Elizabeth Stoughton

1711 - 1769  (58 years)

• Name	Elizabeth Stoughton  [1]
  Birth	2 Oct 1711	Hartford County, Connecticut Colony   [1]
  Gender	Female
  Death	22 Dec 1769	Windsor, Hartford Co, Connecticut Colony   [1]
  Person ID	I1361	Cooley Miller Sears Barnhouse
  Last Modified	25 Aug 2018

  
  

  Father	William Stoughton   d. Yes, date unknown
  Family ID	F374	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Joseph Diggins,   b. 2 Apr 1710, Hartford County, Connecticut Colony d. 9 Feb 1791, Windsor, Hartford Co, Connecticut Colony (Age 80 years)
  Marriage	17 Dec1735	Somers, Tolland Co, Connecticut   [1]
  	From Conn Genealogies: [Elizabeth was the] daughter of William Stoughton. This marriage was against the wish of the bride's father, and [Rev. Timothy] Edwards refused the communion to the young couple, and refused to baptize their children, unless Diggins should make public confession of his "scandalous offence." The church seems to have taken the young man's part, and endeavored in every way to persuade the pastor to recede. A lengthy controversy ensued, which finally developed into a trial of the pastor's power and right to negative (sic) a vote of the church. The struggle continued for several years, and is fully recorded in "A Narrative of the Troubles in the Second Church in Windsor from the year 1735 to the year 1741" a manuscript of Gov. Roger Wolcott in the possession of the Connecticut Historical Society at Hartford. A Mr. Matt B. Jones who contributed the Dickens, Diggins notes states that he has recently (1980's) found Joseph Diggins' and Elizabeth Stoughton's "marriage record among the early marriages of Somers, Conn, under date Dec 17, 1735, the name of the wife there appearing as Elizabeth Houghton, but it is stated that both were of Windsor and there was no Houghton family of Windsor, the evidence being abundant that he did marry Elizabeth Stoughton." In light of the scandalous nature of their marriage, it seems likely the couple dashed over to the neighboring Toland county to get married and the bride "accidentally" misspelled her last name. [1]
  Children	1. John Diggins,   b. Abt 1717, Windsor, Hartford Co, Connecticut d. 20 Aug 1773, Chatham, Hartford Co, Connecticut (Age ~ 56 years)   2. Oliver Diggins,   b. Abt 1735, Windsor, Hartford Co, Connecticut Colony d. 25 Jan 1819, Wethersfield, Windsor Co, Vermont (Age ~ 84 years)
  Family ID	F373	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	7 Jul 2007

  
  

• Sources

  [S365] Gary Boyd Roberts (Ed.) and Judith McGhan (Index), Conn Genealogies, (Genealogical Publishing Co, Inc, Baltimore, Md. , 1983; 3v; ill; 23cm ), pp526-529 (Reliability: 3).