Elizabeth (Webster) Marden (1740 - 1830)

Born 29 Feb 1740 in Rye, New Hampshire

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Descendants

Died 3 Nov 1830 at age 90 in Canterbury, Merrimack, New Hampshire, United States

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Biography

Birth

Elizabeth Webster was born at Rye, New Hampshire, on 29 Feb 1740, the daughter of Josiah Webster and Martha "Patty" (Goss) Webster.^[1] She was baptized at Rye on 13 Apr 1740.^[2]

Marriage

Elizabeth Webster married Stephen Marden at Rye, New Hampshire, on 28 Aug 1760.^[3]

Widowhood and Death

Three months after her husband's death in June 1781, Elizabeth (Webster) Marden, at the age of 41, delivered her ninth child. In 1793, her eldest son, Josiah Marden, took his mother and his younger siblings under his care and moved them to his home at Canterbury, New Hampshire. Elizabeth (Webster) Marden remained a widow for 49 years and died at Canterbury, New Hampshire, on 3 Nov 1830.^[4]

Sources

1. ↑ New Hampshire Birth Records, Early to 1900, database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HY-68F7-4X9?cc=1542861&wc=MJ7K-L29%3A1042650801 : 21 May 2014), 004244318 > image 3787 of 5064; Bureau of Vital Records and Health Statistics, Concord
2. ↑ Hosier, Kathleen E., compiler, Vital Records of Rye, New Hampshire: a transcript of the births, baptisms, marriages and deaths in this town to the year 1890 (Bowie, Md., 1992), 32 for her birth, 84 for her baptism
3. ↑ New Hampshire Marriages, 1720-1920, database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FDV6-RZL : 10 February 2018), Stephen Jr. Marden and Elizabeth Webster, 28 Aug 1760; citing reference Item 7, p.151; FHL microfilm 2,169,156
4. ↑ Autobiographical sketch by John Marden, Elizabeth (Marden) Webster's son, quoted in Goodwin, Allen, A history of the early settlement of Palermo, Me. (Belfast, Me., 1896), 5, https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=loc.ark:/13960/t9183gq34;view=1up;seq=8

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