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Nathaniel Tompkins-325 (1633-1684) married a woman named Elizabeth, which is supported by numerous sources including his will. But what was her last name at birth?? Previous profiles Unknown-376925, Hayden-1746, and White-5349) offered three possibilities:
Hayden? - The previous profile Hayden-1746 stated that her name was Hayden, but cited no source other than an Odell Family Tree ged.com, which was imported by Beryl Jacobs but is not accessible except by the person who loaded it. William Hayden was the second husband of Nathaniel's mother Elizabeth ____ Tompkins, and thus what we now call the stepfather of Nathaniel; Nathaniel was his son-in-law in the 17th century terminology, used in the 1687 transfer of Eastchester land between them cited in the passage in "Families of Old Fairfield", p. 612, cited by White-5349. Perhaps that connection led to the assumption that Elizabeth was William Hayden's daughter by an earlier marriage or other relative, reported but rejected for lack of any evidence in the profile William Hayden-788. And no other potenital progenitor of a daughter ____ Hayden who might have married Nathaniel is apparent. In summary, the suggestion that Elizabeth was a Hayden is sufficiently unlikely that it is rejected.
Unknown? - - Torrey gives no last name at birth for Elizabeth in his record of the marriage.[1] - Historic Homes and Institutions and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs of Worcester County Massachusetts with a History of Worcester Society of Antiquity, by Ellery Bicknell Crane (New York, Chicago: Lewis Publishing Company, 1907) , p.139, cited on White-3549 gives no LNAB in its exhaustive treatment.
White? - White-5349 noted that some say her name was White, citing (1) The Ancestry of Henry James Lawless, Jr. Book Two: Maternal Ancestry by Ethan J. Kennedy (2010) p. 192 and (2) Clan of Tomkyns, Vol. I, Robert A Tompkins (Manuscript in the Los Angeles Library) Url: http://www.lapl.org/central/tomkyns.html , Vol. I, p. 23. the profile also cites Crane. White-18564 was created by Rebecca Keene by import of audrey focus group.ged. That profile cites as a source "Joseph N. Brown.FTW". As noted in a comment by Timothy Wilder, recent work by David Tompkins states that she was Elizabeth White, sister of Nathaniel White. Nathaniel Tompkins appointed Nathaniel White as co-executor with his wife Elizabeth and his brother John Tompkins of his will of 2 September 1684.[1]
Conclusion: The sources favoring White, particularly David Tompkins, are persuasive. White seem to be the right answer for Elizabeth's LNAB. Therefore, the alternative profiles have been merged into this profile White-18564, which has the right LNAB.
Elizabeth White was likely born about 1656 in Fairfield, Connecticut Colony, where she was part of the household of Dr. Thomas Pell, the Fairfield man who purchased from the Indians Pelham Manor, Eastchester, and Westchester and who in his will set up his nephew as the First Lord of Pelham Manor. Her mother Elizabeth was the daughter of Lucretia and the late Francis Brewster and therefore became Thomas Pell's step-daughter when Lucretia married him. Elizabeth lived in Pell's Fairfield establishment with Mary and Nathaniel White, presumably her younger siblings.
Elizabeth and her siblings received legacies from Dr.Pell's will dated 21 Sep 1669.[2]
So what is their relationship to Dr. Pell? That section of his will is offers some insight. It reads:
That wording suggests that Nathaniel, Mary, and Elizabeth White were in some way Dr. Pell's dependents. Subsequent activities in Eastchester support the explanation that the three were the children of Elizabeth Brewster, daughter of Dr. Pell's second wife Lucretia, and therefore his step-grandchildren
The timing of the will, which refers to Elizabeth by her maiden name, establishes that she married after 1669. If she was born after 1654, as suggested by the testimony her mother gave under her maiden name in the slander trial in that year, that suggests she was married about 1672, when she might have been 17.
Elizabeth was born perhaps 1655, and likely in Connecticut, likely Fairfield, possibly New Haven. This was unlikely to have been Eastchester, Westchester County, New York, as suggested by Source: #S93 , since Eastchester was not settled by Europeans until 1666.
Elizabeth White married Nathaniel Tompkins, perhaps in 1672, rather than 1670 as suggested by Brown[4]
Nathaniel and Elizabeth had, in Eastchester:[5]
White-18564 was created by Rebecca Keene through the import of audrey focusgroup.ged on Aug 10, 2014.
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