Anna MOUNTFORT

Female 1604 - 1687  (83 years)


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  • Name Anna MOUNTFORT  [1, 2, 3
    • In October, 1632, John Eliot married Anna Mountford, "a vertuous young gentlewoman whom he had pursued and purposed a marriage unto" while in England, and who had come over for her wedding. For more than half a century she shared his labors, even making a study of medicine that she might be a more efficient helper. "She was a woman very eminent both for holiness and usefulness," and a "leading exemplary spirit in the advance of that succession of brave New England mothers, the equals of whom for courage, endurance, frugal industry, truthfulness, and a reliant faith in God, the history of the world hath never known." [1]
    Birth 1604  [2
    Gender Female 
    Death 24 Mar 1687  Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2, 3
    Person ID I40669  Main Tree
    Last Modified 10 Dec 2020 

    Family John ELIOT,   b. 1604, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 20 May 1690 (Age 86 years) 
    Marriage Oct 1632  Boston, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2, 3
    Children 
     1. Rev Joseph ELLIOT,   b. 20 Dec 1638, Guilford, New Haven County, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 24 May 1694, Guilford, New Haven County, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 55 years)  [Birth]
    Family ID F19236  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 10 Dec 2020 

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsMarriage - Oct 1632 - Boston, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA Link to Google Earth
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  • Sources 
    1. [S12076] Charles S. Hall, HALL Ancestry A Series of Sketches of the Lineal Ancestors of the children of Samuel Holden Parsons Hall and his wife Emeline Bulkeley.

    2. [S03455] Benjamin W.Dwight, The History of the Descendants of John Dwight of Dedham, Massachusetts, (Name: Name: A Heritage Classic - Heritage Books;;).

    3. [S02791] The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 2008, Vol. 162 April.