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Elizabeth Barber

Elizabeth was born in 1596 in England. She died at the age of 32 on February 22nd, 1628 in Plumesgate, Framlingham, Suffolk, England.

General Notes
- (Family name might be Symmes or Symmas)
  
  "Extracted from the registers of the parish church of St.Michaels, in Framlingham, Suffolk, England, by Canon Martin W. Bulstrode, M.A."
  
  No documented evidence that Elizabeth, wife of Nicholas, was a Symmes, sister of Zachariah and daughter of William.
  
  "The writer has no means of knowing from whence the supposition sprang that she was 'Elizabeth, daughter of Rev. William Symmes,...' The entire absence of allusions to relationship between men so prominent as the Danforths and Mr. Symmes in their own writings and the sketches of them written near their own time is strong ground for suspecting the error of the guess; and the distance of Kent from Suffolk also throws discredit upon the theory."

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Source/Citation Danforth Genealogy: Nicholas Danforth, of Framlingham, England, and Cambridge, N.E. [1589-1638] and William Danforth, of Newbury, Mass. [1640-1721] and their descendants.