Elizabeth Payson
Wife of Ensign Hopestill Foster, married at Dorchester in 1666/7, and his widow and administratrix in 1678; she probably married next Edmond Brown, a shopkeeper, before 1694. A daughter of Deacon Giles Payson, born at Roxbury in 1644/5, and mother of Samuel Foster, who married Rebecca Briscoe.
Life
- 1644Born4 Feb 1644/5, Roxbury, Massachusetts
"Elizabeth, d. Giles, Feb. 4, 1644. [1644-5. C. R. 1.]" (1:270). Mollie has 9 Feb 1645. An earlier Elizabeth was buried 8 Mar 1639.
documentedproven - 1666Married Hopestill Foster15 Feb 1666/7, Dorchester, Massachusetts
"Hopestill, eldest s. Capt. Hopestill, of Dorchester, and [blank] Pason, at Dorchester, 15 : 12m : 1666" (Roxbury church record, VR 2:152).
documentedproven
Family
- Father
- Giles Paysondocumentedproven
- Mother
- Spouse 1
- Edmond Brown
Shopkeeper; married before 1694 (Whitmore), "In 1694" (Roberts). Mollie calls him "Edmund Brown, soapboiler," but the soap boiler was her first husband.
Pedigree
Notes
Widow of Ensign Hopestill Foster, and his administratrix in 1678.
Her second husband, Edmund Brown, son of Deacon William Brown of Sudbury, settled first in Dorchester and became a Boston shopkeeper. He was a Boston constable in 1687, a lieutenant of militia, an overseer of the poor and, in 1692, a deputy for Boston. Roberts says that “In 1694, he married his second or third wife, the widow of Hopestill Foster (1673), and he died soon after” (History of the AHAC 1:283).
A deed of 2 Aug 1726 for a family house on Fitch’s alley reserves “the portion set apart for the thirds of Elizabeth Brown, grandmother of Samuel Foster,” her dower from her first husband’s estate (Suffolk Deeds 40:22-23, abstracted in NEHGR 178:35).
Mollie’s pencilled “d. 1733” (the last figure is unclear), “in [King’s?] Chapel Burying Ground Boston,” probably confuses her with Elizabeth (Phipps) Foster, widow of a later Hopestill (b. c. 1670), who died 15 Feb 1732/3.
Open questions
- Her mother: the colonial tree marks Elizabeth Dowell as her mother on documentary evidence. Her birth record names only her father, so the page keeps the link as inferred, probable.
- Her second marriage: before 1694 (Whitmore) or in 1694 (Roberts). No record of it seen.
Mollie's typescript
Mollie gives her marriage to Hopestill Foster in February 1666/7 and a second marriage to Edmund Brown of Boston, "soapboiler" (the soap boiler, the records show, was Hopestill).
married Elizabeth Payson, daughter of Giles Payson of Roxbury, Feb. 15 1167. She married 2nd. ... Edmund Brown, of Boston, soapboiler.
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Checked against the records
- DisprovenElizabeth Payson's second husband was Edmund Brown, soapboiler
Edmond Brown was a Boston shopkeeper. The soap boiler was her first husband, Ensign Hopestill Foster, whose son Samuel called himself "son of Hopestill Foster the soap boiler" in a deed of 1699/1700. She married Hopestill at Dorchester on 15 Feb 1666/7, and Brown before 1694.
Read it in the book, p. 118 → - DisprovenElizabeth Payson was born 9 Feb 1645
Born 4 Feb 1644/5 at Roxbury: "Elizabeth, d. Giles, Feb. 4, 1644" (Roxbury vital records). Her father, Deacon Giles Payson, died at Roxbury, not Dorchester, on 28 Jan 1688/9, aged 78, and her second husband was Edmond, not Edward, Brown.
Read it in the book, p. 122 →