Elisha Wing (1668 - abt. 1757)

Born 2 Feb 1668 in Sandwich, Barnstable, Plymouth Colony

Ancestors

Husband of Mehitable (Butler) Wing — married 12 Mar 1690 in Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Descendants

Died about 1757 at about age 88 in Rochester, Plymouth, Province of Massachusetts Bay

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Biography

Elisha was a Friend (Quaker)

Elisha was born on 2 February 1668, the son of Stephen Wing and Sarah (Briggs) Wing.

Elisha died sometime between the writing of his Will (8 June 1752) and its probate (19 May 1757).

Children

Children of Elisha Wing:

• Sarah Wing.
• Jedediah Wing.^[1]
• Elizabeth Wing.^[2]
• Butler Wing.^[3]
• Mehitable Wing.^[4]
• Abigail Wing.^[5]
• Judah Wing.
• Sarah Wing.

Probate

The will of Elisha Wing of Wareham was dated 8 June 1752 and proved on 19 May 1757 in Plymouth. He mentions his children, Butler Wing, Jedediah Wing, Elizabeth, Mehitable, and Sarah, and his grandchildren, Phillip Turner (son of Sarah), and his daughter Sarah's two daughters by her husband, John Rogers.^[6]

Sources

1. ↑ "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VQ67-YFQ : 5 January 2021), Elisha Wing in entry for Jedediah Wing, 1697.
2. ↑ "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VQ6Q-2S8 : 5 January 2021), Elisha Wing in entry for Elizabeth Wing, 1700.
3. ↑ "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VQ67-K9X : 5 January 2021), Elisha Wing in entry for Butler Wing, 1702.
4. ↑ "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VQ67-9WY : 5 January 2021), Elisha Wing in entry for Mehitabell Wing, 1705.
5. ↑ "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VQ6Q-V42 : 5 January 2021), Elisha Wing in entry for Abigell Wing, 1708.
6. ↑ "Massachusetts, Plymouth County, Probate Records, 1633-1967," images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-997D-X4P9?cc=2018320&wc=M6BX-Q29%3A337795401 : 20 May 2014), Probate records 1755-1758 and 1859-1862 vol 14-14E > image 182 of 498; State Archives, Boston.

• The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Page number: 127 (1973):24
• Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/77808254/elisha-wing : accessed 10 October 2021), memorial page for Elisha Wing (2 Feb 1668–unknown), Find a Grave Memorial ID 77808254, citing Friends Burial Ground, Marion, Plymouth County, Massachusetts
• A Historical and Genealogical Register of John Wing, of Sandwich, Massachusetts and his Descendants, 1662--1881, Wing, Rev. Conway P., Carlisle, Pennsylvania: the author, 1881, photocopy reprint Rutland, Vermont: Tuttle Antiquarian Books, Inc., Page number: 50 (says b. about 1647/48; it is possible that he died young and that~~there was another El
• Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988 http://search.ancestry.com/collections/2495/records/80994881
• FamilySearch profile.