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What was Elizabeth Fone Winthrop Feake Hallett’s life like? Missy Wolfe tells us in Isubordinate Spirit.

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I received a most interesting letter in my email last week out of the blue, mind you she must have known of me, but I not of her.  The email was from Missy Wolfe and it was telling me about a book she had written about life in early New England 1610-1665 it was entitled Insubordinate Spirit.  I found it even more interesting that I had just completed another book about another  person that possessed such a spirit among again some of the first settlers of New England, Martha Allen Carrier. It seems that things like this come in threes, my mother was also  reading the Traitors Wife, which is also a book about Martha Carrier.  These last two books about Martha Carrier are historical fictions written by Kathleen Kent and are well done.  The first book is by Missy Wolfe and it is actually a non fiction history of Elizabeth Fones Winthrop Feake Hallett’s life and times. Need I say, being a Hallett descendant,  that it took me no time to get to Amazon.com and order the book and read it.

Insubordinate Spirit-A True Story of Life and Loss in Earliest America 1610-1665 is a well written book. I found it very easy to read and very easy to follow. Missy tells of life and politics and religion and the play between these institutions and the effects they had on Elizabeth and her family. The book is not highly technical in that it is not in legal jargon but in layman’s terms. She has done her homework well and  found some very interesting information on Johana Winthrop Lyon, Elizabeth’s oldest child from her first marriage to the son of John Winthrop Sr. , her Uncle and then also her father in law. I am glad I read it and I think after reading it, I just might need to re-read the Winthrop Women a historical fiction by Anya Seaton , knowing and understand a little more of what was going on in her surroundings. I am sure will make that book even more interesting.

You can find the book at Amazon.com. I will gladly add this to my genealogy book collection.

Happy Hunting!

This piece is unsolicited and my work. I received no compensation for writing this piece.

My lineage from William and Elizabeth Hallett is:

1-William Hallett
+Elizabeth Fones

2-Col. William Hallett
+Sarah Woolsey

3-Rebecca Hallett
+James Jackson

4-General Joseph Jackson
+Mary Rodgers

5-Daniel Jackson
+Jamima Benjamin

6-Silas (2) Jackson
+Mary Polly Peterman

7-Jamima Jackson
+Samuel Craig McCartney

8-Silas Jackson McCartney
+Nancy “Nannie” Curl Terry

9-Arthur Cellus McCartney
+Christina S. Cutter

10-Willard Warren McCartney
+ Adela Ruth Ogilvie

11-James R. McCartney
+ Dency J. Terrill

12-Julia K. McCartney
+ James E. Hogston

Genealogy

Friday This Day in My Family History- Married about 381 yrs ago Robert and Elizabeth Winthrop Feake

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Approximately 381 years ago my 9th Great-Grandmother Elizabeth Fones Winthrop  b. Jan 21, 1609/10, Groton, Suffolk, England and died about 1668,
probably at Hallett’s Cove, Newtown,Long Island New York.  Married her second husband Robert Feake on or before January 27, 1631. Elizabeth married her first cousin Henry Winthrop the son of John Winthrop and Mary Forth Winthrop, who drowned shortly after coming to the new world, while swimming in the Charles River.

Henry had gone before her with his father John to the new world. When Elizabeth arrived in Boston Nov 2, 1631 with their baby Martha Johanna, aboard the “Lyon,” which also brought Gov. John’s wife Margaret, she was already a widow.

Robert Feake was born about 1602 London and he died Feb 1, 1660/1 Watertown MA, m.Eliz. by Jan 27, 1631/2. Robert came to Mass. Bay before Oct 19, 1630. By July 18, 1640 Robt. and Eliz. had removed to Greenwich, CT (bought land). On Apr. 9, 1642, when they accepted Dutch jurisdiction over Greenwich, Eliz. signed for her husband
who was ill. Mental illness may have been the reason that their marriage broke up.  In 1647 Robert returned to Boston and then made trip on to England. It is not certain whether Robert ever returned to Greenwich, but he spent most of his remaining years in Watertown, MA, where he became a public charge.

The story goes that when Robert left Greenwich in 1647, he left an overseer by the name of William Hallet in charge. The marriage  between Elizabeth and Robert was disolved sometime after that. Elizabeth  may have then married my 9th great-grandfather William Hallet. It is not certain whether there was actually a marriage between this couple. Their story is one for another time.

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