The Delahorne/Curtis Family History

Salmon · ◉ direct ancestor

♀Elizabeth Salmon

Born 1612, St Giles Cripplegate, London, England. Died 1681, Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America.

Also recorded as Elizabeth Salmon Gardner.

Elizabeth Salmon (1612 – 13 November 1681) was the wife of Thomas Curtis (1598–1681), a settler of Wethersfield in the Connecticut Colony, and the mother of Joseph Curtis (1644–1683). She was the eighth great-grandmother of Frederic Roger Curtis (1928–2007), through her son Joseph Curtis (1644–1683). Very little about her rests on a record that names her, and her maiden surname in particular comes from the family record rather than from any document that gives it.

Life

The family record gives her birth as 1612 at St Giles Cripplegate, in the City of London, and names her parents as Christopher Salmon (1586–1625) and Sarah Curtis (1581–1630) of Laxton, Nottinghamshire. Neither the London birth nor the parentage is confirmed by a parish register.

She married Thomas Curtis, who by the early 1640s was living at Wethersfield. A London marriage register records a wedding on 17 August 1635 between “Thomas Curtis & Elizabeth Gardner”. The entry is a bare list of two names and a day, with no parish, residence, age or parents, so nothing on it shows that this is the same couple who later lived at Wethersfield. A standard printed index of early New England marriages gives the Wethersfield couple as “Thomas (-1681) & Elizabeth” with her surname unknown, and dates the marriage only to before 1639/40.

The Wethersfield town book records the birth of their son Joseph on “the last day” of March 1644, entering him as the son of “Tho[mas]” alone. A twentieth-century transcriber of the town records added her name in brackets, which shows only that he took her to be the mother. The printed digest of the Hartford probate records names seven children of Thomas Curtis when his estate was settled in 1681/82: John, James, Joseph, Samuel, Isaac, Ruth Kimberly and Elizabeth Stoddor. The digest does not name their mother, and compiled accounts give the seven births as falling between about 1639 and about 1650. Of these, only Joseph’s birth is on record.

Death

A grave index gives her death at Wethersfield on 13 November 1681, the same day as her husband’s, and her burial there. The printed marriage index gives Thomas’s death year as 1681 but says nothing of hers, and no town, church or probate record of her death has been found. A wife may die on the same day as her husband, but no record confirms this date, which may simply have been copied from his.

Notes

No record of the name “Salmon” has been found. The printed marriage index leaves her surname blank. The London register reads “Gardner”. A compiled online account of the family says only “possibly Salmon per some sources”. The family record has at times joined the two names as “Salmon Gardner”, which no source explains. Her place in the Salmon family of Laxton depends on that surname, and so does the whole generation above her.

A family pedigree chart compiled in 1994 gives her birthplace as Southold, Long Island. Southold was not settled by the English until 1640, nearly thirty years after the family record’s date for her birth.

Some compilations name Joseph Curtis’s father as John Curtis rather than Thomas. That confuses the Wethersfield family with the Curtis family that moved from Wethersfield to Stratford in 1639. A Stratford family genealogy published in 1953 describes a separate Thomas Curtis who “for years did remain at Wethersfield”, and does not count him among its own family.

Family time line

◉ Elizabeth Salmon 1612–1681
◉ Thomas Curtis Jr 1598–1681
Married 17 Aug 1635, St Katharine by the Tower, Middlesex, England, St Katharine by the Tower, Middlesex
○ John Curtis 1639–1715
○ James Curtis 1641–
◉ Joseph Curtis Sr 1644–1683
○ Samuel Curtis 1646–bef 1688
○ Isaac Curtis 1647–
○ Ruth Curtis
○ Elizabeth Curtis

Recorded events

EventWhenWhereEvidence ?on record - the record itself, its image, or a transcript or printed copy of it has been read
from a compiled source - an index, a printed genealogy or a memorial page says so
not yet documented - in the family record, no source attached yet
Birth 1612 St Giles Cripplegate, London, England from a compiled source
Death 13 Nov 1681 Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America from a compiled source
Burial Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America from a compiled source
16121681 162016301640165016601670

Sources

  • U.S., Find a Grave® Index, 1600s-Current — Birth, Death, Burial, name
  • 'Records of Wethersfield, Conn.', New England Historical and Genealogical Register 16 (Boston, April 1862) (archive.org newenglandhistor016wate; shelf nehgrp_fc324ca1) — about this person, family with Thomas Curtis Jr
  • U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 — name, Marriage (Thomas Curtis Jr)
  • London, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1812 — name, Marriage (Thomas Curtis Jr)
  • U.S., Family History Books — name
  • U.S., New England Marriages Prior to 1700 — name, Marriage (Thomas Curtis Jr)
  • Curtis, Frederick Amasa. History of the Curtis Family (Oak Park, Ill., 1938) (archive.org historyofcurtisf00curt) — name
  • Curtis, Harlow Dunham (comp.). A Genealogy of the Curtiss-Curtis Family of Stratford, Connecticut: Supplement to the 1903 Edition (Curtiss-Curtis Society of Stratford, 1953) (archive.org genealogyofcurti00curt_0; shelf genealogyofc) — name
  • Middlesex, England, Extracted Parish Records - Thomas Curtis x Elizabeth Gardner, 17 Aug 1635, St Katherine by the Tower — Marriage (Thomas Curtis Jr)

Borders as they stood about 1600 (they follow the event under the mouse), from the historical-basemaps project, the Newberry Library's Atlas of Historical County Boundaries (states and territories, 1783 on) and Natural Earth; the colonies and provinces are drawn along today's lines.

Line of descent

  1. Christopher Salmon 1586–1625
    1. Peter Salmon 1560–1600
    2. Alice (surname unknown) 1564–1610
  2. Sarah Curtis 1581–1630

Descendants

  1. John Curtis 1639–1715
    1. John Curtis 1667–
      1. Mary Curtis 1696–1773
        1. James Wells 1728–1776
      2. Elizabeth Curtis 1706–1789
        1. Roger Warner –1770
    2. Thomas Curtis 1670–
    3. Lydia Curtis 1673–
    4. Dorothy Curtis 1674–
    5. Elizabeth Curtis 1679–
    6. Jonathan Curtis 1682–
    7. William Curtis
    8. Abigail Curtis
  2. James Curtis 1641–
  3. Joseph Curtis Sr 1644–1683
    1. Meribah Curtis 1674–1684 ✧
    2. Joseph Curtis 1675–1765
      1. Katharine Curtis 1710–
      2. Joseph Curtis 1713–
      3. Daniel Curtis 1715–
      4. Sarah Curtis 1717–
      5. Josiah Curtis 1721–
    3. Mary Curtis 1677–
    4. Sarah Curtis 1679–
      1. Miriam Phelps 1718–
        1. Stephen Bingham 1740–1835
        2. Miriam Bingham 1749–1780
      2. Eunice Phelps 1720–1771
        1. Keziah Pease 1759–1846
        2. Moses Austin 1761–1821
    5. Thomas Curtis 1680–1752 ⚔⚖
      1. Rebecca Curtis 1705–
      2. Mercy Curtis 1707–1757
        1. Oliver Warner 1729–1814
      3. Sibbel Curtis 1708–
        1. Martin North 1734–1806
        2. Sibyl North 1736–1807
      4. Hannah Curtis 1709–
        1. Samuel Churchill 1733–1790
      5. Zebulon Curtis 1710/1711–1798 ⚔
        1. Elizabeth Curtis 1737–1801
        2. Thomas Curtis 1739–1776 ⚔
        3. Marcy Freeman Curtis 1740–
        4. Job Curtis 1745–1807
        5. John Curtis 1748–bef 1790
        6. Lydia Curtis 1751–1820
      6. Elnathan Curtis Sr. 1713–
      7. Thomas Curtis 1715–1726 ✧
      8. Mary Curtis 1716–1795
      9. Prudence Curtis 1718–
      10. Lydia Curtis 1721–
        1. Keziah Woodruff 1742–1812
      11. Lois Curtis 1726–
      12. Marcy Curtis 1727–
    6. David Curtis 1682–
      1. Joseph Curtis 1707–
      2. Allen Curtis 1708–
        1. Martin Curtis 1725–
        2. Solomon Curtis 1729–
        3. Ether Curtis 1732–1794
        4. Chloe Curtis 1738–
        5. Medad Curtis 1740–
        6. Ebenezer Curtis 1741–1742 ✧
        7. John Curtis 1742–
        8. Anna Curtis 1748–
        9. Seth Curtis
        10. Ruth Curtis
        11. Elisha Curtis
      3. Anne Curtis 1710–1790
        1. John Church 1736–1811
        2. Joanna Church 1740–1795
      4. Abigail Curtis 1714–
      5. David Curtis 1716–1776
        1. Huldah Curtis
        2. Eleazur Curtis
        3. Achsah Curtis
        4. Abigail Curtis
        5. David Curtis
        6. Joshua Curtis
        7. Sarah Curtis
        8. Joanna Curtis
        9. Caleb Curtis
        10. Hull Curtis
      6. Eunice Curtis
      7. Sarah Curtis
  4. Samuel Curtis 1646–bef 1688
    1. Elizabeth Curtis 1687–1687 ✧
    2. Ruth Curtis 1687–
    3. Samuel Curtis
  5. Isaac Curtis 1647–
  6. Ruth Curtis
  7. Elizabeth Curtis
    1. John Stoddard 1674–1727
      1. Josiah Stoddard 1716–1764
    2. Mary Stoddard 1682–1726
      1. Orange Warner 1720–1809
        1. Elizabeth Warner 1753–1822