Elizabeth (Hardy) Fish (abt. 1646 - 1696)

Born about 1646 in Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay

Ancestors

Wife of John Parsons — married 21 May 1679 in East Hampton, Long Island

Descendants

Died 1 May 1696 at about age 50 in Cape May, Province of West Jersey

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Biography

Elizabeth Hardy's birth date, birth place, and mother is not clear and needs additional research. According to Sherrill Foster (cited by Remington) she was married to Joshua Garlick by 1664, which means she was born say by 1646 to be eighteen at her first wedding. Sources cited on her father's profile says he married Ann Husted in 1650, so if Elizabeth was born say 1646, she would be a child of Richard Hardy's unknown first wife, which is perhaps why a well meaning Wikitreer changed her place of birth to Concord, Massachusetts... Meanwhile, Richard Hardy was in Stamford, Connecticut in 1642.

"Elizabeth was married to Joshua Garlick by 1664. See Sherrill Foster, Remember and Joshua Garlick: Their Parents and Children," Suffolk County Historical Society Register 22(1997):98-103."^[1]

"John Parsons... married at East Hampton, Long Island, New York 21 May 1679, Elizabeth (Hardy) Garlick, who died at Cape May, New Jersey, 1 May 1696, daughter of Richard Hardy and widow of Joshua Garlick, Jr. She married third, about 1694, John Fish, who died about six months after the wedding. John Parsons's account book is now at the Cape May County Historical Society."^[2]

Sources

1. ↑ Remington, Gordon. "ROBERT(2) HUESTIS OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY: HIS ANCESTRY AND DESCENDANTS." (1998). The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record. (New York, NY: New York Genealogical and Biographical Society), volume 129, page 201
2. ↑ Parsons, Gerald James. (1998, April). "The Early Parsons Families of the Connecticut River Valley." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. Boston, MA: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 148, 345-346.

• Will of Joshua Garlick, Jr.. Suffolk County, NY
• Hand, J. P. (2020, May 31). John Persons journal. [Online forum message]. Message posted to New-Mostly South-Jersey Genealogy Forum. https://njgf.groups.io/g/main/topic/74580583#21291