For more information about her refer to: Scott Sherpherd's "Who's Who in the Graveyard, The Presbyterian Church of Morristown, Interments of Record Dating From 1731", Morristown NJ, @2002, in which the author made use of church records and two earlier complications of inscriptions, one from 1931 and another from 1851.
Contributed by Diane Gravlee (#47083760).
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Born Elizabeth Freeman in Oxford, England, she and her family emigrated to America in 1682. The family first settled in Philadelphia where tradition has it that her father drowned in the Delaware River. The family then moved to Piscataway, New Jersey. On December 18, 1701 she married John Ford, a carpenter and land speculator from Duxbury, Massachusetts. The couple settled in Woodbridge, New Jersey. They would have three children, Experience, Jacob, and Samuel. She was widowed in 1721 and remarried three years later to wheelwright John Linsley. Elizabeth was again widowed in 1749, and she then moved into her son Jacob's home where she died at the at of 91.∼Elizabeth Lindsley passed away at the age of 91. (Source: History of Morris County, New Jersey. New York: 1882. 131.)
Contributed by Diane Gravlee (#47083760).
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Born Elizabeth Freeman in Oxford, England, she and her family emigrated to America in 1682. The family first settled in Philadelphia where tradition has it that her father drowned in the Delaware River. The family then moved to Piscataway, New Jersey. On December 18, 1701 she married John Ford, a carpenter and land speculator from Duxbury, Massachusetts. The couple settled in Woodbridge, New Jersey. They would have three children, Experience, Jacob, and Samuel. She was widowed in 1721 and remarried three years later to wheelwright John Linsley. Elizabeth was again widowed in 1749, and she then moved into her son Jacob's home where she died at the at of 91.∼Elizabeth Lindsley passed away at the age of 91. (Source: History of Morris County, New Jersey. New York: 1882. 131.)
For more information about her refer to: Scott Sherpherd's "Who's Who in the Graveyard, The Presbyterian Church of Morristown, Interments of Record Dating From 1731", Morristown NJ, @2002, in which the author made use of church records and two earlier complications of inscriptions, one from 1931 and another from 1851.
Contributed by Diane Gravlee (#47083760).
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Born Elizabeth Freeman in Oxford, England, she and her family emigrated to America in 1682. The family first settled in Philadelphia where tradition has it that her father drowned in the Delaware River. The family then moved to Piscataway, New Jersey. On December 18, 1701 she married John Ford, a carpenter and land speculator from Duxbury, Massachusetts. The couple settled in Woodbridge, New Jersey. They would have three children, Experience, Jacob, and Samuel. She was widowed in 1721 and remarried three years later to wheelwright John Linsley. Elizabeth was again widowed in 1749, and she then moved into her son Jacob's home where she died at the at of 91.∼Elizabeth Lindsley passed away at the age of 91. (Source: History of Morris County, New Jersey. New York: 1882. 131.)
Contributed by Diane Gravlee (#47083760).
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Born Elizabeth Freeman in Oxford, England, she and her family emigrated to America in 1682. The family first settled in Philadelphia where tradition has it that her father drowned in the Delaware River. The family then moved to Piscataway, New Jersey. On December 18, 1701 she married John Ford, a carpenter and land speculator from Duxbury, Massachusetts. The couple settled in Woodbridge, New Jersey. They would have three children, Experience, Jacob, and Samuel. She was widowed in 1721 and remarried three years later to wheelwright John Linsley. Elizabeth was again widowed in 1749, and she then moved into her son Jacob's home where she died at the at of 91.∼Elizabeth Lindsley passed away at the age of 91. (Source: History of Morris County, New Jersey. New York: 1882. 131.)
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HERE lies inter'd the / Body of ye Widow Elizabeth / Linsly formerly ye widow / of John Ford Esqr. and / Mother of Collo. Jacob Ford / Senr. who died April ye [ illegible ] 1772
Here lies the Body of Widow Elizabeth Lindsly formerly widow of John Ford and Mother of Coll Jacob Ford She died April 1772 of (illegible)
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