ELIZABETH EMERSON

ELIZABETH's father was THOMAS EMERSON and her mother was ELIZABETH BREWSTER. Her paternal grandparents were ROBERT (ENGLAND) EMERSON and SUSAN (ENGLAND) CRABBE. She is an only child.

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.