Elizabeth (Unknown) Robbins (abt. 1610)

Born about 1610 in England [uncertain]

Wife of Gilbert Crackbone — married 17 Jun 1656 in Massachusetts

Wife of Richard Robbins — married 26 Mar 1673 in Cambridge, Massachusetts

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Disputed Identity

Elizabeth married Gilbert Crackbone, of Cambridge, Massachusetts, on 17 June 1656. Because she is called "Elizabeth Coolidge" in the record, she has been identified as a daughter of John Coolidge and Mary (Ravens) Coolidge, born about 1634, possibly in England or possibly in Watertown, Massachusetts.^[1] Bond listed her as a questionable child of this marriage, noting that if she was a daughter of John Coolidge, she died without progeny before 19 November 1681, when her father wrote his will.^[2] Anderson states that this is an error. She was not a daughter of John Coolidge, but was in fact the widow of John Cooley of Ipswich, Massachusetts. On 6 July 1665 "Goodwife Crackbone, relict & administratrix of John Cooly" was mentioned in a deed.^[3]

Biography

Elizabeth's origins and birth name are unknown. She was probably born in England in the earliest decades of the 1600s. She probably emigrated to New England with her first husband, John Cooley, who died at Ipswich, Massachusetts, in 1654.^[4]

She was married to her second husband, Gilbert Crackbone, of Cambridge, Massachusetts, on 17 June 1656 in Cambridge.^[5] There were no children from this marriage. Gilbert Crackbone's will granted to his widow Elizabeth "all that part of my moveable estate that was her own before her marriage to me" and the use and improvement of his "dwelling house and barn [and] lands."^[5]

Elizabeth married for a third time, to Richard Robbins, in Cambridge on 26 March 1673.^[6]

Sources

1. ↑ Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration, vol. 2, page 197.
2. ↑ Bond, page 165
3. ↑ Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration, vol. 2, page 197.
4. ↑ Torrey's New England Marriages to 1700, Vol. 1, page 371. COOLEY, John (-1654) & Elizabeth ____, ?m/2 Gilbert CRACKBONE 1656, m/3 Richard ROBBINS 1676; ca 163-?; Ipswich {Essex Ant. 10:177; Sv. 1:453; EIHC 1:11; Pillsbury Anc. 70; Kimball 37}.
5. ↑ ^{5.0 5.1} Anderson, vol. II, [page 225.
6. ↑ Anderson, vol. II, page 226.

• Bond, Henry. Genealogies of the Families and Descendants of the Early Settlers of Watertown, Mass.

Acknowledgments

• Thank you to Gilly Wood for creating Coolidge-192 on 8 Oct 13. Click the Changes tab for the details on contributions by Gilly and others.