On Sun, 6 Jun 1999 15:35:18 EDT, you wrote: >Can anyone give me any information on the family of Elizabeth Bishop b. in >Conn, d. 1710 in Salem? She was supposed to have married Eleazar Giles from >Salem. Settlers of New England Dictionary, Savage: GILE, GUILE, GYLES, or GILES, DANIEL, Salem 1689, fisherman. "EDWARD, Salem, freem. 14 May 1634, m. wid. Bridget Very, had there bapt. Mehitable, 2 Apr. 1637; Remember, 23 June 1639; Eleazur, 27 Nov. 1640; and John, 11 May 1645. He d. prob. a. 1650. His wid. long outliv. him, made her will 14 Jan. 1669, pro. 30 Nov. 1680, giv. est. to ch. Samuel and Thomas Very, the latter of Gloucester, Mary, w. of Thomas Cutler of Reading, and Eleazur, John, and perhaps other Giles ch. Mehitable m. 9 Mar. 1659, John Collins of Gloucester; and Remember m. 1 Apr. 1659, Henry Moses of S." "ELEAZUR, Salem, s. of the preced. m. 25 Jan. 1665, at Lynn, Sarah More, perhaps sis. of James, or George, or Richard, or all three, had Sarah, b. 1 Jan. 1666; Eliz. 7 Dec. 1667; Hannah, Feb. 1670; Mary, 14 Feb. 1672; Susanna, 1 Mar. 1674; and Eleazur, 3 Mar. 1676, wh. prob. d. in youth; and his w. d. 9 May 1676. He m. 25 Sept. 1677, Eliz. d. of James Bishop of New Haven, had James b. 15 Nov. 1679, d. under 10 yrs.; John, 31 Aug. 1681; Abigail, 7 Dec. 1684; Ruth, 12 July 1687; Edward, 28 Apr. 1689; James, again, 15 May 1691; Samuel, 17 Dec. 1694; Eleazur, again, 8 July 1698; and Mehitable, 11 Apr. 1701. He d. prob. 1726, and his wid. d. 1732 or 3." For more on your heritage, see: http://members.tripod.com/~ntgen/bw/index.html Particularly, look under: Very, Scudder, Stoughton. You are both a Scudder and a Giles, related to the Very's by a common mother, and are related to the American Scudder families who came from the widow Elizabeth Stoughton: John Scudder, of Barnstable, and Elizabeth Scudder, who md Samuel Lathrop; as well as the Salem Scudders, and Joanna Chamberlain who married Richard Betts of Newtown, Long Island, New York. This interesting network of relationships is from: TAG 72:285-300, 1997: A New England Immigrant Kinship Network, Jane Fletcher Fiske, F. A. S. G., (Editor of NEHGR, but contributor/author of this TAG article.) Norris -- Silver Bullet <[email protected]> Home Page: http://members.aol.com/ntgen/index.html - -------------------------------------