Elizabeth (Smith) Blake (1625 - aft. 1700)

Born 1625 in Norfolk, England

Ancestors

Wife of Peter Hunt — married 14 Dec 1646 in Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts

Wife of James Blake — married 17 Sep 1695 in Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts Bay

Descendants

Died after 26 Jun 1700 after age 75 in Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts Bay [uncertain]

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Biography

Elizabeth (Smith) Blake immigrated to New England as a child during the Puritan Great Migration (1621-1640).

Elizabeth Smith was born in Hingham, South Norfolk District, Norfolk, England, and married Peter Hunt in 1651 and James Blake in 1695.^[1]

Birth

1625 Rehoboth MA

Death

after 26 Jun 1700 Rehoboth, Massachusetts [Named in husband's will]^[2]

Research Notes

Waters. See Henry F. Waters, Genealogical gleanings in England, 2 vols., paginated consecutively (Boston, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1901), 2:1120-21 (Nicholas Stanton), 1121n, 1122n ; digital images, Hathi Trust.

• English will of Nicholas Stanton of Ipswich. proved 1649[/50]. (Quoting) "To my kinswoman Judith Smith the late wife of Henry Smith, living in New England, ten pounds. To her five children Judith, John, Elizabeth, Henry and Daniel, forty shillings apiece."
• Note on Henry Smith and Judith Smith wills. (Quoting) Henry Smith was entered as a passenger for New England In the Diligent, 1638, with his wife, three sons and two daughters (without naming either wife or children). The will supplies the deficiency. Mr. Smith was a freeman 1639, representative 1641, removed to Rehoboth ~1643 and died there 1649. His will dated 3 Nov., 1647 (Inventory taken 21-10mo-1649), mentions sons Henry and Daniel, daughter Judith and brother Thomas Cooper, and appointed his wife executrix. The witnesses were Stephen Paine, Thomas Cooper and Joseph Peck. The will of his widow, Mrs. Judith Smith, was dated 24 Oct., 1650, and named son Henry, daughter Judith, son and daughter Hunt, son John's three children, son Daniel and the three children of her son Hunt. The witnesses were John Pecke and Magdalen Smith."

Sources

1. ↑ Find A Grave, database and images (accessed 11 March 2020), memorial page for Elizabeth Smith Hunt Blake (1628–5 Jun 1700), Find A Grave: Memorial #148372862, ; Maintained by Kathy Carr (contributor 49488609) Unknown. [Note date of death is before 26 June 1700 when Elizabeth was named in her husband's will.
2. ↑ Suffolk County, MA: Probate File Papers.Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2017-2019. (From records supplied by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Archives. Digitized mages provided by FamilySearch.org) Case 2581: Will

• Stott, Clifford L., Humphrey Blake (1494?–1558) and His Descendants in New England and South Carolina: Blake, Richards, Selleck, Torrey, and Wolcott, The New England Historical & Genealogical Register (NEHGS, Boston, Mass., 2009) Vol. 163, WN 652, Page 288.