Elizabeth (Seamer) Humphrey (abt. 1585 - bef. 1649)

Born about 1585 in Turville, Buckinghamshire, England

Wife of Thomas Foster Sr. — married 10 Nov 1606 in Turville, Buckinghamshire, England

Wife of Jonas Humphrey — married 8 Nov 1619 in Turville, Buckinghamshire, England

Descendants

Died before 20 Nov 1649 before about age 64 in Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay Colony

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Biography

Elizabeth Seamer (c. 1585 - c.1649) married Thomas Foster (1580 - c. 2 Mar 1618) and they had four children before he died in 1618. He was buried on 2 Mar 1618.^[1]

Elizabeth then married Jonas Humphrey on 8 Nov 1619 and they had one son, Jonas, Jr. Elizabeth emigrated to America with her husband sometime before 10 Sep 1637 when Jones first appears in New England records at Dorchester, Massachusetts.^[2] Her husband Jonas was admitted as a freeman of the Massachusetts colony in 1639. ^[3]

Research notes

Some trees have her birth as 12 Jun 1580 in Turville, Buckinghamshire Co., England, her death on 18 Nov 1649 in Dorchester, Suffolk Co., Mass. and burial on 20 Nov 1649 in Dorchester, Suffolk Co., Mass. but have yet to find source material.

Sources

1. ↑ Very well-sourced tree - http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~hwbradley/aqwg2343.htm#46466 (See also http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~hwbradley/aqwc2343.htm#46471C1)
2. ↑ Nicholson, Frederick J., "The Family of Jonas Humphrey of Dorchester, Massachusetts," The American Genealogist, Vol. 68, No 1, pp 14-22 of Jan 1993. "Jonas remarried at Turville, Buckinghamshire, on 8 November 1619, Elizabeth (Seamer) Foster, the widow of Thomas Foster of Wendover, a fuller. The children by Elizabeth and her first husband, Thomas Foster, were Thomas Foster, Christian Foster, Elizabeth Foster, and Susanna Foster, baptized at Wendover, Buckinghamshire on 14 July 1616. Susanna married Nicholas White of Dorchester and Taunton, MA."
3. ↑ Farmer, John, 1789-1838. A genealogical register of the first settlers of New England. Lancaster, Mass., 1829. (See also https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.hnl3db;view=1up;seq=158)

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