Elizabeth Emerson

Also Elizabeth Fuller · Elizabeth Perrin

Probably the wife of John Fuller of Ipswich, the mother of Nathaniel Fuller, and later the wife of Thomas Perrin. Probably a daughter of Thomas Emerson and Elizabeth Brewster, and so a sister of Rev. Joseph Emerson of Mendon, an ancestor of Ralph Waldo Emerson.

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Life

  1. 1623
    Born
    bp. 14 June 1623, Bishop's Stortford, England

    The text reads "1-4 .Tuu.", taken as 14 June; Mollie reads 14 Jan.

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Family

Spouse 1
Thomas Perrin

Her second husband.

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Pedigree

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Notes

Wife of John Fuller of Ipswich. She came from Bishop’s Stortford, Hertfordshire, with her parents about 1638. 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).

Mollie's typescript· 2 passages · 1 claim checked

What Mollie wrote about her in The Holbrook and Low Families, and her claims about her checked against the records.

  1. Mollie's Emerson chart gives her birth in England on 14 Jan 1623 (the record reads 14 June) and her marriage to John Fuller in 1638.

    ELIZABETH EMERSON (2) Thomas 1) Born in Eng. 14 Jan. 1623 Died.Ips. May 1 1681 Married 1638 John Fuller
    p. 109 A →

  2. Her father's will left her his best feather bed and coverlet, the great carved chest and a carved box, and legacies to her daughters Susanna and Elizabeth.

    To my daughter Elizabeth (Emerson) Fuller, the best feather bed and boulster, with a pair of blanketts and the best coverlet ... the great carved chest and the carved box with a little trunk
    p. 109 E →

Checked against the records

  • Proven
    Ralph Waldo Emerson descends from Thomas Emerson

    Confirmed. Emerson descends from Thomas through Rev. Joseph Emerson of Mendon, a brother of Elizabeth (Emerson) Fuller (The Ipswich Emersons, 1900), so he and Harriet Low were about fifth cousins once removed. The others named here have not been checked.

    Read it in the book, p. 109 E →
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Connections

In her ancestry
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Every notable ancestor and famous relative that Elizabeth's own ancestors lead to, with the lines drawn down to her.

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