♀Elizabeth Blanchard

Elizabeth Blanchard (born 9 November 1734) was a native of Weymouth who married Samuel Curtis Jr. of Braintree in 1758. She was the fifth great-grand-aunt of Nancy Jane Blanchard (1929–2006), the sister of Nancy Jane’s fifth great-grandfather Nicholas Blanchard (1736–1801).

Early life

Elizabeth was born at Weymouth, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay Colony, on 9 November 1734, the daughter of John Blanchard (1691–1752) and Elizabeth Gross, whom the town’s records enter as Blancher. She was seventeen when her father, Deacon John Blanchard, died on 15 May 1752 without a will. The probate court at Boston granted administration of his estate to her mother and her brother Daniel, and the account of it lists money “laid out in my mothers sickness”.

Marriage

On 22 June 1758 at Weymouth Elizabeth married Samuel Curtis, of Braintree; the register calls him Jr. No children are on record for the couple. Online family-tree and Find a Grave entries, which are derivative, call him Lieutenant Samuel Curtis, give her death as 6 April 1825 at Quincy, and name children Phebe, Rebecca and Noah. Quincy was the part of Braintree that became a separate town in 1792.

Lines of descent

The descent to Nancy Jane Blanchard runs through her brother Nicholas Blanchard (1736–1801), not through her.

Notes

The Curtis surname

No record links Samuel Curtis Jr. of Braintree to the Curtis line of Wethersfield and Torrington, Connecticut, and the marriage does not join the two.