♀Elizabeth Salmon

Elizabeth Salmon was an Englishwoman of the 1500s who is said to have been the grandmother of Joan Pyssing, who married Thomas Hull at Crewkerne, in Somerset, on 11 January 1572/3. She was the twelfth great-grandmother of Nancy Jane Blanchard (1929–2006), through her son Richard Pesinge. Her parents are not known.

Elizabeth was probably the wife of John Pysing, whose home is given as Abbotsbury, a village near the Dorset coast. Their son Richard Pesinge, whose wife was named Margery, had probably died by 25 June 1588. The family is remembered because of Richard’s grandsons: two of Joan’s sons, George and Joseph Hull, settled in New England, and Joseph Hull^W, a clergyman, led a company of West Country families to Massachusetts in 1635. Working on the English ancestry of these two settlers, the genealogist John Insley Coddington traced their mother’s Pyssing family and set out the English records that name Joan’s father and grandfather.

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Elizabeth’s name as the wife of John Pysing and the mother of Richard, and the date by which Richard had died, come from an online genealogy that cites page 49 of Coddington’s article, “The Pyssing Ancestry of the Hulls of New England” (in the Evans Festschrift, pages 44 to 51). Robert Charles Anderson’s Great Migration Newsletter says that the article “provides English records which identify her father, grandfather and many other relatives”. Burton W. Spear’s Search for the Passengers of the Mary & John 1630 names Joan’s grandfather as “John Pysing of Abbotsbury, Somerset”; Abbotsbury lies in Dorset.

Not the Elizabeth Salmon of Wethersfield

She is a different woman from Elizabeth Salmon (1612–1681), the wife of Thomas Curtis of Wethersfield, Connecticut, who lived a century later.