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Family of Andrew + ELLIOTT and Grace + WOODIER

Husband: Andrew + ELLIOTT (1627-1704)
Wife: Grace + WOODIER (1631-1652)
Children: Andrew + ELLIOTT (1651-1688)
Marriage 23 Apr 16491

Husband: Andrew + ELLIOTT

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Andrew + ELLIOTT

Name: Andrew + ELLIOTT
Sex: Male
Father: William + ELIOT (1603- )
Mother: Emma + (1605- )
Birth 24 Apr 1627 East Coker, Somerset, England
Death 1 Mar 1704 (age 76) Beverly, Essex, MA. US2
Burial Abbot Street Burial Ground3,4,5
Beverly, Essex, MA, US
Inscription: Here lyes buried ye body of Andrew Eliot aged 76 years departed this life March ye 1st 1703-4.

Apparently headstone is no longer in place.

Wife: Grace + WOODIER

Name: Grace + WOODIER
Sex: Female
Father: -
Mother: -
Birth 1631 Somerset, England
Death 8 Feb 1652 (age 20-21) Beverly, Essex, MA. US

Child 1: Andrew + ELLIOTT

Name: Andrew + ELLIOTT
Sex: Male
Spouse: Mercy + SHATTUCK (1655-1710)
Birth 30 Jan 1651 East Coker, Somerset, England
Death 12 Sep 1688 (age 37) lost at sea off Cape Sables2

Note on Husband: Andrew + ELLIOTT

Andrew Elliott, the immigrant, was baptized in East Coker, Somersetshire, England in 1627, and was last mentioned there in 1668. He appears next in New England as having been received as a member of the church in Beverly, Massachusetts in 1670. He was a man of goodly estate, both in property and social position, and while he was possessed of means he seems to have employed himself in the vocation of cordwainer, besides having performed the duties of important town offices, one of which was that of transcribing the town records into a new book, and in 1690 he himself was chosen town clerk. He served five years as representative to the general court. In 1686 he was one of the five witnesses to attend the execution of the Indian deed of the town of Salem, and in 1692 he was one of the jurors summoned to sit on the witch trials in Salem, ans with the others who comprised the jury that sat in judgment he afterward mad a public recantation and greatly reproached himself for the part he had taken in that unfortunate period. The written declaration to which the jurors subscribed their names set forth in detail the influences which had impelled their action, and says in one of its sentences, we "do hereby declare that we justly fear that we were sadly deluded and mistaken, for which we are much disquieted and distressed in our minds, and do therefore humbly beg forgiveness, first, of God, for Christ's sake, for this our error, and pray that God will not impute the guilt of it to ourselves nor to others; and we also pray that we may be considered candidly and aright by the living sufferers, as being then under the power of a strong and general delusion, utterly unacquainted with and not experienced in matters of that nature." Andrew Eliott died in Verely, March 1, 1703-04, aged seventy-six years. He married (first), April 23, 1649, in East Coker, England, Grace Woodier, who died February 8, 1652. He married (second), February 2, 1654, Mary _____. It is said that his first wife, Grace, belonged to a prominent family in Somersets

 

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Served as a juror at the Salem witch trials.

Burial location and inscription are from "Historical Collections of the Essex Institute - Volume III No. 3" published in June 1861:

https://archive.org/stream/

essexinstitutehi03esseuoft#page/146/mode/1up

Sources

1"US New England Marriages prior to 1700".
2"MA Town and Vital Records 1620-1988 Record".
3"Find a Grave".
4"Historical Collections of the Essex Institute" (June 1861). Vol III, No. 3.
5"https://archive.org/stream/essexinstitutehi03esseuoft#page/146/mode/1up".