Ancestral Glimpses » Elizabeth Fones (1609-± 1668)

Données personnelles Elizabeth Fones 

• Elle est née le 21 septembre 1609 dans Winthrop Manor, Groton, Suffolk County, ENGLAND.
• Alternative: Elle est née le 21 janvier 1610 dans Groton Manor, Suffolk, ENGLAND.
• Elle est décédée environ 1668 dans Hallett's Cove, Newtown, Queens County, New York, British America.
• Alternative: Elle est décédée le 1 février 1673 dans Newtown, Queens County, New York, British America, elle avait 63 ans.
• Elle est enterrée dans Maspeth, Queens County, New York, British AmericaMount Olivet Cemetery.
• Un enfant de Thomas Fones et Anne Winthrop
• Cette information a été mise à jour pour la dernière fois le 6 avril 2015.

Famille de Elizabeth Fones

(1) Elle est mariée avec Robert Feake.

Ils se sont mariés le 2 décembre 1631 à Watertown, Middlesex County, Masssachusetts, British America, elle avait 22 ans.

Enfant(s):

1. John Feake  ± 1638-1724 
2. Elizabeth Feake  1633-< 1675 
3. Hannah Feake  1637-1677 

(2) Elle est mariée avec Henry Winthrop.

Ils se sont mariés le 25 avril 1629 à St. Sepulchre, Mew, London, ENGLAND, elle avait 19 ans.

Enfant(s):

1. Martha Joanna Winthrop  

(3) Elle est mariée avec William Hallett.

Ils se sont mariés apres 1648 à Flushing, Long Island, New York, British America.

Enfant(s):

1. William Hallett  1648-1729
2. Samuel Hallett  1650-1724

Notes par Elizabeth Fones

MARRIED 1ST HENRY OR HARRY WINTHROP, 2ND ROBERT FEAKE, 2 DEC 1631

Elizabeth was both the niece of Governor John Winthrop of Massachusetts Bay Colony and the widow of his son, Henry, who drowned at Salem MA upon his arrival in 1630. Elizabeth followed her deceased husband, Henry Winthrop, to Massachusetts Bay Colony aboard the ship LYON in 1631. Elizabeth is well-known as “The Winthrop Woman” of the historical novel with that title by Anya Seton.
In 1640 she and her second husband, Robert Feake, had moved to Greenwich, Connecticut. There Robert became mentally unstable and unable to manage his affairs. There is some controversy concerning the adultery and assumed divorce by his wife, Elizabeth, who subsequently married William Hallett.

Sources: 1. Annals of Newtown 974 724/N1 H2r-29, 142/3 2. CRA Hallett Ped 2:484 of Delefield Gen, Wilson Gen - 262 3. Pettit Fam. In. Am - 10

NEHG Register, vol. 48, Apr 1894, p. 216:
HALLETT-FONES. Can any one inform me when William Hallett married Elizabeth Fones-Winthrop-Feke? She was the daughter of Thomas Fones of London, Eng. and Anna his wife a daughter of Adam Winthrop of Groton, Eng. April 25, 1629, she married Henry Winthrop, second son of Gov. John Winthrop of Massachusetts, who was a son of Adam Winthrop above-mentioned. Henry was accidentally drowned at Salem, Mass., on the day following his arrival in New England, July 2, 1630; his wife, with the only child of this marriage, Martha Joanna, and Margaret the wife of Gov. John Winthrop of Mass., arrived in Boston, Mass. in November, 1631. Elizabeth Fones-Winthrop married secondly in New England (probably Boston), before the year 1636, Lieut. Robert Feke (Feake, Fekes, Feecx, Feac), who in conjunction with Capt. Daniel Patrick, both having been in John Underhill's troop, invested largely in lands in Connecticut, chiefly in and about Greenwich. Early in 1647 Robert Feke went to England, leaving his lands in charge of William Hallett (born about 1616 in Dorsetshire, Eng.), and Mrs. Feke. In August, 1647, we have a hint at an improper intimacy between Hallett and Mrs. Feke; this is again mentioned in March, 1648; in April, 1648, Mrs. Hallett is with child, and in July of the same year there is again some mention as to the validity of her marriage with Hallett. (See Proc. Mass. Hist. Soc., 2d ser., vol. 6, pp. 2-13; Winthrop's New England; Some Old Puritan Love Letters, pp. 53, 95, 131, by J. H. Twichell; N. E. Gen. and Bio. Record, vol. 11; Doc. Col. Hist. of N. Y.; Cal. N. Y. Hist. Man.) Any Information that might lead to the discovery of the date of this marriage would be very welcome; also any information regarding the life of William Hallett previous to 1647. John L. Delafield. 475 Fifth Ave., New York City.

Milton Rubincam, "A Winthrop-Bernadotte Pedigree," NEHG Register, vol. 103, Oct 1949, p. 247:
ELIZABETH FONES, b. 21 Jan. 1609/10; d. in 1668. Married (1) 25 April 1629 her first cousin, HENRY WINTHROP, son of Gov. John Winthrop. He was drowned at Salem, Mass., 2 July 1630, the day following his arrival in the colony. They had 1 daughter. Married (2) 1632 LIEUT. ROBERT FEAKE, Of Watertown, Mass., who came to America in 1630 with the Winthrop fleet. He died 1 Feb. 1660. Married (3) WILLIAM HALLETT, who was later Sheriff of Flushing, Long Island. He died at Hell Gate in 1688.

Elizabeth Winthrop FONES
Born 21 Ja 1609/10
Died c 1656
English Origin Boxford, Suffolk
Came to New England 1630
With Winthrop fleet
Resided in Watertown; CT 1640; LI
Occupation gentlewoman
First Spouse Henry WINTHROP (1607/8 - 1630)
Children
Second Spouse Robert FEAKE (qv), divorce1649
Children Elizabeth, Hannah, John, Robert, Sarah
Third Spouse William HALLETT (1616 - c1710)
Children William

PARENTS-BIRTH-MARRIAGE-DEATH-BAPTISM-ENDOWMENT-SEAL PARENTS: LDS ANCESTRAL FILE #8XVK-GM. PARENTS-BIRTH-MARRIAGE-DEATH: COLONIAL ANCESTORS OF EDWARD JACKSON (1741-1807), REVOLUTIONARY WAR SOLDIER, by Glady Stutler Hoffmann; 660 Longwood Dr., NW, Atlanta, GA; 1967; p. 15, 19; FHL film #0854154, item 6; 31 pgs. Elizabeth Fones was the immigrant ancestor to America. She was born Jan. 21, 1610 in St. Sepulchres Parish, London. She died 1673-74 at Hallett's Cove, Long Island. She married first on April 25, 1629 her ne'er-do-well, but charming cousin, Henry Winthrop. When Henry's father John Winthrop was appointed Governor by the Massachusetts Bay Company, he made arrangements for Henry to come to Massachusetts with him on the ship, Arabella, about the end of March 1630. Irresponsible Henry missed the boat and had to take the next vessel, which landed at Boston July 1, 1630. On the very next day he was drowned in a river. He was then twenty-three years old. After Henry's death Elizabeth married 2nd Robert Feake, who had come with the first fleet of 1630 and settled at Watertown; where he was one of the first and largest proprietors. Robert, a silversmith, was unfitted for the rigorous, dangerous life of a pioneer and lost his mind. He went back to England, leaving Elizabeth, her six children and his considerable property, including the Manor of Greenwich, to shift for themselves. (Lawrence Mayo, The Winthrop Family In America, Boston, 1948). In 1642 Elizabeth and Captain Dan Patrick were forced to surrender Greenwich to the Dutch. Patrick died the next year and Governor Peter Stuyvesant placed William Hallett in charge. In 1647 Elizabeth dared to do one of the most shocking acts of Puritan history. She went to the Dutch court in New Amsterdam and applied for a divorce from Robert Feake. In order to get it she had to declare herself an adulteress with William Hallett, and only her connection with the powerful Winthrop family saved her from being publicly flogged, having her ears cut off, or from execution. Elizabeth and William Hallett, who was six years younger, were married at New Amsterdam, where they were forced to flee from Greenwich. Their marriage date is uncertain. (Massachusetts Historical Society, Letters of Winthrop Family. One dated Feb. 1649, signed "Eliz.Hallett" to "brother, John Winthrop, Esq." states that they have "made a quiet end about the estate of Mr. Feke.") Governor Winthrop, Elizabeth's uncle, quardian and father-in-law referred to her as "my unregenerate niece" and Governor Stuyvesant called her "that verdombe Winthrop Woman." (Jacket cover of The Winthrop Woman, by Anya Seton, Cambridge, 1958.) Elizabeth Fones has thousands of descendants for she had children by all three of her husbands.

Henry or Harry/Winthrop * 25 Apr 1629 Sealed 9 Feb 1961 SL; Robert/Feake * 2 Dec 1631

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Descendants of Elizabeth Fones
Posted by: Barbara Clark MyallDate: October 02, 1999 at 13:11:22
In Reply to: Descendants of Elizabeth Fones by Anne Shannon of 277 

This is my third intersecting line:

Elizabeth Fones + Robert Feake
John Feake + Elizabeth Prior
Deborah Feake + Thomas Whitson Jr.
Martha Whitson + Benjamin Canby
Elizabeth Canby + Samuel Birdsall
Benjamin Birdsall + Sarah Willson
Daniel Birdsall + Gulielma Willson
Anna Catherine Birdsall + Milton Lee Clark
Edwin Hiram Clark + Leeta Bannon
Perry Edwin Clark + Jean Severance Montgomery
Barbara Lee Clark (me) 

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ELIZABETH FONES was born in England about 1610, daughter of Thomas and Ann Fones, and died in Long Island about 1667. She married three times:
1) Her first marriage was to her cousin Henry, second son of the great John Winthrop, in London 25 April 1629. When the Winthrop Fleet sailed in the spring of 1630, Henry was taken along to assist his father, because John, the eldest and most reliable son needed to stay at home to mind the family and business there. Elizabeth also stayed home, because she was pregnant; she was waiting until the child was born and old enough to travel before she joined Henry in America. The baby was born 9 May 1630 and christened Martha Joanna. Then Henry drowned .A diarist, Hubbard, is quoted in the footnotes to Winthrop's History; "A sprightly and hopeful young gentleman he was, who, though he escaped the danger of the main sea, was unhappily drowned in a small creek, not long after he came ashore, even the very next day, July the 2nd." He was a strong swimmer, but got a cramp and died very close to his friends who were unable to help him because none of them could swim. .
2) Elizabeth came later, bringing the baby, on the ship Lyon, landing 2 November 1631. Governor Winthrop quickly married her off to Robert Feake, in Watertown, Massachusetts, 2 months later. The Feakes stayed in Watertown for several years, and Robert was appointed lieutenant and elected deputy and selectman. Then his commanding officer, Captain Patrick persuaded them to buy some property from the Indians in Greenwich, Connecticut. There are many stories about Elizabeth and Patrick; she was undoubtedly a flirt, undoubtedly bored with Robert, and probably did have an affair with him, and equally probably Robert was well aware of it. Then Patrick was assassinated in Greenwich in 1644; and William Hallett was put in charge of the Greenwich property because Robert was ill and then was away.
3) In the meantime Elizabeth and William Hallett had become a pair. Again.it not quite clear what happened. Because of Robert's insanity, Elizabeth obtained some kind of a divorce in New Amsterdam. She had another child, William Hallett's, towards the end of 1648..A "legal separation" was supposedly granted by the Dutch, but at least until May of 1649, no marriage had taken place between William and Elizabeth.. The council in Fort Amsterdam on 9 March 1649, banished William from Dutch lands, so they had to flee to New London in Connecticut where her cousin John Winthrop was deputy governor. When it looked as if they would be charged there too for adultery, they fled again, this time to Long Island. To quote McCracken:"We have found no evidence of how William Hallett and his "wife" Elizabeth finally made their peace with the authorities." Governor Eaton wrote to John Winthrop Jr., "it is possible that William Hallett and she that was Mr. Feakes his wife, are marryed; though not only the lawfulness and validity of such a marriage but the reality and truth is by some questioned (LIF)." Jacobus studied the documents and said he thought it was a legitimate marriage.(LIF) Whatever the truth was, Elizabeth had another Hallett baby, Samuel, born sometime around 1652.
William Hallett became Sheriff of Flushing, Long Island. While holding that office he permitted William Wickenden, "the famous Baptist evangelist of Rhode Island" to hold services at his house, and this so angered Governor Stuyvesant that he again banished William, but that was somehow smoothed over. Elizabeth died before 1669; after the death of Elizabeth,William married Susanna (Booth) Thorn as her second husband .But that marriage did not work out and a separation was arranged. A third wife, Katherine, is on record in 1684 and in 1686 a fourth wife, Rebecca, widow of John Bayliss. William Hallett died at Hell Gate, Long Island in 1706.
.Child of Elizabeth and Edward:Winthrop:
i. MARTHA JOHANNA WINTHROP, b. London 1630; d. Greenwich, CT ca.1690 ; m. ca. 1648 THOMAS LYON., child Mary married (1) Joseph Stedwell and (2) John Wilson.
Children of Elizabeth and Robert Feake, listed under Feake,
Children of Elizabeth and William Hallet:
vii. CAPT. WILLIAM HALLETT, b. in the fall 1648; d. 1719; m. Newton, LI, ca. 1669 SARAH WOOLSEY; child William killed by slaves when age 27. (Torrey).
viii. SAMUEL HALLETT, b. 1652; died 27 Dec. 1724.

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