Individual Details
Elizabeth "Betsey" Messer
(3 Oct 1756 - Abt 1831)
Events
| Birth | 3 Oct 1756 | Methuen, Essex, Massachusetts | |||
| Marriage | 27 Mar 1776 | Methuen, Essex, Massachusetts - William Harvey | |||
| Marriage | 23 Dec 1780 | Dracut, Middlesex, Massachusetts - William Parker | |||
| Marriage | 1 Oct 1791 | Peru, Berkshire, Massachusetts - Nathan Mann |  | ||
| Death | Abt 1831 | Byron, Genesee, New York | |||
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Families
| Spouse | William Harvey (1748 - 1779) |
| Child | William Messer Harvey (1777 - ) |
| Spouse | Nathan Mann (1762 - 1854) |
| Child | Stephen Van Rensselaer Mann (1796 - 1860) |
| Child | Betsey Ann Mann (1798 - 1879) |
| Spouse | William Parker (1755 - 1781) |
| Father | William Messer (1729 - 1761) |
| Mother | Alice Barker (1731 - 1794) |
| Sibling | Alice Messer (1751 - 1843) |
| Sibling | William Messer (1754 - ) |
| Sibling | Jonathan Messer (1759 - 1760) |
Notes
Biography
Elizabeth married William Parker on 23 December 1780. Early in 1781, William with his brother Samuel enlisted from Partridgefield in the company of Capt. Stephen Clapp. Troops marched south to Virginia and William Parker died there in 1781. The Revolutionary War pension file of Samuel Parker includes a statement dated 5 September 1832 from Nathan Mann of Byron, New York giving evidence of Samuel’s service and Nathan Mann reported that he married William’s widow. The statement also notes that Elizabeth was then deceased (1832).1I think I put the right pension file with William’s brother Sameul –
The relevant page is at image 1194 – company is Capt. Stephen Clapp
https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/1995/images/MIUSA1775D_136495-01197?pId=46084
1 U. S. Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty-Land Warrant Application Files, Case of Samuel Parker, No. S11190
Endnotes
1. Ancestry.com, Massachusetts, U.S., Compiled Marriages, 1633-1850 (Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2005), Family History Library; Salt Lake City, UT; Film # 1901873.