Robert Elwell married: (1) By about 1634 Joan _____. She died at Gloucester 31 March 1675.
They had 11 children: Mary Dollivar Gardner, Samuel, Josiah, John, Isaac, Joseph, Sarah, Sarah again, Thomas, Jacob, & Richard.
In a letter dated 20 April 1648, Tristram Dalliber of Stoke Abbas, Dorset, wrote to John Balch and William Woodbury of Salem and added this postscript: "There is Robert Ellwell['s] wife hath œ3 here in her sister-in-law's hand which her brother gave her at his death if he be pleased to take it there I shall be content so as they will send an acquittance sealed up in a letter to me so as I may have it from them at the next return for they told me that they would send a letter to me & I should send it over with mine but I never heard more of them."
Based on the probable dates of birth of the his children, Robert Elwell probably married while in England. The document above indicates that his wife was from Stoke Abbas, Dorsetshire, or vicinity, and so his origin should be sought in that same area.
On 28 August 1639, "2 children of Rob[er]t Elwell" were baptized at Salem church. These two were probably sons Samuel and Josiah. Eldest child Mary may have been born in England and if so, was probably baptized there.
Source: Anderson's Great Migraqtion Study Project
Mary Dollivar Gardner, her eldest daughter, is seen with the middle name "Dollivar" because that was the surname of her 1st husband. Source book: "New England, The Great Migrationand The Great Migration Begins, 1620" which includes the following for Mary Elwell (daughter of Robert and Joan Elwell:
Mary, b abt 1634 in England, m(1) 15 Aug 1654 Samuel DOLLIVER, m(2) 16 Dec 1684 James Gardner.
They had 11 children: Mary Dollivar Gardner, Samuel, Josiah, John, Isaac, Joseph, Sarah, Sarah again, Thomas, Jacob, & Richard.
In a letter dated 20 April 1648, Tristram Dalliber of Stoke Abbas, Dorset, wrote to John Balch and William Woodbury of Salem and added this postscript: "There is Robert Ellwell['s] wife hath œ3 here in her sister-in-law's hand which her brother gave her at his death if he be pleased to take it there I shall be content so as they will send an acquittance sealed up in a letter to me so as I may have it from them at the next return for they told me that they would send a letter to me & I should send it over with mine but I never heard more of them."
Based on the probable dates of birth of the his children, Robert Elwell probably married while in England. The document above indicates that his wife was from Stoke Abbas, Dorsetshire, or vicinity, and so his origin should be sought in that same area.
On 28 August 1639, "2 children of Rob[er]t Elwell" were baptized at Salem church. These two were probably sons Samuel and Josiah. Eldest child Mary may have been born in England and if so, was probably baptized there.
Source: Anderson's Great Migraqtion Study Project
Mary Dollivar Gardner, her eldest daughter, is seen with the middle name "Dollivar" because that was the surname of her 1st husband. Source book: "New England, The Great Migrationand The Great Migration Begins, 1620" which includes the following for Mary Elwell (daughter of Robert and Joan Elwell:
Mary, b abt 1634 in England, m(1) 15 Aug 1654 Samuel DOLLIVER, m(2) 16 Dec 1684 James Gardner.
Robert Elwell married: (1) By about 1634 Joan _____. She died at Gloucester 31 March 1675.
They had 11 children: Mary Dollivar Gardner, Samuel, Josiah, John, Isaac, Joseph, Sarah, Sarah again, Thomas, Jacob, & Richard.
In a letter dated 20 April 1648, Tristram Dalliber of Stoke Abbas, Dorset, wrote to John Balch and William Woodbury of Salem and added this postscript: "There is Robert Ellwell['s] wife hath œ3 here in her sister-in-law's hand which her brother gave her at his death if he be pleased to take it there I shall be content so as they will send an acquittance sealed up in a letter to me so as I may have it from them at the next return for they told me that they would send a letter to me & I should send it over with mine but I never heard more of them."
Based on the probable dates of birth of the his children, Robert Elwell probably married while in England. The document above indicates that his wife was from Stoke Abbas, Dorsetshire, or vicinity, and so his origin should be sought in that same area.
On 28 August 1639, "2 children of Rob[er]t Elwell" were baptized at Salem church. These two were probably sons Samuel and Josiah. Eldest child Mary may have been born in England and if so, was probably baptized there.
Source: Anderson's Great Migraqtion Study Project
Mary Dollivar Gardner, her eldest daughter, is seen with the middle name "Dollivar" because that was the surname of her 1st husband. Source book: "New England, The Great Migrationand The Great Migration Begins, 1620" which includes the following for Mary Elwell (daughter of Robert and Joan Elwell:
Mary, b abt 1634 in England, m(1) 15 Aug 1654 Samuel DOLLIVER, m(2) 16 Dec 1684 James Gardner.
They had 11 children: Mary Dollivar Gardner, Samuel, Josiah, John, Isaac, Joseph, Sarah, Sarah again, Thomas, Jacob, & Richard.
In a letter dated 20 April 1648, Tristram Dalliber of Stoke Abbas, Dorset, wrote to John Balch and William Woodbury of Salem and added this postscript: "There is Robert Ellwell['s] wife hath œ3 here in her sister-in-law's hand which her brother gave her at his death if he be pleased to take it there I shall be content so as they will send an acquittance sealed up in a letter to me so as I may have it from them at the next return for they told me that they would send a letter to me & I should send it over with mine but I never heard more of them."
Based on the probable dates of birth of the his children, Robert Elwell probably married while in England. The document above indicates that his wife was from Stoke Abbas, Dorsetshire, or vicinity, and so his origin should be sought in that same area.
On 28 August 1639, "2 children of Rob[er]t Elwell" were baptized at Salem church. These two were probably sons Samuel and Josiah. Eldest child Mary may have been born in England and if so, was probably baptized there.
Source: Anderson's Great Migraqtion Study Project
Mary Dollivar Gardner, her eldest daughter, is seen with the middle name "Dollivar" because that was the surname of her 1st husband. Source book: "New England, The Great Migrationand The Great Migration Begins, 1620" which includes the following for Mary Elwell (daughter of Robert and Joan Elwell:
Mary, b abt 1634 in England, m(1) 15 Aug 1654 Samuel DOLLIVER, m(2) 16 Dec 1684 James Gardner.
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