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- [S10407] Find a Grave - US Index, FitzRANDOLPH Edward II 1607-1675.
In March of 1630, Edward FitzRandolph sailed with the great fleet of 11 emigrant ships assembled by John Winthrop from Groton, Suffolk out of London and landed at Naumkeag on the coast of Massachusetts on 13 Jun at what is present-day Salem.
On May 10, 1637, in Scituate, Plymouth Colony, Edward exchanged marriage vows with Miss Elizabeth Blossom, only daughter of Thomas and Ann (née Elsdon) Blossom. Their long and productive union produced a large family, among whom were: Nathaniel (born in 1640 and died at age four months); a second boy to be named Nathaniel (1642-1713) who married Mary Holloway; Mary (1650-04 Jan 1738), wife of Samuel Hinckley; Hannah (1648-1705), wife of Jasper Joseph Taylor; John (1653-1727) who married Sarah Bonham; Joseph (1656-1726) who married Joanna Conger; Elizabeth (1657-1702), wife of 1st John Langstaff, and 2nd Andrew Wooden; Hope (1661-1703), wife of Ezekial Bloomfield; and Benjamin (1663-1746), who married Miss Sarah Dennis.
In 1675 Edward and Elizabeth had enjoyed almost a half century of marriage when he died in his eighth decade in Piscataway, Colonial New Jersey. His remains were interred in the burial ground adjacent to St. James Episcopal Church, formerly known as the Piscataway-town Burial Ground and White Church Cemetery, in Edison, Middlesex County, New Jersey.
A decade later, his widow married again, becoming the bride of widower Judge John Pike, a founder of Woodbridge and father of grown children. He, too, predeceased her, dying in the third year of their marriage. He was laid to rest next to his first wife, the mother of all his children.
Elizabeth was aged 93 years when she died in 1713. She was laid to rest at the side of her beloved first husband.
Sixty-three years later, as the colonists waged a war for independence from the British, English troops used the church as a barracks and hospital, as it was strategically located on King George's Highway (present-day Woodbridge Avenue). The British threw a defensive breastwork over the burial ground which sustained major damage. After the war's end, the ground was leveled but no trace of the FitzRandolph markers were ever found. Sadly, the exact location of Edward's and Elizabeth's resting places are forever lost to mankind.
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/45704155/edward_fitzrandolph
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- [S10407] Find a Grave - US Index, BLOSSOM Elizabeth Pike 1620-1713.
Elizabeth Blossom FitzRandolph Pike was one of six children born to the marital union of English-born Thomas Blossom and the former Anne Elsdon (or Heilson). The three oldest children died while young and were buried in Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands before Elizabeth and her two younger brothers were born. The Blossom family emigrated to the Massachusetts Colony from Leiden via England in 1629, arriving on a newer ship bearing the venerable name of “Mayflower”.
Elizabeth made her first marriage on the tenth day in May of 1637 in Scituate, Plymouth County, Colonial Massachusetts when she became the bride of Edward FitzRandolph II. Edward was a son of Edward FitzRandolph I and Frances Howes (or Howis), his wife, of Hucknall, Sutton-in-Ashfield, Nottingham, England. He was a direct descendant of the Lords of Middleham and Spennithorne, the Earls of Norfolk and Suffolk, and Sir Roger Bigod II, a Magna Carta Surety, 1215.
On June 30, 1685, Elizabeth FitzRandolph, née Blossom, married a second time when she exchanged vows with Judge John Pike. Judge Pike, who served in the militia with the rank of captain, was a widower with six grown children. He was a prominent man in the town of Woodbridge, New Jersey, having been one of its founding citizens. He also served on the Governor’s Council. No children were born to this union. Judge Pike died three years into the marriage and was laid to rest next to his first wife.
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/45704257/elizabeth-fitzrandolph_pike
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