Elihu Wardwell1

b. November 1642
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6th great-granduncle of Ruth Minerva Fairfield.
8th great-granduncle of Laura Jane Munson.
Family Background:
Fairfield and Allied Families
     Elihu Wardwell was born in November 1642 in Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts.2 He was the son of William Wardwell and Alice (—?—) (Wardwell).1 He married Elizabeth Wade, daughter of Jonathan Wade, on 26 May 1665 in Ipswich, Essex County, Massachusetts.3 His will was proved on 5 January 1716.4
     
     Is is likely that the brothers Elihu are the same person, and that either the baptism or birth date is wrongly recorded. He lived in Ipswich where six of his nine known children are recorded.4

Additional Data
Elihu Wardell was mentioned in his father William Wardell's will dated 18 April 1670 in Boston.5,6,7 He made his will 31 March 1708.4

Citations

  1. [S185] William S. Appleton, ed., Boston Births, Baptisms, Marriages, and Deaths, 1630-1699, Boston Births, 1700-1800, 2 volumes in 1 (Boston: The Registry Department of the City of Boston, 1883 and 1894; reprint Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1978), 12.
  2. [S185] William S. Appleton, Boston VR, 13.
  3. [S898] Essex Institute, Vital Records of Ipswich Massachusetts to the End of the Year 1849 (Salem: Newcomb & Gauss Company, 1910), 2: 443.
  4. [S893] Walter Goodwin Davis, "Wardwell, of Wells," Massachusetts and Maine Families in the Ancestry of Walter Goodwin Davis (1885-1966): A Reprinting in Alphabetical Order by Surname, of the Sixteen Multi-Ancestor Compendia, (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1996), Vol. III, 551, originally published in The Ancestry of Annis Spear (1945).
  5. [S893] Walter Goodwin Davis, "Wardwell, of Wells," Massachusetts and Maine Families, Vol. III, 549-550, originally published in The Ancestry of Annis Spear (1945).
  6. [S761] The New England Historical and Genealogical Register; (Online database: NewEnglandAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001), (Orig. Pub. New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, MA. The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 148 vols., 1847-1994) 48: 458.
  7. [S899] "William Wardwell", citing Suffolk Probate 7: 35-36, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633, online http://www.newenglandancestors.org/, printout dated 2005. Previously published in hard copy (Boston: NEHGS, 1995).