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Family of Eleazer VEAZIE and Ann GULLIVER

Eleazer VEAZIE b. 1714 Nov 26²⁸⁵² at Braintree, MA²⁸⁵².
Ann GULLIVER b. 1719 Jan 12²⁸³⁹ at Milton, MA²⁸³⁹.

Married²⁸⁴⁰ 1739 Aug 23²⁸⁴⁰ at Dorchester, MA²⁸⁴⁰.

Eleazer and Ann were married by Rev Mr Jonathan Bowman.

"Eleazer the son of Eleazer Veasey & Lydia his wife was born the 26th. day of November 1714."²⁸⁵²

Encyclopedia of Connecticut Biography, which is accurate in other information with regard to the Veazie family (dates, locations, etc.) as compared to other records, has Eleazer moving to Connecticut after wife Anne's death (no reference document for her death or his emigration), and marrying there May Markham. Neither Sprague nor Hillman lists Eleazer's marriage to May Markham. Connecticut Town Birth Records⁵⁸⁷ has (Middletown Vital Records 1651-1854) Eleazer md 1745/6 Jan 20, Mary Markham. Other records in that collection have their children and their marriages.

The main question is whether this Eleazer emigrated to Connecticut and marry Mary Markham. If his wife Anne died soon after co-signing a deed (Suffolk Deeds, 76:197) with him in 1743 (her last occurrence in the records according to Hillman), Eleazer may well have had reason to leave the area. He had been involved in 1741 and 1742 in (at least) seven cases of actionable behavior, according to Plymouth Co Court records (americanancestors.org), and had been confined in the Boston jail for debt. In addition, on Oct 23, 1741 (per Braintree First Church records), he was suspended from communion for "disorderly unchristian life.."

Further research may uncover more of his story.

Milton (MA) Vital Records²⁸³⁹ mentions Anne's parents as "John and Lidya." Milton church records²⁸³⁸ for Anne's baptism, Jan 17, 1719, mention only her father "Mr John Gulliver (Capt. Gullivers son in law)." Enc. Conn. Bio⁴⁹⁴ has Ann Gulliver's parents as John and Margaret (Hunt) Gulliver, all of Dorchester. In fact, a John Gulliver married⁸⁵³ Sept 29, 1720, in Dorchester, Margaret Hunt. They were married by Nathaniel Hubbard, Esq., J. P.

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