Elizabeth Hunter
Wife of Deacon Humphrey Woodbury of Beverly, Massachusetts, married by 1637, and executrix of his will in 1686; probably the mother of Thomas Woodbury of Salem and Beverly. Her own will of 1689 remembers her son Peter, killed by the Indians at Bloody Brook. She died at Beverly later that year. Her surname is given as Hunter; the local records call her only Elizabeth.
Life
- by 1637Married Humphrey Woodburyby 1637
He had a household of three in the Salem land grant of 1637.
- 1689Diedbet. 8 Aug and 26 Nov 1689, Beverly, Massachusetts
Her will of 1 May 1689 has a schedule dated 8 Aug 1689 and was proved at Salem on 26 Nov 1689.
Family
Pedigree
Notes
Wife of Deacon Humphrey Woodbury of Beverly, married by 1637, and executrix of his will in 1686. Her surname is Hunter in Anderson’s Great Migration Begins, citing The American Genealogist 40:80-81 (source); the Beverly and Salem records call her only Elizabeth.
Her will of 1 May 1689, signed by mark, remembers the son she lost at Bloody Brook fourteen years before: “I give unto my two grandchildren Peter ye son of John Woodberry, & to Peter ye son of William Woodberry, 10s apiece out of my estate because they beare ye name of my son Peter that was killed in ye war with Capt. Lartheope by the Indians, & had not had any inheritance among his brethren.” To her daughters “Susana Tinee & Christian Traske” she left twenty shillings each “to be laid out in two Gold rings, and kept by them in remembrance of me,” and in August she added her son William as executor “with my daughters” (source).
That she was the mother of Thomas Woodbury, born before the church records begin, is inferred from the dates; Humphrey had no other known wife.
Research: research/ellingwood/Ellingwood_Woodbury_Rand.md.