Elizabeth Emerson

Elizabeth came from Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire, with her parents about 1638, and married John Fuller of Ipswich. Her brother Rev. Joseph Emerson of Mendon was an ancestor of Ralph Waldo Emerson, who was about a fifth cousin once removed of Harriet Low.

Her father's will (1653) gave her "the best fetherbed & boulster ... and the best couerlet & the bedsted," and also "the great carued chest & the carued box with a little Trunck with all yt is in it and a small carued chest." A codicil divides his gift to her between "hur tow daughters" Susana and Elizabeth (Probate Records of Essex County 2:35-37).

She was executrix of John Fuller's will and attested his inventory on 25 Sept 1666. A second inventory was "taken the last day of December, 1672, being after the marriage of the wido Fullar to her seckond husband," Thomas Perrin (2:59).

King Philip's War. Her brother Joseph had been Mendon's minister since 1669, settled by an agreement that Job Tyler signed, and Mendon was the first town in Massachusetts Bay to be attacked, on 14 July 1675. "In 1675, soon after the Indian attack upon Mendon, he removed to Concord, where he died June 3, 1680" (Annals of Mendon, p. 46); that winter the town was abandoned and burned. For the Narragansett campaign a "Nath Emerson" joined Maj. Samuel Appleton's company (Soldiers in King Philip's War, p. 157): her nephew Nathaniel (1657-1738), son of her brother Nathaniel, or perhaps the father himself. In 1735 the nephew's son Stephen drew "on the right of his father" in Narragansett Township No. 1 (source, pp. 65-66; Bodge p. 414).