Elizabeth Emerson

1665 - 1693  (28 years)

• Name	Elizabeth Emerson  [1]
  Birth	26 Jan 1664/65  [1]
  Gender	Female
  Note	Pope, THE EMERSONS OF HAVERHILL: she was v. naughty.
  Death	8 Jun 1693	Haverhill, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, -America   [2]
  	While Hannah (EMERSON) DUSTON was the family heroine, her younger sister Elizabeth EMERSON (1665-1693) achieved notoriety of a different sort - after bearing 3 children out-of-wedlock, she was hanged in Haverhill, MA. Hannah (Emerson) Dustin was well known and celebrated for escaping her Indian captors by killing and scalping them. Less well known is her (in)famous sister Elizabeth Emerson who was executed for the murder of her own newborn twins.
  Person ID	I3366	HHTT | Mom's Side
  Last Modified	1 Jul 2022

  
  

  Father	Michael Emerson,   b. 6 Apr 1627, Cadney, Lincolnshire, England d. Abt 1715 (Age 87 years)
  Mother	Hannah Webster,   b. 23 Dec 1635, Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts, -USA d. 3 Feb 1707/08, Ipswich, Suffolk, Massachusetts, -USA (Age 72 years)
  Marriage	1 Apr 1657	Haverhill, Norfolk, Massachusetts Bay Colony, -America   [3, 4]
  Family ID	F956	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Sources

  [S41] World Family Tree, . [S45] IGI (Reliability: 0). http://www.familysearch.org/Search/af/ancestral_file_frame.asp?recid=1683184 [S41] World Family Tree, . (Reliability: 0). [S69] HE1, . (Reliability: 1). p. 17