Bethia Cartwright

Died about Jun 1640 in Salem, Massachusetts Bay Colony

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Bethia Cartwright migrated to New England during the Puritan Great Migration (1621-1640). (See The Directory, by R. C. Anderson, p. 58) Join: Puritan Great Migration Project Discuss: pgm

Biography

She passed away about 1640.

Research Notes

Bethia Cartright, of unknown origins, arrived in 1639 in New England, and resided at Salem.^[1]

From Pendery:^[2]

Bethiah Cartwright of Salem wrote her will on May 2, 1640, and it was proved on June 30 that year. In it she named only one relative, her sister Elizabeth Capon of Walderswick, Suffolk, England. Bethiah Cartwright left bequests to Mary Norton and Margaret Jackson (thought by some genealogists to have been sisters), as well as to the latter's husband and son, both named John Jackson... Further research in English records might indicate whether Elizabeth Capon, Mary Norton, Margaret Jackson, and Bethiah Cartwright were all sisters and all shared the maiden name of Machias, as Clarence Almon Torrey and other genealogists have suggested. This hypothesis has never been conclusively proved or disproved.

and the footnote

See Clarence Almon Torrey, New England Marriages Prior to 1700 ... listings for John Jackson, p.413, and George Norton, p. 540, where the author refers to Margaret Jackson, Mary Norton, and Bethia Cartwright as Machias sisters. Many contemporary scholars refute these relationships. For example, see "John Jackson" in Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634–1635, vol. 4 (Boston: NEGHS, 2005), 23–5.

Sources

1. ↑ Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Directory, published 2015. Reference page 58], citing EPR 1:12; EQC 1:18; NEA 7:3:26-29 (clue)
2. ↑ Pendery, Joyce S., "Wills & Inventories of Essex County Women, 1636–1646" New England Ancestors Magazine 7 no. 3 (2006) p.27.

Will posted in Salem Court records, imaged by Salem Witch Trials Documentary Archive, Records and Files of the Quarterly Courts of Essex County in University of Virginia Salem Witch Trials Project. Records and Files of the Quarterly Courts of Essex County, Volume I, Edited by George Francis Dow. Transcribed and Abstracted from the Original Court Manuscript by Harriet S. Tapley. Published and Copyrighted by the Essex Institute, 1911 . URL: https://salem.lib.virginia.edu/Essex/vol1/table/index.html. will abstract imaged in profile images.

The Probate Records of Essex County, Massachusetts (The Essex Institute, Salem, Mass., 1916-1920) vol. 1 page 12