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Elizabeth Fones

Elizabeth Fones

Female 1610 - 1673  (63 years)


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  • Name Elizabeth Fones  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8] 
    Birth 21 Jan 1610  Suffolkshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8] 

    • St. Sepulchres Parish
    Baptism Groton, Suffolk, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [1] 
    Gender Female 
    Arrival 1631  Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    ship LYON 
    FSID 9NB5-YZX  [1, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18] 
    Religion Nominal Puritan, later Quaker 
    Death 1 Feb 1673  New York, New York, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2, 4, 6, 7, 8] 
    Burial Maspeth, Queens County, New York, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 6, 7, 8] 

    • Mount Olivet Cemetery
    Person ID I100  footsteps
    Last Modified 1 Jul 2025 

    Mother Mary Anne Winthrop,   b. 16 Jan 1585, Groton, Suffolk, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 20 May 1619, Groton, Suffolk, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 34 years) 
    Relationship natural 
    Family ID F134  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Father Thomas Fones,   b. Abt 1600, London, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 15 Apr 1629, Groton, Suffolk, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 29 years) 
    Relationship unknown 
    Mother Mary Anne Winthrop,   b. 16 Jan 1585, Groton, Suffolk, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 20 May 1619, Groton, Suffolk, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 34 years) 
    Relationship unknown 
    Family ID F24928  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family William Hallett, Sheriff ,   b. 1616, Dorsetshire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 17 Apr 1706, Queens, New York, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 90 years) 
    Marriage Aug 1649  New York, New York, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
    +1. William Hallett, Captain ,   b. Oct 1648, Long Island, New York, United States Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 18 Aug 1729, Astoria, Queens, New York, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 80 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
    Family ID F135  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 1 Jul 2025 

  • Notes 


    • Elizabeth Fones was the immigrant ancestor to America. She was born Jan. 21, 1610 in St. Sepulchres Parish, London. She died 1673-74 at Hallett's Cove, Long Island. She married first on April 25, 1629 her ne'er-do-well, but charming cousin, Henry Winthrop. When Henry's father John Winthrop was appointed Governor by the Massachusetts Bay Company, he made arrangements for Henry to come to Massachusetts with him on the ship, Arabella, about the end of March 1630. Irresponsible Henry missed the boat and had to take the next vessel, which landed at Boston July 1, 1630. On the very next day he was drowned in a river. He was then twenty-three years old. After Henry's death Elizabeth married 2nd Robert Feake, who had come with the first fleet of 1630 and settled at Watertown; where he was one of the first and largest proprietors. Robert, a silversmith, was unfitted for the rigorous, dangerous life of a pioneer and lost his mind. He went back to England, leaving Elizabeth, her six children and his considerable property, including the Manor of Greenwich, to shift for themselves. (Lawrence Mayo, The Winthrop Family In America, Boston, 1948). In 1642 Elizabeth and Captain Dan Patrick were forced to surrender Greenwich to the Dutch. Patrick died the next year and Governor Peter Stuyvesant placed William Hallett in charge. In 1647 Elizabeth dared to do one of the most shocking acts of Puritan history. She went to the Dutch court in New Amsterdam and applied for a divorse from Robert Feake. In order to get it she had to declare herself an adulteress with William Hallett, and only her connection with the powerful Winthrop family saved her from being publicly flogged, having her ears cut off, or from execution. Elizabeth and William Hallett, who was six years younger, were married at New Amsterdam, where they were forced to flee from Greenwich. Their marriage date is uncertain. (Massachusetts Historical Society, Letters of Winthrop Family. One dated Feb. 1649, signed "Eliz.Hallett" to "brother, John Winthrop, Esq." states that they have "made a quiet end about the estate of Mr. Feke.") Governor Winthrop, Elizabeth's uncle, quardian and father-in-law referred to her as "my unregenerate niece" and Governor Stuyvesant called her "that verdombe Winthrop Woman." (Jacket cover of The Winthrop Woman, by Anya Seton, Cambridge, 1958.) Elizabeth Fones has thousands of descendants for she had children by all three of her husbands.

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    Groton Hall and St. Bartholmews church    		Groton Hall and St. Bartholmews church
    Elizabeth Fones    		Elizabeth Fones

  • Sources 
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      Her second husband was Lt. Robert Feake whom she married in Massachusetts. They had 5 children: Elizabeth (1633), Hannah (1637), John (1639), Robert (1642) and Sarah (1647). Mentally ill, Lt. Feake abandoned his wife and children in 1647, they were divorced the same year.

      In 1649 she married William Hallett. They had 2 children William (c. 1648) and Samuel (c. 1650).

      Elizabeth Fones Winthrop Feake Hallett died about 1673.

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      Name: Elizabeth Fones Winthrop Feake Hallett
      Birth Date: 21 Jan 1610
      Age at Death: 63
      Death Date: 1 Feb 1673
      Burial Place: Astoria, Queens County, New York, USA

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      Year: 1659
      Place: New England
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