Elizabeth was baptized 22 August 1686 at Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay Colony. She passed away in 1763.[1] It is likely that she was older at the time of her baptism and not an infant as she was married in 1700 and in the division of her father's estate she is called oldest daughter (so older than Patience).
She was named in the division of her father's estate on 7 April 1729 as Elizabeth Thorp.[2]
Sources
↑ Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988, Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988
↑ Suffolk County, MA: Probate File Papers. AmericanAncestors.org Online database. Probate of Henry White, file no. 3484.
See also:
Geo: Weekes: genealogy of the family of George Weekes, of Dorchester, Mass., 1635-1650; with some information in regard to other families of the same name: especially, Thomas, of Huntington, L. I., and Nathaniel, of Falmouth nd Hardwick, Mass by Weekes, Robert Dobb, 1819-1898
Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001; Name: Samuell Thorp; Event Type: Marriage; Event Date: 15 Feb 1700; Event Place: Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States [Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States] [Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States]; Spouse's Name: Elizebeth Whit. Image
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Most online trees make Elizabeth, daughter of Henry White and Mary Weeks, as the Elizabeth White who married Samuel Thorp. My inclination was also to reject this Elizabeth would have been too young to marry in 1700. However, the administration of the estate Henry White names Elizabeth Thorp, eldest daughter of Henry. (Suffolk probate case no. 3484).
What source shows Elizabeth, daughter of Henry, was the one who married Thorp? At best she would have been about age 14, based on her brother, William's baptism in July 1685 (per the Weekes source). If she had been born earlier than William's baptism, it seems that they would have been baptized together.
edited by S (Hill) Willson