Monday Is for Mothers: Elisabeth Alcott (About 1720 - 1749)

As far as I can tell this maternal 6th great grandmother lived her whole life in Burlington County, New Jersey.

[New England, New York, New Jersey and Pensilvania. By H. Moll, Geographer. (Printed and sold by Tho: Bowles next ye Chapter House in St. Pauls Church Yard, & Ino: Bowles at ye Black Horse in Cornhill, 1736?). Source: David Rumsey Historical Map Collection]

As you can see in these details from the 1736 map of the region, Burlington was on the regular post route between Philadelphia and New York.

I've written about her father William Alcott in the past, but we know very little about Elisabeth except that the 1745 license for her marriage to James Rossell survives.

[Northampton Township, Burlington Co., New Jersey added to his Ancestry.com tree by dwcustard.]

Licence of Marriage was Granted by his Excellency Lewis
Morris Esq. Governour of New Jersey etc on the 24th day of Aprill
1745 unto James Rosele of the Township of Northampton &
County of Burlington wheelwright of the one part & Elisabeth
Alcott of the same place Spinster of the other party.
                                                Chal Read Secry


 Elisabeth died four year later, having given birth to three children (the oldest of which is my direct ancestor Hope Rossell). Here's how I descend from her.

[Ancestry.com]

   


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