Elizabeth Prior
Probably a daughter of Matthew Prior of Killingworth upon Matinecock, Long Island, and a sister of John Prior, born in 1656. She married John Feke at Killingworth in 1673; Friends' meetings were held in their house. Of her nine children, Hannah (Feke) Cock, mother of Mary (Cock) Frost, was probably one, and Robert was the father of the painter Robert Feke. She died in 1701/2.
Life
- 1656Born6th mo. 1656
The 6th month, before 1752, is August ("b. 6th mo. (Aug.) 1656," Cock genealogy, pp. 287, 290).
compiledprobable - 1673Married John Feke15th of 7th mo. 1673, Killingworth (Matinecock), Oyster Bay, Long Island, New York
The 7th month, before 1752, is September: 15 Sept 1673, "according to Friends Record" (Cock genealogy, p. 287). The Frost Genealogy has "Sept. 15, 1670" (p. 33); their first child was born the 9th of the 4th month 1674, which favours 1673.
- 1701Died25th of 11th mo. 1701/2, Killingworth (Matinecock), Oyster Bay, Long Island, New York
The 11th month is January: 25 Jan 1701/2 ("d. 25/11 mo. (Jan.) 1701/2," Cock genealogy, pp. 287, 291).
compiledprobable
Family
- Father
- Matthew Prior
"dau. of Matthew Priar and Mary his wife, of Brookhaven, Oyster Bay and Killingworth" (Cock genealogy, p. 287); among Matthew's children "as shown by Friends' Record in New York" (pp. 290-291). The Frost Genealogy: "Elizabeth was the daughter of Matthew Pryer of Killingworth" (p. 33).
compiledprobableSources
- History and Genealogy of the Cock, Cocks, Cox Family (1914)
- Josephine C. Frost, The Frost Genealogy: Descendants of William Frost of Oyster Bay, New York (1912)
- Reasoning:
research/mcmillan/Frost_Underhill_Bowne_Feake.md
- Mother
- Mary Priorcompiledprobable
Sources
- History and Genealogy of the Cock, Cocks, Cox Family (1914)
- Reasoning:
research/mcmillan/Frost_Underhill_Bowne_Feake.md
- Spouse
1 child
- Siblings
Pedigree
Notes
Grandmother of Mary (Cock) Frost: a daughter of Matthew Prior of Killingworth upon Matinecock, and sister of John Prior, the grandfather of Isaac Frost. She married John Feke, son of Lieut. Robert Feake and Elizabeth Fones, at Killingworth in September 1673, by the Friends’ record (source, p. 287). They lived on the land Captain Underhill had given John on the Underhill tract, near her father’s, and Friends’ meetings and marriages were held in their house (p. 10).
She had nine children between 1674 and 1695 (see John Feke), and died at Killingworth in January 1701/2, at forty-five. Her second daughter Hannah married James Cock and was Mary (Cock) Frost’s mother; her son Robert was the father of the painter Robert Feke (source, p. 14).
Research: research/mcmillan/Frost_Underhill_Bowne_Feake.md.
Connections
- Famous kin
- Robert Feke
Colonial portrait painter of Newport, whose pictures "set a new standard" for the next generation of American artists; his portrait of Benjamin Franklin is at Harvard
Robert Feke is the first cousin, seven times removed, of the centre of this tree.
- Robert Feke
- 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.