Elizabeth (Reyner) Southworth (1618 - aft. 1676)

Born 1618 in Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts

Wife of Thomas Southworth — married 1 Sep 1641 in Plymouth Colony

Descendants

Died after 1676 after age 58 in Plymouth?, Plymouth, Massachusetts

Problems/Questions Profile manager: Chris Wilson [send private message]

Biography

married Thomas Southworth

The possibility that she was the daughter of the Rev. John Reyner was disproved in 1872 on chronological grounds.

Research

This research was clearly copied from another source and the references were left out. I am leaving the information for the profile managers or future managers to help them seek out the valid information.

Baylies's New Plymouth says (vol. ii, p. 65), that Capt. Southworth married “his cousin Elizabeth Reyner, daughter of Rev. John Reyner.” Plymouth Colony Records give the date, viz., Sept. 1, 1641, but does not give her parentage. Mr. Whitmore, in his invaluable notes, Register, vol. xi. etc., evidently considers the “cousin”-ship imaginary.

What is the proof that this Elizabeth Rener was the daughter of Rev. John? Is it anything more than an inference from the fact that Rev. John was then pastor there?

On the other hand, -- Rev. John Reyner graduated at Emanuel in 1625. If he had a daughter marriageable in 1641, she must have been born before he left college, which is hardly probable.

Further, she must have been a daughter by his first wife, for he married his second wife in Boston, and necessarily after 1635.

It is barely possible that Rev. John had a daughter born early enough to marry in 1641. If he had, and if she died soon after marriage, there was enough time to have another Elizabeth. But, if so, she was born before he left college; she married nineteen years before either her brother or sister by the same mother; and she left a child living when Rev. John made his will, to whom he makes no allusion whatever.

I think we must look elsewhere for the parentage of Elizabeth Reyner who married Thomas Southworth.

• From the enclosed you can see that the identity of Elizabeth Reyner/Reynor has been open to question since at least 1872. In the one Southworth published genealogy that the Library has, you can see that someone has written in “sister” of Rev. John Reyner. Unfortunately, this person did not put in a helpful reference.

• She would have been the unmarried daughter Elizabeth, mentioned in the 1638 will of her father, John Reyner; after her father’s death she would have joined her brother John in Plymouth where he was the minister.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6][7]}

Name

Elizabeth Reyner

Elizabeth Reynor^[8][9]

Elizabeth Southworth

Birth

abt 1617 Plymouth, MA^[10][11]

Death

3 JUN 1679 Plymouth, MA^[12][13]

Marriage

1 SEP 1641 Plymouth, MA to Thomas Southworth^[14][15]

Sources

• Plymouth Colony Probate Guide Author- compiled by Ruth Wilder Sherman & Robert S. Wakefield Date- 1983 Page- page 99 Publication- Plymouth Colony Research Group DOCL received 24 May 1989 from NEHGS Inquiry Service DOCL Southworth (JPEG)
• Snow, Nora Emma. The Snow-Estes Ancestry (1939) http://archive.org/details/snowestesancestr01snow.
• Austin's One Hundred And Sixty Allied Families, pp. 137-139.
• The American Genealogist, v. 14:214-5.
• The Mayflower Descendant, v. 2:118
• S5: Cannon_Family.FTW
• S9: Howland.FTW

Footnotes

1. ↑ Source: #S20 Page: p 356
2. ↑ Source: #S697 Page: p 269
3. ↑ Source: #S3467 Page: p 325
4. ↑ Source: #S73
5. ↑ Source: #S1282
6. ↑ Source: #S1283 Page: p 33
7. ↑ Source: #S3467 Page: p 325
8. ↑ #S5
9. ↑ #S9
10. ↑ #S5: Date of Import: Jul 2, 2003
11. ↑ #S9: Date of Import: Oct 12, 2001
12. ↑ #S5: Date of Import: Jul 2, 2003
13. ↑ #S9: Date of Import: Oct 12, 2001
14. ↑ #S5: Date of Import: Jul 2, 2003
15. ↑ #S9: Date of Import: Oct 12, 2001