Anna MOUNTFORT

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In October, 1632, John Eliot married Anna Mountford, "a vertuous young gentlewoman whom he had pursued and purposed a marriage unto" while in England, and who had come over for her wedding. For more than half a century she shared his labors, even making a study of medicine that she might be a more efficient helper. "She was a woman very eminent both for holiness and usefulness," and a "leading exemplary spirit in the advance of that succession of brave New England mothers, the equals of whom for courage, endurance, frugal industry, truthfulness, and a reliant faith in God, the history of the world hath never known."

Anna married John ELIOT in Oct 1632 in Boston, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA. John (son of Bennet ELIOT and Lettice ALGER) was born in 1604 in England; died on 20 May 1690. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Rev Joseph ELLIOT was born on 20 Dec 1638 in Guilford, New Haven County, Connecticut; died on 24 May 1694 in Guilford, New Haven County, Connecticut.