Elizabeth Bishop

Elizabeth __?__

• Birth: ca. 1600, presumably in England
• Death: aft. 1657, presumably in MA
• Spouse: m1: by 1639, probably earlier, Thomas LECHFORD (1590-1644):
  • Occupation: solicitor, author (Episcopalian)
  • Historical: America's first practicing attorney
  • Migration-1: 27 Jun 1638, arrived Boston from England
  • Migration-2: 3 Aug 1641, departed Boston for England
• Spouse: m2. 1644/5, Samuel WILBORE (1600-1656) (Anne Smith’s widower)
  • … in 1637 he, with others was banished to Portsmouth R.I. for being a follower of Ann Hutchinson (Antimonian)
  • In 1645 he returned to Boston.
  • Event: Elizabeth was admitted to the Boston Church on 29 Nov 1645
• Spouse: m3. 20 Feb 1656/7, Henry BISHOP (1600-1664) (Patience Lamberton’s widower).

No known children.

5. Anon. 1910. Genealogical and Family History of Northern New York… Vol. III. Lewis Historical Pub. Co., NY (online at Ancestry.com):- p. 931 WILBUR

Samuel Wildbore, immigrant ancestor, married, in England, Ann, daughter of Thomas Bradford, of Doncaster, Yorkshire. [Samuel's wife was Anne SMITH, not Ann BRADFORD]. The first record of him is on December 1, 1633, when he and his wife Ann were admitted to the First Church at Boston. He was made a freeman in Boston, March 4, 1634. He owned much property in Taunton, Massachusetts, as well as in Boston, and probably lived in both places. In November, 1637, he was among those banished from the colony on account of religious views. Acting on the advice of Roger Williams he went to Providence, where he and others who fled with him negotiated the purchase of the island of Aquednek, now Rhode Island, from the Narragansett Indians. Early in 1638 he removed, with his family, to the new location. In 1645 he returned to Boston. Later he built an iron furnace at Taunton, the first in New England. 1638 he was clerk of the town board, constable in 1639, in 1644, sergeant. He married (second) Elizabeth, widow of Thomas Lechford. She was admitted to the church November 29, 1645. He died July 24, 1656. [Samuel died 29 Nov 1656, not July 24th.] His will, dated April 30, 1656, was proved November 6, 1656, and his widow and son Shadrach were executors. His widow married Henry Bishop, December 20, 1656; he died in 1664, and she died probably about July, 1665.

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Donald Lines Jacobus. 1935. "The First Wife of Deputy-Governor James Bishop." The American Genealogist 12(July): 77-79 (online at AmericanAncestors.org).

Henry Bishop, brother of James, lived for a time in New Haven; and here was recorded the death of Henry's wife Patience on 24 July 1655... Henry Bishop's wife was probably Patience Lamberton. No chilren of Henry are recorded; after the death of Patience, he moved to Boston and married again.

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Source: The Great Migration, Mentioned in “Nathaniel Bishop.” Page 305.

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References

1. Clarence Almon Torry. 1985. New England Marriages Prior to 1700. New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, MA (reprinted 1997, Genealogical Publ. Co., Baltimore, MD): p. 458 LECHFORD, Thomas (-1648?, 1645?) & Elizabeth ? , m/2 Samuel WILBUR 1645, m/3 Henry BISHOP 1657; b 1645?; Boston
2. http://dgmweb.net/FGS/L/LechfordThomas-Elizabeth_.html
3. Appleton's cyclopedia of American biography, vol. 3 (Grinnell - Lockwood), by Wilson, James Grant, 1832-1914, ed; Fiske, John, 1842-1901, joint ed. (New York: Appleton, 1887), p. 651. < GoogleBooks > Thomas Lechford (c. 1590 – 1644) was an English lawyer and author who wrote about his experiences in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Born in London, Lechford emigrated to Boston in 1638. He became the first man to practice law in New England. Lechford returned to England in 1641, very dissatisfied with his experiences in the colony. Lechford published Plaine Dealing, or Newes from New England (London, 1642), and New England's Advice to Old England (1644). A new edition of Plaine Dealing with notes by J. Hammond Trumbull was published in 1867.
4. Hale, Edward Everett, 1863-1932; Trumbull, J. Hammond (James Hammond), 1821-1897. Note-book kept by Thomas Lechford, Esq., lawyer, in Boston, Massachusetts Bay, from June 27, 1638, to July 29, 1641 by Lechford, Thomas, ca. 1590-1644?; Page XIV < Archive.Org > “From succeeding pages of his Note-look we gather some — but scanty and unsatisfactory — knowledge of his domestic relations. His wife is mentioned in 1639 and afterwards ; and, as no evidence has been discovered of his marriage on this side of the water, we infer that she accompanied him from England ; but he nowhere gives any information of her family, nor even introduces her Christian name.”
5. Barnes, Thomas G. Thomas Lechford and the Earliest Lawyering in Massachusetts, 1638–1641 link > “He and his wife, who apparently joined him in 1639, had a maid and ate the “best suger.” He sported a “silver laced coate and a gold wrought cap” and his wife a “tuft holland” waistcoat in 1639 and a new gown in 1640. There was beer for his table, and he smoked Spanish tobacco from Venezuela, the most expensive at the time. Moreover, in September 1640 he was able to buy a house and garden in Boston from a tailor who removed to Connecticut. Whatever Lechford’s status before, he was no longer, as Trumbull erred in supposing, “not even a householder; in the eye of the law . . . merely a ‘transient.’””
6. http://dgmweb.net/FGS/W/WilboreSamuel-AnnSmith-Elizabeth_.html
7. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Wilbore
8. http://dgmweb.net/FGS/B/BishopHenry-PatienceLamberton-Elizabeth_.html
9. Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to N.E. 1620-1633, Vols. I-III. “Samuel Wilbore” Page 1987-1988. < AmericanAncestors >
10. Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volume I, A-B. Mentioned in “Nathaniel Bishop.” Page 305. < AmericanAncestors >. (document attached)
11. Donald Lines Jacobus. Families of Ancient New Haven, Vol I, page 201 (Bishop Family) < GoogleBooks >