Elinor (Unknown) Spring (1588 - 1657)

Born 1588 in Suffolk, England

Wife of John Spring — married about 1622 in England

Descendants

Died 21 Mar 1657 at about age 69 in Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony

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Biography

Elinor was probably born in England about 1600.

What is known is that John came to New England in April 1634 with his family, including his wife Elinor (___) Spring, aged 46 and their children:^[1][2]

• Mary Spring, aged 11 (1623?–?)
• Henry Spring, aged 6 (1628?–?)
• John Spring, aged 4 (1630?–?)
• William Spring, under a year old (1633?–?)

John may have married Elinor around 1622, guessed based on the age of their eldest child Mary at the time of the family's arrival in New England in 1634.^[1][2]

John's first wife Elinor is thought to have died by 1655 and before 1656, when John made no provisions for her in the transfer of land to son Henry.

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Hotten: James C. The Original Lists of Persons of Quality; Emigrants; Religious Exiles; Political Rebels; Serving Men sold for a term of years; apprentices; children stolen; maidens pressed; and others who went from Great Britain to the American Plantations, 1600-1700 : with their ages and the names of the ships in which they embarked, and other interesting particulars; from mss. preserved in the State Paper Department of Her Majesty's Public Record Office, England, London, England, 1874, p. 281
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} The New England Historical & Genealogical Register and Antiquarian Journal, Volume 14, S.G. Drake, 1860 p. 330