Re: "Mrs." Deliverance Sheffield, wife of Regicide Hugh Peter(s)
Nathaniel Taylor
<1876a1a9-692b-4d43...@1g2000hsl.googlegroups.com>,
John Brandon <starb...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Gary Boyd Roberts's new 2008 edition of RD600 contains a line for Mrs.
> Deliverance Sheffield, second wife of Rev. Hugh Peters. This was a
> suggestion I made to him, based on p. 19 of the 1618/19 Rutland
> Vistitation, which shows a Deliverance among the children of Sampson
> Sheffield of Seaton.
>
> http://books.google.com/books?id=eawKAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA19&dq=seaton+sheffield+samp
> son&lr=
>
> Gary found her 1613 baptism transcribed in _Leicestershire and Rutland
> Notes and Queries_ ...
>
> http://books.google.com/books?id=h8kGAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA283&dq=%22deliverance+sheff
> ield%22&lr=
>
> This is a believable age for someone who was admitted to the Boston
> church in 1639, and dismissed to Salem in 1640 upon her marriage to
> the Rev. Peters; the name "Deliverance Sheffield" is quite unusual, as
> well. Many sources have called Deliverance a widow, but this seems
> merely to be a misinterpretation of her courtesy title "Mrs." given
> her. See, for instance, one of the letters of Margaret Winthrop, who
> mentions "Mrs. D. Sh."
>
> http://books.google.com/books?id=dcFvkIrboGwC&pg=PA245&dq=%22deliverance+sheff
> ield%22&lr=
Good! Another apparent armigerous colonist, for the Roll. When & where
were they married? Is the record extant, and does that record call her
'Mrs.' as the Winthrop letters do? Are any of her apparent Sheffield
kin known or believed to have been in New England?
Nat Taylor
http://www.nltaylor.net