Eleanor (Thurston) Terry (1655 - 1747)

Born 1 Mar 1655 in Newport, Newport, Rhode Island

Ancestors

Wife of George Havens Sr. — married 1674 in Newport, Newport, Rhode Island

Wife of Thomas Terry II — married 1707 in Southold, Suffolk, New York

Descendants

Died 7 Nov 1747 at age 92 in Newport, Newport, Rhode Island

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Biography

Eleanor Thurston, daughter of Edward and Elizabeth (Mott) Thurston, was born in March, 1655. She married George Havens, son of William and Dionis Havens, in 1674. She died on Nov. 7, 1747.^[1]

She was born in Newport, Newport County, Rhode Island.

Children

They had the following children:^[1]

1. George, married Mary
2. Jonathan, born Feb. 22, 1681; married Hannah Brown, Jan. 1, 1706-1707
3. William, died unmarried in 1746
4. Abigail
5. John, married Sarah
6. Content, married Cornelius Payne
7. Patience, married Soper (Loper?)
8. Desire, married Gardiner

Timeline for George Havens family

The following timeline has been copied from an essay found in the Wikitree Free Space pages entitled, Desire Havens, Wife of Lion Gardiner or Henry Gardiner? ^[2] All of the events in this timeline are fully supported with either primary or secondary source citations in the original essay and these source citations are freely available at that site:

• 1653: George Havens is born.
• 1654: Eleanor Thurston is born.
• 1680: George Havens voted Freeman in Jamestown, RI.
• 1681-02-02; Jonathan Havens, son of George and Eleanor Havens, was born at Jamestown, RI.
• 1687-09-06: George Havens taxed in Kingstown, RI 6 Sept 1687 for 5s 3d.
• 1695-07-15: George Havens Constable in Jamestown, RI 15 July 1695.
• 1696: George Havens sell his farm on the Boston Neck {Presently identified as the Northern portion of Narragansett County, Rhode Island.} in 1696 for £500.
• 1700-03-25: George Havens, of Jamestown, RI., purchases 1000 acres of land in Shelter Island, NY from Nathaniel Sylvester II for £600.
• 1701-05-16: George Havens Sr. of Shelter Island, NY, Yeoman, gifts 200 acres of his Shelter Island property to his son Jonathan Havens.
• 1701-11-19: George Havens Jr. IDs himself as son of George Havens of Shelter Island in a land deed in which George Havens Jr., his unidentified wife, and Martha Remington jointly sell land from the estate of John Remington to Henry Gardiner Sr.
• 1702-10-26; George Havens Sr. sells to Henry Tibbitts for £ 80 a farm of 150 acres in Coweset, RI.
• 1706-02-25: George Havens Sr. died. Primary, Tombstone
• 1706-12-28 Eleanor (Thurston) Havens appeals to the Royal Governor to be granted authority to administrate the estate of her deceased husband George Havens.
• 1707-06-21 George Havens Jr., formerly of Shelter Island, but now of Fisher's Island, acts as executor for his father's estate and distributes 250 acres of his father's Shelter Island land in a deed to his brother John Havens.
• 1707-06-21 George Havens Jr., formerly of Shelter Island, but now of Fisher's Island, acts as executor for his father's estate and distributes 250 acres of his father's Shelter Island land in a deed to his brother William Havens.
• 1707-06-21 George Havens Jr., of Fisher's Island, acts as executor for his father's estate and distributes 50 acres of his father's Shelter Island land in a deed to his mother Eleanor Havens. In exchange for the deed for 50 acres, Eleanor is obligated to pay Patience (Havens) Loper, her daughter a £50 cash payment as her portion of the estate.
• 1710, Feb 28 John Richmond sold to George Havens {Jr} of Groton, Conn. my dwelling house and 200 acres in Kingstown, for £400. {John Richmond was an uncle to George Havens Jr's. wife, deduced to be Mary (Remington) Havens, dau. of Abigail Richmond and John Remington. {This document places George Havens Jr. in Kingstown just six months prior to the marriage of his sister to to his brother-in-law Henry. It is entirely plausible that Desire had relocated with her brother to Kingstown, RI to serve as a nanny for his family. Henry Gardiner was only 19 at the time of the marriage, hence the marriage was almost certainly a shotgun wedding, and six months is fully ample time for romantic relationship to develop.}
• 1710-08-04: Desire Havens and Henry Gardiner Jr. were married at North Kingstown, Rhode Island. {Henry Gardiner Jr. was 19 when he married Desire.}
• 1716-04-30: William Havens writes last will and testament. Names Mother: Ellenor Terry; Brothers: George, Jonathan, and John Havens; Sisters: Ruth Terry, Content Payne; Pacion {Patience} Loper, Desire Gardiner, Abigail Havens as heirs.
• 1724-09: Eleanor (Thurston) Terry former widow of George Havens sues George Tibbitts, heir of Henry Tibbets for right of dower on lands sold by her husband George Havens, to Henry Tibbitts in 1702, twenty-two years earlier.
• 1747-11-07: Eleanor (Thurston) Havens Terry died.

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Jacob Mallmann's book, Historical Papers on Shelter Island and Its Presbyterian Church.
2. ↑ Beebe, Randolph, Desire Havens, Wife of Lion Gardiner or Henry Gardiner?; Oct 2020.

See Also:

• Carlsbad Georgina Cole Library ((1250 Carlsbad Village Dr., Carlsbad, Calif.)

• Ancestral Lines, Third Edition, Carl Boyer 3rd, Ancestral Lines, Third Edition (Santa Clarita, California, 1998)

• Historical papers on Shelter Island and its Presbyterian church;

1. ) 'Shelter Island History; Page 42;
2. ) 'Shelter Island History; Page 163; Genealogy of William Havens family on Shelter Island.