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- Her maiden name is found in Connecticut Nutmegger, Vol. 28, p. 559:
"Edward Parker, John's father, was tried before John's mother, the widow Ellizabeth Wood Potter, was warned against marrying Edward by the Elders of the town, and excommunicated when she did. (Charles Hoadley, Records of the Colony and Plantation of New Haven, Vol. 1)"
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From FindaGrave:
Elizabeth was born about 1606 in England, possibly in Chesham, Buckinghamshire. On April 14, 1630, she married John Potter in that town. They probably had two children in England before 1638, then emigrated to New England. They were in New Haven by 1639, when John was made freeman. In 1643, according to New Haven records, his family contained four persons, even though a third child must have been born by then. Her husband's estate was valued at 25 Pounds and he owned 28 acres of land. Her husband John Potter died August 10, 1644.
The elders of the church in New Haven were not totally approving of a marriage between Edward Parker and Elizabeth, and in 1646, she was ordered not to receive his intentions. She refused, and was temporarily excommunicated from the church. She married Edward Parker in July of 1646. Elizabeth & Edward had three children by 1652. Parker died in 1662 and Elizabeth then married Robert Rose of Branford, who died in 1665. Elizabeth wrote her will on July 23, 1677, but died before signing it, on the 28th. Elizabeth was obviously a strong woman, for her children agreed to abide by her wishes, even though her will was void because it was not signed. She mentions her sons John & Samuel Potter, her son John Parker and daughters Brooks, Hall & Cooke, by their married names. She also mentions daughters Mary, Hope & Lydia. Mary had wed John Hall, Hope had married Samuel Cook, and her first daughter Hannah had just married her second husband, Henry Brooks, in December of 1676. She must have been buried in New Haven Green, the only burying place for New Haven until 1797. Between 1797 and 1812, a few of those buried there were reintered in the Grove Street Cemetery, but most were left under the green and three churches were eventually built over the graves. Some of the gravestones were moved to the Grove Street location, and some remain under the Center Church on the Green. Most of the old gravestones were destroyed. No gravestone exists for Elizabeth.
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From FindaGrave - #41507564
Robert Rose married (2) shortly after 7 June 1664 Elizabeth (_____) (Potter) Parker, widow of John Potter and of Edward Parker. She had no children of this marriage.
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Abt 1606 - 1677 (~ 71 years)
