She was the second wife of Reverend Samuel Seabury (1706-1764). Rev. Seabury's first wife, Abigail Mumford, died in 1731 in New London, Connecticut.
"In 1733 Mr. Seabury took as his second wife Elizabeth, daughter of Adam Powell, a merchant of Newport, R. I., and a granddaughter of Gabriel Bernon. She survived her husband thirty-five years and attained a venerable age, dying Feb. 6, 1799, in her 87th year. She was buried in St. George's churchyard, by the side of her husband."
Source and quote from "History of St. George's Church, Hempstead, Long Island, N.Y. (1881)" by Reverend William H. Moore, D.D. Additional genealogy information from lineage records of the General Society of Mayflower Descendants.
Elizabeth's sister was Esther Bernon Powell Helme.
"In 1733 Mr. Seabury took as his second wife Elizabeth, daughter of Adam Powell, a merchant of Newport, R. I., and a granddaughter of Gabriel Bernon. She survived her husband thirty-five years and attained a venerable age, dying Feb. 6, 1799, in her 87th year. She was buried in St. George's churchyard, by the side of her husband."
Source and quote from "History of St. George's Church, Hempstead, Long Island, N.Y. (1881)" by Reverend William H. Moore, D.D. Additional genealogy information from lineage records of the General Society of Mayflower Descendants.
Elizabeth's sister was Esther Bernon Powell Helme.
She was the second wife of Reverend Samuel Seabury (1706-1764). Rev. Seabury's first wife, Abigail Mumford, died in 1731 in New London, Connecticut.
"In 1733 Mr. Seabury took as his second wife Elizabeth, daughter of Adam Powell, a merchant of Newport, R. I., and a granddaughter of Gabriel Bernon. She survived her husband thirty-five years and attained a venerable age, dying Feb. 6, 1799, in her 87th year. She was buried in St. George's churchyard, by the side of her husband."
Source and quote from "History of St. George's Church, Hempstead, Long Island, N.Y. (1881)" by Reverend William H. Moore, D.D. Additional genealogy information from lineage records of the General Society of Mayflower Descendants.
Elizabeth's sister was Esther Bernon Powell Helme.
"In 1733 Mr. Seabury took as his second wife Elizabeth, daughter of Adam Powell, a merchant of Newport, R. I., and a granddaughter of Gabriel Bernon. She survived her husband thirty-five years and attained a venerable age, dying Feb. 6, 1799, in her 87th year. She was buried in St. George's churchyard, by the side of her husband."
Source and quote from "History of St. George's Church, Hempstead, Long Island, N.Y. (1881)" by Reverend William H. Moore, D.D. Additional genealogy information from lineage records of the General Society of Mayflower Descendants.
Elizabeth's sister was Esther Bernon Powell Helme.
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