Elizabeth Milstead

Elizabeth Craxon, widow of 1) Thomas Chapman 2) Henry Blanchet 3) William Milstead. Apparently had been identified as “Susannah” in error.

Biography

8.         Elizabeth Craxon-4 (Ann Chapman-3, Thomas Chapman-2, Thomas Chapman-1). She was born 1668 in Charles, Maryland. She died 1695 in Charles, Maryland.

Elizabeth Craxon was the daughter of Thomas Craxon and Ann Chapman. Ann was the daughter of Thomas Chapman-2 and therefore the ant of Thomas Chapman-4. Elizabeth was born in 1668 and married her first cousin Thomas Chapman-4 in 1689.

Thomas Chapman and Elizabeth Craxon had 2 children.

• 19. i. Thomas Chapman. His birth on 26 Mar 1690 in Nanjemoy, Charles, Maryland (http://files.usgwarchives.net/md/charles/wills/dbinf.txt). He died on 18 Nov 1782 in Culpeper County, Virginia.
• ii. Mary Chapman. Her birth on 19 Aug 1693 in Nanjemoy, Charles, Maryland (http://files.usgwarchives.net/md/charles/wills/dbinf.txt).

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Biography

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Craxon-1

Elizabeth's birth is estimated from the birth of her first child. She was married first about 1689 to Thomas Chapman, and they had two children, both born in Nanjemoy Parish, before Thomas died:[1][2]

Thomas, b. 26 Mar 1690
Mary, b. 19 Aug 1693

Thomas died sometime before 9 Feb 1701, when his estate was inventoried,[3] and Elizabeth next married Henry Blanchet, probably by 1702. They had seven children by the time Henry died about 1719.[4][5]

Elizabeth then married again to William Milstead, who completed the administration of her second husband's estate about 17 months later.[6]

Distribution of the balance to Henry's surviving heirs (William's step-children) was not completed until William's own estate was settled in 1743 by his second wife, Sarah:[7]

• of curr't Gold due from the dec'd to Susanna Blanchet Daughter of Henry Blanchet whose wid'o & adm'x the dec'd formerly married as / p the ball'e of s'd Blanchets Estate...
• D'o due to Henry Blanchet son of the afores'd Henry Blanchet...
• D'o due to Ann Blanchet...
• D'o due to Sarah Blanchet...
• D'o due to Mary Blanchet...
• D'o due to John Blanchet...

She died after 1733, when she was named in a lease from his brother Thomas to William and his now wife Elizabeth,[8] but is believed to have died before William, whose executrix was named Sarah when he died in 1742.[9]

Note: The end of Sarah Milstead's 21 Feb 1742/3 account of the administration of William's estate reads:

Representatives the wid'o, Eliz'a Millstead Joseph Millstead, Susanna Millstead & Priscilla Millstead Children of the Dec'd., -- Godshall Barnes & John Ryley of ChaCoSu'y [sureties?][9]

This appears to show that widow Elizabeth was still alive, since her daughter's name was Elizabeth Goley by this time. How another woman could have become executrix when William's widow and a son were both involved as representatives is unclear, and would have been highly unusual.

Research Notes

Apparently unmarried and without children, John Craxon used the loosely defined (at the time) term "cousin"[10] to refer to two relatives in his 16 Apr 1744 will:

...two parts of my Estate to my beloved Couzen John Burgess son to Sam'l Burgess and Elizabeth his wife and the other part to my beloved Cozen Susannah Haislip wife to Henry Haislip... and further all the land that is now in my possession to my Cozin John Burgess and if he dies without heir to Thomas Burgess his brother and I do hereby constitute Sam'l Burgess my Executor... in behalf of his son John &c.[11]

Researchers have interpreted this to mean that Samuel Burgess' wife Elizabeth was the same Elizabeth Chapman named in her father's 1794 will as having already borne two children,[1] but Samuel's wife Elizabeth was pregnant when he died in 1745--55 years after Thomas Craxon's daughter's first child was born.[12][13] It is obviously not possible for this to have been the same Elizabeth.

The other "cousin" mentioned in John Craxton's will was the oldest surviving child from Elizabeth's second marriage with Henry Blanchet, Susannah, whose married name is proven by her signing as Susannah Haislip as next-of-kin to her brother, John Blanchet's estate in 1754.[14] Susannah's husband Henry is named first in the account, having been paid to make the casket.[15]

Notes

URL: http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:3120723... 51
URL title: Genealogy of Colby Kingery
Note:
ID: I1551
Name: Elizabeth CRAXTON
Sex: F
Change Date: 15 AUG 2005

Father: Thomas CRAXTON
Mother: Anne CHAPMAN b: 1644

Marriage 1 Thomas CHAPMAN III b: 1641 [sic] in Elizabeth River, Virginia
Married: 1689 in Charles County, Maryland

Craxon, Thomas, Chas. County, 27th Aug., 1691;
31st Dec., 1702.
To sons John and Thomas jointly and their hrs., 150 A.,, "Field Close."
To Edward and Ann, eld. child. of Edward Till, to Thomas, eld. son of Thomas Chapman, and to Mary, dau. of sd. Thomas, personalty.
Wife Ann, extx.
Test: Wm. Stone, Edward Chapman, Anne Rannuck. ext

Thomas Craxson 39C.76 I CH £77.7.9 Sep 23 1717
Appraisers: William Stone, John Manning.
Creditors: William Macbuchie, Gustavus Brown.
Next of kin: Richard Chapman, Elisabeth Chapman

References

• Elizabeth may have married a second time to Mr. Burgess. They had no children.
• http://chapman-ancestry.com/Thomas_Chapman_Gen_1-5.htm
• http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=mrmarsha&...

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References

1. https://www.colonial-settlers-md-va.us/getperson.php?personID=I1028...
2. https://www.colonial-settlers-md-va.us/getperson.php?personID=I1530...
3. WikiTree contributors, "Elizabeth (Craxon) Milstead (abt.1673-abt.1740)," WikiTree: The Free Family Tree, (https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Craxon-1 : accessed 07 February 2024). cites
   1. Profiles at Early Colonial Settlers of Southern Maryland and Virginia's Northern Neck Counties:
   2. Sarah MNU Blanchet -- Note: Although the name is entirely different, this is Elizabeth Craxon, widow of Henry Blanchet & wife of William Milstead.
   3. John Craxon
   4. Maryland Prerogative Court, Will Book 11, pp. 387-388; 1702 Will of Thomas Craxon.
   5. Register of births, marriages & burials for Charles County, p. 25.
   6. Maryland Prerogative Court (Inventories and Accounts), 1701-1702, p. 269; additional account recorded in Maryland Prerogative Court Will Book 3, pp. 391-392.
   7. Maryland Prerogative Court (Accounts), 1720-1721, Liber TB-6 No. 3; see p. 528:
   8. Final Acct: £29"9"4; Ball belongs to the Adm'r & 7 Infant Children of the Deceds.
   9. "Maryland Register of Wills Records, 1629-1999," images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33SQ-GYMF-9B2?cc=1803986&wc... : 20 May 2014), Charles > Inventories 1717-1735 > image 59 of 268; Hall of Records, Annapolis.
   10. "Maryland Register of Wills Records, 1629-1999," images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33S7-9YMF-R62?cc=1803986&wc... : 20 May 2014), Charles > Administration accounts 1708-1738 > image 115 of 294; Hall of Records, Annapolis.
   11. "Maryland Register of Wills Records, 1629-1999," images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33S7-9YMF-YRM?cc=1803986&wc... : 20 May 2014), Charles > Administration accounts 1738-1759 > image 37 of 287; Hall of Records, Annapolis.
   12. Charles, Maryland, Land Records, Liber M No. 2, Folio 344-345.
   13. "Maryland Register of Wills Records, 1629-1999," images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33S7-9YMF-YRM?cc=1803986&wc... : 20 May 2014), Charles > Administration accounts 1738-1759 > image 37 of 287; Hall of Records, Annapolis.
   14. Coming to 'Terms' with Genealogy
   15. "Maryland Register of Wills Records, 1629-1999," images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33SQ-GYMZ-NZT?cc=1803986&wc... : 20 May 2014), Charles > Wills 1734-1752 vol 4 > image 138 of 217; Hall of Records, Annapolis.
   16. "Maryland Register of Wills Records, 1629-1999," images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33SQ-GYMZ-NVP?cc=1803986&wc... : 20 May 2014), Charles > Wills 1734-1752 vol 4 > image 141 of 217; Hall of Records, Annapolis.
   17. Maryland Prerogative Court (Accounts), 1720-1721, Liber DD-9 No. 21; see pp. 261-262.
   18. "Maryland Register of Wills Records, 1629-1999," images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33SQ-GYM6-9916?cc=1803986&w... : 20 May 2014), Charles > Inventories 1753-1766 > image 16 of 245; Hall of Records, Annapolis.
   19. Maryland Prerogative Court (Accounts), 1755-1756, Liber BT&TB-2 No. 38; see p. 283.