My Maine Heritage - June 2023 - Person Sheet
My Maine Heritage - June 2023 - Person Sheet
NameElizabeth Wentworth
Birth Dateabt 1653
Death Dateabt 16 Apr 1704 Age: 51
Death PlaceBerwick, York Co., ME
FatherElder William Wentworth II (<1616-1697)
MotherElizabeth Canney Kenney Knight (->1697)
Misc. Notes
Per: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Tozier-93:
“The earliest information regarding Richard Tozer, Jr. and his wife Elizabeth, is found in the affidavits of each 9in the County Records at Exeter, N.H.), among the papers to prove the title of Mrs. Elizabeth Wentworth, (widow of Benjamin Wentworth, son of Ezekiel) to her farm, once owned by John Lovering. In his affidavit, dated 26 January 1733, Richard Tozer gives his age as seventy-three, which makes him born about 1660 and to have been fifteen years of age when his father was killed in 1675. Mrs. Elizabeth Tozer (who calls herself "of full age"), at the same date, says it was sixty four since she first knew the farm; which would be in 1669. She testified that she was taken to the house by her father the day after John Lovering was drowned; but she did no give the name of her father, who might properly be Elder William Wentworth, attending to his clerical duties.
There is a tradition in the family that Richard Tozer was taken prisoner and carried to Canada twice and his wife three time, twice with him and once alone. The N.E. Historical and Geneal. Register, 1852 gives her name in the list of captives ransomed from Quebec in October 1695 by Mathew Carey.
There are many traditions touching the transactions of this Mrs. Tozer with the Indians. One is, that the Indians once attacking her while she was making soap, she threw it upon them so fast, while it was boiling hot, that they were obliged to retreat. Another is, that dressed in man's clothes, with gun in hand, she was accustomed to act as sentry upon the house while the men worked in the field.”
No evidence of children.
“The earliest information regarding Richard Tozer, Jr. and his wife Elizabeth, is found in the affidavits of each 9in the County Records at Exeter, N.H.), among the papers to prove the title of Mrs. Elizabeth Wentworth, (widow of Benjamin Wentworth, son of Ezekiel) to her farm, once owned by John Lovering. In his affidavit, dated 26 January 1733, Richard Tozer gives his age as seventy-three, which makes him born about 1660 and to have been fifteen years of age when his father was killed in 1675. Mrs. Elizabeth Tozer (who calls herself "of full age"), at the same date, says it was sixty four since she first knew the farm; which would be in 1669. She testified that she was taken to the house by her father the day after John Lovering was drowned; but she did no give the name of her father, who might properly be Elder William Wentworth, attending to his clerical duties.
There is a tradition in the family that Richard Tozer was taken prisoner and carried to Canada twice and his wife three time, twice with him and once alone. The N.E. Historical and Geneal. Register, 1852 gives her name in the list of captives ransomed from Quebec in October 1695 by Mathew Carey.
There are many traditions touching the transactions of this Mrs. Tozer with the Indians. One is, that the Indians once attacking her while she was making soap, she threw it upon them so fast, while it was boiling hot, that they were obliged to retreat. Another is, that dressed in man's clothes, with gun in hand, she was accustomed to act as sentry upon the house while the men worked in the field.”
No evidence of children.
Spouses
Birth Dateabt 1660
Birth PlaceKittery, York Co., ME
Death DateMar 1733 Age: 73
Death PlaceDover, Strafford Co., NH
FatherRichard Tozier Tozer Sr. (~1631-1675)
MotherJudith Smith (1630-1683)
Misc. Notes
Per: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Tozier-93:
“The earliest information regarding Richard Tozer, Jr. and his wife Elizabeth, is found in the affidavits of each 9in the County Records at Exeter, N.H.), among the papers to prove the title of Mrs. Elizabeth Wentworth, (widow of Benjamin Wentworth, son of Ezekiel) to her farm, once owned by John Lovering. In his affidavit, dated 26 January 1733, Richard Tozer gives his age as seventy-three, which makes him born about 1660 and to have been fifteen years of age when his father was killed in 1675. Mrs. Elizabeth Tozer (who calls herself "of full age"), at the same date, says it was sixty four since she first knew the farm; which would be in 1669. She testified that she was taken to the house by her father the day after John Lovering was drowned; but she did no give the name of her father, who might properly be Elder William Wentworth, attending to his clerical duties.
There is a tradition in the family that Richard Tozer was taken prisoner and carried to Canada twice and his wife three time, twice with him and once alone. The N.E. Historical and Geneal. Register, 1852 gives her name in the list of captives ransomed from Quebec in October 1695 by Mathew Carey.
There are many traditions touching the transactions of this Mrs. Tozer with the Indians. One is, that the Indians once attacking her while she was making soap, she threw it upon them so fast, while it was boiling hot, that they were obliged to retreat. Another is, that dressed in man's clothes, with gun in hand, she was accustomed to act as sentry upon the house while the men worked in the field.”
No evidence of children.
“The earliest information regarding Richard Tozer, Jr. and his wife Elizabeth, is found in the affidavits of each 9in the County Records at Exeter, N.H.), among the papers to prove the title of Mrs. Elizabeth Wentworth, (widow of Benjamin Wentworth, son of Ezekiel) to her farm, once owned by John Lovering. In his affidavit, dated 26 January 1733, Richard Tozer gives his age as seventy-three, which makes him born about 1660 and to have been fifteen years of age when his father was killed in 1675. Mrs. Elizabeth Tozer (who calls herself "of full age"), at the same date, says it was sixty four since she first knew the farm; which would be in 1669. She testified that she was taken to the house by her father the day after John Lovering was drowned; but she did no give the name of her father, who might properly be Elder William Wentworth, attending to his clerical duties.
There is a tradition in the family that Richard Tozer was taken prisoner and carried to Canada twice and his wife three time, twice with him and once alone. The N.E. Historical and Geneal. Register, 1852 gives her name in the list of captives ransomed from Quebec in October 1695 by Mathew Carey.
There are many traditions touching the transactions of this Mrs. Tozer with the Indians. One is, that the Indians once attacking her while she was making soap, she threw it upon them so fast, while it was boiling hot, that they were obliged to retreat. Another is, that dressed in man's clothes, with gun in hand, she was accustomed to act as sentry upon the house while the men worked in the field.”
No evidence of children.