>At 03:40 PM 1/16/99 EST, OrtweinHou@aol.com wrote: >>My line descends from William and Elizabeth ( JACKSON). > >This reminds me of a standing question: How strongly do we know she was a >Jackson? I've never been able to find the primary sources (Wintringham >parish records, I would think, but William doesn't seem to be in them) to >check. > >Followup question: Do we know if the putative Elizabeth Jackson was related >to either of the Jackson families that settled Rowley, MA? (The longterm >idea here is to figure out whether William's descendants are cousins to the >Elizabeth Jackson who was hanged for a witch.) According to The Book (the Boynton genealogy), Elizabeth Jackson and William Boynton were married before arriving in Rowley. There is no proof cited, and in fact it does not say where they were married, or when. If we look at the circumstances surrounding the expedition's origins, they lead me to think that it's possible she may not have come from Wintringham. The Rev. Ezekiel Rogers was the pastor in Rowley, which is near Hull, quite a bit south of the Boynton's home. His paritioners who accompanied him to America came from all over Yorkshire, and a few were from other counties. Elizabeth Jackson might have been from a different town, and William may have married her just about anywhere in the area. For that matter, it's not absolutely stated by the authors that they were married in England, although that is the assumption. John married a woman who had been in Boston for at least seven years before he arrived, after all. (Elin Pell was an indentured servant who had become a "freeman" and allowed to join the church, thus was a citizen by the time she married John.) I don't think there is any way to know if Elizabeth was connected to the other Jackson families of Rowley without more English-side information. Cheers, Katherine Katherine Watson Cochrane <katherine@cd-info.com> -------------------------------------------------- Surnames researching: Alexander Alleine Anderson Boynton Cashion Dresser Everard Ickes Hackworth Hughes Keith Kidder Kress Latham Mangrum Meade Osborn(e) Pennington Phillips Ralston Renegar/Renninger Rutherford Shockley Shores Snow Starling Stewart Sugg(s) Walker Wallace Watson Wills York ++++ Genealogy Website http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~kwc ++++