Wallingford/Jarlov Family Trees

Elizabeth Wallingford was born in Bradford, Essex County, Massachusetts 22 September 1708.(294) She married John Simmons, 28 November 1747, in Bradford, Essex County, Massachusetts.(295) John may have died 29 April 1763, in Bradford, Essex County, Massachusetts.(296) The death of a John Symmons is recorded in the records of the Bradford Second Congregational Church, but there is no evidence to prove that it is the same John. No other likely John could be found on the Essex County Mass. vital records CD. On 10 October 1746, in Bradford, Elizabeth Wallingford and three of her siblings, with two of their spouses, acknowledged receipt of £4, 13s, 4p from Jonathan Wallingford (their brother) "in full of a Bond which was due to Jemima Wallingford late Decd", Jemima being their sister. Less than a year and a half later, on 18 February 1748, again in Bradford, she acknowledged receipt of more money from her brother Jonathan, £15 11s it "Being our part or share in full" of the estate of their father Nicholas. This time she signed it (actually left her mark) as Elizabeth Simmons with her husband John. It was witnessed by Jonathan Bailey and Thomas Savory. John and Elizabeth Symonds are also mentioned in the widow Martha's administrative account of the estate of her late husband Jonathan, Elizabeth's brother, on 13 April 1752.(297) No further information has been discovered on her married life after this point. All variations of the name Simmons/Symonds were searched on the Essex County Mass. vital records CD and there are no obvious records that pertain to John and Elizabeth. There are two baptisms in Haverhill that could be their children. Elizabeth daughter of John was baptized in March 1751/2 and Rebecah daughter of John was baptized in April 1754. These come from the West Parish Congregational Church Records.(298) There was a John Symonds who was having children in Topsfield between 1744 and 1749, but as our John married Elizabeth in 1747 they can't be one and the same. He was likely the John born in Boxford in 1725 who married Ruth Dorman about 1742. A John and Elizabeth (Cavis) Symonds had several children baptized in Salem between 1758 and 1761. A John Simons married Mehitable Whitaker in Haverhill in 1740 but he died two years later. The IGI and Ancestral File on the Internet were also searched for John and Elizabeth but no other likely candidates appear there. Land and probate records in Essex County should be searched to see if it can be determined what became of the couple.

294. Bradford, MA, VR, Published, p.163 (from town records).
295. Ibid., p.286 (from town records).
296. Ibid., p.363.
297. Essex County, MA, Probate, File 28809.
298. Haverhill, MA, VR, Published, 1:275, 292.

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