Elizabeth (Unknown) Curtis (abt. 1611 - 1682)

Born about 1611 in England

Descendants

Died 9 Mar 1682 at about age 71 in Stratford, Fairfield, Connecticut

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Disputed surname

Several secondary sources list the wife of John Curtiss (c 1611- 1707) as Elizabeth Welles sister of Gov. Thomas Welles of Connecticut.

• "He married Elizabeth Welles (supposed to have been the sister of Gov. Thomas Welles.)^[1]
• "married Elizabeth, who seems to have been a Welles, (for a grandson of Gov. Thomas Welles calls John Curtis 'Uncle')^[2]

However, Donald Lines Jacobus, points out.

• “Statements to the effect that Elizabeth was a Welles are based on a misinterpretation of a deed at Stratford; he (the governor) was called uncle by John Welles [son of Hugh] who m. his niece Sarah Curtis.”^[3]
  • William, John Curtis's brother, had a daughter Sarah Curtis. Sarah Curtis m. John Welles.

Biography

Elizabeth was born probably in England about 1611 based on her husband's age, but more likely about 1620, based on the birth of her first child in 1642.

Her marriage is also an estimated date based on the same birth

She was not called by name at the births of her children, who were registered as children of John.

Elizabeth Curtis, wife of John Curtis Sr. died at Stratford 9 Mar 1681/2.^[4]

Sources

1. ↑ Frederic Haines Curtiss. A genealogy of the Curtiss family. Boston: Rockwell and Churchill Press, 1903. p. 2
2. ↑ Cothren, William. History of ancient Woodbury, Connecticut, from the first Indian deed in 1659 ... including the present towns of Washington, Southbury, Bethlem, Roxbury, and a part of Oxford and Middlebury. By William Cothren. Vol II Woodbury, Conn.: Publ by William Cothren 1872. https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.hxtdf8;view=1up;seq=694 p. 1488
3. ↑ Jacobus, Donald Lines, MA (compiler, editor.) History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield. Fairfield, Conn.: The Eunice Dennie Burr Chapter of Daughters of the American Revolution, 1930.
4. ↑ Connecticut Vital Records to 1850 (Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2011.) From original typescripts, Lucius Barnes Barbour Collection, 1928.

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