Alice Millington1,2

#1288

Family

Edmund Bridges b. 1612, d. 1684/85
Children 1.Edmund Bridges Jr+7 (1637 - 1682)
 2.Hachaliah Bridges8 (c 1639 - 1671/72)
Her married name was Bridges.1 
Marriage*1637She married Edmund Bridges in 1637 at Essex Co., MassachusettsG; his 1st, but disputed by GM. Parents of Mehitable are given as Edmund and Alice, so if GM is correct, this father is a different Edmund.1,3,4 
1641She and Edmund Bridges removed in 1641 Rowley.5,6 

Citations

  1. [S161] George Thomas Little, editor, Genealogical and Family History of the State of Maine (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing, 1909), four volumes, p. 1602, no surname, 1st wife.
  2. [S163] All in the Past.net, online allinthepast.net.
  3. [S166] Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England (Boston, Mass.: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995-2011), I:389-90, entry for Edmund Bridges: "Some secondary sources, including Savage, propose an earlier wife Alice, but no supporting evidence for this has been found, so we assume here two wives only for Edmund Bridges."
  4. [S163] All in the Past, online allinthepast.net. citation for year of marriage and surname.
  5. [S799] The Essex Institute, compiler, Essex Institute (Salem, Mass.: The Essex Institute et al), XX:147, "Early Settlers of Rowley, Mass., Including All Who Were Here Before 1662" by Geo. B. Blodgette: "Edmund Bridges, "blacksmith," had an acre and a half house- lot, bounded on the north side by the cross street, the east end by the high street, 1643. His wife was Alice."
    "He sold his dwelling house, blacksmith's shop, and rights to Isaac Cousins 25 , and moved to Ipswich where he was in 1644. He was about 46 years old 1658 (Court Rec).
    "Child born here : 13-1 Mehitable 2, b. 26-lmo., 1640."
  6. [S161] George Thomas Little, Genealogical and Family History of the State of Maine, vol. 3, p. 1601ff.
  7. [S161] George Thomas Little, Genealogical and Family History of the State of Maine, p. 1602.
  8. [S161] George Thomas Little, Genealogical and Family History of the State of Maine, p. 1602; name Hachaliah.