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Elizabeth <I>Capen</I> Swift

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Elizabeth Capen Swift

Birth
Dorset, England
Death
26 Jan 1678 (aged 66–67)
Dorchester, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA
Burial
Dorchester, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA Add to Map
Plot
Lot B145
Memorial ID
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Elizabeth Capen, dau. of Barnard Capen & Joan Purchase, b. presumably at Dorchester in Dorset, England. She d. Jan. 26, 1677/8 at Dorchester, Mass., Æ 67 (g.s.). Her gravestone inscription indicates she was born AFTER Jan. 27, 1610/11.

On Oct. 18, 1630 at Holy Trinity Church at Dorchester, England, Elizabeth m. Thomas Swift. They immigrated to New England after July 1633 and resided for the remainder of their lives at Dorchester, Mass.

The nine children of Thomas Swift and Elizabeth Capen are outlined in their father's memorial.

Edited 7/4/2015
Elizabeth Capen, dau. of Barnard Capen & Joan Purchase, b. presumably at Dorchester in Dorset, England. She d. Jan. 26, 1677/8 at Dorchester, Mass., Æ 67 (g.s.). Her gravestone inscription indicates she was born AFTER Jan. 27, 1610/11.

On Oct. 18, 1630 at Holy Trinity Church at Dorchester, England, Elizabeth m. Thomas Swift. They immigrated to New England after July 1633 and resided for the remainder of their lives at Dorchester, Mass.

The nine children of Thomas Swift and Elizabeth Capen are outlined in their father's memorial.

Edited 7/4/2015

Inscription

Elizabeth Swift
Aged 67 Years
Dyed January ye 26
1677

Elizabeth actually d. Jan. 26, 1677/8. On that day she was 66 years old, and Ætatis suæ (i.e., Æ, "Aged," in the XX year of her Age) 67.



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