Friday, July 7, 2023

52 Ancestors - Week 487: #881 Elizabeth (Ambrose) (Underhill) Batchelder (1698-????) of Salisbury, Massachusetts and Chester, New Hampshire

 Elizabeth Ambrose (1698-1782) is #881 on my Ahnentafel List, my 7th great-grandmother, who married  #880 Sampson Underhill (ca1692-1732) in 1718 in Salisbury, Massachusetts.

I am descended through:

*  their son, #440 John Underhill (1721-1793), married $441 Joanna Healey (1718-1908) in 1741.
*  their son, #220 John Underhill (1745-1816), married #221 Hannah Colby (1745-????) in 1767.
*  their son, #110 Amos Underhill (1772-1865), married #111 Mary Metcalf (1780-1855) in 1801.
*  their daughter, #55, Mary Ann Underhill (1815-1882) in 1839. married #54 Samuel Vaux (1816-1880) in 1839.
*  their daughter, #27 Abigail A. Vaux (1844-1931), married #26 Devier James Lamphear Smith (1839-1894) in 1861.
*  their daughter, #13 Abbey Ardell Smith (1862-1944), married #12 Henry Austin Carringer (1853-1946), in 1887.
*  their son, #6 Lyle Lawrence Carringer (1891-1976), who married #7 Emily Kemp Auble (1899-1977) in 1918.
* their daughter, #3 Betty Virginia Carringer (1919-2002), who married #2 Frederick Walton Seaver (1911-1983) in 1942.
*  their son, #1 Randall J. Seaver (1943-....)

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1)  PERSON (with source citations as indicated in brackets):

*  Name:                      Elizabeth Ambrose[1]
*  Alternate Name:      Elizabeth Ambruss[2,5]
*  Alternate Name:      Elizabeth Underhill[3]
*  Alternate Name:      Elizabeth Batchelder[4]

*  Sex:                          Female

*  Father:                      Nathaniel Ambrose (677-1745)
*  Mother:                     Sarah Eastman (1674-1728)

2)  INDIVIDUAL EVENTS (with source citations as indicated in brackets):

*  Birth:                         2 October 1698, Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts, United States[1-2]

*  Distribution:              15 May 1732 (age 33), appointed administratrix of husband's estate; Chester, Rockingham, New Hampshire, United States[3]

*  Distribution:              26 June 1745 (age 46), father's will proved; Chester, Rockingham, New Hampshire, United States[4]

3)  SHARED EVENTS (with source citations as indicated in brackets):

*  Spouse 1:                    Sampson Underhill (1692-1732)
*  Marriage 1:                15 January 1717/8 (about age 19), Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts, United States[1,5]

*  Child 1:                      John Underhill 1720-1793
*  Child 2:                      Jeremiah Underhill 1724-    
*  Child 3:                      Moses Underhill 1726-1804
*  Child 4:                      Hezekiah Underhill 1727-1800

*  Spouse 2:                   Benjamin Batchelder (1708-1782)
*  Marriage 2:                about 1742 (about age 43), Chester, Rockingham, New Hampshire, United States[1]

*  Child 5:                      Betty Batchelder 1742-1806

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

Elizabeth Ambrose (or Ambruss) was born 2 October 1698 in Salisbury, Massachusetts Bay, the daughter of Nathaniel and Sarah (Eastman) Ambrose[1-2].

On 15 January 1717/8, she married Sampson Underhill (1692-1731) in Salisbury, Massachusetts by the Reverend Caleb Cushing[1,5].  They had four children, all born and recorded in Salisbury:

*  John Underhill (1721-1793), married 1741 Joanna Healey (1718-1809).
*  Jeremiah Underhill (1724-????).
*  Moses Underhill (1726-1804) married 1753 Anna Glidden (1738-1808).
*  Hezekiah Underhill (1727-1800), married 1751 Tabitha Sargent (1726-1803).

Sampson Underhill died before 27 March 1732 in Chester, New Hampshire.  Administration of his estate was granted to his wife, Elizabeth, on 15 May 1732[3].  The estate was finally settled on 25 August 1742 when the administrators were licensed to sell the real estate.

Elizabeth (Ambrose) Underhill married, secondly, to Benjamin Batchelder (1708-1782) before 1742 in Chester, New Hampshire[1,5].  They had one child:

*  Betty Batchelder (1742-1806).

Her father, Nathaniel Ambrose of Chester, New Hampshire wrote a will on 3 June 1745 and it was proved on 26 June 1745 in Rockingham County Probate Court[4].  In his will, he bequeathed to his daughter Elizabeth:
"Item I give unto My beloved Daughter Elisabeth Batchelder ten Pounds in Money old tenor to be paid out of my Esteat at the end of four years after my decease."
There is no known death date or burial location for Elizabeth (Ambrose) (Underhill) Batchelder.

5.  SOURCES

1. Josephine C Frost (editor), Underhill Genealogy, Volume IV  (N.p.: Myron C. Taylor, in the interests of the Underhill Society of America, 1932), pages 16-22, #1 Sampson Underhill family sketch.

2. Topsfield Historical Society, Vital Records of Salisbury, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849 (Topsfield, Mass. : Topsfield Historical Society, 1915), Births, page 14, Elizabeth Ambruss birth entry, 2 October 1698.

3. Henry Harrison Metcalf and Otis Grant Hammond, editors, Probate Records of the Province of New Hampshire (Concord, N.H.: Rumney Press, 1915), Vol. II, 1718-1740; State Paper Series Vol. 32, pp 439-440, Sampson Underhill of Chester probate records, 1732; digital images, Ancestry.com,  (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 30 April 2017); in "New Hampshire Wills and Probate Records, 1643-1982," All Counties > Vol. 32-34, images 244-245 of 1219; original data from New Hampshire County, District and Probate Courts.

4. Henry Harrison Metcalf and Otis Grant Hammond, editors, Probate Records of the Province of New Hampshire (Concord, N.H.: Rumney Press, 1915), Vol. III, 1741-1749, State Papers Series Vol. 33, pages 268-270, Nathaniel Ambrose of Chester probate records, 1745; digital images, Ancestry.com,  (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 30 April 2017); in "New Hampshire Wills and Probate Records, 1643-1982," All Counties > Vol. 32-34, images 629-630 of 1219; original data from New Hampshire County, District and Probate Courts.

5. Topsfield Historical Society, Vital Records of Salisbury, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849, Marriages, page 503, Sampson Underhill and Elizabeth Ambruss entry, 15 January 1717/8.


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NOTE:  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 in 2014.  I have extended this theme in 2023 to 520 Ancestors in 520 Weeks.


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