Friday, June 25, 2021

52 Ancestors - Week 388: #609 Elizabeth (Maynard) Brigham (1664-1733) of Marlborough, Massachusetts

 Elizabeth Maynard (1664-1733)  is #609 on my Ahnentafel List, my 7th great-grandmother, who married #608 Nathan Brigham (1671-1747) before 1693 in Marlborough, Middlesex County,  Massachusetts Bay.

I am descended through:

*  their son #304 Nathan Brigham (1693-1784), who married #305 Dinah Rice (1693-1725) in 1717.
*  their son #152 Moses Brigham (1723-1769), who married #153 Mehitable Grout (1726-1795) in 1749.
*  their son, #76 Phinehas Brigham (1755-1802), who married #77 Lydia Batherick (1752-1795) in 1779.
*  their son #38 Lambert Brigham (1794-1834), who married #39 Sophia Buck (1797-1882) in 1817.
*  their daughter #19 Sophia Newton (1834-1923), who married #18 Edward Hildreth (1831-1899) in 1852.
*  their daughter #9 Hattie Louisa Hildreth (1857-1920) who married  #8 Frank Walton Seaver (1852-1922) in 1874.
*  their son #4 Frederick Walton Seaver (1876-1942) who married #5 Alma Bessie Richmond (1882-1962) in 1900.
*  their son #2 Frederick Walton Seaver (1911-1983) who married #3 Betty Virginia Carringer (1919-2002)  in 1942.
*  their son #1 Randall Jeffrey Seaver (1943-living)

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1)  PERSON (with source citations as indicated in brackets):
 
 
*  Name:                     Elizabeth Maynard[1]    
*  Alternate Name:     Ellizabeth Mayner[2]
*  Alternate Name:     Elizabeth Maynard Brigham[3]    
*  Alternate Name:     Elizabeth Brigham[4–5]    

*  Sex:                          Female    

*  Father:                     John Maynard (1630-1711)    
*  Mother:                   Mary Gates (1636-1677)  

2)  INDIVIDUAL EVENTS (with source citations as indicated in brackets):
 
*   Birth:                       2 April 1664, Marlborough, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[1-3]    

*  Distribution:             8 January 1711/2 (age 47), father's will proved; Marlborough, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[4]    

*  Death:                      29 March 1733 (age 68), Marlborough, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[1,3,5]    
*  Burial:                      after 29 March 1733 (after age 68), Old Common Cemetery, Marlborough, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[3]    
 
3)  SHARED EVENTS (with source citations as indicated in brackets):

*  Spouse 1:                Nathan Brigham (1671-1747)    
*  Marriage 1:             before 1693 (before about age 29), Marlborough, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[1,6]    

*  Child 1:                  Nathan Brigham (1693-1784)    
*  Child 2:                  Thomas Brigham (1695-1765)    
*  Child 3:                  Tabitha Brigham (1698-1731)    
*  Child 4:                  Elizabeth Brigham (1700-1757)    
*  Child 5:                  Sarah Brigham (1701-1744)    
*  Child 6:                  Ziporah Brigham (1704-1790)    
*  Child 7:                  Hannah Brigham (1706-1781)    
*  Child 8:                  Ephraim Brigham (1708-1771)    

4)  NOTES (with source citations as indicated in brackets):  

The Brigham Family History book summarizes Elizabeth Maynard's family with Nathan Brigham[1]. 

Elizabeth "Mayner" was born 2 April 1664 in Marlborough, Massachusetts Bay, the fourth child and third daughter of John and Mary (Gates) Maynard (or Mainord)[1-3]. The surname is spelled several ways in the record books.  

Elizabeth Maynard (1664-1733) married Nathan Brigham (1671-1747) before 1693 (at about age 29), probably in Marlborough[1].  Nathan was the son of Thomas and Mary (Rice) Brigham of Marlborough. They had eight children[1]:

*  Nathan Brigham (1693-1784), married (1) 1717 Dinah Rice (1693-1725); (2) 1729 Hepzibah Ward (1708-1748); (3)  1751 Martha (--?--) Gleason (1700-????).
*  Thomas Brigham (1695-1765), married 1720 Sarah Stratton (1700-1775).
*  Tabitha Brigham (1698-1731).
*  Elizabeth Brigham (1700-1757), married 1722 John Stow (1696-1761).
*  Sarah Brigham (1701-1744), married 1727 Uriah Eager (1700-1780).
*  Ziporah Brigham (1704-1790), married 1733 John Warren (1701-1783).
*  Hannah Brigham (1706-1781), married 1732 Jabez Rice (1702-1783).
*  Ephraim Brigham (1708-1771), married 1730 Hannah Willard (1707-1775).

The will of Elizabeth's father, John Mainord, was proved on 8 January 1711/2 in Middlesex County Probate Court[4].  In his will, John Mainord bequeathed to his daughter Elizabeth Brigham:
"Item i doe will and Give unto my two daughters namly hannah davenport and Elizabeth Brigham as the remainder in mony prise, in cattell at the judgment of and apparent prisers, chosen by ???? party Concerned, to ?????? & deliver.  Likwise i will & Give unto my daghter Elizabeth twentie Shillings in any Good marchantabell pay.  I doe further will y't my daughter Hannah shall be first paid within the space of twoo years after my deceas."
Elizabeth (Maynard) Brigham was found dead, kneeling by a chair, on 29 March 1733 in her home in Marlborough at age 68[1,3,5].  She was buried in the Old Common Cemetery in Marlborough, but there is no extant gravestone[3].
 
5.  SOURCES

1. W. I. Tyler Brigham (Emma E. Brigham, editor), The History of the Brigham Family, A Record of Several Thousand Descendants of Thomas Brigham the Emigrant, 1603-1653 (New York City : The Grafton Press, 1907), page 85, #7 Capt. Nathan Brigham family sketch.

2. Franklin P. Rice (editor), Vital Records of Marlborough, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849  (Boston, Mass. : Franklin P. Rice ,1908), Births, Ellizabeth Mayner entry, 2 April 1664, daughter of John and Mary Mayner.

3. Find A Grave, indexed database and digital image,  (http://www.findagrave.com), Old Common Cemetery, Marlborough, Mass., Elizabeth Maynard Brigham memorial #122503796.

4. Middlesex County, Massachusetts, Probate case files, Volume: Middlesex 14000-15999 Estate File #14852 (5 images), John Mainord estate, 1712; "Middlesex County, MA: Probate File Papers, 1648-1871," indexed database and digital images, New England Historical and Genealogical Society, AmericanAncestors (https://www.AmericanAncestors.org: accessed 2 January 2021);  Digitized mages provided by FamilySearch.org from original records at Probate Registry, Cambridge, Mass.

5. Franklin P. Rice (editor), Vital Records of Marlborough, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849, Deaths, page 347, Elizabeth Brigham entry, 29 March 1733.

 "New England Marriages to 1700," online database with digital images, AmericanAncestors.org (New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2008, page 205, Nathan Brigham and Elizabeth Maynard entry.6.

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NOTE: In 2014, Amy Johnson Crow suggested a weekly blog theme of "52 Ancestors" in her blog post 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks on the No Story Too Small blog. I have extended this theme in 2021 for an eighth year to 416 Ancestors in 416 Weeks. The list of 52 Ancestors biographies from my great-grandparents to the 7th great-grandparents (in work) is in https://www.geneamusings.com/p/ancestor-biographies.html.

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