ELIZABETH EMERSON

• General Notes
  • The mother of Elizabeth [Fuller] King wife of James King was Elizabeth Emerson {Fuller] daughter of Thomas Emerson the first ancestor in America of Ralph Waldo Emerson. Thomas Emerson was baptized at Bishops Stortford, Herts, England July 26, 1584, married there Elizabeth Brewster, the daughter of William Brewster, the postmaster at Scooby and the famous elder of the Pilgrims in 1620, July 1st 1611, and his daughter Elizabeth, who became the wife of John Fuller, was baptized at Bishops Stortford June 14, 1623. Thomas Emerson [Robert of Bishops Stortford, Thomas of Great Dunmow, Essex, Ralf of Foxton] was a descendant of Ralf Emerson of Foxton, Bishopric of Durham, who in the reign of Henry V111 A.D. 1535 was granted arms; "Per feses indented, vert and or, a bend engrailed, arg, charged with three lions passant of the first, bexante; crest, a demi-lion rampant, vert, bezante, grasping a battle axe, gules, headed arg" Thomas Emerson settled at Ipswich, Mass. as early as 1638 and left a very considerable estate there at his death on May 1 1666.
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    ELIZABETH EMERSON, baptized June 14, 1623, at Bishop's,
    Stortford, County Herts, England, daughter of Thomas Emerson
    of Ipswich, Mass., 1638, married John Fuller, of Ipswich, and
    one of the children of this marriage, Elizabeth Fuller, married
    March 23, 1674, James King, the founder of the King family of
    Suffield, Conn. Elizabeth Emerson forms, therefore, the connecting
    link between the Emerson and King families.
    The great genius of Ralph Waldo Emerson, one of the greatest
    thinkers and writers of America, and who was of the eighth
    generation of the Emerson family in this country, has shed a
    luster upon the name that will long endure. "
    Richardus fil. Emerici," from the writs of parliament of the
    thirteenth century (Bardsley, English Surnames, 2d Ed., 1875,
    p. 29) says Professor B. K. Emerson, is perhaps the earliest and,
    as it were, embryonic form of the name in England, and at a
    time when modern surnames were in a process of formation. It
    was the son of Emory, a patronymic introduced into England by
    the Normans, according to Bardsley, from the continent where
    as Americ, Emeric, Almeric, Almaric, Eimeric it had a wide and
    early use, and whence in its Italian form Amerigo, it has given
    a name to the New World. Emery's son became Emmerisson,
    Emmerson, and most widely, Emerson." Air. Lower in his "
    Patronymica Brittannica" says: "
    Names derived from baptismal names (in the genitive case),
    i e., Emerson, genitive of Emary from Almeric, Amery, Emery,
    Amerigo, from Amalrich, meaning an exalted ruler (ric)."
    It is asserted however in Burke's Landed Gentry that the family
    of D'Amery came to England with the conqueror from Tours.
    In 1129 Roger de Amar witnessed the charter of Oseny. About
    1180 Ralph was Lord of Hamars in Normandy. In Leland's copy
    of the Roll of Battell Abbey (a list of the chief officers and companions
    of William, the Conqueror) occurs the name D'Amary.
    The Emersons in England seem to have sprung from that
    Aimeric, Archdeacon of Carlisle and Durham, 1196-1214, and
    high sheriff of Northumberland, 1214-1215, who was the nephew
    of Bishop Phillip of Poictou, Prince Bishop of Durham, 1 195, and
    previously, clericum et familiarem of Richard Coeur-de-Leon.
    Both the bishop and archdeacon had married before they took
    orders in the church. (The pedigree is given in Surtee's History of Durham, Vol. 4, p. 137). The Archdeacon Aimeric had a son,
    Emeric de Lidgate, and two grandchildren, Richard fil. Emeric
    and Emeric fil Emeric. This descent explains the long connection
    of the Emersons with the bishopric of Durham, especially as
    parkers, foresters, and gatekeepers of the great park belonging to
    the bishopric. The early mention of the name in England has
    already been quoted — Richardus fil. Emerici (Richard Emerson)
    in the writs of parliament of the thirteenth century.
    The arms of the Emerson family were originally granted to
    Ralph (Ralf, Raffe, Rafe) Emerson of Foxton, in the Bishopric
    of Durham, England, in 1535, and are blazoned (according to
    Professor Benjamin Kendall Emerson) as follows: "Per fesse indented
    vert and or, a bend engrailed az. charged with three lions
    passant arg. crest : A demi-lion rampant vert, bezante, grasping
    a battle axe gules, headed arg." On the walls of the library of
    the New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, Mass.,
    hangs a blazon of the Emerson arms in water colors, under the
    face of which is written : "The arms and crest above depicted
    were granted to Ralph Emerson of Foxton, in the county palatine
    of Durham, by Tho : Wall, Garter, Principal King of Arms.
    Ano. 26, Henry VIII. Ita testor: Rob. Dale, Faecialis Titulo
    Suffolc. Colleg. Armor, Registrarij Deputatus. 25 Jany., 1709."
    I have extracted the foregoing information from the book of
    Professor B. K. Emerson, "The Ipswich Emersons," which contains
    a very full account of the English ancestry of the family
    and also a most complete genealogy of the descendants of Thomas
    Emerson, of Ipswich, Mass. I shall also take from his book the
    record of the Emersons given below, beginning with their English
    ancestry and following down the American line to its connection
    with the King family.
    CHILDREN
    i. John,6. Did not live in Ipswich, N. H., but probably
    lived in Hampton, N. H.
    ii. William. Like his brother John probably lived in
    Hampton,
    iii. James, born 1646; died June 21, 1725; married Oct.
    2O, 1672, Mary Ring.
    iv. Joseph, born 1648; died Aug. 22, 1731 ; married Oct.
    I, 1685, Mary Wood.
    v. Susanna, b. ; d. ; married Oct. 25, 1671,
    William Stacy.
    6 vi. ELIZABETH, born May 31, 1652; died Suffield, Conn.,
    June 30, 1715; married March 23, 1674, James
    King.
    vii. Thomas, b. ; died Sept., 1689.
    viii. Nathaniel, b. ; died 1719; married, 1708, Mary
    Jackson.
    ix. Sarah, b. ; d. ; married Nov., 1679, Nathaniel
    Hovey.
    x. Mary (posthumous).
    
    

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