, Thomas, compiler. Vital Records of Cambridge, Massachusetts to the Year 1850, Volume II Marriages and Deaths, NEHGS, Boston, Massachusetts, 1915
12. ↑ ^{12.0 12.1} Corey, Deloraine Pendre, compiler. Births, Marriages and Deaths in the Town of Malden Massachusetts 1649-1850, University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1903

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